The Gamers You Loathe

Wolfkin, you make great points.

a) I agree with you 100% about people like that. People should be trying to get more people to try their game instead of putting people off like that. Goldeneye was the same way. I didn't care one way or another about the maps or the weapons but some people still get bent out of shape when you so much as mention a proximity mine.

b) My only thing about Maddenites is that they get a bad rap. You lump them in with the GTers but aren't fighting game fans very similar? Didn't Street Fighter II get yearly updates with basically only roster updates? Yes, certain characters were nerfed or certain exploits were added or taken out but isn't that what EA does when certain players/teams get better or worse over time? People can take any game/series that comes out and play the hell out of it.

One of my brothers is a Maddenite but he's only 18 so I let him slide. I don't burn him for it. I just buy him games he would never normally buy himself. I got him Exit (PSP) for Christmas. He had a shitty look on his face at first but loves the hell out of it now because it's different.

My other brother is a Call of Duty fanatic. He only stopped playing 4 so he could play WaW. Now, he's back to 4 and I don't think it's left his 360 for weeks. He's a guy that download his games to a 20GB hard drive and still have room left for demos, videos, etc.

Part of the reason why some younger people skew towards one game is because of money. My brothers are in school and just get limited hours at their part time jobs. They don't have money to get more games and usually don't until I give it to them as a present. I usually get them stuff niche stuff but I gotta get them the God of Wars and Gears every once in a while.

As for "gaming specialist", I don't agree with it. It doesn't matter if you play one game in a month or fifty. If you game, you're a gamer.
 
it may sound elitist and i can't help that, but I don't consider someone who plays bejeweled or minesweeper and that's it a gamer. I'm not saying it's about the amount of games you play or even the variety. I'm not throwing in the maddenites as gamers just yet but they're a lot closer than the court room recorder who only plays solitaire when she's bored on the job. I was thinking about fighting games but I can't think of a fighting series that become stale like EA Sports. Not every iteration is 2D-3D or animated-realistic in terms of change but I can't think of a fighting series that comes out every year either. I hear about Guilty Gear in terms of classic 2D fighting games and I get the impression there's a ton of them but as a genre fighting games (aside from being nearly dead *like PC gaming*) haven't seemed that similar.
 
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Gamers I hate can be boiled down to two groups: Fanboys, and over-competitive jackoffs.

- Fanboys, all of them, for any system. If you can't balance out the good with the bad for your particular system, you annoy me. Half the gamers that want to "Choose the winning side!", and then annoyingly combatively fight for their position no matter what. Its like arguing with 4 year olds....and it drives me batty. YOUR WII has flaws, your PS3 has flaws, your 360 has flaws.

- Gamers who take themselves seriously: If you practice videogames, you annoy me. Games are games, a hobby, they should be played for fun and you should have fun playing them! There is always some hyper-competitive asshole who wants to ruin a hobby by taking it super seriously and trying to make rules and regulations for everyone else to play it "the right way". "WHY DIDNT YOU THROW A GRENADE, STATISTICS SAY A GRENADE WAS THE RIGHT WEAPON FOR THAT SITUATION!! GOD DAMNIT MOM WHERE ARE MY PIZZAROLLS!?!?!" blah blah blah blah......

I can understand that some games require more TEAMWORK than others, but keep that crap for your lame-assed clan or professional gaming group or whatever you want to call your new pseudo-career, and let the rest of us have fun on a public server. Oh, and if you are a goofy gamer like me...and you DO sign onto a CLAN-type organized server or game.....MAN UP and play the team way, or find another free-for-all game...as much as I dislike game hyper-nerds "DID YOU SEE MY STATS FOR COD4!?!?!"....I wont go out of my way to RUIN their experience, I'll find someplace else to take life less seriously :)
 
i am an achievement whore to some extent but i usually stay away from all the MP achievements. you'd never see me trying to get grenade tag achievements in Gears for example. doing that screws up the game for others.

the only ones that truly bug me is the "boy who cried hacker" types. sometimes, people are just better than you. it's ok. you're still a man.
 
