Stupid Things People Said About Video Games - General

It doesn't have to be just dumb comments; it can also be really bad ideas people presented. Or even something [i]you[/i] said that you don't agree with anymore. • A cousin of mine said Skyrim was a bad game just because it wasn't a shooter. He even compared Advanced Warfare to it and I still can't forgive him for that. • Another cousin of mine said the same thing, and that the game wasn't that great because "it should have guns :<". • I've heard someone argue for an hour that Half-Life 2 came out in 2006, he kept stretching out the argument because he was trying to find a way to save face. • I think I once suggested an "incendiary scattergun" for the Scout in TF2. Yeah, that wouldn't be game ruining at all. • I've seen another guy on the Steam forums suggest that the Spy have the ability to scare other players so they just stop moving and drop all their weapons. • Remember when the Pyro's backburner was so underpowered that no smart player would use it? Someone on this forum suggested that the Pyro cloak when an enemy looked at him to "balance it out". Your turn.

"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." - John Carmack Depending on where you stand, this may or may not be a stupid quote.

Anything that basically amounts to "GAMING IS DEAD!!!". I once believed you couldn't compare Overwatch and TF2 at all. I still think they're fairly different but saying there isn't any similarities between them is pretty silly. I tried convincing a friend to play smash bros with me once IRL and he stated he didn't want to because he doesn't like "Wii technology". [editline]30th March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=elevate;52034506]"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." - John Carmack Depending on where you stand, this may or may not be a stupid quote.[/QUOTE] IMO it really depends on what kind of game you are trying to make.

[QUOTE=Clovis;52034585]Basically people who initially disliked Sunshine. It is a very legit mario game, always was, always will be [editline]30th March 2017[/editline] yeah but the context validates this statement, its said by someone who made himself by making a fun game that didnt need a story, and if i assume correct probably said at a time where it was totally true back when video games werent really supposed to carry epic storytelling oh and theres also all these indie games out lately that actually have virtually no story at all. a story can be important if it wants to be but games dont need stories, theyre video games[/QUOTE] It's a quote from ~2003. I don't think was really fair then either. Sure, many games don't need a story. Often it isn't important. But suggesting that this applies generally to all games (which it really looks like he's doing as far as I can tell) just isn't fair at all. I mean shit the entire genre of adventure games would be worthless without story. Many games DO need a story, and wouldn't be interesting at all without them.

[QUOTE=MacD11;52034513]Anything that basically amounts to "GAMING IS DEAD!!!". I once believed you couldn't compare Overwatch and TF2 at all. I still think they're fairly different but saying there isn't any similarities between them is pretty silly.[/QUOTE] When people go "There are differences, therefore they're not the same!" Overwatch and Team Fortress 2 are obviously different games, but there are similarities.

[QUOTE=elevate;52034506]"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." - John Carmack[/QUOTE] How I felt about Doom 3.

Anytime anyone shits on people just because they play games on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, or god forbid, mobile devices. Eg people who continue to unironically spout that PC Master Race stuff. How people want to play their games, and which games they want to play, is up to them. Get over it.

Looking down on people because their accounts are f2p.

[QUOTE=BF;52035303]Anytime anyone shits on people just because they play games on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, or god forbid, mobile devices. Eg people who continue to unironically spout that PC Master Race stuff. How people want to play their games, and which games they want to play, is up to them. Get over it.[/QUOTE] a "friend" of mine in high school actually mocked me for being poor since I didn't have a top of the line computer and "only" had a modded prebuilt with a 660. Spec shaming is honestly the shittiest thing

Whenever people act like graphics in a video game is THE most important part, people shitting on consoles like the Nintendo Switch because its graphics is "shit", etc... Not saying that it is okay to have completely shit graphics either but I thought the most important part of a video game is for it to be fun???

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;52034674]It's a quote from ~2003. I don't think was really fair then either. Sure, many games don't need a story. Often it isn't important. But suggesting that this applies generally to all games (which it really looks like he's doing as far as I can tell) just isn't fair at all. I mean shit the entire genre of adventure games would be worthless without story. Many games DO need a story, and wouldn't be interesting at all without them.[/QUOTE] I think what Carmack was trying to say is, that games should be fun to play first and telling a good story second. There are games, where the story makes up a larger part of the appeal, but if the game isn't mechanically fun to play, it will be dragged down regardless.

World Of Warcraft/non MMO post SNES Final Fantasy/Halo/etc is the only MMO/JRPG/FPS/etc worth playing because its the most popular. Said by a friend of mine who was always one to follow the hive mind. Pretty much: your personal taste doesn't matter, you should just do what everyone else is doing.

"I like unskippable cutscenes!"

"You think you do, but you don't"

"I'd never get VAC banned, because I'd spam every Valve email until they disabled it."

[QUOTE=Sheer Visor;52036431]"You think you do, but you don't"[/QUOTE] This evokes equal amounts of rage in me as when people post the kid whose family hijacks his computer. It is one of the most arrogant things I have ever heard.

"That wasn't fair, it was just powergame" The vast majority of times I hear this word used, it's by someone who was outsmarted or outmaneuvered by a better player and can't come to terms with it. It's like the videogame community equivalent of that one kid who goes "NUH-UH YOU DIDN'T TAG ME, I HAVE A FORCEFIELD!"

