If there's a faster way to nullify every post you make, I haven't found it. People who complain about "entitled gamers" are invariably the worst posters on GAF.
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What's the gaming word you hate the most and why?
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Easily "toon" for me. I cannot even begin to express how angry and annoyed this term makes me. "Char" is the same number of letters, and makes a lot more sense as a shorthand term to refer to your character(s) in a game. Also, people who say "toon" allowed instead of "character" (or some other equally applicable term) fucking infuriate me.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
"Saving" a franchise that sells well... It makes no sense.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
"Content"
It makes every aspect of a game a bulk good, bereft of actual quality or emotional worth. It is overused, misused, and abused more than any other, and it makes people who use it sound like PR mouthpieces. Get a fucking thesaurus!!!
It makes every aspect of a game a bulk good, bereft of actual quality or emotional worth. It is overused, misused, and abused more than any other, and it makes people who use it sound like PR mouthpieces. Get a fucking thesaurus!!!
wondermega
Member
free-roaming
reboot
using as verbs:
platinumed
day one
reboot
using as verbs:
platinumed
day one
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Aesthetics- One of the "big" words gamers like throw around on message boards to try and sound all smart.
Supermanisdead
Member
This 100%. Waggle is the single worst gaming term of all time. Anytime someone says waggle, I skip the rest of the post/article.
LOL
ZeroGravity
Member
Waggle
Echoing the people who said this one. People who use this were either threatened by the Wii (for whatever bizarre reason) and latched onto it as a way to offhandedly dismiss any Wii game without valid criticism, or they simply refused to commit to learning how some Wii games controlled instead of simply flailing around for a few minutes before writing off the game's controls as bad. Or they're just plain incompetent. Any of the above work for me.
Echoing the people who said this one. People who use this were either threatened by the Wii (for whatever bizarre reason) and latched onto it as a way to offhandedly dismiss any Wii game without valid criticism, or they simply refused to commit to learning how some Wii games controlled instead of simply flailing around for a few minutes before writing off the game's controls as bad. Or they're just plain incompetent. Any of the above work for me.
TheLucifer
Member
Free-to-play. Because it's not free, it's freemium. I don't care if I can download the first hour of the game for free if I can't progress in the game without paying sooner or later.
Also this.
The visual trend is definitely an annoying one, but I'm mostly just talking about the interchangeable use of the words "retro" and "old". "Retro", even by that definition above (though not by the example given, lol), is referring to the design of the item, not the item itself. Something can only be retro if it's imitating the old, not simply by being old.
Calling Gradius "retro", for example, would suggest that there was an even older (older than the mid 80s) era of horizontal STGs with Gradius-like traits (stages that span multiple screens vertically, unique bosses, complex powerups, etc), and that Gradius was a throwback to that era.
we.are.the.armada
Member
This is interesting to me. I've met a lot of MMORPG players, particularly the veteran ones (I suppose so), that refer to their characters as toons. Why does it make you so angry and annoyed?
Gameplay.
Fuck that word to death, it's a vague term that a lot of people will gleefully use as a cudgel in any sort of argument without ever actually explaining just what the fuck they mean by it. It doesn't mean anything by itself, it's too fucking broad, but people will gladly weild it clumsily as though they are somehow making a point.
Entitlement is the worst word in the world at large though.
Fuck that word to death, it's a vague term that a lot of people will gleefully use as a cudgel in any sort of argument without ever actually explaining just what the fuck they mean by it. It doesn't mean anything by itself, it's too fucking broad, but people will gladly weild it clumsily as though they are somehow making a point.
Entitlement is the worst word in the world at large though.
To be fair it doesn't help my opinion of motion controls on the Wii when my first experience was watching someone play golf like they were throwing a baseball.
boiled goose
good with gravy
'True Gamer'
Hahahahahaha
Hahahahahaha
R_thanatos
Member
COD crowd
i don't hate the COD players , but i Hate the devs that feel like everything should appeal to them rather than staying true to their original fans.
Every time i see A dev or producer or executive saying that they made change only to appeal to them i get Angry.
i don't hate the COD players , but i Hate the devs that feel like everything should appeal to them rather than staying true to their original fans.
Every time i see A dev or producer or executive saying that they made change only to appeal to them i get Angry.
d00d3n
Member
"Intellectual property": A business/marketing word that has no use in serious discussions about games. Uses range from self-congratulatory PR statements to repression of civil liberties on the Internet. Frequent use of the word by a games journalist denotes low intelligence and/or disinterest in game criticism.
People say it to describe how gamers feel entitled to certain things.
Such as:
1. We deserve a good sequel to "x" game
2. We deserve a proper PC port with full Steamworks support.
3. We deserve dedicated servers.
4. This game doesn't have multiplayer so it should be $40 instead of $60.
5. We deserve an HD collection of "x" series.
6. Platform A got this DLC, we deserve this DLC on Platform B.
7. The DLC was on the disc, we deserve the have it unlocked for free.
Someone will say something along those lines and then people will call them "entitled" and remind them that the developer doesn't owe them anything. This really seems to bother people on GAF.
What bothers me with regard to the use of entitlement on gaf is when it's misapplied to those who want things as opposed to those who feel they are owed things. Or even better, I remember someone calling people entitled for taking advantage of Amazon's offer on returning Mass Effect 3. You are acting entitled because you are taking advantage of an offer freely given by a retailer. Cmon.
Oh. Right. I've never come across that. It would probably annoy me too.
There's a bunch of other annoying ones (entitlement isn't really a gaming word but it's still annoying when used wrong) like AAA, but if I was to pick one then without a doubt it'd be JRPG for me. Can't stand that term. It's used way more in a derogative sense than a positive one, and always reminds me of those people who can't go a week without posting the same old thread about how "the Japanese games industry is dying" as if it's some kind of undeniable fact. Even more priceless are the people who use it because they're convinced anything out of Japan isn't a "real" RPG somehow. Feel free to split genres by how they actually play (action RPG, turn-based RPG, etc - although the concept of a 'real' RPG is obnoxious either way) but the idea that RPGs alone have to be labelled by the country they came from and nothing else, and then broadly dismissed as a result, is just dumb.
Only useful thing about it is it lets me ignore every thread with it in the title and probably avoid a whole load of stupidity.
Only useful thing about it is it lets me ignore every thread with it in the title and probably avoid a whole load of stupidity.
To be fair, they sound quite similar in many dialects of English, and it's only a conjugation error. It's not nearly as painful as "all intensive purposes", my favorite example of syllabic idiom masquerading as grammar.
Whole thing really started with half ass game journos slapping that word on anyone who was vocally disagreeing about the ME3 ending. At least that's when I saw it being used a lot.
Slappers Only
Junior Member
So hard to pick just one, but I'll go with:
Free.
Fuck free.
Free.
Fuck free.
SafeinSound
Member
Not even a real word but: pwned. Drives me up a wall when I hear people say it or spell it. My girlfriend said it one time...ugh.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
Entitlement, and the corporate apologist assholes who use it in their strawman arguments.
Do people do that? I've never seen it used and if it wasn't for this topic and I would see people use that word, I wouldn't know what they were talking about. Same goes for 'vanilla', which at first I thought was the easiest gameplay mode in a game....
BrokenEchelon
Banned
There's realities of business and then there's calling strangers on the internet "entitled kids" for pointing out that there's something very wrong about how this industry has been treating its customers for the last five years, if not longer.