RolStoppable said:
Louie said:
RolStoppable said:
You just don't know what "hardcore" means. But hey, nobody really does.
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Actually I was just too lazy to think of another word that's why I put it in err... Gänsefüßchen 
I'll give you an example:
For instance my girlfriend started playing on the SNES with Super Mario World. Since then she's owned a Gameboy, a Gamecube and a DS. Her favourite games are Super Mario (2D), Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, the Sims, Brain Training and Viva Pinata. Basically, her gaming tastes never changed but the market offers more of those games now, that's why she's become a much more dedicated gamer.
Another friend of mine (also a woman btw) never (!) played any videogames besides Super Mario World on SNES. When I got the Wii and later Resident Evil 4 with it she fell in love with the game and now she's crazy for Dead Rising, GTA, Battlefield, is dissapointed because Resident Evil 5 doesn't feel like a Resident Evil game (that's what she said! ... oh dang) and likes F-Zero GX on Gamecube. She only became interested in gaming because of the Wii, though. But basically the Wii only helped to make her aware of games, it never made her move upstream.
Both of them never changed their favourite type of game. I think it's more about how your brain works than "moving upstream".
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I think you can also move upstream within a genre. Not all games demand the same amount of time invested. Also, "moving upstream" doesn't mean that you leave your first games behind, it just means that you are adding additional games to the ones you are already playing.
Or you could interpret "moving upstream" simply as spending more times on gaming.
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That's exactly what never happened to my girlfriend yet. For her a game has to involve social aspects to be worth playing. But she won't play more "traditional" games. I don't think moving upstream (Malstroms definition of it) means spending more time, it means spending more money and time on more traditional games.
Edit: I'll put it that way. If you could rate games of a genre from 1-10 when it comes to how "hardcore" (you know what I mean) the game is my girlfriend always looks for games betwen 3-5 or so. And she never looks for a game that would score a 7 or higher. So basically she never moved upstream within that genre. She just became a more dedicated player because there are more interesting games that would get a 3-5 than some years ago.
