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What is the most annoying type of gamer?

What is the most annoying type of gamer?

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nkarafo said:
That's an odd thing to complain about. Like, what's wrong about wanting to be able to play any game you bought at any time without worrying about any dependency other than a working system and electricity?
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They always complain about HDD space, game key cards, Blu ray discs without full data like they don't have internet, yet they spend all day complaining about it on the internet.
 
ShadyAcshuns said:
They always complain about HDD space, game key cards, Blu ray discs without full data like they don't have internet, yet they spend all day complaining about it on the internet.
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Oh, i must admit i haven't seen many of those you mention. Most of the people i have seen complain about lack of control and ownership (including me) and draconian DRM methods that can render games unusable if for any reason the authentication server is offline.
 
The "i suck at games so all skilled players must be children without responsibilities or unemployed adults with infinite time" gamer should also be in the list.
 
nkarafo said:
Oh, i must admit i haven't seen many of those you mention. Most of the people i have seen complain about lack of control and ownership (including me) and draconian DRM methods that can render games unusable if for any reason the authentication server is offline.
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Legit. I was mostly talking about the gamer who focuses too much about media formats. They hate people who game digitally, or they hate gamers who game on physical etc. I mean who cares? So annoying.
 
These are the ones you can throw into a volcano:

The "Photo Realistic Only" Gamer | The "Frame Rate Better Be Stable and over 60" Gamer | The "Streamer Slop" Gamer | The "eGirl" Gamer
 
The streamers. Some of them are the most self righteous fuck to exist yet, dumbasses and game companies will support them monetarily 😂 lmao
 
The "Nobody asked for this" gamer.

The "Saturated market" gamer.

The "DOA based on a CGI trailer" gamer.

Those 3 keep me up at night.
 
Hey, my top 3 are the actual top 3 of the votes:
  1. "All Modern Games Suck" gamer is just telling me their genre tastes are narrow, and/or they only consume AAA shit.
  2. "Every Game is Political" gamer is a loser who just wants their politics to subsume every other worldview, they usually play narrative slop games that have no gameplay depth...and I'd love to see the argument of how tetris is political.
  3. "Master Race/Consoles Warrior" gamer is probably in 3rd, because they're just a dying breed of people to laugh at in the age of nearly everything being multi-platform.
Tourists that want to change the hobby to suit their own particular tastes all the time, I'd also throw in if that could be a type.
 
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Probably the gamer who seems to trawl the internet everyday as a nonpaid fulltime job, in order to find any negative angle about systems he does not like.

Then make a negative thread on neogaf about it, while pretending that the sky is falling.
 
buenoblue said:
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I mean, she is probably as untalented as phil but at least she is good looking :lollipop_squinting:
 
The "I am satisfied with poop so you should be to" gamer.

Nothing worse than people having no standard and enforcing their opinion on others.
 
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The fact that someone considers this "The "Frame Rate Better Be Stable and over 60" Gamer" annoying is just sad. The audacity of wanting your game to run smooth! Gaf is truly the place of all places.
 
The Cockatrice said:
The fact that someone considers this "The "Frame Rate Better Be Stable and over 60" Gamer" annoying is just sad. The audacity of wanting your game to run smooth! Gaf is truly the place of all places.
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It's because we played with 30 fps for many years so saying that you don't buy a game because it doesn't have a 60 fps mode sound a bit elitist.

Also hypocracy, all the 30 fps haters are gonna buy gta6 en masse, you know it, i know it.

And if they are REALLY so anal about framerates, they should just build a pc.

I don't have a race in this horse since i play everything on pc so framerate is never a problem but i was offering the point of view of people who hate the 60 fps elitist.
 
GymWolf said:
It's because we played with 30 fps
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Due to limitations, not because it was "artistic" or "better" and that was just on consoles. The point was, that wanting a smooth experience is not annoying, like at all, nor elitists. It's like asking to replace your mcdonalds with fancy restaurant food and someone calls you a snob for it.
 
The Cockatrice said:
Due to limitations, not because it was "artistic" or "better" and that was just on consoles. The point was, that wanting a smooth experience is not annoying, like at all, nor elitists. It's like asking to replace your mcdonalds with fancy restaurant food and someone calls you a snob for it.
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We have limitation today aswell, consoles are not these 2000 dollars machine disguised as cheap 500 dollars boxes...

I think any dev ideally would have a perf mode on their game to boost sells, don't you think?

When you buy a console you have to be ready to have compromises compared to a pc, it has always been like this but this gen console makers fooled people into thinking that cheap 500 dollars boxes from 2020 have bottomless power...
 
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GymWolf said:
It's because we played with 30 fps for many years so saying that you don't buy a game because it doesn't have a 60 fps mode sound a bit elitist.

Also hypocracy, all the 30 fps haters are gonna buy gta6 en masse, you know it, i know it.

And if they are REALLY so anal about framerates, they should just build a pc.

I don't have a race in this horse since i play everything on pc so framerate is never a problem but i was offering the point of view of people who hate the 60 fps elitist.
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On 8 and 16 bits console we played pretty much everything in 60fps.
Then 3D came and we still played stuff in 60fps (fighters, 2D games) and 30fps for more complex 3D games. But we played on CRT. And 30fps on CRT is a much better experience than on any modern display.
Then came the Dreamcast, GC and Xbox. And these were still CRT experiences, and more games were 60fps.

