I was just thinking about gaming and gamers in other countries. I just remembered while playing the SvM Beta that "Germans" were described as these hardcore schutze-spies haha, and recently we had a thread that basically described (the local, American) gaming public as little kids whose balls need to drop before they get on voicecomm--more about this in a minute.

So i'm wondering, how is gaming viewed in other countries.
I know in Japan its pretty low key honestly (yeah, hah, I know right?) even though Japan is the source for a lot of innovative gaming stuff. I mean, it's big, but its not like there are movie trailers for games in Japan. People are more likely to go have some tebasaki and smoke some mild sevens in some Roppongi bar while checking out the ladies (Hot ladies by the way).

In Malaysia, a country i've had the misfortune of staying it, "Gamers" can be construedto be ganglike, since a lot of youth gangs there have nothing to do with their time, and cybercafes are abundant.

The U.S. of course has its own unique gaming culture full of prepubescents who watch their pubes grow in between rounds of Counter-Strike.

--What is so sad for me is i'm 19 but I don't exactly have Hal Douglas's voice or anything