16 Ways To Tell You're A Video Game Buff

11. Button-Bashing In A Fighting Game Is Tantamount To Insulting Your Mother

There are some things one just does not do, and button-bashing is right up there with proclaiming Twilight "wasn't all bad". Although it was a more acceptable trait in the arcades where you'd just dropped a coin into the machine and thus were fighting like your life depended on it, thwacking away at the pad like some chemically-induced gibbon will only lead to one righteous fury being transmitted to your person by way of the whites of your opponents eyes should you manage to win.

10. Graphics Be Damned, The Original Of Anything Is Always The Best

Just look at those graphics. Would it be total madness to say that many of us, when first looking upon such spritely 2D primary-colour glory, thought they were remarkable? You can't beat your first time, and it totally applies to games too. Although we've come a very long way with rendering techniques (the new Batman: Arkham Knight has more polygons in one character model than an entire structure from the first game), graphics do not make a game, the first impression and interaction with mechanics sticks with you more than nearly any modern day set-piece.
 
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Gaming Editor

WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.