An impromptu interview with a casual gamer

[Dyne]

So I was sitting on the bus today, enjoying a heated tournament of Ridge Racers, which I've been accustomed to playing on the bus every day. Afterwards, a guy to my left starts complimenting me on this massive drift I made to pass 1st and 2nd position.

We go on to talk about other things, like the Xbox 360. He says it'll be great because the Xbox was great. I noticed he was missing a lot of teeth.

The conversation then moved to the PS3 and I somehow persuaded him to wait for PS3 instead of getting the Xbox 360. He went on and on about this "adapter" you would put on to your PS2 and it would enable you to play PS3 games. At this point I was getting really confused because he claimed his "buddy" knew all these things about video games and such. I just nodded and smiled.

He then out of nowhere started talking about the Nintendo Revolution and how great how it will be as well. Good, so this guy's not too bad. But then he goes on to say how much of a failure the Gamecube is. In his words, "It seems like.. Nintendo saw the Xbox and PS2, and said.. **** it.. let's put something out. So they threw that out. Now it's a piece of crap. I usually kick it around more than play with it. My little brother actually plays it though. What a lamer."

I couldn't really believe what was coming out of his mouth. But we went on to more about the Nintendo Revolution and he said he was excited most about the prospects of playing older games. I can agree to that. We migrated back to the subject of Xbox 360 and he was jealous because his "buddy" got to play it and Madden 360 and Halo 3 and all these different games. I then went on to tell him I was invited to Beta test Relic Entertainment's new strategy game and by this point he was overwhelmed and heralded the classic response, "Well, I don't really play games that much." And then he was distracted by something outside.

I guess it was kind of.. a fresh point of view to experience, but I just thought I'd let you know what some people are thinking out there. And perhaps you could share some of your stories about your "buddies".

[Swan]

I've always found it interesting to have conversations with other gamers. Get some of their opinions and such.

[Jonbo298]

Conversations with people who get their info from "buddies" always turn out the best in the end :D

[Ginkasa]

I had a small debate one time with a friend of mine (he was on here a couple years back as Ookami_Soul; GameMaster'll know who I'm talking about) about whether the PS2 or the GameCube was more powerful. I kept saying the GameCube and XBox were about the same, and both more powerful than the PS2.

He kept saying he read online somewhere that the PS2 was more powerful... Eventually I just gave up...


/me shrugs and walks away

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

unfortunately there are people out there who pride themselves on knowledge they don't have, and such, is called "total f**king b***sh**". It is a common disease most often found around so called "n00bz" who consider themselves "1337". Even more unfortunately is that a cure is not yet known, victims will suffer indignation and laughs from people who are not quite as full of sh**. The only thing that one can do is to leave them alone in their domain until they finish puberty (contrary to scientific proof, in the case of gamers this may take well over 30 years in extreme cases), and finally join the rest of society in the mockery of their former identities. A vicious cycle indeed.

[Swan]

unfortunately there are people out there who pride themselves on knowledge they don't have, and such, is called "total f**king b***sh**". It is a common disease most often found around so called "n00bz" who consider themselves "1337". Even more unfortunately is that a cure is not yet known, victims will suffer indignation and laughs from people who are not quite as full of sh**. The only thing that one can do is to leave them alone in their domain until they finish puberty (contrary to scientific proof, in the case of gamers this may take well over 30 years in extreme cases), and finally join the rest of society in the mockery of their former identities. A vicious cycle indeed.
Oh joy...