Enter "Hardcore" Gamers...

[neerdowell]

The Ghost of RubangB said:

neerdowell said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
I am an unfailingly loyal member of the hardcore of the casual gaming movement.

I don't believe that a hardcore exists, but I do find it amusing that you're claiming to be hardcore while admitting you haven't beaten a single Mario game.

 I think you might have missed the point a little; the whole idea was to attribute hardcore gaming to an actual measurable metric that makes sense rather than attributing it to playing a particular type of game (such as Mario, Halo, shooters in general, games that sell well and are hyped as the end-all-be-all, online gaming...). This means that even those who own a wii, which is usually considered casual could by this definition be considered hardcore.

You on the other hand somewhat argued in favor of those that consider the Wii casual by defining my lack of hardcoreness simply because I don't care much for Mario. You've applied the exact same reasoning that defines Wii as casual simply because of the games that are available.

It was a joke.  Mario games are easy, and you've played several of them, so I figured you would've completed one by now.

I don't believe in hardcore gaming, and I think the harder you try to define it, the vaguer it will become.

Look at it this way: we were all non-gamers when we picked up our first game.  We were lucky enough (some of us anyway) to have started gaming before there were a bunch of whiny haters who thought we were a threat when we started playing.

If you have kids, and they enjoy games, but only 1% as much as you do, are you going to call them casuals and tell them they're not as hardcore as you?  I'd rather say "welcome to the party" and give them Tetris.

Nah, I want to be the prick dad that pushes his kids to go down the same path in life as him. "Boy!!! You better get serious with that PS5 or I'm goin to beat the livin' daylights out of you!!!" .

No but seriously, I do see where you're coming from somewhat; I do feel we should welcome new players into the field and hopefully they do come to love gaming as much as us. It's not the casual gamer that I fear; it's the shallow gamers that consider themselves "hardcore" but only play one type of game of to death, as these are the ones that ultimately change the face of the industry so that only that genre is accepted.