Have you ever turned into "That Guy"?

[Casual Shinji]

I'm more likely to nitpick the things I love and I don't stop loving them for the nitpicks. Hell, I can nitpick something and praise it enthusiastically at the same time.

I'm kind of the same.

When I really like something I'm prone to focus on aspects of it that could've made it even better.

I have to have some amount of love for something in order to become "that guy". Like a shitty sequel to a series that I like (inFAMOUS: Second Son), shitty story DLC to a game that I like (The Last of Us: Left Behind), or the total ruination of a character that I like (Guts from Berserk).

 

[V4Viewtiful]

Yeah that's me half the time, my friends have a good laugh at my expense.

 

[scorptatious]

I catch myself being an elitist gamer a lot.

Not overtly, but I find myself subtly despising people who take my favorite game and play it super-casual like they're waiting for their limo to pick them up in a few minutes.

A lot of "let's play" videos are in this category. Could be the most engaging, emotional and complex game ever, and all they can manage is "Dude, I got the laser sword! Is this a laser sword? Look at everything die, dude that's awesome. Is this the final cutscene? Dude, that looks like Voldermort! He's totally Voldermort. Ima kill you with my new laser sword."

If I were a game developer my heart would break a tiny bit each time I watched that kind of commentary. Especially if I wrote the lore or the music, which I swear 99% of gamers are physically incapable of noticing.

Thus, I tend to be more of a jerk in the comments section to those people. It's not that I hate the casual for playing on a casual timeframe, but rather the attitude he takes, like he's wiping his a** with the game.

I think you have described my feelings on DarkSydePhil in a nutshell. Practically every game he plays for his channel, he acts like what you have described and more. I probably wouldn't call him a "casual player" though. I feel lumping people in with that guy is rather insulting.

Anyway, I do feel I have been a bit more critical and nitpicky about certain things over the past few years of my life. Probably a habit I formed after watching a lot of critics reviewing stuff on the internet.

Usually though, I don't notice most flaws within something until someone else points them out. I'm not sure what that says about me or the overall product. I'm either really thick or the game/show/book/movie's flaws in question are barely even worth mentioning and don't really affect the overall product that much.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I'm "That Guy" with the Game of Thrones adaptation. So many fucking...stupid...deviations...

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

Oh yeah. I tend to be "That Guy" quite often, to the point where I actively acknowledge that I'm a horrible person to watch a movie with and try to sit away from people when I do. Don't even get me started when ze ponies get involved - I still won't shut up about A Canterlot Wedding's shortcomings even two years later.

Basically, I'm "That Guy" incarnate, though I'm self-aware enough to at least try not to ramble at people irl about it unless it's about something we both like, since that tends to go over MUCH better.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm more likely to nitpick the things I love and I don't stop loving them for the nitpicks. Hell, I can nitpick something and praise it enthusiastically at the same time.

I'm kind of the same.

When I really like something I'm prone to focus on aspects of it that could've made it even better.

I have to have some amount of love for something in order to become "that guy". Like a shitty sequel to a series that I like (inFAMOUS: Second Son), shitty story DLC to a game that I like (The Last of Us: Left Behind), or the total ruination of a character that I like (Guts from Berserk).

On a similar note, one of the things that will push me into rant territory is something that's almost good. I've got that feeling about Remember Me right now, as I play through it. This isn't quite as bad as "bad sequel to good property," but it's up there.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Recently many including myself have seen me become "That Guy" with Dark Souls 2. I praise it for being the best game this year, but I hope something better comes out of the wood works soon because I viciously attack every little shit design choice about the sequel so much that it always sounds like I borderline DESPISE it, when in truth I just don't tolerate the laziness behind it. (this one will haunt me till the next Souls game though)

I'm the same way about Persona 4, in where I nitpick it but love it with all my heart and am willing to praise it to the moon.
Or with the Spider-Man reboot films, where I dislike them and see them as a waste of IP. But that can be said about most adaptations that make it from paper to film. Or worse from, film to film, thats were are go full force critical.

But it's great to know people love me when I'm "That Guy". Conversations on Anime, TV shows, and video games would be so boring otherwise without a group of "Those Guys" having it.
Critique fuels passion, passion fuels fun.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yeah I pretty much acted like that after I watched MLP:FiM (my comment on thejboy88 reviews on the episodes are proved of that).
I'm not sure how I handle that exactly, I just seen to keep it to one side as I still enjoyed watching an episode even when it does got some flaw/ plotholes in it.

 

[shrekfan246]

Nope. I'm the most perfect example of a post-human you'll ever find. Hahaha!

More seriously, it's very rare that I nitpick to that extent. Final Fantasy XIII is probably the only relevant example I could come up with. Which isn't to say I don't criticize things, I tend to critique quite extensively to myself or people who ask for my opinions. But it takes something being astoundingly bad or bland or boring to trigger me in such a way; I'm not very difficult to entertain, and in fact one of the biggest issues I tend to face is that I'm interested in so many different genres and thematic settings that I overload myself with too many things I want to experience at once and end up falling back on something like Youtube videos instead of actually working my way through all of the games/books/films/shows.

