Poll: Casual gaming?

[Geo Da Sponge]

I said pseudohardcore, but I suppose I could push myself into the veteran limit. I certainly remember playing Elite, the first ever truly 3D game. However, even though back then I enjoyed gaming a lot, I wouldn't really have described myself as a gamer.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I'm not competitive, but I seek to do the best I can in games, and I love teamwork, so I voted 'Hardcore'.

 

[RedElectric]

Wow...i feel slightly old...my first real gaming started with the Atari 800 computer; the Atari 5200 was the first real console i owned though.

EDIT: So yeah, i voted veteran. I play cause...that's what i do.

 

[mintsauce]

How exactly are we defining "veteran"? 5 years? 10? 20?

 

[Redlac]

Veteran. Been playing ever since my parents got me an Atari 2600.

Redlac: Slaying Monsters, Rescuing Princesses and Saving the World since 1989!

 

[rossatdi]

Veteran with a dabble of Hardcore - Nintendo Entertainment System away!

NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, PC, PS2, Xbox 360 and a Wii.

I don't mind if its hard, just the opposite I love it!, but I hate grind. At least a big chunk of the experience is beating something/someone.

 

[Y2Ken]

I said Veteran, although it's only just about. Really I'm probably more hardcore/pseudohardcore.

 

[Geamo]

Pseudocasual, I put. I play mainly for fun, but beating most people is satisfying =)

 

[khululy]

playing a hardcore game does not make one a hardcore gamer.
I think hardcore gaming is also the effort and amount of time spend in playing games and collecting them.
but then again I see casual gamers as people who play popcap games at work and own a console mainly because it can play movies.
But I'm not the judge here.
I'm a veteran

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I say hardcore, since... I just am. Video games is serious business.

 

[milomalo]

veteral also ... been playing... since 16 years ago... hope that reach the bar

 

[Thais]

Veteran/Casual.

Veteran: my very first game was a text-MUD that I played...sometime in the early '80s, I think. I don't know what year for sure, but it was before my parents split up. And my first console game was Pong on Atari. The first console I bought for myself was my PS2, though...When I moved out after college, I just stole the PS1. It was that or the cat, really, and I figured that not only could I go visit the cat, I could also more easily afford the PS1's non-existant vet-bills.

Casual: I play games because I enjoy playing games. I don't care how well you do, or what you think of how I did. I don't go home and switch on the PS because I want to beat someone at gameX, I play because I need to relax/want to blow off some steam. Probably that's why I've never been tempted to enable any of the online features of my PS2 and probably won't if I buy a PS3 at some point. I simply don't care what the rest of gamerdom does, when I play it's about me. To put it bluntly; I do it to get away from you all for a while, screw you if you think that makes me less of a "gamer" than you are.

 

[Janus Vesta]

I picked Hardcore but I fit into veteran too. I play games a lot. Every cent I make goes into my hobby/addiction. I'm 17 and have been playing since I was a young on'. My first console was a SEGA Megadrive but I had my dad's Commodore 64 before that and I 'borrowed' my friend's N64 and uncle's PS2.

 

[LivemeLifefree]

I'm a veteran gamer, if you'd like to say that, but I turned more casual as I realised they're nothing but toys so I just play to enjoy these days. If a game trys so hard that there's no possible way to enjoy it (Army of Two for me) then I dislike the game. I quit caring about graphics and intense gameplay and such, I just play to have fun.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

i picked veteran. gaming is a part of what i do but by no means would i say that it defines me or that i view myself in opposition of non-gamers.

 

[mipegg]

Sorry to resurrect a dead thread (call me a corpse humper if you will) but I have noticed that a lot of the older gamers seem to be more casual now, possibly because they've grown through the 'games are everything' phase? Or maybe there are just not enough games to get excited about like that nowadays.

 

[mrblackett]

Veteran. I'm old, I'm not very good and I spend too much time playing them

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

I'd say hardcore because it takes up a huge amount of my time and me and i spend huge amounts around games and gaming related things.

Reasons I am a hardcore gamer:
If someone broke my 360 i would brake both their legs, no kidding.
I went to an interesting foreign country and immediately blew most of my money on a console. Best trip ever.
I Game and read more than i do anything else.

Edit: I'm too young to be a veteran (15)

 

[CAB0SE]

yes, mipegg, you are a corpse humper. But you humped the corpse more diplomatically and tried to be more PC than most people who have previously had their way with the corpse.

That said, I think that the real problem is that overall in the US as well as several Euraisan countries (and Austrailia) we have been brought up to see everything as a yes or no, black or white, blue or red, religious or not, up or down, good or bad fashion with no middle ground. As was posted earlier (whoever said it) the terms "hardcore(z)" and "casual" have been severely overused. Just like many matchmaking sites have realized, there's more to people than two or three yes or no questions. We as a community need to come up with new ways to easily identify ourselves on deeper levels (just like more popular games need deeper gameplay elements, story, and amounts of immersion. ZING!)

EDIT: Oh yeah, quasi-hardcore (veteran?)

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I'm a hardcore veteran....and i only can vote for one so i chose veteran since i've been that longer than i've been hardcore.