Which part of current gaming culture do you not understand?

Which part of current gaming culture do you not understand?

The arcade scene.

zenbu

listening to women who dont even play games

Mobas and Let's Plays

speedrunnig

All of Pokemon Go

you mean that one that doesn't exist?

Watching Let's Stay and Streams
What's the point? If it was only to see how the game looks ok but people watch hours and hours of entire gameplay
Why won't you play the game yourself instead?

Streamers and "youtubers".

The distaste for boss battles.

They are the best parts of games IMO, how can people hate this shit? Whether is a giant motherfucker who you need to take down or a bomb ass 1v1 fight with someone your size, a boss battle is always fucking awesome.

Internet personalities and artificial friendship

*Let's Play


Oh yes and this, such a shame

Why gamers at a local bar, again bar people who are all over 21, a group of them who get together and take over the bar's tv to play Mario kart or smash or something like youtube shit like egorapter yelling over 8 bit music

I'll watch fgc event streams occasionally and I'll watch videos for strategies for multiplayer games or learning a new complexish game like DF which I'm ashamed to admit already

Destiny was kind of funny in his prime but he was also a Zerg player that had some great ZvZ strategies in beta. I wouldn't listen to him sing unfunny shit over sc2 music though. I just don't get it

this 9

Lets play Streaming with dudes like pewdipie

I dont see the appeal of watching some dude scream and act like a idiot while playing a game. I can see why you would want to watch a lets play to see the game but not a idiot screaming.

>a bomb ass 1v1 fight with someone your size

The best kind

People caring about reviews and videogame journalism when you can simply download the game and try it for free.

>using reviews to validate your opinion on certain games
>watching multi-part, unedited videos of other people playing through single-player games
>people who enjoyed bioshock infinite

Paying for cosmetic dlc, why? To feel unique? Through a game?
Season passes especially, in my day you knew what you were buying, seems like a scam to me.

If you don't "understand" why these things happened you are dumb as a brick. Should change it to "would never do it myself"

Markiplier.

Also the debate whether video games are getting worse or better.

>"""""Gamer""""" culture

That is all

Numales religiously watching and fawning over female streamers whose face cam is 10x larger than the game they're "playing".
Also, I really don't understand why they donate to their patreons and stuff when they easily have over $1000 a month in revenue for playing vidya.

Then explain to me why the appeal of let's play
Why would waste your time of another person experiencing something you could do yourself, which by the way would be way more engaging?

Yes...

>The extreme popularity of let's plays
>How people are dumb enough to get jewwed by micro-transactions
>Games that are basically movies

amd vs nvidia
xbone vs ps4

>go on /vg/ to discuss games
>everyone is talking about gookclick

Why are they so fascinated by this?

>Streaming Pokemon Go, every battle/search/capture/level up is the same

>Watching twitch streams of pay-to-win games like clash of clan, they just spent more money than you

>Critics attacking games for being too hard, there will always be someone better than you who enjoys it, making such criticism completely objective.

>People here complaining their game is too popular, and then complaining when it dies

>Complaining about "toxic" online play on message boards instead of calling them out in game and just going back at them.

>Playing FPS games that don't bring new mechanics to the table, moving and shooting is the same, new stuff is the only reason people aren't still playing Quake 3

>FPS games without high-speed movement but with snipers, making a class centered around not having to deal with enemies and being a hassle to hunt down with normal weapons

Last one is more of a developer thing.

Friend substitution and reality tv. Why do anything when you can watch someone.

You are too old for this.

Meme spouting

The neo-Sup Forums culture.

minecraft
watching lets play
multiplayer=good game
game is bad if it doesn't have multiplayer No mans sky
being competitive online instead of playing for fun
glitching/cheating to get an edge on the game.

twitch
people donating to said twitch streamers
moba/overwatch players


it seriously boggles my mind how pleb some people can be

Let's plays and Streams.
I do understand if some actual pro in that game streams it once in a while, or makes a video
But it fucking sickens me when some scrub streams, makes obnoxious noises infront of the camera, and sucks at the game.

But what's the fun of it? The best part of gaming is having an active participation on the action, not a passive one

JRPG grinding.

Big Buck Hunter

I don't understand most video media involving a person talking as they play a video game, it's invariably bad to watch as a genre.

