Actual Gaming: This thread is the first entry in a series which attempts to form the basis of a higher standard of videogame discussion. This series seeks to provide definitive and irrefutable responses to the tedious and repetitious talking points of those who, as it will be demonstrated, do not actually care about videogames. You are encouraged to link or paste these texts whenever you encounter some poster who clearly needs to read them. The end-goal is to entertain less pointless arguments that have been had out countless times before, and instead have more positive and intelligent videogame discussion with these understandings. It will attempt to answer everything worth answering.
Lesson 1: Nobody cares how poor you are.
Videogames are a cheap hobby. If you can read this, you're most likely on a device capable of playing hundreds of great videogames, and for practically free. You can emulate DOS games, SNES games, arcade games in MAME, adventure games in ScummVM, and countless others. There are classics throughout the medium which are just as essential to play as any game you might not have the means for yet. You could be a blessing to yourself and others by expanding your tastes, discovering underrated gems, and sharing them. You could play DoDonPachi, Another World, Mother 3, Osman, The Colonel's Bequest, A Mind Forever Voyaging, The Silver Case, DOOM II (you could spend a year just playing DOOM WADs and continuously be surprised), one-credit-clear a Metal Slug, get good at StarCraft, or just forget about having taste and waste your life playing clicker MOBAs (but please don't post about anything other than clicker MOBAs if you do this).
Yet people aren't content with having several lifetimes of free entertainment available to them, so they feel the need to complain about videogames that cost money, or that require hardware (PC or console) that costs money, or that have in-game purchases or subscriptions. They dress up their complaints using concepts like "value", "product", "consumer rights", and other bullshit that has nothing to do with the actual quality of the game to someone who has no problem affording it.
Nobody cares how poor you are. You might see other poor people shrieking similarly, but they will not help you become less poor and to live a better life. They might at best conspire to make a game less fiscally aggressive, such as with microtransactions, but generally these aspects are trivial (cosmetics) or the game simply did not really appeal to you to begin with (Artifact). You might insist that you're not poor, but that you have a fixed value limit of what a videogame can be worth ("I paid sixty dollars!"), and this is far worse: spiritual poverty. Nobody cares. It is off-topic and detrimental to videogame discussion. Cost has nothing to do with the only valuation of a videogame that matters, which is whether they are even worth your time. It is certainly worth nobody's time to argue about the price of videogames other than the people selling them. If you can't afford them, don't buy them, and please shut the fuck up about them and focus on what you can enjoy. It's better for everyone that way.
Carter Thompson
literally go to reddit
Alexander Scott
"In plain words: The more dollars in one's bank account, the less valuable each individual dollar seems to be. To the heir of a Middle Eastern kingdom, 10,000+ dollars for the super deluxe version of After Burner Climax will doubtless seem like chump change, whilst the Darfur refugee, who barely managed to scrape together the Sudanese pound equivalent of five bucks by scavenging the corpses of his fellow villagers after they were massacred by rampaging bandits, would no doubt balk at the thought of spending it all to download Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved."
I'm thinking of rewriting this one to be more impactful first (this is first draft), but Lesson 2 will probably be "Yes, games are an artform, which means all games are art, and no, "art" does not necessarily mean 'good' or 'thematically deep' or 'subversive' or whatever random dumb shit you think it means." That's one topic that needs to fucking die.
There's a big behind it that probably contains a portable battery
Bentley Cook
Pretending there's no holistic impact of a videogame and you're just there to browse a quirky museum of visual and sound assets sampled from various other forms is extremely stupid.
Liam Richardson
Anyone else want to play video games with this dude? Seems like he would be chill as hell while you play couch co-op with him.
Nathaniel Hernandez
Seems like a faggot that would criticize everything you do and complain if you did anything fun instead of what he wants to do
Bentley Nguyen
I think he meant the fat black dude on the bus.
Brayden Morales
He'd smell and wheeze all the time because of how fat he is but I can see him being easygoing and willing to play any game as long as it's with a friend.
Leo Murphy
downvoted
Nolan Long
Based OP
Jason Long
Indeed, my fellow user. That's why carefully crafted masterpieces like Deadly Premonition deserve so much praise. The parts on their own are already delightful but joined together form a religious experience
Tyler Foster
There's no such a thing, idiot
Matthew Campbell
Deadly Premonition is a great and unforgettable game but it is by no means, in any sense of the word, a "masterpiece", and almost every aspect of it in strict isolation is either average or worse but their thoughtful juxtaposition redeems them.
Don't be a weeb.
Jordan Cooper
you're right OP but no one is going to listen to you. you didn't even use the epic fotm buzzwords. newfags legit think this board is for shitposting only. there's no saving this place. cherish the rare good threads and ignore the rest
By the way I don’t think I ever got an answer just as to why it should be spelled videogames without a space. I’m sure you have your reasons which is why I ask, I just could never figure just what they may be (sorry if it makes me a subhuman or something for not being able to intuit it)
>Actual [capitalized word] >videogames with no space >game choice (esp. Artifact) >contempt for the poor >omitting NES >general writing style, etc.
Wyatt Bennett
whoosp
Oliver Campbell
Videogames don't necessarily have to be "games" in most understandings of that term. "Video games" implies they are necessarily a type of game, which is an archaic understanding of the form. It also just looks ugly and it makes no sense to have two words when one suffices neatly.
