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Has a game's fanbase ever put you off playing it?

Started by Nexus, April 04, 2015, 05:29:51 PM

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tuypo1

#180
April 15, 2015, 05:49:22 AM
Quote from: Batman;825131yel, same here. About 3 or 4 months before 4e launched there was already a growing hate towards the game, mostly due to WotC "treatment" of previous edition players (that damn video), to 3PP support, and the fact that Paizo wasn't on board.

When the game was released in my area (Pittsburgh) it got mixed reviews from the few FLGS here, but mostly a 'meh' attitude overall. THEN the Amazon and YouTube comments started to come out and the online community started. From that point on, the e-wars were in full swing. Many 4e fans, like myself, felt the need to "right" every misguided and incorrect slant and opinion of 4e. I don't really know why? Looking back, it really wasn't worth my time and energy. There are lots of dumbass people on the web that will vilify,  at some point, something that one cherishs and I think the easiest and natural response is to fight back.

It's all rather pointless now though. I will say that no one side was "right" in the matter. 3e and pre-WotC fans sure did their share of mud slinging too and I experienced it in person. Just as 4e fans would have been better off ignoring the hate and did a better job connecting to the "on the fence" people about the system.

i came in in the middle of the 5e release and at that time if you said you prefered 3.5 to 5e you were accused of being a troll
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tuypo1

#181
April 15, 2015, 05:51:36 AM
Quote from: Omega;825216Havent had much of anything to do with Pathfinder so far so will have to take other peoples word on wether or not the fanbase over there is bad or not.
i think i mentioned this eariler for the most part the pathfinder comunity is pretty good as long as you stay away from the iconics they seem to draw out the social justice warriors
If your having tier problems i feel bad for you son i got 99 problems but caster supremacy aint 1.

Apology\'s if there is no punctuation in the above post its probably my autism making me forget.

tuypo1

#182
April 15, 2015, 05:52:22 AM
Quote from: Omega;825216Havent had much of anything to do with Pathfinder so far so will have to take other peoples word on wether or not the fanbase over there is bad or not.
i think i mentioned this eariler for the most part the pathfinder comunity is pretty good as long as you stay away from the iconics they seem to draw out the social justice warriors
If your having tier problems i feel bad for you son i got 99 problems but caster supremacy aint 1.

Apology\'s if there is no punctuation in the above post its probably my autism making me forget.

jan paparazzi

#183
April 15, 2015, 07:34:30 AM
Quote from: Snowman0147;825902How in the hell can I be a racist when I am not the one telling black people to shut up?  Do you even read my post?  I pointed out that the social justice crowd that makes up the fan base are the ones telling black people to shut up as soon as those black people started to go against the narration that the social justice crowd had created.

Uhhhm irony. Come on, on this site people are supposed to have a sense of humor. We are not on that other site here.
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jan paparazzi

#184
April 15, 2015, 07:42:27 AM
Quote from: Matt;825751What's wrong with telling a black person to STFU?

Maybe over on rpgnet or whatever it's called, but near as I can tell they're all white liberals who need to protect the rest of us and stand up for us because we lack the ability of gumption to do it for ourselves. It's also fun when they lecture me about my own culture as if they had a fucking clue aside from what they read in textbooks or were told on their guided tours.

It's so weird that that specific political correctness from people with too many liberal guilt ended up being dominant on rpg fora. Most rpg geeks (and boardgame/ccg geeks) I know are very laid back. You could spit them in the face and they would probably say thank you. You just can't anger them. And on fora you get the pseudo intellectuals who are upset about everything. Race, culture, gender, you name it.
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Opaopajr

#185
April 15, 2015, 07:59:02 AM
The art of humor suffers terribly in the written word due to the lack of body language and inflection... which only brings on more humor to those who already "got it."
:D
Do carry on!
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Matt

#186
April 15, 2015, 09:59:42 AM
Quote from: Simlasa;825752I always wondered why so many games I remember from the 90s (anything relatively modern/futuristic) featured floorplans for dance clubs and concert venues. It seemed like the PCs were meant to 'hang out' in these places but I never caught on to what they'd do there... but I guess 'socializing' might be it.

Then again, maybe the designers just liked drawing up their ideal nightclub.


Never thought about that but it's hilarious. Also all the plots with "designer drugs" the PCs are supposed to investigate by going to these dance clubs and "underground raves in abandoned warehouses," at least in super hero games.

tenbones

#187
April 15, 2015, 11:14:05 AM
Quote from: Matt;825953Never thought about that but it's hilarious. Also all the plots with "designer drugs" the PCs are supposed to investigate by going to these dance clubs and "underground raves in abandoned warehouses," at least in super hero games.

I dunno... I used to use them in my games. But then my PC's were never under the impression at *any* point they weren't a bunch of fucking monsters. The floorplans of the Succubus Club were a great way for them to plan where they were going to figure out where to leave the bodies...

Sure we roleplayed the club vibe (back then we all actively went clubbing), but it was either for politicking for some angle - usually a plot to take someone down permanently. Or it was to hunt.

Any PC in WoD that's just "hanging around" and "socializing" with nothing to do - is a useless player. That's when the GM says "fuck it." and a bomb goes off in the club...

TristramEvans

#188
April 15, 2015, 11:24:47 AM
Quote from: Simlasa;825752I always wondered why so many games I remember from the 90s (anything relatively modern/futuristic) featured floorplans for dance clubs and concert venues. It seemed like the PCs were meant to 'hang out' in these places but I never caught on to what they'd do there... but I guess 'socializing' might be it.

Then again, maybe the designers just liked drawing up their ideal nightclub.


"In the Grim Darkness of the 90s, There is only Dance..."

Nexus

#189
April 15, 2015, 11:31:42 AM
We rp'ed socializing and hanging out with no greater goals sometimes. For the Hell of it and sometimes it lead to other things as characters tried to do things and, being PCs they snowballed.

But basically it felt right for the characters who were very high in Humanity to get out and interact with humans as more than pawns and feedbags and clubs were generally the only places that kept the same hours we did.
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trechriron

#190
April 15, 2015, 12:25:06 PM
Quote from: TristramEvans;825964"In the Grim Darkness of the 90s, There is only Dance..."

lol. "...but in one small town, not even the light of Dance was allowed."
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TristramEvans

#191
April 15, 2015, 12:39:35 PM
Quote from: trechriron;825979lol. "...but in one small town, not even the light of Dance was allowed."

See, that made me think of Kevin Bacon, and that made me think of Tremors, and now I want to run a Dark Heresy campaign based on Tremors using a new genotype of Tyranids....

crkrueger

#192
April 15, 2015, 01:15:08 PM
Quote from: TristramEvans;825983See, that made me think of Kevin Bacon, and that made me think of Tremors, and now I want to run a Dark Heresy campaign based on Tremors using a new genotype of Tyranids....

Which have infected the primary Agri-World of the sector. :D
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Necrozius

#193
April 15, 2015, 01:38:53 PM
Quote from: TristramEvans;825983See, that made me think of Kevin Bacon, and that made me think of Tremors, and now I want to run a Dark Heresy campaign based on Tremors using a new genotype of Tyranids....

Okay, suddenly I want to run a Dark Heresy game again. That's pretty cool.

trechriron

#194
April 15, 2015, 01:41:13 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;825989Which have infected the primary Agri-World of the sector. :D

...and that only certain Dance Routines Man Was Not Meant To Know (tm) can weaken said horrors enough that regular arms can destroy them.

Everybody cut Everybody cut...
Everybody cut Everybody cut...
Everybody cut Everybody cut.
Everybody.
Everybody cut... Footloose!
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