God, when 12 and 13 year old kids freak out because we sell nintendo 64's
"MAN THAT SHITS SO OLD SCHOOL!!, I remember playing that when I was a kid!"
...your 13 and retarded.
God, when 12 and 13 year old kids freak out because we sell nintendo 64's
"MAN THAT SHITS SO OLD SCHOOL!!, I remember playing that when I was a kid!"
...your 13 and retarded.
"Mobs" meaning monsters.
"Re-rolled" meaning create a new character.
Someone in my household plays WoW, in case you couldn't tell.
That's nothing compared what TI-99 carts were called...."Command Modules."Originally Posted by motley6
Wow, shocks me a bit to see someone hate the term "gameplay" so much. It's tidy and efficient. It's just convenient. Eh. Whatever floats your boat I guess..
Same here. I rarely use the word, and never use it to describe myself. I much prefer the term "diehard" which IMHO has the same concept as "hardcore" minus the 'elitist' connotations. Again, whatever floats your boat but that's my take and I'm stickin' to it.
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You forgot one important aspect of the difficulty in old games: the control! Yes, the control in many older games wasn't as responsive and smooth as it is now. Compare the control in an old game like Double Dragon, Rygar, or Rad Racer, which is pretty good, to the control in a new game like Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime, or Burnout 2, which is far better.
I knew that, but it doesn't make any sense. The original code name for the Nintendo 64 was the Ultra 64, but people didn't call it the NU64 because that would be stupid. They called it the N64.
The original code name for the GameCube was the Dolphin, but people didn't call it the "D" or the Dolphin because, again, that would be stupid...just like "PSX."
The "X" in PSX? It stands for "X-TREME"!!!!
I kinda like that term actually. It has a nice sound to it.That's nothing compared what TI-99 carts were called...."Command Modules."
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I dislike how the Entertainment System is called "Nintendo" and the Mega Drive is called "Sega". The PlayStation isn't called "Sony" and the Xbox isn't called "Microsoft", are they?
This slightly annoys me now but in retrospect most people growing up in that era called them that. If you owned a Nintendo system it was an NES, if you owned a Sega system it was *probally* a Genesis...same for Atari. Sony and Microsoft had many pre-established products before their game systems so taht would make much less sense.
No, FPS should here-in be referred to as FPS, and shooter should be referred to as shooter. I'm sorry, but thats a really big pet peeve for me.
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That's why I use the terms "first-person shooter" and "space shooter."
That's probably because games didn't have storylines in the old days, and want to push the fact games have storylines now. The closest thing to a storyline most Atari games had was "You are guy. Shoot asteroid in space. A Winner is You!" (The exception is Adventure, which has a better storyline than the first Zelda IMO).
Anyway, some things that annoy me:
- People who don't even know the names of the games they like
(They either tell you made-up names like "Mario Fight" (Super Smash Bros.) or poor descriptions like "It's that game where you run around, shooting things")
- Calling the Nintendo 64 the "64"
(It's N64!)
- Called the Sega Genesis a "Sega"
(Sega could mean anything)
- Calling NEC "Neck"
(It's N-E-C. Off topic, but I never had a TurboGrafix-16. I have a NEC PowerMate VP75, though (Their desktop PCs kick ass))
- Spelling "video games" as "videogames"
(Annoys me more than anything, tied closly with the below. Since the '70s, it's been spelled as 2 words, and should stay that way. Learn to use the space bar!)
- People who talk trash about a game they've never played
(Tied closely with the above. I hate it when someone talks trash about a game they never played, just based on either a few screen caps and a brief description in a magazine or on a website or what they've heard from someone else)
*shrugs*
Maybe people just were used to having 3+ letter acronyms for their game systems. NES, Super NES, TG16, etc. Personally, I think it would sound awkward and wrong to say, "Hey, do you guys have the new Castlevania for PS in?" Especially since back then there was no PS2 or 3, so you couldn't expect them to say PS1.
That's another thing that always annoyed me. When people say "x game 1" when reffering to the first installment in a series. "Oh, I like Final Fantasy 1, but I don't like 2." Why say 1? The game isn't called FF1, it's just FF. Just say FF, or Mario, or Zelda, or whatever. Or say something like, "my favorite one was the original," or, "the first one," something like that. Don't say, "Castlevania 1 is a hard game."!
