THis is how a true MM fan reviews new games in the series....

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://pocket.ign.com/articles/455/4554 ... l">here</a>

THis is how a true MM fan reviews new games in the series....</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>What the hell is a true fan? The one that makes a comic based off it? The one that makes a fan fiction based on it? Just liking the gameplay and nothing more? What the hell is a true fan.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The one that agrees with you.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>In this case, the one who understands what the series' have become</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Whatever Zeus.</div>

[Don]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>stagant and lack of innovation is a good thing I guess</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Evolution, not revolution....and if you don't think there's evolution, you just don't play them. They might have spent 15 years doing changes that would now take 2 years, but the vast majority of the games have been fun. There's nothing wrong with that IMO</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>MM is the only true side-scrolling 2D action series left..there's a reason for that.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Because the developers can invest nothing into innovation and still make a profit? :)</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>...zing!</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>More like Eric The Burninator, burninating the countryside.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's part of it, yes. But they also make enough changes and keep the level design good enough that the hardcores (like me) remain loyal</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Okay, I've had about enough. It's a videogame franchise, not a country. The term "loyal" is absurd in that context.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Hush heathen, before thine is forced to hither the visa vi X-Buster style!!!</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Say bra....why you gotta call me a flaming homosexual? That's not even very much cool.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>What are you talking about? Marketing types have known about 'Brand Loyalty' for years, which is what this essentially is.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Yes, I'm well aware. However, I don't expect rational people to actualy vocalize such feelings - that is, realize it and think "Yeah, that's okay."</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's a perfectly legit use of the word. You haven't heard the term "loyal Sony fans" before? Of course, it's not to the extent of, say, familial loyalty, but it's still loyalty in every sense of the word</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It's legitamite use of the WORD, but the concept is absurd.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>In your opinion</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>In a purely dictionary sense, yeah, it is pretty absurd. But the popular vernacular has more or less subsumed it for commercial purposes. Pop culture doesn't care much for clarity of language.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Exactly. Societal norms and contexual rules allow for such uses even though the originally intended use for the word is violated. If this were not the case, people would be arrest simply for saying "I wanna kill G-Man" :-)</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Okay, I think rational discourse is thrown out the window when things like "true MM fan" and "the hardcores remain loyal" are said. How's that?</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Pop culture doesn't care much for rationality, either.</div>

[Don]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>a true fan is someone willing to put up with junk hoping it might get good again.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Dear Lord. A true fan is someone who understands what something is meant to be and appreciates it for what it is, rather than trying to judge it by criteria for something it is not.....like judging MM by the storyline, for instance</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Agreed. Sometimes you just like something because you like it, even though you know if you tried to judge it by the criteria you normally use, it would fail miserably.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Fair enough, it is your opinion, after all</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>He's judging it by a bit more then just the story....</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Heh. I like that.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yes, but story is the main thing he always brings up, something MM was NEVER good at</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Use your imagination.</div>

[Captain O'Hagan]

<div style='font: italic 14pt "comis sans ms"; text-align: justify; '>Yea, jeez, wtf are you THINKING.... the proper term is FANBOI!!! Say it slowly at first, it's pronounce fan-boy, but pop culture doesnt care about spelling! MM FANBOI!</div>