Poll: No One I Know Likes Good Games

[Azaraxzealot]

I read this and you're pretty much saying this. "Guys! My friends have different tastes in games to me, that sucks!".

My advice good sir, is to deal with it. People have different tastes.

ah, but there's a difference between "My friends have different tastes than me." and "My friends tell me my tastes and beliefs suck."

I was getting the latter from his description of his friends. It's one thing to have different tastes, it's another to tell people that what they believe in is stupid, because that only breeds ignorance and an overall worse perception of our Gaming Industry. To make video games (rather, interactive experiences) is to craft art, but people who just believe them to be toys are detrimental to people actually going ahead and giving developers this acknowledgement.

So yes, they have different tastes, but their beliefs are actually harmful to the perception of the gaming industry and we need to either educate them or badger them until they concede.

Ignorance is my pet peeve, and I try my best to destroy it by showing people there are games that exist beyond their electronic sports (I.E. FIFA and Cash-In of Duty). When the day comes that the crafting of video games is finally accepted as an art form, we know that those who sat around in their frat houses or mom's houses playing Cash-In of Duty convincing themselves that every other game in the world is stupid if it's not a bunch of shooting people down narrow corridors down a gunsight with an electronic sport to do afterwards are not the ones who helped, but actually slowed this process. The faster we educate them, the faster interactive electronic experiences can be taken seriously in the eyes of the public and become the accepted medium that it deserves to be.

See, the thing is, me and my friends actually tell eachother that what we like is crap all the time. Its not a big deal for me or them. To us its just how we are. I don't know anyone who's gaming sphere is just Fifa and COD (wonderful replacement of the name there by the way, by passively telling everyone COD is bad, if you can't tell that its sarcasm, well BLEH) and that's even with the most stubborn story hating game ignorant people I know.

You speak about it becoming an accepted medium, yet if we force games that they don't want to play down their throat, surely we'll just drive them away. Not that I really care on the whole "games must be accepted" debate, but its a fun counterpoint.

very true, but i'm not talking about cramming "good" games down their throat, i'm talking about educating them so that they don't see this medium as toys anymore but as an expression of a creator. no one looks at all film as just pictures that can move, or paintings as colors thrown onto something, it's time they stopped thinking games were toys.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

This thread is making me want to hurt people...a lot...

 

[legend of duty]

one gamer in my class didnt even know the bay of pigs actually happened and all he plays is COD and he's 15 thats scary!

 

[Drtfgf5]

Like when I play Halo: Reach and my friend is playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops, he always freaks out yelling "You f***ing retard that game sucks!"
and I reply "Deal with it."
That is all.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I don't mind people liking thinks I don't like or visa-versa, even when it is for stupid reasons. People will have their own opinions and personal preferences and trying to change that is like trying to turn back the tide.

However, the one thing that does get my goat is when people will dismiss games that they haven't even played or seen so much as a full trailer for it with complete conviction and sincerity, just because its premise is different from what they're used to. I know you're not going to like everything you try but Jesus Christ people you're never going to know if you don't even try in the first place!

 

[Tibs]

Most people I know in real life are not interested in my kind of games, but they have no problem with the fact that I am a pretty solid gamer.

 

[MentalBakura]

"Yea video games aren't supposed to have stories, it's stupid."

I would find it incredibly difficult to maintain a straight face if I heard someone say this.

Most of my friends are gamers to some extent, and are all pretty open-minded about it. I don't really hear any crap like that.

 

[scorptatious]

I literally facepalmed at that one guy's statement about how games aren't supposed to have stories.

I could honestly care less about them playing Call of Duty and FIFA. Everyone has their own preferences in games. But saying that all Japanese games are shit and having no experience playing any of them is just plain ignorant.

OT: Yes, people around me for the most part accept my gaming. Hell, one time I was with my friends in college, I mentioned I played Portal 2 over the weekend, one of them gave me a high five. I was pleasantly surprised.

As for my parents, they don't care as long as I don't play for too long. As everything, well almost everything, is good in moderation. Besides, my mom claimed to have beaten the high score one time on Space Invaders, so I guess it would be hypocritical of her to say that games are evil or stupid.

 

[T8B95]

I miss the option "I don't care about other people's opinion about my gaming."

Have a drink on me, mate. That's exactly the thought that needs to go around more.

If your friends like your style of gaming, than good for them. If they don't, why should you give a toss, and more importantly, why do you think that we should give a toss? They're your friends after all.

OT: Most of my closest friends share the same opinion of me with games. Those who don't, well, I don't particularly care what they play. Their money, and their time.

 

[Sylveria]

People are stupid. If they weren't, EA, Blizzard, and Square would have gone out of business years ago.

 

[RicoADF]

Maybe you should get new friends...

And as an answer to your question my friends (the few that i have)like games for story, gameplay that sort of thing
my mom also likes games....she currently has more gamerscore than me...it's pretty close to 20k

I agree with this guy, those fella's sound like idiots :S

 

[Archangel768]

Assassins Creed 2 is a great game. Anyways, what' the problem with him liking different types of games. Everybody like different stuff, they're just casual gamers.

