The cringiest things about gamers

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K. V. Bones said:
Oh god I'd have to put it all in a video for accessabilities sake.
Theres far to much to put in one post.
Maybe I will I dont know.

Biggest one for me though is watching videos of the most boring people on the planet play video games unironically.
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Exactly, the only lets player true gamers watch is DarkSydePhil
 
Basil II said:
Exactly, the only lets player true gamers watch is DarkSydePhil
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I have a soft spot for CarcinogenSDA. I've not once been disappointed with one of his runs. Plus he keeps on topic instead of going off on rants.
 
Thinking a hobby needs gate keeping. Mobile games? "Then you cant call yourself a gamer." Fucking stupid. Its like saying that if you want to say that you like to read books, then you must only read Don Quixote, The Odyssey, In Search of Lost Time, etc. Your fav book is the Lord of the Rings? Then you are a poser.
 
kobox666 said:
Thinking a hobby needs gate keeping. Mobile games? "Then you cant call yourself a gamer." Fucking stupid. Its like saying that if you want to say that you like to read books, then you must only read Don Quixote, The Odyssey, In Search of Lost Time, etc. Your fav book is the Lord of the Rings? Then you are a poser.
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Mobile games generally are garbage.

Also by making games as broad and as low a barrier as possible makes you wind up with QTE movie shit like Life is Strange or Telltale. Those generally lack structure and mechanics which games rely on in order to be games.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Mobile games generally are garbage.

Also by making games as broad and as low a barrier as possible makes you wind up with QTE movie shit like Life is Strange or Telltale. Those generally lack structure and mechanics which games rely on in order to be games.
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That would depend on your definition of "game". But thats not the point, what I think is cringy is people getting angry when sosome random calls himself a gamer for playing mobile games or only mainstream games.
 
kobox666 said:
That would depend on your definition of game. But thats not the point, what I think is cringy is people getting angry when sosome random calls himself a gamer for playing mobile games or only mainstream games.
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what I think is cringy is anyone calling themselves a gamer.
 
kobox666 said:
That would depend on your definition of "game". But thats not the point, what I think is cringy is people getting angry when sosome random calls himself a gamer for playing mobile games or only mainstream games.
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Stop playing fucking garbage then, that robs your wallet and reduces the quality of life of games across the board. Companies are that retarded and will read it as a trend.

NBA2k now has a few thousand dollars worth of DLC because they added a lootbox card game to it and still only have the multiplayer servers last a year before they're taken off line forever. The sports genre has been dead/stagnant since the n64/ps1 era. That was the last time we got original sports games, and the PS2/Gamecube era got rid of those, and the Xbox 360/PS3 era got rid of the concept of selling complete sports games.
 
Calling themselves autistic. They're not. At least not in the way they mean. They really do overreact to minor slights that they take very personally. That's like the opposite of colloquial autism.
You're not autistic; you're just a manchild who cares way too much about the same trivial crap you did at 12.
My most autistic complaint yet!
 
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kobox666 said:
Thinking a hobby needs gate keeping. Mobile games? "Then you cant call yourself a gamer." Fucking stupid. Its like saying that if you want to say that you like to read books, then you must only read Don Quixote, The Odyssey, In Search of Lost Time, etc. Your fav book is the Lord of the Rings? Then you are a poser.
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An avid reader who keeps up with current authors in the genres of their choice won't have much in common with someone whose library consists entirely of Oprah's Book Club titles, much like how a game enthusiast who keeps up with developers in the genre of their choice won't have much in common with someone whose library consists entirely of games that were on the front page of the App Store.

It's not gatekeeping, you're just in the wrong place.
 
Hard to nail down, I know I personally cringe at

- The weird pride in the gamer identity, especially through being a consumerist manchild (ie wearing gamer clothing, having a room/wall dedicated to worthless shit like gamer branded toys and nick nacks, etc. etc.)

- The weird attachment many have to specific consoles/companies when almost all of them are identical when it comes to business practices

- The weird sense of entitlement many have that every game should cater to their personal tastes and desires

It's somewhere between those three for me.

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I cringe at gamer "snobs" as well. Although I think this is a minority in the greater "gamer" culture. But you know the types, the ones who sneer at people who like Skyrim and are always having to push games as an artistic endeavor.
 
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Broseph said:
Necrobumpin but I never understood why streaming took off the way it did. How autistic do you have to be to watch some other autist playing video games?
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I don't know about everyone else, but have you ever been unable to actually spend money on games you wanted to play, because of not having the capital for it? Or perhaps, having only access to one type of console but not being able to play the others? And it's not like emulation is always possible, since the more advanced the hardware, the more complicated that becomes.

Of course, I'm not saying all streamers are amazing and what not, but sometimes, people can't play games they want to, and watching someone play for them is useful for them to know what a game is like. In other cases, maybe it's just the parasocial relationships thing where nerds can't have friends so they'll pay someone online to be nice to them.
 
Broseph said:
Necrobumpin but I never understood why streaming took off the way it did. How autistic do you have to be to watch some other autist playing video games?
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One reason in the case of multiplayer games is it's the only way a lot of gamers can feel like they're vicariously good at them.

Multiplayer games are hard as shit, it takes a special kind of skill to actually be any good at them, so for most the next best thing is watching someone else who's actually good at them play them.

It's the often the same deal with sports I bet, how many sports fans are vicariously imagining themselves as the athlete?
 
Since this has been necro'd, fuckers that will sit there and defend their favorite company's shit game because It WaS mAdE dUrInG tHe PaNdEmIc as if thats a valid excuse for why Cold War plays like absolute ass or why it takes months to fix a single fucking bug in Warzone.
 
The weird purity checks that older "gamers" demand of every new release. Then they bitch and moan that its too woke, and refuse to buy it or they boast about pirating it. They only buy one or two big releases at full price every year, if at all.

It never occurs to them that because they quit buying games at launch, the companies quit trying to pander to them. They went where the money is, which is zoomer and streaming culture. Your old asses aren't worth the trouble anymore.
 
A Random said:
I don't know about everyone else, but have you ever been unable to actually spend money on games you wanted to play, because of not having the capital for it? Or perhaps, having only access to one type of console but not being able to play the others? And it's not like emulation is always possible, since the more advanced the hardware, the more complicated that becomes.

Of course, I'm not saying all streamers are amazing and what not, but sometimes, people can't play games they want to, and watching someone play for them is useful for them to know what a game is like. In other cases, maybe it's just the parasocial relationships thing where nerds can't have friends so they'll pay someone online to be nice to them.
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From my experience, most gamers watch Streamers because of the personalities more than the games themselves.

I feel like the fact there are people who can get enjoyment out of watching a game be played is a huge testament to how much gaming has devolved into interactive movies tbqh.
 
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