On the top of the list, I must place Halo.
Many people I've come across have forgotten that it actually DOES have a good storyline.
Also on my list: Pokemon. Its fun. End of story.
It was the only video game that permiated all forms of media to such an extreme. This fame among the game lay man has earned it much hate and a nebbish fanbase.
Also up here are games like DDR and Guitar Hero, for being an extreme example of the "Wally Wavedash" syndrome. Nothing ruins your fun quite like a trained pet spider.

Anyone else have a personal list they'd like to share?

World of Warcraft i reckon

and i agree with you on halo, cant beat being screamed at by a 10yr old using so many racist terms and profanities in one sentence that it loses what little meaning it may have had at the beginning

Super Smash Brothers

Those damn tournament fanatics keep limiting the game. No items, more than half of the levels banned from tournaments, I'd rather play Super Smash the way it was meant to be played. With items, and a good amount of unpredictability. Good thing Sakurai doesn't listen to his fans. Otherwise the only map in Brawl would be Final Destination v.2.

Halo 3, CoD4, all the other multiplayer games on the Xbox 360

Thanks to the kids, when people think of the Xbox 360, they only think about the butchering of the English language. Many games on the 360 have gotten unnecessary flak just because of its fanbase.

Sib:
World of Warcraft

I played it for 5 minutes. I love the undead so I decieded to make an undead necromancer kinda guy. Looked a little bit cool. So I ventured out into the world. A friend taught me the confusing mission questing thingy. I thought it was kinda stupid but the quest I got was to go out and kill some kind of undead creature. I fought them for a little bit. Got bored sickly. Turned off the game. The fans didn't ruin the game, it ruined itself. The fans are the only ones who enjoy it. I like games like FPS's where I get full desisions and control in my attacks, not right click on them. That was pretty pointless. Everything in that game felt so off.

OMG, this is true, no wonder so many people hated Halo 3, damn the fans to hell!O_O

PurpleRain:

Sib:
World of Warcraft

I played it for 5 minutes. I love the undead so I decieded to make an undead necromancer kinda guy. Looked a little bit cool. So I ventured out into the world. A friend taught me the confusing mission questing thingy. I thought it was kinda stupid but the quest I got was to go out and kill some kind of undead creature. I fought them for a little bit. Got bored sickly. Turned off the game. The fans didn't ruin the game, it ruined itself. The fans are the only ones who enjoy it. I like games like FPS's where I get full desisions and control in my attacks, not right click on them. That was pretty pointless. Everything in that game felt so off.

I played it for the better part of a month or so, then realized that a fair amount of players are 1337ist pricks, and if you made 1 mistake during a raid (OMG I DIED NOOB PRIEST) you were immediately chastised and half the party left. So I thought fug dis shiz, I'm going to go play TF2. And I've never been happier.

I dont think Halo 3 really needed to ruined by its fans. I bought it one week after its release and even I was dissapointed. Im a huge fan of Halo 1 and 2 but 3 promised much more than it delivered.

Still a decent game though.

Any online game. Or is that just me?

i think Zelda is one, since ocarina of time the changes are not accepted very well, the majoras time system and the sailing with cel shading in wind waker come to my mind

Halo 3 and Counterstrike mainly.

The Nintendo franchises.

Halo. How can a game NOT be ruined by such rabid fanboys?

Kid: "Halo is the best game ever."
Me: "No it isn't. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is much better."
Kid: "I don't even know what S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is, but Halo's better than it."

True story. Now, you may think Halo is better than S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but you can't judge without at least knowing a TAD bit about both games.

Halo is repeated here. True conversation between me and an aquaintance.

Me: Who do you think would win in a fight, Samus or Master Chief?

Him: Dude, why are you asking me that? Master Chief is way better than Samus. He would destroy her before she could even blink.

Me: Actually, I think it would be a fairly close fight. I mean, Master Chief is enhanced by stimulants and is obviously quite strong, but Samus has a speed advantage and is more agile than Master Chief. Between her screw attack and morph ball, she can be a hard target to hit. Besides, she doesn't die with a single rocket.

Him: Shut up, you're just a stupid Metroid fanboy. Master Chief is the best character ever made!

Edit: By "aquaintance" I mean "FOAF".

halo is way overhyped by it's fans and itself but it is kinda fun.

doa4 online has been ruined for me due to people using only hyabusya and hayate and doing the same 2 moves over and over again.

half life i'm just tired of hearing about, i don't so much care about the game AT ALL.

agreed, i've lost friends to world of warcraft so online games like it are kinda never going to condone that game.

my friend constantly talks aout kotor and while i don't begrudge him that i love to give him shit for it.

Fallout.

just to repeat "halo" for the 50th time, yes it is overrated.

from all the reviews of SSBB im really looking forward to it, but it was gotten so much attention that im worried ill be dissappointed. i think thats what happened to halo 3. to was so highly anticipated that it was more of a let down than a god-send

second only to The One:
just to repeat "halo" for the 50th time

I'm sorry I think you left a power sign out somewhere. :P

Halo: Combat Evolved is a good game. For when it came out, it was rather sophisticated. But yeah, the fans have over-hyped it severely.

