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Raiyan 1.0 said:
kroldok said:
While CoD may not need defending, it's players (some of them at least) certainly do.
Every time the "kiddies" and "fratties" scream "WIN" and spew bile over all non-CoD players, everyone else screams "FAIL" and spew bile over all CoD players ("an army of millions of frat boys and 13 year old tards" as i belive they are here represented).
This is the core point of this video, that you simply cannot judge other people based on something as arbitrary as their prefered choice of entertainment, and what it mostly comes down to is a generalisation of a large group of people.
But by saying that all those people who dislike CoD are (as he puts rather derogatorily) 'artsy fartsy types' or ' just going with the trend',
isn't he making broad generalized stereotypes himself? For example, as I already mentioned, I believe CoD doesn't deserve to be the best-selling game on the PC as the last 2 sequels were
very poor unoptimized ports. How do I fall into any of his preset camps?
Fact is, Jim's just trolling back.
First of all, just went through the video twice in a row and he doesn't actually say either of those things, at least not as straight quotes.
The 'Artsy fartsy'
character he portrays states:
"What on earth are you talking about? I understand that videogames are supposed to be art, and Call of Duty could never be art.
Where is the tutorial that tells you the complete opposite of what your'e supposed to do to blow your mind. Where's the commentary on the stark nature of the human condition that all videogames should have, this is not good"
Basically, this character makes a broad generalization about CoD players, nowhere is it insinuated that Jim himself hates 'artsy gamers' or people who hate CoD, he does however hate the people who hate him for enjoying CoD, and there is a big difference.
Towards the end of the video he sums it up quite nicely:
"Somebodys intellect is not reflected in the games they like, there are some who play CoD and
only Cod, and there are plenty of others who enjoy the games as part of a balanced diet of software.
Call of Duty isn't perfect, Activision may soon be running the series into the ground if rumors of spinoffs are true and $15 mappacks can go f*** themselves. But at the heart of the series there are good games to be had, and theyr'e enjoyed by more than just mindless fragheads. And if you have a legitimate argument against the series and it's players other than simply 'Derp, it's stupid' i'm more than willing to listen"
Trolling? oh yes he is.
However i think this is a good thing, it's easy to enjoy Zero Punctuation because the target is developers, and it's easy to enjoy extra credits because the provide in-depth look into the industry, the problem is neither of them properly adress the in-house culture of the gamers themselves, and the 'inbreeding' that tends to come along when tight enough groups form, Jims trolling is directed at
us the players, and i like that idea,
it provokes thought, at least for me, even though alot of what he says have been said before (most notably the sexism episode), he does put a spin on it that i quite enjoy.