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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5104272" data-attributes="member: 54846">To me it means "I don't like it but I can't even enunciate why, or even how it is like a video game even though the specifics are not correct, but I need a word as a catch all to express my dislike".That's what it means to me when I see it.However, to be fair to those who mean it as not a malicious epithet, but just cannot put words to it:Someone who is not familiar RPGs, they might say, "WoD games are like D&D". To someoen who's fairly familiar with one or the other (or both), this comparison can be at the very least very WRONG (and possibly insulting). The systems are totally different, have different assumptions, tell different stories, use different dice (for gods sake!) and address very separate genres. But to the person completely unfamiliar with RPGs, the comparison is apt enough for them because all they are familiar with is the feeling about the basics: Both involve rulebooks where people play characters on a sheet, and roll dice to do things. So to me, I believe those who use "Videogamey" (without just using it as a catch-all buzzword) are trying to make a comparison but they're fairly unfamiliar with one or both things, they don't have a way to actually compare the two in a detailed manner. So all they can do to express this is go with the knee-jerk that is drawn from first blush with the two. This is why "videogamey" is often paired with "feels". You don't have to concrete similarities to create a "feeling", and you don't have to justify or quantify it.</blockquote>

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