How much of a gaming snob are you?

[Ganondork100]

I feel like I speak for a few people when I say: those little COD Fanboys who think every game sucks compared to there mother-insulting, homophobic, racist, shooting fest give gamers, and video games in general, a bad rap. Just saying.

I'm not the biggest fan of the Fps genre (you couldn't tell?) I hate most, but I like the modern Fallout's, Borderlands 1 (haven't played 2, yet), and Halo (the people of Halo are nicer, and the games are better, and usually make a different-feeling game with each release.)

 

[MammothBlade]

Aside from my typical, staple hates that are Zyngaville and CoD, I've grown a bit snobbish towards Team Fortress 2. I just can't stand it or its playerbase anymore, and it makes me want to puke just how much it has turned into a hat-collection simulator. Yet everyone seems to love and play it over and over, including my friends, despite it being so... inane. I seriously regret all the time I've spent on there, and it baffles me how people can play it for so long.

 

[Russirishican]

Spoiler: Wall O' Text

I'm pretty open minded, there are a couple things though. I don't play sports games, but not because I'm too snobby for them, I just really don't enjoy them. I do have several groups of gamers I hate though.

Group 1. Casual Gamers. I don't hate when they keep to themselves, the get quite a bit of bile out of me when they act like casual games are the only thing in gaming.

Group 2. Graphic Whores. You know those guys, the ones that hate old games because they don't look as good as Crysis, or the ones who say Minecraft is crap because of its "bad" graphics. Yes its in 16 bit, but the art is quite good, so you've sort of already lost half your argument, also, you're a douche bag.

Group 3. The Queers. No I don't hate gaymers, that is a name I have for a group of people that have spawned because of COD:Blops2 I have heard countless people tell me that Blops 2 looks "gay" because its set in the future. Forget the fact that Treyarch is moving farther forward in series than they ever have before, forget the fact that it actually looks marginally different, forget the fact that you've bought every single COD game before this one. It looks "gay" because there's robots, actually, that doesn't even matter, you aren't going to buy a game you know NOTHING about because YOU DON'T LIKE THAT ITS IN THE FUTURE. YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN IT A CHANCE TO WIN YOU OVER, YOU ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO BUY ANY GAMES SET IN THE FUTURE. ASGKAJBCEYOIVACYAEC-*technical difficulties*

*ahem* Group 4. The CODfags. Now, I don't normally hate COD, in fact, quite often I will defend it again the waves of pretentious people who act like its ruining the industry. These people make me want to reconsider all of that. But rather than describing these people, I'll just give you some examples.

Ex. 1 Having a conversation on Facebook about Blops2 finally not being another 60$ map pack, and yet no one will buy it because people are sick of 60$ map packs. Guy chimes in and says that Blops 2 will bomb because its too different. Me and another guy jump on his case, and his Q.E.D. is that "sometimes, I'd rather pay for a 60$ map pack than have a game different than the last one" Yea...COD may not be ruining the industry, but its definitely ruining the people who play it.

Ex. 2 I know this one avid COD fan, (quickscopes, watches replays, post his killstreaks on youtube, the whole 9 yards) and I attempt to broaden his horizons by introducing him to Team Fortress 2. He plays it a few times, comes back to me, and says "its basically an outdated game full of overpowered weapons that's hard to play".... You know what COD, fuck you, you've gone too far, we aren't friends anymore.

 

[distortedreality]

I swear, people will look back in 2000yrs time and think gaming was some sort of societal ranking system.

It isn't? :-s

I must admit, i'm a (barely concealed) closet console FPS snob. Fair enough if you want to play a FPS on a console, that's entirely up to you, as long as you know that FPS gaming is far superior on a computer, and you don't try to tell me that gamepad is equal to mouse and keyboard.

 

[MammothBlade]

Group 3. The Queers. No I don't hate gaymers, that is a name I have for a group of people that have spawned because of COD:Blops2 I have heard countless people tell me that Blops 2 looks "gay" because its set in the future. Forget the fact that Treyarch is moving farther forward in series than they ever have before, forget the fact that it actually looks marginally different, forget the fact that you've bought every single COD game before this one. It looks "gay" because there's robots, actually, that doesn't even matter, you aren't going to buy a game you know NOTHING about because YOU DON'T LIKE THAT ITS IN THE FUTURE. YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN IT A CHANCE TO WIN YOU OVER, YOU ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO BUY ANY GAMES SET IN THE FUTURE. ASGKAJBCEYOIVACYAEC-*technical difficulties*

I knew there were going to be people like this. I took one look at the trailer and thought it wouldn't appeal to half the CoD playerbase. Because they want only a so-called "realistic" modern military shooter and have no imagination. F**king asshats.

 

[DSK-]

I suppose indie games. I just don't have any interest in them.

Furthermore I'd have to say the majority of modern multiplayer FPS games.

 

[Panorama]

I am frustrated by gamers who fall for the mainstream bullshit that passes for quality; they have fallen for the millions spent on pretty ads and propaganda, millions that were stripped from development costs. I am angry at the stupidity of such a wide swathe of people. There are better ways to spend your precious time here on this earth than playing another fucking final fantasy.

... So playing OTHER videogames ARENT a waste of time then?...


Um... I am sorry, but the reality is that it dosnt matters if you play COD or Angry Birds or Mario, they are ALL a "waste of time"...

Yeah this is pretty much the answer i had, they are all time sinks but i do love putting my time into them, over other ways to waste my time.

 

[Lady Lucky]

I'm particularly snobby towards people who like "Pro Bass Fishing".
Who the f*ck made that a game! Honestly!

