Ok, disclaimer for starters. I am ill, tired and irritable, so I am sorry if this ends up just being a rant lacking in coherency, or if I start a flame war. Trust me, my intentions are exactly the opposite.
Right, why is it so hard for the gaming community to just ignore stuff that they don't like? I, I just... why? Everyone is entitled to their opinions granted, but just because you have an opinion does not mean that you suddenly have to bleat it to anyone who will listen, no matter how tired and overused your arguments get. Do we as a community enjoy trying to ruin everybody else's fun or something. I understand that when something you don't like is popular it can be easy to feel ostracized, which is irritating, but the way I see people responding to situations like these is just so stuck up, and so goddamn childish, that the haters come out looking worse than the fanboys, no matter how retarded the fanboys were being!
The Upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the perfect example of this. (Yes, I happen to like playing Call of Duty. No, I am not an obsessive who hates on everything that isn't CoD, and I am certainly not here to tell you why CoD is perfect and why you should all love it too. To be brutally honest, I couldn't give a flying fuck whether you think CoD is the second coming of Christ of the spawn of Satan.) I am not being hyperbolic when I say that every time a trailer for this game has appeared, pretty much every first comment that isn't on a forum specifically for CoD fans has been along these lines... *assume most condescending tone imaginable "Hey, look! They've done another map pack for MW2. Wait? You mean to tell me this is a new game??? How can this be? It looks like just more of the same..."
Urgh! Yes, ok we get it! CoD is not a franchise praised for it's innovation, and you think that buying the new game would be a waste of money with apparently so little changed, but have you considered that maybe what other people do with their money is none of your business, and that you just made yourself look like an utter tool for no reason other than making you feel like you're the big man for going against the main stream, or whatever it is you get your jollies from?
Before anyone tries to claim that they wouldn't be saying this stuff if their weren't idiots running around wetting themselves over how CoD is "TEH B3ST GARME EVARRRR!!1! IF U NO LIK COD U R TEH GAY"... I too have encountered the occasional drooling fanboy in my time, so I can sympathise that they are far from pleasant creatures. However, I tend to just find them funny more than anything, which makes their bleating so much easier to just shrug off, so why can't you? There aren't that many of them you know. Do you really have so little confidence in your own convictions that you can't just rise above it? The moment you puff out your chest and let rip with the smugness you are dragging yourself down to their level, and from what I've been seeing recently their are actually far more obnoxious haters than there are obnoxious fans.
Nobody worth bothering with ever said you weren't allowed to have your own tastes when it comes to gaming, so getting so defensive that you feel the need to bash on a game, and its fans, over and over and over again until your points lose all impact is as unnecessary as it is unflattering.
I know the whole 'Welcome to the internet' drill too, and that excuse is getting old as well. We are all people, we are all intelligent lifeforms, even the worst of us. I get that you're always going to get people being douches on the internet but I don't see why we just bat it away like it's just how things work. We are capable of being so much better than that!
So, tl;dr: if there is something we don't like about gaming, but ultimately doesn't affect us, why is it so hard for us to just let it go? Why must we degrade everyone by using our opinions as an excuse to be unpleasant, and why do we not know when to just shut the fuck up about it already?
At the risk of sounding like my mother I'm at the end of my tether. When I look at all the people who make up a community I belong to act like this, it makes me ashamed to call myself a gamer.
Right, why is it so hard for the gaming community to just ignore stuff that they don't like? I, I just... why? Everyone is entitled to their opinions granted, but just because you have an opinion does not mean that you suddenly have to bleat it to anyone who will listen, no matter how tired and overused your arguments get. Do we as a community enjoy trying to ruin everybody else's fun or something. I understand that when something you don't like is popular it can be easy to feel ostracized, which is irritating, but the way I see people responding to situations like these is just so stuck up, and so goddamn childish, that the haters come out looking worse than the fanboys, no matter how retarded the fanboys were being!
The Upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the perfect example of this. (Yes, I happen to like playing Call of Duty. No, I am not an obsessive who hates on everything that isn't CoD, and I am certainly not here to tell you why CoD is perfect and why you should all love it too. To be brutally honest, I couldn't give a flying fuck whether you think CoD is the second coming of Christ of the spawn of Satan.) I am not being hyperbolic when I say that every time a trailer for this game has appeared, pretty much every first comment that isn't on a forum specifically for CoD fans has been along these lines... *assume most condescending tone imaginable "Hey, look! They've done another map pack for MW2. Wait? You mean to tell me this is a new game??? How can this be? It looks like just more of the same..."
Urgh! Yes, ok we get it! CoD is not a franchise praised for it's innovation, and you think that buying the new game would be a waste of money with apparently so little changed, but have you considered that maybe what other people do with their money is none of your business, and that you just made yourself look like an utter tool for no reason other than making you feel like you're the big man for going against the main stream, or whatever it is you get your jollies from?
Before anyone tries to claim that they wouldn't be saying this stuff if their weren't idiots running around wetting themselves over how CoD is "TEH B3ST GARME EVARRRR!!1! IF U NO LIK COD U R TEH GAY"... I too have encountered the occasional drooling fanboy in my time, so I can sympathise that they are far from pleasant creatures. However, I tend to just find them funny more than anything, which makes their bleating so much easier to just shrug off, so why can't you? There aren't that many of them you know. Do you really have so little confidence in your own convictions that you can't just rise above it? The moment you puff out your chest and let rip with the smugness you are dragging yourself down to their level, and from what I've been seeing recently their are actually far more obnoxious haters than there are obnoxious fans.
Nobody worth bothering with ever said you weren't allowed to have your own tastes when it comes to gaming, so getting so defensive that you feel the need to bash on a game, and its fans, over and over and over again until your points lose all impact is as unnecessary as it is unflattering.
I know the whole 'Welcome to the internet' drill too, and that excuse is getting old as well. We are all people, we are all intelligent lifeforms, even the worst of us. I get that you're always going to get people being douches on the internet but I don't see why we just bat it away like it's just how things work. We are capable of being so much better than that!
So, tl;dr: if there is something we don't like about gaming, but ultimately doesn't affect us, why is it so hard for us to just let it go? Why must we degrade everyone by using our opinions as an excuse to be unpleasant, and why do we not know when to just shut the fuck up about it already?
At the risk of sounding like my mother I'm at the end of my tether. When I look at all the people who make up a community I belong to act like this, it makes me ashamed to call myself a gamer.
