Study Challenges Video-Gamer Stereotype

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-07-07 09:01pm

Here or the games forum? Didn't know, so here:

Read about it HERE.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-07 09:05pm

They needed a study to realise that.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-07 09:17pm

Montcalm wrote:They needed a study to realise that.

Yeah I never understood where the whole "nerdy" image came from. Most everyone i know plays video games. I could of told them that... that study was a waste of time

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-07-07 09:32pm

— software-driven games from cards to shoot-'em-up adventures such as Doom —

Damnit, why the hell is Doom brought up so much in regular news articles about games? I remember after the whole Columbine mess, whenever they talked about how the dipshits who shot everyone played games, they mentioned Doom. How old is that game anyway? I know Half-Life is almost 10 years, and Doom came out a few years before that at least.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-07 09:33pm

Jadeite wrote:
— software-driven games from cards to shoot-'em-up adventures such as Doom —

Damnit, why the hell is Doom brought up so much in regular news articles about games? I remember after the whole Columbine mess, whenever they talked about how the dipshits who shot everyone played games, they mentioned Doom. How old is that game anyway? I know Half-Life is almost 10 years, and Doom came out a few years before that at least.

I guess they go with the easiest to remember "DOOM"

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-07-07 09:41pm

Jadeite wrote:
— software-driven games from cards to shoot-'em-up adventures such as Doom —

Damnit, why the hell is Doom brought up so much in regular news articles about games? I remember after the whole Columbine mess, whenever they talked about how the dipshits who shot everyone played games, they mentioned Doom. How old is that game anyway? I know Half-Life is almost 10 years, and Doom came out a few years before that at least.

It's a brain bug among reporters. It's become so famous of a game from Columbine that most people are likely to recognize it when it's mentioned. This may not be the case if a reporter writes about teens playing Counter-Strike.

justifier · Post by **justifier** » 2003-07-07 09:42pm

Montcalm wrote:
Jadeite wrote:
— software-driven games from cards to shoot-'em-up adventures such as Doom —

Damnit, why the hell is Doom brought up so much in regular news articles about games? I remember after the whole Columbine mess, whenever they talked about how the dipshits who shot everyone played games, they mentioned Doom. How old is that game anyway? I know Half-Life is almost 10 years, and Doom came out a few years before that at least.
I guess they go with the easiest to remember "DOOM"

But hardly anyone plays DOOM anymore, C-Strike is the new FPS standard

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-07-07 09:44pm

justifier wrote:C-Strike is the new FPS standard

Hahahahaha!!

Oh wait, I'm sorry.

Hahahahaha!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-07-07 09:45pm

Jadeite wrote:Damnit, why the hell is Doom brought up so much in regular news articles about games? I remember after the whole Columbine mess, whenever they talked about how the dipshits who shot everyone played games, they mentioned Doom. How old is that game anyway? I know Half-Life is almost 10 years, and Doom came out a few years before that at least.

Because it's easily the biggest name in first person shooters ever. It came out at a time there weren't many fps's; it was revolutionary and more than that it was attention grabbing.

Also one of the Columbine shooters allegedly named his shotguns after characters in the Doom novelizations.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-07-07 09:49pm

Stormbringer wrote:Also one of the Columbine shooters allegedly named his shotguns after characters in the Doom novelizations.

There were Doom novels? What'd the plot consist of? Ugly dude shoots ugly blobs into rectangular splotches?

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-07-07 09:49pm

TheFeniX wrote:
justifier wrote:C-Strike is the new FPS standard
Hahahahaha!!

Oh wait, I'm sorry.

Hahahahaha!

I second that, with a hearty chortle.

justifier · Post by **justifier** » 2003-07-07 10:22pm

TheFeniX wrote:
justifier wrote:C-Strike is the new FPS standard
Hahahahaha!!

Oh wait, I'm sorry.

Hahahahaha!

