Definition:

Fanboy (sometimes spelt fanboi) is a term used to describe an individual who is devoted to a single fannish subject, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point where it is considered an obsession. Fanboys remain loyal to their particular obsession.

During the past few weeks, surfing the different gaming forums, I've noticed quite a bit of this going on.  Now I realize that this sort of thing happens every single day, but it honestly feels like it's hit an all new level.  Up until now, fanboys would get behind a game and swear upon everything holy that their particular game was the master creation of all gaming.  Never wanting to hear its flaws and always defending everything under the sun, usually with a little immaturity invovled.  Now, don't get me wrong, there needs to be a little fanboyism in the world or we probably wouldn't have sequels or expansion packs.  Those loyal, somewhat obsessed fans are what feeds the egos of the developers, and we need that in our society so developers will have confidence to try out new creative ideas and not just create a franchise to release every single freakin' year (cough, Madden, cough), but with the upcoming release of Too Human, I feel that it's not even worth it to venture across different forums of gaming sites anymore.

Now, I'm not gonna sit here and bash Too Human.  I don't feel that I really could, with only having played the demo and the game only being released recently, and also it being my opinion that a reviewer should spend quite some time with the game before they give it their final critique.  Well, with that out of the way,lets move on.  If you're read any forum posts for this game in the past two weeks, you've witnessed some of the most fanboyism known to man.  For a game that's been in development for over 10 years, a lot of pressure is on the shoulders of the developers, but you gotta think, with that much time involved, this game should realistically be near perfect in form, but who would've known for the past few weeks?  But from the look of the forum posts the past couple weeks, you would've thought that hundreds of people have already played the game with their concept barage of posts giving explanations for the controls, graphics, sound, gameplay, and even the storyline, without even having played the game. 

And now moving closer to the first week of release, where professional reviews will be published and thousands of opinions will be made, it seems like the fanboys have come out in droves to defend a game that they haven't even played enough yet.  Sure, this happens all the time, with different releases, but one quick trip to the Gamepost forums wil prove that they've put themselves on a whole new level.  Players have made their own interpretations from the demo with how the gameplay will pan out.  Silicon Knights, taking the combat in a new direction, using the right analog stick as the main and only melee controls, took a big leap in a new control system, not really seen in the past, but was a good move?  From multiple posts across the forums, many players believe that the combat system was a little too simple, but that's where the fanboys stepped in constantly making fun of the players or making posts with complete caps screaming out why their game is the best.  Heck, I don't even think that I've seen a criticism in the Too Human forum that wasn't slammed almost instantaneously by some immature 13 year old. 

I guess, what I'm trying to say is that people need to realize that other people may have different opinions from their own.  Now, you may not agree with them, but that's okay.  It's alright to be a fanboy where you constantly post postive aspects of your favorite game, or defend your game with cold hard facts, but that's where you should draw the line.  You can't defend something that you don't know about.  Okay, so there was a demo, but it didn't show every aspect of the game.  Sure, it gave a good interpretation of the gameplay, and some of the story; well, just enough to confuse you, but it definitely wasn't enough to give good reason for fanboys to go ape against the known population for what they didn't particularly enjoy about the game. 

And with the releasing of reviews across the world, beginning with a few very low ones, the stream of angry fanboys has only gotten worse.  They're just numbers guys.  There are some games that've received low scores that I have just loved over the years and really, there are gonna be things wrong with the game.  No, honestly, there will be flaws and that's okay, because it still can be extremely enjoyable to you and if someone else doesn't like it, let it go.  If they're blatantly wrong about something about the game, such as having some their facts wrong, let it go.  Move on.  Be the better poster.