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Forums - Gaming - I propose banning the term "hardcore gamer".

O-D-C on 03 September 2008

u just have to find the opposite of Casual, wich is....Niche? I think Niche is a nice word for it

Casual
Core
Niche



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Ail on 03 September 2008

So a person that raids in wow 20 hours a week and is on the first kill worldwide of bosses is an elitist prick ?

Same with those people playing CoD4 or Warhawk 30 hours a week and that attain max rank ?

I see..........



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

LordTheNightKnight on 03 September 2008
Ail said:
So a person that raids in wow 20 hours a week and is on the first kill worldwide of bosses is an elitist prick ?

Same with those people playing CoD4 or Warhawk 30 hours a week and that attain max rank ?

I see..........

 

No, you don't see, because I clearly wrote "those resistant to change", not "people who play games a lot".



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

rudyrsr8 on 03 September 2008

Anyone here is obviously a hardcore gamer.



"Like you know"

bdbdbd on 03 September 2008

@Ail: No, they would be core gamers.

@O-D-C: Casual as a term won't do either. Part of the casual would be included in core gamers and part in the blue ocean gamers.



Ei Kiinasti.

Eikä Japanisti.

Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.

 

Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.

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Millennium on 03 September 2008

My one question is why you're so concerned about insulting those you call "spoiled gamers." They deserve nothing more than open ridicule, and need nothing more than professional help.



Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.

Be the ultimate ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today! Poisson Village welcomes new players.

What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.

Sky Render on 03 September 2008

Or you could, you know, forego labels entirely in favor of just identifying yourself as somebody who happens to play games, and leave it at that. You're not going to convince the majority to drop the existing cliches of "casual" and "hardcore" gamers, so rise above the label-making and ditch the labels entirely. What purpose do they really serve, other than to turn people against each other for no good reason?

Adding more labels is just going to make more artificial factions and segment the forums even more. Take the risk and go the other way, I say.



Sky Render - Sanity is for the weak.

Ail on 03 September 2008
bdbdbd said:
@Ail: No, they would be core gamers.

@O-D-C: Casual as a term won't do either. Part of the casual would be included in core gamers and part in the blue ocean gamers.

 

 everyone calls the people in the top raiding guilds hardcore raiders not core..

 

Now you can keep reinventing meaning for words all day long but there's already dictionnaries for that..



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

LordTheNightKnight on 03 September 2008
Ail said:
bdbdbd said:
@Ail: No, they would be core gamers.

@O-D-C: Casual as a term won't do either. Part of the casual would be included in core gamers and part in the blue ocean gamers.

 

 everyone calls the people in the top raiding guilds hardcore raiders not core..

 

Now you can keep reinventing meaning for words all day long but there's already dictionnaries for that..

 

If you read the OP, it uses the dictionary. And if you had actually read the OP right, you would see I did NOT call people who play games a lot the eletist gamers, nor did anyone else here. So it's you pretending that you know what we are discussing, when we are discussing something different.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

Beja-Beja on 03 September 2008

Hardcore gamer needs to stay casual gamer needs to go becaue they buy way too many games to be considered casual. For them I suggest the term sissy posers.

I'm joking but I still love the term harcore gamer no other term can better describe the gamer lifestyle of those who game with passion enthusiasm and to win.