Most Ignorant thing somebody has to said to you about gaming.
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'If I had known it was a violent game I wouldnt have bought it for my 8 year old son' regarding GTA San Andreas.
So the big 18 label wasnt a give away?
So the big 18 label wasnt a give away?
Alot of the posts here are pretty ignorant...
Anyone who said that FarmVille is a decent game is completely ignorant about the industry
Anyone who said that FarmVille is a decent game is completely ignorant about the industry
I was once told that "video games are a stupid and repetitive waste of time" as they were watching NASCAR.... Fail +1
"They used counterstrike to train for their rampage"dabronc7 said:
No.
Tell them to play the games and THEN try to use a real gun.
Okay, based on this evidence, I have come to the conclusion that everybody in your life is completely awesome and hilarious and would give you and them high-fives should the opportunity ever arise.Vraeyda said:
demoman_chaos said:
Just show your dad this video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk].
It'll "take his algorithms to the next level!"
I'm not so much discussing the number of "titles" because the PC naturally lends itself to a lot of low-cost development of simplistic games. Namely because there's no Microsoft or Sony to please and acquire development/distribution licenses from.Dys said:
But when we're talking *big* titles, the PC has but a precious few outside of a few genres still entrenched on the PC (RTS, I'm looking at you!).
When you think about it, almost all the popular games are on the console too - where the developers get most of their money.
(Examples: Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age, Bioshock 1&2, Fable II, Fallout 3, CoD 4/5/6, Battlefield BC/BC2, Left 4 Dead, Half-Life 2/Team Fortress 2)
Numerous development firms have admitted that while the games also arrive for PC, the real money is in the console releases without which, it's hard to see how game developers could survive.
The only great exception to this is, not surprisingly, the MMORPG genre which is huge in its own right and almost exclusively situated on the PC.
As it is, between the extra pain of developing for various hardware setups on PC's, the rampant piracy as well as the problem of a lowest common denominator for hardware makes it hard to see how PC gaming should be profitable, especially when console gamers seem more accepting when asked to pay for on-line gaming, which could easily turn into a huge profit (Xbox Live).
Ars Technica has a nice article up on how DeLL cut their XPS line because the market just weren't profitable. (That is, XPS desktops are meant as high-end gaming workstations).
I'm not going to argue against enthusiasts building their own system, but look at the graph in the article detailing the decline of the PC market followed by the huge rise of the consoles.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008/05/dell-xps-phase-out-symptomatic-of-declining-pc-gaming-sector.ars
There's a joke/rumor around the 'net that John Carmack (of ID software) was once asked why ID bothered porting their PC games to Linux seeing as the market was so small that it couldn't be profitable to which he allegedly replied "because Linux gives me a woody".
In my view, that seems to be the driving force behind PC publications still. It seems that developers publish games that could run and sell well exclusively on the consoles for that very same reason - love of a platform on which they grew up and where they first cut their teeth as programmers and game developers.
But do not under any circumstances fool yourself into thinking the PC market alone is profitable for the big and costly titles.
I've got a couple.
1. "YOU LIKE HALO AND THEREFORE YOU ARE A FAG AND I'M TOTALLY BEING ELITIST AND COOL RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!"
Once again I'm going to have to express my hatred for the people out there who hate Halo and are determined to show me why me liking the game not only gives them the right to bully me with stubborn and childish insults but that it also makes them 'better' than me. Because really I can respect those who don't like Halo but for the love of god, IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A PROPHET!! Also for the note, even though I study media and films and the arts apparently, me liking Halo will turn me into a jeep driving horny immature and lazy drunk, yeah.... none of those things are occuring anytime soon. Frankly I find it very offensive to have my maturity questioned by someone who could be doing so many other things with their time but instead decide to insult other people for liking something that they don't.
NOTE: This can apply not just to Halo but to games in general.
2. "You know nothing about gaming!!!!!"
This one in particular bugs me because as Machines Are Us (now just Machines) once said.... 'what is there to know about gaming? You put the disk in the machine or download it from whatever server, pick up the controller or sit at the keyboard and then start playing and BAM! you know everything that is needed to know'.
Seriously, game design is a class that one can study but actually playing games is just a pastime and frankly it all reeks of yet another reason for everyone who needs to have the 'alpha male' leadership role that also causes insults over whether or not a video game is good.
3. "OH man screw this game, it costs $60 dollars!!!"
