Hardcore still, after 30 years of playing.

I'm not the guy who eats through and completes a lot of games, I envy and respect those guys a lot, but I spend a lot of time gaming (so much that it very negatively affects my social life and career) and I always play on the hardest possible difficulty I have a reasonable chance to beat the game at, and I'm knowledgable about everything in my interest sphere of upcoming games. That I think justifies to be called hardcore.

You sure are hardcore.

Out of curiousity, what were those unexpected expenses in or after 2004?

And what is an "AC unit"?

Hardcore by my definition, probably casual to core by yours.

I would say I'm hardcore, because of longevity, overal interest (mostly evident to you by me being on this forum) in everything surrounding gaming, and my diversity of games I'll play. I don't really care where something's released and what genre it is if it looks like something I'll like. Long story short, I'd play any sort of game, and have played any sort of game on any sort of platform. I also go back and forth between any generation no matter how old to play games, including ones I had missed two decades ago.

I find playtime to be less important. I wouldn't consider someone who solely plays World of Warcraft and nothing else a hardcore gamer, even if he played it 10 hours a day. Gameplay-style is also not really important, much less the divisions of realistic/cartoony or all-ages/mature; you could play any type of game both casually or hardcore. For example I play most RPG's or fighters very casually, because I don't care to learn deeper techniques and functions. I don't go for Platinum Trophies and whatnot either. I do however still play a couple games around 15 years old weekly still, and can by now make things with them most others could only dream about.

So I don't actually play that many in gross hours, but I have a very wide and longstanding interest and a wide collection. And that's hardcore to me.

Considering all the RPGs I play... And that I'm kinda competitive at Smash and the like... Probably hardcore.

I've always thought that this nonsense of "hardcore" and "casual" gamers is just a way for geeks to feel more important than certain people. A way to increase their ego due to the fact that the hobby they like and that for a long time has been someting relatively exclusive, now is played by all kind of people. They need a title to differentiate themselves from the ones who play "second class" games like COD, LOL or Minecraft. Or at least that's how I see it.

As for me... I like videogames. And that's pretty much all I have to say about it.

Hard Casual Gamer

Wish you would've given us your definitions of each one.

Hmm... lets see... if Hardcore is someone who plays professionally, and core is just someone who buys and plays alot of games in a non-compulsive way and casual is the one that plays only a few games every once in a while...

Then... i guess i'm a core gamer?

Casual core gamer I guess. Or a hardcore Casual. Dunno

I play more games than a casual, but i am not as whiny as a hardcore gamer so i guess i am a core gamer

I don't make distinction between hardcore and casual games. So I guess I'm an hardual gamer.