Hey Facepunch, I'm here in need of a few assistants for a project I'm doing in my English Comp. class for college. Basically, I just need for a few people to answer three questions regarding your own gaming community and your feelings on others':
1. What Gaming Community do you feel you belong to? [B]MMO[/B]? [B]FPS[/B]? [B]Fighter[/B]? [B]Casual[/B]? or [B]Other[/B]?
2. What do you believe is the most [B]positive[/B] aspect of your community? The most [B]negative[/B]? The [B]highlights [/B]of it?
3. How do you feel about the other communities? [B]Positive [/B]or [B]Negative[/B]. Don't be afraid to allow your bias to show through, just be honest.
That's all I can really think of for now, if you have any other good questions to add, feel free to do so.
Thanks
1. Half FPS-Half RPG
2. FPS: Fairly large community, but mostly populated by assholes and little kids.
RPG: Slightly more mature and creative group, can't really think of any negatives
3. I'm sort of confused on how I'm suppose to answer this, all communities have their ups and downs so I don't really hold any strong opinion on any of them
1. Casual - I play games for fun. Play retarded shenanigan shit all day. Minecraft, GMod, Skate 3. All games where you can fuck around and do nonsense.
2. Positive - Mostly mature people that can make nice jokes, and know how to make others laugh. Negative - Some are seriousfags, you usually find some immature/bragging/unhappy individual, and other times people don't come to an agreement. Highlight - You can't stop laughing. It's a giant source of humor and fun..
3. MMOs are full of people that play games seriously, which is kinda rad, and of little kids that never agree with others. FPS is about the same thing, but a bit more children playing, and a little less srsfags. I love Fighter since they don't try to make shit complicated, and pros usually welcome newbies to the game without 'lol ur a noob' talk.
[editline]11th April 2012[/editline]
Can't forget Happy Wheels.
1_) FPS, most definitely, RPGs and MMORPGs are sweet as shit, but they tend to get over-extended into the games and no-life the fuck out. FPSes are better IMO not because of the variations upon the idea - there is almost none to speak of - but rather the ease of use [i]if[/i] you are good at the game.
2_) Exactly what Lolkork said.
3_) Like I said about the RPGs and MMORPGs, but I like all games as long as they aren't shit or childish, like Modumb Warfare (CoD is nice, but Modern Warfare started some shit that shouldn't've been started)
1. FPS
2. There is almost no positives. Whiny little kids to elitist old bastards populate everything, if you're good you're hacking, if you're not your a scrub. It is, however, immensely satisfying getting some friends on one team and using party chat to organize and use teamwork to take down everyone easily.
3. Most gamers outside of FPS games are pretty cool, I would play more RPG's if I had more time, but I like jump in and play games like FPS's.
1. FPS/RPG or maybe Strategy
2. Almost always fun, has a fairly even mix of sensible people and complete dipshits. Except for strategy, most of the people in it are fairly intelligent, but losing them can get frustrating as all hell.
3. Honestly, the group I have to say sucks the most are the FPS players. Little kids going around calling everyone niggers and a whole myriad of other insults is just absurd. My parent would have beat the holy living fuck out of me for even talking like that at 11-14. Though RPG players are pretty cool, great time killer. While FPS games are fun whenever you want to blow shit up.
1.I'm more for survival Horror, fighting, and action adventure games, but ill play anything really (except FPS)
2.the survival horror community is pretty decent actually, until franchises change or try to do something different, and even then, as long as the change isn't too drastic(ie Resident evil 5) its not so bad.
3. Now to be honest, I am extremely dissapointed in the modern gaming community as a whole. So, I try to distance myself from it as much as possible, but from what I've seen there is an over-abundance of disrespectful children and obsessed tech junkies that only want more power and convenience in their consoles and games and hate any company that puts out anything that isn't constantly massaging your eyes. Now, don't get me wrong, there are still good intelligent gamers out there, just not too many of them anymore. To me gaming died in 2005, its just WAY too mainstream.
[QUOTE=Sunny Dei;35530007]1. Half FPS-Half RPG
2. FPS: Fairly large community, but mostly populated by assholes and little kids.
RPG: Slightly more mature and creative group, can't really think of any negatives
3. I'm sort of confused on how I'm suppose to answer this, all communities have their ups and downs so I don't really hold any strong opinion on any of them[/QUOTE]
Same as him.