You mean, this 9?

People who bring their laptops to class, sit in the back and play vidya the entire lecture.

Why the fuck are you even here?
Did your parents completely pay for your schooling you stupid bastard?

Witcher 3 hearts of stone, boss battles just got better and better, but that von emeric battle was GOAT, better than any of the base game bosses

E-Sports in general. It's just lame as fuck and totally inferior to traditional sports which exhibit both skill AND athleticism.

The part where you "need" to buy the season pass of every hyped game. Game costs would effectively doubly if I bought every AAA game and its passes.

JRPG grinding is at least 30 years old

So I guess you also hate golf, bowling, poker, and any other game of skill that doesn't require running?

People who aren't PC+Wii U. What's the logic there?

Calling it gaming culture, for one.

>not enjoying the idea of mastering a game and knowing every single nook, crevice, and glitchy spot to fling yourself through entire levels in an eyeblink

I mean, to each their own, I'm not autistic enough to do it. But god damn if it doesn't make for a good watch.

Not as games, no, but definitely as spectator sports. They're abysmal for that, just like video games.

Overwatch
>omg its a reskinned tf2 with tits lets shit our pants!

Its because they would want to sell a game for 100-120 dollars. But the sticker shock would discourage people. So they break it up.

playing a card game isn't really respectable even if you get rich from getting the right cards at random

Using "game" as a verb and the term gamer

pokemon go, of course

watching a stream with the dude's fucking face staring at you the whole time.

> The best part of gaming is having an active participation
Nonsense. This isn't about games but feeling as part of a group. Kids watching LPs would be listening to metal or something if LPs and Streams didn't exist.

Using the words, gaming, gamer, drama, internet-drama in any type of video and describing bullshit about them.

Also how some multiplayer only shooters suck shit, or aren't nearly as good as they should be due to problems that have been solved already.

Also this 5

Proofing that games are good becuase of sales.
Also stocks..

All the fun in poker is watching players try to get in each other's heads.
The game is just an excuse.

Streaming. Especially when people try to argue a game's success based on how many people are watching on Twitch rather than actually playing the fucking thing.

Once you get to that level of proficiency at a game it really becomes boring muscle memory unless you can use it in an abstract way

The part about embracing videogames as a togetherness medium then throwing it under a bus just because people you don't like also pick up a controller.

Bitch, the problem is other people. Period. You'll find assheads in different colors and genders everywhere. Work, the place you eat, out in public, fandom for other mediums.

Seriously, the second someone who plays videogames does something not liked, we get an earful of "game culture creates monsters" dialogue over and fucking over again.

I used to glitchless speed run Ninja Five-O and Mark of the Ninja.
I did it because I found it extremely satisfying to play those games fast. I've never felt compelled to do it on any other game, barring DX:HR:DC when you've got all the augments is ridiculously fun.
There's just something satisfying about making all the perfect jumps/cuts/hook throws and it becomes pretty fun to watch.

Gatorgate.

It was like everyone lost their goddamn mind.

Day 1 DLC, f2p but pay2win, all mobile games, mobas, let's plays, sjw censorship, and devs bowing to said censorship.

Trophies/achievements.
>oh boy, epeen points from a game noone will remember, let alone actually play in a year's time

sick 5 senpai

For streaming sometimes it's interesting to hear someone's perspective on the game and have them comment on it. Or seeing the crazy shit some people can do in games. I don't watch let's plays much but Nanosuitninja for instance is pretty interesting to watch as he's really really good at Crysis, better than me at it, so seeing what he does is cool and how he takes advantage of game mechanics.

Another let's player I watch is MetalCanyon, though I've only watched his X-COM Apocalypse playthroughs, though for kind of similar reasons, he's pretty good at the game and his comments are generally interesting. X-COM is also really stressful to play, at least for me, so sometimes I just don't feel like playing but can still watch someone else play the game. Maybe that too just doesn't make any sense to some people but it's how I feel.

But again, I don't really ever watch let's plays and really haven't in quite a while but sometimes there are people who are fun to watch.

Pokemon go.

Have you played Rainbow Six Seige? Its the only mp only shooter I felt was worth full price, even if I got it at an extremely low price. nice 5

>reskinned tf2
Something only said by people who have not played it or even watched a single match of it

Sometimes I'm in the mood for vidya but I'm so depressed that I don't have the energy to play, so I watch let's plays instead.