I only need 2 more NES games (US)!
The NES being called a "ness"
when I go to a classic gaming store and ask for Odyssey games, i get Odd World.
Mob(s) is short for Mobile(s)
Roll and re-roll are part of many mmo terminology straight from the game itself.
I hate WoW; I did play EverQuest for many years though.
I really don't mind most of the abbreviations and terminology mentioned in this thread but if I had to name a pet peeve it would probably be:
"Liek omgz u r retaded this isnt skool so I dun care how I typ online only nerds complan abut that I could care less!11!1!1shit!one"
...on a gaming messageboard no less; when you skip over their question because it pains you to read it(while also wasting your valuable time deciphering what they saved time apparantly "typing").
p.s. I'm typing this on my PS3 and it constantly misses characters so I have to type extremely slow or it misses a lot.
I am very passionate about my pet peeves. Here are some of them.
Remote - It's a controller, not a freaking remote. Get it straight. Additionally, whomever coined the term "Wiimote" needs to be shot.
Deck - Alternatively "Control Deck", like Nintendo wanted us to call them. It's annoying, but it's thankfully not that common.
Shooter - When it refers to FPS. A small part of me dies each time I hear it used to describe an FPS, and, like Prometheus, that part of me is reborn, only to die again the next time I hear it.
Extra man - It's an extra life. Not a "man", a "guy", or a "Mario" (especially if it's not a Mario game). The image I get when I think of them as "extra guys" really disturbs me. It's like there's a bunch of them waiting around under the screen, just waiting for the current guy to die in some horrible death, so they can go to their own doom. "Oh, Timmy's gone...you're up next, Larry. I'll go last." It's just...disturbing.
Sness - I can't explain how much this irritates me. Alternates: "Snezz" "Ness", "Nezz". Die.
Rumble - I can't really explain this one. The controller's vibrating, not "rumbling". "Force feedback" is also a little irritating.
SKN - Only encountered this one recently. The people who utter it tend to be idiots, though, so I guess it's to be expected.
CGI - Now, the term itself doesn't bother me, but when people say it like "Oh, no, that's a CGI, not in-game graphics", it's annoying. Wow, my video game has CGI graphics? I thought it was all charcoal, or something. Of course it's computer-generated.
GCN - I feel a little stabby every time I see this. WHY is the N at the END??? NGC would make more sense, but I guess that sounds too much like that naturalist food store. But come on, the Dreamcast got away with "DC", it's not called "SDC" or "DCS", is it? Don't freaking call the Gamecube the "GCN".
PSTriple - The worst of them all. I see this all the time on GameFAQS (though maybe that explains it...). First off, it's "Three", not "Triple" in the name. Nobody says "Playstation Triple", because it's stupid, and it's not the name. Second, it's MORE WRITING. WHY? I feel violent whenever I see this. In fact, I'm getting worked up just writing about it.
Additionally, I find I really hate the name "Wii". It just annoys the hell out of me, for some reason. It's just...an awful name for a console, and I'm not even talking about the obvious puerile jokes. I also don't like "Xbox 360", for obvious geometric reasons. I think from now on, I'm going to call it the "Xbox 2pi", because that's equivalent.
On the subject of "preggos": I've never heard that term before. Now, of course, I'm going to hear it everywhere I go. I, too, find it strangely annoying and creepy. I refuse to ever acknowledge it. Or, better, I'll make up some BS story about it being extremely derogatory, which should get people I know to stop using it (if I ever do hear it used; hopefully, it's a regional thing).
I probably have more, but I can't think of anything else.
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Part of the reason the PlayStation 1 stayed with the nickname PSX is because PS is a crappy abbreviation. Before the PS2 came out, it didn't make sense to call it the PS1.
And yet, the PlayStation brand symbol is a "PS"
Isn't GCN based on product codes? or all they all DOL? It is sorta weird. At least we don't call the DS "NTR".
fanboy is one that really bugs me.
FAQ is for Frequently Asked Questions. It is not for "facts." F-A-Q is the correct way to say it.
As for my pet peeves, I hate the word "pet peeve." It's really fucking dumb. Also, NES is NEVER Ness.
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