Times where you cringed so hard watching someone bullshit about a video game...

I suddenly remembered one from gametrailers. This was on Invisible Walls. Sony revealed the GoW Ascension teaser, if you recall the teaser had no footage of the game whatsoever, just some text hinting at the game's story. No release date was given since it was obviously still early in development.

So the reaction of everyone on the show (Satterfield, Marcus Beer, etc) was that it was way too soon to announce a new GoW since GoW3 had just been released the previous year.

GoW3 was released on March 16 2010 and the teaser was released in April 2012! A gap of over 2 years and every single person on the show was saying that GoW3 was barely a year old. They didn't even edit a note into the video.
On top of that, we had no idea how far away the game's release was (it ended up releasing on March 12 2013, exactly 3 years after GoW3) but they just spent several minutes bitching about how it was too soon for another GoW. This shit was pretty annoying when several franchises like CoD or AC were getting released yearly.

I'm not arguing that the franchise didn't need to be reinvented (I was already defending that sony should do a reboot at the time) but that wasn't the point since nothing about the game was known anyway.

I dunno, that just annoyed me lol.

Spinky said:

Some kid my cousin knows told me I was a scrub at Injustice and he'd mop the floor with me because he had a higher level on his profile.

Genuinely one of the most baffling fucking things I've ever heard. Dude was like "bro you're not even level 60? Then you're trash lmao gg"

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I've won tournaments for the game and I don't even think I'm level 60 lmao

I wouldn't say that it made me cringe, but I have to say that it irritated me when parents would come to Toys "R" Us when I used to work there and ask for the newest Mario or Zelda game for PlayStation 2 or Xbox. It wouldn't have been so bad if they believed me when I told them that they were only available on GameCube, but they generally ended up being serious dicks about it.

As for some of the responses to the OP, I also hate it when someone lies about their interests in order to relate to me. If you want to show an interest in someone's interests, and you don't personally know much about them, then you show interest by asking more about them.

Camstun187 said:

Gross misinterpretation all across the board there, mate.

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I agree. Reading your post made me feel gross.

40 year old virgin. /thread

One time my cousin told me that you could make people retire in Smackdown vs RAW 2006. He told us that in his career mode he had a Hell in a Cell match with (I swear I'm not lying here) Chris Benoit and he just kept beating the shit out of him for ages. After he won the match the game notified him that Benoit was beaten and injured so badly that he had to retire. I remember being sceptical at the time but also being extremely amazed that the game was so dynamic.

Arcade55 said:

Earlier this year I was in a Gamestop, casually browsing the used games to see if there was anything worth buying (Spoiler, there wasn't). You know, passing the time while I waited for friends to meet me for dinner.

A woman had come in, clearly a mom who was buying something for a kid and didn't really know what she was buying. I hear her ask the guy at the counter what she needed to buy so her son could play God of War. The man behind the counter proceeds to tell her that right now it's only on the Playstation 4, but that the Xbox One X is a stronger console and that if he waits just a few months it will be ported over the the Xbox.....

Now usually, I would just let people talking out there ass slide by. But I was like, this dude is about to sell a lady a console for a game and her son won't ever be able to play said game.

So I kinda drop into the conversation and tell the lady that God of War is a Sony only game and will NEVER be available on the Xbox One. The guy behind the counter gets all defensive and starts telling me that almost every game is ported to PC nowadays and that if it's on PC it will be on Xbox.

Again I try to explain that the dude is giving bad information out, the lady proceeds to just walk out while I'm arguing with the guy and then the store manager asked me to leave the store haha.

I felt bad for arguing, but I feel like the universe thanked me for not letting Gamestop fuck that woman out of 500 dollars.

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you did good my friend, those Gamestop employees can be scummy sometimes, they sold my sister a copy of vainilla MVC3 steelbook edition when she was clearly asking for UMVC3.

chrisypoo said:

It doesn't really bother me when people try to noticeably bullshit me about a video game to make conversation, in fact it's weirdly flattering. More often than not, they're just trying to find acceptance and potentially make a new friend, and I think we've all been there before, so I tend to humor them. It's not hurting anything.

