There are too many ways you can stereotype or just make sections of people.
Any secrets worth going for will be found by the Expert, making him very proficient at traversing and combatting on each map. They need not be paid -- oftentimes a lot of people will see professional play and apply it to their own play, much like how I did with Starcraft II. I don't need to play much, I have my mechanics right and now it's my strategy that's working too.
The wannabe- This player has what it takes to be a gamer and he has some cool gaming gear, but for some reason he just isn't that good at the game. He likes playing but he still hasn't found what game he is good at.
I can almost always guarantee it's to do with his mindset. Doesn't try to 'get it'.
The Extreme Gamer may get it, at least to some extent. Depending on the game it's likely that this player played a lot -- the professional player has both, and constitutes a large amount of development in the metagame of whatever the play. The main issue is that they're specialized in a single game and thus -- whilst able to grasp aspects of games, may be completely discombobulated at the other genres out there. The best pro players I doubt that. . . but it's too difficult to decide or stereotype.
As for the Trash Talker. It's all well and good to think that they have no skill at the game (which quite frankly means nothing), but I'll just propose to you
CombatEx.
backed by years of experience and scores of knowledge of the medium,
Um.
I'm relatively young, honestly. And, sorry to bust your bubble, but I prefer the term of philosophy where I argue with reason as opposed to experience -- although experience can benefit in some cases.
Which reminds me:
"I play lots of vidya gaems, so my opinion is better than yours"
Any actual point you try to make with this is already made invalid by, ironically, your previous experience with us. We've not thrown the "We've seen the years of development and X was better because Y didn't have Z which shown to have 'this' effect".
is considered fair and righteous
Have you seen how people have often reacted, sometimes to our mere possibility of being present? ^^ I feel more like a tyrant.
When I first wrote this about 3 years ago it was based off Half-life
Guess that could explain a few things. Especially since, I admit, my definitions are based primarily on Starcraft II (with the reason being that if it wasn't parochial as such, if say it included a wider variety of games or genres, it would not work out nearly as well).
I'm someone who has to know the things the pros know about the game, trying to emulate it and understand the game bit-by-bit, so I can develop or see why anything else would work. I always want to play as if I'm up against a player of equal or professional skill so that I make the right decisions.
I hardly ever consider anyone else, as a result, a hacker (especially being as the security or chances of such is too good / are too low respectively for each game) or cheater, and usually try to just adapt and gain the skill I want for a game. Anything I try to do I want to do it above-average, which is why I limit myself to few games, and it annoys me how some games -- such as League of Legends -- are primarily just intuition.
Oh. . . I also take a moral / philosophical perspective on gaming, especially pro gaming. I found a lot of interest in the
Video Gaming Scandal Discussion by Korean... I believe commentators. I wouldn't buy a game if I don't agree with its business practices or not of high enough quality.
Although lately I've been just holding off on everything -- I've more than enough money to get whatever games I want but I am staying away purely because I have more than enough entertainment from the games I have now, which include:
1) Starcraft II
2) League of Legends
3) Tribes: Ascend Beta (which is quite good, so far)
4) Battlefield 3, whenever I can bother downloading the patch
5) Age of Empires Online
6) (Map making on) Age of Mythology: The Titans
I've literally dozens of other games I have access to that I enjoy and would suggest, including Magicka, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Armies of Exigo. . . but I'm not playing them at all lately -- I've hardly been playing any of 1 to 6.
So with that I can only tell you that I learn the games I play and understand them -- especially before making judgement. Anything that seems blatant I can make a call on, usually only where there are on excuses however, as oftentimes there's been perfidious play in some of the things I make a comment on and hell . . . that's never ended well.
With that in mind, there's a lot I can go into right now but the basic idea is that you mays well not stereotype. :P
- H
