Anyone besides me beginning to cringe at certain terms because of Video Games?

[Angelblaze]

What's now happening with Phantasy Star Online 2's NA releases/any information getting released this year/any information received about release dates or betas at all is having me really hate the term Early - insert year here -

Blade and Soul has me just hating the words 'subscription' as even though I've subscribed to their emails I haven't received the slightest bit of information about anything. Seems like Sega and NCSoft are on the same boat here.


League of Legends just ticks me off with one single word: Reported.

If it's said with something that's non offensive and actually explains things, then its fine but just saying 'reported' annoys me because I know there will be no peace found in my chatbox for the next twenty minutes since Moron A thinks Moron B is intentionally feeding because after all even though Captain Recycled, The Overpriced Champion of the Week just came on the live servers about 2 days ago EVERYONE should know how to use him and even though Moron A claims he's sick of all these newbs in his game he won't let us surrender, he'll never shut up about how he's going to burn down my house, kill my family and never get banned he'll never say anything actually productive....

Nexon has me hating everything that has...Nexon in it.

Any terms you beginning to hate thanks to video games?


Captcha: Free Bag
Nope, Halo had me hating teabag since day one.

 

[shrekfan246]

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Christ I hate that phrase. It gets thrown around with such frequency that it's lost all real meaning now, because most people use it synonymously with 'streamlined' as if the two things are one in the same.

EDIT: Oh hey, look at that, I thought of another one.

"Apologist".

Generally used when people run across anyone who doesn't hate a company or game as much as they do, for... reasons, I guess. I've never actually heard any solid reasoning, because it's not like they're getting paid to not actively hate something. Apparently not thinking micro-transactions are a reason to avoid buying a game means you're a corporate apologist, instead of simply thinking the quality of the game outweighs the business practice you won't support and will publicly criticize.

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

Hardcore and Casual!

I hate those words so much. No one can agree what they mean, but they are willing to use them as slams against anyone who is more into gaming/less into gaming/plays different games than them.

"Morality" is really starting to get at me. I love thinking and talking about morality and ethics in the real world, but game designers prefer binary choices leading to red and blue endings and acting like it's the same thing as presenting moral choices to players.

 

[Specimen-X]

I think I'm starting to hate the word "nerf". Basically means reduce some aspect of something to make it less powerful.

This mainly stems from me spending so much time looking at the Bioware forums for ME3 multiplayer. Every time a new DLC hits a thousand and one "nerf threads" pop up complaining about this or that (go ahead and check there now, going to be a lot of nerf threads in the first few pages). It's gotten to the point where I basically eye roll every time I see the word in a thread title.

 

[Lilani]

As has already been said: hardcore and casual, and dumbed down. As for my own: Tryhard, feminism/sexism[footnote]The problem with these is so many people misuse and misunderstand the words that trying to have a reasonable conversation about them and their actual meanings is like trying to have a reasonable conversation about healthcare with a pile of bricks--the only difference being one will make absolutely no effort to change its perception of the terms, and the other is a pile of bricks.[/footnote], and GOTY. I hate the acronym GOTY, it sounds like a slang term for some weird goat fetish.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

"Character development". Not a single person knows what the hell they're talking about when they blab about "character development". They'll take anything for character development. Plot twist? Character development! Morality choice? Character development! I really like my protagonist? Character development! Sheesh.

 

[Zhukov]

"Character development". Not a single person knows what the hell they're talking about when they blab about "character development".

Excuse me?

"Character development" refers to the way in which a character, usually the protagonist, undergoes personal change over the course of a narrative. This change is often referred to a "character arc". Common character arcs are the selfish jerk who learns to love and care for others, the lone warrior who finds something or someone to fight for and the youth who comes of age.

Now quit making assumptions.

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"Favourite".

I don't like the idea of having a single favourite... anything. It possible to like different things in equal amounts for different reasons. Also, whenever you see "favourite" in a thread title, you know it's not worth clicking on.

 

[Angelblaze]

"Character development". Not a single person knows what the hell they're talking about when they blab about "character development".

Excuse me?

"Character development" refers to the way in which a character, usually the protagonist, undergoes personal change over the course of a narrative. This change is often referred to a "character arc". Common character arcs are the selfish jerk who learns to love, the lone warrior who finds something or someone to fight for and the youth who comes of age.

I think hes more talking about rushed/badly done Character development, IE: Protagonist learning life changing lesson in five minutes, selfish jerk learning to love after 20 years of never feeling any emotion aside from spite after five minutes with a woman who he barely knows, lone warrior finding someone to fight for - who either doesn't need his help or is someone he doesn't know at all but is willing to die for (Though that can be done well, like BBC Sherlock)...


