Video Games with the Calmest and Most Rabid Fanbases

[ThatBenGuy1998]

The following is just my personal opinion.

Calmest: GTA III, VC, LCS, VCS, and CTW

 

Most Rabid: GTA V, Online Mafia III, Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, any futuristic CoD game, and many others (too many to list honestly)
 

As great of games as GTA IV/EFLC, both RDR games, all three Max Payne games, and LA Noire all as somewhere in the middle. GTA San Andreas is one I’d put about at the high end of somewhere in the middle.

 

Feel free to discuss which fanbases you think are most calm and most rabid. Stating which ones you think are somewhere in the middle is optional. Plus, we’re just making generalizations here. I know everybody is still different nonetheless.

[Original Light]

I don't think many people love Mafia 3. Most people seem to agree that it's the weakest game in the franchise, I've never seen any staunch defenders. 

 

I'll agree with you on GTA V/Online fans being the most rabid, although I don't think they're a huge majority. 

[GhettoJesus]

Usually multiplayer games have rabid fanbases. Especially when a multiplayer game has competitors (like MOBA games, they have the worst fanbases)

[Uncle Sikee Atric]

Calmest Fanbases : SCS with Euro Truck SIm and American Truck Sim.

                                 Radical Fish with Crosscode

 

In fact, all smaller and Indie devs tend to have less toxic fanbases, simply because the fans are more 'interested' in the games they develop and usually have sought them out.

 

Rabid Fanbases : All MOBA's

                             All Battle Royales

                             GTA as a whole franchise.

[LittleBlueTroll]

14 hours ago, ThatBenGuy said:

As great of games as GTA IV/EFLC <snip> somewhere in the middle. 

 

 

I don't know about this.

I usually find people who love IV to be worse than V. I'm not a fan of IV, never have been. I don't like the "gritty colors" aka everything looking brown and grey, I don't particularly care for or like Niko or anyone in the game, I hated how everything looked the same in Liberty City, I hated the lack of customization. The list goes on and on for me. To me, it's an okay game, but not a GTA game. 

 

Now, people can argue against this, and have done on this very forum. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I've relayed my distaste for IV many times on here (and in greater detail, with reasonings and better constructive criticism than seen above) I've been as constructive and honest as I can be, and some people take it so, so personally. I haven't visited the IV section of this forum in years, let alone post there, because it simply isn't worth it. 

 

GTA V isn't perfect, but I usually find people take criticism of that game a lot better than they do with IV. 

[AkshayKumar]

From the little I know, the Metal Gear Solid fanbase seems pretty chill especially considering the popularity of the series. I like how the Metal Gear and Splinter Cell fanbases don't seem to have too much animosity towards each other unlike say GTA and Watch Dogs.

 

I guess only time the MGS fanbase was somewhat rabid was during the release of MG Survive. And maybe the Kojima thing during V's release but I thought that outcry was more by the gaming fanbase in general than specifically MGS fans. Anyways I could very well be wrong but from what I've seen the MGS fanbase seems to be one of the more chill ones despite the popularity of the series

 

edit: plus I don't see that much infighting between fans of different MGS games unlike say fans of GTA IV and V or TES Morrowind and Skyrim

Edited November 30, 2020 by Utopianthumbs

[TheSantader25]

I find most communities toxic tbh. Not that I have anything against it though. I like me some good ol' salt. 

[Jason]

Any multiplayer game with a skill gap, especially team games. Brings out the elitists in force every time.

 

In terms of good communities, I've found that the No Man's Sky community is pretty decent these days, likely cause the game really promotes players sharing stuff.

[SageFan]

I find that the Nintendo community is pretty laid back. Refreshing considering the rivalry both the Xbox and PlayStation communities have for each other. The Xbox fanbase has certainly calmed down a bit now considering that MS are trying to end the console war. Back in the day, it was almost like what side you took in the console war was a defining trait of your personality! It seems only the Sony community wants to participate in the console war nowadays or at least that's what I find. 

