Sometime ago, there was this fast pace game with absolutely no need for story and the game was just pure action – you jump in, kick ass, and come back another time. It was the time for Quake III, this frag fest was all about the game play and action, and it still is with a new incarnation – Quake Live. Quake III was one of my favorite games of all times and getting into the Quake Live beta, I creamed my pants. But the closed beta is over, and the game is in open beta to all the public to play and for free.
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“Ah, what a wonderful game, I mean, it haves everything to make it good – but what’s this? A fanbase? Well, that ain’t so bad. Huh? Furry porn of my favorite character? Ranting lunatics worshiping it like a god? Yaoi fangirls writing fanfiction? A group of anal asshats turned it tourney haven? That twelve year old kid down the street likes it?

Well fuck this game, I hate it now and I don’t what to look at it ever again.”

An all too common statement I hear among the crowd, it implies that somehow, a fun and enjoyable game becomes the scourge of humanity simply because other people like it. How is this possible? Don’t know, you tell me but if I had to guess, it has something to do with the sparkling golden high horse that gamers sit on top of these days. A form a super elitism thinking that their own specific obscure niche are the only people allowed to enjoy the game – like some dilapidated tree house with the sign “boys only”.
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