Your "Role" in Video Games Discussion

The Hardcore veteran is the embodiment of skill, dedication, discipline, and what the F**k you name it, he's probably done it more times. You have played a lot of video games for a very long time, and you are one of the more experienced players in said video game, especially in competitive multiplayer such as Counter Strike, League of Legends, DoTA, among other things. You've played said game for quite some time, have survived numerous changes in both the metagame and even the game itself but somehow, you still stand as one of the best players that you know. None can compare to you other than the other veterans themselves. If some punk ass kid asked to "1v1 Bro?" that kid was already dead on arrival and you've already won some easy 100USDs. You deliver great numbers such as sweet KDAs, being on top of the leaderboards, being in high ELO or having a high skill rating, and you credit your experience and overall skill and competence in said game. You use your status and proof as a veteran player to help the less skilled players be better by providing them with your own insights on how to be a better such as those "PROTIPS", since more likely or not, you've gone from the same path of being sh*t tier to top tier. Because you've earned your high rating from your skill, competency, and simple dedication of being good at what you've been playing, you see yourself as a player with a lot to prove whenever you play in any competitive setting. You're a player who's been around before many of these other top-tier players were born, lost their virginities, had s3cks, or whatnot.

However, the Hardcore Veteran is not without fault. You like to see yourself as an embodiment of skill and competenence, but there maybe at times that you may see yourself as a relic of the past. You start to figure out why have you played this game for such a long time, why have you fought in this made-up war that has scarred you over years and years. And as such, you see that your long experience in playing certain video games may get the best of you. You've played for years, but how long has it been? Its always the thing you need to consistently and constantly prove to everyone especially in the realm of video games discussion. Are you truly legit? Are you truly validated and credible? Not to mention, Hardcore veterans themselves are prone to seeing their opinions more important than the younger or less experienced players thus opening arguments for "Casual vs Hardccore" talks.

Sharp mouths, strong opinions, valid reasons, and inside infos. The Smark is the individual who uses more of his or her sharp tongue or fingers to talk about gaming in a more metaphysical sense. Other than just talking about gaming as a hobby, you also like to talk about the industry A LOT, make snide comments on what your opinionated thoughts are, you try your best to point out things that you think are wrong with the gaming scene right now and you try to say some things to "making gaming as a hobby great again". You're probably the one who gives no f**ks about your average or even below average skills in playing against other players, or maybe you are secretly the greatest unproven player in the world, but that doesn't matter to you. As a smark, you're secret weapon in discussions in video games in your knowledge of everything that's going on, from both the games you play and the industries behidn them. You deliver discussions more with your sharp tongue and sense. You feel that you're more of the realist side of gaming and as such, your opinions matter as much as anyone else. You're quick to point out some of the BS that video game companies expunge out and tell the community about it. You are the guy that people would like to talk about when it comes to gaming related happenings and even controversies. As a smark, you have highly believable opinions as well since you have your own know-how.

However, its no secret that a smark's opinion's and comments regarding scenes and stuff aren't going to be always agreed upon by the gaming community. You are the kind who's willing to take every form of bad mouthing coming from other smarks and even other users who doesn't see eye to eye with you and your ideals. But you have enough savvy to shrug of others' opinions.

The Achievement hunter is a player that has a ton of dedication when it comes to playing games and talking about his/her experiences with it. As soon as a new game pops out, you do your best to play said game right away from buying it, and suddenly you start racking up some of those sick kills, high scores, and whatnot. The Achievement hunter is a highly skilled player who is a natural talent when it comes to video games. You work extra hard, and extra hours to improve from Level 1 to Level 30, from Unranked to a skill rating of Diamond or Master Guardian X. However, once you're done hunting down all of the achievements in a game, you quickly move to the next one, thus more often than not, you aren't as experienced as a hardcore veteran, though you can be as skilled as one, but your points of view may not be as valid since you're more likely seen as a player that moves from one game to another, and probably not go back to a game that you've already "achievement hunted and farmed" to death.

