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Hurray! I'm here early!

Question for the gamer folks here: do you ever think we'll see another massive, wanky, Final Fantasy 7-esque game fandom again? Something that almost everyone has played and is invested in the story of?

I'm not so sure myself. I think those days might be over. Even the FF series has a strongly distinct set of fans, dwindling in proportion if not absolute numbers (the latest two Fallout games, for example, sold more copies than most recent FFs, and Skyrim outsold them by a landslide). The gaming population is too segmented, these days, and those few uber games (in terms of popularity) that still exist don't exactly have a "plot", per se.

I sometimes wonder if Mass Effect was the last gasp of a sprawling, dedicated gaming fanbase.

Mass Effect is the last one I can think of. I'm trying to come up with other modern examples, but Assassin's Creed seems to be losing its fans (or at least their undivided attention) and others like Metal Gear can't seem to generate a big 'fandom.' (Same with the likes of Batman, The Last of Us, blah blah blah).

If BioWare doesn't fuck up the series, the ME fandom (which I'm in) will be around for a while...

If BioWare doesn't fuck up the series

/Too late

...I honestly lost all interest after the end of ME3. I know I don't speak for everyone, but I do have a large number of friends who stan'd for the series very hard and every single one of them was the same.

Totally understand. So many of my friends are the same way but for some stupid reason I still love the series.

I feel the same. Apparently they're making a fourth and I really can't bring myself to care.

If BioWare doesn't fuck up the series, the ME fandom (which I'm in) will be around for a while...

And then there's DA, which is fucking inexplicable to me.

Phantom Pain (and Ground Zero) could turn out to be interesting. You play as the big villain of the series, cool characters literally everywhere, angsty otp popping out everywhere already (and there isn't even a release date yet).

I say this game has all the potential required. (Can't wait myself...)

Seconding this. The super advanced graphics help too, and having actors (one is Kiefer S., but I wouldn't underestimate Atkins either) as the voice/face actors.

I hope it will not get crushed under the ridiculous hype surrounding it...

Oh god I hope so. I LOVE Metal Gear, but 4 and Rising got mixed reactions. I think V will be great and a needed change for the series. V is one reason I want a next-gen console... And I usually wait on those.

MGS has a limited fanbase, though, in terms of both game mechanics (some people simply find action games impossible, others find stealth games boring) and Japanese-ness (I know many, many gamers who are put off by the series' quirkiness).

I'd love it if that happened, though!

Ah yes, the Japanese weird sense of humor has been sometimes a turn off even for me (but NOT when it meant you could have the two main characters go on a gay date at the beach as a MISSION and have them make out...ahhh, good times) but this games looks different. I think they will need to tone it down if they want to write this particular story...hence the hope this one will be The One for me.

I adore Big Boss, Ocelot and Miller too much. Put them in a game together = explosions in my brain.

Ooooh, Snake Eater was the one for me. I had mildly enjoyed the previous two campaigns, but daaaaamn. If they can pull a repeat of that mixture of mature tone without losing the wonderful zaniness (i.e. instead of replacing it with asinine toilet humor like Sons of the Patriots) it will be aawwwweesome.

I admit that when I saw the trailer, I came.

ayrt

"I admit that when I saw the trailer, I came."
Me too, me too. I'm not proud of my biological responses to those trailers.

Ah toilet humor, not my thing. Snake Eater had a great balance, I agree. But MGS2 was great as well for me. MGS4 I didn't manage to finish because Naomi Hunter and Otacon gave me the creeps, ah and let's not forget the burping guy with a monkey (but Solid Snake FTW as usual). MGS1 was my first and my baby, Peace Walker was enjoyable and created some unforgettable characters.

This one has got to be amazing, I swear. I'll cry if it's not.

Yeaaaaaahhhh. Naomi and Otacon having aged exactly the same number of years but Otacon showing it and Naomi practically looking like plastic really creeped me out too. I mentioned this in a thread about Resident Evil, where Chris and Leon show the 17-some-odd years that have passed and Jill and Ada and Claire still look like smooth-cheeked teenagers despite the fact that they'd be pushing 40.

MGS2 was great, as was the original, but imo they both pale compared to Snake Eater and I played them all as they came out. (Haven't had the chance to play Peace Walker though because I don't own a PSP.)

Haven't had the chance to play Peace Walker though because I don't own a PSP.
you can find it on PS3 (I too played it on PS3), the HD release (along with MGS3 and MGS2) :D

Kingdom Hearts comes to mind. But yeah, the most popular kinds of games these days are a lot different from FFVII and don't seem made to generate that type of fandom. They just don't have that same universality, and like you said, gamers are really segmented. But then I kind of feel that way about a lot of fandom groups these days. I used to be confident that there would always be something just as crazy and widespread to replace the old stuff, but the brand new fandoms seem to get more and more lukewarm and fleeting compared to Ye Olde Fandoms every year. It might be me getting older, or the way fans interact with media evolving into something different.

Pokemon is probably the closest, just in terms of how many people have played it. It has its own board on 4chan, even.

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