Stupid things said about video games.

[Sir Seagull]

I suppose the best example I can come up with is that regardless what game or of what platform its being played on my mother always calls any video game "nintendo".

Yep I know this one well. My mum calls my 3DS a GameBoy. When I call her out on it she goes "The 3-whosey-whatsit, yeah that one"

 

[Aprilgold]

Mine would have to be from a former friend [I moved.]
Whenever he saw me playing a game, he called it A Movie with Buttons.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I know "no attacks on video games", but you said stupid things and I know of a very stupid thing...

"I think video games are made by the devil."
I'm dead serious, someone said this to me.

 

[SillyNilly]

When I play a shooter, I sometimes hear "Why are you shooting that guy?", usually in a defensive tone (Edit: Forgot to mention the tone, the most important part).

I would like to answer by saying I would like to progress in the game, and the NPC is impeding on my progress.
Or in an online game there is an incentive to oust an opponent for a set amount of points per kill, and at the end of the match the highest accumulated score wins.

Instead what comes out of my mouth is "He deserves it!" and proceed to go about my way.

I suppose the best example I can come up with is that regardless what game or of what platform its being played on my mother always calls any video game "nintendo".

My mother does the same and I think it's silly.

 

[Heartcafe]

"OMG. How can you buy a video game for 60 dollars? That's so expensive!"

This was after she bought a pair of heels for 120 dollars. >.>

 

[edudogel]

*back story*i was surfing internet at school and was looking at mine craft pictures and he said"whats that" I said "mine craft" then he was like it looks stupid you done kill anyone then he said all games should be like halo and have guns and killing

 

[pixiejedi]

I tried to let my Step mom play GTA3. She was trying to follow all the lights and behave as a real driver. I told her that its meant for hitting people and stealing cars and her response was "but I don't want to get in trouble, I'm following with the common speed."

My dad tries to convince me that somehow playing video games will make my hands fall off, I am very predisposed for tendonitis but it only flares up every once and a while and it doesn't really coincide with gaming.

 

[Vault101]

I dont blame people for not knowing much about games,although I did show my mum new vegas

"who thats?"

"thats me"

"cant you play as a girl?"

I AM a girl *takes off hat and sunglasses* see?

"ohh, that looks more like you"

really anyone who belives games are "for kids"...thats really the stupidest thing ever, though you dont often get that nowdays

what really annoys me is "I dont want games to be art, because then there will jsut me arty games!" facepalm x11

 

[Vault101]

No idea if this counts, but I was in a supermarket the other day with my mother: I was looking around the games section, and she wanders over, looks over at a copy of Ghost Recon on the shelf, and says to me "Ghost Raccoon? What's that?" I laughed my ass off.

(I make her sound like an old granny. She's really not, bless her. XD)

now THAT would be a fucking badass game

 

[GeneWard]

I say the stupidest things, what with all my abbreviated names for games.
COD: Black ops- blops
MW2 Spec Ops mode- spops
Halo: Reach- reacharound (e.g. "wanna play forge on reacharound")
Crysis-chris
I've also been known to refer to multiplayer simply as "clusterfuck"

 

[Nouw]

"Mindless killing games."

True, but if everything was stripped down to that then it wouldn't be valued would it?

 

[Zeema]

Bulletstorm turns people into rapist's thats why im not buying it!!!!!!!!

[overheard in a Sabotage Black Ops]........actually was it black ops???

 

[repeating integers]

Bulletstorm turns people into rapist's thats why im not buying it!!!!!!!!

[overheard in a Sabotage Black Ops]........actually was it black ops???

Sounds like somebody was being sarcastic about a certain news item.

 

[lukeyk]

"RTS games are better on consoles than they are on pc's"
I then proceeded to spend a good half an hour lecturing them about how wrong they were. They finally realised this and ended up just replying with. "I don't care, you know to much about video games you nerd"

This was on TTT-gmod. Where you cant just shoot anyone you like, you gotta work out who to kill: "Why don't you just shoot everyone" "Because then I might kill someone on my team, as I don't know who is who" "That's stupid, if it was any good then you would be able to shoot anyone" "You can, you just don't want to" "So why don't you kill everyone? Man that game is stupid."
A game is stupid because you don't just shoot everyone =.=

 

[Wintermoot]

"aren't you getting tired from playing games all day?"
-my nice while I was playing a game on my laptop

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Everytime my mam sees me playing a game she asks if I am wining.

 

[Cavan]

"aren't you getting tired from playing games all day?"
-my nice while I was playing a game on my laptop

1. niece
2. that's a valid question because screens especially can overwork your eyes and brain and make you feel tired :/
3. it's not stupid to try to learn, and it's not a stupid thing to ask anybody, maybe she just wanted some attention?

I think the most annoying thing said to me during my childhood was "can't you just play that other one again?" because my parents would literally believe that any game should somehow transcend the normal rules of repetition and boredom in a way that didn't make sense when I tried to explain the point using tv shows or books as examples :/.

 

[Cockney_Jesus]

My girlfriend thinks the fact that I'm 22 and play games is silly...yet she plays on the Wii loads because apparently girls can play on the Wii at any age without being childish.

My mum refers to any console as a Playstation.

'What's wrong with your other console?'

'Are you winning?'

I could go on.

When I have kids I'll be gaming with them and pwning the hell out of them!

 

[Vancleef]

Back when I played WoW, my dad would often ask what is was about.
I tried to explain it to him.
It really puzzled him why my character ran around without stopping for a breather and why I killed creatures.

This happened once:


"Why does he have teeth poking out of his chin?"

"Cause, he's a troll. Trolls have tusks in this game"

"Why is he running?"

"There is this quest *opens map* I have to run all the way down there"

"...It's not YOU running, you know..."

"Uuh, yes, I know that it's not me..."



My sister was really worried that I would get addicted, just because I was playing for 20 minutes or so on christmas eve.



My mom often calls my ds a "computer game"



Other than that, they don't care much about video-games. They just roll with it since it's my thing, I guess.

 

[Brown Cap]

My stepmom would see my playing a gameboy, sigh heavily, and ask "When are they going to make a game-Girl?"