Achievement Hunters are quite dedicated players but as mentioned before, generally speaking, Achievement hunters' dedication comes mostly from their desire to accomplish the tasks needed to win the achievements before moving on. As such, you may see yourself as a sort of jumper from game to game. You are skilled but not experienced. Most of your opinions in discussions are mostly based on the "Now" rather than the "all the time" even.

The Honorary Orator is an individual with a good amount of charisma to let people know that they share a purpose when it comes to games discussion. Your a sweet talker, a charming individual, and a loveable human being. You make this up for simply being a lovable individual to the community by providing alternative means such as art, music, videos, and other things to make the people happy to have you around. You may not have the gaming skills of the Hardcore Veteran, the Achievement Hunter, or the Sneering Imperialist but you certainly aren't the Smark who gives no FCKRZ to what they say. You want to maintain an image of happiness and positive feelings in your respective gaming community by providing some quality material for everyone to enjoy.

The Honorary Orator is the individual with the highest level of disposition in the gaming community, for the most part. This comes from people simply loving what you do, no matter what the heck you are doing as long as they enjoy you having around. At times though, people will question your place within the serious discussions in gaming.

In a Nutshell, this would be like individuals with Charisma 10/10 in their S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats

AKA NoobstomperX69 or aka Gatekeepers aka Elitists. You are the kind of player that enjoys separating the good players from the bad ones by stomping the craphole out of the less skilled. You enjoy your advantage, competencies, and your natural skills that your opponents may or may not have. When it comes to video games discussion, you're the first to point out that if people are bad at the game, they should not have a say on what needs to be done to make it better. "GIT GUUD son". "Easy mode in 2016 lul", Bronze 5 in 2016 kek lulwtf?" are some of your personal mantras against those who you deem as "savages" or people who suck. You're the kind of individual to tell people that if they are bad, then don't play and complain that you're stuck in ELO Hell. You're the kind that tells people that an Easy mode for Ninja Gaiden, Dark Souls, Doom, and other video games that have a tradition of being challenging titles are whom you deem as impure fools and should be crucified as profligates. The perk of being the Sneering imperialist is that you shut down people who try to ruin discussions for whatever reasons. The bad side is that people see you as someone to avoid, but you never really cared about being avoided by those "Profligates" right?

For the most part, the way the Sneering Imperialist seems to be just quite the bad karma side of a Hardcore Veteran. Not necessarily. The Sneering Imperialist is the gatekeeper. You cockblock the bad seeds from the good seeds. You mostly are in agreement with the good seeds but most certainly are in negative temperament against the bad seeds. In essence, Sneering Imperialists are also Elitists. Their dispositions towards a game or a fandom they care about is deep, even more so than a Hardcore Veteran, but they also also known for gatekeeping people.

The Bartering Salesman is the individual that knows what's good for your money, and for his/her money too. When it comes to games discussion, you have the skill in selling something for others to hear about. "You know what's good for your money?" etc. You're more likely to influence people to buy a game or help people out by telling them what's best for their money. The Bartering salesman also doubles as the knowledgeable guy when it comes to sweet deals, since you've earned your place with your bags of money by spending wisely.

Or in essence, you could be the first guy or lady to tell people "Yo 60 USD for that? Get the DLCS! Sure its more expensive, but it adds more to the game (winky face)".

Or Lorenerd, or Lorehound. The one thing you enjoy the most with video games are lore and story. You're the kind of player who would play a FIGHTING GAME FOR THE STORY if you have to. You're the kind of individual that tries to make sense of Doom's lore as a whole, or try to make sense out of things. As the Lore Master, you're more likely to care about any video game's lore and narrative and how all of that ties up will with the gameplay, and you like discussing video game lore with other individuals who care of such. These may also be the kind of people that play video games mainly AND primarily for story, and you may be also quick to dispute to individuals who say something against the importance of story and writing otherwise.

