The cringiest things about gamers

[Shield Breaker]

LOL imagine playing on consoles.

Consoles are great for children.

Seriously, tho', I got tired of hearing about PC Master race crap a long time ago, and I play on one.

 

[The best and greatest]

Speedrunning is exceptional. Who gives a shit if you can be the fastest guy to finish some obscure Japanese-only PS1 game? AGDQ is depressing to watch. A bunch of pasty nerds staring dead-eyed at a game they've played 8 million times to shave another second off their time.

Pro-gaming in general is pathetic and i can't imagine spending any real amount of time watching someone else play a videogame.

Speedrunning is stupid because it encourages glitching out the game to achieve a faster time...So its like why even bother speedrunning if you're just going to cheat? Its like saying Usain Bolt is able to beat his own records because he found a shortcut across the green in the middle of the track.

 

[AnaV]

Fucking RGB and edgy (not literally) gaming periphals, I don’t get why everything needs to light the fuck up like a Christmas tree when I want to play a game, also I don’t see the attraction in jagged edges keyboards, mice, and headphones it just looks dumb.

 

[Screw Danlon]

People who treat being good at games as though it’s some major accomplishment worth bragging about. I don’t mind people being happy/proud about beating a game, but I don’t fucking care if you beat Dark Souls or Diablo on Hardcore or whatever. Unless you’re a professional gamer, then you’re supposedly doing it for fun anyway.

also, fuck professional gamers. especially fuck news stories about pro gamers in the NBA games. Why are you devoting time to who was chosen in draft picks of your NBA “””e-sport””” league?

 

[The Last Stand]

Hackers in multiplayer games.

Particularly in older CoD games on console and PC, and the developers being oblivious about them.

And that some games remain the full price as when it launched.

 

[Pissmaster]

Both consoles and PCs are for faggots and if you don't own at least 10 full size arcade cabinets I'm gonna shit in your mouth

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Taking games too seriously. It's not that you can't get emotional over a game or want the hobby to develop/remain unchanged. But when you treat playing games as your identity, go autist due to a minor game change or decide that games have to be political and not being political means they are against you, then you are cringe.

 

[Overcast]

I had an argument with some guys over whether playing video games should be considered a sport. And they come up with the most boneheaded arguments.

Me: Playing video games doesn't involve anything physical.

Idiot 1: It IS physical! You stimulate your brain and fingers.

Me: Okay, what do you not consider a sport?

Idiot 2: I guess if I were to choose, it would be curling.

Me: What? Why?

Idiot 2: All you do is move a rock onto some circles.

Me: Okay, well if we're going to oversimplify things, running a marathon is just running in a straight line!

Idiot 1: Well there are curves and turns involved. (The one time he was technically right)

Seriously, with the exception of the Brood War community, the competitive gaming scene is just embarrassing.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Used to be one of the cynics. Grew out of it once I hit my 20's and got more into PC gaming. The cure for a cynical gamer is broadening your horizons.

CRPG fans have a habit of being cynical. Back in 2011, that made sense. Old school CRPGs were practically an endangered species. By 2015, this viewpoint became utterly juvenile. Shadowrun Returns, that Planescape spiritual successor, Wasteland 2, and Divinity Original Sin. One of the best CRPGs, Divinity Original Sin 2, was released a few years ago.

There was a period of time there in the late 2000s and early 2010s where gaming wasn't in a great place which is why there was so much cynicism and to be fair, a lot of that was justified.

But things have gotten way better in the years since and now that cynicism comes off as very dated and irritating, I think of people like Jim Sterling, who endlessly bitch and moan, he's very stuck in that era's mindset and it's so tiresome now, to make matters worse he's also pretty SJW, so he's pretty much the cringiest things about gamers rolled into one person.

If you can't see the positive in modern gaming you need to find another hobby.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Shitting on EA.
EA is a terrible company, I know that, you know that, my dad knows it. At this point everyone has complained about it enough that the only people buying into the games obviously cannot be convinced not to.
So please, unless the topic of discussion is EA or an EAgame, don’t GAMER virtue signal to me.
Change EA for DLC, Bethesda, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Blizzard, Activision, CDprojektred, Lootboxes, Freemium, Gacha, etc etc etc.

there’s so much shit that gamers complain about that they’ve been complaining about for over a decade already.

