conviction was strong enough to hurl snide insults and passive aggressive remarks for years, but the second gaming reached mainstream popularity you did a complete 180 with the media and acted like you were into it all along. You’re a pathetic sheep. I hope rabid Goombas gnaw through your ankles so I can drop my trousers, let loose my humongous balls, and teabag your face for eternity.Rank Quitters. I really can’t stress this enough. If you intentionally quit in the middle of a match every time you’re losing to preserve your perfect multi-player record, then the record is meaningless. How do these people not get that? They’re no better than a schoolboy changing the grades on their report card in an attempt to fool both himself and his parents. At least the schoolboy avoids a stern lecture from his parents temporarily. Meanwhile these quitters are cheating on a virtual spreadsheet that’s ultimately as worthless as their college psychology degree.
Preteens. An entire generation left to frolic without supervision on worldwide servers. It’s tempting to place blame for all the world’s gaming woes directly on the puny s
houlders of these high-pitched twerps, but you have to wonder how the parents are not able to hear their child screaming racial slurs and mother related profanities at strangers all day. After a while you’re forced to form the inescapable conclusion that most of them just don’t care. To be fair, upon hearing of their child’s rudeness, one family threw their son’s Xbox 360 out of the second floor window. There may be hope for parenting yet! Although it seems almost pointless to bother when you can wait it out and let the faulty hardware do the job for you.Console War Participants. I can understand comparing the library of games, however if you find yourself supporting a console by citing their profit margins, then something has gone seriously wrong. You’d think the PC would be an obvious system to support, given it’s a free marke
t not controlled by any single corporation and therefore doesn’t charge an extra ten bucks per game. Instead players have chosen to openly support monopolies now. If these companies have any sense they’ll use this human fallacy to their advantage and ride the illogical “us vs them” mentality all the way to the bank.
My nephew has a PS2, Wii and is getting an Xbox for Christmas. So my sister and her husband are making sure these companies keep a healthy profit margin.
ReplyDeleteWow...tell me how you really feel about wii!? Couldn't you be glad that a game console is gaining popularity with non-gamers and breaking down the stereotype? Wait...don't answer...I think I already know it. Sheep...we're all sheep.
ReplyDeleteBefore you go on a rant-I don't have Wii. I don't have any gaming console at all-save an old school original nintendo up the mountains that I never play-so I'm not personally a sheep. I do know a lot of women who felt intimidated by the serious gamers but wanted to have some fun too so they turned to the Wii. Just saying is all.
Have a lovely Friday...I hope it's sunshine and roses for you, dear. (did it work? did i kill you with kindness?)
George – Good to know they’re not picking sides at least.
ReplyDeleteJewels - When I say casual sheep, I am referring solely to the ones who match my descriptive paragraph. Don't focus on the misleading sub-title, I couldn’t think of an appropriate title to sum up that particular minority. Those people I mentioned still harbor the same generalizations about gamers despite being one, how’s that for contradictory.
I kinda like the Wii. Everyone in my family has one under their roof (aunts, uncles, grandparents), and it’s a hoot at barbeques. I may be a bitter wretch, but even I understand the gaming industry needs a continuous supply of new gamers or it will eventually die out. Hell, if it hadn’t been for them it might already be a shadow of itself, there were serious cutbacks this year in the upper echelons of publishers and developers alike because of our global economic situation.
We got a Wii for free because we're awesome. Not really, my dad's friend just gave it to us.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing we had was Wii Sports and it was fun for a while but it just fizzled out for us. I think it's only good for little kids or getting active. I'm skeptical that a proper game works on it. I think the remote would annoy me if I had to do that.
The only other consoles I have are PS1 and PS2 and I love them both. Even though they are collecting dust. I refuse to dump my games. Too much nostalgia!
Hazel xxx
Quitters drive me up the wall, especially if one of them is your friend and you're playing with them! I used to play Gears 2 with him and at first he never gave a shit, but because one of his friends made a big deal out of his kill/death ratio then OBVIOUSLY it was important! This led to him quitting practically every match he was in cause he was a shit player. It pissed the rest of us off cause that meant, being 1 man down, that we'd probably lose >:(
ReplyDeletePreteens are the most annoying when they have a headet on, and you have to listen to their high-pitched nasal whining for the entire game. Then when you win, they slag you off. Yay!
Hazel – Wii sports was enough for my family for six months. Like I said though, we reserved it for family events. If you’re playing regularly (or worse, by yourself) then it probably gets old fast. Maybe you’ve got some rare PS games in your collection that’ll fetch a pretty penny down at Amazon or eBay!
ReplyDeleteSkelly – So true, it’s disappointing when someone lets the team down like that. Another thing that bothers me is when someone buys a new game and instead of getting acquainted with the controls, immediately pops onto a mutli-player match. Someone asked me on Left 4 Dead how to shoot a gun. Dude. Just... dude.
Amen! Amen! Amen! And AMEN!I've said it a million times, not at the Wii particularly, but the emergence of causal gaming overall. All those so called "grown ups" on my facebook who would turn their nose up at me for playing Dead Rising or Gears of War, but will park their asses in front of a monitor for hours at a time to grow virtual crops and tend to a virtual farm in Farmville. What's the difference, other than my games are awesome and their's sucks?
