Comments on: Question – What is a Hardcore Gamer?

By: BillyJoe

BillyJoe — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:45:14 +0000

I think, like many others who posted above, that there are many types of hardcore gamer. So perhaps a better question is what qualities do not define a hardcore gamer.

I think a hardcore gamer is someone who does not follow trends. Sure, he/she may play Final Fantasy, Gears of War, Halo, etc., but a hardcore gamer also tries the more obscure games, like Okami, Every Extend, etc.

A hardcore gamer also knows and respects the classics: Zelda, Mario, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy before it appeared on Playstation One, etc.

By: BillyJoe

BillyJoe — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:45:00 +0000

I think, like many others who posted above, that there are many types of hardcore gamer. So perhaps a better question is what qualities do not define a hardcore gamer.

A hardcore gamer also knows and respects the classics: Zelda, Mario, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy before it appeared on Playstation One, etc.

By: badfish

badfish — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:46:43 +0000

“Hardcore gamers are who some of us use to be , and who are the future. You can’t explain it, but we all know a hardcore gamer when we see one”.

BadFish

I have to say, since reading Siliconera, No OTHER POST HAS BEEN AS POWERFUL AS THIS ONE. Just about everyone here has posted something true to the “HARDCORE GAMER” tag line. We all have our definitions of what is to be “hardcore”.

In many ways, we are all right. I can’t give you an answer, but I’ll tell you this. We all win, because at one point, people laughed, called us nerds, losers, and look at the gaming industry now! We should all proud of ourselves no matter what.

By: badfish

badfish — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:46:00 +0000

“Hardcore gamers are who some of us use to be , and who are the future. You can’t explain it, but we all know a hardcore gamer when we see one”.

BadFish

By: Carliconera

Carliconera — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:24:28 +0000

Pure and simple. The hardcore gamer is that person who believes he is “superior” than those he calls “casuals”. Therefore he will dedicate much more time to perfect his “craft” and continually push his “skills” to a point where he can look down with pride upon those amateurs.

By: Carliconera

Carliconera — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:24:00 +0000

By: NPC

NPC — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:03:56 +0000

A hardcore gamer is someone who can enjoy any good game for it’s content. Weather it be for its story, game mechanic, ect. He’ll play it no matter how obscure. Some gamers may find a game like Ikaruga too difficult and thus a bad game. But a Hardcore gamer would realize the proper mechanics to master the game are right in front of him(and thus a good game) and he would spend time to learn and enjoy it.

It’s kinda like the difference between someone who is able to enjoy a sophisticated cheese. An open mind is needed for one, and then a love for gaming(or cheese lol).

By: NPC

NPC — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:03:00 +0000

It’s kinda like the difference between someone who is able to enjoy a sophisticated cheese. An open mind is needed for one, and then a love for gaming(or cheese lol).

By: Nightcap

Nightcap — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:14:39 +0000

Kind of a sliding scale no? I mean to my friends I am a HC gamer simply because I play a lot more than them. But to me the its those people who make it “more than a game” traveling for tourny’s and in general getting a sense of personal worth or pride from being good at gaming.

By: Nightcap

Nightcap — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:14:00 +0000

By: TwistedParadox

TwistedParadox — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:23:24 +0000

The hardcore gamer goes beyond the game itself, analyzing every single shred of data, in order to master it.

By: TwistedParadox

TwistedParadox — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:23:00 +0000

The hardcore gamer goes beyond the game itself, analyzing every single shred of data, in order to master it.

By: Mooglegiant

Mooglegiant — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:49:11 +0000

In addition to my previous post. I think part of what makes a hard core gamer, is that they do not to part with any games from their collection. They probably do / did as a kid to get new games. If they did, they wish they could go back in time and tell them not to get rid of those games.

By: Mooglegiant

Mooglegiant — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:49:00 +0000

By: Mooglegiant

Mooglegiant — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:27:35 +0000

To me, it is someone that just has years and years worth of video game knowledge and experience in all categories. Sports, RPGs, platformers, puzzles, actions, adventure, shooters.

Also, I think the ability to appreciate bad games because they are bad, and play all the way through it and make it look easy, and by they end, they have mastered a game that everyone says is bad. By mastering it, they develop strategies to use in other games.

With that experience, they can start to play a game they have never played before, and play though it quicker and better then a non hard core gamer.

I would also like to think that having a game or two in there collection with crazy value on Ebay would be a likely candidate.

Overall, I would have to say the hard core gamers are more of a casual gamer since they play so many games in a month. Not only is it their way of life, but they do there best to make it other peoples way of life, and encourage people to play all sorts of other games.

Here is what I would say makes me a hard core gamer:
1 – Obscure collection of games in addition to the main stream games.
2 – Always recommending games, mostly obscure, to people I think will like them, because they started talking to me about mainstream games in the same genre.
3 – somewhat emotionally attached to quite a few characters from games.
4 – Can watch a game commercial and identify well over 3/4s of the games they show, along with the system is is on, the level they are currently playing, and sometimes even the music.
5 – Non inflated ego… I do play competitively, and when I win, I don’t gloat about it, instead I will talk to them about how good of a fight they put up and what they might want to practice on. And when I lose, I congratulate the winner. The last thing I want to do, is beat someone, and then discourage them from ever playing that game again.