[QUOTE=Metaru;52035489]Looking down on people because their accounts are f2p.[/QUOTE] The other day I was playing TF2 as a Sniper on 2fort (don't judge), and I kept killing this guy who got pissed off at me and was calling me a f2p because I was wearing a Gibus. I have 2.5K hours logged into this game and have a [i]very[/i] premium account.

People who are talking shit or just spout negative things about videogames that they haven't played themselves can fuck off. /v/ for example. It's okay when you have seen lots of gameplay and that it's not your cup of tea but there are too many who just "shit" on a game in the most negative ways possible instead of just expressing it formally.

Had an argument with a family member a few days ago about video games making people violent to quote - "it only takes one guy to look at that and go 'hey I'll try shooting someone in real life' and then they go shoot someone cause they think it will be fun" He also said when I mentioned Australia's censorship issue that its good because "they don't want to be responsible for when someone goes and kills someone" The "video games make people violent" people get me so frustrated, partly cause I'm taking a Games Design course at College and it just ends up sounding like "you are gonna be directly responsible for making people commit murder"

[QUOTE=The Drones;52037335]Had an argument with a family member a few days ago about video games making people violent to quote - "it only takes one guy to look at that and go 'hey I'll try shooting someone in real life' and then they go shoot someone cause they think it will be fun" He also said when I mentioned Australia's censorship issue that its good because "they don't want to be responsible for when someone goes and kills someone" The "video games make people violent" people get me so frustrated, partly cause I'm taking a Games Design course at College and it just ends up sounding like "you are gonna be directly responsible for making people commit murder"[/QUOTE] Those people really are dumb. But only because they don't want to look further into the issue. We've had so many political debates here in Germany in the past 15 years that even the most elder people here now kind of understand or at least don't exactly believe this kind of thing anymore. They are even annoyed at every time a new discussion of this kind appears. On the other hand, there are still the ones that don't want to be proven otherwise. I always bring up the arguments: Remember when people thought masturbating would make someone blind and how parents slapped the shit out of their kids if they did it? Or how rock music was Satan worshiping? What frustrates me the most about it is that the actual issues are always ignored. Exceptions are like zero. Nobody looks into cases of young gunmen and how they were bullied at school every day because those are issues that should be resolved but can't because it would require such humongous resources and changes in society that it can never be achieved. So they just say: "Yup, vydia gaems". Additionally, access to guns of said gunmen, refusal of help by other people in the people's environment. Stuff like that also gets ignored.

My dad thinks that any game that isn't "realistic" is dumb

Battlefield vs. Call of Duty discussions. Honestly, it's always 12 years old or stupid people who never ever seem to understand that they're completely different. Battlefield has open worlds and focuses more on large-team scale things. It's not about individual players, but more about the whole team overall. Guns are different and usually kill you rather quick, you've got squads and vehicles to take over the map. Call of Duty is more of an arcade type game with focus on smaller teams. It's more about individual players, that's why you get lots of customization, kill cams, final kill cams. Guns have lots of perks and things attached to them, there isn't squad actions and maps are more "arena-like" as they're meant for you to go around killing players (unlike BF maps which seem to be more about traveling with vehicles and using areas to your advantage). In Battlefield games can take a fuckton of time and has a deeper learning curve so you can't just pick it up and play. CoD games are easy to pick up and matches last only a few minutes. You can just hop in and play with little to no issue.

Everyone who just can't accept that PC hardware grows stronger in time and consoles remain pretty stagnant like this is just retardo logic [editline]31st March 2017[/editline] Nothing wrong with consoles, but like laptops they have to carry great sacrifices in order to be both cost effective + small in size Just look at the cost of any 1080ti sli Laptop VS a desktop. Same fucking thing happens to consoles, only in their case is less size and more cost effectiveness.

People who outright say DLC/Expansions are a bad thing and refuse to get anything related to it even if it does do the game good. In reality it can be good, there's just a lot of bad examples of it. I feel like those are the types of people who are stuck in the past.

[QUOTE=Zadrave;52038768]People who outright say DLC is a bad thing and refuse to get anything related to it even if it does do the game good. In reality it can be good, there's just a lot of bad examples of it. I feel like those are the types of people who are stuck in the past.[/QUOTE] Dark Souls, Witcher 3, Talos Principle, good DLC Most military shooters? shit dlc [editline]31st March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Brobattington;52037095]The other day I was playing TF2 as a Sniper on 2fort (don't judge), and I kept killing this guy who got pissed off at me and was calling me a f2p because I was wearing a Gibus. I have 2.5K hours logged into this game and have a [i]very[/i] premium account.[/QUOTE] the f2p hate in tf2 is the most pathetic thing its almost not funny like its just outright thigh slapping funny yet deeply sad

Every single person that say video games is tool of satan. Usually,they always say "Gta make kid violent". First,clearly its for 18+ not a goddamn 12 years old. Second,i can differentiate between reality and fiction. Third,piss off.

"Aren't you a little old to be playing games?"

I played GTA III when I was like six years old and it never really affected me growing up. I'm a perfectly sane and normal person.

"internet is slow must be because my relative have 5 games installed in this computer"