Have you ever met an authentic guy gamer

[Serenegoose]

I've never met an authentic guy gamer before... I'm starting to think they just don't exist. All they ever want to do is trudge down the same shallow corridor hiding behind the same brown block shooting at the same aliens. It's like they don't appreciate art at all!


*theatrical sigh*

 

[Adzma]

I find it very amusing how many people were offended by an opinion written by someone they neither know nor care about on the internet.

Satire is different however. Satire is good.

 

[TilMorrow]

/facepalm why can't people learn to get along?

 

[The_Echo]

Well, if you take out the third point, which is more "why the hell would you know that" territory, then I would qualify as one.

(Correction: I have stupid amounts of familiarity with trivia concerning the Spyro series, and know the gist of the beginnings and relationships between Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch and Ready at Dawn.)

 

[Kyogissun]

(sorry CoD, Halo and other ultra-masculine space marine penis-fests, you're not real games)

OBVIOUS TROLL IS SO FUCKING OBVIOUS.

I mean god damn dude, you really could have had a very confusing 'not sure if trollan' kind of thread going but you KILLED it with this post.

So, if srs bsns gamer or troll, either way you totally fucked up.

 

[AWDMANOUT]

I... I don't get it.

Does that make me dumb?

I tried to look at the other thread to make sense of it... But it decided to not exist anymore...

I might be dumb. Saying things like...

"Look! More sleeping people! It must be naptime! But who has naptime now? Nap time comes before pants time, not after. I think these people are just making up times."

 

[The Madman]

I saw one once, but his dead soulless eyes frightened me so I ran away.

 

[Krumm]

1. They didn't get into gaming because their friends were into it, or because their parents just bought them a console/PC.

My Dad had a C64 with a ton of games. No manuals though, so I had to work out the controls on my own. Never did find out how to open doors in Hero Quest

2. They actually play main titles like Sims and WoW that sell massive units and have online interaction.

I played Warhammer Online for almost a year, and The Sims 2 for about 5 minutes. Nowadays, other than Little Big Planet, I don't do online multiplayer

3. Whatever they like they have substantial knowledge about its past, such as being able to expain in detail the market circumstances that led Origin to agreeing to the EA takeover, the histories of Interplay and SSI and can carry a conversation by adding their own points/knowledge/past.

Maybe just a little

4. They're willing to talk about gaming in public, even when they are trying to pick up a good looking girl who clearly isn't into gaming at a party, and even if most of the people in the conversation aren't actually interest in gaming.

I wasn't trying to pick her up (I'd met her boyfriend. Big man), and the conversation was about how she wasn't a gamer. I even made some recommendations (X-Com, since it's expected that you'll lose a lot of troops)

Spoiler: And just to show that I'm not a woman pretending to be a guy gamer

 

[Kae]

Other than myself, not I mean my brother love games too but of all 3 of us I'm the only one that investigates videogame history, in fact they often get annoyed at me for giving such long explanations to a simple game question like when is that game coming out?, and my elder brother and myself got into gaming because we saw this game machines at the store, for me it was obvious that I wanted to play that, I mean the ability to control what happened on-screen was just mind-boggling to me and immediately mesmerized me shortly after, I spent my early years (like from 5 to 9) going to the arcade almost every day, to this day I have no idea where I got all those coins, but it would not surprise me if I spent a thousand dollars on arcades.

 

[Berethond]

The better question is, why the fuck do we care?

 

[NotYetForsaken]

Yeah I qualify to be a "guy gamer" in your list. The fact that I haven't been playing games from the dawn doesn't mean anything. I've been playing since I was fucking born, and no list is gonna tell me otherwise because my first console was a Nintendo 64 It doesn't make anyone less hardcore the longer you have been playing.

I can recognize the portrayals and strategies used by developers in games, I can understand the mechanics, I can understand the art design. I can see how it works, why it is good or bad. This is now less about wether the gender of gaming, but it upon myself that the term hardcore cannot be applied to me is an insult.

What I mean to say is, it matters not how long you've been playing, but rather that you have the retrospective and the passion to learn. You need not have experienced the first advent of gaming to learn from it. It is benefactory that we take a concise lesson from those events and mold them into something meaningful of today, whether it be in a speech, game, or a reply to a silly internet thread.

(I have also successfully converted many people to the wonders of gaming. Including attractive single women. If that fucking helps my gamerscore in your book.)

 

[Slayer_2]

HAHAHAHAHA, I find this post hilarious, I guess I'm the only one who saw the other thread...

 

[boholikeu]

You are just the worst kind of person....
Im glad there were misunderstandings, goes to show what happens when people dont TRY TO GET THE POINT the thread creator is desperately trying to elate.
(smiles)Hahaha...oh..lol
The irony is almost poetic.

So was your thread supposed to be satire too?

No I was only asking GUYS if they had met GIRL gamers in real life basically(btw-some had some hadnt), granted my wording could have been better but then again others could have reframed from flaming me for 5 seconds to try to see what I meant.
It doesnt matter its been removed and now theres a thread based on THIS thread as well.

The problem was your word choice. You were asking if guys had met an "authentic" girl gamer, IE implying that any girl gamer that doesn't meet those criteria is somehow less of a gamer. It reeked of elitism, and that's what people were calling you out on.

Had you worded it differently (for example: "competitive girl gamers") you wouldn't have gotten so much flack. Also, excluding people based on genre preference is pretty petty, too. It's like saying you aren't an "authentic" music fan if you like rap or rock.

That's what people were reacting to. You can claim people just "misunderstood" your true meaning, but then you should have edited your OP as soon as it became clear that they didn't get your point.

 

[Scout Tactical]

Is it sexism that this thread is up while the other was deleted? Probably.

I don't really mind, but I thought it was really cool that this thread was satiring the sexist tendencies of the other thread, but when the other thread was removed, that shifted the sexism in the other direction. Problems are fixed by the introduction of new speech, not censorship of old speech.

 

[stormcrow5]

Your qualitys for ''being a guy gamer'' are just stupid they need to talk about it when trying to pick up girls? haveing played any of the big fps games in like the past 10 years = not a gamer? yet u throw in WoW as being a game that makes you a gamer.... Sorry but to me your opinion on what a guy gamer is flawed

 

[Jay Kidd]

I qualify and if my fiancee was a dude, she'd qualify too.