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Topic: Would you call yourself an hardcore gamer, a regular gamer, or just an casual gamer?

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feba

Your descriptions are terrible; hardcore gamers can appreciate things that aren't very difficult and bloody. Super Smash Bros. has a lot of hardcore follows in the tournament scene, for example.

Anyway, I'd describe myself as hardcore. I try not to spend a lot of money on it, but I do invest quite a bit of time into keeping up on news, game announcements and releases, sales, and so on. I've got a backlog of over a dozen games now, and I've been playing since literally before I can remember; one of my earliest memories of life is on a genesis, another was falling down the stairs on my way to watch my uncle play some DOS game. Shortly after the PS2 launch, my mom made me pick between a new PS2 and a new puppy. I still have that PS2 on the floor in front of me, and consider it a better companion than the dog we've had for years longer.

It doesn't make me better, or worse, as a person. It's just my hobby. I find it fun, I find it fascinating, I find the prices reasonable and the rewards plentiful. I do read, watch movies, and listen to music occasionally, but none of them have the same impact on me as games; in fact, I find it hard to read fiction novels in general past the first chapter or two. I have a friend who spends his time absorbed in learning guitar, and I find a lot of the things he tells me interesting as well; it's just not where I put my time. In the past, I bugged him to play games. Currently, he's bugging me to learn guitar. We watch a bunch of odd movies together, largely more for the experience of having seen them than the entertainment of watching them.

My uncle used to make a lot of RC cars. Some people buy them from toy stores. His can go faster, endure more punishment, be customized to his every whim. He enjoyed it, and appreciated it, and I imagine in much the same way as I appreciate video games. Some people think it's silly to get absorbed in something like that, but then I think their obsessions are just as bizarre.

One thing I will say about gaming, though, is that it's an excellent time to get into the hobby. History shows us that media has an incredible ability to endure-- early written works, music, film, and so on. Video gaming had previously been thought to be a hobby, the industry nearly died, and now it's large enough that Hollywood is afraid of it, and a major game release can hurt box office sales. It's very hard to imagine us as being at anything other than the beginning of a new art form, which already has some incredible specimens that I have little doubt people will be playing in a century, possibly studying. Things like Super Metroid, Shadow of the Colossus, Super Mario Galaxy, Link to the Past. Imagine if you had the ability to go see one of Shakespere's plays in the time they were written, or a Beethoven symphony, or read War and Peace in the first edition. That is one of the reasons I find gaming so enthralling-- it's not a fad, it's not something that's been done, and it's something that changes. Every year we get games that amaze us and take us places we hadn't considered before-- years from now, our children may be unlucky enough to look back on these like we look on great works of fiction. They're not bad, but they've been done. Their concepts, copied. Their characters, unrelatable due to times changing. The very sound of their words sounding queer at best, incomprehensible at worst. Then, at the very least, we will remember the brilliance and creativity behind them, and tell our children to get off our goddamned lawn.

feba

Mama_Luigi

I think i'm hardcore.

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Machu

Stupid question if you ask me.

The 360/PS3 crowd who consider themselves 'hardcore' cos they shoot guns lots and get bloody, would poke fun at an image of me playing Little Kings Story. "Kids game, kids console right? Yet, I've just put 30 solid hours in over the last 3 days (its that good).

Again, Boom Blox Bash Party would be found pigeon-holed in the 'casual' department. But, it kept me up till 4am creating a level just so I could destroy it. And I wasn't very casual about it.

I like quality games, regardless of there target audience.

Rawr!

Adamant

The entire division into "hardcore" and "casual" is idiotic enough in the first place, and these guidelines here make absolutely no sense (Zelda is hardcore and Sonic is casual? What?).
If you play video games on a semi-regular basis, that makes you a "gamer", and that's pretty much all there is to it.

What amuses me the most is that these people calling themselves "hardcore" are the same as those who complain about how much the C64 and everything on it sucks, and how every week Nintendo releases a game they haven't heard of is "awful".

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metakirbyknight

By your personal standards hardcore. By mine I'm split right between regular and hardcore.
I also hate these terms.

I hate the fools who seem to think "He's playing Kirby on his DS, he can't be hardcore! To be hardcore you need to be playing Call of Duty on the PSP" I mean be reasonable and the way I play Kirby, it can really be hardcore! I see eleven year old freinds of my brother's talking about how their so hardcore playing Halo 3. I'm going to tell those kids next time I hear anybody say that "If ya wanna know what hardcore really means, go beat Super Mario Bros. 2 (JP)!" None of them will have the skill. If they complain I'll tell them hears an easier one, how about Super Mario Bros?

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Sean_Aaron

I play 60-90 min. a day with the rare 2hr. session here and there. I do enjoy many kinds of games and tend to skew away from the lengthy epics and more towards arcade-style pick-up-and-play games or games that have a total length of 10hrs. and bear repeat playing.

I prefer not to categorize myself but will leave it up to you based upon this information:

I think Super Mario Bros. 3 and Castlevania IV are both fatally flawed games which I refuse to keep on my system.
I've put in more hours playing Godzilla Unleashed than I did Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.
No More Heroes is without a doubt the best 3D action game on the system thus far (Rogue Trooper and Disaster Day of Crisis are tied for second).
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theblackdragon

Sean+Aaron wrote:

I think Super Mario Bros. 3... [is a] fatally flawed [game] which I refuse to keep on my system.

i've never heard this before, and i'm genuinely interested in knowing how you came to feel that way about SMB3. what is/are these fatal flaws of which you speak?

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Adam

I can understand someone not liking it, but to call the best selling game of all time "fatally" flawed is nonsense, sorry. Flawed? Maybe, but what game isn't? Obviously nothing was fatal about it, though. It's a beautifully designed game.

