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Can we try to make the Trivia a little less specific.

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#1  Edited By Deathawk

So latlely I've been playing the never ending trivia, and some of the trivia questions are ridiculously specific, like "You won't know this if you haven't played this game" specific, the games supposed to be open to everyone and test our video game knowledge not, wether or not we played some obscure RPG from the 90s.

So can we try to make these a little more manageable?

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#2  Edited By azteris
@Deathawk said:
" So latlely I've been playing the never ending trivia, and some of the trivia questions are ridiculously specific, like "You won't know this if you haven't played this game" specific, the games supposed to be open to everyone and test our video game knowledge not, wether or not we played some obscure RPG from the 90s. So can we try to make these a little more manageable? "
Isn't that the point?

Maybe I'm missing something.

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#3  Edited By buzz_clik
@Deathawk: I agree with Azteris. That's the point of trivia: to find out what obscure things you know. If everybody knew the answer, I'm guessing it'd be less... well, trivial.
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#4  Edited By RHCPfan24

Yeah, that is the point of trivia. Trivia is...well, trivial. It isn't essential but it is a bunch of facts that test your knowledge on trivial matters. It may not be that important but it is fun.

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#5  Edited By Deathawk

Perhapse I misspoke myself. I don't object to asking me about video game factoids, what I object to is stuff a player would only know by playing the game. For instance while it's perfectly acceptable to ask "What was Revolt 2's subtitle going to be before it was changed due to contreversy" it is not ok to ask "What is the car you unlock after beating the third to last track in Revolt." If I was paying attetion to the news I would gather that the answer to the first question would be "Pocket Rockets" however their is no way I'd know the latter question unless I actually have played the game in question.

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#6  Edited By jeffgoldblum

The trivia is MAD HARD, but you cant tell people what to post.

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#7  Edited By eirikr

For every super-hard one I had, I like to put in one or two throwaways as well. I still have feelings of malaise at the person that got the "what is the Kool-Aid Man's catchphrase" question wrong.

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#8  Edited By Drebin_893
@Deathawk said:
" Perhapse I misspoke myself. I don't object to asking me about video game factoids, what I object to is stuff a player would only know by playing the game. For instance while it's perfectly acceptable to ask "What was Revolt 2's subtitle going to be before it was changed due to contreversy" it is not ok to ask "What is the car you unlock after beating the third to last track in Revolt." If I was paying attetion to the news I would gather that the answer to the first question would be "Pocket Rockets" however their is no way I'd know the latter question unless I actually have played the game in question. "
That seems perfectly fine to me, I don't get what the problem is? If you knew every answer it would be terrible, the fun is the fact that all the while you're aware that someone, somewhere knows what the answer to that question is.
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#9  Edited By Jimbo

It's a test of your video game knowledge.  Not a test of your ability to follow video game related news.

RIght?

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#10  Edited By supermarius

i think the OP doesnt want to get as many trivia questions wrong. But the best trivia questions are probably the ones that are hard and you cant google.

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@Jimbo said:
" It's a test of your video game knowledge.  Not a test of your ability to follow video game related news.RIght? "
Or to look it up via the search engine of choice and wikipedia. But I admit it's pretty hard to restrain yourself from doing so, since the questions are brutal. Which leads to …

@Supermarius said:
" i think the OP doesnt want to get as many trivia questions wrong. But the best trivia questions are probably the ones that are hard and you cant google. "
Well, in this age of blogging and twittering you can find out everything game related with the search engine of choice. It just takes a little longer. Making the questions even harder solves nothing.
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#12  Edited By KillaMaStA

The point of trivia is to learn useless factoids about video games that you probably havent even heard of...

MOAR CRAZY!!!

Thats my opinion

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#13  Edited By Jimbo

I've never really looked at it, but they should totally stick a timer on there.

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#14  Edited By supermarius

well, if you can google everything, then theres no point in keeping track of who has gotten the most questions correct or the best correct %-age. If you can google everything then the people who are the highest on the list aren't the most knowledgeable, they just have the most time on their hands

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#15  Edited By trophyhunter

that's the whole point of trivia you moron it would pointless if everyone knew every question

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#16  Edited By George_Hukas

People are complaining about the same thing in 1vs100 and they only give you 5 seconds to answer.

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@Supermarius said:
" well, if you can google everything, then theres no point in keeping track of who has gotten the most questions correct or the best correct %-age. If you can google everything then the people who are the highest on the list aren't the most knowledgeable, they just have the most time on their hands "
Just look at the leaders, they literally answered thousand questions, the longest streak is 250+ - you can't tell me that this is possible without cheating (yourself, in fact).
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#18  Edited By Endogene

The way the trivia works is that the harder questions only come after you have done a good amount of them, the early question are really general or well known, hard to fail, the later ones are hard and very specific. That is how the never ending trivia works.

Also Yes/No questions are always "yes".