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WhiskeyDisk posted...

But if you're saying that mobile gaming isn't real gaming when in my lifetime LCD games and tomogotchi were a thing? You're a straight up fool worthy of public mockery. Even half assed mobile titles at this point are exponentially more advanced than things I'd paid for on cartridge back in the og Gameboy era.

it's not about technology of the hardware, it's about design of the software.

Is the software a "game", or a vehicle designed specifically to milk more money out of you, posing as a game?
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Ahh! But can you consider yourself a real gamer if someone else applies arbitrary rules and assumptions you don't even necessarily agree with to exclude you?

Get off your high horse and tell me how much per month you waste on MTXs, and then we can talk about who's a "real gamer"....

Who gets to be the objective standard bearer that draws the line and tells everyone else to go get fucked?

The one who's ahead of the curve and doesn't allow themselves to be taken by predatory MTX practices while glued to their phone....for starters.

I'd argue that about 97% of your definition is superfluous bullshit.

You sound angry.....so I must be 97% correct.

And by at least one of my two standard definitions, you're definitely not a real gamer.

Now you're just being petty because you didn't give an definitions to begin with.
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shadowsword87 posted...

No, but it does mean that you can't just throw away literally everything about mobile gaming and then pick and chose Real Games.
Almost like it's not as simple as that.

It is if you take only the mobile games from the past 5 years into account. Like I said, Million Onion Hotel is a "gem" in the genre. Diamond in the Rough, so to speak. You pointed out the outlier that can put some pride on the platform. Outliers point out the variance but doesn't excuse the overall stigma.

Mead posted...

I feel like a lot of the folks that go on and on about real gaming spend a lot of their time playing call of duty or weaboo upskirt fighting games

No they play Frostpunk, or Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, or games from before 2010, when MTXs weren't such a staple design for games.
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shadowsword87 posted...

Joker_X_II posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

...could you explain what "Real Gaming" is?

The ability to take a whole game, that is WHOLE and play through it without complaint or paying for extras. A solid game without paywalls blocking (or grossly extending) progression. A game designed to be a game, and not an obvious vehicle created to milk more money into a game than the game is worth....and pretty much, most mobile games are meant to be exactly that.

Of course this is my clinical definition, as I'm sure there are more articulate definitions out there too.

Oh, like Million Onion Hotel.

*Had to research what that was.

A mobile game that isn't a cash grab is a gem in of itself but doesn't speak to the overall stigma of what mobile gaming has become.

Because even Angry Birds was a solid game in the beginning, and today it's just another MTX cash grab on your phone.
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FourthDimension posted...

Joker_X_II posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

...could you explain what "Real Gaming" is?

The ability to take a whole game, that is WHOLE and play through it without complaint

ITT: there are no real games

LOL, not since 2010....tbh
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shadowsword87 posted...

...could you explain what "Real Gaming" is?

The ability to take a whole game, that is WHOLE and play through it without complaint or paying for extras. A solid game without paywalls blocking (or grossly extending) progression. A game designed to be a game, and not an obvious vehicle created to milk more money into a game than the game is worth....and pretty much, most mobile games are meant to be exactly that.

Of course this is my clinical definition, as I'm sure there are more articulate definitions out there too.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Joker_X_II posted...

it's just the excuse they use to silence disenfranchised gamers.

Which is ironic, because you're essentially attempting to disenfranchise more than 50% of the total population of gamers.

Ahh! But can you call them real gamers if the game they play isn't even a real game to begin with?


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Zeus posted...

The topic is still trolling, so I wouldn't be surprised if you got modded again.

It's not trolling.

Trolling could be anything if it doesn't fit their narrative; it's just the excuse they use to silence disenfranchised gamers.

Silence them, so anyone doing research on their next game will find predatory MTXs to be cultural acceptable by the community overall.

...then gFAQs takes their cut as well.
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Lokarin posted...

Did you say it on the mobile gaming board? 'cuz that would be a paddling

Diablo 3 boards actually.....so I guess they broke their own rules then?
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Apparently, I just got modded, because I said "Mobile gaming isn't real gaming!"

It's against the rules.

I suppose gFAQs is in the business of shilling for predatory MTX vehicles.