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brandonbwii

My sig summerizes how I feel about that sort of catorization. I liked it back when hardcore gaming simply meant you liked a good challenge. Nowadays ppl calling themselves hardcore actually whine about difficulty. If gamers are so hardcore, and "we want hardcore games," then why do we live in an era with infinate lives and regenarative heath. An example, the most hardcore 3D Zelda game is Majora's Mask and that received a mixed reception by the community mostly because time traveling was too hard. It makes ya think with the difficulty level of recent Nintendo games, who are they TRULY pandering to? Teh casualz or teh hard "oh I don't mean challenging" core.

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feba

weirdadam wrote:

... the best selling game of all time ...

er, I don't think SMB3 is the best selling game of all time. Wii Sports has long surpassed it (even without the pack-in, it would've-- it had a %50+ attach rate in Japan last I heard), as well as SMW being a pack-in with the SNES. In terms of stand-alone titles, even if you discredit Wii Sports success, I am pretty sure that San Andreas has surpassed SMB3. Not that it's any less of a game, and it's still clearly one of the best-selling, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong.

Anyway, the problem with hardcore/casual isn't so much that there are terms for it as that people misuse it. "Games I don't like" and "games I think are for pussies" become 'casual'; "games that get mature ratings" and "FPS/RPG" become 'hardcore'. In reality, those four categories have practically nothing to do with it; and practically no game is one or the other, although they may cater to one audience over the other. I don't think there's a problem between drawing a line between someone who occasionally plays video games for light entertainment and someone who plays video games frequently or regularly as their primary or favorite entertainment, or views it as more of an art form than an entertainment medium; or at least is more inclined to see things as art. It's really not that much different than the distinction between your average moviegoer and a film buff.

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Adam

Eh, it's commonly toted as the best selling game of all time, and it's beside the point to be splitting hairs like that.

Also, I doubt San Andreas surpassed SMB3. GTA is not as popular elsewhere as it is in the US, especially not in Japan. SMB3 sold like hot cakes the world over... or like an equivalently delicious food in each respective market.

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Sean_Aaron

theblackdragon wrote:

i've never heard this before, and i'm genuinely interested in knowing how you came to feel that way about SMB3. what is/are these fatal flaws of which you speak?

I think the difficulty spikes a bit too high starting in the 2nd world. Having to replay two or three stages just to get a repeat shot at the boss after dying is also pretty crap. Super Mario Galaxy on the other hand had a nice gentle difficulty curve and the ability to carry on without doing every last bit. I'm sure people who are big fans of SM3 would dismiss SMG as being too easy, but for me it was just the right mix.

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Knux

Sean+Aaron wrote:

theblackdragon wrote:

i've never heard this before, and i'm genuinely interested in knowing how you came to feel that way about SMB3. what is/are these fatal flaws of which you speak?

I think the difficulty spikes a bit too high starting in the 2nd world. Having to replay two or three stages just to get a repeat shot at the boss after dying is also pretty crap. Super Mario Galaxy on the other hand had a nice gentle difficulty curve and the ability to carry on without doing every last bit. I'm sure people who are big fans of SM3 would dismiss SMG as being too easy, but for me it was just the right mix.

Super Mario Bros.3 is not nearly as difficult compared to the other games [looks at Mega Man series].
While Super Mario Bros.3 has a decent difficulty,at least it allows you to continue or even save in the updated versions. Now,the original Super Mario Bros. and SMB:The Lost Levels are much more difficult games in my opinion. But pesonally,my favorite Mario games are Super Mario World 2:Yoshi's Island and Super Mario 64.

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ItsFuzzyPickles

Please don't take my description so seriously. It's not an accurate descripion, just my defintion of an hardcore gamer. You don't have to follow it.

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mariofan5000

I play video games everyday so i'm a hardcore gamer.

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Sean_Aaron

SuperSonic1990 wrote:

Super Mario Bros.3 is not nearly as difficult compared to the other games [looks at Mega Man series].
While Super Mario Bros.3 has a decent difficulty,at least it allows you to continue or even save in the updated versions. Now,the original Super Mario Bros. and SMB:The Lost Levels are much more difficult games in my opinion. But pesonally,my favorite Mario games are Super Mario World 2:Yoshi's Island and Super Mario 64.

No surprise I'm not a fan of Mario games generally! I did enjoy Galaxy, though making Luigi so hard to unlock really ticked me off so I put it on Amazon marketplace. Mega Man I recall playing on the NES and it was way too hard for me back in the day so I'm reluctant to give that another try after my SM3/SM64 experience...

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BMF_JOE

im hardcore all the way lol

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SeniorDingDong

I would call myself regular.

Gaming might be my biggest hobby, but I am playing all kinds of games with a fun over competition idealism and evoid every serious hardcore element like truely mastering a game, to take place in competiions, like playing Street Figter 2, Starcraft or Counter-Strike all day and nothing else.

For a long time, I halfway were in that stuff with lots of RTS games, but I realized that it only takes too much time and strengh that is used somewhere else (in my case a FE school) much better.

What I still sometimes do is trying to reach a decent online highscore with arcade style games like Space Invaders Extreme or Ghost Squad.

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Adamant

SuperSonic1990 wrote:

Super Mario Bros.3 is not nearly as difficult compared to the other games [looks at Mega Man series].

SMB3 is harder than all the Mega Man games, with the exception of MM7's final boss.

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RabidPikachu

Hard core. I play just about every thing. It may be weird but the only game I've played that I don't like is Halo. Everything else I absolutely love.

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