gaming geek, how things are changing

[shootthebandit]

me and my friends would sometimes have nights were we would play MW2 splitscreen and have a few beers. my other friend who is not much of gamer was left out so i said come and play and see if you like it. naturally we gave him an LMG with steady aim to get him started and he actually enjoyed it

so hes at university now and he said he was bored between lectures and going to bars. so i recommend he find someone in his building with a PS3, he replied "we dont have PS3s/Xboxs because we are geeks"

what a strange turn of events, if that was a few years ago the gamer would be considered a geek not the non gamer. especially since he implied the reason for being a geek was that he wasnt a gamer.

i think the reason is that games are now alot more social, you can watch a movie with your friends for 2 hours which isnt really engaging or you could have a few rounds of MW2 which is more competitive and fun. when theres nothing on TV why not text a few friends and squad up on BC2 for an hour its much more interactive.

 

[xbeaker]

The way you write this strikes me as odd. You talk about the days when you would play MW2 like it was years and years ago, and that now days things have changed so much.

Your friend isn't into gaming, that is clear. People who play games still have a bit of a stigma to those who don't like video games. But it isn't much different then the stigma people who watch a lot of sports have (all dumb jocks watching men run into each other) people who like to read a lot (anti-social bookworms) or any other form of entertainment. some times you have to just let it slide and move on.

But as someone who have been playing video games since the Atari, I can tell you it has changed a lot in the past 20+ years. Where when I was little most of my friends would have an Atari or something, it wasn't commonplace. Now people I would usually thing of as firmly in the non-gamer segment still will usually have at least 1 system.

As for we don't havePS3s/Xboxs because we aren't geeks" well, you friend is either just being difficult for the sake of it, or he is blind. Every dorm I've seen has a console of some type in every other room in it, and I got out of school more then 10 years ago.