Vapid
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- Jan 18, 2017
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I was wondering: what are your pet peeves connected with gaming. I don’t mean the things that are universally despised by the vast majority, like pre-order culture, season pass/ DLC scumbaggery or game journalism faggotry. What I have in mind are the things that piss you off to no end but somehow are barely noticed or hardly ever brought up by others.
I’ll start. One of those things that bring my piss to a boil is when people who consider themselves savvy gamers (or even fancy themselves some kind of authority in the matter) go on about being fans of classic rpgs and having played a lot of them can name only some shitty jRPG titles on SNES. Hardy ever do you hear those youtube talking heads mention any of the classic PC or Amiga titles (not to mention more obscure systems) almost as if those titles didn’t exist. I guess it’s, at least partially, a cultural thing, because it mostly applies to American gamers, but still. Maybe growing up on the Dismal Side of the Iron Curtain ™ made me averse to consoles, I don’t know.
On a similar note: it pisses me off when the people who are into tabletop RPGs act as if D&D was the only RPG in the world. Having your preferences (in this case: D&D) is one thing, but calling yourself a grognard and having zero knowledge about other RPGs is another.
I’ll start. One of those things that bring my piss to a boil is when people who consider themselves savvy gamers (or even fancy themselves some kind of authority in the matter) go on about being fans of classic rpgs and having played a lot of them can name only some shitty jRPG titles on SNES. Hardy ever do you hear those youtube talking heads mention any of the classic PC or Amiga titles (not to mention more obscure systems) almost as if those titles didn’t exist. I guess it’s, at least partially, a cultural thing, because it mostly applies to American gamers, but still. Maybe growing up on the Dismal Side of the Iron Curtain ™ made me averse to consoles, I don’t know.
On a similar note: it pisses me off when the people who are into tabletop RPGs act as if D&D was the only RPG in the world. Having your preferences (in this case: D&D) is one thing, but calling yourself a grognard and having zero knowledge about other RPGs is another.