What are some dead games or niche games that have annoying communities?

[Night Crawler]

Pretty much any "community" or "fandom" is full of a bunch autistic mouth breathing retards. I haven't run into any that aren't full of total shitheads. Usually it's 95% of the "community" that are fucking trash. People that make you start to hate things you used to enjoy. They make you feel like a loser like them. I tried getting involved in some of these "communities" or "fandoms" years ago and I just didn't like it. Even the Jurassic Park fan communities are full of whack job autistic faggots. The kind of people that can't leave their house because if they did, they would get their asses kicked.

I would say the Dark Souls fanbase. Especially with their insistence that the game is super hardcore and their git gud faggotry. I played some of Dark Souls 1, mostly the remaster because the original PC port was total trash. The game consists of you dodge rolling all over the place like an asshole. Go in get some hits in and then spend the next 5 minutes dodge rolling like a douchebag.

Another "community" I have experience with would be the World of Tanks community. It's a community made up of a bunch of insufferable autistic faggots. They are also delusional as well. I would say it's pretty niche also. I used to play World of Tanks years ago. I started in 2013 and played off and on for years. It was a game that I could barely run on a shit laptop I used to own. When I built a better computer I started playing other games. There is really no point in playing WoT when you have better games you can play. The game itself is total Free2play garbage. It's rigged as hell. It shouldn't be surprising that the community also garbage. A garbage game attracted a lot of garbage people. Adults addicted to gambling. Autistic loser faggots obsessed with in game stats.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

I don't know what it is, but I sometimes see Muslim fans of various vidya, and if they are autistic enough they will inject their religion into it. For example, a Muslim woman making OC donut steels in burkas. And before you ask, yes it's unironic.

Oh so you mean this
Being a muzzie this is a bit weird but otherwise harmless. Atleast it isnt christian sonic fanart.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Another "community" I have experience with would be the World of Tanks community.

War Thunder's community is more entertaining, if for no reason other than the resident autists get so salty about inaccuracies in the tanks' handling or depictions that they leak classified blueprints of the things on the forums. It keeps happening, too, with spergs from lots of different countries all posting military documents to win an argument.
Fancy getting rendered to some CIA or MI6 blacksite with all the terrorists and spies, and then when they're like "what you in for?" you tell them you're there because you leaked state secrets for updoots.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/seeking-mr-eatens-name-the-most-infamous-quest-in-gaming.114286/

'nuff said.

Oh so you mean this View attachment 5681612
Being a muzzie this is a bit weird but otherwise harmless. Atleast it isnt christian sonic fanart.

Christians do it too BTW.

 

[Coldgrip]

Earthbound/Mother series

I have yet to meet a fan of the series irl that wasn't such an autistic mongoloid that even Final Fantards would steer clear of them.

 

[Islamic Jihad Rocket]

MUGEN

While the same can apply for any fighting game community/modding community, MUGEN is a different type of autism; but what can you expect from a thing that lets you basically make whatever you want and is all about crossovers?

As someone who was able to witness such dumb shit, every facet of the community is compromised by dumb drama, and all sorts of slap fights that occur over the stupidest things. The one I remember vividly is a leaking drama where some guy leaked someone’s characters and it spawned this whole stupid thing where shit was flung from both sides, if I recall said “leaker” even paid some guy actual fucking money to crack passwords on specific private characters so he could leak them. I’m not kidding that this type of shit is so dumb and petty, imagine wasting real money on a bunch of computer files for a game engine just to “leak” something and get credit for it.

