The 25 Reasons Gamers Annoy Non-Gamers

[wraggster]

Justin over at Game With a Brain wrote up a list of 25 reasons gamers annoy non-gamers. Not sure if he's a non-gamer, as the knowledge is pretty specific. But I agree a lot of these are pretty palpable reasons I get hacked off at my own people. He should have thrown something in about inscrutable Asian MMOs. I get that it's an acquired taste but, really, blowing your own head off to activate your powers? Ummm ...

Here's the first 10. The other 15 are on the jump. The comments on Game With a Brain absolutely crucify the guy. I don't know if they get the point of the satire, but they take it way too seriously, and that could be reason No. 26


1. Halo is not a sport.
2. The controllers are indeed too complicated.
3. No, I have no clue what happened in Mega Man 4.
4. I don’t need 502 ways to decapitate my opponent.
5. No, I do not need to read a FAQ to find all 502 ways.
6. Zelda games do not need to be hard edged.
7. Resident Evil 2 is not the best in the series.
8. Final Fantasy VII is the best Final Fantasy.
9. I find Wii Sports to be incredibly fun.
10. I own a PSP and have not installed custom firmware.

11. I really like Guitar Hero.
12. I don’t really like drawing maps to play video games.
13. Madden Football is good enough.
14. Portal was a fun game and not a religion.
15. I need help playing games sometimes.
16. You are not persecuted.
17. Sorry, but dressing up as Cloud makes you a nerd.
18. $600 is a lot to play video games.
19. I will ask if you have Pac-Man or Donkey Kong.
20. I don’t want to join a clan.
21. I like licensed games.
22. Game stories bore me.
23. I will not read a book or watch a film based on a video game.
24. I have no idea what a PokeMAN is.
25. I enjoy Bejeweled.

http://kotaku.com/5038043/the-25-reasons-gamers-annoy-non+gamers

[mcdougall57]

I agree with a fair few of those comments.

[basilb]

the guy who wrote the list is a douche.

[vicious1988]

1. If Halo is a sport then masturbation is like a decathalon
2. Eh. I kinda enjoyed the 2 button days
3. No, I have no clue what happened in Mega Man 4 either.
4. Gimme a shotgun
5. Once again, a 12 gauge will do just fine
6. ...
7. Not a big RE fan
8. Don't care for FF
9. I enjoy it on occasion
10. PSP? You mean that thing everybody uses for movies and music?

11. I like Guitar Hero.
12. The hell? What video game requires you to draw a map?
13. Liked '97 for my Saturn
14. All bow before the weighted companion cube
15. No.
16. WHAT?!?! Persecution is what the Jews have suffered through. I'll leave it there.
17. Agreed, such ***gotry.
18. Don't have a PS3
19. Pong FTW
20. Have one
21. Shovelware *gasp*
22. Gore movies bore me
23. Agreed
24. I had all 152 on Blue and Red (If you include MissingNo)
25. Peggle is better.

[mike_jmg]

1. Agreed
2. Mehh!! there is a lot more buttons on a keyboard
3. Don't know what you're talking about, but I like that game
4. I love Mortal Kombat II
5. I learned all the fatalities by heart from a FAQ
6. ....
7. I've only beated RE4, IMO is the best one
8. Mehh! I got bored
9. For the first 5 mins you play, then gets boring
10. Blasfemy
11. I wanted to try it, but never had the chance
12. don't really care
13. don't like madden or any other sports game
14. what is Portal?
15. Me too, but just not very often
16. who's persecuted
17. Yeah
18. I still haven't bought my ps3, but someday I will
19. I don't like pac man
20. me neither
21. Me too
22. Get the one you like, not the one everyone thinks is good
23. Keep em coming (FPS perspective on Doom movie was nice)
24. Gotta catch em all
25. I play it sometimes when I have nothing else at hand but I don't enjoy it, it came in my cellphone

[John Vattic]

the guy who wrote the list is a douche.

I agree.:thumbup:

[Sterist]

lol ?

[masterchief929]

... only acouple things on this list are true...

[devdj]

how about 25 reasons this thread fails

[gutbub]

While a few of these are true, after a few, they get to specific. I'm a gamer, but that doesn't mean all gamers play the same exact games. Also, just because I game, doesn't mean I don't have a life outside of games.

[____anders____]

some are true, the other are not..

[JKKDARK]

Yeah, really a bad list.

[goshogun1]

I didn't even break a smile reading that. Should I have? :confused:

[Eyedunno]

I agree that FFVII is the best Final Fantasy. Opinions to the contrary are usually just backlash at its popularity, though I can understand how fans of varied character classes would hate it. However, I also agree with #17. Dressing up as video game characters and/or obsessing over Cloud and how dreamy he is are both lame.

Oh, and #24 is awesome. I'm 29, and I was just a little too old during the rise of PokeMANs, and I still think those games look really dumb.

#14 is good too. Portal is probably in my three favorite games of '07, but people saying "THE CAKE IS A LIE" at every mention of it is already old (tough I got a small kick out of it the first time I heard "the cake is a pie").

[____anders____]

/ignore on this thread

xD

[that1guywiththeface]

I'd say roughly half of those things are true, especially the one about dressing up as Cloud. Nobody with a (hot) girlfriend (unless she is doing it too, or suggested it) does this, because when she finds out, they are no longer a person with a girlfriend. I wonder why......

[Sp3ct0r]

Successful troll is successful.

[basilb]

I wish wraggster had used a bit of discretion when linking across this article. It was bad enough that it was on Kotaku in the first place.