Gaming "Buzz" terms that you are sick of.

I was listening to a couple podcasts last night and I realized that there are some terms that really get on my nerves. The first was saying a sequel was "1.5" and not 2. To me this reaks of snarky gamers who need to get their heads out of their asses. Can't a sequal just be a continuation of the story without having to make a huge leap tech wise? I mean no one says "Rocky 2 didn't look that much better than Rocky, so it's Rocky 1.5" so why are games held up to a different standard? A sequel is defined as something that follows; a continuation. So if Bioshock 2 is made after Bioshock than guess what? I dont care if its an 8-bit mario clone, its STILL 2!

Secondly, PS3, XBOX 360 and Wii are current gen, not Next Gen. Thank you.

I can't stand the term "bleeding edge".

Open world

Whenever I hear the word "visceral" I want to dive through my headphones and rip the head off the journalist who said it. I'm not even sure they know what it means.

Casual and hardcore.

Emergent Gameplay, Innovative, Open World, User Created Content, Verticality, casual, hardcore, Action-MMO with no classes.

Hag, lol

Casual is an annoying word, for multiple reasons, but it has it's use, right?

The ability to take the sentence "He's not into very difficult, complicated, or particularly esoteric titles" into one word is useful.

"Secondly, PS3, XBOX 360 and Wii are current gen, not Next Gen. Thank you."

"Moral Choices that have an impact on the world" is a pretty stupid one, especially since they rarely do have much of an impact.
Emergent Gameplay. Casual, Hardcore.

"Casual is an annoying word, for multiple reasons, but it has it's use, right?The ability to take the sentence "He's not into very difficult, complicated, or particularly esoteric titles" into one word is useful."

casual core
large tail
marketable
holiday title
annual
madden

"inkeiren said:

"Casual is an annoying word, for multiple reasons, but it has it's use, right?The ability to take the sentence "He's not into very difficult, complicated, or particularly esoteric titles" into one word is useful."

Sure, but there's no such word. There are plenty of 'casual' GTA, Halo, and World of Warcraft fans. As well as gamers that think they're hardcore."

"Hag, lol"

"greennoodles said:

"Hag, lol"

What about CAG?"

I can't think of that many. And to the "visceral" guy, just play any Sega game made before the Dreamcast, and you'll have an idea of what visceral means.

"Gmanall said:

"greennoodles said:

"Hag, lol"

What about CAG?"

Whatever.  I am super sick of Feline Action Games"

Can't stand "Next-Gen" because it simply doesn't make sense.

I can't stand the word generic

Halo Killer.

'Casual vs Hardcore Audience'
'Ultimate Badass'

Those two are probably my biggest annoyances for terms used by the industry. Really annoying how many games use the "We wanted to make a character and game that lets players feel like they are the ultimate badass!" statement all the time. And I don't understand why people have to continue the casual vs hardcore argument or bring it up when talking about a game "Do you think this game will appeal to the casual or hardcore audience?" really annoying.

"I can't think of that many. And to the "visceral" guy, just play any Sega game made before the Dreamcast, and you'll have an idea of what visceral means."

"inkeiren said:

"Casual is an annoying word, for multiple reasons, but it has it's use, right?The ability to take the sentence "He's not into very difficult, complicated, or particularly esoteric titles" into one word is useful."

Sure, but there's no such word. There are plenty of 'casual' GTA, Halo, and World of Warcraft fans. As well as gamers that think they're hardcore."

Yeah, the division of gaming  into "casual" and "hardcore". Both by use and by definition; the first one because its usually based on painful ignorance, the latter because it never even works to actually come up with proper definitons.

Both are a myth, concepts that work very well for accusations but have very little to do with reality.

Immerse or immersion.  Also pretty much all of the above.  

Edit:  Also "polish". 

"Video_Game_King said:

"I can't think of that many. And to the "visceral" guy, just play any Sega game made before the Dreamcast, and you'll have an idea of what visceral means."

Visceral - (1) intuitive: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
                  (2) pertaining to an organ in the chest area
                  (3) any large internal organ


However, when journalists use it it seems to diverge from this definition completely or in terms of the intuitive definition, it just seems like a "look at me I know a big word" ploy. Is there anything wrong with saying intuitive? Do vocab wangs need to be stroked that often? Either way, it's used WAY too often. "