Annoying Video Game Terms or Pet Peeves

[Steven]

Fanboy is thrown around too much. You can't just like things or prefer one thing over the other without having someone give you the third degree on your fucking opinion. It's like being called a racist if you don't like Queen Latifa. I just don't like her dumpy ass. I don't like Drew Barrymore's dumpy ass either...am I a race trader now? Fanboy has become a passive aggressive synonym for "I disagree."

True that. And speaking of words that have been overused, what about "obscure" ?

Just 5, 6 years ago, you didn't see the word much (or at least I didn't in my gaming travels). Nowadays everyone and their brothers think they're an expert on obscure games, with youtube channels to prove it. It's been used so much (and in some cases poorly chosen) that I sort of cringe now whenever I see the word being thrown around like free condiments.

[PentiumMMX]

I might as well add these while I'm at it:

- Using Atari \ Nintendo \ PlayStation as a generic term for all video games
(This always annoys me when somebody says that)

- Hearing people use chat lingo in real life
(This I find more amusing than annoying. It's always funny when you head someone talking about "pawning" some "nubs" in whatever first-person shooter they play online. I even once heard someone's grandma using chat lingo, like in that cell phone ad)

- People who think all that matters about a game is graphics
(This I frequently hear from people around my age. They see me playing something like Zelda: Link's Awakening, and they start making fun of the game because "It's graphics suck". Yes, a 10+ year old game is going to be graphically inferior to a new game, but that doesn't prevent the game from still being fun)

- People assuming because I'm a teen \ young adult, all I give a damn about is 360
(It annoys me when I go to a garage sale and ask if they have any video games, only to have the people running the sale tell me "All we have is stuff for [Random non-current system that I happen to own], and you wouldn't be interested, because said system is old")

[TurboGenesis]

- People who think all that matters about a game is graphics
(This I frequently hear from people around my age. They see me playing something like Zelda: Link's Awakening, and they start making fun of the game because "It's graphics suck". Yes, a 10+ year old game is going to be graphically inferior to a new game, but that doesn't prevent the game from still being fun)

I hate this till the end of time… from people on the sports forums I frequent, to my co-workers, to my own friends, I cannot stand that everyone assume that if a game have awesome graphics that it is automatically good. I have been heckle and tease because I enjoy playing old fashioned games… I have had friends of friends come over and they see me playing Nintendo and they begin to laugh and snicker, and carry on about how such games are old and the graphics are sux…

I am always a crusader for the gameplay over graphics for everlasting time… fight on brother.

I don't play my games on pause. If I wanted something to look good, I'd go watch a movie or stare at art…
(quote from me)

[TurboGenesis]

"Thank you for calling Earthlink. How can I help you?"
"My internet doesn't work. Fix it."
"Maam, what is wrong with it?"
"I don't know. Send somebody out to fix it."
"Maam, we will go through some troubleshooting steps to help you fix this."
"No, just send somebody out to fix it."

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

My response to this,

"well, if you do not want to go through some simple quick steps, it will take four to five days til we can get someone out there."

Many American people lack patience, and will overcome laziness in an effort to save time. We have saying in the manufacturing business, put the laziest people on the hardest jobs, they will find the most efficient method of running that job while maintaining their prefered level of laziness.

[jdc]

It used to make me cringe when people referred to any videogame controller as a "paddle". "Hi, our grandson needs a new paddle for his Xbox. Got any?"

[AB Positive]

I'm guilty of some, and not of others... for instance:

I've said "Snes" sometimes... sometimes "Super N-E-S" but never "Nes". Always "N-E-S"

When I worked at Gamestop another asst. manager and I would make fun of the younger set as they left the shop....

"Man, I pownsed you like I was your mama!"

purely in a satirical way though.

[Atarileaf]

It's always bugged me when adults call every game system a Nintendo...but thats big for me in other areas as well since I also hate when everyone call every Mp3 player an Ipod and every brand of tissue a kleenex as well.

Or calling photocopying "Xeroxing"

[Zap!]

- Hearing people use chat lingo in real life
(This I find more amusing than annoying. It's always funny when you head someone talking about "pawning" some "nubs" in whatever first-person shooter they play online. I even once heard someone's grandma using chat lingo, like in that cell phone ad)

Heh, I used to say "143" all the time to my girl in the late 90's/very early 2000's. For those who are too young to know, 143 is beeper lingo for I love You.

[Zap!]

