Intrinsic said:
First off, I think its flat out hypocritic if anyone on VGC claims they aren't a fanboy of some sort. Its pretty much a requirement to be on here. But then again, especially considering that this place is a "cesspool of fanboys" its actually pretty civil compared to the sporadic fanboy bursts you may see on other sites. I like to think of it as organized chaos.
In light of all that, the ACU "meltdown" doesn't surprise me one bit. Fanboys have a way of simply being for or against. It doesn't matter what is right or what is wrong, what they know or what they don't; all that matters is if they are for or against. Again, another requirement. If you can get that, then its pretty easy to filter out the sane from the insane.
I will put it this way. For the record, its not about 900p/1080p. Its not even about parity. Its about parity in the wrong direction and the admittance of such. If Ubisoft got ACU to run at 1080p, I doubt PS fans would be saying the game should run at 1440p on the PS4. If both games ran at 900p, then the PS4 fans would look at textures or shadow or geometry details to get there "ours is better fix" and everything would still be ok. THE PROBLEM, is that ubisoft admitted to making one version worse so it is on par with another version. And more so claiming that they did that to make everyone happy.
Now back to fanboyism, if you look at the facts above and somehow have a problem with PS fans taking the stance they have, then it means you are most like an XB/nintendo fan; cause lets be honest... how wrong that whole thing is obvious except to those that are not interested in facts or right or wrong but more interested in sides.
The way I see it, I really would just like gamers to be at least united when it comes to certain things. Its almost as if gamers forget that they actually pay for these things. Its not like these things are given to us for free. Time and time again platform holders and publishers have shown just how much they are willing to fuck us over if we let them. To me, its all about winning the little battles, the only way these companies will listen to and/or respect their customers is if you take money outta their pockets. I don't mind the infighting between fans, but I would like to think that when it comes to certain industry wide problems, we would at least stand united. |
Its simply a method of priority control. If you have fellow gamers as your top priority then the consoles and the companies aren't really that important.
As for the bolded I partly agree. The key aspect of what constitutes a fanboy in my opinion is not just a blind allegiance to one console, but rather the delusion that they are somehow better than gamers on a different platform and their platform is morally superior to the competiton.
Everyone has their preferences, but their is a difference between dislike an entity's actions, and disliking an entity because of those actions.
Every single fanbase would react the same way, regardless of the situation, and to recognize some sort of difference is biased in and of itself.
As for italics, well there is nothing more to add for that one.
@OP: I'll address you later.