ReplyDeleteQuitters bug the hell out of me primarily because with my skill level, it normally takes a team effort to get a win lol. Quitting for the purpose of maintaining some sort of rank on a leaderboard just goes to show you're maybe not as good as that rank would suggest.
The preteens, and sadly even some adults, have completely ruined multiplayer gaming with pubs for me. I refuse to do it. Is it my fault if I don't have the kind of life that affords me hours upon hours to play online and hone skills and more importantly memorize maps and spawn points so that I can camp them and rape other players at will? So I stick primarily to members of my friends list only when it comes to mp.
Console war participants do more to entertain me than actually bother me. I have pretty much every console from the NES to the current gen systems in my house right now (save for the Wii), so I don't really get into the debate much. I love all of my systems, and for different reasons with each one. The Dreamcast is still my hands down favorite of all time, how's that for some fuel to the fanboy console fire?
Well Drake, I am not a big gamer or anything. I do have a Wii and Playstation 2 and 3.
ReplyDeleteNothing against those who do, but I personally cannot build my life around video games. Don't get me wrong I love playing a video game every now and then. Hell I came from the original Nintendo generation(mine still works bytheway). I just cannot get into my life revolving around games. I am also one to think that games(or movies for that matter) do not make kids dumber or meaner, I think shitty parenting and bad social groups do that all on its own.
As far as my gaming consoles go my personal favorite is still the playstation 2 and not because the media or anybody tells me to. Its because I had the most fun from my games from that particular system. Such as the Resident Evil games(I have never gotten bored from them). Wii and PS3 are still in their infancy stages so I really can't put much into how fun their games will be for me in the future. I just like playing certain games on them.
I will say that xbox games have never held my interest so I don't bother to own one. Nor do I really hold much interest for PC games. That's just my take on the world of video games!
M Bones – Thanks for taking the time to make such a lengthy response. I often find mutilplayer games are unplayable after about a month. By then any adequately skilled player has been driven off by the hardcore crowd who think it’s perfectly reasonable to sit in front of a screen for twelve hours a day.
ReplyDeleteI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Dreamcast is so underrated.
Watchman – Looking forward to seeing the new incarnation of Resident Evil in a couple of years.
I can't stand the casual gaming crowd... You're right, Drake. For years people looked down on gaming and the people who participated in it as nerds and losers... Now everybody is doing it thanks to the fucking Wii... It makes me sick every time I see one of these stupid Kinect or Playstation Move commercials these days... Fuck the casual gamers, make room for the hardcore people!!!
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ReplyDeleteRei – I don’t think new players realize 80s and early 90s gamers had to endure constant ridicule, as video games were on par with Dungeons of Dragons in terms of geekyness, which incidentally, was also attacked for supposedly being spawned by Satan. At such a young age many gamers still kept up their treasured hobby rather than bow to peer pressure, when most kids would have walked away. That’s why it’s so important for older gamers – they had to fight for it. This casual audience? They didn’t have to do a thing, gaming is cool now.
ReplyDeleteBut like I said, the gaming industry needed the untapped audience of casual gamers to grow. And I don’t hold it against them except the minority that participated in maliciously making fun of gamers for so many years only to sneak into our ranks. Do we get an apology? Of course not. They’ll just pretend it was acceptable because the media hadn’t validated it back then. And as Mister Bones demonstrated, they STILL manage to look down their noses at us even when the word hypocrisy is now in forty foot high letters surrounded by neon lighting.
Hed – I have no idea what you just said due to the context.
Okay, deleted said comment due to context.
ReplyDeleteBut now it's too early to think of a new comment!
Take your time. XD
ReplyDeleteI don't play video games and neither did anyone in my childhood household, so we had no sort of oldschool 80s/90s gaming system. this lack of gaming likely stemmed out of some (nonvocalized) gaming-disdain from my parents, but none of my siblings or I cared enough to complain or ask for a console for chrimbus.
ReplyDeletehowever, after all the kids had grown up, when the media started Wii-ing all over each other, my dad went right out and bought himself one. there's some gaming hypocrisy for ya.
I HATE CASUAL GAMERS. And I also hate the whole battle of the consoles. All three of the "Next Gen" consoles have their problems, none is really better than the other.
ReplyDeleteAlso, people leaving in the middle of a game annoys me. Especially when, say, the leaver is the host and so the whole game has to end just so they could keep their pathetic scores... It's just like a team leaving in the middle of something like cricket, and pretending it never happened.
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Erin – Sounds very familiar!
ReplyDeleteOllie – If anything the console war fans should be arguing over which console sucks more, rather than which is best.
Becca – Seen it, pinched it, ate it. Thanks!
oh, i could have sworn id commented on this post.. oh well i'll do it now
ReplyDeletethis made me laugh, out loud, when i was meant to be working on spreadsheets in my office. oops.
Pree teens are very annoying, and the teabag your face for eternity part is just amazing
Were you directly talking to me here with the Casual Sheep? Likely. I do love me some Wii bowling.
ReplyDelete'To be fair, upon hearing of their child’s rudeness, one family threw their son’s Xbox 360 out of the second floor window. ' YAY!
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