I hate all fanboys, but specifically 360 ones. They are the type of people who say that their console is the greatest, and diss the others by saying the wii is a shit console for babies and the PS3 "haz no gud gmes". Another type of gamer I hate are those hating on 12-13 year old gamers during XBox Live/PSN/Wii Speak. I can admit that they are typically the most annoying and talkative, but as far as I know it is easy to mute them. The time I started hating these people for the first time was 3 years back in 8th grade, when people my (then) age complaining about these people. Im like "dude, you're fucking 13"
 
[quote name='depascal22']Wolfkin, you make great points.

a) I agree with you 100% about people like that. People should be trying to get more people to try their game instead of putting people off like that. Goldeneye was the same way. I didn't care one way or another about the maps or the weapons but some people still get bent out of shape when you so much as mention a proximity mine.

b) My only thing about Maddenites is that they get a bad rap. You lump them in with the GTers but aren't fighting game fans very similar? Didn't Street Fighter II get yearly updates with basically only roster updates? Yes, certain characters were nerfed or certain exploits were added or taken out but isn't that what EA does when certain players/teams get better or worse over time? People can take any game/series that comes out and play the hell out of it.

One of my brothers is a Maddenite but he's only 18 so I let him slide. I don't burn him for it. I just buy him games he would never normally buy himself. I got him Exit (PSP) for Christmas. He had a shitty look on his face at first but loves the hell out of it now because it's different.

My other brother is a Call of Duty fanatic. He only stopped playing 4 so he could play WaW. Now, he's back to 4 and I don't think it's left his 360 for weeks. He's a guy that download his games to a 20GB hard drive and still have room left for demos, videos, etc.

Part of the reason why some younger people skew towards one game is because of money. My brothers are in school and just get limited hours at their part time jobs. They don't have money to get more games and usually don't until I give it to them as a present. I usually get them stuff niche stuff but I gotta get them the God of Wars and Gears every once in a while.

As for "gaming specialist", I don't agree with it. It doesn't matter if you play one game in a month or fifty. If you game, you're a gamer.[/quote]


good call on the street fighter deal it really hasnt changed too much and even now what are the big changes in street fighter 4 ( graphics withstanding). fighting game freaks annoy me to especially the streetfighter purist out there man i used to lose it back in the day listening to them go on and on about which street fighter is better or why or why its a superior game over all other fighting games.


i also want to give a past shoutout of anger to those asian kids whod kick my ass on tekken and other fighting games causing me to waste quarters. id go into an arcade feeling great because i owned everyone i knew and then get humiliated damn near to tears after a 4 dollar session. just who do you fuckers think you are!!!!!!!!!!!
 
[quote name='Filler2001']I hate all fanboys, but specifically 360 ones. They are the type of people who say that their console is the greatest, and diss the others by saying the wii is a shit console for babies and the PS3 "haz no gud gmes". Another type of gamer I hate are those hating on 12-13 year old gamers during XBox Live/PSN/Wii Speak. I can admit that they are typically the most annoying and talkative, but as far as I know it is easy to mute them. The time I started hating these people for the first time was 3 years back in 8th grade, when people my (then) age complaining about these people. Im like "dude, you're fucking 13"[/quote]

Yeah, the classic Nintendo fanboys are excruciatingly annoying, but I've noticed that many of the x-Nintendo fanboys are now part of the xbox crowd thanks to Nintendo's new more casual approach to the market this gen.

All fanboys including 360/Ps3 fanboys are annoying, if you can't agree with that you're probably a fanboy yourself. Every console has its apparent pros and cons.
 
Im a fanboy, but my fanboyism changes between generations based on what console I like the most (Last gen: Gamecube, This gen: PS3), except I study gaming culture, so even though Im a fanboy, you arent going to see me go on a rant saying "ECKSBAWKS ARE BRKOEN PEESEZ OF SHIT"
 
[quote name='Filler2001']Im a fanboy, but my fanboyism changes between generations based on what console I like the most (Last gen: Gamecube, This gen: PS3), except I study gaming culture, so even though Im a fanboy, you arent going to see me go on a rant saying "ECKSBAWKS ARE BRKOEN PEESEZ OF SHIT"[/quote]

Says the guy with XBL: Sucks Ass as his "Gamertag".
 
Here's a mini-rant that's sort of CAG-specific.

Deal is posted for a new game. Inevitably, somebody will respond "That's not a deal, you can get it used for $5 less than that."

Yeah, we all get that used games are cheaper than new. Some of us are only interested in new stuff. Get over it.
 