1. FPS
2. It's easy to get into, but games like Call of Duty give it a bad stereo type.
3. I don't really care what other people play, as long as they don't bash my games.
1. Strategy and Role playing
2. You can always play single player if you suck at a strategy game. The online players will absolutely wreck you shit and then give you tips on how to improve, unlike most players from other genres. (There are some exceptions to that but for the most part, they are pretty nice)
3. Most FPS gamers are the 12 year olds screaming "NOOBS LOL I PWNED YOU"
Most mmo gamers are really cool dudes even though some are selfish and have a holier-than-thou attitude.
Most casual gamers are really friendly and always up for a good time.
I haven't had much experience online with sports and racing games.
1) Adventure and MMO's, preferably if they're FPS. I like military shooters too, but they're getting old.
2) The community is awesome, so long as it's not a competitive game we're talking about. Cod kids is a bad example of the FPS genre.
3) I really don't like JRPG fanbases (for reasons I can't explain without upsetting someone) and FIFA/CoD fans (Doesn't appreciate a good storyline, have rude behaviour).
1. Casual, or none at all. I play a wide variety of games (everything from NFS Shift to Shogun 2 and Peggle), the only actual community I'm with is Facepunch and I don't play games online very much anymore.
2. N/A
3. I try not to care, but I hate the whole PC community in general now and I don't want to be associated with it. It's full of PC master race assholes, and everyone from whiny kids to privelaged and spoilt neckbeards. I really don't care if you play Call of Duty and just that or TF2 and just that, but if I'm going to be sick of you it would be because of your attitudes associated with gaming.
1. Causul (i play everything there casualy)
2. we dont care because we are casual/relaxed
3. each to his own, but if you pick fault at me and my games i will argue you down
1. FPS/Casual; I don't really take any game seriously, but I mostly play FPS.
2. The FPS community is pretty diverse; it's a genre anybody can get into. You can always find somebody fun to play with, whether it's the pro who carries you to victory, the casual who makes you laugh so hard you vomit, or the tactician who can tell you every bug, glitch, and exploit imaginable.
Since it's such a popular genre, FPS is often muddled with the kinds of idiocy you simply don't find in other genres. It's hard to explain, but you will know when you find the right kind of stupidity what I'm talking about.
Again, it's a large playerbase; practically everyone has played an FPS. No matter where you are, you can always chat someone up about an FPS.
3. MLG gets on my nerves no matter the genre; there's nothing professional about video games.
MMO players tend to be way smarter than I am with their tactics and formulas and whatnot. It's a little intimidating at first, but sometimes I get those who can dumb it down a bit for me. Usually they just get mad at my ignorance.
Truly casual players tend to be really great guys, always someone to pal around with every now and then.
1. FPS/MLG, I get all the headshots
2. Headshots, dying, headshots
3. Casual baby scrubs
1. Other. I'm not a fan of one particular genre. I would describe myself as casual, but for the games that I [I]do[/I] play, I tend to get fairly in-depth. I mean, when you're playing World of Warcraft casually (no late-night raiding) but still crack out a spreadsheet and engage in theorycrafting (using rend with fury spec to squeeze out 50 more DPS, lol) to figure out whether to wear leather or plate for warrior DPS, it's hard to categorize yourself. (I'm not an MMO fan, by the way - the only MMOs I've ever played are Guild Wars and WoW, and I haven't played an MMO in over a year now.) If I did have to pick a specific genre to belong to, I would probably say Western RPGs, like Bioware's or Bethesda's games. I also play RTS games, although I'm not any good at them, and I play the occasional FPS, stealth game, or simulation game. Another notable point is that I would probably call myself a PC gamer, because I barely play console games anymore.
2. RPG fans tend to be creative and artistic, and they don't put up with shallow nonsense for the most part (excluding grindy RPGs). Of course, RPG fans also tend to be scary - one quick visit to the Bioware forums can easily demonstrate this. Hardcore RPG fans are meticulous, spending much time crunching numbers and sometimes making fanfic/fanart, and don't take kindly to what they perceive as deviations from a game's "intended vision". They're also a bit xenophobic to other game communities and often stray into pseudo-intellectual territory.
3. Fighting game communities are 10x more xenophobic and esoteric than RPG fans. Hardcore anime fighting game fans are fucking creepy. I think that the current FPS and sports game communities are driving the video game industry as a whole into the same trap that television and movies fell into - appealing largely to the lowest common denominator and trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of gullible customers, who eat it up. I think JRPG fans are kind of gullible too, seeing as 99% of all JRPGs follow the same tired old cliches that Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest started. RTS and horror communities are okay in general - funny, because you'd think the weirdos would flock to horror games, but all sorts of people play them. Action and adventure games are too diverse to lump together into a "community" unit. And I think that indie gamers tend to be very pretentious.[sp]I played Eversion before it was cool :smug:[/sp]
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