"YEs Grampa, we know. Call of Duty is Bad because aiming down sights to kill enemies is so easy compared Doom and the LIMITED TECHNOLOGY YOU HAD BACK THEN". Said the Doomguy's children Soap Mactvaish and Kaihime, son and daughter of the Doomguy respectively.
"You can drag and select an infinite amount of units in the field, THIS GAME DOES NOT PROMOTE SKILL! BACKIN MUH DAY, YOU HAD TO CAREFULLY SELECT YOUR 12 UNIT LIMIT GROUPS AND STILL HAD TO MICRO EACH UNIT CAREFULLY TO MAKE DEM PLAYZZZ"" said your typical Starcraft 2 haing Starcraft Brood War Veteran Elite Rank 1 Bronze 5 Pseudo Korean p wannabeelayer.
BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD AN INVENTORY THAT WAS HARD TO ARRANGE AND THEREFORE BETTER - said every Diablo 1 and 2 player ever in existence concerning Diablo 3's inventory system.
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I dont have to say much that we here at VG have played a lot of video games from past generations up to today. We've grown up from a lot of video games with series that we faithfully love up to this very era and day. At many times, we like to sit back, relax, and play some of our older games just to remember the simpler times of gaming.
Of course like life itself or herself, there are groups or homo sapien subspecies that also loved the games we also played and grew up with, however, in their case it extends up to a point where they pretty much denounce changes or modernized features, or even denounce newer or current generation games in general with such burning fervor that it is really difficult to not cringe.
These subspecies of bipedal homosapeiens are what i liked to call "Purists". If you do not know what Pursists are, these are the kinds of people who insist in absolute obedience to traditional rules and structures, and in video games, they are pretty darn common. They can also be called "Traditionalists" as well.
Purists/Traditionalists are almost akin to Pokemon's own version in "Genwunners" or my own enhancement of the term in "GameboyEngienirs" who insist that the gen 1 and gen 2 Pokemon games (RBY and GS, because SO MANY PEOPLE also love Gen 2 so much) are the absolute best pokemon games and denounce the games after them, as well as the many features and changes that the pokemon series has acquired. Purists are the kinds of people that insist that something like Doom should only be played traditionally with just keys and no use of a mouse and mouse look+aim, and playing Doom with such is "NOT PLAYING DOOM". Purists/Traditionalists are the kinds of people who insist that drastically new features in their favorite games are "ruining" instead of enhancing the games. These are the kinds of people that roasted Fire Emblem Awakening for including a Casual mode as well as the marriage support system in general. In many cases, these are the kinds of players who even go as far as saying that modern games are usually easy nowadays and most gamers right now just like the easy way out because they are spoonfed with really convenient features that they criticize as making it way too easy for them. Simply put, Purists/Traditionalists are the leftist parties in gaming that make it hard for anyone to enjoy.
The badly written and exaggerated expressions seen above are some examples of Purist/ Tradionalists criticism of modernized games or modernized means of playing classic video games (I read countless of these and this is how i interpreted most of them). As mentioned earlier, if you play something like Doom via a sourceport (programs that are able to make games like Doom work in modern computer systems) with Mouselook and mouse aim enabled like playing any other FPS, Doom Tradionalists/Purists would roast on you.
So how do you feel about traditionalists or purists? Do you think that they have made some valid points other than MUH BALLS or MUH 12 UNIT LIMIT? Or do you think they are just a bunch of nostalgica critics stuck using a TI-82 or using MSDOS or Windows 95? Are you a purist yourself to a certain game series? if so why and as a bonus, defend yourself and your purity as well?
"You can drag and select an infinite amount of units in the field, THIS GAME DOES NOT PROMOTE SKILL! BACKIN MUH DAY, YOU HAD TO CAREFULLY SELECT YOUR 12 UNIT LIMIT GROUPS AND STILL HAD TO MICRO EACH UNIT CAREFULLY TO MAKE DEM PLAYZZZ"" said your typical Starcraft 2 haing Starcraft Brood War Veteran Elite Rank 1 Bronze 5 Pseudo Korean p wannabeelayer.
BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD AN INVENTORY THAT WAS HARD TO ARRANGE AND THEREFORE BETTER - said every Diablo 1 and 2 player ever in existence concerning Diablo 3's inventory system.
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I dont have to say much that we here at VG have played a lot of video games from past generations up to today. We've grown up from a lot of video games with series that we faithfully love up to this very era and day. At many times, we like to sit back, relax, and play some of our older games just to remember the simpler times of gaming.
Of course like life itself or herself, there are groups or homo sapien subspecies that also loved the games we also played and grew up with, however, in their case it extends up to a point where they pretty much denounce changes or modernized features, or even denounce newer or current generation games in general with such burning fervor that it is really difficult to not cringe.
These subspecies of bipedal homosapeiens are what i liked to call "Purists". If you do not know what Pursists are, these are the kinds of people who insist in absolute obedience to traditional rules and structures, and in video games, they are pretty darn common. They can also be called "Traditionalists" as well.
Purists/Traditionalists are almost akin to Pokemon's own version in "Genwunners" or my own enhancement of the term in "GameboyEngienirs" who insist that the gen 1 and gen 2 Pokemon games (RBY and GS, because SO MANY PEOPLE also love Gen 2 so much) are the absolute best pokemon games and denounce the games after them, as well as the many features and changes that the pokemon series has acquired. Purists are the kinds of people that insist that something like Doom should only be played traditionally with just keys and no use of a mouse and mouse look+aim, and playing Doom with such is "NOT PLAYING DOOM". Purists/Traditionalists are the kinds of people who insist that drastically new features in their favorite games are "ruining" instead of enhancing the games. These are the kinds of people that roasted Fire Emblem Awakening for including a Casual mode as well as the marriage support system in general. In many cases, these are the kinds of players who even go as far as saying that modern games are usually easy nowadays and most gamers right now just like the easy way out because they are spoonfed with really convenient features that they criticize as making it way too easy for them. Simply put, Purists/Traditionalists are the leftist parties in gaming that make it hard for anyone to enjoy.
The badly written and exaggerated expressions seen above are some examples of Purist/ Tradionalists criticism of modernized games or modernized means of playing classic video games (I read countless of these and this is how i interpreted most of them). As mentioned earlier, if you play something like Doom via a sourceport (programs that are able to make games like Doom work in modern computer systems) with Mouselook and mouse aim enabled like playing any other FPS, Doom Tradionalists/Purists would roast on you.
So how do you feel about traditionalists or purists? Do you think that they have made some valid points other than MUH BALLS or MUH 12 UNIT LIMIT? Or do you think they are just a bunch of nostalgica critics stuck using a TI-82 or using MSDOS or Windows 95? Are you a purist yourself to a certain game series? if so why and as a bonus, defend yourself and your purity as well?
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