I'll pass judgement on 2 and 3 once I get to play them.

Cameoflage:
Fallout.

Do you want to die?

It seems that the Half-Life series is getting to that point, but I think it has a much higher tolerance for that sort of thing because it is so good.

PurpleRain:

Cameoflage:
Fallout.

Do you want to die?

I see that you get the point of the topic all too well.

LordOmnit:

PurpleRain:

Cameoflage:
Fallout.

Do you want to die?

I see that you get the point of the topic all too well.

Haha. I love irony.

[quote=LordOmnit]It seems that the Half-Life series is getting to that point, but I think it has a much higher tolerance for that sort of thing because it is so good.

True, even on this website the freeman lovers are everywhere, but that will die down as soon as more games like Far Cry 2 come out(Probally gonna be best game of the year(Far Cry 2)!).O_O

Cameoflage:
Fallout.

I wouldn't say 'ruined'. They're good games, but half the posts from sites like 'No Mutants Allowed" makes me want to phsysically vomit.

That aside, I personally feel that every single MMORPG in the history of time deserves mention here. Except for Seed. Seed was awesome for the whole week it lasted.

Pretty much any console FPS game with online mltiplayer, thanks too all the dicks who feel the need to talk crap and taunt people or piss and moan at them if someone is differant (The English/American one being one of the most common) or when someone kills them...

Peregrinus:
That aside, I personally feel that every single MMORPG in the history of time deserves mention here. Except for Seed. Seed was awesome for the whole week it lasted.

Agreed - all other MMORPGs have a high level of elitism. Seed had one of the most friendly and open communities I've come across. Shame it didn't last.

SS2 fans. Largely because I am a big fan, and it ruined BioShock for me - the gameplay just seemed like SS2 lite.

any game with multiplayer invariably haas people playing who see winning streak stats as the only point in playing & believe their aparent awsomeness somehow elevates them to a level of existance that lets them s**t all over anyone (everyone) they percieve as below them.

Internet anonymity + nerd urge to feel big = bad mix for civil discourse :-)

any game that have gone past having fans into having a full fledge of extreme fanboys/girls. And especially when a games over hyped. This is do to them becomeing extreme anti-fan of everything and anything else which no only ruins the game they like but also go out their way to ruin every other game - even if they do like it :/

Counter Strike is close to my heart so I have trouble accepting that it's been ruined by fans, however, I can see how someone would think that. Personally, I think it's been kept going by fans far longer than it had any right to. It was created by fans, there is tons of custom content which I think has helped it stay strong and every server is it's own community and all you have to do to have a good time is play random servers until you find a group of people you like. There are, however, a bajillion hackers, griefers, twelve year olds, and general idiots who play too so a good game can quickly turn to crap...

I want to say Warcraft III because I ultimately left due to the constant deluge of annoying asshats on battle.net but I also plays for months after I stopped doing regular games because of the custom games. Tower defense and defense of the ancients kept me going way longer than I should have.

If you want to see a game get ruined by it's fans. Come to the Team Fortress 2 forums on Steampowered.com and just wait for the griping to commence, if the front page isn't littered with threads about nerfing this or buffing that to begin with. They, I don't want to say cater, but respond to a lot of people's comments, and sadly the most vocal aren't necessarily the best judges. It seems like it's going downhill fairly fast...

Pretty much all of the "most popular with teenage audiences" games that involve teams of players shooting at each other. Halo and WoW are givens.

- J

Halo, Counter-Strike

Observation: software > meatbags. Request: Can I shoot them now, master?

All too often good games are spoiled by hypercompetitive or mouthy fans. (I never did enjoy GoW multiplayer for just that reason, and yes it bothers me in the Halo series... and I wonder how much I'd enjoy CoD4 online given the "leveling" and concomittant snobbery.)

-- Steve

the_carrot:
If you want to see a game get ruined by it's fans. Come to the Team Fortress 2 forums on Steampowered.com and just wait for the griping to commence, if the front page isn't littered with threads about nerfing this or buffing that to begin with. They, I don't want to say cater, but respond to a lot of people's comments, and sadly the most vocal aren't necessarily the best judges. It seems like it's going downhill fairly fast...

If the people at Valve listened to the people on the forums I think CS would be a very different game. So I don't think we have much to worry about.

broadband:
i think Zelda is one, since ocarina of time the changes are not accepted very well, the majoras time system and the sailing with cel shading in wind waker come to my mind

I agree for the very same reasons. I wouldn't say that Ocarina of Time fans are ruining the series *yet*, but they certainly are threatening to stagnate it.

I also vote for SSB. Lots of bad experiences here...

This is reaching into the vaults a bit, but the Marvel vs. Capcom series in the arcade. A good Magneto/Spidey player could string together a combo that would destroy you without giving you a chance to move. I once got stuck playing a guy who did this. When I got caught in the combo and saw what was happening, I just walked away. The sad thing is that the guy kept playing.