Video Games/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

* I don't like the fact that the majority of [[First-Person Shooter|FPS]] players in online multiplayer [[Poor Communication Kills|don't use their headsets]]. This makes it pretty awkward for when you try to use teamwork, either in games where [[Call of Duty|it's largely irrelevant]] or even ones where [[Battlefield 3|it is actively encouraged]]. What the hell!? Are people just too lazy to fix or replace their mics, or are they so anti-social that they don't even want to interact with any other players? Don't you just hate it when the users of a product prevent you from using it as intended?

** When you speak with a headset and are told "shut up" because they find your voice is annoying, that generally tends to kill any desire to want to speak.

** A lot of people find headsets incredibly uncomfortable, to the point of being a constant distraction.

** In some games, like ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', there are guilds and playgroups that require headsets for all members. If your game doesn't allow players to set rules like that, lobby for it to be added in the next release.

 

* Why is it call "Video Games?", Video Games have nothing to do with the Video itself, so why are they called Video Games?

**** Because people use video tapes all the time. And not all games are played on the television. And the home console came into existence after the arcade box.

**** Bonus points for the above statement: some of the earlier consoles (including those in Japan) actually used video tapes to hold the data for games. Then there's the [[Narm Charm|wonderfully outdated]]slang term "game tapes."

** It's things moving around on a screen. It's just easier, probably to think of it as a video of some sort.

** They used to get called "computer games" for the longest of times but that seems to have died out now.

** Why? Look above. Its to differentiate them from card games and board games. Considering that these games required the use of some form of video display, the name was pretty apt.

*** On top of that, some board games don't even have a board, the most notable ones being Twister, Yahtzee, Apples to Apples, and Puerto Rico. However, their gameplay and their rules follow normal board game conventions (minus the pieces, moving, and board) and are sold with other board games.

** Because English's status as a living language without any official or effective authority (outside of individual organizations) allows for the compounding of words based on individual preference, apparently prevalent enough to combine 'videogame' and (despite what you think) 'boardgame'. 'Playinggame', however, isn't aesthetically pleasing due in part to the clashing letters. Why do you say 'tomorrow' instead of 'to the morrow'? Why do you say "whatever" instead of "what ever"? English is not a language that lends itself to Grammarnazification.

** Why not "electronic games"?

** It has everything to do with the video itself. That's like saying books have nothing to do with paper.

** The first link I got when I Googled for "video definition" produced "of or pertaining to the production of text or graphics on a video display." It's a valid use of the term.

 

* Can we use this Page for Video Games that don't have [[Just Bugs Me]] Page Yet?

** I don't see why not. I also don't see why not just make JBM page for those games though.

 

* This bugs me massively, considering its one of my favorite games: Dark Cloud 2. Dark Cloud 2 has a gaping [[Plot Hole]] that gets bigger the more you look at it. See, in the future, there are areas that are important to the plot. These have had their "origin points" destroyed, meaning they no longer exist. But, everyone in the future knows of these places, even though they don't exist until you recreate them. This is possibly the most confusing use of time ever to grace a plot, and this crap is central to it. It's just such a massive [[Plot Hole]], it's preventing me from enjoying the game!

** Most likely because doing the things that you can in Grand Theft Auto in real life would get you put away for a long time, and simulating perfectly ordinary, lawful activities isn't nearly as entertaining.

 

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