Casual or Hardcore?

[Yuffie514]

i suppose i am a casual gamer. i like to go too much at my own pace in RPGs and accomplish things slowly.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

i used to be hardcore, then my parents decided to not spend money on video games so i have to buy them myself, so casual

[ixnine]

I don't know how to vote. I'm kind of both. I play all types of games. Currently I'm playing Resistance: Fall of Man, Motor Storm, Final fantasy XII, Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, still winning gold metals in WipeOut Pure, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy VI all over again, Ico, and a few games from the PlayStation store, but I play these cames casually in my spare time or when I'm bored.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

Well why don't you define what a casual gamer is smart ass!?

You asked the question in the first place, so you should be able to define it yourself, shouldn't you?

I don't think that one can divide the gamer community into hardcore and casual types. There are many different breeds of gamers. There are those who barely know what a controller looks like, there are those who die because they forget to eat between the StarCraft sessions and there are guys who do it for their daily loaf of bread. I think that including a scale of 1 to 5 or 1 to 10 would be a much more appropriate solution for your question. Casual and Hardcore is simply too stereotypical and clicheeful to be defined.

Simple as that.

It's not my fault if you're too stupid to know what a casual gamer is.

[demondude]

Well why don't you define what a casual gamer is smart ass!?

You asked the question in the first place, so you should be able to define it yourself, shouldn't you?

I don't think that one can divide the gamer community into hardcore and casual types. There are many different breeds of gamers. There are those who barely know what a controller looks like, there are those who die because they forget to eat between the StarCraft sessions and there are guys who do it for their daily loaf of bread. I think that including a scale of 1 to 5 or 1 to 10 would be a much more appropriate solution for your question. Casual and Hardcore is simply too stereotypical and clicheeful to be defined.

Simple as that.

It's not my fault if you're too stupid to know what a casual gamer is.

lets stop arguing people can we just define it as

casual- likes games

hardcore- loves them

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

Now that I think about it a hardcore gamer is probaby someone who owns every system and game known to man...including Japanese imports and PC titles...but the only way you could ever own all of that stuff is if you're SUPER RICH.

[Discord]

Well why don't you define what a casual gamer is smart ass!?

You asked the question in the first place, so you should be able to define it yourself, shouldn't you?

I don't think that one can divide the gamer community into hardcore and casual types. There are many different breeds of gamers. There are those who barely know what a controller looks like, there are those who die because they forget to eat between the StarCraft sessions and there are guys who do it for their daily loaf of bread. I think that including a scale of 1 to 5 or 1 to 10 would be a much more appropriate solution for your question. Casual and Hardcore is simply too stereotypical and clicheeful to be defined.

Simple as that.

It's not my fault if you're too stupid to know what a casual gamer is.

I can't argue that logic. Respect.

By the way, congratulations on calling every second poster in this thread stupid, pal. You've really made it. Your question isn't very well phrased, get over it.

Now that I think about it a hardcore gamer is probaby someone who owns every system and game known to man...including Japanese imports and PC titles...but the only way you could ever own all of that stuff is if you're SUPER RICH.

Or you have no real life.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Casual to non-gamer anymore, really. Just don't have the time. I haven't gotten into a game in a while, and I'll admit that I miss my all-night Civilization IV sessions.

[final-mike]

Casual, but when i've got a lot of free time that can change to hardcore. Hardly played on games these past few weeks since i've got exams and haven't got the time to play

[Madame Adequate]

Now that I think about it a hardcore gamer is probaby someone who owns every system and game known to man...including Japanese imports and PC titles...but the only way you could ever own all of that stuff is if you're SUPER RICH.

What? I'm poor as hell and I have that stuff. A hardcore gamer isn't someone who gets that stuff, but if you want to define it that way, I'd say it's someone who sacrifices other stuff in favor of games. Like that time I got Xenogears from the US on import - cost £60, which was around $100 at the time's exchange rate. So I saved the heck up, forewent other entertainments, and yeah. (That's not a lot of scratch now, but when you're 12 it is xD)

[Necronopticous]

Too hardcore for my own, or anyone else's good.

[Mo-Nercy]

Casual most of the time. Hardcore in the holidays.

[Dreddz]

Now that I think about it a hardcore gamer is probaby someone who owns every system and game known to man...including Japanese imports and PC titles...but the only way you could ever own all of that stuff is if you're SUPER RICH.

Hardcore gamers dont have to have alot of games or systems, I think you define them to have an obsession with games and must play every one. A hardcore gamer is someone who really just gets into a game too much and does everything that there is to do in the game. A casual merely beats the story and thats it. They dont take the extra time to practise at the game or do every sidequest. For example, in a Final Fantasy title, a casual will get through the story and be finished. A hardcore gamer will work there way up to the super bosses and beat them. The work and effort you have to do to get to Penance in FFX is ridiculous. And its not like it pays off at the end of it all.

Oh, and you dont have to be rich to play every game. DVD burners only cost £30. See what im getting at there.

[10-Breaker]

I play over 10 hours a day. Selling crappy games is not a problem. I collect Final Fantasy and Armored Core.
So I'm a hardcore playah?

[Callisto]

Casual. Although there are a few games that I've played and stayed up with no sleep, no food, and disregard to anything else around me. But, very few.