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Totally agree. Usually they are just not remembering the exact title of something so it's not a big deal. I've rarely seen anyone pretending but more just trying to connect and share something they have in common with me. Mixing up platforms is common too but not a big deal.

I'm the same way with other non gaming media , especially movies lol.
I dread the "have you seen..." line of conversation.

I cringe every time someone on ResetEra calls a game trash, terrible, or garbage when it isn't even that bad. For example, people call games such as Bioshock Infinite, Final Fantasy 15, and Grand Theft Auto 4 terrible games.... Disappointing sure, terrible? That's ridiculous.

Ride to Hell Retribution, Roadrage, Randall, and Troll and I, are terrible games. The games listed above are not even in the same world of terrible as these ones.

Back around 2002, my friend told me about the elusive "Green Pikmin" you could only obtain by defeating the final boss using some arbitrary number of Pikmin, something like 10 Red, 40 Blue, and 50 yellow. I believed him for about five years.

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I cringe every time someone on ResetEra calls a game trash, terrible, or garbage when it isn't even that bad. For example, people call games such as Bioshock Infinite, Final Fantasy 15, and Grand Theft Auto 4 terrible games.... Disappointing sure, terrible? That's ridiculous.

Ride to Hell Retribution, Roadrage, Randall, and Troll and I, are terrible games. The games listed above are not even in the same world of terrible as these ones.

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100% agree with this. That 'Controversial Gaming Opinion' thread is full of people calling good-great games "trash".

Like, I understand that someone just doesn't like a game, but calling it trash? C'mon, it's not trash and you know it.

matimeo said:

Totally agree. Usually they are just not remembering the exact title of something so it's not a big deal. I've rarely seen anyone pretending but more just trying to connect and share something they have in common with me. Mixing up platforms is common too but not a big deal.

I'm the same way with other non gaming media , especially movies lol.
I dread the "have you seen..." line of conversation.

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Exactly, and I'm particularly reminded of a very awkward and hard to watch experience from my past regarding the "have you seen" line you're speaking of, but it was actually the "have you read" variant, and it was my own father who was doing the drilling. Around ten years ago, my wife at the time, (now ex), considered herself something of a vampire fiction fan, and during a dinner with my father she made the mistake of stating as much. My father is something of an elitist, (if he was a gamer I'm sure he'd have an Era account with thousands of snarky posts filled with gifs and memes and an anime avatar to boot), and of course he jumped on the opportunity to humiliate my wife by asking her if she'd read the Anne Rice novels as he considered them requisite reading for any vampire enthusiast, and due to my wife really wanting to impress my father, (as she respected him very much, just as most of us do/did, mainly because of all his military and educational accomplishments), she made the egregious, (in my father's eyes, innocent in mine), mistake of claiming she had read the novels when she had only watched the films. My father could tell she was lying, as he generally can tell such things, and he proceeded to absolutely grill her on the novels for the following fifteen minutes of this dinner, absolutely killing the mood as my wife visibly panicked and scrambled for answers that just weren't there, all the while my father grinned his shitty little elitist, self congratulatory, "look how I've tricked them, see how I'm smarter than them?" grin at my wife, taking such pleasure in watching her squirm when she had only wanted to impress him. I love my father, but that moment made me so angry that I almost got physically sick, but of course it simply vindicated my father's self supposed superiority to those around him, even at the expense of his own son's wife's feelings. I remember making fun of people that I deemed as "posers" as a kid, but ever since that dinner I've taken a hard turn on my views of people who may feel a need to impress others with their words, even if they're exaggerations at times. I just see it as an indication that they must suffer from low self esteem, and that perhaps they just really want to earn the respect and admiration of the person they're speaking with as they feel that way towards them, so I can't see such a thing as cringey, "try hard", or malicious; more often than not it's actually a bit sad, and I think the right thing to do when you catch someone in this situation is to try to have some empathy for them and just humor them for a bit and offer them the validation and respect they crave, as it's honestly not hurting anything, and they could typically use a confidence boost.