Which game has the worst hardcore fans ?

Call of Duty! People here know I love it and can't stop playing it, but the fans SUCK!

I love Halo and consider it my favorite FPS, but Bungie's website used to be full of asshole douchebags that all sounded like they were about seven years old.  Made it hard to have actual discussions about strategy, maps, updates, and the like.  Now I only occasionally jump on there to check my medals and scores.  Blech.

" @Castiel said:

" Any xbot 3shitty exclusive game!  "

no wait I take my previous statement back console fanboys are the worst "

" Street Fighter, closely followed by those God awful Sonic kids.
 
  @Castiel said:

" Any xbot 3shitty exclusive game!  "

If I could vote for this guy, I would. "

Yeah I'm gonna go with Halo, but I think the franchise is starting to swallow its own tail at this point. 
 
By next year it will probably go to the Call of Duty whackjobs.

The Final Fantasy fans in general have some pretty terrible hardcore fans.

Half-life?

" Half-life? "

Metal Gearfanboys are pretentious pricks who think they are smarter than the rest of the gaming community because metal gear is so "deep".
 
The Street fighter community is ripe with smug elitism.
 
DoTA players are among the most condescending fucks on the internet. Their disease has spread into the Heroes of Newerth and League of Legends communities completely at this point.
 
Counter Strike players are probably even worse than DoTA players.
  
I pretty much apply to all of the above. So yeah, I'm a douchebag fanboy too. :-)

" @neozeke:  You have your opinions, I have mine. I find many books extremelly overrated and wish I never wasted my time. If Final Fantasy had been a book written 60years ago it would be regarded as classic medevil fantasy novel. You can lie to yourself and say otherwise, but the characte  of Zidane and Princess Garnet are far supirior to overrated trash like Catcher In The Rye, The Great Gasby, and (although still good, just slightly overrated but still well written and told) How to Kill a Mockingbird.    And I know I'm going to get hell for this, but I may as well say it. Lord of the Rings is overrated, I prefer Final Fantasy. "

@Whisperkill:
I'm sorry I don't view your opinion, and I don't like things because I'm told to. The Hobbit is miles better than any of the LOTR books, and I greatly enjoy the plots to Final Fantasy. If you don't feel that FFIX can be re-written into novel form and still be great, then I feel very sorry for you my friend.  
 
" Peace is but a shadow of death,
   Desesperate to forget its painful past...
   Though we hope for promising years.
   After shedding a thousand tears,
   Yesterday's sorrow constantly nears.
   And while the moon still shines blue,
   By dawn, it will turn to scarlet hue.
   What an auspicious day for Alexandria. Garnet's ascension to the throne brought hope and peace to this kingdom. The people are overjoyed; they believe a wonderful future is ahead of them... But the celebration isn't over yet. It's time to really light things up! Your former master is here, Bahamut. Play a requiem for her and all of Alexandria!"     
 
I honestly believe FFIX plays out like a play to begin with, re-writting it into a novel of script wouldn't be hard. If you can't see that, then I should be the one releasing my bladder into my own pants over uncontrolled laughter at your ignorance, however since I'm not tha big of a douche I'll leave it to your opinion. Hate on FF all you want, it's pure gold and greatly enjoyable. 
 
I have read and enjoyed many, many novels. I have also read and hated many of them too. I analayze and re-read before making an opinion, and I don't just love things because my High School english teacher told me to. Just because it's a book, doesn't mean it's a flawless masterpiece of shinning art.

 
I might be a little on the extreme pro-game side right now, but I'm using that to help make a point. Why are so many people who love video games so much, enough to sign up to a website to talk about them, so easy to dismiss them as trash? What the hell do you think they did for the 2-3 years they were making FFIX? Play with their balls? I think they were more busy making things like this that help make it a masterpiece in my eyes, even yes, comparing it with classic literature and film.

I think the Starcraft fans can be pretty rabid at times...

Out of those, definitely Legend of Zelda. But in recent memory, the Team  Fortress 2 hardcore fan base is pretty irritating.

I'm not gonna say they're the *worst* out there but the Smash Bros players that like to call themselves "pro" and talk about all the "depth" those games have are pretty fucking hilarious/sad. 

" I'm not gonna say they're the *worst* out there but the Smash Bros players that like to call themselves "pro" and talk about all the "depth" those games have are pretty fucking hilarious/sad.  "

No MW on the list? I'm going with Zelda from the selections on the list.

those guys do a tremendous job of summarizing why it's not as good as people think it is."

I'm going to say the Sonic fanbase.  Especially the Sonic fans who draw their own variants of other videogame characters in a Sonic form.
 
*shudder*

WOW anyone?

Final Fantasy 7 is a great game, but not the "zOMG best game evaaar bitchez" as a lot of FF7 fans says, I also think Halo hardcore fans can be obnoxious... I've played against some pros though, and they were all very very nice, but your average 13/14 year old shooter fan (whether Halo, Call of Duty or something else) are the worst!!

" wheres World of Warcraft or Counter Strike 1.6?
people have been stabbed, spat on, dumped etc because of either of those games "

" I'm kind of surprised by the write-in response focus on Modern Warfare and Halo.  It's not that I don't think those die hard fans are scarily obsessive with their competitive multiplayer games or that they aren't occasionally obnoxious tools towards less experienced players, it's just that when it comes to impassioned hardcore game fanatics, nothing tops in my mind the World of Warcraft addict.  

