llewdebkram said:
tarheel91 said:
Logically, a core video gamer would be someone who makes up the foundation of the videogame market. It is these gamers that companies depend on to sell games and make profit. It's the casuals, the people who aren't essential, that make a game sell greatly. Continuing with this train of thought, a hardcore game would be one who is essentially the core of the core. They would tend to buy more games than just a core gamer and play more as a result. They are the steel rod supporting the back bone of the handicapped human body of video games. They are the molten inner core of the planet of video games. They are... that's enough comic book-worthy metaphors and parallelism. |
<b>Would you call someone that is well off, buys 10 games a week and plays a combination of different games for many hours but never completes any hardcore?</b> Or is it about the type of game played or how many are completed? Personally I would say you have to complete several hundred games of various genres over your lifetime before you can be considered hardcore. Although I have done this I would not consider myself hardcore, it's just a fun activity I happen to be good at. |
It is that type of person that the video game industry is reliant upon. In the sense of importance to the game industry, they're invaluable. I actually know of someone who buys about three games a week and is just like that. Developers love that kind of people. My point was really to show that the definiton of hardcore is so open that until the argument strictly defines hardcore for that specific situation, it's possible to come up with completely contradictory but logical conclusions.
