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I will never understand why gamers get mad at other gamers so intensely for not liking the correct game or system (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like bro it's a fucking toy, you would think that it's a religion the way these dingleberries talk.

Every major game company is greedy and terrible, your favorite gamer shit isn't any less mindless consumption-y than the gamer shit that you don't like.

It sucks because the whole industry is shitty and instead of acknowledging that they distract from the real problems facing the industry by squabbling about which souless company is the most souless.

The same kind of people complain when game industry workers try to unionize.

I always assume it's just children on Reddit that act like that... I hope.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Game console tribalism made a little bit of sense in the early 90s if -- and only if -- you lived in a small rural town where games were harder to come by. Everyone having the same console (whether SNES or Genesis) meant that you and your friend group could lend games to one another so that everyone didn't have to snag a copy of Chrono Trigger or Star Fox or Turtles in Time or whatever. From each Mountain Dew-chugging, Cheeto-dust encrusted tweenage boy according to his (parents') ability, to each Mountain Dew-chugging, Cheeto-dust encrusted tweenage boy according to his need. only-good-gamer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had the opposite experience. I remember being friends with someone with a SNES. We would play SNES games at his house and Genesis games at my house. Later on, someone would have an N64 while someone else would have a PS1.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Same. I don't remember a single instance of kids discriminating based on console here. It's ruralish so maybe access to gaming magazines and games media encouraged it more?