When it comes to games discussion, Lore Masters are wonderful individuals to talk to. You are the kind of individual who can make sense into almost everything. As mentioned previously, you're the kind of gamer who can make sense with the lore and stories of something as twisted and as convuluted as Tekken's lore or any fighting game lore. You make it a point that lore, story, and narrative is important in many video games, especially in today's generation where more and more people have since shown more interest with story and writing in a video game. Of course, you're also prone to getting bamboozed triggered by individuals who may say stuff like "Story in an action game, k?"

AKA the man or lady with a million f**king ideas in almost anything. You're the kind of person that simply loves to cook up a ton of fresh, interesting, and even rehashed ideas from other things you've seen and experience and want to see these come to life with the video games that you are involved with. You are the kind of person who can easily write say a character idea with a lot of time and effort put into. You know that this idea may work since you have a great understanding of the video games you are playing.

As such, essentially, you are an idealist. Cooking up some hot ideas or wishlists is a hobby that you take into consideration. But since you are an idealist, you may be prone to being blind with the harsh realities of the games you are playing. Your ideas may not mesh well with the stuff you're planning for, and you are also prone to having clashing discussions with the rest of the playerbase who just "suck it all up" and be accepting of a game's realities. But it never hurts to try right? After all, thinking of ideas is definitely free of charge. Turning them into actual realities however, may be more costly than a college level tuition fee.

Also known as the "Tech talkers". When it comes to video games and video game discussion, your forte is the technology behind video games. You love to talk about how gaming has changed over the years with the progression of technology, and you are fascinated with the inner workings of installation, modification, and especially optimization, which is very much apparent when it comes to PC gaming. In games discussion, you may also question why for some reason, gaming tech has either stayed much of the same, or maybe it has changed over the years. Your obsession and fascination really is the technology behind the creation of the GREATEST FORM OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA THERE IS, in your personal opinion for the most part ;).

However, since your forte is obviously PC, console mains may not be able to get along with you. But again, not exactly. Mr/Mrs Techiepants is the guy/gal who knows what's up when it comes to increasing console experience as well such as hardware, troubleshooting, optimization, the same matters that the typical PC techie is, at least for the most part.

Aka Mr/Mrs REELISM. As we know already, Video games is a great form of escape from the harshness of reality, or simply a nice thing to do when we want to dive in an alternate world. But of course, many more video games try their best to push the level of immersion into bigger levels with making things feel a little bit more realistic. When it comes to connecting realism and video games, you're more likely to point out how realistic this game feels like, or also be the first one to say "Hey that's not how X works IRL! What the f**k were these game devs smoking at!?" As already pointed out by the rather humorous title, Mr/Mrs. GONE NUTS can range into anything from a gun nut, people with some knowledge and liking of guns in real life, or some Sword/Melee nerd which are the melee fighting and swordplay equivalent of a Gun Nut. As such, you Mr/Mrs GONE NUTS, have the tendency to GO NUTS with how gunplay, swordplay, or any form of "realism-play" should work and how it should be properly implemented into a video game, and you're more likely the first to tell how by providing the fellow people with your knowledge of how things in real life work, such as sword swinging, firing actual fire arms, throwing punches, getting injured, starving in a jungle, fighting in the octagon, and other realistic situations. You have the tendency to literally GO NUTS with how such mechanics should be implemented for them to be as realistic as possible.

You're also the first to point out that a World War 1 game that would be fun and realistic can't happen since most weapons in WW1 are either bolt action, lever action, or revolvers. None of these Automatics save for the machine guns planted on a WWI fighter plane. Or something like that. Again, go nuts with it. Mr/Mrs GONE NUTS is the guy/gal who sure has a know how on realism in a video game. You're the first to say this to most people "Call of Duty is realistic? Lulkek, getting shot in the foot and dying is so realistic. BLOODY SCREEN SO REEEEEEELLLLLLL" and provide a scientific and empirical argument of what happens to people when they got shot on the foot.

I refuse to call these kinds of people as ~~weebs (even if they mind being called as such)~~ since I'm a fair and just individual. So I give the term Doujinsoft to refer to those individuals who prefer the more Far East side of the gaming sphere. When i mean the Far East, while this mostly refers to Japanese made games, but do remember that China and Korea also exist. Mr/Mrs Doujinsofts are the individuals who prefer to be more vocal and having more know-how on the Eastern side of gaming such as JRPGs and other great things from our friends at the Far East Asian Sphere of the world.

