You know you're hardcore when you have plans with your girlfriend to take her out on a date ie: take her to the Trail of Lights on Friday night, but you come with random excuse not to go so you can play your session of WoW, Halo 3, Bioshock, or take your personal pick.

No, that makes you a loser, not hardcore. :D

Just kidding... Kinda. 

no your not a hardcore gamer unless you have played all those games to death



Just cause you own alot of game doesn't mean your one. Hell Some rich bastard could walk into and buy every sincgle game and never play it just so it lok sgood on his shelf at home.

Playing Halo on the PC sucks because Halo sucks, not because PC controls suck.

I think you got it backwards. The dual analog sticks seems better for YOU since YOU are more familiar with them. 

FACT: Console controllers are an inferior input device for FPS compared to keyboard/mouse.

You're on a roll today, kid

Now to the topic at hand. All of the games in you're list are the big, well known mainstream title. There is nothing wrong with this, but I would argue that a hardcore gamer is a person who plays hardcore games - and those generally aren't in the mainstream. Shmups would be a genera thats almost entirely "hardcore" games. RPGS are another area thats "hardcore", and no, FF doesn't count. I'm talking about Persona, Panzer Dragoon, ect. FPS have plenty of hardcore games as well, but has become mainstream recently. Hardcore titles would be Descent, System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Quake and the like. And of course strategy games, Disgaea, Fallout 1, X-com and the like. Oh, and big bonus points for playing any older, dead system titles especially on lesser know consoles such as the TG16, Saturn and Master System.

Although honestly, I dont see why you should be concerned with wether or not you're "hardcore". Its just a pointless title that doesn't change anything. 

 QFT! and refixed the opinion part.

PC Gaming in most genres massively destroys consoles.

Genres that play the best on PC:

Point & Click

FPS

RTS

MMORPG  

Sandbox

genres that work great on both PC and Console:

RPG

Racing

Action Adventure 

I doubt most people here know what a Shmup is (prior to the googling of the term they just did to contradict my post) nor the fun of many curtain fire variants like the Touhou series. I would expect some to still be familiar with the larger, more popular names like Gradius, R-Type, and Ikaruga though.