You look at any series ranging from video games, comic books, to movies, you'll find a devoted fanbase that might sometimes come across as being a bit too attached. Here on the escapist, I pretty much had to endure over a year of whining and complaining that came from the Mass Effect fanbase which I am also a part of. Personally, I never felt the ending was that groundbreaking-ly bad to cause such an uproar. But yet the complaining... just.. endured. The same happened with Dragon Age. Also I remember the whole Bioshock 2 fiasco a couple of years back, and how every one derailed a pretty above average game into the ground for not wooing its them like its predecessor. did.
Well, what ever! That's just the nature of things, and what happens to fans when their beloved series changes or doesn't hold up in later iterations.
All this whining and complaining, and now that the Dark Souls community is having their own fits with the possibility of their beloved franchises being changed, I'm hearing a lot of people throwing around terms like "pricks," and that kinda pisses me off.
An entire year of Mass Effect fans not STFU, and after two weeks of DS fans, I'm hearing this crap.
Now I'm not condoning this act of nerdraging that fans tend to do in times like this. No! DS fans need to calm down (I was there too, until I came to my senses) and wait for more information to be released about the sequel, and even afterwards, if the game doesn't live up to expectations, that shouldn't give the DS community rights to pull what the Mass Effect fanbase did.
But - to get back on topic - for anyone that's on the other side of the fence, I have to ask... what's leading for some to start this name calling? Never have I come across any posts where DS fans have been mocking other gamers for not playing or beating that game. Never have I come across any posts where I've heard any belittling. All I've come across is threads saying "No easy mode" and somehow that's supposedly come across offensively to some, even though 3 years being on the escapist I've seen countless thread complain about how easy today's games are.
Personally, as a DS fan, I don't want any sort of easy mode added to the game because I feel that would completely misrepresent the point of the game. It's the same reason so many fans of Bioshock didn't want a MP added to the sequel even though it was probably not going to effect the SP. This is just one game in a sea of games, and we like it for what it represents. This isn't in any form belittling other games or gamers.
I can't speak for everyone that's part of this community, but before people start to label us... they have to ask if they're doing it correctly.