I'm not saying that its the best, I'm saying that a lot people play it and among people it is well known

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-07 10:39pm

I'm still waiting for them to give what they think is the new FPS standard

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-07-07 10:45pm

thecreech wrote:I'm still waiting for them to give what they think is the new FPS standard

Daikatana.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-07-07 11:02pm

neoolong wrote:Daikatana.

*hissss!* You speak the dark ones name! Burn the heretic!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-07-07 11:03pm

Jadeite wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:Also one of the Columbine shooters allegedly named his shotguns after characters in the Doom novelizations.
There were Doom novels? What'd the plot consist of? Ugly dude shoots ugly blobs into rectangular splotches?

To be honest they weren't exactly long on detailed plot (except for the end, then it got weird) but it was pretty much heroic marine rescues heroic marine babe and hijinks ensue. For a video game novels they weren't bad though. Pretty good popcorn reads.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2003-07-07 11:07pm

Jadeite wrote:There were Doom novels? What'd the plot consist of? Ugly dude shoots ugly blobs into rectangular splotches?

Ehhh... Ugly dude and a chick shoots ugly blobs... or something like that.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-07-08 12:58am

A lot of it is trying to explain videogames across the generational gaps as well. Let's admit it, most of our elders who run our country are not exactly in touch with modern technology or the ones that are, are cagey enough to use generic commonly associated names like Doom to their advantage (Lieberman comes to mind).

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-07-08 01:49am

Are these pepole realy that fucking stupid or are they doing this type of shit to get more money out of the goverment or both?

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-07-08 01:52am

Get money of course.. but also we live in a sick sad world where we cannot accept anything as "truth" without having it validated on a piece of paper.

Look through the Health and Sciences pages in the newspapers or AP these days. It's really sad, they proclaim and scream at the top of their lungs about "NEW" findings that are so freakin old, but a paper comes out that explicitly ties it to cancer or some such and people go ape shit.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-07-08 01:55am

Trytostaydead wrote:Get money of course.. but also we live in a sick sad world where we cannot accept anything as "truth" without having it validated on a piece of paper.

Look through the Health and Sciences pages in the newspapers or AP these days. It's really sad, they proclaim and scream at the top of their lungs about "NEW" findings that are so freakin old, but a paper comes out that explicitly ties it to cancer or some such and people go ape shit.

I hear what your saying on that and pepole wonder why there contries econamy is going for a shit.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-07-08 05:30am

Stormbringer wrote: To be honest they weren't exactly long on detailed plot (except for the end, then it got weird) but it was pretty much heroic marine rescues heroic marine babe and hijinks ensue. For a video game novels they weren't bad though. Pretty good popcorn reads.

He didn't rescue her. He caught up to her after following her trail and almost got his head blown off for his trouble.

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-07-08 02:53pm

Stormbringer wrote:
Jadeite wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:Also one of the Columbine shooters allegedly named his shotguns after characters in the Doom novelizations.
There were Doom novels? What'd the plot consist of? Ugly dude shoots ugly blobs into rectangular splotches?
To be honest they weren't exactly long on detailed plot (except for the end, then it got weird) but it was pretty much heroic marine rescues heroic marine babe and hijinks ensue. For a video game novels they weren't bad though. Pretty good popcorn reads.

I read all of them, not too bad considering they didn't have much to work with. The whole alien war and "everyone dies" is kinda wierd but what are you gonna do?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-07-08 09:03pm

XaLEv wrote:He didn't rescue her. He caught up to her after following her trail and almost got his head blown off for his trouble.

I know that. But I was just trying to give a quick blurb that was more or less accurate.

TheFeniX wrote:I read all of them, not too bad considering they didn't have much to work with. The whole alien war and "everyone dies" is kinda wierd but what are you gonna do?

They are pretty good and actually avoid turning into horribly repetive novels and yet still keep the "game" elements entertaining. I wish the Dark Forces novels had been done half so well.

The ending was weird as hell. But hey, it was interesting to the end.