I'm guilty of some, and not of others... for instance:

I've said "Snes" sometimes... sometimes "Super N-E-S" but never "Nes". Always "N-E-S"

When I worked at Gamestop another asst. manager and I would make fun of the younger set as they left the shop....

"Man, I pownsed you like I was your mama!"

purely in a satirical way though.

What's wrong with saying Ness or Sness? In my view, if an abbreviation is a sayable word, then say it. If not (like SMS), the say out the letters.

[neuropolitique]

More quick ones

Gameboy as Gimboy

or when people spell Game Boy as Gameboy.

[SegaAges]

My response to this,

"well, if you do not want to go through some simple quick steps, it will take four to five days til we can get someone out there."

Many American people lack patience, and will overcome laziness in an effort to save time. We have saying in the manufacturing business, put the laziest people on the hardest jobs, they will find the most efficient method of running that job while maintaining their prefered level of laziness.

The thing is, we never sent people out unless you had a satellite connection (which cost, I think, 500 a month or something).

I would tell them that we could not send anybody out, and that they would need to pay attention to me.

I have dealt with way too many of those people, which is the reason why I get annoyed and the "egocentric" stereotype most computer guys get when somebody has a computer issue. Hahaha, I went to college for being a computer programmer, not a computer technician. I use google to solve all those problems, which is something anybody can do.

[darkslime]

- People assuming because I'm a teen \ young adult, all I give a damn about is 360
(It annoys me when I go to a garage sale and ask if they have any video games, only to have the people running the sale tell me "All we have is stuff for [Random non-current system that I happen to own], and you wouldn't be interested, because said system is old")

I hate that too.
People think it's weird that I'm 14 and buying SNES or NES games whenever I go to garage sales and stuff.

[Xian042]

calling a Sega Genesis simply a Sega. As in, "Oh man, I had a Sega when I was a kid." This bugs me slightly more than the Nintendo usage.

I run into a lot of people that say they had the original Sega when they were little. So I ask to clarify if they mean the Master System or the Genesis, and they say. The FIRST one!

I say, "ok the first one meaning the Sega MASTER SYSTEM, or the Sega GENESIS?"

"Well, my brother had Hang-On and Shinobi for it, so whichever that one was"

"Ok, did it have three buttons or two buttons on the controller?"

"I dont remember, all I know is it was the first Sega. It had a red light on it, the top was round."

"Oh ok, that was the Sega Genesis."

"yeah, like I said, the first one."

MURDER MURDER MURDER!!!!!!!!!!

[Xian042]

It used to make me cringe when people referred to any videogame controller as a "paddle". "Hi, our grandson needs a new paddle for his Xbox. Got any?"

I'm guilty of this one

[Daria]

I run into a lot of people that say they had the original Sega when they were little. So I ask to clarify if they mean the Master System or the Genesis, and they say. The FIRST one!

I say, "ok the first one meaning the Sega MASTER SYSTEM, or the Sega GENESIS?"

"Well, my brother had Hang-On and Shinobi for it, so whichever that one was"

"Ok, did it have three buttons or two buttons on the controller?"

"I dont remember, all I know is it was the first Sega. It had a red light on it, the top was round."

"Oh ok, that was the Sega Genesis."

"yeah, like I said, the first one."

MURDER MURDER MURDER!!!!!!!!!!

I had a friend growing up with a Master System. I thought it was a weird looking Genesis. :P

[Nirvana]

I honestly can't stand the term "noobs." Or even newbie. Just horrible.

I also hate people who only argue for good graphics.

[SegaAges]

I run into a lot of people that say they had the original Sega when they were little. So I ask to clarify if they mean the Master System or the Genesis, and they say. The FIRST one!

I say, "ok the first one meaning the Sega MASTER SYSTEM, or the Sega GENESIS?"

"Well, my brother had Hang-On and Shinobi for it, so whichever that one was"

"Ok, did it have three buttons or two buttons on the controller?"

"I dont remember, all I know is it was the first Sega. It had a red light on it, the top was round."

"Oh ok, that was the Sega Genesis."

"yeah, like I said, the first one."

MURDER MURDER MURDER!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed. Like how people call every f'ing sega system a Sega.

"Hey, do you have that game for your Sega?"

NO!

I HAVE IT FOR MY GENESIS!

