User blog:Mrdaimion/Rant: Gamers

Let me just get this straight first: I love video games, and this rant doesn't apply to all gamers- it just applies to certain kinds. Or, more specifically, when they do certain things.

Now that I've finished being incredibly cryptic, let me get started:

(oh yeah also I curse in these and stuff so avert your eyes children)

"Hardcore"/"Casual" Gamers
Alright, let me clarify what I mean by Hardcore/Casual gamers: I don't hate people who classify as one, or who consider themselves to be one of the two (and, for those wondering, I consider myself to be more "middle of the road").

What I hate about these is more the idea of it- I mean, what defines a Casual or Hardcore Gamer?

If someone hacks Modern Warfare 3, but ends up becoming top of the Leaderboard because of it, does that mean they're super hardcore?

If someone plays Angry Birds all the time, does that mean they're casual because the game is on the phone?

Allow me to tell you what I think those people are: People with bad taste in video games (seriously guys Angry Birds is not only awful and boring but a complete rip-off of Crush the Castle, it's only more popular cause it's cute and MW3 is MW2 but with a different story [though I have nothing against the CoD games, they really are pretty good (and usually have good single-player to boot), they just have a terible fan-base] and bleeh).

When it comes to whether they're hard-core or casual, though... well, who are we to say? Can't they just be gamers?

"Graphics" Gamers
No, despite what you may think from the heading, I'm not talking about the gamers who dislike games because they have bad graphics, because most people don't think like that (... except for everyone who doesn't play Minecraft because of that, which really is stupid, but eh, that's a rant for another day), I'm talking about people who say that graphics don't matter.

The reason being because oh my fucking God yes they do matter you're no better then the people who don't play video games because they think they have bad graphics you idiots.

I mean, do you think Resident Evil would be nearly as popular if it has Okami-esque graphics? No, because a survival-horror game should have dark graphics that help set the mood, not bright cartoony ones.

Do you think that people would play League of Legends if they decided to make it first-person? No, because that would make it way more confusing and not as fun.

Would you play a game with 4 pixels? No, because it would be awful.

The point I'm trying to make is that you shouldn't think you're a really cool gamer because you're all "man, who needs graphics, you know what I mean? lulz", because your opinion is stupid and you shouldn't be allowed to play video games ever again if you think that.

"Old Video Games are the Bestest! New games are garbage!"
Now, there's nothing wrong with liking old games a lot, or even liking them more and having your favorites being from that generation.

But if you honestly try to tell me that old video games are the only good games anymore, then get your goddamn head out of your ass.

I mean, think about terrible video games- then realize that most of them (... except maybe Charlie's Angels and Sonic '06, both of which are admittedly some of the worst things ever) are from before 2000 (ET, Custer's Revenge, Bubsy 1-3[D], and Superman 64). You may make the defense that back then people didn't know as much as gaming and they had more limits then we do today, but you see, that's exactly why it's stupid to call all modern games awful.

Back then, it was hard for people to make games because of all of the limits they had- now, however, we have so much more freedom, and can accomplish so much more with gaming.

Again, there are plenty of fun old games (particuraly on the N64/PS1), but that doesn't automatically mean modern games are stupid.

Conclusion
my opinion is better then everyone I mentioned here