Then there’s the whole “cheapie war”, which is the literal definition of people weaponizing their autism. Which devolved from making broken ass characters that kill you before the match starts to now making full on malware that can brick your computer, or even take out the power. There’s so many different tiers they it’s absolutely absurd how far people go with this shit. There’s one character, Mathrus who has basically gone down as an urban legend who’s reached even outside the community. There’s a very good video on that and one that explain a lot of the cheap character autism here:

While the real Mathrus doesn’t actually exist and is just that; a myth. There IS actual malware characters out there. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a community who would go as far as to make straight up malware just to say “ha I beat your character and now I beat your pc”. You cannot make this shit up.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

any kids' mmo that got shut down and is rewritten. notable examples include moshi monsters rewritten (inserted brainwashing troon propaganda posters) and wethepixies (yanderedev levels of update speed)

Toontown Rewritten has that too, and pronouns. How the fuck is it "vanilla" when you include that garbage

 

[Pissmaster]

This is what I mean by ESL browns being a problem. I don't know how to put it, but a fandom lives and dies by its fan content.

There is just something wrong with fanwork made by Latin American (and Muslims, oddly). Even if it is artistically proficient, which it often isn't, there's always some kind of weird slapdash jank, usually in characterization.

Like, say, Dragon Ball Z Mugen characters. You just know when a LATAM person made one. Maybe someone else can explain it better.

I know exactly what you mean, and I can't put it into words, either. It's the kind of corner cutting that's along the lines of, say, Shenmue III's title screen using Impact font:


Funny enough, that screenshot came from a Reddit thread where a bunch of idiots couldn't wrap their little noggins around why a bad font choice like that makes your work look cheap. Little details like that add up to a lot, but you can't really just point that out to an idiot. They'll just say "Yeah, but it's just words and they say what they need to say. What's the big deal?"

I guess they just don't see the jank?

 

[Night Crawler]

War Thunder's community is more entertaining, if for no reason other than the resident autists get so salty about inaccuracies in the tanks' handling or depictions that they leak classified blueprints of the things on the forums. It keeps happening, too, with spergs from lots of different countries all posting military documents to win an argument.
Fancy getting rendered to some CIA or MI6 blacksite with all the terrorists and spies, and then when they're like "what you in for?" you tell them you're there because you leaked state secrets for updoots.

War Thunder is garbage as well. I'm not surprised their player base is stupid enough to do that kind of shit. You have to be really stupid or retarded to invest time into these free2play trash games.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

The Jagged Alliance 2 community is pretty autistic in how they've taken this kinda goofy tactical RPG and through years of playing with mods have come under the belief it was supposed to be a hardcore military simulator.

 

[Point Man]

Anything mod related. Modders are some of the most autistic antisocial retarded faggots that I've ever had the displeasure of seeing.

The Jagged Alliance 2 community is pretty autistic in how they've taken this kinda goofy tactical RPG and through years of playing with mods have come under the belief it was supposed to be a hardcore military simulator.

Same thing could be said about STALKER and its weird war between its halves. There's the camp that praises the original games as perfect videogames with zero flaws and calls for your execution if you dare to play the dreaded Anomaly mod or anything similar, and there's the other camp that turns the game into Escape from Larpkov XTREME Edition where they add a trillion tactical gear and weapon mods, hyper punishing hunger and health mods, and mods that straight up remove anomalies from the game.

 

[Scarthew]

The Silent Hill fandom are laughably retarded, but I guess they're annoying in the way that they just make up plot points that never happened in game, and then when confronted with "That didn't happen" they just invent even crazier things rather than just admit they got it wrong.

For example, in the first game, a girl gets burned alive by accident because the old boiler in her house malfunctions and causes a fire. It's explicitly stated in-game, but the fandom have decided that she was burned alive intentionally by a religious cult as part of a ritual, which just didn't happen.

The developers of the later (shittier) games in the series didn't even bother to play the first game, so the retarded fan theories that make no sense are now canon, it's pretty funny.

The reason for that was a bug in the US release of 1 which resulted in a crucial memo not showing up, its meant to appear toward the end only after you read 2 other memos in the school and hospital but it just doesn't. This was fixed for the pal release but it seems most didn't play that version. Then in official Konami story guides the mis-information was repeated and then the wiki was made and codified it as well.

