The cringiest things about gamers

I'm just going to point out that exclusivity and obscurity get in the way of mass appeal, a.k.a. shitloads of profit, which is what I'm guessing game publishers are after.
 
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Aberforth said:
The anti-emulator crowd. They go around acting like emulators are illegal even though that isn't true. Never see them have a problem with DOSbox or any other computer emulators. Just console ones. When they aren't wishing Sony won the lawsuit against Bleem, they're outraged over one teeny tiny crumb of emulator showing. Oh no, a mouse cursor over Panzer Dragoon! Litcherally shaking right now!

No one in their right mind wants to spend 1000 dollars on a CD that's rotting.
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It's kinda baffling to me as emulators are going to be the only way you can actually play most older games as most games that aren't top sellers or considered "classics" by some arbitrary degree are gonna get left in the dust. Hardware inevitably stops working and games that were previously common are becoming rarer and rarer.

It reminds me of this conversation I had with a friend who's really into movies. She showed me a documentary regarding the ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz, a lot of movies and props associated with them ended up lost or trashed because people thought nobody was going to watch them decades from then. A lot of potentially great movies are just gone now and no one will get to watch them. Hell, the original versions of the Star Wars films, some of the most influential movies ever made almost disappeared due to lack of care and to this day it's hard to find them and nobody who has ever owned the franchise ever re-released them in some way despite demand.

Hell, I've read about how companies like Square keep losing their source code for some of their higher profile games (Final Fantasy IX for example) if a big company like that can't preserve games that are a part of their biggest money makers then who will?

So it kinda saddens me when companies like Nintendo decide to crack down on places like Emuparadise for preserving older games. Like, I get wanting to make a profit off of something you made, but it feels like you're pinching pennies at that point and if you're not going to preserve your old games someone else will.

So yeah, people bitching about the usage of emulators need to shut the fuck up.
 
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AbyssStarer said:
Anytime somebody talks about buying something some faggot comes up and has to be like WhY dOnT yOu PiRaTe
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Only time I get like that is when ppl bitch about price, but then pay for it anways. Usually dlc for Paradox games. "Oh, I have to get all this dlc, it sucks". Just pirate the dlc then, don't let them nickle & dime of it really bothers someone that much.
 
Trying to talk to other gamers in person is like pulling teeth. I'm not the most sociable person out there, but if someone came up to me and started a conversation, I would have no problem talking to that person.

My experience with gamers in arcades in my 20's basically boiled down to everyone being hurtled around a machine only talking to their click of friends, playing the game, not interacting with the other player if they are playing 2 players instead of 1 player, and then leaving. No one said as much as a "hi" to anyone else. I've been in situations where a cutie wanted to play DDR with me, only picked the songs she liked rather than coming to a mutual agreement (and unfortunately the songs she liked to play were the "max" or high bpm related songs) and then just walk away after the final stage so I couldn't even strike a conversation with her afterwards.
 
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Trying to talk to other gamers in person is like pulling teeth. I'm not the most sociable person out there, but if someone came up to me and started a conversation, I would have no problem talking to that person.

My experience with gamers in arcades in my 20's basically boiled down to everyone being hurtled around a machine only talking to their click of friends, playing the game, not interacting with the other player if they are playing 2 players instead of 1 player, and then leaving. No one said as much as a "hi" to anyone else. I've been in situations where a cutie wanted to play DDR with me, only picked the songs she liked rather than coming to a mutual agreement (and unfortunately the songs she liked to play were the "max" or high bpm related songs) and then just walk away after the final stage so I couldn't even strike a conversation with her afterwards.
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It’s just like exotic birds. The lady judges you based on your dance skills and promptly leaves without a word if you don’t dance exactly the way she likes it.
 
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Overcast said:
Hell, I've read about how companies like Square keep losing their source code for some of their higher profile games (Final Fantasy IX for example) if a big company like that can't preserve games that are a part of their biggest money makers then who will?

So it kinda saddens me when companies Nintendo decided to crack down on places like Emuparadise for preserving older games. Like, I get wanting to make a profit off of something you made, but it feels like you're pinching pennies at that point and if you're not going to preserve your old games someone else will.

