One of my favorite things out of Sony in the last decade is Kevin Butler, their fake marketing persona that they’ve been using to promote their gaming division. His commercials are awesome, and they’ve won over a place in my heart with them. If you were one of the many blessed individuals that watched Kevin Butler’s E3 rant about what gaming is, then you know what I’m talking about.
Well, yesterday on Kevin Butler’s Twitter, he (or whatever intern Sony pays to manage the account) held a callback to that wonderful monologue, asking users to tweet about what gaming is to them. The results were pretty spectacular, to say the least, and it was great fun to read. Here are a few excerpts:
#gamingis knowing more friends by names like “AwesomeSauce” and “PallyofDeath” than by “Karen” and “Bob”.
#gamingis another ten minutes that takes three hours.
#gamingis displaying your rage-smashed controller in a Ziploc bag as a reminder to not break the new one.
We added one of our own with the following tweet: #gamingis sitting in front of your TV for eight hours and still claiming to be productive.
All of the responses were great, so I thought I’d bring what happened on Twitter yesterday here to GamerSushi. What is gaming to you? Feel free to be serious or as ludicrous as you want. Go!
Gaming is deciding whether or not you really want that Shotgun or if you’re good with your Assault Rifle.
Gaming is all in the name of gamerscore.
Gaming is telling fan boys to shut up.
Gaming is repeating a semester or two because of THAT GAME’s release.
Gaming is spending an additional four hours for a 10 point achievement.
Gaming is obsenely cursing out a 10-year old kid because he can’t figure out where base is AND HE HAS THE FLAG!!
Gaming is hanging out with your friends in Azeroth or on Halo or on the battlefield even though they’re right next to you.
Gaming is ditching sex for gaming.
Gaming is like reading, except it’s good.
Gaming is staying inside on a sunny day so that you can run around in a fake world with a fake sunny day.
Gaming is your friends banning a gametype, map or weapon because you are too good at it.
Gaming is automatically assuming that people who are better than you are cheating. 😉
Gaming is knowing that no matter how bad your day was, you can always go home and shoot someone in the face.
Gaming is camping.
Gaming is splattering somebody then not get dragged off to jail..
Gaming is where you can kill somebody but that person will not be dead.
Gaming is finding an amazing experience 3 years after everyone else got over it.
[quote comment=”12646″]Gaming is finding an amazing experience 3 years after everyone else got over it.[/quote]
no, that’s just me buying a 360 a few years late,lol.
#gamingis thinking you can break into a house and steal anything you want. #oblivion
[quote comment=”12647″][quote comment=”12646″]Gaming is finding an amazing experience 3 years after everyone else got over it.[/quote]
no, that’s just me buying a 360 a few years late,lol.[/quote]
Its also me with pretty much every game I buy. 🙂
Gaming is blaming it on lag.