but seriously casual gamers biggest games they'll buy is rouge warrior and transformers 2
[QUOTE=texanderson;19659009]but seriously casual gamers biggest games they'll buy is rouge warrior and transformers 2[/QUOTE]
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I guess you can say I used to be. I'd always have the urge to play a game and I would play it, switching off every month or so. Now I have these episodes where I just sit at my computer and think about if I should play a game or not.
Seems like a typical "I have no achievements in life what so ever, so therefore I need to fill my life with made up titles"-thing... Like, when you buy the ownership of a star, or "being psycic".
If by "hardcore" gamer you mean someone who thouroughly enjoys video games, and the act of video gaming in almost all forms, and does so in whatever free time he/she has? Then, yes, I am indeed a hardcore gamer, but the term doesn't mean that, and the majority of "hardcore" gamers are more or less lame asses. I'd rather use the term "die-hard" gamer to apply to myself.
Getting bored with a game someone else might be well-accustomed to is a completely inappropriate definition of "casual."
Your friend is a prick.
My friends tease me all the time for being 'casual', it's turned into a long running joke really.
Semi-Hardcore / Die Hard gamer.
Yes. Hardcore gaming is the opposite of casual gaming, which would be considered the 5 year olds who play random games their parents buy for them and the 35 year olds who play Wii Fit.
If you have any real interest in games it's easy as balls to be a hardcore gamer.
[QUOTE=power-mad;19651679]So my friend and I got into an argument about what counted as hardcore gaming. [B]I refused to finish final fantasy 6, his favorite game[/B], because I just got really bored playing it, and he said I was a casual. This sparked a massive debate over what a hardcore gamer was.
So now I bring this to you facepunch, what is a hardcore gamer, and are you one? Thought it would be interesting to ask you guys. I have beaten hundreds more games than most people, play two fighting games competitively, and have endless hours logged in on many games, so I would consider myself fairly hardcore.[/QUOTE]
Tell him that Sephiroth kicks Kefka's ass, just to troll him hard.
Anyway, my definition of hardcore gamer is a gamer that loves video games, no matter the genre (though he surely can prefer a genre over another), he cares about the industry, about the developers and gaming culture is important to him (all of this within reasonable limits of course). A hardcore gamer isn't the guy who always places first in the leader-board or the guy who always wants to win and rages when he doesn't (that kind of guy is just a wannabe pro gamer that is probably 12 years old), a hardcore gamer is the guy that even if he loses he still has fun, and doesn't rage when he doesn't place in the top of the leader-board because he knows that the important thing is to have fun. Also skill alone doesn't make you a "hardcore" gamer either.
That said I hate the "hardcore" term, for me it's just Wannabes (the guys that rage and want to always be first), Casuals (people who play video games but aren't very interested), Gamers (the above) and Pro Gamers (people that play video games for money in tournaments).
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