Terms you want the gaming media to stop using.

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bdbdbd on 19 January 2009

Couldn't agree more with the OP.

I'll add casual/hardcore.

I have to say that if we had to pick one instance that is killing gaming, it would be game journalists.

@Thanny: It's not actually overused, it's just used to describe something that isn't next gen. It would be like you talking about your kids and you'd be meaning yourself.

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Parokki on 19 January 2009

I don't oppose the term "casual" in all circumstances, but would like the meaning refined a bit.

The way I see it, casual gamers are the demographic that joined during the shift from the SNES to the PS1 generation. This is not to say that all the casuals joined in that period, but that the types of people who fit in this category started appearing in that period. I'm sure we all know them: the uncle that loves racing games, the girl who loves Final Fantasy, the fratboy that plays Halo on the weekends, all who might otherwise thinks games are for nerds (or be respectfully uninterested, but that's rare ^^).

The people we have getting into gaming with the Wii and DS are a completely different breed, and although quite a few of them will probably be "leveling up", labeling them as casuals doesn't work very well, and seems to me more like an attempt to disrespect the newcomers than a meaningful distincton. It also groups people who I think are casual as hardcore with me, and I'm way more hardcore than those guys! Saying some guy who plays two different shooters three hours a week is the same as me? Outrageous! >_<

tl;dr: instead of hardcore/casual we should have hardcore/casual/something

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LordTheNightKnight on 19 January 2009

jake_the_fake1 said:
casual and mainstream, however, waggle can stay, describes the wii in one word.

The "flop" describes the PS3 in one word. See, I can troll too.

As for this thread, most of what I would pick have been chosen already, but I'd add phrases, like "not a real game".

A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

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d21lewis on 19 January 2009

The term "_____ Killer"

The GTA Killer didn't kill GTA. The Halo Killer didn't kill Halo. The O.J. Simpson killer didn't kill O.J. (bastard charged me $12,000 too.)

No killer has ever killed it's victim.

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megaman79 on 19 January 2009

Best game in a decade

until the next yr......

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CAL4M1TY on 19 January 2009

Here's my list of words, in no particular order:
PS3
Domination
Begins
When
is
Released

Being serious:
Casual gaming.

Domination.

Gaming masterpiece

Flop.

System Seller