The problem is once this was known it was never corrected and the people who ran the wiki were too stubborn to admit they were wrong and banned who pointed it out. The wiki is also full of fan fiction, almost every page is filled with speculation about what each element "represents".

Of course Origins made everything worse by rewriting the mistake as a retcon also having the otherworld in a time when it doesn't exist yet, as a totally seperate realm with memos suggesting it existed when travis was a kid, and having Alessa roaming around as a projection when the soul split happens at the end of the game.

 

[Seventh Star]

War Thunder community is full of autistic people and shitters who actively try to make the game worse for everyone else. Those reddit niggers adore defending Gaijin. It's not dead or niche though.

MUGEN

As a thread tax, the similarly named M U G E N group is a bunch of Roblox autists who made some pretty entertaining games, but unfortunately they had multiple schizoid/paranoid episodes like blocking their games because people they didn't like played them. I got one of their games pretty much downloaded for free a while ago as a result of it.

 

[mrs thickness]

i will never. eeevvveeerrrrrrr fucking look at anything related to Umineko which is not herpes'd onto my screen nonconsensually

 

[Judge Dredd]

I would say the Dark Souls fanbase. Especially with their insistence that the game is super hardcore and their git gud faggotry. I played some of Dark Souls 1, mostly the remaster because the original PC port was total trash. The game consists of you dodge rolling all over the place like an asshole. Go in get some hits in and then spend the next 5 minutes dodge rolling like a douchebag.

I could go on a long winded rant about the Dark Souls/From Software fanbase. I'll keep it brief.

Before they hit it big with Dark Souls, From Software was an obscure company, best known for Armoured Core. They made a bunch of weird and esoteric games. The problem is after Dark Souls everything had to be Dark Souls or bust. I remember the fanbase having a meltdown when From Software announced they were making a VR murder mystery game. Even the announcement of Armoured Core 6 had some speculation that it would Dark Souls with hangers instead of bonfires.

Then there's the extreme hatred they have for other games like Lords of the Fallen and The Surge. The Surge 1 and 2 do more of what Dark Souls fans claim than Dark Souls. If a game does something like Dark Souls, it's a rip off. If it does it different from Dark Souls, it's inferiour.

But the easiest way to piss off a DS fan is to point out any of the beginners traps, exploits, balance problems, or any other flaw with the game. This leads to a bizarre situation where using certain builds or features will mean a playthrough "didn't count" according to the DS fanbase. Yet obvious exploits like using a weak bow to kill a dragon by shooting it's tail for 30 minutes is perfectly fine and the game "working as intended".

It's the kind of corner cutting that's along the lines of, say, Shenmue III's title screen using Impact font:

The Sims 1 uses Comic Sans.

These days using stock windows fonts isn't really needed. Google Fonts and various CC0 fonts across the internet mean you can have a look that most normies won't notice immediately.

The Jagged Alliance 2 community is pretty autistic in how they've taken this kinda goofy tactical RPG and through years of playing with mods have come under the belief it was supposed to be a hardcore military simulator.

I always assumed it was a hardcore mil-sim as that's the reputation it has.

Speaking of which. Xcom. Either you're a purist that has to stick to the original release 100%, or you play Xcom EW with Longwar. Because the only way that game can be enjoyed is if every mission takes three hours and has a 80% casualty rate.

 

[Asian tech support]

Even the announcement of Armoured Core 6 had some speculation that it would Dark Souls with hangers instead of bonfires.

At least AC6 filtered the bulk of those faggots. My time with that game has been free of spergs.

But the easiest way to piss off a DS fan is to point out any of the beginners traps, exploits, balance problems, or any other flaw with the game. This leads to a bizarre situation where using certain builds or features will mean a playthrough "didn't count" according to the DS fanbase. Yet obvious exploits like using a weak bow to kill a dragon by shooting it's tail for 30 minutes is perfectly fine and the game "working as intended".

