How much of a gaming snob are you?

[Uriain]

While I do not believe I am a "videogame snob", I am not really a sport game - gamer. I enjoy Fifa, but have never been very into other sports games. The only exception to this is for oddity theme'd sports games, like BloodBowl, Mutant League Hockey, etc.

I also have little love lost on those who cannot see the appeal of genre's they don't personally play. I may not play/overly enjoy sports games, but I can discuss and appreciate the advances/entertainment one COULD get from those games, and I think that needs to be applied by everyone.

Also, and this is just a personal thing, I never understood the minecraft appeal for the longest time, at least until I played it.. now I have a book of graph paper trying to figure out how to build a wicked castle before I start in-game lol.

 

[Legion]

People who call themselves gamers annoy me.

I am happy they mentioned it in the Expo panels actually. We don't refer to ourselves as "movie watchers" or "book readers", so creating a community for playing games is just nonsensical to me. As is singling people out because of it.

 

[Zeckt]

I admit to disliking point and click adventure games. I used to play them as a kid when I would play any game I could get my hand on and adored KQ6, but nowadays I find them So. Bloody. BORING! I highly respect them but I go out of my way to avoid them now

 

[Pink Gregory]

I hate the thirteen-year-old boys who think they know about war, death, weapons, and combat because they can quickscope. By that logic, playing Skyrim should give me the ability to shoot fire out of my hands.

Someone needs to put 'Dispatches' in the school curriculum, that'd put a stop to that.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

I, without exception, absolutely fucking hate ALL JRPGs ever. Seriously. ALL of them. I also keep far away from sports games.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I wanted to say I am, but I actually had fun with Kane and Lynch 2--could have much better, but at least I wasn't playing as another super-capiable, super-handsome, super-short-brown-hair douche bag.
Playing as two dirty old psychopaths, who flip out when things start going wrong is a refreshing change. I also played it with a couple friends and we talked the whole way through it.

 

[McMarbles]

I only play games that have been passed through a civet's colon.

 

[Johnny Impact]

I forgot that I also don't do sports games.

I'm not a fan of sports in real life, so the idea of playing a game based on something I already don't like is just meh.

Also, I play games to escape from reality, as in, to do things reality doesn't allow. I would never play a game about hitting a ball with a fancy stick when I can play a game about visiting an alien planet and murdering its mutated inhabitants with a selection of ridiculous weaponry.

The only sports game I liked was Mutant League Football, which was only loosely about football, and which totally needs a remake.

 

[Beach_Sided]

I definitely think, as someone who pretty much only plays single player games, I look down on people who pretty much only play multi-player/non-story games.

 

[Wayne Bridges]

I will not play sports games at all. I sit here thinking, "What changes could they possible make next?" and then go and read/game/do something else. There's also console-only games i don't play unless i heard that they're good from more than 20 people. Also, Console-ports suckdicate i mean Syndicate (Thanks EA)and Tom Clancy's Future soldier.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I tend to avoid sports games but only because they are more fun to play in real life and the people you end up playing against are insanely competitive. I've seen people literally smash their console to pieces because the computer scored a goal against them on PES...it's just sad.

I'm embarrased i'm a gamer at all. I look at some of the whiny pathetic bastards on this website and despise myself a little more for associating in any way, shape or form with them...let alone allow myself to be moderated by them.

I think i've just talked myself into leaving again

 

[FalloutJack]

Look, that isn't fair. You have people who are downright rude about it, and then you have people who have reasonable reasons for themselves or that many share in. And there are points in between. Some games turn people off. Don't just call people snobs all willy-nilly.

 

[Soopy]

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Not embarrassed by, but I dislike those gamers who like to make demands of developers like their petulant whinging matters a damn.

i dislike this ^ kind of gamer

please see video game
comic books
movies
novels
and just about every other form of entertainment where fan outcry or input has worked, pessimism on that level gets you nowhere
and trust me, communicating how you feel about a product that you pruchace, it works more than you know

also i do not like gamers who use lets use 50:cent blood in the sand for example. they use their hatred of rap music, and the culture as gateway racism. if you don't like 50 cent blood in the sand fine, if you don't like fiddy fine, but when you making fun of someones accent like say a black guy from the New York, or the way he speaks, and out right saying its wrong not even knowing why he speaks that way, or denouncing rap music as a genera and calling its practitioners degenerate monkeys, or just hating on clothing, or saying that this guy is acting too black.

that's not disliking a game , that's disliking a culture. don't put your hatred(in ability to understand) of a whole culture in your video game review.

You can be critical without being a little brat arse hole. This is where allot of "Gamers" have issues. They either lack the social skills needed to convey their message or simply have too much of an ego to be modest and level headed enough to present an argument.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I don't play any sports games (except that one quidditch one for the Gameboy Advance, that was good) and I wish the main body of gamers didn't exist. The ones that will buy anything and are not worried about character development, plot, price, any of that.

 

[Soopy]

snip yo

i dont understand i basically said i believe your wrong here are some broad examples, i can go into depth if you wish, i generally dislike gamers who think that way. not really being an ass, just argument presentation

next, didn't you just present your argument cynically implying that all gamers complaints as consumers are whining and they should stop

that's asshole statement of the year, you denying they right to complain about a product as a consumer,

I'm not denying anybody anything.

My comment is aimed at those who feel the need to do this;

"WTF!?:
Why the hell doesn't this game have XYZ from ABC Game?"

Or

"It's been a whole day now. Why the fuck isn't there a patch to fix this problem I'm having!?."

As opposed to, I dunno;

"Hey, I'm having XYZ problem. Is there a fix for this? Is this a problem with the game, or is the problem on my end?".

THAT is what I have a problem with.

 

[Zeckt]

For me its probably online shooters. Not necessarily the games themselves, more the community, I just don't like the way people behave towards each other, its just nasty. Its only a game after all. The language they use can barely be considered English except for the swearing. It doesn't help that a lot of players are in their teens (Either physically or mentally) and I am an older gamer. I just don't have time for their bullshit. Its why a lot of the time I stick to single player games, games are a form of escapism and I don't need some douche bag spoiling for me.

Note: I'm not dissing the entire online FPS community, just that sector. Anyone who has played an online shooter knows the kind of players I'm talking about.

you should check out Battlefield. It's honest to God the best gaming community I've ever been apart of. I swear half the servers don't allow swearing - some don't even give a warning they just out right ban you.

If they ban casual swearing like when someone is trying to discuss a point and lets a swear slip, I find that overly harsh

 

[perkl]

I think gaming died in 1994 and the anti-Christ that killed it was Playstation. Does that make me a snob?

 

[Proverbial Jon]

People who say the only games they play are COD simply because they know they like them.

what? Try some other games and genres, you might surprise yourself. Finding out is half the fun.