It’s not just that playing it enjoying it and then refunding it. It’s the bragging about it on the fucking platform. Kind of asshole who does that. Well, that’s gaming culture these days.
It’s not just that playing it enjoying it and then refunding it. It’s the bragging about it on the fucking platform. Kind of asshole who does that. Well, that’s gaming culture these days.
timochka@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Literally the only reason I ever use YouTube other than KPop* videos is very occasionally, if I’m bored, to watch Yahtzee’s reviews. Last night I tuned in and a game I’ve not heard of before, Mixtape, got mentioned.
I thought “sounds curious, maybe I’ll search for some full reviews of that to see what it’s like”…
Ho. Lee. Hell.
There seems to be an entire genre on YouTube of absolutely godawful human beings just being fucking horrible in the guise of “game reviews”. I mean, just really unpleasant people who within about 30 seconds you know would be domestic abusers if they ever met a girl. Is this the edge of the manosphere? It’s absolutely revolting, whatever it is.
On the bright side, my “never, ever use YouTube for anything other than music videos” commitment is redoubled. I am so glad I’m old enough that this shit wasn’t ubiquitous when I was impressionable.
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I understand your desire to not use youtube, but you are missing out on The Spiffing Brit and Let’s Game it Out
If you aren’t familiar, they are game breakers. Spiffing brit tends toward grand strategy games, and finds balance issues in them for a living best I can tell, and lets game it out griefs NPCs and systems to see how much abuse a game can take and what sort of tomfoolery he can manage. He tends toward very complex base building and mining type games.
Even if neither of those genres are your thing (they aren’t really mine), the channels are funny as hell and totally enjoyable.
plateee@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I’ll add that noclip (and their second channel noclip_2 are excellent for games journalism /documentaries.
And CallMeKevin has been doing wholesome video game content (and other things) for about 10 years.
timochka@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Genuinely, thank you both for the suggestions. I’m just wary of falling down the YouTube rabbithole - I refuse to even log-in to the damned site. , so if I start watching one of them it’s going to have to be one I can remember the name of to search ;-).
(I thought Facebook was a bad idea from the get-go and never signed up, quit Instagram when FB bought them, quit Twotter when that asshole bought them… Lemmy and (sorry to say) Reddit are literally my only social media, and I question both of them fairly regularly. I do not claim to be normal ;-).)
The only reason I make an exception for Yahtzee is that having had a Steam account since Half-Life 2, Steam nevertheless remains comically bad at recommending games I’d be remotely interested in. Yahtzee’s reviews I often don’t agree with, but they do at least give me a hint of things I should check out.
horse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I’ll add “People Make Games” to the list. They make excellent critical documentaries about games and the people who make them and focus heavily on exploitation (of workers and players), frequently speaking out in favour of unions and minority representation.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This has always been a problem in the gaming community, but it’s been especially rampant for the last decade or so since Steve Bannon identified gamers as a demographic (largely comprised of insecure teenage boys) that is particularly susceptible to fascist messaging and threw money into signal-boosting the worst of it, and a bunch of impressionable dumbfucks went along with it.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Personally I think the whole concept of gamers is stupid. You cannot have a demographic comprise predominantly of multiple different sections of a population, that’s two broader of net to be casting. It’s like saying that everyone who drives a car is a car enthusiast.
Anyone who plays games is a gamer but there’s a huge range of ages, ethnicities, and nationalities. Besides someone who plays a lot of FPS is not the same as someone who predominantly plays grand strategy games or the Sims.
horse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I kind of see it as ther being people who play video gamers and “gamers”. The latter being people for whom gaming is a serious hobby they care about a lot. Then there is a subset of gamers (sometimes referred to as “Gamers” with a capital G) that are also shitty people who take it personally if there is any kind of minority representation in video games and are the people who call you slurs in multiplayer games either for not being good enough at the game or or being better at the game than them (depending on whether you are on their team or playing against them).