Now this I take a little less personally on the basis that people who make this complaint usually live in America or England and therefore I can still understand the complaint on their own terms. However that said, I live in Australia and so during the whole time of people whining about how ODST costed a huuuuge SIXTY DOLLARS. I was sighing in contempt because just about every game in this country costs about a HUNDRED DOLLARS.
It just strikes me as needless complaints about price that really considering what I have to live with is actually a bargain by comparison. I mean seriously in Australia a game for sixty bucks is a steal typically they are the preowned titles. It just annoys me that people can be ignorant of how good they really have it especially when compared to the shitty deal I, and all other Australian gamers get.
I mean think about it, you have to pay much less then we do, you get games released much earlier then we do and you get it in it's entirety whereas over here we often get it censored or banned.
If you ask me, you have it pretty sweet over there and hence why the complaints feel quite ignorant to me by comparison.
1. "YOU LIKE HALO AND THEREFORE YOU ARE A FAG AND I'M TOTALLY BEING ELITIST AND COOL RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!"
Once again I'm going to have to express my hatred for the people out there who hate Halo and are determined to show me why me liking the game not only gives them the right to bully me with stubborn and childish insults but that it also makes them 'better' than me. Because really I can respect those who don't like Halo but for the love of god, IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A PROPHET!! Also for the note, even though I study media and films and the arts apparently, me liking Halo will turn me into a jeep driving horny immature and lazy drunk, yeah.... none of those things are occuring anytime soon. Frankly I find it very offensive to have my maturity questioned by someone who could be doing so many other things with their time but instead decide to insult other people for liking something that they don't.
NOTE: This can apply not just to Halo but to games in general.
2. "You know nothing about gaming!!!!!"
This one in particular bugs me because as Machines Are Us (now just Machines) once said.... 'what is there to know about gaming? You put the disk in the machine or download it from whatever server, pick up the controller or sit at the keyboard and then start playing and BAM! you know everything that is needed to know'.
Seriously, game design is a class that one can study but actually playing games is just a pastime and frankly it all reeks of yet another reason for everyone who needs to have the 'alpha male' leadership role that also causes insults over whether or not a video game is good.
3. "OH man screw this game, it costs $60 dollars!!!"
Now this I take a little less personally on the basis that people who make this complaint usually live in America or England and therefore I can still understand the complaint on their own terms. However that said, I live in Australia and so during the whole time of people whining about how ODST costed a huuuuge SIXTY DOLLARS. I was sighing in contempt because just about every game in this country costs about a HUNDRED DOLLARS.
It just strikes me as needless complaints about price that really considering what I have to live with is actually a bargain by comparison. I mean seriously in Australia a game for sixty bucks is a steal typically they are the preowned titles. It just annoys me that people can be ignorant of how good they really have it especially when compared to the shitty deal I, and all other Australian gamers get.
I mean think about it, you have to pay much less then we do, you get games released much earlier then we do and you get it in it's entirety whereas over here we often get it censored or banned.
If you ask me, you have it pretty sweet over there and hence why the complaints feel quite ignorant to me by comparison.
My History Teacher once said a thing to the tune of technology like video games rot the brain.
Due to the fact it was the last week of school I raised my hand and let slip the knowlegde that the nerd who gets the only A (me) in the class has ripped most of his quotes, facts, and even receited two poems from memory in another class (English: Ozymandeus and Day No Rains Would Fall) All Thanks to COD, Total War, Civilization 1-4, and Fallout 3.
He was mad at the end of my explaination to say the least.
Kind of wish I hadn't said it all at the pace Yahtzee does.
Due to the fact it was the last week of school I raised my hand and let slip the knowlegde that the nerd who gets the only A (me) in the class has ripped most of his quotes, facts, and even receited two poems from memory in another class (English: Ozymandeus and Day No Rains Would Fall) All Thanks to COD, Total War, Civilization 1-4, and Fallout 3.
He was mad at the end of my explaination to say the least.
Kind of wish I hadn't said it all at the pace Yahtzee does.
"You shot her."
"It's just a game..."
"You still shot her."
"It's still just a game."
"I suppose you would shoot someone in real life."
"No, because I can distinguish between pretend and real, unlike you, you p****."
"It's just a game..."
"You still shot her."
"It's still just a game."
"I suppose you would shoot someone in real life."
"No, because I can distinguish between pretend and real, unlike you, you p****."