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I have no interest in CoD or the moronic, consolised gaming culture it (and Halo) created. Expand that to include any other generic, military shooter one might care to name.

I have no interest in sports games, except for a tiny handful of exceptional games that break the mold.

I have no interest in the Dante's Inferno/Beyonetta/Devil May Cry type of game. They're tedious to the point of coma-inducing.

I have no interest in tiled/gridded/turn based (J)RPGs, or pretty much any JRPG. A JRPG is one where a sexy female sidekick is continually gasping, the weapons are larger than the people wielding them or the main character is a brooding teenager whose hair is a primary colour.

I have no interest in the grinding aspect of any RPG/MMO. I will not spend hours for a single token when I need thirty, nor hours for the chance to get a drop from a boss.

I will never chase down and hunt rooftop feathers, graffiti spots, magazines, postcards or any other hidden goodies you've scattered 100 of throughout your world.

 

[Cabisco]

I'm very much a snob in some regards. I'll play almost any game, apart from 'Japanese' ones. I just dislike them, I dislike the stories, characters and just so much about them. The last japanese game I enjoyed was likely final fantasy 9.

I now dismiss most Japanese styled games out of hand assuming it's a waste of time for me to try them, and when I very occasionally do I tend to be proved right. Latest example being the res 6 demo, I hated that with a passion.

On a side note, I hated using the term 'japanese' as it makes me sound like a crazy old racist but it's the only way I know how to describe that particular genre of games (it goes beyond just jrpgs).

 

[Tdoodle]

I admit, I refuse to play most mainstream stuff.

But it isn't due to me being a "hipster" or anything, I have several reasons.

1. Most mainstream stuff does not interest me (there are exceptions).

2. I tend to enjoy stuff that would fall under a normal person's radar.

3. Most mainstream stuff seems to be conforming.

Those all seem like pretty hipster-y reasons to me.

I'll play pretty much anything so no, I'm not a gaming snob.

 

[Evil Smurf]

You are all cretins beneath my feet. You should kiss my feet. BUT YOU DON'T!

 

[Eddie the head]

I am as about as far away form a snob as it gets. I will flat out attack people for inferring they are better for liking one thing over another. Hell snob has a negative connotation behind it people. You don't want to be a snob, its not a good thing. Unless you're an ass hole, or a cartoon villain.

 

[Rastien]

I couldn't give a flying fuck what console you have what games you play or if your good at them If you enjoy a game awesome just don't preach or judge me on my choices and i won't about yours.

Always happy to chat about games but will never say a game is "shit", will just except that it isn't a game for me. Will listen to anyone who wants to chat about a game or try a recommendation and happy to try games.

To be blunt i hate evangelism in all forms who gives a fuck if console x is better than console y enjoy what you have

 

[Gladion]

I'm a titanic snob. In life as well as game.

I occasional have this brought to me when I post threads asking people to agree with some opinion of mine that is apparently in the tiny minority. Like [...] how I think every great series I can think of that's been ruined in the last five or ten years has been ruined because of attempts to appeal to 'casual gamers' whoever the fuck those devilspawn are.

On what gaming website in the history of the internet is this in a tiny minority's opinion?

OT: None in particular. I don't like military shooters because what I like most in an FPS/TPS is experimenting with fun new guns on fun new enemies. In those games I only get variations of pistols, shotguns and machine guns and variations of "human" as enemies. Boring.
Also: Most sports games. Not sure why, but they don't really interest me. Although I do love SSX, probably because it's all so unrealistically overblown and I love skiing IRL.

I now dismiss most Japanese styled games out of hand assuming it's a waste of time for me to try them, and when I very occasionally do I tend to be proved right. Latest example being the res 6 demo, I hated that with a passion.

Did you intentionally miss out on Bayonetta and Vanquish because of that reason? Try everything made by Platinum, YOU MUST! And then you may thank me. If you like them. But seriously, IMHO the best current development team.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Well, reading this thread, I certainly now look down, waaaay down, on people who seem to think that playing a certain titles makes me 'part of the problem' or whatever.

But they aren't going to care, are they?
It's the internet, no one gives up on their opinions.

Fuckers.

 

[Lilani]

I don't like a lot of the stereotypical "bro games," like CoD, Halo, Madden, etc. I do like games with a lot of aesthetic value, like the details and depth in Half-Life and Bioshock, the beauty of Dear Esther, the stories to get lost in in Mass Effect, the atmosphere of Bastion. But I also love the juvenile fun in TF2, Soul Calibur, and things like that. So, yeah. I'm pretty much game for most things except sports and FPS's without any flavor or visual variation.

 

[RheynbowDash]

PC Gamers are the Nazis of the gaming world in my opinion. Quoting a post I read before writing this. 'The PC Gamer Master Race' thinks that everyone should use a keyboard and mouse and controllers/gamepads are uncomfortable, and stupid.

Ok, sorry, I'm just mildly frustrated at people that think 'consoles are for kids'. I'm a 27 year old black male from southern Mississippi. I HATE HAAAAAATE Madden/FIFA and yes, I look down my nose at anyone that pays EA $60 every year one comes out. I love Call of Duty, (except for Black Ops). Psychonauts is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm playing Borderlands for the 4th time because I love it so much. Bottom line, there is a certain definition of "gamer" that REAL gamers tend to adhere to. No one that only plays Angry Birds is a gamer. Spending 72 straight hours on Farmville/Cityville/Shitville doesn't make you a gamer. Beat the original Ninja Gaiden on the NES without dying. THEN you're a gamer. Rack up 120 stars in Super Mario 64. Then you can talk to me about what being a gamer is. Beat Uncharted 1, 2, AND 3 on Crushing difficulty. Then you can talk to me about what being a gamer truly is.