 

[SolidZone 26]

It's extra funny because PC gaming probably wouldn't exist had Super Mario Bros. not saved it from the ashes after the crash.

The game console crash only affected America not the entire world.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

So called gamers who mock people wanting to learn how to emulate or homebrew games online because they think you approve of piracy.

It’s no more different than people who mock for others online for wanting to torrent.

 

[SolidZone 26]

Game collectors are really cringy. People that buy games not to play them but to fill a wall of shame or worse a room with physical games. They are worse than the comic collectors who never read the comics they buy. Games are meant to be played not collected.

 

[Pissmaster]

Game collectors are really cringy. People that buy games not to play them but to fill a wall of shame or worse a room with physical games. They are worse than the comic collectors who never read the comics they buy. Games are meant to be played not collected.

The ones that set out to collect every single game for a console are nutcases of the highest order. I saw a video of a guy who collected every single Wii game, and finding anything decent on his shelf was like searching for a needle in a haystack. For every Punch-Out!! and No More Heroes, you have dozens of iCarlys and Zuma Fitnesses. The entire collection was absolutely enormous, and he spent thousands of dollars on total garbage that will never, ever be played before the discs rot in 50 years.

And then you've got the people who buy literally every single game Limited Run releases. Isn't the #1 universal rule for collectors of all things that if it's intentionally designed to be collectible, it will never actually be valuable? That's why shit like The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak is worth four figures, but your anime dating sim from Limited Run won't be.

I have mixed feelings about Limited Run. On one hand, it's pretty great that you can get hard copies of smaller titles again, something that was really missing back in the 360 days, but on the other, it leads to a whole network of idiots who buy, hoard, and scalp every single thing they release. And that's pretty annoying when they release a game you'd like to have a hard copy of, only to find out that you missed it and it's sold out and probably never coming back and fuck you.

Game collecting is fine and dandy if you can at least tell me something about each game. You can pluck any game I own off the shelf and I can at least tell you some kind of anecdote about it, where I bought it, a nice memory, some kind of fact, something. But just buying them to have a huge shelf so your home can look like a YouTuber's set? BOI WAZ WRON WIT' CHU

 

[The Last Stand]

When people would always ask for remasters of games from the generation before.

I get you want to relive memories but sometimes remasters are just lazy ports with upscaled visuals.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Game collectors are really cringy. People that buy games not to play them but to fill a wall of shame or worse a room with physical games. They are worse than the comic collectors who never read the comics they buy. Games are meant to be played not collected.

I collect games but I also open and play them.

Stuff like the Shadow Hearts trilogy is never going to be re-released.

 

[Terror Rism]

Both consoles and PCs are for faggots and if you don't own at least 10 full size arcade cabinets I'm gonna shit in your mouth

this nigga doesn't run tennis on oscillators or mastermind on dot matrix printers
sad how the millenials have tainted us

 

[Thiletonomics]

What I don't like is when the fans of a game say things like "the devs are people too", "they have feelings", and "don't insult them", when a game is buggy or has other major issues. Games aren't a charity, they are a product that people buy, and people expect to have a working product when they spend their hard-earned money on them. The whole trend of pushing games with bugs out early, and then fixing later, is getting old already, and fan bases that say those kind of things, as well as buying them, gives company the impression that it's okay for them to do so. You don't see people say those kind of things about other things people buy, i.e. fast food or cars, yet that behavior is so prevalent in games.

 

[Salad Dodger]

People who pay out the ass for digital artwork of their character, or a character they have an attachment to.

Particularly spending hundreds to not actually own the piece as the artist they commissioned, keeps a copy of it online In their portfolio.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

One thing I've always found cringy, that remains to this day, is the absolute fucking obsession gamers have with first person shooting.

When I was in elementary, we had computer lab time and a game we would often get to play was Oregon Trail; a game I still quite enjoy to this day, and I remember so many kids running in there to start it, rushing through everything JUST to get to the hunting screens. Because it was first person shooting.

What is so amazing about shooting a gun in a game where all you can see is the arms? Seriously? Why are these the biggest games?

Is it so dorks can imagine themselves being badasses shooting? I get the pathetic competitive nature of these games, but back in the 90s, the multiplayer aspect didn't exist... and yet kids lost their damn minds over it. To this day, I still cannot fathom the absolute insanity over something so insanely mundane.