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http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=280

Yeah, I know it's old news, but it's a good indication of what is wrong with a lot of video game fans. At first glance, I thought it was a parody with how ridiculous the arguments were, but so many people took it at face value that I guess it wasn't. So without further ado, it's time to analyse this thing.

"This is the World Cyber Games on Sci Fi. Where a group of twenty-something hipsters play the most casual games for the title, Ultimate Gamer."

First off: What. People. Talk like this? Even if they were playing "casual" games, they wouldn't outright say they were such. Never mind calling their participants "hipsters" as if such a label wasn't insulting.

"Now it's trendy to like games, we're fucking marketable!"

Where the hell were you when Pokémon Red and Blue debuted? That wasn't marketable? Never mind the ridiculous amount of merchandise and spinoff media that still continues to this day. Even before Pokémon, what was The Wizard? The Mario and Zelda cartoons?

"Instead we're getting bastardized versions of what were once classic games. A perpetual easy mode filled with quicktime events and mini-games."

Easy to control doesn't mean a cakewalk game. It means developers can focus on adding real difficulty rather than force gamers to struggle with cumbersome controls. Take a look at Elite Beat Agents. It has only three simple to execute commands, but they're put together in diabolical ways.

"When was the last time you played a truly great game?"

Um, today? Bit.Trip Beat was something unlike anything I've ever played.

"Thought so. They are few and far between."

What the...?! Why ask a question if you're just going to answer it yourself and assume everyone agrees? Bowser's Inside Story was awesome. So was Super Mario Galaxy 2. And Bit.Trip and Elite Beat Agents. Those were all made in this gen.

"It's time for this bullshit to stop. This is a message to you auto-aiming, Madden rostering, Wii Bowling asstards! Fuck you."

And this is a major reason why gamers have such a bad name.

"We memorized the ultra combos. We wrote down pages of passwords."

Tell me, did you have fun doing that? Because I didn't. Memorizing ultra combos is fake difficulty that only serves to intimidate players and turn people away from fighting games.

"We defeated the Robomasters, we knocked out Tyson, and saved the fucking princess!"

Funny you should bring up Mario. He's the one character that could challenge Pokémon for "most marketable name in gaming". And Mega Man is no marketing slouch either. So much for exclusivity.

"I know what we are, and what you're not. Gamers."

Here's the thing that confounds me about fandom members in general. Why are they so compelled to look "cool" to their fellow club even when it means they are reviled by just about everyone else? Keeping "gamers" an exclusive club means squat when it has such a bad name brought on by this kind of attitude.

I wrote all this up because I love video games. I hate people acting like gaming should be this cool kids' club which looks down on people that don't play the "right" games. Everyone should be free to play whatever we like, because aren't video games about fun? Why bother with something meant to entertain if you're not enjoying it?

Credit goes to Wry Guy's fantastic article "The top three things gamers should care less about", which explains the problem with gamers far better than I could.



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This is a matter of cultural references meeting cultural references, while being something you can reference within a culture.

VGcats goofing on Colbert, goofing on hot topics + Hot Topic logo drop = Isolation of cultural referance gene with mutagenic properties rendered into a precipitate, and snorted.

I know consumers and I know gamers.
Consumers buy shit to have shit. They have stacks of games they don't play, movies they don't watch, and rooms full of trash.
Gamers have games they like, talk about games, anticipate the release of new games, and play and talk about them fervently. Some consumers pretend to be gamers. They act as though just because they've purchased something and taken a glance at it that they have in turn experienced it, and are thus given license to talk about it like they're knee deep in the soul wax.
You're telling me gamers don't have stacks of games they don't play?

You must not have Steam.

Gaming isn't some exclusive club; it's a fucking activity. People do it, not gamers; human fucking beings. Some people play games, some people obsess over them, some are in between. That does not make anyone better or worse.

And if it turns out that gaming is some sort of club, I'd like to be banned, because this is honestly the worst club you could be a part of. The. FUCKING. Worst.

You sick fucks don't even have cookies.

Also, that VGCats is a blatant parody. Some gamers are just block-headed asstards who couldn't describe fun if it looked like a square.
I just want to play ma games and has ma funs.
Comedy is about brevity, and when it isn't about brevity it has to really push the envelope the entire time, so in essence it's still about brevity within the interval humor and not. I guess what I am trying to get at here is that a lot of words were both used in that comic and this blog that didn't hold a comedic pace to my liking. Of course, this may not be about comedy or even entertainment to you, and is likely about some vague sociological phenomena that are dryly mused about a whisper's breath by some jackass on NPR. That's all fine and dandy, but look at this.

This confuses me greatly.
That was a completely hilarious comic, thanks for sharing. You make a few good counter arguments as well, though I still agree with the sentiment of the comic. Just call me Cranky Kong ;-)

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