i want to know this because i'm wondering if i am one. i know pretty much everything there is about video games. history and everything. i heard that hardcore gamers play on hard difficulties which is something i rarely do. (i even started i topic about that) video games and anime/manga are what id say my primary hobbies are. i haven't really had this big of an interest in anything else. i LOVE video games but is that enough for me to be a hardcore gamer? when i have a video game to play and complete, i normally go all in and complete it within a weekend of so. (i beat many games in 1 day as is the case with Sonic Colors, Pokemon Y, Kid Icarus Uprising, and i think some others.) but when i dont have any new video games to complete i just sorta stop games sometimes with the intention of completing them some other month/year or so and i think its about time i finally beat FF7. seriously that game is awesome and needs to be beaten.) i normally just spend my time on the internet. i play on either normal or easy modes in games.i just sorta stop games sometimes with the intention of completing them some other month/year or so and i think its about time i finally beat FF7. seriously that game is awesome and needs to be beaten. no doubt that video games have a very large piece of my heart. am i a hardcore gamer? what defines a hardcore gamer?

Someone who gets all the trophies/achievements in every game that they've ever played

Why would someone be named "hardcore gamer" ? I mean gaming is for entertainment and not for competition .....

Someone who gets all the trophies/achievements in every game that they've ever played

thats a completionist.

Why would someone be named "hardcore gamer" ? I mean gaming is for entertainment and not for competition .....

it has nothing to do with competition from what i know.

nothing

 

the whole Hardcore and casual thing is just gaming steryotypes

Edited January 13, 201411 yr by Metal Snake

thats a completionist.

it has nothing to do with competition from what i know.

Yeah , I did not put it the right way . I meant when you play a game , you just play it to spend your time and have fun .You don't play it so that you can become the best and the "most hardcore" ... I hope you get me ...

Edited January 13, 201411 yr by Nick Sideris

Yeah , I did not put it the right way . I meant when you play a game , you just play it to spend your time and have fun .You don't play it so that you can become the best and the "most hardcore" ... I hope you get me ...

i get you. but sometimes striving to be the best is fun! ^_^. but i can see where your coming from.

Edited January 13, 201411 yr by benj0818

It's easy to be a hardcore gamer. All you have to do is call yourself one and put down other people because they're not as hardcore about "gaming" or as MLG as you.

i get you. but sometimes striving to be the best is fun! ^_^ but i can see where your coming from

Yes,maybe in games like Pokemon or something ....

Yes,maybe in games like Pokemon or something ....

lol. no i meant in all games. i can see how looking to be better than the rest (not pokemon reference for once ) in any game can be fun!

I really don't even see a point in trying to "define what kind of gamer you are". As long as you like games, it really doesn't matter. 

IMO, as much as it doesn't matter, here's how I see it: 

casual gamer = someone who play games during their spare time sometimes. I play video games for maybe a total of a max 2-3 hours a week. I spend most of my free time doing other things. 

"hard core" gamer = someone who spends the majority or all of their spare time playing video games. 

 

But again, as long as you're enjoying yourself, who really cares what kind of gamer you consider yourself to be? 

thats a completionist.it has nothing to do with competition from what i know.

Depending on the game, they have to be really hardcore to complete it

From what I understand of the three categories: "Hardcore, Softcore and Casual", Hardcore is classified as someone who actively plays videogames, talks about videogames, looks up what new ones will be coming out so they can pick and choose which interests them and generally reward 'good' games by supporting the developers who make them. If I'm guessing right, the majority of people on this site could probably be called 'Hardcore'. 

 

Softcore gamers, according to someone who's opinion I trust: "The ultimate goal of the softcore gamer is not to create, play, or report on the "best" games, which push the actual limits of the medium, but to create a big welcome mat that hits all the key points needed to sound impressive on paper to critics and outsiders." In short, IGN, GameSpot and every other popular review site out there that gets paid to review games.  

 

And casual gamers don't really identify as gamers or with the industry in general. They may as well be playing board games. 

Edited January 13, 201411 yr by Kaweebo

If you need to define hardcore and casual, you're not a gamer.  If you game, you game. You dun have to be labelled hardcore or casual to be one of many in a community. Gamers are gamers, nothing more, nothing less. Same for girls. You dun need a bs label like "girl gamer" to be a gamer.

Edited January 13, 201411 yr by Vexoria

Hardcore is basically taking it to the extreme.  Like a hardcore druggie was one who did hard drugs, a hardcore make up collector has one room dedicated to eyeshadows alone, a hardcore gamer to me would be someone who literally plays from the moment they wake up, til they go to bed, without ever seeing sunlight or feeling human contact.  

 

There's being a "pro" where you're just damn good at it.  Hardcore is just generally self associated to try and raise yourself above others.  

 

I think it's personally better to identify with being either a Completionist, Explorer, Thinker, Creator, Challenger, Adventurer or Casual.  You're stating what you personally like without trying to act superior.  

 

EDIT: From what you say you should like an adventurer/speedster.

Edited January 13, 201411 yr by Caity Raindrop

Someone who woke up at 7 am, and recognise "why is everything dark" at 8pm, after 12 hour gameplay. (happened with me when I first played with KH)

I honestly don't know.  They seem like arbitrary labels.  I'd like to say it's how seriously they take games, but both hardcore and casual gamers both play games for fun, so maybe it's how "into it" they are.

"girl gamer"

Yeah, this in particular shows how far back our collective thinking really is. Are we stuck in the 90's? If we're going to label gamers at all, it should at least be gender-neutral. 

A gamer who loves many games, not just one genre. One who is willing to play a game before judging, one who refuses to believe in 100%, only 110%

6 hrs. per day - gamer

12 hrs. per day - addict

18 hrs. per day - hardcore gamer

24 hrs. per day - dude, get a life

you guys are all right! thx! i could learn from you guys!

6 hrs. per day - gamer12 hrs. per day - addict18 hrs. per day - hardcore gamer24 hrs. per day - dude, get a life

I dont even reach gamer.

The whole hardcorecasual stuff is outright bullshit

 

There are tons of shit about Hardcorecasual that doesn't make any sense whatsoever

 

just pick up a game,put it in your gaming device,and enjoy your life

 

plain and simple

 

God I wish things to be the way it was in the 90's

 

When everything is simple,such gaming steryotypes like hardcorecasual didn't exist and the gaming industry hasn't been degraded into a Hollywood business like how it is now

Edited January 13, 201411 yr by Metal Snake

Someone who gets all the trophies/achievements in every game that they've ever played

 

That's a trophy hunter.

That's a trophy hunter.

Hardcore man

how many hours they've logged in Animal Crossing: New Leaf