Companies abandoning hardcore gamers.

[kommando367]

No because I still have a PS2.

 

[Cuniculus]

Can't I be both? Hardcore game when I get off work, and then work my ass off the next day.

 

[fletch_talon]

Is it really such a bad thing? Are you happy with the status of hardcore gamer or would you rather be a succes in life?

As much as I appreciate the fact that this isn't the "Hurr Wii iz 4 kidz" whinge fest that I was expecting. I have to say its almost inflammatory in the opposite direction.

If you'd like I could make a contraversial statement proving that you can be both a hardcore gamer and a success in life.

Here goes...

Shia Le Bouf considers himself a hardcore gamer and he is also a success. Regardless of what you personally think of him(or the movies he's been in), someone who has played major roles in a number of hugely popular movies alongside the incredibly famous Harrison Ford and the incredibly sexy Megan Fox, is definitely a success.

 

[TheLastCylon]

I really don't care, as long as good games keep getting made I'm happy.

 

[Alleged_Alec]

Fuck the whole hardcore/softcore(?) gaming bullocks and just let me enjoy the games I want to play.

 

[Irridium]

Fuck the whole hardcore/softcore(?) gaming bullocks and just let me enjoy the games I want to play.

This. The label war is becoming increasingly retarded, lets stop feeding into it please.

I know, I like both casual and hardcore games.

amazing isn't it, that I can like both


But sadly its the same as fanboy wars, as long as assholes have internet connections and opinions, there will always be fanboy wars and hardcore/casual wars.

 

[Ibanez887]

I really see no difference between Hardcore and casual gamers
They both play games alot and they both have fun so its stupid to use those labels
I guess the only difference would be that hardcore gamers sometimes take the games too seriously

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

Is it really such a bad thing? Are you happy with the status of hardcore gamer or would you rather be a succes in life?

Counter-question:
What?

See, what you've done here is make the mistake that being successful and having a hobby are mutually exclusive. They are not. Benjamin Franklin is a notable example suitable for the holiday (it's Independence Day here in the US), he was an avid chess player and tinkerer.

 

[quack35]

Fuck the whole hardcore/softcore(?) gaming bullocks and just let me enjoy the games I want to play.

This. The label war is becoming increasingly retarded, lets stop feeding into it please.

This too.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Fuck the whole hardcore/softcore(?) gaming bullocks and just let me enjoy the games I want to play.

This. The label war is becoming increasingly retarded, lets stop feeding into it please.

Agreed. I was about to concur with the OP (something along the lines of "will it make any difference?"), but the inferred statement that "hardcore gamers" have "no life" was tremendously stupid.

 

[jackbriggs18]

I'm not sure. I think games were better when it was a less mainstream culture, and when companies were more concerned with making a great game, than trying to hit demographs and open up gaming to grannies and babies and the cat.

 

[sokka14]

as long as the proper games keep rolling out, and people don't try to convince me i'm going to love (for e.g.) guitar hero, i'm not fussed.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Is it really such a bad thing? Are you happy with the status of hardcore gamer or would you rather be a succes in life?

I am a success in life, because that is my opinion.
I could live in a carboard box with a public shower and fruit trees next to me, that could be "success" for me, in my life.

Anyway, I don't care what game companies do, so long as they make intelligent and entertaining video games.

 

[bigorexia]

Damn companies going where the money is.

Seriously, get over yourself.

 

[sorry user name taken.]

hard core doesn't sell its much easier to group people into sales groups....


i love retro i never see clever games like they use to only because companies have gotten bigger and...''new'' gamers don't care about retro.


its all about the now..=/

 

[jamesworkshop]

yep no more hardcore gaming yep those days of medium progession are over....
Bioshock 2
Crysis 2
Modern Warfare 2
Alan Wake
Starcraft 2
Fallout: New Vegas
ARMA 2
Assasins creed 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Mass Effect 2
Project Offset

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