Ok let me be the first to say that fan boys and girls are crazy over their games and there is no way shape of form to stop them in there over obsession with anything that is link to their game. Which can lead to the over done tirades of video game reviews, or conspiracy driven gamers who like to cry about reviewers being paid off if a game that they love gets a lower score than what they think it deserves. Both tend to make it hard to take what there saying is true, and they lose credit when they get labeled a fan boy or girl.
Ok so first off the guy screaming at you in the Youtube video "KILLZONE 2 DEMO IS BETTER THAN ANYTHING THE 360 CAN AND WILL EVER OFFER”, very hard to take him seriously. He is in essence a true fan boy, obsessive with no true grounds other than a quick play of demo to a point where he is telling other people to go sell their 360 and get this game. Demos are not always a reliable source of information, they tend to be the quick version of the game, and not everything in the game is opened for you to play. So basically, you get to play, and see what the company wants you to see before they release the game. So of course it is going to be eye catching and loaded with things you want to see so you will go out and spend your money on a game. However, a demo does not show poor story lines, or other problems that you will find in a game after playing it for a few hours. So demos should be used with caution.
It does seem that fan boy or fan girl label has some negative vibe to it. I guess to me it is like the hard core gamer verses the hipsters, there is a nice gray area in there that no one wants to label and some with fandom nation. For the most part we only hear about the extremeness, the one who go crazy when any kind of negativity is linked with a game. That is a very narrow minded way to think. Don’t get me wrong, and can be called a fan girl at times, but I try and not let it crowd my judgment to much, or shove my idea’s down someone throats.
Only so much can/should be gleaned from any video-game demo, and it's rather obvious Mr. All Caps used the Killzone 2 demo as a launching pad for a larger argument about the worth of the PS3 and the worthlessness of the Xbox 360. We can't fault him for passion, which, if I remember right, we discussed as characteristic of hardcore gamers. I think there's an improper use of that here, though, and in the case of the Killzone 2 'controversy' overall. Passion needs to be tempered by reason, which is something not seen often enough in such debates.
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