Why do gamers (people on this website) generally dislike sports?

[thom_cat_]

I play soccer and (field) hockey.
Oh and skiing is fucking awesome.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

Also, many gamers are nerds or ex-nerds who have endured years of being beaten up by muscle-headed sport-obsessed dimwits on the playground while growing up. Me included. Gaming is the leisure activity that you do to get away from all those sports people.

Yeah me too.
But I killed them all got away from them by starting to study space science at a university. That said I'm still lazy as hell and thus keep avoiding sports.

 

[Fayathon]

I don't like sports because I have no depth perception, it makes everything a lot harder than it needs to be.

 

[steelguy17]

Sports games are usually overly simple too. Baseball games revolve around throwing the ball to the right base or just hitting the swing button at the right time. Football is just a tug of war game to get the ball to the end of the field, and basketball is just about finding the right time and place to push the throw button. All could pass as minigames if placed in another game.

Admittedly, I don't really like sports, but it's from a mixture of lack of talent and physical ability. If I had that, it wouldn't be so bad to play sports. There is a lot more fun in aiming your bat and glove to intercept a ball in Baseball and measuring the right amount of force to put on the ball when throwing in basketball than just pushing buttons on a controller.

Do you honestly think this? Maybe back in the 90's, but now sports game are much more complicated, and hitting a button at the right time is a skill in all games, most games are about timing, so I don't know why its soo simple just because its in a sports game.

 

[dingalingming]

I'm personally a big fan of playing Ultimate Frisbee, Quidditch(Yes, it is an official sport) and Lacrosse.

 

[Tarkthesharkjr]

I personaly do not like sports, I never realy showed any intrest in them when I was young. Later they became a symbol for me for how socity sets up random rigements about what is exceptable.
I find it ironic how sports are considered socialy healthy to be obbsessed in, to the point where parents and children learn to hate based on the whims of a game. Where Videogames, rollplaying games, and dozens of other activities are viewed as "unexceptable" and socialy unhealthy.

 

[Armanox15]

Well, I love tennis... and basketball... and volleyball. I've played basketball since I was 6... but I don't like WATCHING basketball games (I think it's amazingly boring)

 

[bassdrum]

Okay, let's look at it this way: the people on the Escapist are nerds, right? Okay, now use the search engine of your choice to find images of nerds. Do those look like sports players to you?

In all seriousness though, I don't really dislike sports so much as I don't care about them, and I'm sure that other Escapists feel similarly.

 

[ace_of_something]

I think you'll find the real reason that no one talks on those threads isn't a dislike of sport but rather because most of those threads are low content like 'who is your favorite team for sport X?

Go Penguins!

My dad watches NASCAR, what's so fun about watching people drive 300MPH in a circle?!

The high speed crashes.

 

[Mistermixmaster]

I don't mind sports, people are free to do what they like/want. Me,on the other hand? I prefer my dose of sports through http://upnextinsports.com/ =P

 

[Deadlock Radium]

I don't dislike sports, but I hate the sports-people in my class, I mean, I really, really hate them.

Bastards who think they own the world just because they play soccer twice a week.
And if somone just barely touches them, they is in "soooo much pain", I mean, they're supposed to be sooo good at this sport, and when someone tackles them and the only damage they get is a weakly sprained ankle, they can't play soccer for at least three weeks.

It really makes me angry to be honest.

 

[brainfreeze215]

I love sports. I'm avidly watching the winter olympics and I did sports all through middle and high school. Now they've been replaced with dance.

 

[Terramax]

I don't hate sports, but I do hate the masculinity-ego thing and the compulsory demand to have to act like a dumb, ladish twat when I'm playing it i.e. football; why do people men have to scream and shout like drunks when they play it?

 

[Soxafloppin]

I like sports.

Playing them more than watching them though.

 

[SirDeadly]

Sports are awesome! I have played soccer for 12 years now. Would play cricket is there was a 20/20 league...

 

[JokerCrowe]

I like sports... sort of. I used to swim, a lot, but school got in the way. And I did Ju-Jutsu for about four years, and I like to play basketball (I'm 6 foot 8). But I don't like to watch sports on TV, but I like to exercise...

 

[Buffoon]

I like a lot of sports! And I have an interest in b-boying and I've just started taking capoeira lessons. I'm still more nerd/gamer than anything else, though.

 

[Signa]

Sports games are usually overly simple too. Baseball games revolve around throwing the ball to the right base or just hitting the swing button at the right time. Football is just a tug of war game to get the ball to the end of the field, and basketball is just about finding the right time and place to push the throw button. All could pass as minigames if placed in another game.

Admittedly, I don't really like sports, but it's from a mixture of lack of talent and physical ability. If I had that, it wouldn't be so bad to play sports. There is a lot more fun in aiming your bat and glove to intercept a ball in Baseball and measuring the right amount of force to put on the ball when throwing in basketball than just pushing buttons on a controller.

Do you honestly think this? Maybe back in the 90's, but now sports game are much more complicated, and hitting a button at the right time is a skill in all games, most games are about timing, so I don't know why its soo simple just because its in a sports game.

OH hell yeah! The last sports game I played was Madden '06 on the N64. The only REAL fun I had was just goofing off when I was over-tired. Playing it seriously just didn't offer the same entertainment kick. Same went with Super Play Action Football on the SNES, which was the last sports game before that. Face it, sports game bore me to tears, and while my post may have been an oversimplification of my issues with it, my problems weren't overstated. I just find an infinitely more complex and challenging game in fighting for my life in Left 4 Dead, or hunting for every last secret in some sort of Mario adventure rip-off. I'd use a RPG as an example of something that entertains me more than a sports game, but most end up having some grinding at some point, so I can't really pass that off.

Don't feel bad though, I feel that racing games are almost as boring too. Stating it in oversimplified terms again, I see it as a challenge to see who can run around in circles faster. I give racing some credit though, because I know that there is a lot more to it than that, but I end up being bored for that reason ultimately.