Words that gamers use that make you CRINGE!

[Atmos Duality]

No, but if you did that and then proceeded to whine on an Internet forum about all that GOTY stuff not being in the initial release, then yes you would be. See the difference?

That much makes sense. It doesn't make sense to whine about something you're satisfied with, that you already have, but wish you got at a cheaper price.

The problem I had with it, is that some people were slinging that argument at ANY NEGATIVE criticism for ME3. (And now they're doing it again for D3.)

Waiting for a price drop is not being entitled, criticizing is not being entitled (well depending on how the criticism is worded), loudly whining because the game, movie, book, tv show, whatever didn't meet your exact specifications and/or demanding the creators change it to meet those specifications, THAT'S being entitled.

The only caveat I would make to the specifications, is those that pertain to the matter of technical fixes or practicality. But most competent companies will try to patch problems like that out anyway.

 

[darksuccubus]

Those who call themselves "gamer girl" because I instantly imagine some pretentious idiots thinking that that they deserve all the praise just because the have a vagina. It's idiots like them make other female gamers choose male nicknames because they don't want to be associated with attention whores

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No, but if you did that and then proceeded to whine on an Internet forum about all that GOTY stuff not being in the initial release, then yes you would be. See the difference?

That much makes sense. It doesn't make sense to whine about something you're satisfied with, that you already have, but wish you got at a cheaper price.

The problem I had with it, is that some people were slinging that argument at ANY NEGATIVE criticism for ME3. (And now they're doing it again for D3.)

Ah, well I can't vouch for the people who blatantly misuse the word anymore then I can vouch for the people who seem to think that because they're consumers they're owed the world on a silver platter.

Waiting for a price drop is not being entitled, criticizing is not being entitled (well depending on how the criticism is worded), loudly whining because the game, movie, book, tv show, whatever didn't meet your exact specifications and/or demanding the creators change it to meet those specifications, THAT'S being entitled.

The only caveat I would make to the specifications, is those that pertain to the matter of technical fixes or practicality. But most competent companies will try to patch problems like that out anyway.

Well natuarlly one has the right to ask (not demand) that technical issues be fixed, but as you said most game companies are pretty good about that anyway. No, I was mostly referring to things like story arcs, endings, character development etc.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Well natuarlly one has the right to ask (not demand) that technical issues be fixed, but as you said most game companies are pretty good about that anyway. No, I was mostly referring to things like story arcs, endings, character development etc.

I keep matters of content/mechanics separate from distribution and marketing, unless they are far too interconnected to be ignored (which mostly applies to MMOs).

Unless it's 100% necessary, don't fuck with distribution and don't incorporate it into gameplay mechanics. Very few games have managed to pull it off without screwing things up (TF2, most notably).

 

[squidface]

"morality"
Just the whole thing that games now have to have moral decisions in them.

"toons"
I hate the use of this word to describe your MMO character accounts.

 

[Brawndo]

"Gaben". Please stop saying that.

 

[gritch]

My brother has started using a new phrase I find both terribly annoying and ironic. He likes to call people who do better than him at a game "no-lifers". He gets this smug little grin on his face, a reassures himself yet again that he undoubtedly "Has a life. Unlike those damn no-lifers!" before continuing to spend the entirety of day playing CoD.

 

[Epona]

Spoiler: Entitled

Never in my life would I have thought that this word would piss me off so much.

Oh yes, the product or service is immune to criticism now. Why? Because if it didn't meet my expectations for the price, I'm acting "entitled" and am therefore wrong by default.

What? WHAT? WHAT KIND OF FUCKING SENSE DOES THAT MAKE?!

This argument is the antithesis to the economic process.
If we're just dismissing the perceived value of a product outright on the basis of avoiding "entitlement", then why bother evaluating the product at all? (this extends to the total value of the product; meaning the amount of content for its cost and the quality of said content)

The whole argument amounts to "Just take your pellet and shut up. This is as good a deal as you're going to get." Utter nonsense..

I don't think anyone is actually suggesting that, I know I'm not, however one has to understand the difference between criticizing and acting like a whiny spoiled little brat. And for purposes of clarification, 95% of the Internet falls into the latter category, certainly 95% of gamers on the Internet anyway.

