The problem with Ian is that he just sees bad news, wheher the news is bad or not.
The prime example was the conference last year Nintendo held to announce a preponderance of new DS titles. A Ridiculous amount really. From third and first parties. A New Tales game, A new Castlevania (which Ian likes, because it is a longcore hardtime traditional game for longcore hardtime traditional gamers), Almost exclusive Square Enix support (save for a movie or something), Several new games from Nintendo themselves, all of which demonstrated a range of genre. Good news period, no bad news, at all.
What did Ian do? Bitched, at length, about Mario Basket 3v3. One game out of Dozens. He also bitched that it was a waste of Square Enix's talent upon learning it was in fact them doing it and not Nintendo. One S-E game out of the Seven S-Enix games that S-E has planned or already released. He bitched and bitched and bitched some more. And frankly, at that point, even the mods couldn't take it anymore, including myself.
He hates Nintendo's failures yes, but it seems he hates their successes as well. That they could even find a way to succeed with the DS without listening to his ideas must offend him to his core. That the hot new thing in Japan is Brain Training and not something that he likes. He laments their focus on "non-gamers" and passes summary judgement on said games without thinking. He further laments Nintendo "milking" Mario as if it is something they have only been doing recently. He also whines that nobody is original, when he refues to talk about or like original games, and treats every new game with scorn for not being "traditional." He eschews that no DS game needs the touchscreen to exist, that it is not essential to any games concept, which is in the top ten stupid things I have heard this decade. Not misguided, not misunderstood or mis-contexted. Just stupid.
He has become a sad parody of himself. The thing most of the forum feared he would. In that, whenever there is news about Nintendo, any news whatsoever, good or bad, Ian will post and bitch about it, warranted or not. His "devils advocate" scthick may be appealing to those uninitiated, but to anybody that has been here longer, he is just an old, tired "sparkling innovation," changing his stances and picking unwinnable arguments complete with gigantic multi-paragraphed posts in damage control upon any layman's discovery and exposure of the simple and basic flaws in his argument.
Fun at first, thought-provoking seldom, annoying currently. These are the traits of Ian Sane through years of careful examination.
P.S. I do not mean to come down hard on Ian, however, this is a big problem, as he originally was quite prized in my view, as a sort of The_cubed_canuck without all the mental disease. However, lately he has shown to act like him, almost word for word, and it pains me.
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