The real autistic exploit is in Demon's Souls - standing on the middle tower of the bridge in 1-2 and flinging soul arrows at the red dragon every time it makes a pass. That takes like 20 minutes whereas the bridge dragon's tail only takes like 50 arrows.

 

[Cheeseknife]

Anyone who thinks the Halo series past Combat Evolved was good or better than the original game.

 

[WULULULULU]

War Thunder is garbage as well. I'm not surprised their player base is stupid enough to do that kind of shit. You have to be really stupid or retarded to invest time into these free2play trash games.

What baffles me to no end is the amount of Gaijin dicksuckers that defend their precious company and especially War Thunder to no end. Everyone will gladly shit on WoT but WT is treated as their darling, despite the numerous shit WT has done that it has gone equally downhill as its' arcady counterpart.

-Inclusion of tanks in an aircraft-based game.
-Introduction of Cold War to modern tech in a game that is meant to cater to the reason above. Hence the Dagor engine being a tech-clusterfuck.
-The worst grind in a F2P game period. You need premium to even progress past rank 3, or hell, rank 2 if you want to try everything the game has to offer.
-Balance is based on statistics, therefore bullshit moves like putting an M26 Pershing in a tier with goddamn Tiger II Hs are justified with this stupid reasoning and making the tank unplayable until their BRs are moved. Multiple aircraft and tanks have been shafted because "decompression hurts queue times".
-Unnecessary gameplay additions for "muh realism". Does anyone use napalm bombs or that stupid tank bulldozer mechanic on their Challengers? I sure as shit don't.
-Literal premium tank/aircraft preorders. In some updates, they have some shit you can get by pre-ordering, despite the game being F2P. Here, there are pre-orders for virtual items and niggercattle will gobble it up.
-The worst one, and the one that shows that War Thunder players are niggercattle, is the amount of promises Gaijin has made to their players, which they only do after they massively fuck up their game. In the "La Royale" update, the backlash was so immense that Gaijin was one of the developers during 2023 that sent their usual "apology letter" pictured below:

After which, they decide to make a "roadmap" on their promises to fix the game, but 2 months afterwards and they have not fixed the economy of the game, so people are still at risk on losing their Silver Lions all because of repair costs. People revolted, Gaijin gave them a carrot, then they stopped and continued to play along. Hook. Line. Sinker.

 

[Dysnomia]

i will never. eeevvveeerrrrrrr fucking look at anything related to Umineko which is not herpes'd onto my screen nonconsensually

I don't know if the video is still up and sadly I don't have the link saved, but there was a guy who made a ten hour rant explaining why his waifu Shannon is biologically female and can't possibly be Yasu. And yes. He was 100% serious. It was one of the worst cases of vidya autism I have ever seen. Ten fucking hours. I split it into parts and listened to the whole thing as background noise over a period of days. I regret nothing. For I have seen autism deeper than the center of the universe and I came back alive to tell the tale.

 

[Foxymophandlemama]

The Silent Hill fandom are laughably retarded

Late and gay but yes. I know that the quality of the games post SH4 have been subpar and Konami is shitty but I've even seen a bigger clusterfuck of crybabies than Silent Hill fans. From dumb shits that can't separate the lore of the movie from the game (mention Centralia in any SH group and watch the chaos happen) from attention whores thinking they look like Heather (no they don't) it's a bunch of people that can't wrap their heads around the fact that the franchise is way past its prime and they should stop having bitch slaps over anything.
That doesn't mean, of course, that they should accept anything that Konami releases (like the pachinko), but whenever something is released it becomes more an ego fight than really discussing the quality of what's being released like fucking normal people. And they will spend money on the shitty things anyway. And the temperature room IQ is so strong that they don't even know how to discern a "in developent product" trailer from a final product.
From what I've read here, the main problem from most of communities is the fucking ego of the people. Like, my brother in Christ, it's just a video game. Calm the fuck down.