I also hate it when people say XX% of the internet/society is stupid/dumb/spoiled/entitled/etc...

1) The numbers are made up
2) It is the height of arrogance to think that a large percentage of everyone who is NOT you is stupid/dumb/spoiled/entitled/etc...

 

[Grivahri]

-true gamer girl
-art
-artistic integrity (said by bioware but still I hate it)
-fail (really don't like the word and how popular it has become)
-hardcore gamer

 

[MagmaMan]

"Liek, wot U doin' heer n00b? This iz for only teh BEST!"

In short, bad grammar and spelling. Any word with bad grammar or spelling.

I also hate when all the "cool kids" online use these stupid new terms they come up with, such as "Beast"

Probably the biggest thing I hate is all the hate comments people make towards Call of Duty. Those people need to realize that we realize they don't like CoD and need to shut the fuck up. I'm SO sick of it.

 

[MagmaMan]

"Graphics are unimportant".

That explains why you are complaining about the current generation of games rather than playing games from the previous generation...

"Depth".

The only thing that's got any depth at all is that hollow skull of yours.

"Dumbed down".

No, YOU are dumb and you should be put down.

I will say that graphics are important but not in the way people think. When someone is told that the graphics make the gameplay and experience awesome they usually think of something such as Crysis where the polygon count and lighting effects are a powerful and advanced as they can be. This is not the case. Look at games such as System Shock 2. This was a low budget PC game from 1999, and yet the graphics aid in the atmosphere just as much as any new game. You don't need the most advanced graphical systems in the world, you need to execute the visuals right.

So much time, money, and processing power is wasted on graphics when it could be spent expanding the scale of games. Less processing power required for graphics means more intelligent A.I., larger scale game spaces, etc. I don't want next generation consoles to have "teh 1337est graphix evar" I want to have games were we can have massive online battles with 2,000 or more players (Such as in Planetside 2) and huge environments and play spaces and A.I. that rely on intelligence to beat you rather then stats.

I'm sure my arguments are pointless though. I doubt we'll be seeing any of this on the next consoles. It will probably be the same games we have now just with "1337-ass" graphics.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Spoiler: Entitled

Never in my life would I have thought that this word would piss me off so much.

Oh yes, the product or service is immune to criticism now. Why? Because if it didn't meet my expectations for the price, I'm acting "entitled" and am therefore wrong by default.

What? WHAT? WHAT KIND OF FUCKING SENSE DOES THAT MAKE?!

This argument is the antithesis to the economic process.
If we're just dismissing the perceived value of a product outright on the basis of avoiding "entitlement", then why bother evaluating the product at all? (this extends to the total value of the product; meaning the amount of content for its cost and the quality of said content)

The whole argument amounts to "Just take your pellet and shut up. This is as good a deal as you're going to get." Utter nonsense..

I don't think anyone is actually suggesting that, I know I'm not, however one has to understand the difference between criticizing and acting like a whiny spoiled little brat. And for purposes of clarification, 95% of the Internet falls into the latter category, certainly 95% of gamers on the Internet anyway.

I also hate it when people say XX% of the internet/society is stupid/dumb/spoiled/entitled/etc...

1) The numbers are made up
2) It is the height of arrogance to think that a large percentage of everyone who is NOT you is stupid/dumb/spoiled/entitled/etc...

Again, I merely meant that to mean 'an alarmingly large percentage/number' and I thought that was painfully clear, but I guess not.

1) I freely admit that I made those numbers up
2) I am not strictly talking about people who are not me. I am merely talking about a particular behavior I find extremely irritating. I wouldn't dare be arrogant enough to presume that I am immune to exibiting such same behavior. In fact I have to constantly watch myself to make sure I don't.

 

[TheSear]

The casual use of the word 'rape' in any video game (by any I obviously mean multiplayer shooters).

