Most gamers I know aren't real gamers. They only play games like Halo or CoD and that's all they know. By real gamer I would assume someone who has played a lot of genre's and is basically what I'd call pro not a person who plays Halo because it's a "cool" game to play.
Oh, right. Can't forget the kids who play Halo 3 and call themselves MLG pros just because they're hotwith a Battle Rifle and nothing else, and whine and complain if they can't get a Battle Rifle or if someone is using something other than one. Y'know, because those other weapons are n00b weapons and they aren't meant to be used.
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Screw weapons, use your fist and grenades. This is also why I am pretty dodgy at Halo. i do that, or camp, because I am a pussy.
Bwahaha, sounds like meOriginally Posted by Jiro
There is definitely a demographic out there I just don't understand. There are people willing to drop $600 on a console and then just buy 2-3 sports games on it... ever. I have seen this with my own eyes more than once. Of course even $300 on a console seems too much for that type of waste. The same goes for those who only have a very small collection of (generally WWII themed) FPSs.
I'm just not physically around this type of person enough to get them (and god knows they're probably the types of douchenuggets who wouldn't be caught dead on the internet when they could be out "slayin' b**ches"). If all other gaming is of no interest to you, then why is it cool to play sports games? It would seem these types of epically casual and wouldn't have time to sit down and play through a season of anything.
On the other hand, EA makes a frackton selling the latest madden every year. I guess the people who don't get enough after paying $150/mo. for NFL Sunday Ticket still need sports games on the side? You wouldn't think the demographic would be big enough for companies to put so much into it.
I guess who am I to call them on it if they have the money though.
smurf y'all haterz the Battle Rifle is better than sex.
I'm not really a fan of people who call themselves "gamers". I also like to watch movies but I don't call myself a "movier" or whatever. It's just asking for it, really.
I'm a movie goer
To be fair, there is a reason for the label. By default all people are "moviers." Who the hell doesn't watch movies? The pretentious ones might call themselves film buffs.
Not everyone does play games. While the term gamer is probably far too all inclusive, there is a pretty solid dichotomy between people who play games and people who absolutely don't whereas there is no such group of people who don't watch movies.
Those weren't gamers, those were Wii gamers :P
Now who is stereotyping?
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Normally I would disagree, but one of them asked me if I pre-ordered. I said no and explained that not only does it seem pointless (there are always enough copies on the shelves of the other stores in the morning so why tie yourself down?) but I've had luck at Wal-mart before because often games that don't have midnight release parties at Gamestop can still be picked up at midnight in Wal-mart.
Then I made the reference "...like Modern Warfare 2," and all I received was a blank stare. The same guy who is all abuzz about Mario Galaxy 2 (which you almost exclusively would have to hang on the internet to be privy to) seemed to have never heard of MW2 despite the gigantic case right behind him with at least 50 copies of the game.
I wasn't interested in MW2, but if you're a "gamer" what the hell kind of rock do you have to live under to be completely unaware of it?
I only stereotype when its funny
I figured as much... it just happened to be inadvertently apt.I only stereotype when its funny
Yeah, I have a lot of friends, especially female ones, who are gamers. Now one of them is much more hardcore than the other, but we'll go into Gamebuzz or EB Games (EB being the Canadian version of Gamestop) all the time. I rarely go to a department store to buy games, unless I am back home at my parents' where that's the only place you can get them.
Great thing about Gamebuzz is that they have all the obscure JPRGs. EB Games didn't even have Person 3 (& FES) or Persona 4. :/
I know you both were but its fun to call you out and I'm boredI only stereotype when its funny
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