I'm so much better than you at being a gamer!

[Bolivar]

Before this hideous, horrible generation of video games started, and the terms hardcore and casual along with it, a hardcore gamer to me was someone heavily involved with the modding community on counter-strike, or playing Japanese imports on a modded PlayStation. A casual gamer, to me, is someone who plays popular games every now and then, a couple games online here and there, and maybe sometimes dabbles in deeper games like Bioshock or Fallout 3, but then again, they probably wouldn't touch either of those or Mass Effect if those games weren't so much like the shooters they venerate.

So, what do you call someone who doesn't mod, but who spends 95% of their free time (ie: when not asleep or working, but including meals) playing video games? Because I don't seem to fall into either of those two groups. Maybe I'm just a gamer. Something to be proud of.

If you read the post you would know hardcore and casual are arbitrary titles with little meaning used to define things in categories so economic phenomenon can be explained.

Furthermore, why do you want to be defined? If you really needed to, Mirage's "game enthusiast" works or just regular gamer, there's no need to add an adjective to that. Furthermore, I usually say how gaming is something I do, it's not really who I am (can you catch that reference?) i don't understand why people want it to define them. But I considered myself a pretty big gaming when hardcore and casual meant what I used to take it as.

The Wii.

/thread

Monster Hunter Tri

Thread re-opened!

Exactly. I was just at my friend's apartment with no PS3, no 360, doesn't really use his PC for games. All he has is a Wii and all he has is stuff like Smash Brothers, Okami, Resident Evil, Pokemon Rumble (ehhh), and all the new stuff he really buys are virtual console titles like Chrono Trigger stuff. Hardcore gamer.

Re-opening widened!