Nope, I've 100% seen these opinions expressed in the wild a whole bunch of times (yes I am from the oppressed trve g*mer minority). You can almost understand it from people who have their self worth entangled with their Paradox spreadsheet games that take three years to figure out how to play, but it's always most hilarious from these guys thinking that their favourite manshooter is more of a deep intellectual experience that someone else's manshooter, which is obviously only enjoyed by lumpengamertariat babies.
I think the funniest thing about this is that Paradox games are not hard to play. They are just fairly unintuitive interfaces. The mechanics involved are pretty similar from one to the other. Once you have played one, the rest come pretty naturally. If they are not your cup of tea, I get it, but pretending that they have intellectual significance is hilarious to me.
Gonna get on my g*mer soapbox here and say the thing that shits me the most about the eLiTe StRaTeGy GaMeR crowd is that they've completely convinced themselves that complexity=depth and streamlining=dumbing down, and that having a million micromanagey bullshit mechanics that add nothing is the way to make games great. Even considering trading 50 meaningless and poorly-balanced decisions that you click through on autopilot for 5 actual meaningful decisions is the most anathema thing a developer can do. It hasn't dawned on them that chess doesn't need you to micromanage 400 trade routes between your horse and your castle. Or alternatively, they're subconsciously aware that if you make your elitist nerd thing even slightly more accessible to normies, then it's harder to wank on about your intellectual superiority. In conclusion: fucking nerds
Of course it's fucking parody, this was made by someone with a great sense of humor. Tossing New Vegas in neo, putting Dota and League in separate categories, putting a literal visual novel in neo.
Any one of these could be its own bait, altogether it's a bit overkill
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Nope, I've 100% seen these opinions expressed in the wild a whole bunch of times (yes I am from the oppressed trve g*mer minority). You can almost understand it from people who have their self worth entangled with their Paradox spreadsheet games that take three years to figure out how to play, but it's always most hilarious from these guys thinking that their favourite manshooter is more of a deep intellectual experience that someone else's manshooter, which is obviously only enjoyed by lumpengamertariat babies.
I think the funniest thing about this is that Paradox games are not hard to play. They are just fairly unintuitive interfaces. The mechanics involved are pretty similar from one to the other. Once you have played one, the rest come pretty naturally. If they are not your cup of tea, I get it, but pretending that they have intellectual significance is hilarious to me.
Gonna get on my g*mer soapbox here and say the thing that shits me the most about the eLiTe StRaTeGy GaMeR crowd is that they've completely convinced themselves that complexity=depth and streamlining=dumbing down, and that having a million micromanagey bullshit mechanics that add nothing is the way to make games great. Even considering trading 50 meaningless and poorly-balanced decisions that you click through on autopilot for 5 actual meaningful decisions is the most anathema thing a developer can do. It hasn't dawned on them that chess doesn't need you to micromanage 400 trade routes between your horse and your castle. Or alternatively, they're subconsciously aware that if you make your elitist nerd thing even slightly more accessible to normies, then it's harder to wank on about your intellectual superiority. In conclusion: fucking nerds
Of course it's fucking parody, this was made by someone with a great sense of humor. Tossing New Vegas in neo, putting Dota and League in separate categories, putting a literal visual novel in neo.
Any one of these could be its own bait, altogether it's a bit overkill