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Mandalore76 on 09 November 2018
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dharh said:
Mandalore76 said:

Somebody piss in your corn flakes this morning, or are you always this cheerful?  It's funny how the people who consider themselves the "hardcore"/"real gamers" are the jaded miserable people.  And the ones that get looked down as "casual"/"not real gamers" are the ones who generally get more enjoyment from their hobby.  But thanks for projecting on me the fact that you are unhappy to wake up every day.

Wow you got all that from what I said?  Hardcore is a bit much.  I am an avid retro collector of RPGs, but I only spend a few hours of gaming a day on my heavy gaming weeks.  I do think there are different levels of devotion to gaming.  It's not that I look down on 'casual gamers', it is just that there are casual gamers.  They are just that, casual about gaming.  Nothing more, nothing less.  A casual gamer might be satisfied with one of these classics, I personally think that if you are heavily into retro gaming you already have something far better than these classics.  I think these classics, all of them, are crap. Sorry if you think that opinion makes me 'unhappy to wake up every day'.

Also.  Opinions.

Sorry, your first response came off as both jaded and antagonistic.  Your 2nd response was much less so and more composed, which I appreciate.  So, I'll happily say I misjudged.  I still do believe that these consoles are being bought by a demographic of gamer not solely restricted to casual play.  As I had said, there are tons of retro enthusiasts online and on YouTube who play, enjoy, and endorse the good quality systems.  I own a Switch and an Xbox One, and I still enjoy some of them myself.  The original Legend of Zelda never gets old to me, and the same goes for a number of other games on those systems.