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do you consider yourself a hard-core player?
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I thought this division was good.
Hardcore - Spends most of their free time & money on videogames
Midcore - Spends time & money on videogames but has other hobbies/responsibilities
Casual - Just plays games as a distraction
Spectator - Enjoys watching others game but doesn't play much themselves
Hardcore - Spends most of their free time & money on videogames
Midcore - Spends time & money on videogames but has other hobbies/responsibilities
Casual - Just plays games as a distraction
Spectator - Enjoys watching others game but doesn't play much themselves
I spend a lot of time playing games but I mostly play mainstream games on easy so I don't consider myself hardcore. I'm more of an enthusiastic gamer I guess.
I've learned that no matter how hardcore I think I am, there is always somebody more hardcore than me to make me feel like a pipsqueak in kindergarten.
I would say I play my games seriously. But I am nothing compared to the PVP hounds, or the speedrunners, or the people who play the same game for 700 hours and understand it on a level I cannot fathom. Those people are definitely hardcore to me. Compared to those people I am casual as heck.
I would say I play my games seriously. But I am nothing compared to the PVP hounds, or the speedrunners, or the people who play the same game for 700 hours and understand it on a level I cannot fathom. Those people are definitely hardcore to me. Compared to those people I am casual as heck.
I don't know about that persé, but I can tell what I am not. And that is a filthy casual. Casual folk tend to ruin gaming sometimes :p
LOL, this is so me.
I put like 250 hours into Crusader Kings II and I still don't feel like I know s**t at times.
Like I implied in another thread, I've never been able to get all the secret bonus points in Dynamite Headdy without resorting to savestate abuse.
I think the 'hardcore gamer' denomination is outdated. Videogames have evolved since the casual vs hardcore days.
As for me, my core is hard like a diamond wrapped in graphite in a kevlar enclosure trapped in a haunted ironman armor... but I suck at games. I play as many as I can though.
As for me, my core is hard like a diamond wrapped in graphite in a kevlar enclosure trapped in a haunted ironman armor... but I suck at games. I play as many as I can though.
Yes, because otherwise, how would I build my identity?
That and I've been crushing Mario games since I was in diapers.
That and I've been crushing Mario games since I was in diapers.
I stopped wearing diapers at a young age in the early 90's yall. Dont hate.
Depends on how you define 'hardcore'.
I definately don't play dozens of games a year like some people do but I still consider gaming my main hobby and follow the industry very closely. I'm also starting to collect games, consoles, memorabilia etc. So I guess I would probably be considered 'hardcore' by most people.
I definately don't play dozens of games a year like some people do but I still consider gaming my main hobby and follow the industry very closely. I'm also starting to collect games, consoles, memorabilia etc. So I guess I would probably be considered 'hardcore' by most people.
"Hardcore gamer" is so lame. There are so many different people that play games in so many different ways.
I tell people I enjoy video games, and I like to learn about the industry and how games are put together.
I tell people I enjoy video games, and I like to learn about the industry and how games are put together.
When I look at my actual gaming habits I'm realize I'm very much a hardcore gamer. No I don't have a problem with being called a gamer. Like the past 2 weeks I've been playing FFXIV shadowbringers expansion nonstop except to work, sleep and watch some anime.
Finished? Bleh...talk to me again when u platinumed it and can perfect KO every bosses using a DDR dancepad
The names enthusiast and fan sound more appropriate here, to replace the first two. The term hardcore is associated with player skill, like you can play Wii Sports casually, but you can also play it in a hardcore manner if you are say going for the world record in one of the minigames. As such, the game itself isn't casual or hardcore, but the manner in which you're playing it in decides if you are hardcore. Playing the game like that doesn't elevate your status to hardcore in an absolute sense, it's just that at this moment in time, you chose to play this particular game in a hardcore fashion. In some other context you might play a game like Mario casually, where all you do is beat the levels normally without aiming to grab all the collectibles, finding all the secrets, or to optimize your gameplay for speedrunning. If you play Overwatch hardcore then you participate in the meta, choose competitive heroes, etc. whereas a casual player would do whatever. So neither the game nor the person can be categorized as casual or hardcore in an absolute sense, it's rather the manner in which you are playing at a certain point in time.
Defined this way, I would say that I'm hardcore most of the time. For example I played Splatoon 2 last summer and I got 100% completion on the original campaign and the octo expansion, got to profreshional rank in the Salmon Run mode, and made it to X-player in all four competitive modes within a period of 2-3 weeks or so. Another example is Celeste, where I beat the game, found all strawberries, beat all b-sides and all c-sides, within 8k deaths. I did this completely blind, never having watched any streams of the game or consulted any guides.
I took the 8 personalities here and consolidated them into 4 groups that I thought made for a more useful division.
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Not anymore. I'm super casual these days, but I still enjoy challenges. I think the Dark Souls series is what I would consider hard but not hardcore.
I tend to enjoy games to be on the easier side if anything.
I tend to enjoy games to be on the easier side if anything.