Everywhere you look these days, things are sensationalized. The television news stations have discovered that they need flair and fear to keep audience attention; a scary story about babies reacting badly to a vaccine is told to the viewer that it will be told coming up....then told again....and again....and again. They retell stories of violence until some people develop an irrational view of a horrible violent world that's getting worse by the second.
The game community is no different. The same grim stories are repeated and retreaded a million and a half times. The same issues are re-examined ad nauseum.
Gamers, being human beings, often react the same way as any news viewer. One sexual harassment case at a convention is retold and discussed a dozen and a half times and people start looking around at the community and seeing perverts. "The gaming community disgusts me!" some of them say. "What is WRONG with the gaming community?" "Why is the gaming community so sexist?"
Intentional bias articles are created to garner hits to a website. Gamers discuss the issue and ask "why is the game community always fighting?" "What's WRONG with the gaming community?" The same few fanboys comment in every other article. "Why are there so many fanboys? Why can't we just get along?" "What is WRONG with the gaming community?"
But is there really anything "wrong" outside of the typical problems found in every day life? Are there not non-gaming perverts? Are stories not sensationalized elsewhere, and are such stories not the minority (even if those in particular do get more attention because of their outrageous nature)? Are there not fanatics in other facets of life?
I simply don't think there is anything very particularly wrong with the gaming community. Any issues I see here, I see anywhere else. It's a shame to see gamers shaming their own community in particular because of typical activity that defines society as a whole.
We want a fair shake from the world and the way people typically view us, right? Let's start by not viewing ourselves as some sort of sub-human category. Gamers are people.
The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
TSA go hands on with the beta for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, but how is the game transitioning to the post-stylus era?
The gaming community isn't going to get anywhere if we self-discriminate and hyper-extend issues. Gamers aren't more messed up than the general population.
Nothing wrong? We're reactionary going crazily defensive on games that are little more than announcements or a teaser trailer.
Nevermind game "journalist" who either have fanboy agendas or have sold their opinions both directly and indirectly. Game devs who rely on broken tools and update patches.
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I have to disagree.No matter how bad the gaming community seemed before the way it is now is definitely worse.We could have conversations without starting blood feuds and talk about what we like or don't like without having walls of offensive and defense put up in front of you and being assaulted by the force of gamers who write horrible insults and threats if you refuse to go along with what everyone says.Just say that you like the new DMC or say you think the Wii U pad is unnecessary or looks uncomfortable and you will see how much abuse you get. I mean even the trolls have become nothing but blathering idiots who keep shouting 'This sucks or that sucks'. Even when you were trolling long before you at least did it with clever statements or wordplay or something.And comparing it to crazy sports fans doesn't solve or excuse the problem.Just because you accept the fact that gamers behave like maniacs doesn't make it okay.
It's like watching a guy swing a chainsaw around laughing like a crazy person and saying 'It's okay,he always does that'. Saying 'that's just how it is' doesn't excuse it. You should be striving to end the conflicts and make things better not go down the path to hell and say 'It's okay we were going down there anyway'. We were never this bad. No matter how many conflicts my friends and I had over who is better Sonic or Mario it never reached the point that I flung horrible insults at them or wanted to beat them senseless. You must accept the fact that just because you like something doesn't mean everyone else does too. I am sure their are lots of things I like that you many not but I don't hold that against you.Being passionate about something doesn't mean or make it okay to bash my head in the moment I say I don't agree with it.
I think the problem comes in the expression. We don't know how to behave, and the internet is making what is already a bad situation worse because it's giving us seemly unlimited anonymity.
Yes, we are passionate about our hobby, and yes, we would defend it to the death. Problem is, when we go to actually SAY such things and express our views, what does 75% of the comments consist of? Nothing mature and nothing that would tell anyone that we know what we're talking about and that we are acting like the adults in the room.
This is not happening right now. Not to mention that some people's attention spans and knowledge about certain things that could transcend gaming is rather short. Not saying all gamers are this way, but it's a unfortunate side effect of the whole thing. You're going to have some people who should never have access to a keyboard and the internet deciding that they are going to try to speak for and represent all of us before going on a tirade of profanity, personal attacks, and name calling that gets us nowhere. And this is usually the only thing that people outside of the community see out of us because those that CAN make people see us more seriously are those that couldn't be asked to care about certain things enough to say something about it.
The PAX incident last year was a clear example of this. I bet you that if people did more to keep those idiots' hypocritical treatment of Jessica Nigiri in the news (we haven't forgotten about that, by the way, PAX East, and yes, a blog from me is on the way to tell you that we're not going to stand for crap like that again), more would've been done about the treatment of some women at that show (such male chauvinist behavior happened before a few years over at that exact same show...that again, people forgot about when talking about the Jessica incident). But yeah, not enough people cared about that.
What did they care about instead? Jumping on the anti-jailbreaking bandwagon, calling someone a hobbit and wishing death on anyone who dared even questioned anything corporations do about it...all without even the slightest lick that anyone who posted such comments knew what they were even going on about. Yeah, calling someone Frodo and wishing that someone would be gang-raped was MUCH more important than making sure women were treated fairly at a gaming show.
Thus, you see the issue. There IS a problem with the community, but not where you're seeing it. Priorities and behavior are not there right now for the gaming community, and the bad apples are spoiling the bunch.