So I don't consider I played 30fps for many years, actually I haven't. Because as soon as we moved on to LCD, 30fps became an absolute pain and this is when the problem arose.
And nowadays, I would say that for any game with fast scrolling/free camera, 30fps + modern display has become unplayable as far as I am concerned.

People can build a PC, but you don't have too. There are plenty of perfectly playable games on consoles in 60fps.
 
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Lambogenie said:
What about the "Im not reading OP's essay" gamers? Or "Stays on GAF. Plays nothing Gamer? I may or may not be one of these... or both!
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I got about 30+ years of good, honest, hard nosed gaming behind me, across many platforms, longer than a lot of games journalists have been alive. That's a long time to think about games.

I could do nothing but shitpost on Gaf for a year straight, not touch a single game, and I'll still have some meaningful feedback based on vibes alone. Lots of guys like that around, man.
 
cireza said:
On 8 and 16 bits console we played pretty much everything in 60fps.
Then 3D came and we still played stuff in 60fps (fighters, 2D games) and 30fps for more complex 3D games. But we played on CRT. And 30fps on CRT is a much better experience than on any modern display.
Then came the Dreamcast, GC and Xbox. And these were still CRT experiences, and more games were 60fps.

So I don't consider I played 30fps for many years, actually I haven't. Because as soon as we moved on to LCD, 30fps became an absolute pain and this is when the problem arose.
And nowadays, I would say that for any game with fast scrolling/free camera, 30fps + modern display has become unplayable as far as I am concerned.

People can build a PC, but you don't have too. There are plenty of perfectly playable games on consoles in 60fps.
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The problem arise when you don't get 60 fps on console, if every game was at 60 we would not have the 60fps elitists.

And again, i'm playing devil advicate here, i play on pc so 60+ fps is the norm for me, but when gta6 is gonna release and it's gonna be console only and 30 fps, i'm not gonna cry because i understand that the game is gonna be beyond ambitious and these are still cheap 500 dollars boxes from 6 years ago and they can only do that much.
 
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GymWolf said:
We have limitation today aswell, consoles are not these 2000 dollars machine disguised as cheap 500 dollars boxes...

I think any dev ideally would have a perf mode on their game to boost sells, don't you think?

When you buy a console you have to be ready to have compromises compared to a pc, it has always been like this but this gen console makers fooled people into thinking that cheap 500 dollars boxes from 2020 have bottomless power...
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Sure, consoles arent super powerful, but time and time again consoles have received games that looked and ran smoothly, even on hardware like switch 2. Unoptimized turds like games running on UE5 are not an excuse, but we're moving from my main point. I still dont think wanting a better experience is annoying.
 
The Cockatrice said:
Sure, consoles arent super powerful, but time and time again consoles have received games that looked and ran smoothly, even on hardware like switch 2. Unoptimized turds like games running on UE5 are not an excuse, but we're moving from my main point. I still dont think wanting a better experience is annoying.
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I think that many things on that list are ok tbh.
 
rodrigolfp said:
Cheater counts??
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I think thats the only right answer, all the other types of "gamers" are ppl that dont lower enjoyment when u play ur game, here with guy hacking/cheating he literally makes it unfun to play multiplayer both with and against him.
 
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Whoever is spending all this money on games like Roblox and Fortnight. I can't really blame companies like Sony too much. If something like Roblox with the graphics quality of the PS1 is immensely popular then why keep Bluepoint that essentially focuses on making older titles look better.
 
nkarafo said:
This list looks like it was made by someone who only plays modern and mainstream games :messenger_winking_tongue:

Where's the "It hasn't aged well" gamer? Where's the "This old game sucks, you only like it because of your nostalgia glasses" gamer? Where's the "[insert classic franchise] games were always bad" gamer?
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Found the "all new games suck" type of gamer
 
"Modern Games Suck" gamer is the worst. There are plenty of good games coming up every year. This type of gamer just prove they have limited taste and should broad their horizons.
 
awwr999999 said:
While most people play video games only around 10% of people who play video games self-identify as 'gamers'.
It's on par with the 10% of people who drink/drug/gamble self-identifying as drunk/junky/gambler.
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If we're getting specific, I'd say the "every game is political" crowd deserves to be skinned alive with a dull machete.
 
GymWolf said:
It's because we played with 30 fps for many years so saying that you don't buy a game because it doesn't have a 60 fps mode sound a bit elitist.

Also hypocracy, all the 30 fps haters are gonna buy gta6 en masse, you know it, i know it.

And if they are REALLY so anal about framerates, they should just build a pc.

I don't have a race in this horse since i play everything on pc so framerate is never a problem but i was offering the point of view of people who hate the 60 fps elitist.
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98% of PS5 games have a 60fps mode. The companies have all the data on what gamers choose and it's obvious they choose 60fps. It's a settled issue. Gamers have clearly stated their preference and devs have accomodated.

Yes the "erm akshully it hits 59.7fps for .12 frames if you swing the camera next to a bunch of smoke right here" people are annoying but that's not what we are talking about.
 
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