[BydoEmpire]

"I'm a fan of shooters."
"Really? That's awesome, I love them too. What's your favorite?"
"I play a lot of Counter Strike and Halo."
"Oh. I thought you meant like Galaga or Gradius." (Cue mumbling under breath)

Calling an FPS a "shooter" is understandable and acceptable, but it just irks me for some reason. Maybe its because every 2nd game nowadays is an FPS? A shooter is a scrolling shoot 'em up.

Hah, yeah, that's a good one. Gamestop.com has a genre category for "shooters" that includes basically FPSs and light gun games.

[Steve W]

I hate people who refer to the N.E.S. as the 'ness' or S.N.E.S. as the 'sness'. Every time I hear people say that, I ask them what that word stands for, and they're always too stupid to realize it means "Nintendo Entertainment System". They really think the machine was names "Ness". Which is an even worse name than "Wii".

I don't refer to the Atari VCS as 'Atari vicks', so don't refer to the Nintendo Entertainment System as a 'ness'. It makes you sound young and ignorant.

"PSX". That was a temporary code name for the Playstation while it was in development, and people still refer to it that way, even though it was never officially used for that machine. Sony even put out a machine later called a PSX, and still people refer to the original Playstation as 'PSX'. So why doesn't anyone refer to the Nintendo Wii as the 'Revolution'?

[acem77]

I hate people who refer to the N.E.S. as the 'ness' or S.N.E.S. as the 'sness'. Every time I hear people say that, I ask them what that word stands for, and they're always too stupid to realize it means "Nintendo Entertainment System". They really think the machine was names "Ness". Which is an even worse name than "Wii".

I don't refer to the Atari VCS as 'Atari vicks', so don't refer to the Nintendo Entertainment System as a 'ness'. It makes you sound young and ignorant.

"PSX". That was a temporary code name for the Playstation while it was in development, and people still refer to it that way, even though it was never officially used for that machine. Sony even put out a machine later called a PSX, and still people refer to the original Playstation as 'PSX'. So why doesn't anyone refer to the Nintendo Wii as the 'Revolution'?

I have no problem with the above.
At least the above had some roots.
Most tools in the scene are named after the dev names.
vick is odd but id live with it.
It only gets bad when every thing is the same or butchered like my mom every thing was a nintaro Ggrrr. It's a terrible mix of 2 systems said wrong referring to anything but the right system.

I call systems by all their names ness, n.e.s, Nintendo, the 1st Nintendo, original Nintendo, 8bit Nintendo (most don’t think game boy) That depends on who i am talking to.
Not everyone is that big into videogames like most people here.
In the world of Google and forums you have to know how to search, each will have a different turn out.

Having NES, SNES, PSX will always have better results
Search Nintendo, or play station now.....
What a pain you will get mix results from each generation.

[Zap!]

I hate people who refer to the N.E.S. as the 'ness' or S.N.E.S. as the 'sness'. Every time I hear people say that, I ask them what that word stands for, and they're always too stupid to realize it means "Nintendo Entertainment System". They really think the machine was names "Ness". Which is an even worse name than "Wii".

I don't refer to the Atari VCS as 'Atari vicks', so don't refer to the Nintendo Entertainment System as a 'ness'. It makes you sound young and ignorant.

Major difference. VCS, like SMS and SNK, can't be pronounced. NES certiainly can. There is no need to ever say all the letters if it can be pronounced as a word, it defeats the purpose of shortening it to begin with. What about NASA or NASDAQ? How about when you go to eat at IHOP? You don't say each letter, so you shouldn't when you play your ness.

[Nebagram]

fwiw I always pronounce 'NES' as nezz and 'SNES' as snezz.

But the whole 'I dunno it's just a Sega' thing seriously irritates me, especially as a man who spent 2 years of his childhood loving a Master System and the subsequent 4 years loving a Mega Drive- and still loving them both well into adulthood.

[theking21083]

The things that I hate the most is when people refer to classic games as "old school". That is the most ignorant word in my opinion. When I start talking about my games and some smart ass says "man those are old school" I just want to shake my head and walk away. The other thing that irritates me is when people consider PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox as classic consoles.

[TheGam3r]

-When people say the PS1 Has Bad Graphics
-People who throw out thier systems cause the claim "its not working"

[MissingNo_1231]

a real annoying thing for me is when people pronounce it Maryo instead of Mario.

I also hate when people complain about old games having bad graphics.

I'll take 8-bit addictive gameplay over movie-like graphics in a boring game.