This thread kind of reminds me of something weird I sometimes come across.
It's more or less the exact opposite.
When I meet someone who is actually a real gamer and has knowledge of the industry and whatnot, but then he/she is just, well, an unstoppable hyper-nerd with which I have trouble actually talking about stuff because he/she is just too knowledgable which makes me feel like a newb
So I was actually really happy when I found someone who was on my level of communicating, but also very knowledgable about the industry and he opened my eyes to the likes of Journey, Limbo and The Walking Dead (the good one). Shed a tear when I met him, because up 'till then, I had never had a gaming buddy which was on my 'level' so to speak.
I named all the gems from the Wii, and he had played 'em all. Little King's Story. Check. Muramasa. Check. No More Heroes. Check.
'T was a beautiful moment :crying:
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On topic.
For me it always feels slightly awkward when I have to tone-down my passion about games when talking about it with someone less knowledgable.
A recent example would be the niece of my girlfriend talking about how she had played Slender and the occasional Call of Duty at a friend's house with some more friends because it was scary and fun
Then she askes 'And what about you, what do you play' (She asked this after I had told her that I am a passionate gamer)
The question alone 'What do I play?' has me thinking really hard as to how I should go about explaining games like Little King's Story, Muramasa, Cave Story or F-Zero.
But here's the kicker, I was actually going through Killer 7 at that time and I tried to explain it to her, but well, ....I kind o' failed at that :3
Here's to hoping I'll have the following conversation in the future one day
So what games are you into?
I'm into Suda games.
What are Suda games?
Suda stands for Goichi Suda, he's a game developer and comes up with amazing stories
What kind of stories?
Well,......you see.....uhm......he comes up with them on the toilet, and.....