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[–] crybaby 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

So there's this 'phenomenon' (I guess you could call it that) in board gaming called "the cult of the new". Basically it describes people who jump on the hype train of a brand new game and when the game comes out they get bored quickly and repeat the process with the next big thing. And this is what NeoGaf is all about, its the cult of the new for video games. You see them do it all the time, the hype builds around a certain game, the OT goes up, people say stupid shit like "omg all over my face" and within a week they are tearing the game down and complaining about the cognitive dissonance in Uncharted/Bioshock/Tomb Raider/Minecraft or how the previous game (that they all fucking hated at the time) is suddenly an overlooked gem.

NeoGaf doesn't play video games. It just talks shit about them. Even its most prominent mods would much rather talk about idenity politics than video games.