Let's invade Steam tags!

[jamail77]

Recently, the game category "dial-a-combo" was revealed to me. I notice it's not popular enough yet to show up on Steam's list of tags. That got me thinking. We should invade Steam tags! This won't be like those people who trolled the system with tags like "Not a game, the game" or "Hipster Garbage", but a serious attempt to get lesser used, but fun named categories popular enough to show up on Steam's list of tags. Anybody with me? If so, throw out some suggestions for Steam tags and, for those of us who like them, we'll work together to get them trending. In general, what are your thoughts on Steam's tagging feature?

EDIT: Apparently, dial-a-combo is a derogatory term. I didn't know that honestly. I know, I sound stupid. If it really is derogatory then we're not using it obviously. Nonetheless, the goal of the discussion remains the same.

 

[Rozalia1]

Dial-a-combo... You want people to help you get a derogatory term over? You want to push Scrub too while at it?

 

[jamail77]

Dial-a-combo... You want people to help you get a derogatory term over? You want to push Scrub too while at it?

I had no idea that was a derogatory term honestly. It sounded like it has a negative connotation (because where I learned it from was describing a game in a negative light), but I assumed it could also be used positively like people who take back words formerly used to insult them. Sorry for my ignorance. Definitely explains why I never hear it being used much.

 

[Saetha]

...Well, I think it sounds cool...

 

[LetalisK]

Dial-a-combo... You want people to help you get a derogatory term over? You want to push Scrub too while at it?

...eh? Can you explain that one? Because the only thing I can find referencing "dial-a-combo" is in fighting games where combos are button sequence based and aren't concerned with timing. Nothing indicating this is considered negative, either.

 

[Pirate Of PC Master race]

Dial-a-combo... You want people to help you get a derogatory term over? You want to push Scrub too while at it?

There is little to no base to suggest that this term is indeed derogatory. Or do you take the term "casual" as derogatory as well?

 

[Rozalia1]

I had no idea that was a derogatory term honestly. It sounded like it has a negative connotation (because where I learned it from was describing a game in a negative light), but I assumed it could also be used positively like people who take back words formerly used to insult them. Sorry for my ignorance. Definitely explains why I never hear it being used much.

...eh? Can you explain that one? Because the only thing I can find referencing "dial-a-combo" is in fighting games where combos are button sequence based and aren't concerned with timing. Nothing indicating this is considered negative, either.

I'm unsure how to best explain it so here goes. Dial-a-combos are lax on timing, and are guaranteed hits once they land the first hit as long as you're competent enough not to whiff the order of the button presses. Most fighting games have such a thing to varrying extents but the ones that use it heavily can result in players playing every single character in the same way.
Its why for a long time Mortal Kombat was mocked as a casual fighter by certain people (though the newest one did improve its image from what I've seen).

In essence as most fighting games do have them if you were using it to tell people Dial-a-combos were merely present than you'd have to pin it to essentially all of them so it'd be useless/pointless. If you peg it to the ones who use it more...obviously than you're essentially marking the game as casual, that it doesn't require that much skill, is uncompetitive, and well...isn't a very good fighting game.

I've never personally used it to criticise a game but I've seen it used often enough that I can't see it as a positive thing to tag something with.

 

[Pirate Of PC Master race]

I've never personally used it to criticise a game but I've seen it used often enough that I can't see it as a positive thing to tag something with.

Yeah. That is the part where I have the problem understanding you. Just because it is not positive doesn't mean it is negative. It can be... well, neutral.

If Dial-a-combo means "it is easier to do combos(than traditional fighting games) because there is nearly no action execution frames for transition of each combos", it should mean exactly mean what it is. Then the reader may apply his/her personal attributes to the term.

I can see how it can be viewed negatively. Catering casuals with "any moves can work as combos" and all. But I digress.

I do think that it will be viewed as negative term for traditional fighting game players. In the end, I do agree with you since people who do care (more than others) about this term agrees on the fact that it is derogatory.

 

[Something Amyss]

Yeah. That is the part where I have the problem understanding you. Just because it is not positive doesn't mean it is negative. It can be... well, neutral.

It's used most commonly in a sense in the same way as "scrub," the example Roz gave. In this case, "not positive" does seem to be a nice way of saying "negative."