 

The worst community I've ever been a part of is the Fallout community. There's a constant war between fans of the originals, fans of the Bethesda games and fans of New Vegas. There's some overlap, but for the most part it seems that if you hold any other opinion differing from the belief that New Vegas is the best game ever made and Fallout 4/76 is the worst game ever made, you're not a true fan. It's ridiculous, and this is coming from someone who genuinely believes that New Vegas is the best game. It's not flawless and not even that much better than 3 or 4, so to see such a cult following behind it is strange, especially considering that the fan favourite game used to be the opposite. Once upon a time, 3 used to get all the love and NV was the black sheep. How the tables have turned. 

 

Resident Evil fanbase used to be much more toxic back in the day too, especially around the time of RE5 and RE6. Much like the Fallout fanbase, it seemed that if you liked these two games you were a brainless third person shooter player, despite the fact that RE4 literally started this trend. I see that the hatred for RE5 has died down to some extent now, while RE6 is still buried in the subconscious of many RE fans.

 

Might just also be from my own perspective but I have a strong dislike for The Witcher fanbase. From what I've seen, a lot of them tend to trumpet on about concepts they're not all too familiar with. A common talking point when they bring up the Witcher 3 is how much of a "RPG" it is in comparison to it's contemporaries, while failing to realise that The Witcher isn't even on the tip of the iceberg when it comes to RPGs. In fact, it's more of a modern action game with RPG elements than a proper RPG. I have a feeling most of them have never played classic RPGs like Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, or even more modern RPGs like VTMB, Knights of the Old Republic or Dragon Age: Origins. That's just an assumption though and a generalisation based upon my own experiences with them. If you're a fan of the Witcher series but like it based off it's own merits rather than being the only popular "RPG" in years then disregard this because I'm not talking about you. It's perfectly fine to like the game. I just feel a certain sense of dread whenever I read about how The Witcher 3 is so much better than anything else. To me and probably many others, it felt like a good Ubisoft (I know it's CDPR!) game. Nothing spectacular or even too memorable. Just a good game. 

 

Halo community is also wartorn and for various reasons. When Bungie split from Microsoft, there was a divergence between the old fans and the new ones which ended up forming the 343i loyalist camp and the Bungie boomers. Over time however, this has died down considerably as 343i have had control over the series for almost a decade. Honestly both of them are right. 343i have done some good for Halo as per MCC and they've kept it alive rather than kill it off, but I can't help but agree that they've stripped Halo if it's soul and replaced it with Call of Duty in the Halo universe. The fact that these two sections of the community just can't get along is the primary reason for this fanbase's toxicity nowadays. Halo fanbase has always been toxic (Halo 3 MP, anyone?) but since Halo 4, this fanbase hasn't been able to truly be at ease and it's no longer just because the fanbase was full of teenage edgelords before. 

 

10 hours ago, Cameron Star said:

The Mass Effect community is pretty chill for the most part.

I'd like to agree with you but then my attention breaks away to the fact that Mass Effect 3 is still so hated within that community. While there are a lot of Mass Effect fans that like ME3 or are impartial to it, a large part of that fanbase seem to still have a large resentment for the game. I understood the hatred in 2012, but eight years later and they're still review bombing the game over the ending. Mass Effect 3 had an awful ending, but it does not deserve the hate it gets especially from within it's own community. The 95% of the game up until Shepard runs into the beam is peak Mass Effect. 

 

10 hours ago, Cameron Star said:

Destiny

A lot of crossover with old Halo fanbase I think, probably why it's so horrible. 

[Zello]

The watch dogs fanbase is pretty chill. Most of the toxicity comes from outside from people who have a hate boner for anything Ubisoft related. The first game didn't help things but after that it's been fine.

[Jason]

The Halo and Fallout communities are a good shout, for similar reasons and to a lesser extent you can lump Gears of War into there as well. Beloved franchises that changed developer after a few games, always causes a big stir in the community.

[paperbagdude]

On 11/29/2020 at 11:15 PM, ThatBenGuy said:

Most Rabid: [...] Minecraft

I guess a large proportion of the Minecraft community can be toxic in terms of multiplayer (raiding, griefing and even personal threats), but most of the slightly mature fanbase seem more chill and appreciative of the game's content and development. Yeah, some old school indev-alpha-beta era players would claim any day that the game has lost its essential and simple essence with its many updates of new content, but most seem fairly chill about the game till this day.

