What is this Meta Gaming* all the kids are talking about?

[Blindingsun 233]

Back when I was a lad you were a noob if you put more than ONE COIN in the arcade machine!.

if you can't finish a game on one life you suck haha.

what is the "meta gaming" you youngsters speak of?

is it slang for "met-a-game" because you can't "meet-a-girl"?

or is it something else?

enlighten the elderly please.

[LegitOldSchool 261]

Seriously? You can't type "metagame" in google?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metagaming

[gizm0 96]

Its like using info your avatar would otherwise be unaware. its like using out of character info in character when playing DnD

Edited August 18, 2012 by Orthus

[AzVirus 25]

ok I will bite and I am sure I am older than you.

It is the use of out of game info to affect your in game experience.

IE Maps, Loot locations or how to repair a vehicle etc

[Blindingsun 233]

you mean like knowing that sunderland will lose the football against arsenal even though sunderland think they can win?

[joeoblong@yahoo.com 614]

Seriously? You can't type "metagame" in google?

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Metagaming

Back in our day we didn't have no googles! We had alta vista and Hot Bots! Damn whipper snapper quit googling on my lawn!

[Blindingsun 233]

what is this "google" you speak of? some kind of new fangled etch-a-scetch?

[bazbake 456]

If you spend more time looking at GameFAQs than the instruction manual, you might be a metagamer.

[Hoodoo7 14]

Wow I totally forgot about Hotbot! I want to break out a copy of Netscape hook up my 56k modem and party like its 1996!

[Blindingsun 233]

ah 1996! back when kids knew who Nirvana were without an explaination, and porn took 2 hours to download a crappy jpeg.

chortle those were the days.

shame about the war.

[clever 12]

10/10, would read again.