Words that gamers use that make you CRINGE!

[scorptatious]

"lowest common denominator"

In this case, I'm talking about how some people believe that people who enjoy games that happened to be popular are dumber than you.

Get off your high horse. Just because you happen to enjoy certain video games doesn't make you better than anyone else.

I also agree about "immersion". That word seems to be thrown around a lot lately and it sounds really pretentious.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Biased. Fucking hate that word because nobody uses it properly.

Boycott annoys the crap out of me, because nobody uses that word properly either. Just note: it does not mean tell people you're not going to buy it, then pay for it anyway. That's not a boycott. That's you lying.

"On it's own merit" That makes me want to shoot my self every time I here it.
There is no such thing as a merit in a vacuum. and there is no objective scale on which to judge a merit. It sickens me when games get perfect scores (Or really good scores) based on absolutely nothing.

But that's a game reviewer thing, not really a gamer thing. I feel the need to make the distinction because I have a serious inkling that game reviewers never actually play games, based on reading a crap ton of reviews and noticing a disturbing trend where the game is hardly ever mentioned in it's own review

Realism...Nobody uses that right either. Taking 30 bullets to the chest and being completely fine after 10 seconds sucking your thumb behind a wall is not realism.

 

[monixion]

Has to be 'Toon' for me, the first time I heard it, it made me want to rip my hair out. Something is just unjustifiably wrong with referring to your character as a 'Toon'... still makes me cringe, even reading this!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I do that all the time with GOTY versions of older games. Borderlands with all the DLC for 50 bucks is quite a step up from Borderlands without it. Was I a whiny entitled brat for waiting on a price drop?

No, but if you did that and then proceeded to whine on an Internet forum about all that GOTY stuff not being in the initial release, then yes you would be. See the difference?

Waiting for a price drop is not being entitled, criticizing is not being entitled (well depending on how the criticism is worded), loudly whining because the game, movie, book, tv show, whatever didn't meet your exact specifications and/or demanding the creators change it to meet those specifications, THAT'S being entitled.

 

[sumanoskae]

Objectification.

Most games treat everything as objects.

 

[Atmos Duality]

No, but if you did that and then proceeded to whine on an Internet forum about all that GOTY stuff not being in the initial release, then yes you would be. See the difference?

That much makes sense. It doesn't make sense to whine about something you're satisfied with, that you already have, but wish you got at a cheaper price.

The problem I had with it, is that some people were slinging that argument at ANY NEGATIVE criticism for ME3. (And now they're doing it again for D3.)

Waiting for a price drop is not being entitled, criticizing is not being entitled (well depending on how the criticism is worded), loudly whining because the game, movie, book, tv show, whatever didn't meet your exact specifications and/or demanding the creators change it to meet those specifications, THAT'S being entitled.

The only caveat I would make to the specifications, is those that pertain to the matter of technical fixes or practicality. But most competent companies will try to patch problems like that out anyway.

 

[darksuccubus]

Those who call themselves "gamer girl" because I instantly imagine some pretentious idiots thinking that that they deserve all the praise just because the have a vagina. It's idiots like them make other female gamers choose male nicknames because they don't want to be associated with attention whores

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No, but if you did that and then proceeded to whine on an Internet forum about all that GOTY stuff not being in the initial release, then yes you would be. See the difference?

That much makes sense. It doesn't make sense to whine about something you're satisfied with, that you already have, but wish you got at a cheaper price.

The problem I had with it, is that some people were slinging that argument at ANY NEGATIVE criticism for ME3. (And now they're doing it again for D3.)

Ah, well I can't vouch for the people who blatantly misuse the word anymore then I can vouch for the people who seem to think that because they're consumers they're owed the world on a silver platter.

Waiting for a price drop is not being entitled, criticizing is not being entitled (well depending on how the criticism is worded), loudly whining because the game, movie, book, tv show, whatever didn't meet your exact specifications and/or demanding the creators change it to meet those specifications, THAT'S being entitled.

The only caveat I would make to the specifications, is those that pertain to the matter of technical fixes or practicality. But most competent companies will try to patch problems like that out anyway.

Well natuarlly one has the right to ask (not demand) that technical issues be fixed, but as you said most game companies are pretty good about that anyway. No, I was mostly referring to things like story arcs, endings, character development etc.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Well natuarlly one has the right to ask (not demand) that technical issues be fixed, but as you said most game companies are pretty good about that anyway. No, I was mostly referring to things like story arcs, endings, character development etc.

I keep matters of content/mechanics separate from distribution and marketing, unless they are far too interconnected to be ignored (which mostly applies to MMOs).

Unless it's 100% necessary, don't fuck with distribution and don't incorporate it into gameplay mechanics. Very few games have managed to pull it off without screwing things up (TF2, most notably).

 

[squidface]

"morality"
Just the whole thing that games now have to have moral decisions in them.

"toons"
I hate the use of this word to describe your MMO character accounts.

 

[Brawndo]

"Gaben". Please stop saying that.

