I'm bored. I'm drunk. I just saw some drunk girl flash her boobs to be cool then trip ass over in front of a pub full of about 100 drunk fuckers who proceeded to laugh their ass off at her, only to have her friend run across the street to console her in a desperate attempt to not come up and yell at us.
But here’s the point: Stop spoiling the end of games and being elitist assholes.
Wardrox has done it. Jim Sterling has done it. Countless community members have done it. Suddenly its become the COOL thing to spoil the end of games, namely Bioshock.
There’s nothing worse than assholes who think shouting the endings to movies/games/books is the fucking greatest thing they can achieve in their life. Nothing gives them greater pleasure than affirming the fact that they have completed a game or book that other people have not by ruining the ending for them. It’s the greatest elitist high they can attain, and despite the fact they are ruining an amazing experience for someone just to increase the size of their knob, they couldn’t give a shit.
This is what is pissing me off about Dtoid lately, the current trend to shout the ending to Bioshock. Jim will say “Oh if they haven’t played it by now fuck ‘em” as if that justifies it completely (Jim you are awesome x 10000, but for the subject of this article you are a knob!). Community members will post the ending to it in news article for no reason. Wardrox went as far as to say “Spoilers for Call of duty 4 coming up…HA ***Bioshock ending**” followed be Jim laughing his ass off.
I get that you have all finished the game, but it pisses me off that the consensus seems to be that as soon as you have finished the game the ending is “old news” and anyone who has not finished the game by now “deserves to have it spoilt”. It’s nothing more than elitist shit, and if you really are a fan of video games you would let people enjoy it just as you did, and not actively punish them because they aren’t’ up with it as everyone else. There are a lot of people who, amazingly enough, have not played Bioshock yet. There are people who have not actually played EVERY GAME you have ever played. As bizarre as it seems, telling them the ending to the game is not what they want to hear halfway through an article on MGS4 disc size because they are a few months late to the Bioshock party.
“Oh but people spoil the ending to Harry Potter all the time” people will say. Funnily enough, the Podcastle crew went on to complain about how idiots get on teamspeak and ruin the ending to games, only after they had spoilt the ending to Bioshock TWO TIMES THEMSELVES with no warning (and one trick warning as stated above). Just because some people are retarded enough to shout the ending to Harry Potter doesn’t mean its perfectly okay to shout the ending to every game you have played.
Dtoid is a great community that loves gaming, but I’m only just playing Zelda: Majora’s mask now. Not everyone is on the cutting edge of games, and they don’t deserve to be punished for it, ESPECIALLY by the Dtoid staff who claim to love gaming so much. Its bullshit.
All I ask is that this whole “lets spoil the endings of games” thing start to tone down on Dtoid. I hope that the staff set a better example by not TRICKING people into hearing spoilers for fucks sake. Just because some dickhead shouts the ending to Harry Potter from a car isn’t a perfect justification for Dtoid to throw all respect off a cliff and start using the ending of Bioshock as some stupid internet meme.
Respect the gamers who respect you. If you love video games as much as you claim, you wouldn’t take so much joy in ruining the experience for others. Seriously, I felt awful as fuck when HarassmentPanda spoilt the ending of Bioshock for another Dtoid member halfway through a completely unrelated article. Is this the kind of activity the Dtoid staff wants to encourage?
And I expect at least one retard to find it the funniest thing in their miserable small lives to spoil the end to at least some game in the comments. Have fun dickead, I’m sure you will find it just as funny when someone spoils the end to a game you are playing.
|
I didn't want any of Portal spoiled for me, but after hearing allusions and such, a completed the spoil and found the mp3 for Still Alive. Was there anyway for me to avoid spoilers for Portal? yep. Either play the game, or stop frequenting the internet.
I'll still play it and enjoy it when I get to it, but frequenting a site that really discusses games "hardcore", its likely that at some point, people are going to stop being spoiler sensitive, and just start talking open about plot points.
