Define a hardcore gamer.
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My definition of a hardcore gamer is someone who basically spends more than 48 hours per week playing videogames.
Going off that, I'm a pretty casual gamer. Unless I'm hooked on a game, I'm playing games at maybe 3-6 hours in a single day. And that's not even set in stone. There are weeks where I don't play games at all.
Going off that, I'm a pretty casual gamer. Unless I'm hooked on a game, I'm playing games at maybe 3-6 hours in a single day. And that's not even set in stone. There are weeks where I don't play games at all.
"Hardcore" & "Casual" are pathetic buzzwords that were put into circulation as the last gen was starting up and since then has taken off into a ridiculous segregation of people who become defined by other people based on the games they play or how long they play them for. It's one of the main things I depsise from the last generation!
It something that should stop as for some people they feel they have to call themselves "hardcore" gamers to somehow justify their enjoyment of video games and how long they play them for! It makes them think they can only play a certain kind of game as any other type of game is too "kiddy" or "stinking casuals"!
It doesn't help that the games media keep perpetuating these terms as do the games companies who try and use these lables to make their games more appealing!
It doesn't help that this generation brought up alot of impressionable teenagers who are now going to keep using these streotyping labes.
Rant over. Sorry but these labels really piss me off & im a grumpy old man!
It something that should stop as for some people they feel they have to call themselves "hardcore" gamers to somehow justify their enjoyment of video games and how long they play them for! It makes them think they can only play a certain kind of game as any other type of game is too "kiddy" or "stinking casuals"!
It doesn't help that the games media keep perpetuating these terms as do the games companies who try and use these lables to make their games more appealing!
It doesn't help that this generation brought up alot of impressionable teenagers who are now going to keep using these streotyping labes.
Rant over. Sorry but these labels really piss me off & im a grumpy old man!
I suppose that the definition of a "hardcore gamer" depends on your definition of "hardcore" itself. Dictionary.com [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hardcore?s=t] defines "hardcore" as "unswervingly committed", and I think that's a good basis for a start. Simply put, a hardcore gamer is someone who is "unswervingly committed" to the hobby of gaming. Note that there's no mention of the player's skill, or even the amount of time that the person spends playing any given game. I think that the number of people wanting to assign ego to the term "hardcore" has diluted it's meaning a bit. People wanting to pridefully declare themselves as "hardcore" because they're better at a game has caused the term to carry a lot of negative implications, but I don't think that it's necessarily fair to blame the term itself for that.
I am a hardcore gamer simply because it's my hobby of choice. When I get home from work I like to read about the latest gaming news. After reading the latest news I like to hop onto the forums to discuss the latest gaming trends. Once I've had my fill of talking about games, I'll fire-up whichever game happens to have my interest at the moment. When I'm done gaming, it's only because I'm either hungry or tired, at which point I'll go back to either gaming, or maybe reading the forums again. This isn't to say that I don't do other things; I check Facebook to see what the fam (and some friends) have been up to, I'll keep-up with the "real" news to some degree, and I have some other nerd hobbies I enjoy such as anime or tabletop games (though some would argue that counts as gaming, too). Over-all though, gaming is what I love.
More than anything, though, it's a bit of a personal term. It doesn't do any good to brag about whether or not you're hardcore because it shouldn't matter to anyone BUT you. Likewise, it doesn't do any good to call-out someone for NOT being hardcore because it shouldn't matter. If someone wants to think that they're hardcore, then go ahead and let them. If they're lying, it's only to themselves, and it shouldn't matter to do you either way. A casual fan of gaming's opinion on a matter is just as valid as a hardcore gamer's opinion.
I am a hardcore gamer simply because it's my hobby of choice. When I get home from work I like to read about the latest gaming news. After reading the latest news I like to hop onto the forums to discuss the latest gaming trends. Once I've had my fill of talking about games, I'll fire-up whichever game happens to have my interest at the moment. When I'm done gaming, it's only because I'm either hungry or tired, at which point I'll go back to either gaming, or maybe reading the forums again. This isn't to say that I don't do other things; I check Facebook to see what the fam (and some friends) have been up to, I'll keep-up with the "real" news to some degree, and I have some other nerd hobbies I enjoy such as anime or tabletop games (though some would argue that counts as gaming, too). Over-all though, gaming is what I love.
More than anything, though, it's a bit of a personal term. It doesn't do any good to brag about whether or not you're hardcore because it shouldn't matter to anyone BUT you. Likewise, it doesn't do any good to call-out someone for NOT being hardcore because it shouldn't matter. If someone wants to think that they're hardcore, then go ahead and let them. If they're lying, it's only to themselves, and it shouldn't matter to do you either way. A casual fan of gaming's opinion on a matter is just as valid as a hardcore gamer's opinion.
MovieBob came up with a pretty good definition of a hardcore gamer during one of his Game Overthinker videos a long time ago. Apologies in advance if I don't quote it exactly right:
"Hardcore gamers are video game players who hold video games as one of, if not THE, central forms of entertainment of their spare time. Casual gamers, by contrast, are people who see video games as just a means of killing time every now and again."
"Hardcore gamers are video game players who hold video games as one of, if not THE, central forms of entertainment of their spare time. Casual gamers, by contrast, are people who see video games as just a means of killing time every now and again."