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

[IrenIvy]

The world I think is gravely misappropriate when applied to game series is "franchise" as it used to specify any name of any game but especially if a game is a series and has sequels, prequels and so on. Franchise as it is, is built on uniformity, standardisation and repetition of the same damned thing over and over again, which I consider to be counterproductive term to use with video games as I wish for my games to be imaginative, unpredictable and highly variable experience.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Also, whether a person finds a feature appealing or not is different from how much they are immersed within a certain video game. Just saying.

Which goes back to my original point about the word being overly and incorrectly used.
Yup, you did misunderstand my point. I finally get where your coming from - which is - from the wrong direction.

And yes, I have been completely pedantic.

But I've been pedantic and right.

No, you haven't.
You just pointlessly argued about something that it turns out you completely misunderstood and actually agree with me in the end, wether you know it or not.

These posters got it - long before you showed up - all you had to do was read the thread and avoid this whole tedious debate.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/9.402282.16597063
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/9.402282.16597078

Ah, so by meaningless, you meant it had been so incorrectly used that it had lost all meaning becoming a blanket term for when someone can't really properly describe what it is they don't like about the game?

Why didn't you just explain at the beginning rather than being so negative and hostile?