 

[Max_A_Buck]

Gamer
Epic

 

[el derpenburgo]

"Gaming Culture"

No such thing as TV culture, music culture or film culture, because its a goddamn medium. It homogenises every person who plays videogames, even though there as many or more genres within it than films nowadays. To say we all love sci-fi and fantasy and watch MLP is so easy to do as long as we keep identifying with each other as 'gamers' instead of the varied people we actually are.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

"Gaming Culture"

No such thing as TV culture, music culture or film culture.

Actually there is. Fandom itself is a spawn of culture. TV, music, and movies have spoofs, critics, publications, icons, tropes, trends, and franchises. All of the people that follow these things make up the culture.

OT: The use of the word "Beast" as an adjective or verb.

 

[Cranky]

Epic
Graphics
Intense
Culture
Scrub
Noob
Pro
Hardcore Gamer
G4m3r 4 lif3
fail
casual
GG


Also any other memes that are spouted in real life. Seriously, it just gives me the idea that you are a degenerate who cannot communicate effectively without the usage of screwball phrases.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

I am on board with hating the use of the word 'rape'. This is the most single horrible thing one person can do to another. Not a replacement for 'I just kicked your butt'. Not only that but it is horribly triggering to people who have survived it and just plain crude.

...Why? I see no real distinction between "I murdered your ass" and "I raped your ass" when used to refer to video games.

Both refer to horrid crimes, and both have NOTHING to do with ACTUALLY committing horrible crimes, and most of the time is used by straight guys against other straight guys (though I've heard girls say it to guys and girls alike, as well).

I hate to derail this, and sorry if someone's already said this.

Rant time:

About 1 in 20 people commit some sort of physical sexual harrasement in their lives. That's quite a lot of people - one of your friends has probably done it.

You've no doubt heard people say that that some of the feminists that tell you to not say rape jokes think that everyone is a rapist. That's not true - it's rapists that think everyone rapes.

Almost all rapists who get asked this think that everyone is secretly a rapist, but they're just better at hiding it. Most college age rapists really do believe this. You know why they think this? Because everyone jokes about it all the time. When someone who's not a rapist jokes about it, if they have a friend who is a rapist around them, the he won't know that it's just a harmless joke.

That's why people hate rape jokes so much. Because it makes rapists think it's OK. Every time you're at a bar and crack a joke, sure the joke itself is harmless, but it makes real rapists feel like it's OK

But murder is very different. Murderers know that most people don't kill, that's obvious. Making jokes about it won't convince anyone that it's alright.

That's why it's bad.

 

[Nazulu]

Gimmick.

Seriously, gamers have lost all sense of what the word means. The term itself means a novelty without any practical value. Yet gamers now use it to describe anything that falls outside the normal technology we expect in consoles. If it's not a regular controller with four buttons and analogue sticks, apparently its a gimmick.

It makes me wonder how we ever got this far with gamers acting as snotty as they do. How the fuck did Sony and Nintendo ever get away with sticking analogue sticks on their PSX/N64 controllers? If gamers back then had the same mentality they do now, the idea would have been crushed under the weight of "Waah! Gimmicky controllers! D-Pad r fine, we don't want gimmicky wobble sticks!" Or memory cards. Or internal hard-drives. Or online multiplayer for consoles.

Games now are more conservative than they've ever been, and it shows in the overuse of the term 'gimmick'. Anything that falls outside their perceived norm has to be wailed on with a couple of tons of bitching and whining. The Wii U is a great example: The fact that the DS has been using touchscreen technology for the best part of a decade, and doing so successfully, shows pretty much objectively that the technology isn't a gimmick. Nintendo made a successful console with successful games that utilize the technology well. That definitively means the term 'gimmick' is inapplicable, as gimmick implies no inherent value. Yet as soon as the Wii U turns up with pretty much the exact same control scheme as the DS (except for those analogue sticks, y'know, the things gamers seem to love so much) and all of a sudden the word gets trudged up yet again.

It's the same anytime a company tries anything new, and it's going to kill the fucking industry. If game companies aren't allowed to try anything new, then that can only lead to stagnation, which is the death knell of any artistic industry. Ten years from now, gaming will be going through another crash, and gamers will be looking around, completely clueless about who to blame.

There is a lot of things wrong here, main one is the meaning of gimmick.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gimmick?s=t - Make sure you read all of them.