Though that could be me talking.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

"Character development". Not a single person knows what the hell they're talking about when they blab about "character development".

Excuse me?

"Character development" refers to the way in which a character, usually the protagonist, undergoes personal change over the course of a narrative. This change is often referred to a "character arc". Common character arcs are the selfish jerk who learns to love, the lone warrior who finds something or someone to fight for and the youth who comes of age.

I think hes more talking about rushed/badly done Character development, IE: Protagonist learning life changing lesson in five minutes, selfish jerk learning to love after 20 years of never feeling any emotion aside from spite after five minutes with a woman who he barely knows, lone warrior finding someone to fight for - who either doesn't need his help or is someone he doesn't know at all but is willing to die for (Though that can be done well, like BBC Sherlock)...


Though that could be me talking.

Actually that was you getting it. Thanks.

 

[Zhukov]

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Christ I hate that phrase. It gets thrown around with such frequency that it's lost all real meaning now, because most people use it synonymously with 'streamlined' as if the two things are one in the same.

I think I love you.

"Streamlined" really shouldn't be a dirty word.

Immersion - most useless, overused and meaningless term in video games today.

"That game uses a red screen to show damage - that totally kills my immersion".
"That game uses a red screen to show damage - that totally adds to my immersion".
"Having to deal with a multiplayer aspect kills my immersion".
"Having other people in my game is so immersive".

Meaningless tripe.

That word actually means something though.

in the context of fiction, to be "immersed" means to be absorbed in an imagined world or story to the point where you willingly ignore your knowledge that it's fictional. If you've never experienced that then, well... I can only feel a bit sorry for you.

The things that aid or break immersion will vary from person to person, but that doesn't make it any less meaningful than any other subjective term.

 

[Zhukov]

...making the game easier to cater to the lowest common denominator, impossible to die, etc - like in say, Prince of Persia 2008...

Hang on a sec, how was the checkpoint system in PoP 2008 "dumbed down"?

You screw up a jumping sequence and fall off, the game returns you to the start. You screw up a fight and lose of your health, the fight resets.

In other words, exactly the same as in every other game with checkpoints. The only difference being that the animations following your screw-ups were of Whatshername saving your arse rather than of you dying.

See, this is why the whole "dumbed down" thing pisses me off.

 

[IrishSkullpanda]

Spunkgargleweewee.

The Escapist is now rife with it. Can't we just go back to calling them FPS games, or military shooters?

Christ knows I like the guy, but not everything Yahtzee says is Holy Gospel destined to be repeated until the end of time.

That's Jim's job.

 

[Dryk]

The way I see it dumbing down is when you streamline and remove depth. Removing depth is a horrible thing to do if it's not getting in anyone's way.

"Immersion" mostly used by people who have nothing else to offer other than I like/dislike this game because of some arbitrary and usually irrelevant factor that adds or breaks their supposed immersion. I'll take the term "dumbed down" over "immersion" any day.

If it's ruining their suspension of disbelief it's not irrelevant.

 

[King Billi]

"Immersion" mostly used by people who have nothing else to offer other than I like/dislike this game because of some arbitrary and usually irrelevant factor that adds or breaks their supposed immersion. I'll take the term "dumbed down" over "immersion" any day.

If it's ruining their suspension of disbelief it's not irrelevant.[/quote]

Of course it's not irrelevant to the person making that complaint, the original point being made was just how meaningless the whole argument becomes when the exact same feature can be used as proof for two completely opposite points of view.

 

[scorptatious]

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Christ I hate that phrase. It gets thrown around with such frequency that it's lost all real meaning now, because most people use it synonymously with 'streamlined' as if the two things are one in the same.

Thank goodness there's someone else who's getting tired of that phrase. It just stinks of elitism.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Spunkgargleweewee.

The Escapist is now rife with it. Can't we just go back to calling them FPS games, or military shooters?

Christ knows I like the guy, but not everything Yahtzee says is Holy Gospel destined to be repeated until the end of time.

That's Jim's job.

You mean SPUNKGARGLEWEEWEE? It really is difficult to consider those games FPS games. They are SPUNKGARGLEWEEWEE. SPUNKGARGLEWEEWEE is SPUNKGARGLEWEEWEE. I see no problem with considering generic CoD related games SPUNKGARGLEWEEWEE.

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SPUNKGARGLEWEEWEE.