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Gaming Is Cool But Gamers Are (Still) Not

Quote: "A few years ago I read an opinion column in a local gaming magazine in which the writer drew a very unnerving picture about the gaming scene; where it has come from and where it is going in the future.

In a nutshell he asserted that as gaming slowly but surely reaches the mainstream, it becomes more popular and receives more widespread positive appeal but those of us who have always been around and can actually call ourselves gamers will not suddenly become the cool kids. The jocks will effectively still remain the jocks and, unfortunately, we will still remain the nerdy / geeky dweebs who creep everyone out and essentially, are social outcasts. "

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Canary4056d ago

Did everyone else go to a stereoptypical 1980s high school?

I almost feel bad that my school wasn't segregated into social classes like that. ~__~

Krypto4056d ago

Only ones that are not cool, are the ones that don't game!

Reverent4056d ago

I don't even understand that. As a kid, I went through FOUR separate schools (3 in small towns, and one in a huge city) and literally none of them were set up in that stereotypical fashion. It's like, everyone was too busy with their own lives to give a crap about who was the "cool" group, or the "jock" group etc. Did TV sitcoms just invent it to set up some stupid gag, or what?

wallis4055d ago

TV just relies on lazy stereotypes as do most narratives. You can't introduce every single aspect of a character from the word go so a lot of the time it's inferred and stereotypes are great at this. You see this all the time in video games as well. How many old wise guys, little bouncy sidekick girls, big hulking angsty heroes and violent orcs have we dealt with in games? How many villains have facial scarring, how many heroes have stubble as a shortcut for manliness? Just the way shit is.

HammadTheBeast4056d ago

Tv media, whatever.

In my time, Gameboys were what the "cool kids" had.

Reverent4056d ago

Lol exactly. When I was in school, whoever had the latest console, games, etc. were considered the person you wanted to hang out with.

GloriousBagel4056d ago

I'm cool :<.
Gaming was cool in my High School but it was just a bunch of lame CoD kids. I felt like the only RPG gamer there xD

mamotte4056d ago

I'm 27, work in a company with guys my age... and I still know that feeling. I mean, they're literally "But, but... you need to read in that game, right? Meh"

3-4-54056d ago

I'm same age and come from a time when games were anything.

There is a whole generation of gamers who think that if it's not COD then it sucks.

People who are just getting into gaming since 2007 end up being the most vocal about what games are good even though they have no clue how many gems of various genres they have missed out on over the years.

90% of games released today don't hold up to the SNES, N64 , PS1 classics.

GloriousBagel4056d ago

I know that feel. I am an early ninety's kid. 93' to be exact :).

RPG games were all the rage, kids didn't mind reading. (at least that was the case for my group of friends) We played all genres and loved all games.

That is not the case anymore, my siblings can't touch anything that isn't CoD. They can't stand RPG games because of the reading.

Instant gratification/ADD styled games have ruined this generation of gamers.

mamotte4053d ago (Edited 4053d ago )

@ those two guys above:

I dont know what's happening with the extreme laziness today. Specially when it comes to read. You should see my coworkers's face when they catch me playing 999 or Phoenix Wright during breaks (Or learning Japanese). They just cant imagine a game with so Much text can exist. They think it cant be funny, too. Sad times, really. Not to mention that the native language here is spanish, and I play games in english. So: Full text + english = ARE YOU F'ING INSANE???.

HK5A4056d ago

'Some of them' Are NOT, NOT all of them.

Kyosuke_Sanada4056d ago (Edited 4056d ago )

Dude you have an Oldboy avatar. You are way cool in my book :3

ApolloTheBoss4056d ago

If all gamers were cool we'd all be playing nothing but Madden and COD.

Reverent4056d ago

That's funny because most of the people I know who play both of those games, are chubby, greasy guys who just sit on the couch all day and either, play the aforementioned games, or watch sports.

Not saying this is a stereotype or anything; just my personal experience.

ApolloTheBoss4056d ago

Well, high school jocks would usually play those games when I was in grade school, but hey, to each his own experience.

Reverent4056d ago

Also, I realized my comment may have come off a bit defensive/rude sounding, but that wasn't my intention. I do actually agree with you lol.

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai8h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken8h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye6h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken5h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno3h ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

porkChop2h ago

The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.

Chocoburger3h ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

Aussiesummer1h ago

It's not a remaster, it's a next gen update.

badz1491h ago

LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?

Profchaos1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.

A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC

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Gears of War Voice Actor Hints At New Game Announcement Coming In June

A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.

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Ra30302h ago

Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.

Sciurus_vulgaris1h ago

The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .

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Honkai Star Rail's Revival Tendencies Take Away the Seriousness of Character Deaths

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