For Mr/Mrs. Doujinsoft, it can come in a wider variety of flavors that coincide with the other "roles" but the signature of such is their love and knowhow of the Eastern side of things.

When it comes to gaming they Jury Rigger is the kind of person that possess amazing abilities of modular transformations. As a jury rigger, you possess the amazing ability to modify any video game according to your liking. being able to play XBOXone or PS4 with a mouse and keyboard, modify the game's assets to personalize what you bought, recreate an entire video game or even demake a video game into a different platform or genre? Heck, turn a potato computer into a top-tier gaming rig? How does it work? No one knows but you...

The Jury Riggers may also belong to a collective of modders, ROMHACKERS (wink wink face), and even future game developers and designers who want to create something out of scratch or something from an existing game. Additionally, you love to mess around with the games that you play and share to the community about some of the funny things you can do, such as playing Doom 2016 with the lowest possible settings and telling the people on how to achieve such Protatoe level resolutions. You could be the next guy or gal to develop a new gaming toaster! Nintoaster? We got a PLAYTOASTER that could play Playstation 1, 2, Classic XBox, and even Gamecube ALL IN ONE! Heck, 3DS Romhacks? Its possible! But only you can know of it, but you possess the knowledge to do so.

AKA Memelords. I have no definite title to call this role but these are the kinds of individuals who are the first to point out some of the more funny flaws and oversights in video games. As the vault boy image used for this title points out, you are more likely the first guy/grill to point out. "I just accidentally stole a pencil by misclicking, now i'm forced to fight the entire town?". You are the kind of individual to point out the rather humorous oversights in many video games and letting the community know about it.

"Man, Brutal Doom is f**king awesome. DOOOOOOOODE ALSO THE NEW DOOM? DOOM 4? DOOM 2016? F**K YEAAAAAAAAHHHHH!! Heck, we need more of that in our lives!!!!!!!!!!. OH AND KILLING FLOOR 2. AWWWWWWWW MY GOD BEST GAME EVERS!"

When it comes to graphic violence and visceral glorification in video games, people who deem themselves as BLOODY MESSIAHS are the first to tell you how awesome it is to watch enemies (NPCs/AI/enemy players) explode into juicy gut wrenched and eyeball strewed red pastes with eyeballs popping and organ parties showering. FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

As enjoyable as Bloody messes are in certain video games that gamers play, the Bloody Messiahs are the individuals who are also very critical with the use of blood and gore in gaming. As a Bloody Messiah, you don't just enjoy the sights of organ parties but you also justify the use of such. You have the extensive knowledge of why this visual enhancement has been used in many video games that love that juicy "M" rating, and you also share a background on your love for action and even horror movies. Simply put, you know why something as silly as a shower of blood and gore works within the proper context. You are so knowledgeable in such an area that you can easily write a 2-page essay on how blood and gore works, when used properly. After all, you may be a borderline lunatic, but you aren't exactly crazy either. wink wink.

Some people may view you has having certain "problems" but you're too manly (and a borderline lunatic) to be phased by them. Your forte in video game discussions among your peers is your ability to make sense out of the silliest of things.

This one's reserved for the ladies, but equal opportunity exists so even men can be part of this "role". The Gender Bender is the individual who loves to discuss about the sex/gender/whatever challenges in video games. You are more likely the first person to point out that there's something a little fishy or even wanky about the portrayal of men and women in video games and find yourself being critical of such. Remember ladies and gentlemen, critical != or =/= talking sh*t about gender roles and whatnot. Being critical of anything doesn't automatically mean talking bad or speaking to things in a negative light.

When it comes to video game discussions, you are more likely to speak out your opinions regarding gender roles in many areas of gaming such as the portrayal of chicks and dudes, how appropriate should the designs of chicks and dudes be, what makes good male and female characters, heck, if you have a decent background in Gender Studies, you may even bring that one up to tighten up the notches ;)