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A post on X (formerly Twitter) went viral after calling out some “core gamers” for sneering at new features in Nintendo’s remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, dismissing them with lines like “other games already do this” and “Nintendo fanboys have never played a decent game.” The post racked up a huge response within about four hours. Once it got reposted to 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, things spiraled into a tangled mix of support and backlash — including a debate over who exactly counts as a “core gamer” (replies 11 and 49), pushback against anti-Nintendo and anti-Zelda posters, and laments that “gamers as a whole are getting side-eyed because of this.”
They got hit with sneers like “this has already been done in other games” and “Nintendo fanboys have never played a decent game” — and all that really came across was that core gamers have a rotten personality.
This was literally a chance to put other games on people’s radar, so I don’t get why they’d torpedo it themselves.
Source: x.com / original post here
What people said
So what games HAVE you played?
So basically —
do you even own a PS5?
Show me your trophies ❤
Whoever starts the fight should be the first to say what games they've actually played, that's just common courtesy.
Though you probably can't say anyway.
Huh, why?
You've gotta make the pitch — "Zelda's amazing compared to THIS game," that kind of thing.
Exactly — so unless you tell us what "this game" even is, there's nothing to compare it to.
Called it, can't actually explain it.
All you've got is shooting things down, so the second someone asks for specifics you can't even bluff your way through.
Can't be helped with a title this big.
which just means even fewer of them lining up at stores.
It's 'Core' as in '孤独な阿呆' (kodoku na ahou, 'Lonely Fool') — the コ + ア make コア ('core').
A game better than Nintendo's, huh — like Wolverine or something?
Isn't that the same 'h' as in units like hectopascal?
Just hit thumbs-up and move on.
Yeah, there was always a guy like this back in school too —
the awkward loner everybody just quietly hated.
You still run into one occasionally as an adult, but they tend to vanish pretty fast.
Let's go ahead and report it.
Calling them 'Nintendo cavemen' is pretty rough.
Calling that 'core'? You're not even casual at that point.
Calm down lol
Your sentence doesn't even make sense lol
Guess that was too long a wall of text for you guys.
Your ID changed — what happened there?
— two people happily chatting "this is tasty, isn't it," and some guy butts in with "well THIS is tastier though!"
then caps it off with "no comeback, so I win!"
Some things never change.
Yeah, there was that one with someone pushing Palworld on Pokémon fans on X lol
I want that image but I can never find it.
Background and Key Points of This Thread
The Hardware/Industry (Geha) board is a forum where rivalries between hardware camps often flare up, and true to form, the very definition of “core gamer” became a point of contention right from the start (replies 11 and 49). The original X post criticized, from a pro-Nintendo angle, the sneering reaction to the new features, but within the thread itself, both anti-Nintendo and pro-Nintendo posters mostly ended up hurling insults at each other, and the discussion drifted away from the original question — whether sneering at the new features was even fair — pretty quickly. The “4h likes” in the headline just refers to how much reaction the post racked up within about four hours of posting; it’s not an official metric, which makes it easy to misread. It’s also worth noting that posters in the thread never agreed on exactly who “core gamers” are supposed to be — each side seems to define the term however is most convenient for attacking the other.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch Hardware/Industry (Geha) board thread “X User: ‘Core Gamers Who Sneer at the Ocarina of Time Remake Have Thoroughly Rotten Personalities’ — Racks Up Likes in 4 Hours.”
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