>I decide what is respectable or not

Why is almost every game void of any sense of challenge or enganging gameplay.

At least the professionally made games, not the indie scene, they got other problems.

Rhythm games

It's not even really a game, you're just mindlessly memorizing button combinations.

Is this true? I thought it flopped on release for whatever reason but I'm seriously considering it now

You don't watch them for the game user, you watch them for the hosts.

the streaming and lets play phenomenon. It is totally boggling to me. I can understand watching pre-releases and stuff I guess cause gaming mags don't really exist as they once did, but watching other people play shit like f2p MMOs, or older games is just way over my head. I cannot even comprehend it, the shit is RIGHT THERE for you to try.

Streams and some LPs are nice to relax after a long day with when there isn't much time.
Especially with games designed for long sittings, so you can watch a bit of it or a chunk from a Streamer whose personality you like for reason (reason) and watch some more later after another long day, such as in a 5-day work week and getting home late consistently.
As for dedicatedly watching one, no fucking idea, I skip most of the ones I'm subbed to on Youtube unless I'm in such a situation.

When I'm too depressed to play, I shitpost on Sup Forums. I don't know what kind of lack of motivation it requires to watch someone else play a game.

having fun while not putting in any effort to compete and win.

it's a millennial thing, i think. applies to a lot of aspects of their lives when you think about it.

It's because TF2 didn't lend itself to a girl-friendly audience

>but the Pyro is...
Faces make people comfortable, user. The only reason 76 gets away with it is because he has a badass cool guy voice to back it up.

The hosts are all bad. Nobody who does Let's Plays is genuinely entertaining or interesting without background videogames to look at whenever you zone out from listening to them

really fucking horrible game actually?

go away ubisoft ?__?

I don't care what kids do, I care about logic
That's like comparing having sex and watching porn
If I have to choose, I would obviously choose sex

I can sort of adhere to that. But not for some random fuckback with a huge facecam for a game that I might like to play some day.

ITT: People who don't know what millennial means

tropies and cheevos have got me hooked in. as a gamer who does not like to hoard or collect games I feel that I don't want to get rid of them because I haven't completed them or got my monies orth.
when I get a platinum for a game I feel that I have done everything in the game and I can get rid of it.
I have like 20 games sat here just waiting for me to get off my ass and trade them in or sell them on ebay.
I don't care about my rank or gamer score though.

I mean its not as popular as your standard Ubisoft title, but I'm genuinely surprised that they managed to produce such a diamond. The maps are great (house in particular is amazing) and each class has a purpose (Thermite can breach through reinforced walls, sledge can smash holes into shit, mute can deploy an electronic jammer) There's so many counters that everyone feels viable (except maybe twitch, but I'm still testing her). That's enough of me gushing over this though, you should go look up some gameplay if you're interested.

>people get mad because theres a black/tranny/gay character

Literally why? They exist everywhere in the real world but its crazy to see them in games? I usually pass it off as dumbshit teens talking shit and yet its everywhere.

>using reviews to validate your opinion on certain games

I certainly never use reviews to validate my opinions to others, but it's nice to know that there are generally respected people who have noticed the same thing about a game i have and I'm not just shouting delusional obscenity into the void.

I toom yo nine

>tranny/gay character

I think most people are mad at it because they represent such a small demographic

In addition the characters usually seem super pander tier because there personality never goes beyond "I'm gay"

Sex requires both participants to be pleasured, I just want to get off, so I'd choose porn.

If only.. :/

Bullshit. Point to the constant gookclick discussion outside of the gookclick threads, or you're full of shit and a faggot.

if you fuck up you need to recover
I've seen some amazing saves

Facecams. Those are for shitters who cares more about whoring themselves than showing off the game or their skills in the game.

Pokemon Go. It's shit. After playing for 10 minutes you've experienced most of the game. How casuals can unstable servers for over 2 weeks is beyond me as well.

MOBAs. How someone can have fun in a team based PvP game where your own teammates can be so shit they make it impossible for you to win. Also making a single match last 30+ minutes is retarded.

in some schools you are only allowed 4 or something abscenses, either the grade then goes down or you get kicked out of the class