 

[gritch]

My brother has started using a new phrase I find both terribly annoying and ironic. He likes to call people who do better than him at a game "no-lifers". He gets this smug little grin on his face, a reassures himself yet again that he undoubtedly "Has a life. Unlike those damn no-lifers!" before continuing to spend the entirety of day playing CoD.

 

[Epona]

Spoiler: Entitled

Never in my life would I have thought that this word would piss me off so much.

Oh yes, the product or service is immune to criticism now. Why? Because if it didn't meet my expectations for the price, I'm acting "entitled" and am therefore wrong by default.

What? WHAT? WHAT KIND OF FUCKING SENSE DOES THAT MAKE?!

This argument is the antithesis to the economic process.
If we're just dismissing the perceived value of a product outright on the basis of avoiding "entitlement", then why bother evaluating the product at all? (this extends to the total value of the product; meaning the amount of content for its cost and the quality of said content)

The whole argument amounts to "Just take your pellet and shut up. This is as good a deal as you're going to get." Utter nonsense..

I don't think anyone is actually suggesting that, I know I'm not, however one has to understand the difference between criticizing and acting like a whiny spoiled little brat. And for purposes of clarification, 95% of the Internet falls into the latter category, certainly 95% of gamers on the Internet anyway.

I also hate it when people say XX% of the internet/society is stupid/dumb/spoiled/entitled/etc...

1) The numbers are made up
2) It is the height of arrogance to think that a large percentage of everyone who is NOT you is stupid/dumb/spoiled/entitled/etc...

 

[Grivahri]

-true gamer girl
-art
-artistic integrity (said by bioware but still I hate it)
-fail (really don't like the word and how popular it has become)
-hardcore gamer

 

[MagmaMan]

"Liek, wot U doin' heer n00b? This iz for only teh BEST!"

In short, bad grammar and spelling. Any word with bad grammar or spelling.

I also hate when all the "cool kids" online use these stupid new terms they come up with, such as "Beast"

Probably the biggest thing I hate is all the hate comments people make towards Call of Duty. Those people need to realize that we realize they don't like CoD and need to shut the fuck up. I'm SO sick of it.

 

[MagmaMan]

"Graphics are unimportant".

That explains why you are complaining about the current generation of games rather than playing games from the previous generation...

"Depth".

The only thing that's got any depth at all is that hollow skull of yours.

"Dumbed down".

No, YOU are dumb and you should be put down.

I will say that graphics are important but not in the way people think. When someone is told that the graphics make the gameplay and experience awesome they usually think of something such as Crysis where the polygon count and lighting effects are a powerful and advanced as they can be. This is not the case. Look at games such as System Shock 2. This was a low budget PC game from 1999, and yet the graphics aid in the atmosphere just as much as any new game. You don't need the most advanced graphical systems in the world, you need to execute the visuals right.

So much time, money, and processing power is wasted on graphics when it could be spent expanding the scale of games. Less processing power required for graphics means more intelligent A.I., larger scale game spaces, etc. I don't want next generation consoles to have "teh 1337est graphix evar" I want to have games were we can have massive online battles with 2,000 or more players (Such as in Planetside 2) and huge environments and play spaces and A.I. that rely on intelligence to beat you rather then stats.

I'm sure my arguments are pointless though. I doubt we'll be seeing any of this on the next consoles. It will probably be the same games we have now just with "1337-ass" graphics.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Spoiler: Entitled

Never in my life would I have thought that this word would piss me off so much.

Oh yes, the product or service is immune to criticism now. Why? Because if it didn't meet my expectations for the price, I'm acting "entitled" and am therefore wrong by default.

What? WHAT? WHAT KIND OF FUCKING SENSE DOES THAT MAKE?!

This argument is the antithesis to the economic process.
If we're just dismissing the perceived value of a product outright on the basis of avoiding "entitlement", then why bother evaluating the product at all? (this extends to the total value of the product; meaning the amount of content for its cost and the quality of said content)

The whole argument amounts to "Just take your pellet and shut up. This is as good a deal as you're going to get." Utter nonsense..

I don't think anyone is actually suggesting that, I know I'm not, however one has to understand the difference between criticizing and acting like a whiny spoiled little brat. And for purposes of clarification, 95% of the Internet falls into the latter category, certainly 95% of gamers on the Internet anyway.

I also hate it when people say XX% of the internet/society is stupid/dumb/spoiled/entitled/etc...

1) The numbers are made up
2) It is the height of arrogance to think that a large percentage of everyone who is NOT you is stupid/dumb/spoiled/entitled/etc...

Again, I merely meant that to mean 'an alarmingly large percentage/number' and I thought that was painfully clear, but I guess not.

1) I freely admit that I made those numbers up
2) I am not strictly talking about people who are not me. I am merely talking about a particular behavior I find extremely irritating. I wouldn't dare be arrogant enough to presume that I am immune to exibiting such same behavior. In fact I have to constantly watch myself to make sure I don't.

 

[TheSear]

The casual use of the word 'rape' in any video game (by any I obviously mean multiplayer shooters).

 

[Max_A_Buck]

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