Overused editorial/gamer catch-phrases

[bahn]

I was recently browsing at another forum which some of the members there expressed their...um, disgust for some of the common editorial catch-phrases that exist throughout online/print publications.

The most common is (sorry IGN), "frothing demand" applied to the GameCube release of Ikaruga (or rather, the word - frothing) and then there's "spiritual successor" (which thankfully doesn't seem to be overused nearly as much, but still)


...and how can we forget the classic one of all which gave birth to a ton of other silly craze...

"All your base are belong to us."


Discuss (or add your own here)...

[red_war_machine]

It's "all your base ARE belong to us" ACTUALLY.

[epmode]

gaming goodness.

i've seen that horrible phrase in far too many reviews.

[bahn]

Originally posted by red_war_machine
It's "all your base ARE belong to us" ACTUALLY.

just caught that thanks to "Google"

[red_war_machine]

All I can say is, I'm thankful "Shine Get!"'s presence was so shortlived.

[Drewbacca]

I hate the words lackluster, and ho-hum in reviews.

I mean, what the hell? Ho-hum? Just... no. I don't read enough reviews to know the real gaming terms used all the time, though.

[Cookie Monster]

Best.Game.Ever.

I think I remember when Chris Charla did this either in Next Gen or on his Q&A article on Daily Radar, and I thought it was ok then. That was 4 years and 10,000 uses ago.

[Hot Like Wasabi]

Any kind of haxor/hacker lingo or whatever the hell it is.

[K3V]

I've seen "jaw-dropping" just a few too many times over the years.

[skelly]

Originally posted by epmode
gaming goodness.

Yes. That's even worse than "mixed bag", which
sounds stupider and stupider every time you
think about it.