So yeah, people bitching about the usage of emulators need to shut the fuck up.
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Japanese companies are notorious for not preserving the code and assets to their games. I was certain that the FF8 remaster would be based on the PC port solely because Eidos did that one and it was much more likely that they archived their work. Because they're not archive-challenged/Japanese.

With Nintendo and emulation there's some hypocrisy going on. I can understand that they take action against ROM-sites because they are selling those old games on the eShop, but at the same time emulators and ROMs created both the market and the software. Nintendo even sold a game that they themselves had downloaded on the internet.
 
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Aberforth said:
The anti-emulator crowd. They go around acting like emulators are illegal even though that isn't true. Never see them have a problem with DOSbox or any other computer emulators. Just console ones. When they aren't wishing Sony won the lawsuit against Bleem, they're outraged over one teeny tiny crumb of emulator showing. Oh no, a mouse cursor over Panzer Dragoon! Litcherally shaking right now!
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Emulators are NOT illegal right?

The overly angry guy playing video games that takes that shit seriously.

You didn't move in the exact position he told you to? You die based on somebody better than you? You use a weapon he doesn't like?

He rages. How embarrassing. Backseat gaming.
 
Berrakh said:
I love her ass and thighs as well as the game overall. So we can admit that Nier Automata would have been overlooked without 2b's 2 b's in your face.
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Nier Automata's success is due to two major things. The following the first Nier got over the years and Platinum fans. Nier was quite a popular game in the secondhand market before Automata was even announced. It was a common sight on lists and threads about underrated games. It was frequently praised for its story, characters, and music.

Platinum had their own cult following built up over the years. Their games(except Bayonetta) also had a reputation for being underrated. Nier Automata had two groups that would buy the game early on and tell others about it even if 2B wasn't an ass kicking maid robot. Initial sales may have been lower without the sex appeal, but it wouldn't be significantly lower.
 
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Aberforth said:
Nier Automata's success is due to two major things. The following the first Nier got over the years and Platinum fans. Nier was quite a popular game in the secondhand market before Automata was even announced. It was a common sight on lists and threads about underrated games. It was frequently praised for its story, characters, and music.

Platinum had their own cult following built up over the years. Their games(except Bayonetta) also had a reputation for being underrated. Nier Automata had two groups that would buy the game early on and tell others about it even if 2B wasn't an ass kicking maid robot. Initial sales may have been lower without the sex appeal, but it wouldn't be significantly lower.
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I think you're discounting how much of the enduring sales and presence is due to fanart of 2b. If she was not someone people wanted to make fanart of there'd be no organic word of mouth driving the conversation. Yoko Taro 100% knows sex appeal can market his games. Which is smart.


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The culture war in general is the cringist thing a about the west specifically the United States, it's a marketing gimmick were it is as owning the fash or lib if you consome the right media and make it succesful.
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It's why I think the internet just bifurcates everything down to two broad camps.
 
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Emulators are NOT illegal right?
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The emulators themselves are legal. Court battles have been fought, and it's been ruled that since they don't actually use copyrighted IP, companies such as Nintendo can't claim ownership over them. ROMs, on the other hand, are technically piracy, but I couldn't give a rat's ass if anyone wants to download games from 10+ years ago that aren't on store shelves anymore and will likely never see the light of day again.

On-topic, this is somewhat of a love-hate relationship, but people who get way too invested in multiplayer games and begin raging at other players for killing them, often screaming into their mic or typing salt into the chat. They're extremely dumb, but they make for good compilation videos on YouTube.
 
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On-topic, this is somewhat of a love-hate relationship, but people who get way too invested in multiplayer games and begin raging at other players for killing them, often screaming into their mic or typing salt into the chat. They're extremely dumb, but they make for good compilation videos on YouTube.
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Those people are great, especially if they're really bad so you can do it again and again as they get angrier and angrier.
 
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The label itself. Much like being a comic book nerd, or any nerd, gamer now doesn't reach from D&D in the 90s to WoW in the 00s, but anyone who plays games. So basically, anyone. And who identifies by being something everyone is to some extend? The same kind of people who go "metal is my life".

Being a gamer is like being a movie-watcher. Or hell, a nerd with how popular Marvel is. What's there to take pride in?
 
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