My gamer friend likes games like Demon's Souls and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Those aren't casual in the least bit, adding to the frustration.

Didn't you say that your gamer friend thought Japanese games suck? Yet, he plays Demon's Souls. And Castlevania: Lords of Shadow which is part of a Japanese franchise.... I don't mean to be offensive but, that guy sounds like an idiot.

 

[Archangel768]

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Peers: 90% of them are gamers. 8% Don't get it. 1% is my girlfriend, who understands and supports my gaming, who plays games a little but, but who's less involved with gaming than the 90% of my peers who are gamers.

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Hate to be that guy, but that's only 99% lol.

OP: most of my friends are gamers, but think that stories should be downplayed in favor of gameplay, we argue about that a lot, but it's all friendly. Your friends just seem to kind of suck.

I fill the remaining 1%. Just cause. (Actually, I didn't do the math. Let's say the 1% is my mom, lol)

I almost said your friends were losers too, OP.

Your mum would actually be closer to 99%...

Sorry, you left yourself wide open, there was an opportunity there and I took it. Didn't mean to actually offend you in writing that

 

[GinraiPrime]

wow....those "friends" of yours sound like complete arses!

Its one thing to say you don't like something but its another to say that its wrong for you to like something they don't like. Its personal tastes. You have my sympathies my friend.

As for me, I guess I'm pretty accepted for my gaming. My family don't really have any problems with it, my girlfriend is a gamer too but she's getting more into it and she even asks me to show her more titles. Hell, she's wanting to give the Zelda series a go which is awesome Outside the family most of my friends are gamers, anyone else just ain't bothered but even if they were I've not been told otherwise

EDIT: I guess the only series I love which people are abit "wtf?" about with me is Super Robot Wars. I'm a huge mecha anime fan and not onyl do I recognise many series featured but it introduces me to more aswell. The games are all in Japanese but thanks to some translation guides it helps, plus its something to try reading once I get round to learning Japanese.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

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Peers: 90% of them are gamers. 8% Don't get it. 1% is my girlfriend, who understands and supports my gaming, who plays games a little but, but who's less involved with gaming than the 90% of my peers who are gamers.

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Hate to be that guy, but that's only 99% lol.

OP: most of my friends are gamers, but think that stories should be downplayed in favor of gameplay, we argue about that a lot, but it's all friendly. Your friends just seem to kind of suck.

I fill the remaining 1%. Just cause. (Actually, I didn't do the math. Let's say the 1% is my mom, lol)

I almost said your friends were losers too, OP.

Your mum would actually be closer to 99%...

Sorry, you left yourself wide open, there was an opportunity there and I took it. Didn't mean to actually offend you in writing that

*knucks* Hell yeah, man. I actually agree, lol.

 

[Gregg Lonsdale]

yeah, my friends do this. They pretty much wont touch anything that's not full price, and they spend heaps of time playing cod and dawn of war. They keep trying to get me to join them at lan parties to spend all night playing RTS's no matter how many times i tell them to fuck off.

 

[Warlord211]

My dad plays COD and thinks all other games are stupid. All of my friends are gamers and love games for gameplay, story, and as an art. My mom hates gaming. Almost everyone else I know that knows I am a gamer thinks I'm childish for liking games.

 

[Pietho]

I love most games (MMO's and most "realistic shooters" I don't like) but what I've noticed is that gaming is largely casual for most people reguardless of what they own or play. I'll bet that almost everyone on this forum puts in about eight hours of gaming a week or more and that doesn't include getting together with friends for multiplayer and the odd 12 hour binge here or there; but most people I've talked to only play two or three hours a week and only own a handful of games. They get stuck on play style and get caught up in it.

I remember playing Legend of Dragoon and it spoiled me for any other JRPG for years because every time I loaded up FF or BoF I was thinking about playing LoD instead. Naturally, I got over that (age helps, mellow you a bit) but a lot of people don't and probably won't. They stick with their safe titles.

There's also a financial element, in this economy no one who only plays a few games wants to fork out any amount of money on an "iffy" title.

 

[Windcaler]

My parents bought me my first video game system, the NES along with many games for it. They also got me my SNES and then a couple years ago they bought me my XBOX 360 for my birthday after my last one had broken down. They know gaming is important to me, my mom plays lots of casual games herself, and they arent afraid of it

As for my friends, well I dont have a single friend that doesnt game. At all. I have aquantences that dont game and we get along fine but then we dont really talk about gaming either.

As to strangers, I dont listen to them or talk to them so theres no issue there.

My question is if someone continually upsets you why would you associate yourself with that person? Seriously, think about it. If your friend liked to go out on the ocean and fish and you made fun of it all the time do you really think you would be invited back after a few times? So why should gamers just roll over and take it?

 

[Cazza]

My family accept I play games and my friends are gamers that like most games.