How Nintendo saved gaming for me

[eggs2see]

Khuutra said:

eggs2see said:

Khuutra said:

There's no such thing as a "true gamer". Just gamers who ontinue to have games that they want to play. If you didn't have any games you wanted to play then you wouldn't game, and if you think differently then you're lyingn to yourself.

He's been off the wagon for ten years. The Wii didnt' change it. The 360, the DS, the Cube, the PS2, the Xbox - all didn't change it. If he comes back it will be in th far-flung future. Sure as shit won't be soon.

My vgcharts acquaintance... i am sorry to inform you, but you are not a true gamer.  I am not trying to argue with you, this is just the way it is, and your last statement proves it.

To give you an example, i am, for better or for worse, a "gamer", i have a horrible addiction.  I play my games, if i get bored i think about what new games i can buy, or download, or what old game i can install and reminisce on old memories.

I don't mean this in the slightest as insult but if you can just give up gaming and never come back then you are most certainly NOT a gamer.

Well of course I'm not a "true gamer". Because there's no such thing. I'm a gamer - I game - it's my primary source of entertainment behind books - but the thing you're describing? Doesn't exist. You're taling about an adddict who clings to one medium as his addiction. There's a difference.

Gamers stop gaming. It happens all the time. It's one of the problem the Wii is meant specifically to address. Didn't work for my father, alas, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. In his time he was probably mroe serious about playing games than most people I know now, including people on this forum. Your claim that he "wasn't ever a gamer" because he stopped doesn't really hold water.

A leaky cup doesn't hold water either.

 

Seriously, dude, this is my final reply, i'm done after this.

If you can't see my point by this post then i simply give up.

A gamer by my definition (as i have made pretty clear) is someone who is addicted to gaming, and will come back to gaming despite choosing (yes choosing) to step away. That or just never stop gaming at all.

You are talking about a casual gamer.