I'm a gamer, and I'll be the first to call myself as such, but FUCK, gamers annoy me. Let's look at some Gamer archtypes in depth to understand what I'm talking about:
Hardcore gamers:
These are those people who live, breathe and eat gaming, which is fine, if you can make money from it, it's always good to have an all-encompassing hobby. Unless you take it way too seriously, as most Pro/semi-pro gamers are wont to do. You can't PLAY it that way, you have to play it THIS way, if you use items, you're hacking! Don't use THIS gun, it's cheap. I can use it though, because I'm just better than you. I make MONEY off playing games, that means I'm right all the time. Blah blah blah - fucking - blah. If something ceases to be fun, it's no longer a game, it's a digital job.
People who play one game exclusively:
Okay, it's not as bad as all that, I'm talking about people who will play ONE TYPE of game, and that's it. It's worse if they chose to critise other genres, ESPECIALLY if they choose to critise other genres because they're not the same genre as their chosen genre with the genre genre genre I thinkI'vebrokenmybrain.
People who favour one console over another:
I guess I could just call this 'Fanboys', but that's a bit too all-encompassing, I want to be a bit more specific.
YES, the WII is gimmicky and has low graphics, YES, the Xbox breaks a lot, YES, the PS3 is capable of causing traffic accidents and stopping high-calibre rifle rounds. Who cares? As of this writing, they're all pretty much in the same price bracket, and in the case of the Xbox and PS3, have pretty much the same games being released on them. Who cares what console you have, because at the end of the day, nobody cares because consoles are for idiots and the PC is the only true platform for video games.
Ha HA, but seriously, unless you're prepared to spend thousands of dollars on consoles, just pick one and be happy. Don't spend all your time justifying WHY you made the right choice to people who don't care, or have entirely different opinions about your console, you, and your mother.
12 year olds
I REALLY wish that more countries would enforce the 15/17/18/21+ restrictions on gaming, I'm all for that, especially if it means that when I'm playing Call of Duty, or Team Fortress, or Starcraft, or whatever, I don't have some annoying opinionated pre-pubescent hollering in my ear about how I'm not worthy to lick his boots despite me a) Soundly beating him at the time, and b) being not pre-pubescent. I'm all for kids getting into gaming, but seriously, parents, what the fuck?! Get that Xbox out of your kid's room, so you can hear what he's saying over Live. Or more accurately: What he's screaming bloody murder over Live.
12 year olds who aren't 12
This is the sole reason I try not to play online anymore, because although the kids are annoying, the adults outnumber them 12-to-one. Not a problem, the problem is, the Adults who have the nessecary brain power to be considered adults are outnumbered by the rest, probably hundereds-to-one.
Learn some goddamn civility. I don't want to know how long you've been playing this, I don't want to know how you totally just 'POONED' me (that's how the say it, really), and I certainly don't want to know that you just fucked my mum. Good for you, she's fifty, nice to see she's still getting some from a verile 20-something.
The Easily distracted
Halo, I'm looking at you. Most of these examples are taken from the mulitplayer part of that particular series, That, Call of Duty 4, and for some reason, a bit of WOW. When I bought my Xbox, I actually made a solemn vow never to actually connect it to the internet and play multiplayer over LIVE, because I know what it's like, I've done it, it's not pleasant. I play games to have fun, not to become simultaneously frustrated and deafend.
One of the problems with this is that games are becoming increasingly fast-paced in order to accomodate it's current core demographic: People who become incredibly angry if something doesn't explode within seconds of something else exploding. Often at the expence of story. Look at games like Psyconauts; incredibly funny, pretty good gameplay, and hardly sold. Not enough killing aliens.
Anyway, I'm just incoherantly ranting at this point, but feel free to discuss and add your own archtypes in here if you wish.
