Are you more of a hardcore gamer or casual gamer?

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Alucard

I'm bringing this up because lately I've noticed a trend in my game purchasing habits.
When I was very big into gaming I was very choosey on what game I would get and in what genre.

The same is now although slighty differnt; situated bewteen my purchasing games for my PS3 and PC.
I would never have considered getting Little Big Planet earlier but now its a fun game.

It's now a tough choice now because before I never had a next gen console to consolodate and budget my on what games I can get for what systems.

With the PC it was always simple because the games costed less despite having to do deal with intrusive protection software that could seriously hamper one's computer.

With the PS3 I have to be selective because the price of a single console game is well perhaps astronomical in correlation to the PC game price.

I'm still iffy on accumulating a large game library for a console because I know they don't have a long shelf life like a computer.

It's a strange balance between being a console/PC because I'm more comfortable with a mouse and keyboard any day than a gamepad.

I'm glad that I purchased a PS3 althogh I should have gone with the Slim that was recently released this fall.

I still wish the PS3 had some more notable games in its library like Microsoft's console, but I'm sure we'll get there eventually.

The most recent purchase I've gotten for the PS3 instead of getting Dragons Age for the PC is Rachet and Clank: A Crack in Time. It's a hilarious game and fits nicely within that universe's mythos. Nefarious is an awesome funny villain and I wish he would get more screen time in the game.

While I may have transitioned slightly from a hard core gamer to casual I will never own a Wii. I don't like flailing my arms about to have fun its just silly nonsense.
 
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Reboneer

I used to call myself a casual gamer, but these days "casual gamer" has come to mean "shovelware gamer", so I guess I'm somewhere in between.
 

Cajungal

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Completely casual. I've never seriously competed or gotten really good at any of them. I've barely even finished any. I'll play a while and then learn how stuff ends from friends.
 
I used to be hard-core (play >8 hrs a day). Now, I play when I'm at my folks place (Wii). At home, I play some online flash games. I'd say I play about an hour a month now. School is a serious time sink.
 
In middle/high school, I was hardcore, playing for the challenge, having to get EVERYTHING in a game, playing some of them multiple times.

In college, I had no time for video games at all.

Now, work/projects/people take up a lot of time. I have more games to play than I have time for and while I aim to finish many of them, I don't even strive for full completion in old staples like Zelda, and there are a few games I just don't ever plan to reach the end. In fact, much of my game time is spent in multiplayer.
 
I'm a pretty hardcore single player gamer. I really have no place for multiplayer games outside of WoW, which I don't play anymore and the occasional Street Fighter-a-thon with some friends.
 
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Soliloquy

The games I enjoy are of the more hardcore variety (stats-heavy rpgs, turn-based strategy, and the like) but I play them casually.
 
I like to pretend I'm hardcore. In games such as WoW and Champions I would do all I could to get every special item regardless of if it had a function or not. Just for the sake of having it.
Lately I've been less interested in video games, or rather I have interest in fewer than I ever have. L4D2 is the big one for me right now. Champions before that. Ghostbusters before that. Though I can remember a good number of long spanses of time where the only game I ever played was whatever MMO I was currently playing at the time.
 
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Olorin

What's the definition of a hardcore gamer? where do you draw the line? I simply consider myself a gamer.
I game about 2-3 hours a day, also spend quite a bit of time reading about games online. I'm quite a completionist, so I try to unlock as much as I can and do most sidequests. I also enjoy replaying games, so I'll often spend 100-200 hours on single player games.
 
Casual. I like some multiplayer games (fighting, shooters) but for the most part, the only games I played for hours and hours were some of the classic Lucas Arts graphic adventures.

What I like doing, though, is watching my brother play. Years ago, I would help him figure out what to do and he would do it much better than I could. He then grew up and started being able to do it all, but I kept watching.

That's how I know most Zeldas!
 
gaming is serious business yo.

yeah i play alot but i don't give a shit if it makes me hardcore or not. i just like to play a lot.
 
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Dusty668

I play just MMO one game really, but I play it about 2 hours a day during the week and off and on all day on weekends. Sometimes I'll try out the flash games mentioned here, but only once or twice each, and I got Arkham Asylum, Super game, great effects, and well done ambiance, but just didn't catch fire for me.

....sooooo casual?
 
I sink stupid amount of hours into the most casual games. Where does that put me?

If you figure it out, let me know, I'll be rearing 4 children in the Sims.
 
I sink stupid amount of hours into the most casual games. Where does that put me?

If you figure it out, let me know, I'll be rearing 4 children in the Sims.
No matter what anyone claims, there's nothing casual about Sims.
 

Shannow

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Sorry, I thought it was an official request.

I do what I like to do. About as simple as that. Also, some of the time, it is mocking, the other times, perhaps not. It is not a "schtick" at all, just a simple response.

But I will stop here, as that it is pulling this way off topic from the OP.
 
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jasonisgreat

I have a very casual attitude towards gaming, but I play a lot of games. I would put myself somewhere in the middle.
 
I consider myself casual. Don't let all my high level characters fool you, I don't play as much as I used to, and I find myself enjoying much more simple games these days. I still love the rare epic game like DA:0, but I find that more and more I want to just sit back and play something simple and relaxing.
 
I'm both but learning on the hardcore side. I like to be challenged and to challenge myself. I'm a min/maxer who wants to play games to their hardest degree and be challenged as long as there's no cheese done on behalf of the CPU side of things.

Once people are more comfy in L4D2, I'd like to play on expert. We'll get our asses handed to us but we'll get better over time. in RE5, I want to play on the hardest mode. I like being challenged.
 
So we got a ton of people who play casual games in a hardcore fashion, and a bunch of others who play hardcore games casually....

I love this forum. :D
 

figmentPez

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I play a casual game, but nearing hardcore level of time.
You're hardly alone. I saw a news article a while back that said "casual" gamers (solitare, bejewelled, zuma, etc.) were starting to average more hours than "hardcore" gamers playing other genres.
 
I'm not an insufferable elitist douche-bag who believes the entire industry is going down the shitter due to an increasing amount of people who actually dare to want to have fun while playing so Casual I guess.

I play games to have fun, when I stop having fun I stop playing. Only games I really HAVE TO buy are Mario and Zelda titles. Then it's usually whatever seems good. Lately I've been having a hankering for fighting games (bought Tekken6 want Super Street Fighter 4).
 
In all seriousness, what definition of hardcore are you going with here? Hours per day? Game type? Final Fantasy tattoos?
 
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