I hold a critical eye to many things, but I'm not very picky about what I choose to experience so long as it's interesting and technically competent. And I'd never want to be any different, either.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

I am an avid player of pen and paper RPG's and sometimes I do catch myself being a bit of a "rules lawyer." Does that count?

I watch honest trailers and cinema sins videos, many of which are for movies I love, and they frequently pan the hell out of them, but I still love those movies.

 

[Zandatsu121]

I turn into "That Guy" a little too much when it comes to things I like (recently with Godzilla and other monster movies). I also have a tendency to not let things go when it's easier to just do that.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I'm a "that guy" when it comes to MLP:FiM. I usually enjoy episodes, and there is really only a couple of episodes that I didn't like.

You wouldn't know it reading my reviews, though, considering how it's a bit hit-or-miss whether I'll even classify an episode as more than a point above average, and even my favorite episodes have problems that I point out.

 

[Frezzato]

I don't know if I'm necessarily "that guy", but whenever I'm around clueless people buying video games I tend to offer unsolicited advice.

I was just at a Game Stop, killing time waiting for some car work to finish, and there was a guy buying an Xbox One and two games. I kept mumbling advice to him with my hand over my mouth. He wanted Titanfall and I mumble/blurted that he would need Xbox Live in order to play it, so he got it. The two kids behind the counter forgot to tell him. He then asked about Ryse and I mumble/blurted that it was an 8-hour game.

He finally settled on Titanfall and Watchdogs. I dunno, it was nice being around someone who was genuinely psyched about video games; this despite the fact that he was well into his 30s. Seriously, good for him.

 

[McElroy]

Only on specific occasions. Those occasions being when someone likes a movie that isn't actually good. On the moment I find this out I will explain how wrong this person is. However, I'm quite tactful with it, and the people who have to hear that are usually ones that I know will give a shit about my superior opinion.

 

[Casual Shinji]

On a similar note, one of the things that will push me into rant territory is something that's almost good. I've got that feeling about Remember Me right now, as I play through it. This isn't quite as bad as "bad sequel to good property," but it's up there.

I actually have that quite a bit as well. Even with things I'll admit are outright bad, but I feel could've been really good/interesting with just a few tweaks.

Like the movie Hancock. That movie could've been so good if they had made it about a child super hero from the 50's or 60's, who growns up to become this washed up, alcoholic has-been. Sort of like a child star allegory, but with super heroes.

 

[AntiChri5]

On a similar note, one of the things that will push me into rant territory is something that's almost good. I've got that feeling about Remember Me right now, as I play through it. This isn't quite as bad as "bad sequel to good property," but it's up there.

I actually have that quite a bit as well. Even with things I'll admit are outright bad, but I feel could've been really good/interesting with just a few tweaks.

Like the movie Hancock. That movie could've been so good if they had made it about a child super hero from the 50's or 60's, who growns up to become this washed up, alcoholic has-been. Sort of like a child star allegory, but with super heroes.

Nothing is worse then a work that is held back from greatness by a fatal flaw or three. A mediocre game can be safely ignored. Play it for three days, give it away/trade it in and forget about it. But a game that comes so close to being good? You can't just forget it. So you think about it, and replay it, and think about it, and talk about it. And the whole time, it's problems are just fucking there, blocking you from really getting into it.

 

[Klumpfot]

I turn into "That Girl" about metal, specifically when I get way too invested in saying that certain bands are or aren't metal.

Yeah! That's the worst!

I'd make fun of it, but I'd be a massive hypocrite. For several years, I was the kind of person who'd argue with you forever if you called Slayer 'death metal'. Hrmpf.
Nowadays, I'm generally level-headed enough not to engage in genre debates. [small]Unless someone calls In Flames' current music 'melodic death metal'.[/small]


More OT: I tend to be "that guy" in (often drunken) discussions about metaphysics and dumb pseudoscience. I've yet to learn how to let people live with their beliefs about "bio-energetic anti-tick dog collars" (a "real" thing) without talking down to or outright mocking them. I recognize it as a failing of mine, however.

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

On a similar note, one of the things that will push me into rant territory is something that's almost good. I've got that feeling about Remember Me right now, as I play through it. This isn't quite as bad as "bad sequel to good property," but it's up there.

I actually have that quite a bit as well. Even with things I'll admit are outright bad, but I feel could've been really good/interesting with just a few tweaks.

Like the movie Hancock. That movie could've been so good if they had made it about a child super hero from the 50's or 60's, who growns up to become this washed up, alcoholic has-been. Sort of like a child star allegory, but with super heroes.

Nothing is worse then a work that is held back from greatness by a fatal flaw or three. A mediocre game can be safely ignored. Play it for three days, give it away/trade it in and forget about it. But a game that comes so close to being good? You can't just forget it. So you think about it, and replay it, and think about it, and talk about it. And the whole time, it's problems are just fucking there, blocking you from really getting into it.

That's pretty much why MLP's "A Canterlot Wedding" has always bothered me - it was so close to being sooo great, but the entire third act was hit with so many issues that it's hard for me to look past them at all the things it did right. Even to this day, I don't consider that two-parter flat-out bad by any means, but those episodes are still the two I complain about most in the entire series so far, just because of how much potential went to waste.