Words that gamers use that make you CRINGE!

[Nuuu]

Noob or Owned used outside a game or a joke, or the 12 year old insult and the Chuck Norris/Justin Beiber jokes. Grow up guys, those jokes aren't funny and Justin Beiber jokes werent actually funny in the first place, he's 18 now, your insults are invalid.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

"No"

What the hell is wrong with No?

Anyway, here's my carefully constucted educational list... sorta.
Epic, Fail, N00B, Gay... and that's it.

Gay = Stupid for some gay reason. Ugh.

 

[deathzero021]

"pwn"

 

[Something Amyss]

Alot of words get thrown around too much by gamers, which ones bother you the most? For me it's:

- Entitled (It's normal for a business to be greedy but a customer wanting to get his money worth is entitled)
- Immersion (must be those people who tie their kids up/let them starve while they play video games, I want no part of that)

I think you covered my major ones right there, so I'll just add (regarding immersion)

People like to cite immersion in ways where "realism" or "appealing" apply. I know people who have been sucked in to Red Dead Redemption for hours (clearly immersed), but claim that third person games don't give you the same level of immersion. The view is NOT what makes a game immersive.
Actually, I'll also add that entitlement isn't a bad thing. We are entitled to many things as consumers.

 

[ATRAYA]

A lot of these words are fairly important to any gamer's lexicon... I don't know, am I wrong? Have I been dragged down so far into the industry that I'm blinded by it's intricacy and business?

Although, "noob" is reasonably unimportant, and I would like to see that word disappear, but it's also heavily entrenched in the internet, so I don't think that will happen.

 

[nothingspringstomind]

Entitled
Fanboy
Petition
Tryhard
Noob/Newb/n00b
"leet speak"
and pl0x.

its fucking annoying.

ALSO

being in voice chat and people saying "LAWL"

seriously, its your voice. LAUGH!

My sister actually says, out loud; "lol lol lol"

I've taken to hitting her over the back of the head every time she does it now.

OT: Noob. We were all noobs once. I actually try to help noobs where/if i can. That apparently makes me a "Noobtard"

EDIT; Gay being used in a derogatory manner. Even weirder is when actual gay friends of mine have used the word to mean something negative. Dafuq?

 

[Vault101]

My sister actually says, out loud; "lol lol lol"

I've taken to hitting her over the back of the head every time she does it now.

that's domestic abuse
and I aprove...

 

[DeathSwitch109]

Scrub

 

[katsumoto03]

Well goddamn, OP you just used what I was about to say.

The other word I really hate seeing around is "art" and if games are that. That discussion gets very ugly very fast, and no one wins after having it.

Yeah. I think the biggest problem is that there seems to be no objective definition. Everyone has their own, very personal idea of what is and isn't art I guess.

Personally, I hate the use of the word "rape" in the place of beat.

And, of course, the liberal use of "******".

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Well goddamn, OP you just used what I was about to say.

The other word I really hate seeing around is "art" and if games are that. That discussion gets very ugly very fast, and no one wins after having it.

Yeah. I think the biggest problem is that there seems to be no objective definition. Everyone has their own, very personal idea of what is and isn't art I guess.

Personally, I hate the use of the word "rape" in the place of beat.

And, of course, the liberal use of "******".

You're probably right.

I don't want to cheapen the word, but I think if there's a set definition of that word for just games, then I don't think it's going to do this medium any justice or favor. I don't understand why all games can't be art and we can just leave it at that. I mean, everything after that is just someone's opinion on the game in question.

 

[Lugbzurg]

OT: Noob. We were all noobs once. I actually try to help noobs where/if i can. That apparently makes me a "Noobtard"

Correction. We were all "newbs" once. A "Newb" is a person who's new at a game, and thus not very good at it.

A "noob" is a person who's not very good at the game, and doesn't give a shit.

And who is also very bad at the game after playing it for such a long time.

They may also think they are "beast" or "teh awzum" at it, and anybody who disagrees is "teh gayz hatin' da material", or something of the sort.

 

[Eve Charm]

MLG, I'm really sick of these idoits that probably suck tell me about big name people they beat and how they are gonna go pro and make money and blah blah blah. aside from the .1% that can make a living, get a real job ;p, and no don't ask me to get you an app.

 

[Smeatza]

Is this the words that make you cringe thread or the general gripes thread?

OT:

"GLHF" or "good luck have fun."

I know you're just trying to be nice but you sound ridiculous.

 

[Snotnarok]

"gamer" I'm not sure why people who play games have a title while other forms of entertainment don't

And Immersion bothers you? I think what you're looking for is 'escaping life' because immersion is what makes scary games scary and well told stories fun. People trying to shut out life and escape to a game 100% are mental.

 

[malestrithe]

"Art."

While I do believe that games can be art, the term in gaming does not mean what we come to define art in other mediums. Art in a gamer sense is a marketing ploy and tends to apply to something that games you would not notice unless someone deemed it art in the first place. No matter how great Braid, Journey, Flower, Amnesia and Dear Ester are, they would not be nearly as popular today without someone calling them art in the first place.

I do not buy into the "Games are a product and therefore can't be art" argument either. 85 percent of what we would classify as art started life as product. This includes most movies, all books, all visual arts, and even video games. Regardless of how well some sold, they still were initially designed as product.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Owned, boss, raped, pwned, noob, casual, hardcore.

 

[limberer]

potions only become OP if you TRY to make them that way.

It gets worse in Morrowind when you can use Fortify Intelligence potions to exponentially improve your alchemy abilities.

Glitch is still in skyrim, you just make Fortify Restoration potions instead

 

[Jynthor]

"GG" Good game.

Sure, in some cases it applies, but most of the time definitely not.
You just completely obliterated me, that was definitely NOT a good game! My paranoid brain is pretty sure people just use it as an insult most of the time.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

100% of the words that come out of 95% of the people in voice chat. The other 5% are sensible, decent human beings that I actually enjoy playing with and whom I don't mute after two seconds.

Seriously, it's like I'm a magnet to foulmouthed, juvenile screeching. It gets especially funny when they start daring me to mute them. I sometimes wonder if being ignored makes them die a little inside every time. Then again, the 95% does make meeting the 5% a welcome breath of fresh air. Except, it shouldn't be.

Also, English native speakers who can't pronounce words in their own language. It's not even my second language, but I still know who to say them properly. They have no such excuse.

 

[Phasmal]

I forgot Gamerchick, how could i.

Your a girl, who plays games, your fucking point? What, you want a hand out?

Stop acting like a fucking whore and either play or shut the fuck up.


Seriously.

Gamerchick/Gamer girl is a term I find irritating but necessary. If you don't mention it to people you play with (and do not use voice), its assumed you are male. People might say `So what` to that, but that's why so many people think women are a teeny minority, because if we dont mention it you're kind of auto-penis'd in everybody's mind.

Anyway... `Imba`.
For some reason, that term just annoys the hell out of me.