But what are your thoughts?
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GasMonkey posted...

Joker_X_II posted...

short answer, yes:

so "telling it like it is" is only ok when rich white men do it?

uh,...yeah, of course. Think about what you said. "Rich". "White". "Men". That's 3 points above the spread already, they have every right to tell it how it is....

...lol.
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short answer, yes:


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NPC 9027301720 posted...

Joker_X_II posted...

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what

NPC 1237126312 posted...

What are you talking about

Where's Captain Picard when you need him?

Yeah I don't get it

Yeah don't worry about it then.
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NPC 30740912731 posted...

NPC 109270120 posted...

NPC 991231239 posted...

NPC 129371641 posted...

what

NPC 1237126312 posted...

What are you talking about

Where's Captain Picard when you need him?
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Since NPCs are an aspect of gaming regardless, but as a meme you have every forum admin on the planet frantically editing the narrative mindset of the internet.

So how will this work on gFAQs if they choose to police this? Will they police this?
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1) Metal Gear Solid 3
2) Final Fantasy X
3) SSX Tricky
4) Kingdom Hearts
5) Grand Theft Auto 3
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Also keep in mind Cleveland Brown on Family Guy is voiced by a white guy.....so where's the outrage there?
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LinkPizza posted...

Also, do you think they are going after the Simpsons because it's easier?

Yes...

Simpsons is a relic from the 1990s, a time when SJW activity was practically non-existent, and edge-humour was freely expressed.

Now that the show is still going on after 30 years, still holding on to the type of humour and writing style that made it popular in the first place, it's become an easy target for the SJWs to point out all the "You can't do that anymore cuz muh identity politics" moments.

Sooner or later, these SJW will start targeting libraries and museums and holding book burning sessions in the parking lot. They already get a kick out of pulling down statues of historical people; despite being the founders of a town/city/state/country, but apparently owning a slave negates all that.
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Judgmenl posted...

And then the Supreme Court can deem that executive order unconstitutional.

Kavanaugh says...."lol"....
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eli_loves_ddr posted...

The SJW boogeyman fear is strong on GameFAQs.

...but legitimate.

It's the kind of fear that will eventually become counter-productive to the message real social activists push for.
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CaptainData posted...

The Simpsons should have removed itself from TV 20 years ago.

I agree; it's definitely run it's course, won all the awards, created milestones,....it's time for Simpsons to stop.

But I wish for the show to end gracefully, and not be riddled with SJW cancerous tumors.....
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Probably for the best.

Disney is nothing more than an SJW echo-box.

Depp's persona is more in league with true Libertarian thinkers like his bygone friend Hunter S. Thompson, and comedian Doug Stanhope.

Originally, Depp enjoyed playing a pirate for exercising that idealism (before Disney went all SJW), and it became painfully obvious that the last two movies were nothing but paycheck roles, in lieu of paying off his gold-digging ex-wife.

Now that Disney is going on their SJW kick, I'm betting Depp got let go because of "creative differences" which is just another way of saying he refused to play the part of the Soy-boy posing as a pirate which Disney wanted him to be.

This topic will be another notch in the "Get Woke, Go Broke" meme; since not a lot of people are too keen on seeing a different lead that conforms to Disney's motives.

Pirate 6 will bomb.
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Like you're 'normal' (as normal can be), you lead an active and fit lifestyle, have a solid girlfriend/wife, a great job/career, you travel, play guitar, ....but you like your geek-culture too, but don't let it show.

You've read every X-men title from the 1990s, you own the past 5 generations of consoles and healthy library for each, you know all the Star Wars quotes, and memorized every scene from all the Tarantino flicks. And even have a boat-load of useless, but interesting trivia like "the videogame crash of the early 1980s", or Saddam Hussein was buying up all the PS2's because the CPUs were more powerful than what they use to build missile guidance systems with.....and so on.

....but when you run into a 'fellow' geek, and he geeks all over you because of mutual interests, doesn't anyone have this urge to tell them to shut the hell up? As you look over your shoulders and hope no one is listening.

Because you do have a life outside of geek-culture, and don't want to give that impression that this culture reflects your own life?

y'know....?
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