Some examples:
[url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOxPE6fYbuI]Prime example of both 12-but-not-12, AND Pro gamer.[/url]
[url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBfLOZ2CjQ&e]Thanks to Metric Monkey for this one![/url]
Hardcore gamers:
These are those people who live, breathe and eat gaming, which is fine, if you can make money from it, it's always good to have an all-encompassing hobby. Unless you take it way too seriously, as most Pro/semi-pro gamers are wont to do. You can't PLAY it that way, you have to play it THIS way, if you use items, you're hacking! Don't use THIS gun, it's cheap. I can use it though, because I'm just better than you. I make MONEY off playing games, that means I'm right all the time. Blah blah blah - fucking - blah. If something ceases to be fun, it's no longer a game, it's a digital job.
People who play one game exclusively:
Okay, it's not as bad as all that, I'm talking about people who will play ONE TYPE of game, and that's it. It's worse if they chose to critise other genres, ESPECIALLY if they choose to critise other genres because they're not the same genre as their chosen genre with the genre genre genre I thinkI'vebrokenmybrain.
People who favour one console over another:
I guess I could just call this 'Fanboys', but that's a bit too all-encompassing, I want to be a bit more specific.
YES, the WII is gimmicky and has low graphics, YES, the Xbox breaks a lot, YES, the PS3 is capable of causing traffic accidents and stopping high-calibre rifle rounds. Who cares? As of this writing, they're all pretty much in the same price bracket, and in the case of the Xbox and PS3, have pretty much the same games being released on them. Who cares what console you have, because at the end of the day, nobody cares because consoles are for idiots and the PC is the only true platform for video games.
Ha HA, but seriously, unless you're prepared to spend thousands of dollars on consoles, just pick one and be happy. Don't spend all your time justifying WHY you made the right choice to people who don't care, or have entirely different opinions about your console, you, and your mother.
12 year olds
I REALLY wish that more countries would enforce the 15/17/18/21+ restrictions on gaming, I'm all for that, especially if it means that when I'm playing Call of Duty, or Team Fortress, or Starcraft, or whatever, I don't have some annoying opinionated pre-pubescent hollering in my ear about how I'm not worthy to lick his boots despite me a) Soundly beating him at the time, and b) being not pre-pubescent. I'm all for kids getting into gaming, but seriously, parents, what the fuck?! Get that Xbox out of your kid's room, so you can hear what he's saying over Live. Or more accurately: What he's screaming bloody murder over Live.
12 year olds who aren't 12
This is the sole reason I try not to play online anymore, because although the kids are annoying, the adults outnumber them 12-to-one. Not a problem, the problem is, the Adults who have the nessecary brain power to be considered adults are outnumbered by the rest, probably hundereds-to-one.
Learn some goddamn civility. I don't want to know how long you've been playing this, I don't want to know how you totally just 'POONED' me (that's how the say it, really), and I certainly don't want to know that you just fucked my mum. Good for you, she's fifty, nice to see she's still getting some from a verile 20-something.
The Easily distracted
Halo, I'm looking at you. Most of these examples are taken from the mulitplayer part of that particular series, That, Call of Duty 4, and for some reason, a bit of WOW. When I bought my Xbox, I actually made a solemn vow never to actually connect it to the internet and play multiplayer over LIVE, because I know what it's like, I've done it, it's not pleasant. I play games to have fun, not to become simultaneously frustrated and deafend.
One of the problems with this is that games are becoming increasingly fast-paced in order to accomodate it's current core demographic: People who become incredibly angry if something doesn't explode within seconds of something else exploding. Often at the expence of story. Look at games like Psyconauts; incredibly funny, pretty good gameplay, and hardly sold. Not enough killing aliens.
Anyway, I'm just incoherantly ranting at this point, but feel free to discuss and add your own archtypes in here if you wish.
Some examples:
[url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOxPE6fYbuI]Prime example of both 12-but-not-12, AND Pro gamer.[/url]
[url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBfLOZ2CjQ&e]Thanks to Metric Monkey for this one![/url]
