What I've found out is we, who believed ourselves hard-core weren't hard-core. The Hard-core are the extreme edge of the pile doing 3000+ hours a year which is over one third of their day gaming. Most people who think they are hard-core are in the middle doing numbers like an average of 2 or 3 hours a day, max 4. The more I try to min max my time and get in as much gaming as possible the more I see that the hard-core have a problem, they are drug addicted to video games and it's probably really bad for them, possibly even life destroying or bordering on it.
Bilut to answer the OP, anyone can make anything Hard-core, I never tire of Sekiro, I could play that game from morning till night and just up the goals and challenges imposed on myself and forget about everything else in the world but I could also do the same with fitness, I've done it for a few years and both of these scenarios aren't fun or a positive thing at all. Making your day all about fitness and ordering everything around that right down to meals that you don't enjoy, fitness being something that is extremely positive but taken to an extreme degree is just another severe addiction. And like that anyone can make the most casual looking game hard-core, look at the Stardew valley players or Minecraft builders, they make people in E sports look like casuals.
Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 31 March 2025
