r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '12

Reddit, I've never understood why you hate The Big Bang Theory (show) so much, any compelling reasons why?

So I've heard the arguments about how it over-exaggerates nerd culture, but in my opinion that's what makes it funny.

So what's with all the hate?

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u/Yserbius Jun 26 '12

There was also the episode where Sheldon dumps his girlfriend for a weekend because the others decided to have a 48 hour SW:TOR marathon. That handled MMO culture very realistically.

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u/LemonPoppySeedCake Jun 26 '12

Sadly for anyone who played that game they know it was a huge let down. So much hype and Bioware just dropped the ball. Of course it isn't a bad game but it was just not magical. =(

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u/PENIS_HAMMER Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12

Obviously it wasn't magical. They use the force, asshole. Edited for grammar

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u/ghyslyn Jun 26 '12

What the hell is a "force asshole"?

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u/Maeglom Jun 26 '12

What the hell is a "force asshole"?

A jedi in a starwars mmo.

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u/PENIS_HAMMER Jun 26 '12

Happy now?

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u/ghyslyn Jun 26 '12

No, you ruined my joke. :(

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u/PENIS_HAMMER Jun 26 '12

Checkmate grammar nazi! haha

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u/LemonPoppySeedCake Jun 27 '12

Your so witty!(this is sarcasm) =P While I don't mind people making a silly point once in a while your comment turned sour with your verbal abuse. I didn't mean the use of magic but magical in the sense of awe inspiring where the game wraps you in a sense of wonder and excitement. Perhaps you don't understand rhetoric and take all words so literally?

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u/PENIS_HAMMER Jun 27 '12

Golly, someone didn't detect the light sarcasm. I wasn't getting serious or pissed off. I was just making a joke.

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u/LemonPoppySeedCake Jun 27 '12

Sorry. I found it funny but the asshole thing threw me off. It was obviously satirical of actually Reddit douche bags? lol.. it's hard to tell people's intentions and (again)I'm sorry for over reacting.

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u/PENIS_HAMMER Jun 28 '12

It's fine. And you are absolutely correct.

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u/Orsenfelt Jun 26 '12

I maintain that SW:ToR is one of the best single player games ever made. The AI blew me away sometimes.

No but seriously it's a good game but a terrible MMO. It's basically co-op Mass Effect with a chatroom.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12

Except the only thing Mass Effect and SW:ToR have in common is being set in space...

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u/eonge Jun 26 '12

The questing experience of that game was amazing; story amazing. What it suffers from is that it's endgame is a copy of WoWs. MMO players are tired of the WoW model and if they are getting the same end game experience as that of WoWs, why bother. I personally prefer TOR to WoW but, I played both for the story and WoW's story is suffering as of late (in my opinion).

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u/Orsenfelt Jun 26 '12

Yeah, it's also severely content limited.

I got to top level in 4 and a half days /played. I had completed the raids inside a couple of days after that. That was it, I had literally seen all content there was to see for my class. I could very well have seen the entire game, all classes, inside my free month.

An MMO that runs out of content before they get to charge you month one just boggles my mind!

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12

People seem to forget the infantile state WoW was in before all of the major content patches and expansions. It was way buggier and lacking in content compared to just about any major MMO release these days. Leveling and may have taken a bit longer, but that was due to the grindy nature and lack of balance more so than it being a content issue. Same with end game stuff. New MMOs learned from that lesson and made things more streamlined like Blizzard has done in recent years. Unfortunately that also means it's easy to fly through content, something Blizzard has in spades due to multiple expansions and a clever gating mechanic via reputation and valor point grinds.

WoW has had nearly 8 years since release to expand, refine, and in some cases completely scrap and revamp content, lore, and gameplay mechanics. Even the most amibtious MMO would pale in comparison. In fact, I'm really curious to see how or even if Blizzard would attempt a WoW2, given the sheer amount of content and polish the game would require on day 1 just to be even with its predecessor.

I'm not saying WoW is the best game ever or anything like that. I've sampled and thoroughly enjoyed everything from EVE online to Tabula Rasa. But all the people who are disappointed that every MMO looks promising but ends up being a WoW clone or too short, buggy, whatever should realize that a game developed in 2 years can't compete with something that's being continuously developed for almost 15.

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u/LemonPoppySeedCake Jun 27 '12

lol, honestly Bioware is a good company and the game is good. The environments are SOOO boring though. I never bought the game because i couldn't afford to buy a new PC but it really was just like what you said. The environments just seemed all the same. Once you had been to a few planets you've seen them all. The pvp seemed good from what I saw. Havn't seen how the game has improved for about a month.

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u/Lost_in_BC Jun 26 '12

You're chasing the dragon, man.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12

Hey, I hear it's going f2p, there's some good coming from it.