I'm a fan of the series. It does appear to be the only series that stopped right before it risked having all juices sucked out of it, and then pimped out on the market to retarded teenagers, like so many other game series did.
Few days ago there was a similar thread, asking people to shave their heads to support cancer treatment (victims?), of course it was forgotten and noone actually did it. So don't expect people do something like that for some game. There are many fans, not many fanboys.
Here's a sweet video to people who have no idea what we are talking about
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfYRfpaBwnc