Is he right guys...

Is he right guys? Are we really holding back the industry by not accepting changes in videogames that should occur because of the current year issues?

Yes NEETs ruin everything

>we are all outcasts

KEK no, HE is an outcast, HE uses it as a form of escapism, I play for fun.

I don't understandcare, why these fuckers either have an anime avatr or play shitty weeaboo games like senran kagura and always bring them up as an example of "women sexualization on videogames" for the entire medium when in favt they are niche shit that bearely sells 10000 units outside of japan?

Can't they just stick to western games like Mass Effect or Dragon Age? Why do they watch stuff that clearly hate? Some of them even have Nier profile pictures and clearly hate the game.

Get out normie

>Is he right guys?
No, he's projecting, just like all these insane progressives do. Just like every fag-hating preacher buggering altarboys in his spare time, and every male feminist raping and molesting any woman in hand's reach, these insufferable cunts are themselves the thing they accuse everyone else of being.

But I thought we were protect safe spaces

Get out sissy.

I mean it go back to plebbit this isn't your board.

>progressive SJW teenagers and 20 something year olds keep crying about trigger warnings and needing safe spaces
>become laughing stocks when they get their coloring books and bubbles in university
>desperately try to turn it around and say that it's everybody else who's asking for trigger warnings and safe spaces

no, i play games to enjoy myself, not to get preached to, the news does that enough as is

>he has fun he must be from reddit

Get out fag.

So why do these supposed non-escapists lash out so harshly when their criticisms are criticized?
Could it be that they identify with the San Fran journo cliques and feel very insecure about it?
Why else would they still be sporadically lashing out over a hashtag that hasn't been relevant to anyone else since 2014?

I don't think anyone brought up gamergate before you just now user.

No, I find labels like gamer stupid as it covers such a vast range of people yet those in it will a best only really like a very small percent. Which could even be down to a handful of series. Being a gamer isn't a part of my identity any more than the multitudes of other media I consume. But then this shitty nerd culture craze made it that you had to like everything, those idiots are collectivists so can only understand people as groups.

but also
>people dislike it when you criticise something they like
No fucking shit, doubly so when you make awful arguments and the same reaction would be had no matter what they applied it to. Which is why SJW get hate from every community they sink their claws into.

>Escapism
True, as would every other form of entertainment.
>Safe space that provides affirmation and validation
Unless you're a speed runner or into esports player there is no validation you get from playing video games. At least not more than playing any other sport would.
>Become a core part of their personal identity and lash out when people criticize them
Same can be said, once again for other hobbies. Self-described gamers are not the only ones who take their hobby to a level of importance more than it warrants.
>projection of their own insecurities

This whole post felt like a projection on their insecurities. Games are fine, if you take it too far you're autistic. Fan fiction writers, comic writers and deviant artists can also be put in the category of people that get fit his posts description. Also, literally who?

>They are, effectively, a "safe space"
Not if youre playing with me. Soyboys only hold the team back

>another neo-Marxist fails to understand the world due to the ideology

Imagine my shock.

>Complaining about my complaints makes you an insecure little weenie
kys

No one ITT but those kind of people do actually do so still.
When everyone was laughing their asses off about the Cuphead tutorial fails the journos were crying that "this must be the work of gg!" even some retarded devs like the sockpuppet guy did it.
They're still being triggered by that nonsense almost 4 years after it stopped being relevant.

It's a way to deceive, it's to make people think they are on the same side so they can intake criticism more easily.

>play shitty weeaboo games like senran kagura and always bring them up as an example of "women sexualization on videogames"
I can assure you those people don't play at all.

Check out this pleb. How long you been playing vidya for, one month? Two?

Could have something to do with the couple of diehards on twitter who still tweet #gamergate every other day and still latch onto every gaming controversy that rears its head on Sup Forums. And you do see how the whole cuphead nontroversy being overblown and turned into some point about how all games journalists are unqualified has its roots in gamergate narratives even without the hashtag, I hope?

It's absoutely fucking true. Look at all the attention grabbing Journalist sites that mention how a specific game helped them "Cope" with something in their life. It's the same with TV, for all intensive purposes an actor is just a normal guy but to a fan they are god themself and insulting them, despite not personally knowing them, will earn you their hate for no valid reason.

It's just another red flag for autism.

>Could have something to do with the couple of diehards on twitter
If a few twitter nobodies who once every 5 months tweet the hashtag is enough then I don't see the left's cultural revolution getting very far

>being overblown and turned into some point about how all games journalists are unqualified has its roots
In years of that exact complaint before GG ever begun?

>Could have something to do with
Nah, they're really just that spooked.
They saw gamers laugh at them and it "had to be the work of them evil gamergaters!".
Gamejournos and the likes of Schafer are just really that fucked in the head.
>And you do see how the whole cuphead nontroversy being overblown and turned into some point about how all games journalists are unqualified has its roots in gamergate
Don't be such a stupid ignorant newfaggot. People used to laugh about the lack of skill of game journalists back when Sup Forums was a new board because it was incredibly obvious from the reviews.
IGN's God Hand review is an infamous example of it and there's a ton more like it.

>"game journalists are retards" is a new thing

No it isn't, they've always been paid to inflate numbers and give good reviews.

They're not twitter nobodies to people who get upset about games journalism. I still see them posted on Sup Forums, even, to this day.
>In years of that exact complaint before GG ever begun?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say but I'm guessing that it's that "gamergate" hsa been around before the hashtag? Yes, well, this is a post-gamergate world, it has a name now.

The thing is though it was just one games journalist who admitted he was shit at the game but he loved it anyway and it got a good score and then the usual suspects were rabble-rousing all over again about how games journalists should all be fired and they hold "true gamers" in contempt anyway.

>Unless you're a speed runner or into esports player there is no validation you get from playing video games.

Cheevos

I'm fine with a game tackling current issues the problem is though 99% of video game writing is done by people too shitty to get a job writing for literally anything else.

>Just one

I haven't seen a single "journalist" that is good at a videogame.

>The thing is though it was just one games journalist who admitted he was shit at the game
He didn't. He attacked the incredibly basic tutorial and played it off as a joke after he started getting pushback for it.
Then the journocliques latched on because "reviewers don't need to be skilled at playing games".

>muh gamergate
>muh journos
>reddshitspacing
Seriously fuck off back to reddshit and/or step in front of a truck.

>trigger warnings
>bad
this isn't bait

So glad we have based ResetGAF around to impose their will on these caveman devs to remove problematic elements from their games ala Yooka Yaylee and Deus EX MD.

My feelings matter more than your art.

That's more accomplishment than affirmation or validation, but i definitely see where you're coming from.

>They're not twitter nobodies to people who get upset about games journalism
The majority say games journalism is bad, the majority also couldn't give less of a fuck about twitter randos

>but I'm guessing that it's that "gamergate" hsa been around before the hashtag
No you moron, that exact complaint has been around for years. Games journalism has always been looked down on, which is partly why only failures end up in it.

Oh yeah and not only that but then those same people also started throwing in a bunch of anti-SJW nonsense which was completely unwarranted by the mere footage of a game journo being bad at a game but fits in perfectly if you keep in mind that the outrage was still part of the same old gamergate scene.

Did you read the article though?

>Criticism
Learn some actual criticism and maybe people wouldn't lash out.

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>people noticing some retard that is paid to play games can't play for shit
>gamer gate guys

Retardus.

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>No you moron, that exact complaint has been around for years.
So, yes, in other words, there was a gamergate before gamergate. Although you're actually not quite right, the complaints used to be about paid reviews and unfair scores. The conspiracy shit about journo cliques who are unqualified but keep each other in the loop (probably to push some nebulous "agenda") is a more recent evolution of the same narrative.

Animefags have no business lecturing anyone else about escapism.

>anime avatar
>SJW
Like clockwork.

I wonder how people who believe in safe spaces would react to people saying any other safe space should be infiltrated and changed to better accommodate the newcomers

That wasn't the issue though. The issue was people (plenty of whom were known gamergaters back in the day) trying to latch onto that one piece of anecdotal evidence to make some wider point about the state of games journalism and how it needs to be burned to the ground. I think the only reason people refuse to acknowledge the connection to gamergate is that they are either embarrassed to be associated with it or they're trying to downplay their role in it.

I swear like half the people out there with Sailor Moon avatars are trannies.

>Gamergate
Take your strawman boogeyman and go back.

If you warn someone that a thing occurs in the game will trigger them then wouldn't that make them already think about the thing that would cause a trigger thus making them already trigger before even touching the game?

>say thing
>people disagree
>wah wah dumb insecure manchildren cant handle criticism

fug off

>gamergate again

What makes you think I care about that?

Or fat chicks.

>Anime avi has shit opinion
Oh man, it's just a universal constant isn't it?

>gamergate is behind the dean takahashi is a hack shit
>even old goons like slowbeef made reaction videos laughing at him

In some cases maybe but not in most. I think SJWs are pretty fucking retarded most of the time but I think there's genuinely value in trigger warnings.
Most of the time it's more an issue if it gets graphic or explicit in description.
Sometimes it's even just a topic or something people feel strongly about. I know a bunch of people that get "triggered" by certain topics or things without describing it as such and I think Trigger warnings are helpful, inoffensive and unintrusive, so why not have them?

