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Did Resident Evil VII prove that online "fans" are just assholes?

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11:34 am, Jun 23 2016
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Stop me if you have heard this one before. An anticipated entry in a popular franchise come out or is announced. The early reaction is (nearly) universal positive and then suddenly, after a few days or so, ALL you get to hear on the internet, especially on genre dedicated sites, is that "they" are doing it wrong. Or not listening the true fans. RE VII is the latest example. The live streaming E3 crowd was floored by the announcement, so was the press. The amazing demo made HUGE numbers and most of all had a large amount of callbacks to the 2001 REmake and the lore in general. I like the action shooter-y RE 5 / 6 but it was time to go back to the roots and the producers 100% listened. I have been a fan since RE1 and this is a dream come true, but nope, just look at the most up-voted Youtube comments right now. That site´s audience is a mess but the other sites don´t look better.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Batman v Superman and Ghost Busters 2016 are further examples. CoD IW got a respectable reaction by the actual community and the E3 demo looks fun. The continued 20+ millions sales are all but a given.
BvS was (unethically) trashed by the press but proved to be one of biggest films of the year. You don´t get to 873 mil., a dozen sequels and a studio´s continued trust if you put out a historic "bomb". I still got a death wish on a Batman fan-site (!) for loving the director.
I always thought that Ghost Busters was an unknown franchise to today´s youth (IDW´s "in-continuity" comics aren´t bestsellers, nothing else exists) and GB 2 was hardy a good place to leave the series. The trailers are just "fine" but i would rather have a flawed resurrection with room to grow than NO franchise at all. But it will apparently kill Hollywood or something... Care to discuss?

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2:25 pm, Jun 23 2016
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I never was much of a fan of the initial games, as I found Silent Hill being better at capturing the spooky unknown. RE4 is one of my all time favorite games however, RE5 was kinda weak, but had multiplayer which is neat. Never played RE6 other than a demo, but I've seen that it wasn't that well received. Youtube comments don't matter. We don't know anything about the final product, but I've got a feeling that Capcom is trying to turn the dissent that arose from the PT trainwreck into a selling product after that pratfall of RE6, thus the more atmospheric approach, to fulfill the expectations that PT left unredeemed.

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5:53 pm, Jun 23 2016
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I'm more of the opinion that it merely reinforces the basic ideas that a certain percentage of any fandom will be shitheads and that humans have a tendency to overreact about things they are passionate about. Youtube comments section is generally an amplified version of this.

In the case of RE VII though, I think some of the ill will might be a kind of a backlash from the initial teasing that the demo released during E3 would contain multiple hidden endings and such, with people digging after them in a state of near mania, only to get the word that there are no hidden endings. The fanatic in the word "fan" reacts poorly to that kind of thing, even more so when it is a thing you are really passionate about.

CoD situation is kind of the same as the crowd has members that are extremely pissed about the saddling of the MW Remaster into a package deal with IW. But as you said, this is CoD, so it will sell millions anyway, so I imagine Activision will be wiping their tears with thousand dollar bills.

All of it seems just another day in the wonderful sea of consciousness that is the Internet, a place where millions of humans can pour their unfiltered, near animalistic reactions on things they both like and dislike. Sometimes both at the same time.

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lets be real here
this is just a very normal human way to act

it is not new
and it will never change

lets take another example that is true for me

new zelda game
my view
shitty zelda game that panders to the skyrim loving mob
nintendo saw an opportinuty to win over some of the 20m who liked skyrim by not making a zelda game for the fans but a clone of a popular game

popular media that likes to make money from youtube/hits on their site
say something very diffrent

feels like you got a little buthurt over some negative comments over a capcom game
you dont really care
as long as the mob agrees with you

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