*gives boolean tissue*
I read in a blog that some achievement lists contain spoilers. For example, in Bioshock one of the achievements is "take a picture of Sander Cohen's corpse". Well, the developers themselves just let slip that Cohen wasn't going to make it.
And seriously, there's a big difference between someone telling you about the ending and then seeing it yourself.
I definitely had Bioshock spoiled for me on more than one dtoid podcast. It's unfortunate, as I was spoiled as I was playing through it :(
My only comfort is that they did not spoil the entire sequence.
And wardrox sounds like the peasants from warcraft 3.
More work?
Off i go then!
Yes me lord?
See? Can't you jsut imagine wardrox doing the voice overs for the peasants in warcraft 3?
To me, having things spoiled is just a consequence of being part of an online community. With so many gamers all over the place having such different gaming preferences and priorities, you're guaranteed to meet people who have played and will want to talk about games you haven't played yet. This isn't a neighborhood group of friends who hang out every weekend to play and share the same games, it's a large community thousands of members strong.
It sucks, but all you can do about it is either expect people to only talk about games you've played and finished, or to spend a large chunk of time screening things before you actually read them to see if there are any spoilers. The former is unrealistic, the latter - to me at least - isn't worth the time.
Honestly I'm not sure how you can expect to listen to a podcast that doesn't spoil something.
Zelda was Sheir.
Dorothy had the power to go home the whole time.
All of Super Mario Bros. 2 was a dream.
Hitler dies.
Terrorists win.
Counter Terrorists win.
Fatality.
That drunk girl story? FUCK I would pay good money to see that entire event unfold. The consoling part was the highlight.
And I too hate the "If you haven't played it x weeks/months after the release then it's your own fault" argument. That's simply moronic.
Alyx's dad dies
COD4
Evey one else dies except you and McTavish, and the russian asshole.
Gears of War,
Nothing really happens/ N/A
Gutar Hero 3,
YOU ARE FAGS!
Wii Sports,
Nothing happens.
Warcraft 3,
Human prince guy turns into undead.
Super Monkey Ball,
You get to the credits.
Portal,
the whole place blows up.
Conan,
You see boobs, and then get armour and thats it.
Thats all i can think of now.
damnit i was hoping for her bitch-slapping you ending.
way to RUIN that one. jerk.
No, what's moronic is expecting thousands of people to not talk about something because somebody hasn't played it yet. There is usually a few week moratorium on discussing key spoilers on games, but after that all bets are off. If you really want to play a game, buy it when it comes out. If you can't get it when it comes out, stay off gaming websites. Don't expect the majority to cater to you just because that's the way you want it.
Alyx's dad dies
Hey, they never confirmed that! He might still be alive. :(
Evey one else dies except you and McTavish, and the russian asshole.
I thought you were McTavish. Isn't it Gaz that survives with you?
I just don't understand what the hell the release date has to do with it. Even if a game came out twenty years ago, it's not nice to give away key spoilers without warning. Of course you can discuss them, but don't deliberately smash them into peoples faces. It's really not that hard.
Sure, the people who go into bookstores on the launch day of a harry potter book and spoil it are pretty lame, but if the ending of something is common knowledge, I think it ceases to be a spoiler.
I've been kinda convinced by arguments on both sides of this issue, but it still sucks when that "Whoah, cool" moment you get from completing something is taken away from you.
I guess the internet is good for ruining a lot of things.
I just rely on my unreliable memory that by the time I play the game, I've forgotten the spoiler.
Well, King Kong dying isn't really what I would consider that kind of a plot twist, that changes your view on all the things that happened before. But I wouldn't for example spoil the meaning of Rosebud in Citizen Kane. Even if it's from 1941.
And of course, there are things that have become common knowledge and kind of iconic. I mean, I'm playing FFVII now for the first time, knowing that I shouldn't put too much effort in leveling up Aeris. That kind of sucks, but I accept it. But it shouldn't be the rule.
lol
FATALITY!
Good job, Boolean.