Does not wanting IRL bullshit constantly in my vidya really warrant a fucking psychoanalysis? Like even these people must have the occasional need to disconnect themselves from the real world for a few minutes, no?

I wasn't even the one to bring it up but I'm just stating facts that these people were gamergaters and some of them still tweet the hashtag.
Because you keep talking about it?

I don't like people who play games strictly for escapism. Marche was right.

It's extremely strange because anime embodies everything they hate and yet they still lash on it for some reason.

But did he complain about how "THE GAMES MEDIA" was supposedly pushing the narrative that Cuphead was ableist because of it?

t. social justice warrior
(so-shel jus-tess wor-he-haw)
noun
one who employs in verbal combat with the means to promote social change

>2020
>WARNING: The following scene contains one person misusing pronouns
>Type "I accept" to continue

Yeah, why?

>the complaints used to be about paid reviews and unfair scores.
That shit that started very late, post-Kane & Lynch, even if there were a couple of outliers in the mid-90s like that one britbong article.
People used to complain about casual (that's people like you cancerous fucks) reviewers obviously not getting shit long before they started going on about admoney and exclusives.
>The conspiracy shit
Nothing conspiratorial about it.
Well unless you count the leaked mailing lists were they were talking about how to collude on certain games and suppress reviews of other ones.
>who are unqualified but keep each other in the loop
Been proven multiple times with the San Fran clique and the British one, as with the professional Squaresoft Shill that was outed over Deus Ex HR.

You clearly don't belong on here so fuck off.

>quotes the word, explicitly stating that he doesn't want to talk about the topic
>REEE STOP TALKING ABOUT GG

As a genderfluid nonbinary female black bear otherkin I can tell you that it's pretty distressing when someone misgenders me.

why would anyone care if he is right or not?

Play games because they're fun or to compete or for a challenge or for a story even. Not just to hide from your shitty life. That's fucking sad.

>so-shel jus-tess wor-he-haw
Mare-ee-oh

stop being retarded on purpose

Yes, but it's okay when they do it of course.

Honestly why are you getting involved in a discussion about gamergate just to repeatedly say that you don't want to talk about it?

>Be nerd
>play video games
>get make fun of by everyone
>seen as a loser
>get targeted by angry moms and Christians
>get demonised
>normalfaggots are now seeking a safe space in your fucking hobby when you endured the torment for years

Every hobby is like this. He's a faggot.

Nothing wrong with seeking escapism. Nice projection though.

This. It's always been a source of entertainment and amusement for me. Never about escapism.

Lol I think I caught an actual gamergater here

Where did you grow up that this is true? I played games all my life and was never mocked for it.

>hey guys user did something
>no he didn't
>REEEE STOP GETTING INVOLVED IN THE CONVERSATION

I think you used maybe half the words in that definition correctly.

He's just an autist who didn't realize he was the problem and not the video games.

Being a miserable sperg with a history of being bullied shouldn't be a prerequisite for enjoying video games.

Why are you getting upset? If you don't want a part of this conversation then just go do something else? If you don't want to talk about gamergate, just don't get involved in discussions about gamergate? What do you want from me really?

>known gamegaters
mein seides.
Neofag blowing up really took a toll on the minds of you poor fucks.

It was 20 years ago.

Here's an easy test to find out:
When you start playing a game, are you making that decision because the fiction that game presents is your ideal reality with a perfect representation of who you want to be? If you play it for any other possible reason, then no, he's not right.
ggez was this vs ai lol

I want you to leave.

back to lebbit with you filth

Sorry sweetheart, it's not your safe space.

Says the guy with Anime as his profile picture

You mean like how gamejournos at Glixel are now calling Cuphead racist because of it's 1930s artwork comes from a racist era?

No, this is my shit flinging containment board, now fuck off faggot.

>When you start playing a game, are you making that decision because the fiction that game presents is your ideal reality with a perfect representation of who you want to be?
You might not be doing this consciously.
> If you play it for any other possible reason, then no, he's not right.
That doesn't follow. Are you trying to redefine escapism to include only the most extreme forms of it?

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>Escapism
All hobbies are escapism, what makes vidya any special?
>Affirmation and validation
Once again, the same thing can be said for hobbies, if you're good at it, some validation isn't a bad thing.
>Core part of personal identity
Everything you do, including your hobbies, is a part of your identity as a person, so once again, how is it a bad thing?
>Projection of insecurity
...I don't know if you have enough synapses to see your immense hypocrisy right now.

He was almost right until "can't handle criticism"
Criticism is fine, shoving your own shitty political agenda isn't, and fucking dudes to get positive reviews for your shit is much worse.

Don't forget MMOs either. They still have some clout, although they're on the decline at present.

They are not.

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t. faggot millennial that played halo and goldeneye in the late 90s

we're coming for your video games whether you like it or not