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Ok, I'm writing this completely off the top of my head, so bear with me, hopefully it'll all make sense in the end.
Right, now that warning is out of the way I can get on with it:
Geekiness is related to computer games BIG TIME. but in this post I'm not going to comment on how comouter games are seen by people out side of the industry. I'm going to concentrate on geekiness from inside the gaming "club".
Most people on here, who read this, will have at least some interest in games, so hopefully, together, we can figure out an answer to this simple question:
Why is it considered "geeky" to sit and play MS Train Sim all night, yet it's not considered "geeky" to sit and play Counter Strike all night? They are both games, they both allow you to do things you can't (easily) do in real life.
Is it because shooting people is considered MANLY and HARD and COOL?
I would have thought that as gamers are already considered "geeks" by most of the press and other outsiders, that this kind of prejudice wouldn't be happening within our "gaming group".
I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else. I've taken the mick out of Train Sim in a number posts, as have others. But why do we do it? A HUGE number of people have train sets and stuff set up in their lofts and garages, probably more so than flight sim enthusiasts. Yet flight sim people aren't ridiculed like Train Sim people. It;s not just Train Sim, The Sims also comes under this "geeky" label.
However "geeky" it is considered, Train Sim will sell well, *yet no one will admit to buying a copy!!*. It's the same with The Sims, that game and its expansion packs are always in the top ten. Why?
Could it be that these games have the biggest online communities? Where people who like the same thing (Trains, The Sims etc) get together without fear of reprisal?
I just typed The Sims into google, this came up:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,330,000
1,330,000 pages!?!? Thats A LOT of fans, add ons and web sites out there.
It would seem the meek are content to sit and rule their virtual world, rather than take part in the real one. And who can blame them?
Right, now that warning is out of the way I can get on with it:
Geekiness is related to computer games BIG TIME. but in this post I'm not going to comment on how comouter games are seen by people out side of the industry. I'm going to concentrate on geekiness from inside the gaming "club".
Most people on here, who read this, will have at least some interest in games, so hopefully, together, we can figure out an answer to this simple question:
Why is it considered "geeky" to sit and play MS Train Sim all night, yet it's not considered "geeky" to sit and play Counter Strike all night? They are both games, they both allow you to do things you can't (easily) do in real life.
Is it because shooting people is considered MANLY and HARD and COOL?
I would have thought that as gamers are already considered "geeks" by most of the press and other outsiders, that this kind of prejudice wouldn't be happening within our "gaming group".
I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else. I've taken the mick out of Train Sim in a number posts, as have others. But why do we do it? A HUGE number of people have train sets and stuff set up in their lofts and garages, probably more so than flight sim enthusiasts. Yet flight sim people aren't ridiculed like Train Sim people. It;s not just Train Sim, The Sims also comes under this "geeky" label.
However "geeky" it is considered, Train Sim will sell well, *yet no one will admit to buying a copy!!*. It's the same with The Sims, that game and its expansion packs are always in the top ten. Why?
Could it be that these games have the biggest online communities? Where people who like the same thing (Trains, The Sims etc) get together without fear of reprisal?
I just typed The Sims into google, this came up:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,330,000
1,330,000 pages!?!? Thats A LOT of fans, add ons and web sites out there.
It would seem the meek are content to sit and rule their virtual world, rather than take part in the real one. And who can blame them?
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Anyone calls me a geek and its *pow* *whoosh* *crash* ;)
in thier puny little face.
in thier puny little face.
Catch this out everyone, we're basically all geeks as we rely to these very forums all the time.
cooldogs wrote:
> DJo you like B&W??
Yes God games are cool!!
> DJo you like B&W??
Yes God games are cool!!
Your Honour wrote:
> not many have plane sets.
What in thw world would a plane set consist of? Not like they have a track or anything - a plane and lots of air or something?
> not many have plane sets.
What in thw world would a plane set consist of? Not like they have a track or anything - a plane and lots of air or something?
Championship Manager reeks of awesomeness! {:)
I don't think you're a 'geek,' unless you spend ALL your time playing games. I play games a lot of the time, but have a social life as well.
I don't think you're a 'geek,' unless you spend ALL your time playing games. I play games a lot of the time, but have a social life as well.
Actually if you check the forums in the past, I have critised B&W loads of times, because it is sooo bad. I reeeely wanted that game for 3 years, after I first heard about it but it did not deliver, and I cant forgive it for that. You see I cant really (I wanted to put sl@g here' but it wouldnt let me so I'll use oh I cant think of another word to use, oh well you know what I mean) off Train Sim as much as I can B&W because I havent bought B&W, but merely the concept of train sim and I'm falling asleep. That's not a very good game.
It did run (just) on my AMD K6-2 400, 128RAM and voodoo 3.
It now runs amazingly well on my 1.1GHz Athlon, 128RAM and voodoo 3.
Ok, some people think B&W is dull, and if you go into all the micro management it is, yet it doesn't get slated anywhere near as much as Train Sim.
You've said it's dull, but you haven't slated it anywhere near as much as you've slated Train Sim, and that has proven my point.
Thankyou.
It now runs amazingly well on my 1.1GHz Athlon, 128RAM and voodoo 3.
Ok, some people think B&W is dull, and if you go into all the micro management it is, yet it doesn't get slated anywhere near as much as Train Sim.
You've said it's dull, but you haven't slated it anywhere near as much as you've slated Train Sim, and that has proven my point.
Thankyou.
I like B&W yeah.
Unfortunately, I had to restart the game when I needed to format my comp.
I kept the save game file, but the game doesn't recognise it, so I can't cary it on.
:-(
Unfortunately, I had to restart the game when I needed to format my comp.
I kept the save game file, but the game doesn't recognise it, so I can't cary it on.
:-(
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