1. A hardcore WOW player will spend more time in Azeroth than they will functioning in the real world.
2. They'll sleep less than they play everyday so they could spend more than a third of their lives in game. 
   
3. They know the maps of each dungeon better than they know their own hometowns and make references to boss encounters in everyday speech.
   
4. They have stronger views on the latest patch than they do on the latest national issues and will complain about their disapproval at great length.
   
5. They have their own convention (well it's mostly for them these days) with a dance contest where they dress up in costume and dance the dances their video game identities dance.
6. The game is more than a game for them, more than work, it is life and any disruption to the illusion of control they have over that virtual life is angrily rebuked.

Now, obviously, these are the hardest of the hardcore, but that's what this thread is about in my opinion; "the worst hardcore fans".  I didn't even mention the number of YouTube WOW freakouts, the cases of real-life violence between players, the cases of child neglect committed by parent players, or the creepy love connections made between teens and adults in game carried over into reality. "

Nintendo. Considering how old they are these days, they should know better.

Other.  Off the top of my head, Call of Duty/Halo/Gears are all much better choices.

You seem to have missed the worst one, halo.  And the second place game mw2.

I dread the thought of playing Halo with a mic.

I just can't choose. Fanboys are annoying but some game franchises have elitist followings which are just as bad if not worse.

"Nintendo. Considering how old they are these days, they should know better. "

And this being Giantbomb, we should know how much more obnoxious the anti Nintendo crowd continually shows itself to be. "...Nintendo is the laziest developer around."  indeed.

 
Haters are always worse than fans.

" @HandsomeDead said:

"Nintendo. Considering how old they are these days, they should know better. "

And this being Giantbomb, we should know how much more obnoxious the anti Nintendo crowd continually shows itself to be. "...Nintendo is the laziest developer around."  indeed.

 
Haters are always worse than fans.

"

Shadow of the Colossus, the amount of praise it gets is undeserved.  God help you if you find a fault with it.

" @ZanzibarBreeze said:

those guys do a tremendous job of summarizing why it's not as good as people think it is."

I've never played Final Fantasy VII, but this line just shocked me. Nobody can define what is good or bad, it's all a matter of opinion. "

The whole game could have been avoided if the Boss had said just one thing to Snake: "I didn't defect. I've been sent here to die."  

  
No because she was to die at the hands of snake, telling him would have ruined everything. I don't see these plot holes you speak of, rather I think it is covered quite nicely.  

MGS fans, based on this thread alone.

I don't see Modern Warfare and MGS

 Final Fantasy VII fans. I'm one of them....and I find that trying to not start a discussion with people saying is bad is something that I'm barely able to do.  In the past I was barely able to shut up about it. 
 
 The thing with FF games is this are generational. The "best" one is usually your first....unless you've played them all and you're considerable of age. Parish's favorite for example was XII, people hated that one with passion. None of them compare to a good, or even average book in terms of complexity. 
 
  People for some reason tend to put every game on the same "pot", even tho there're so many different experiences.  I like FF, don't like CoD or Halo, but I understand why people would.  
 
 But as far as the topic goes. Yes, FF VII has the most annoying, this is fact regardless of the result of the polls. We just won't shut up about it :).

" MGS fans, based on this thread alone. "

Starcraft.

" @ryanwho said:

" MGS fans, based on this thread alone. "

I like to think of it as fans of MGS, MGS2 and the redeeming moments of MGS4 are bros and fans of MGS3 and the bad parts of MGS4 are hos. "

[insert Call Of Duty (usually 4 or MW2) or Halo game here]

" @ryanwho said:

" MGS fans, based on this thread alone. "

I like to think of it as fans of MGS, MGS2 and the redeeming moments of MGS4 are bros and fans of MGS3 and the bad parts of MGS4 are hos. "

" @ZanzibarBreeze: Ok, but she DID need to die to prove American innocence for the Nuke launched at the start of the game.... "

1. Make Snake aware of the double cross plan. The Boss is going to pretend she's with the Russians to help get the Philosopher's Legacy. In fact, you don't even need to tell Snake about the Legacy if you don't want him to know about the grip of cash. Just tell him they're some secret documents that the Russians have. He's a soldier, he does whatever you tell him to do.
   
2. Ignore the Virtuous Mission. Cut it out from the game. Snake's mission is now to infiltrate Volgin's territory. The Boss will help him: a- Retrieve Sokolov, b- Retrieve the Legacy.
3. Once the two objectives are complete, Snake extracts. The Boss has to stay with Volgin, who is now powerless. Khrushchev wants Volgin dead anyway because he poses a threat to the integrity of the Soviet Union government; The Boss kills Volgin, Khrushchev forgives The Boss. International crisis over.

I think Halo's fans are probably the worst.

I'm usually adverse to many of the hardcore fans of the Halo series. 

" @HandsomeDead said:

" @ryanwho said:

" MGS fans, based on this thread alone. "

I like to think of it as fans of MGS, MGS2 and the redeeming moments of MGS4 are bros and fans of MGS3 and the bad parts of MGS4 are hos. "

I think you just blew my mind. :) 
 
(Also, what redeeming parts of MGS4? I didn't see no redemption. All I saw was Gears of War without a cover system. Jeezus Kojima, it's not 1999. Syphon Filter came out some time ago.) "

farmville, halo, and COD