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[Hellraizah]

Mine? Backlog.

I seriously hate that word.

Why? People using it are making me feel like gaming is a chore and that you accumulate games that you must find time in your schedule to play, painfully. It also makes me remember that I hate the modern state of gaming where a game almost always gotta have a "start" and a "finish". Growing up playing arcade games, I prefer games where you have to beat your high score or become better than another player.

What's yours?

 

[hatchx]

Dudebro

 

[Khrno]

Casual/Hardcore

 

[fernoca]

Hardcore.

Why?
The sense of superiority associated with it.
(Hardcore games = better, hardcore gamers = know more/better)

 

[Aeana]

Archaic. People often are unable to accept that they don't like something, so they find reasons to excuse that instead of just accepting it, and if that particular thing has been around for a while, they just toss that word on there to make themselves feel better.

 

[clemenx]

Casual/Hardcore

THis, so much.

 

[Yoshichan]

Rage

edit: that's right, it came from gaming.

 

[Karsticles]

Mine? Backlog.

I seriously hate that word.

Why? People using it are making me feel like gaming is a chore and that you accumulate games that you must find time in your schedule to play, painfully. It also makes me remember that I hate the modern state of gaming where a game almost always gotta have a "start" and a "finish". Growing up playing arcade games, I prefer games where you have to beat your high score or become better than another player.

What's yours?

I think we share that perspective.

 

[Vigilance]

Visceral

 

[JAVK]

.

 

[Cheesemeister]

"Current gen" sounds really stupid. It's a kludge of a term that's only used in absence of anything else to contrast with "next gen."

 

[secretanchitman]

ironically, i hate the word gamer. i just hate being called one. im a person who likes to play video games. i dont get paid to play, i play for fun.

 

[AwesomeDan]

Entitlement/Entitled.

 

[Payrus]

pwned being pronounced as powned or pooned or any variation with the p sound. ITS PRONOUNCED OWNED.

Entitlement/Entitled.

QFT

 

[TheNatural]

All the cliches used constantly:

- killer app (sounds like an awesome late 90's free prog man!)
- AAA title (whats an AA title? or an A? is this bond ratings or videogames)
- "hold a candle to" (you don't even know what it means, and no one holds a candle to anything)
- "selling like hotcakes" (never seen people line up at McDonald's to buy some)

I'm probably missing a few, but it would be great if all these were banned from everyone's vocabulary.

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

"Epic"

Not because of the word itself; when used appropriately, I feel like it can act as a wonderful adjective, and bring a sense of scale and awe to a game, action, cut scene, or plot development. But it's just way too overused in this industry, and because of that, its power in our everyday language is watered down. Thus, when a reviewer or fellow hobbyist uses the word, I can never tell if they story they're sharing is truly epic, or if it's just typical hyperbole that gets sprinkled around too often.

 

[cosmicblizzard]

Archaic. People often are unable to accept that they don't like something, so they find reasons to excuse that instead of just accepting it, and if that particular thing has been around for a while, they just toss that word on there to make themselves feel better.

I'll 2nd this.

 

[SaberVulcan]

"PWN"

Is it "pawn"? Is it "pown"? Does it matter? No, some jackoff mispelt own and it became a real thing and I hate it.

 

[ffdgh]

Casual/Hardcore

going with this

 

[Fracas]

ironically, i hate the word gamer. i just hate being called one. im a person who likes to play video games. i dont get paid to play, i play for fun.

I completely agree

 

[RomanticHeroX]

I hate it when people talk about rolling a character unless actual dice rolls, real or virtual, are involved. You don't roll a character in WoW, for example.

 

[Mr. B Natural]

"Epic"

Killing the industry (economically, creatively and so on). Killed art because art isn't epic enough. Killing any form of a palate for "consumers" of the gaming industry and movie industry at the same time. There is nothing left but "epic." And the harder we try to reach this word, the dumber and more pathetic/childish we get.

 

[Furianshi]

"Clocked" ... not as common these days, but I still occasionally hear it.

 

[Dead Man Typing]

Grind.

Just brings to mind many failed attempts at playing JRPGs and the current trend of people copying Call of Duty's reward system.

Farming, is a similar one. I hate the idea of people playing a game a certain way just to improve a particular stat or achieve a certain goal and turning the game into something the developers never intended it to be.

