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KungKras on 24 May 2009
SaviorX said:
Hardcore?

Blood and guns pretty much. Without that, games aren't considered hardcore to these gamers.

Blood and guns ey? not the competitive arena and balance?



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Xxain on 24 May 2009
SaviorX said:
Hardcore?

Blood and guns pretty much. Without that, games aren't considered hardcore to these gamers.

Very true....I cant stand ppl who think..violence, sex, and language = hardcore, especially when Megaman 2, Sonic 3 and Super Mario 3 havent been touched yet

leo-j on 24 May 2009

My definition:

Core gamer: A person who dedicates there life to gaming

Casual gamer: A person who plays games casually but dont dedicate themselves to gaming.



 

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KungKras on 24 May 2009
leo-j said:
My definition:

Core gamer: A person who dedicates there life to gaming

Casual gamer: A person who plays games casually but dont dedicate themselves to gaming.


I see. So which games that are played doesn't matter? I like that definition.



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Arius Dion on 24 May 2009

The term itself sucks, not just hardcore but casual too. What happened to just being a gamer? or liking videogames, now there's a whole bull shit theory behind a hobby.



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voty2000 on 24 May 2009

You left off the category which I believe is the definition of hardcore gaming. Buying games and finding out they suck but you have to beat it. You spent your money on these games and they are way to difficult, the controls suck, and death awaits around every corner but you have the urge to conquer it. Sadly, after the SNES era games started getting way to easy and anyone can beat them and you can look at reviews to see if a game is terrible and can avoid those games. In the NES era and before it was a total guessing game. Also, hardcore gamers gathered at recess to discuss what they were playing and other kids thought you were dorks. I remember discussing with a friend what the skunk tail(I think that's what is was, you would try to through it out and the characters said it smelled but you may need it) in Final Fantasy 1 was for and a kid reminded me that only losers play games.

I wish I could relive the memories of those days but my house burned down in 97. I had about 15 games for the atari 2600 and 7800 and 61 games for the NES. Also had about 20 games for the SNES.

I still beat any game I buy no matter how much I hate it.



deadt0m on 24 May 2009

Hardcore = Has beat Adventures of Lolo.

Casual = Has not.

:P



KungKras on 24 May 2009
voty2000 said:
You left off the category which I believe is the definition of hardcore gaming. Buying games and finding out they suck but you have to beat it. You spent your money on these games and they are way to difficult, the controls suck, and death awaits around every corner but you have the urge to conquer it. Sadly, after the SNES era games started getting way to easy and anyone can beat them and you can look at reviews to see if a game is terrible and can avoid those games. In the NES era and before it was a total guessing game. Also, hardcore gamers gathered at recess to discuss what they were playing and other kids thought you were dorks. I remember discussing with a friend what the skunk tail(I think that's what is was, you would try to through it out and the characters said it smelled but you may need it) in Final Fantasy 1 was for and a kid reminded me that only losers play games.

I wish I could relive the memories of those days but my house burned down in 97. I had about 15 games for the atari 2600 and 7800 and 61 games for the NES. Also had about 20 games for the SNES.

I still beat any game I buy no matter how much I hate it.

yea, that would be an interresting gamer type to have on the list.

  However, some of the different gamers on the list I don't consider "hardcore" at all (if such a silly cathergorization of gamers should be allowed to excist). I just made it to check which one of those gamer types would be considered the most "hardcore" by the VGchartz community.



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megaman79 on 24 May 2009

Nintendo has been typecast by that one word, surely they can break the label.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

voty2000 on 24 May 2009
KungKras said:
voty2000 said:
You left off the category which I believe is the definition of hardcore gaming. Buying games and finding out they suck but you have to beat it. You spent your money on these games and they are way to difficult, the controls suck, and death awaits around every corner but you have the urge to conquer it. Sadly, after the SNES era games started getting way to easy and anyone can beat them and you can look at reviews to see if a game is terrible and can avoid those games. In the NES era and before it was a total guessing game. Also, hardcore gamers gathered at recess to discuss what they were playing and other kids thought you were dorks. I remember discussing with a friend what the skunk tail(I think that's what is was, you would try to through it out and the characters said it smelled but you may need it) in Final Fantasy 1 was for and a kid reminded me that only losers play games.

I wish I could relive the memories of those days but my house burned down in 97. I had about 15 games for the atari 2600 and 7800 and 61 games for the NES. Also had about 20 games for the SNES.

I still beat any game I buy no matter how much I hate it.

yea, that would be an interresting gamer type to have on the list.

  However, some of the different gamers on the list I don't consider "hardcore" at all (if such a silly cathergorization of gamers should be allowed to excist). I just made it to check which one of those gamer types would be considered the most "hardcore" by the VGchartz community.

Well I'm not a big fan of labeling certain gamers as hardcore either but that would be my definition if I had to define.  Gamers play games, thats all there is to it.