Hey to the person who called Madden gamers "gamers". I'd disagree with that. I'd argue most are just Sports fans or specifically Football fans who tend to play it. It's possibly the Sports fanatic in them.
I mean seriously most of the time when you hear these people they ONLY like Sports games.
edit: Oh and yeah no more Frag Hag Dolls. This is less a play on $$$ Hag as me calling them HAGS and adding it in to sound clever with their official title. I mean seriously, we need more girl gamers that DON'T feel they need to love FPS's or be huge into action games to be the cool gamer or the one's most gamers will like. I'd prefer girl gamers who are into everything BUT FPS's. I mean I expect girl gamers more often then not to like them or add another wrinkle I won't get from guy gamers. It's a nice change of pace.
 
[quote name='Filler2001']Im a fanboy, but my fanboyism changes between generations based on what console I like the most (Last gen: Gamecube, This gen: PS3), except I study gaming culture, so even though Im a fanboy, you arent going to see me go on a rant saying "ECKSBAWKS ARE BRKOEN PEESEZ OF SHIT"[/quote]

You are a fanboy of the last place console.
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']You are a fanboy of the last place console.[/QUOTE]

Last place of what?

Also, Depascal is right, I am anti 360 based on the XBL: Sucks Ass part. But I never said XBL: is brkoen peesez of shit :D . I just threw that in as a little joke. Apparently it's not that funny :/
 
[quote name='crystalklear64']People who call themselves gamers without owning the best console, the PC.[/QUOTE]

vomits. Ever since the FPS invasion the PC has become a cesspool of shit for the most part compared to what it use to be, at least the American market, possibly the Western market in general.
Note I say for the most part. That's not to say there isn't good product if you dig.
 
[quote name='Wolfkin'](aside from being nearly dead *like PC gaming*)[/quote]
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[quote name='crystalklear64']People who call themselves gamers without owning the best console, the PC.[/quote]
true dat
 
[quote name='msdmoney']Gamers who continue to use "fail", "epic fail" or any other variation of this tired and overused internet meme.[/quote]

Can I add "owned", "pwned", "pwnage", et. al.?
 
[quote name='xistence']Can I add "owned", "pwned", "pwnage", et. al.?[/quote]
owned can stay. at least owned is a word.
 
Eh... what's on my list

Gamers who gets all alpha-male, a massive desperate perv, or thinks he's god's gift to women when they found out there's a female gamer amongst them.

People who blame that everyone in the team sucked and that's the reason why "he" lost (while failing to mention that he was near the bottom of that team's ranking anyways).

"Kids" who think that they're the hot Shiyt in gaming, especially when they're not.

Glitchers who goes out of their way to seek out the glitches in a map to score cheap kills (XBL CoD4, I'm looking at you).

Members of a gaming group/Clan who thinks that their group is CAL/CPL/Pro material, and forces EVERYBODY to "practices" or nightly attendances.

Fanboys/girls (let's be gender-neutral here for a change).

Gamers that doesn't understand the term "Co-op".

Eh... my list goes on and on...

Employees of previously mentioned b&m gaming stores who thinks that they are God's gift to gamers, self-indulging an ill-gained sense of megalomania.

Gamers which can never give anyone a good argument why they think X is better than Y (see fanboy/girl).

Attention Whores in voicechat.

And while i'm that subject, people who breathes directly on their mics. Please move that away from the nostrils. This always gives me a picture that the guy i'm playing with/against is really unhealthy and needs to see the sun more often.

And the one that takes the cake:

PEOPLE WHO SCREECH IN A HIGH PITCH VOICE TO THEIR MICS BECAUSE HE/SHE THINKS WE ARE IGNORING OR CAN'T HEAR HIM/HER, OR THAT HE/SHE IS LOSING THE MATCH

That should be most of it.

EDIT: Wait, there's more

Gamers telling another person that he/she sucked, when it's pretty clear that he/she just picked up the game recently and is just trying to get the hang of things (a true newbie).

Gamers who uses a Lan Party akin to how a pick up artist uses a dance club/bar; using he venue as a hunting ground for females.

Grown gamers receding to the mentality of tweens when some asinine happens in a LAN

Gamers that doesn't know a single skill of keeping up with personal hygienes

...gamers with an eternal "cheetos-fingers" insisting that he/she wants to touch all of my stuff.

Drunks/potheads (in general, gaming or otherwise)

And here's one that recently pissed me off last weekend: Gamers hitting on my significant other when she has already declined them the audience/chance in hell, or stereotyping her into a chic-gamer, just because she's not into what they're into... Once, I gave a guy a mild concussion because she teased her on some "girls can't be a gamer" mentality, while proceeding to "stalk" her for the rest of the night in a LAN party...

Actually, that should take the cake.
 
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