 

[minor effort]

Neither shmup nor shoot 'em up should be used by respectable individuals in polite society.

 

[NBtoaster]

Dudebro

Yes

 

[djplaeskool]

Archaic. People often are unable to accept that they don't like something, so they find reasons to excuse that instead of just accepting it, and if that particular thing has been around for a while, they just toss that word on there to make themselves feel better.

^ This.

 

[ultron87]

Dudebro

Yeah. It doesn't really mean anything anymore and is really just an attempt to conflate mainstream trends in gaming with a social group that is generally disliked by the core audience.

 

[.GqueB.]

Immersive. I'm not even sure people know what it means and why they even use it anymore. Backlog is another one though.

 

[Lingitiz]

EPIC (not the company).

 

[Laughing Banana]

"Hardcore" and in GAF, "Master Race"

Yes yes the latter is 'just a joke' but that does not mean it is not stupid.

 

[Hellraizah]

Grind.

Just brings to mind many failed attempts at playing JRPGs and the current trend of people copying Call of Duty's reward system.

Farming, is a similar one. I hate the idea of people playing a game a certain way just to improve a particular stat or achieve a certain goal and turning the game into something the developers never intended it to be.

This.

Grinding is a plague to gaming. It rewards losers who just have more time to waste instead of rewarding skills. I also hate that word.

 

[cyborg009]

Elitist nothing is truly that superior to another

 

[aaaaaa]

THAC0

 

[BobJustBob]

"Immersion." It is used to mean a hundred different things and all of them are dumb.

 

[Duke Togo]

"Zelda"

Because every time we talk about it, everybody goes full retard on both sides of the coin.

 

[Zwei]

Campaign

 

[ReaperXL7]

Well this is more from MMOs than from gaming in general, although it's crept into the mass more the past few years. I hate the word "Toon" when describing characters in video games, I don't really know why but it's just always rubbed me the wrong way.

I also hate the term "Accesible" when it comes to gaming, because more often then not it's coming from an RPG developer, and it really just means that they are dumbing it down to appease people who likely won't care anyway, There are always exceptions of course, but this is the way it seems the term is used by developers in my experiences.

 

[NullPointer]

Generic

Used often on GAF, and usually with no further details. Its utterly meaningless.

If you're going to use the term at least take the time to spell out what you mean. Please.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Innovation.

Highly overrated.

I rather go for "if it ain't broke..."

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Gamer

I hate classifying people into groups. Theres no positive correlations, it just exacerbates the worst aspects.

 

[Seda]

Innovative.

 

[creid]

"Draconian." I get the feeling most people don't know what the word is or how to use it, they just know they HAVE TO stick it in front of "DRM" no matter what the DRM is like.

 

[Snakeyes]

"It's Nintendo."

 

[Derrick01]

Streamlined (and all of the words and phrases equal to it like "accessible" and "broadening the audience"). As soon as a dev says that they're telling me their game will be a dumbed down piece of shit not worth playing. It's instant death of a game to me.

Entitlement/Entitled.

That's a good one too. In the last month a large number of Gaffers and the gaming media have made me loathe that word with their constant incorrect use of it.

 

[DiscoJer]

"Toon" when referring to a character in an RPG

 

[Mr. B Natural]

Innovation.

Highly overrated.

I rather go for "if it ain't broke..."

I'll put "if it ain't broke..." on my list because games, movies, books and anything without a practical purpose should not have the same standards as things that do. In other words, movies aren't refrigerators. Books aren't microwaves and video games aren't knife sharpeners. Of course, gamers and developers and publishers alike like to treat it that way because, by god, you gotta buy and play something new, right?

You can not "break" self expression and personal style. Nor can you "fix" it. Super Mario World will never break. It is an eternal object with a life as long as people are willing to archive the data.

 

[AnathemicOne]

"PWN"

Is it "pawn"? Is it "pown"? Does it matter? No, some @#!*% mispelt own and it became a real thing and I hate it.

This is coming from someone who has a WC3 profile pic. Man you must've hated Battle.Net and DotA when the term began to arise there.

 

[Para bailar La Bomba]

Cinematic.

 

[Pinko Marx]

Immersion
Charm being a close second.