Strangelove Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 *SPOILERS* What's your opinion on spoilers? How much time must pass for it to not be a spoiler anymore? How affected are you by spoilers? Do you enjoy a game less or avoid it if a certain part of it has been spoiled? Do spoilers matter at all to you? Tell me. *SPOILERS OVER* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 I have a stupid ass spoiler on my car. Oh, wait... I dislike spoilers, but I won't hate/dislike the game over it. I try to avoid people talking about it...I mostly blame myself when i encounter them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 Honestly, game spoilers aren't that big a deal to me. If i've invested hours in a game, like a Mess Effect or a Gears of War then spoilers would rather not be heard, but it won't take away from my enjoyment of the game if i hear one. I think its down to the level of writing, and frankly 99% of video games don't have a story thats worth getting worked up about. Now a TV Show is a different matter. I can quickly get invested in a TV show. The characters, plots and all that. If someone deliberately tells me that Character X dies, whilst knowing its a spoiler...i think i've got a right to be a bit pissy with them. Same goes for a film. If i'm in a position whereby i'm a bit behind, and haven't seen the film/show in question then i'll avoid talking about it until after the fact. I think we can all agree though. If you go out of your way to ruin someone else's enjoyment of a game/show/book/film then you deserve to burn in that special hell. The one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at movie theatres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 I prefer to go into a game knowing as little as possible about it. I want to discover it for myself, and I feel that currently games PR is overdoing their job to the point where you know way too much about the story of a game before you even start playing. Honestly, stuff like that Connor, the next Assassin's Creed main character, has a British father who he never knew. is just unnecessary and takes away from the story once I play the game. How much time must pass for it to not be a spoiler anymore? Information about the story in a book/movie/game that a person has not played before will *always* be a spoiler, regardless of when the book/movie/game came out. I feel the etiquette regarding spoilers should simply be to try making sure you're not spoiling it for someone who cares, before you talk about it. Regardless of age of material, although of course the risk of spoiling is smaller if it's a reasonably older thing. For example, I don't think anyone is still surprised that snape kills dumbledore If something is spoiled on accident, I would be disappointed in the person who did the spoiling, but not angry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 There should be some sort of statute of limitations on them. While going out of your way to spoil something is obviously not a cool thing to do there should be a point at which you can talk about something freely. Over time I think that there should be less onus on the knowledgeable person to not spoil and more on the ignorant party to not be spoiled. For example, if you don't want to know that "it's his sled" then you should avoid forums, conversations, etc. relating to Citizen Kane. On the other hand if you happen to know what happens at the end of The Dark Knight Rises then it's very much on you to not spoil it for others. It gets a bit more tricky with films of books. Game of Thrones has been out for years in print, but spoiling the TV series with book knowledge would be harsh in my opinion. Then again, if you stumble into a book GoT forum, then you shouldn't complain too loudly if certain events get spoiled because the info being shared there is several years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 I agree with Thursday. If we're talking about a game that's 10 years old and I mention something that reveals the big twist in it (for instance that the Halos are actually super weapons designed to wipe out all sapient life in the galaxy ) then I don't feel like someone would be justified in being angry at me for mentioning it. For me the grey area is with games that are only 1-2 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 I agree with both Thursday and Johnny. Like Johnny, I like to know as little as possible about a game before going in. In essence, I want to know the following: What genre? What's the quality? How does it play? Is it good? I'm old enough to be pretty sure if I'm going to like something or not so once I know those things, I don't want to know anything more so as to maintain maximum enjoyment when I finally play the game itself. The same holds true for movies, TV, books, etc. I'm not going to shoot my mouth off at someone who accidentally spoils something but at the same time, even if it's something old, There's gotta be some statute of limitations, but I think good etiquette should demand that people start talking about a game or whatever by leading with something along the lines of "So who here has seen X?" or "Have you ever seen Y?" and if there are people who haven't seen it then the conversation should go as far as non-spoiler stuff or be taking to a more private chat between whoever has seen it. I definitely agree with Johnny about marketing departments these days. Movie trailers are mostly condensed movies from start to finish and game PR tends to show all the levels and all the guns and YOU GOTTA BUY OUR GAME!! but it just annoys me. These days I tend to avoid reading reviews of a game I want until I have it or I'm just about to get it. Instead, I just gather a general feeling from the public to test the waters. What is and isn't a spoiler can differ among individuals as well. For instance, a friend of mine is a big comic-book nerd so he looks up all the information about their movies, then he'll say stuff like "You know this bad guy is going to be in this movie and it's based on this arc except for this thing is changed." and he wouldn't think he spoiled anything but I'd be thinking "Cheers for that, buddy! Here I was hoping this stuff would be a nice surprise!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 Thursday: While I agree that you should probably not go to a forum for Game of Thrones and whine when you find out that character X gets killed by character Y in episode Z, in more generic cases (like a forum like this, about gaming of all kinds) I think you can't expect people to be cool with you blurting out the ending for Planescape: Torment, no matter how old it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 I definitely think context matters. If you go into a thread that's specifically about a 10-year-old game then don't be surprised if there are spoilers, but it's different if you go into a thread about something more generic and then someone spoils a game out of the blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Now, a thread like this. If you are the sort of person that gets narky about spoilers, I'd just stay well clear of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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