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Annoying Gamer phrases that should die out
- Thread starter stinkyguy666
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criticizing anti-consumer practices makes you an entitled toxic baby gamer apparently
Most of the obvious ones have been mentioned so I will say one I have been nitpicky about ....
"OP"
Starting out it was fine cause it was not used as much, but now its gotten out of hand.
In most things competitive, it annoys me when someone immediately says this and refuses to learn how to overcome this "OP" character or strategy.... at least fucking try damn it.
"OP"
Starting out it was fine cause it was not used as much, but now its gotten out of hand.
In most things competitive, it annoys me when someone immediately says this and refuses to learn how to overcome this "OP" character or strategy.... at least fucking try damn it.
Just because a game was innovative when it first released doesn't mean it was any more fun or good back then. "Doesn't hold up well" indicates to me that a game was always bad, it just has a lot more competition now. But it also implies that the person saying it thinks the game used to be good, but... stopped being good despite not changing.
It's a buzzword. A zealous one.
So, basically, just eliminate every piece of vocabulary we have established to talk about games? Oh, and stop talking about games...
There are a lot of quality entries here. Like, obviously "lazy devs" is just a shitty ignorant comment to make. Similarly, dismissing things because they are indie is also a widespread problem closely tethered to ignorance. Walking simulator is another one that needs to be replaced by something that isn't intended to dismiss an entire genre out of hand. But a lot of the suggestions here would just necessitate people creating another word that means the same thing. Moreover, claiming that people can't criticize lackluster writing is just an absurd statement.
Anti-consumer isn't a "buzzword". It is a descriptive word that is extremely useful when decrying practices that are exploitative of the consumer.
There are a lot of quality entries here. Like, obviously "lazy devs" is just a shitty ignorant comment to make. Similarly, dismissing things because they are indie is also a widespread problem closely tethered to ignorance. Walking simulator is another one that needs to be replaced by something that isn't intended to dismiss an entire genre out of hand. But a lot of the suggestions here would just necessitate people creating another word that means the same thing. Moreover, claiming that people can't criticize lackluster writing is just an absurd statement.
Anti-consumer isn't a "buzzword". It is a descriptive word that is extremely useful when decrying practices that are exploitative of the consumer.
Lotta good stuff in here.
Wanted to give this one some love:
Also, gonna throw the phrase "valid criticism" into the mix. Seems to be mostly used by people who want their opinion to be taken more seriously than everyone else's, or cannot accept that others simply don't care about it, or think their opinion is above being challenged for some reason. It's also one of those phrases that comes off as lacking self-awareness in the sense that the person making the criticism is the one determining its validity?
EDIT: "OH SO WE CAN CRITICIZE THING ANYMORE?!"
What's most likely happening here is you're being an asshole, misusing a term, or grossly exaggerating, and people don't want to deal with it. Learn to speak to others respectfully and responsibly.
Wanted to give this one some love:
I fuckin' hate this. In so many ways I probably can't fully articulate. It mainly makes me angry when people use their role in the consumer/producer dynamic to treat other human beings in whatever disrespectful manner they wish (often while expecting to be treated with the respect they refuse to give). "The audience owes you nothing"... except yeah, you owe another human being who hasn't wronged you basic respect as a human being.
Also, gonna throw the phrase "valid criticism" into the mix. Seems to be mostly used by people who want their opinion to be taken more seriously than everyone else's, or cannot accept that others simply don't care about it, or think their opinion is above being challenged for some reason. It's also one of those phrases that comes off as lacking self-awareness in the sense that the person making the criticism is the one determining its validity?
EDIT: "OH SO WE CAN CRITICIZE THING ANYMORE?!"
What's most likely happening here is you're being an asshole, misusing a term, or grossly exaggerating, and people don't want to deal with it. Learn to speak to others respectfully and responsibly.
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We need to talk about *insert thing here*.
It's mostly a ResetEra thing, but good lord no we dont need to talk about something as stupid and pointless as unlocking characters in Smash. Stop making the most pointless shit sound like the most important shit.
It's mostly a ResetEra thing, but good lord no we dont need to talk about something as stupid and pointless as unlocking characters in Smash. Stop making the most pointless shit sound like the most important shit.
People hating on a thing for using Unity when it's just one of many different forms of middleware. It's an inane criticism because it speaks in no way to quality of how a game is crafted, merely that it exists.
Ugh yes. Very rarely it might make sense in non gaming contexts, eg it's 2018 and people still think blackface is OK.
I don't think I've ever seen the need to remind us what the year is in a videogame context.
Apart from the Jumanji what year is it picture, that's fine.
Lmao holy shit this is spot on. The way that sounds make it feel overly serious. "WE need to talk about unlocking Smash Bros characters.." dude you sound like I'm about to get diagnosed wtf
Unless it's a Kojima game, a Final Fantasy title post FF6, anything written by David Cage, or has the word "Xeno" in its title, then yeah, it really is.
I was thinking more of complaints about indie games that get labelled this. So yeah, the games you mentioned are the exceptions 😉
Everything? The way we talk about games in general just kind of sucks. Like I don't expect high grade literary discussion but it's mostly nitpicks repeated ad nauseum disguised as "critical analysis" that most of the time just comes across as flat out wrong.
"If you enjoy game ______ you're part of the problem!"
We don't all enjoy the same things. It's okay to enjoy games others dislike for any reason.
We don't all enjoy the same things. It's okay to enjoy games others dislike for any reason.
Not a phrase, But I'm fucking sick to shit of all the bullshit political talk in the video game chat sections.
if only people associated with video games would stop tripping over their own ass holes
I wish it was just ltd to that, it seems to bleed into almost every thread about any game..
Fuck me, me moaning about it has bled it into this one :( I'm sorry..
This, but this is such an issue with Era in general. This place is full of near constant hyperbole and pretentiousness. I swear some people talk about mtx like they're crimes against humanity.
Nuance is dead, and everything is either the worst thing that's ever happened or the greatest mortal achievement. There's no such thing as a good idea badly executed or something that's enjoyable but flawed.
video game to food analogies, my god. stop it please.
that goes for pretty much anywhere in this day of age on the internet TBH
Shit like this.
Not only is this a baseless, uninformed take on the Switch's capabilties most of the time, the Switch doesn't even run Doom well compared to the other platforms. It's impressive that it runs as well as it does...but it still doesn't run well in general, and I don't want more third party titles if that's how they're going to look and play.
"__________ [developer] owes us this." 99.9% of the time, no, they don't. The only recent thing where a developer legitimately owes anyone anything is the fallout 76 power armor edition bag ordeal. They owe those people canvas bags.
Also, some of you guys need a bit of justification to what you're saying other than "I don't like this phrase". For example:
Just about any lazy dev rhetoric is unacceptable to me because 99.9% of the time the person hasn't got a single clue as to what goes in to making these games or the decisions behind what goes into the game.
In general people are very hyperbolic in their reactions to big name games and that really bothers me.
Also, some of you guys need a bit of justification to what you're saying other than "I don't like this phrase". For example:
I get that it has become a very commonly used phrase lately but, what would you prefer they say to get the same point across?
Just about any lazy dev rhetoric is unacceptable to me because 99.9% of the time the person hasn't got a single clue as to what goes in to making these games or the decisions behind what goes into the game.
In general people are very hyperbolic in their reactions to big name games and that really bothers me.
This. My cousin says this almost about every game that came out on 360 or ps3.
Disagree. Stuff like Persona 5 and MGS5 make you do mundane crap and sit through repeating conversations... Why the hell should anyone be patient for actually, legitimate problems?