The End of Times for Gamers?

[DaneO'Roo]

live ammunition and no seatbelts please, then we've got ourselves a show.

Or take all 12 kiddies to an average quake lan tournament and watch them get peeled.

[Pooky]

Choose your next words carefully. CoD3 and 5 were absolutely awful and anyone who disagrees is as much a gamer as I am a world logsplitting champion.

Fuck you, Nazi Zombies is fun (though it's pretty much all the game is good for).

[p0lar_bear]

I've seen it this way: gaming has always been about escaping reality, doing the normally impossible, and having fun, be them board games, video games, etc. As long as people are doing those things, I don't see where anyone has any right to say that someone is/isn't a gamer.

However, I also agree that people making a big fuss about this kind of shit is retarded. People taking games seriously is where I see a line, and I don't mean the people who ragequit because they're getting their ass kicked in an online game (think about it, wouldn't you get worked up if you failed to do ANYTHING repeatedly, no matter what you tried?), I mean these tournaments and shit, and not necessarily the players either. Televised tournaments? Reality shows? Fuck on off back to MTV and make more shitty Flavor of Love seasons, who cares?

What is wrong with the gaming industry, just like the fucking music industry, is the people who're trying to exploit gamers for their own gain.

[Donut]

wait, so let me get this straight. you have the best of the best at halo 3, computer games (probably an rts of some sort) and classic joystick games, and you call the best all around gamers the people who play rock band? wow.

see, i dont care if you play rock band or guitar hero, thats all well and good. in my opinion, you are not a hard core gamer unless you have a basic grasp of the history, as in youve played games from the old generations, and you have played most, if not all of the genres of games. im getting really sick of these people who pick up the controller when their boyfriends leave for 30 seconds to take a piss, walk into walls in the meantime, then call themselves gamers. same with the people who just pick up a guitar hero game. i dont call that intense gaming, unless maybe they go to national competitions with it.

this though, this is just stupid. the best of the best in the world is not a rockband team. i dont know who this is supposed to target as an audience, but it doesnt make sense

E: oh lol, duh. its not supposed to.

[n00b1n8R]

I love how long term gamers feel the urge to classify other gamers into "hardcore" or "casual" categories, using casual as an insult and then getting all pissy when the casuals take over the media.

Like it actually matters.

[Donut]

its all iv got
it does matter

[n00b1n8R]

Get a life.




Wow did I actually just say that O__o

[Bodzilla]

quiet YOU!

nah i dont mind the tournaments and shit, it's just hte best of the best, and we have these competitions for just about anything, so why not gaming.

when they are elevated to superhuman status, reality TV shows ect and seen as idols is when alarms go off in my head.
Fuck exploitation AND commercialization. it's these i cant stand.

i'm actually very annoyed at google for how much information they've gathered on me, and their ads reflect this. just bleh.
dunno
i dont like it.

[Pooky]

I love how long term gamers feel the urge to classify other gamers into "hardcore" or "casual" categories, using casual as an insult and then getting all pissy when the casuals take over the media.

Like it actually matters.

I don't have any problem with what people classify as 'casual' gamers, but what I do have a problem with is people who have no comprehension of or respect for the history of gaming.

[Rosco]

What the christ? Rockband aint a game for the best of the best. It's the game you pick up to play drunk with your mates.