[el carlitos]

I am at a big car meet crew. We are organized at Discord, only accept mature people. You have to apply to this crew. First you get a friend session pass and can prove that you fit the crew with good behavior at friend sessions. Get accepted into the crew can take weeks if not even months.

The meets are very calm, in fact we park our cars at different spot of the map sowing our builds.

So GTA Online at mature crew can be very calm.

[sabitsuki]

Worst: probably cod or gta

 

Best: tf2

[sabitsuki]

Delete

Edited December 2, 2020 by DownInThePMs

[Algonquin Assassin]

I don’t think it’s right to single out an entire fanbase whether they’re “toxic” or not.

 

It may sound a bit like a cliche, but there’s good and bad in every community. It all comes down to perspective IMO. For example if you don’t like a particular game you’re probably going to think everyone who loves it is a sh*thead or something and vice versa if it’s a game you love then everyone is a saint who loves it also. I just don’t think that way.

 

There are definitely toxic gamers just as there are gamers who are chilled, but I treat them individually.

Edited December 2, 2020 by Algonquin Assassin

[Lock n' Stock]

On 12/1/2020 at 6:56 AM, SageFan said:

The worst community I've ever been a part of is the Fallout community. There's a constant war between fans of the originals, fans of the Bethesda games and fans of New Vegas. There's some overlap, but for the most part it seems that if you hold any other opinion differing from the belief that New Vegas is the best game ever made and Fallout 4/76 is the worst game ever made, you're not a true fan. It's ridiculous, and this is coming from someone who genuinely believes that New Vegas is the best game. It's not flawless and not even that much better than 3 or 4, so to see such a cult following behind it is strange, especially considering that the fan favourite game used to be the opposite. Once upon a time, 3 used to get all the love and NV was the black sheep. How the tables have turned.

Old post but this I agree with 100%. I remember back in the day when I used to play Fallout 3 and New Vegas heavily back-to-back, doing the main questlines, DLC and whatnot. I never saw a big gap between the two quality-wise, I just enjoyed them both for being really solid post-apocalypse games, even if NV improved on 3 in alot of areas (stronger writing, more in-depth role-playing mechanics e.g.). Hence, it was pretty baffling to go online and find out there was a hatedom devoted to sh*tting on Fallout 3 from radical fans of the originals and New Vegas (which still persists to this day to an extent). It's a sentiment that goes back a long time, beginning on message boards like No Mutants Allowed among others. I also recall a former Bethesda developer mentioning on a livestream that while working on F3, the studio had to hire security since they were receiving death threats.

 

And in all fairness, I do think there are perfectly valid reasons for disliking Bethesda's handling of the Fallout IP (76 was a massive piece of sh*t for example, and 4 felt very shallow as an RPG), but this toxic mentality that seems to exist in the community that you can only like one company's take on the franchise rather than the other (Interplay/Black Isle/Obsidian's West Coast games vs. Bethesda's East Coast games) is somewhat disturbing to me. Nonetheless, I can't help but find it quite funny that nearly every person who had a hand in shaping the franchise as we know it today (Tim Cain, Brian Fargo, Todd Howard e.g.) is now under the banner of Microsoft, so seeing a successor to New Vegas with the original creators is a very real possibility.

 

Funnily enough, the Elder Scrolls fanbase seems much more mellow in this regard (probably because it's always been Bethesda's baby), despite a subset of Daggerfall and Morrowind fans criticising later instalments for being too watered-down. Much of the dissonance with Fallout does seem to stem from a different studio taking control of a beloved IP and making controversial design choices. The same exact thing happened with Max Payne 3 when Rockstar took over from Remedy. I still remember when the initial screenshots (of a bald, older Max in tropical Brazilian setting) got released. They did NOT go over well with fans back in the day.

Edited June 16 by Lock n' Stock

[Failed Again]

The above candidates are like Mr. Rogers neighborhoods in comparison to:

 

EVE ONLINE

[sabitsuki]

As much as I agree with some of the pointers, I think the crowd that goes "this is all woke garbage" when a game with an obvious or implied progressive bias gets released or premiered can get pretty toxic on many occasions, if they could be considered fans.

Edited July 1 by sabitsuki