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Are you more of a hardcore gamer or casual gamer?

Dec 2, 2009#1

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.

Dec 2, 2009#2

Shegokigo

Was hardcore, life has decided to make me hardcore casual now. Go fig.

Dec 2, 2009#3

Shannow

Ah yes, the :pud:

question

Dec 2, 2009#4

Shegokigo

Shannow said:
Ah yes, the question

I shocked your response wasn't

"hahahahahaha!"

Dec 2, 2009#5

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.

Dec 2, 2009#6

The Lovely Boehner

I haven't played or bought myself a game that didn't have a big plastic controller shaped like an instrument in probably 2.5 years.

Dec 2, 2009#7

Cajungal

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.

Dec 2, 2009#8

drawn_inward

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.

Dec 2, 2009#9

Hailey Knight

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.

Dec 2, 2009#10

Cuyval Dar

Somewhere between hardcore and casual at this point.

Dec 3, 2009#11

Hylian

Was hardcore but sadly work has forced me to pull back a bit but I hope to be hardcore again soon

Dec 3, 2009#12

Frankie Williamson

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.

Dec 3, 2009#13

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.

Dec 3, 2009#14

Shawn

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.

Dec 3, 2009#15

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.

Dec 3, 2009#16

Silver Jelly

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!

Dec 3, 2009#17

Math242

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.

Dec 3, 2009#18

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?

Dec 3, 2009#19

Gusto

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.

Dec 3, 2009#20

Frankie Williamson

Gusto said:
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.

Dec 3, 2009#21

Shannow

Amorous Vyxen said:
I shocked your response wasn't

"hahahahahaha!"

Click to expand...

^ This. It's getting really annoying. Quit it.

I know I am not supposed to argue with mod/admins in threads, but since this was put right to me here, my answer is a simple: no.

Dec 3, 2009#22

Shannow

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.

Dec 3, 2009#23

Seraphyn

Soliloquy said:
The games I enjoy are of the more hardcore variety (stats-heavy rpgs, turn-based strategy, and the like) but I play them casually.

Exactly this.

Dec 3, 2009#24

jasonisgreat

I have a very casual attitude towards gaming, but I play a lot of games. I would put myself somewhere in the middle.

Dec 3, 2009#25

SpecialKO

I'm hardcore but about far fewer games than when I was in college.

Dec 3, 2009#26

ScytheRexx

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.

Dec 3, 2009#27

Jay

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.

Dec 3, 2009#28

sixpackshaker

I play a casual game, but nearing hardcore level of time.

Dec 3, 2009#29

SpecialKO

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.

Dec 3, 2009#30

Fun Size

I'm a casual gamer who's into hardcore.

Wait, are we talking about porn or not?

Dec 3, 2009#31

figmentPez

sixpackshaker said:
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.

Dec 3, 2009#32

Covar

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).

Dec 3, 2009#33

Fun Size

In all seriousness, what definition of hardcore are you going with here? Hours per day? Game type? Final Fantasy tattoos?

Dec 3, 2009#34

AshburnerX

Basically, if you can't be schooled by 12 year olds who have more time to play than you do, it's not hardcore.

Dec 3, 2009#35

Fun Size

So four square is now hardcore gaming? Good to know.

Dec 3, 2009#36

Piotyr

There are three labels I absolutely abhor in gaming. You just used two of them. The third is "mature".

I, for one, think Mario is completely hardcore and mature.

Dec 3, 2009#37

Cajungal

I think of it as someone who plays several hours a day, could possibly compete, can run through a game very quickly if they need to... basically someone who knows the ins and outs of games and can judge a well-made one from a poorly-made one (I know a lot of that is subject to opinion, but the more technical stuff I guess)... Or just someone who makes that their primary pastime and knows anything and everything about it.

Dec 3, 2009#38

Fun Size

It's interesting that gaming has this distinction. How many among us are hardcore readers? Are Chuck and Kissinger hardcore moviegoers? Is Dave hardcore flappy?

Dec 3, 2009#39

AshburnerX

Fun Size said:
It's interesting that gaming has this distinction. How many among us are hardcore readers? Are Chuck and Kissinger hardcore moviegoers? Is Dave hardcore flappy?

Actually, those groups have the same kinds of distinctions, but they are called something else. For instance, you'd hardly call someone who hasn't read a work of Shakespeare well-read... nor would you think someone who hasn't seen a Hitchcock film an expert in the horror genre. It's the same shit, just different content.

Dec 3, 2009#40

Cajungal

Well we might not use the word "hardcore." But we have terms like movie buff, bookworm, etc... that suggest that they're really big on those things. So really, there are people like that for every form of art or entertainment--people whose opinions can be backed up by the hours and hours they've poured into learning as much as they can about whatever it is.

Dec 3, 2009#41

Fun Size

Fair enough - didn't mean to derail this like that. I would consider myself a hardcore gamer if I had the time to commit. As it is I'm a completionist. If I start a game, I want to finish it, along with all of the side missions and achievements I can tolerate. I have very little time (less than an hour a day - usually less) to dedicate to gaming though, so I imaging I would fall into the casual category.

Dec 3, 2009#42

Piotyr

I own every Zelda, Mario, Metroid and Final Fantasy game in existence.

I guess that would qualify me as either hardcore or insane.

Dec 3, 2009#43

figmentPez

Piotyr said:
I own every Zelda, Mario, Metroid and Final Fantasy game in existence.

I guess that would qualify me as either hardcore or insane.

If that includes the 3DO Zelda games, and Mario Teaches Typing for the PC, then it's definitely insane.

Dec 3, 2009#44

Shegokigo

Hardcore tends to involve those who sacrifice life over gaming. Those who put in more hours per session than the regular player. Someone who will go through a bad game from beginning to end, because it must be beaten regardless.

Someone who just "games alot" per day would fall more under as "dedicated" or "heavy" gamer.

Dec 3, 2009#45

Piotyr

figmentPez;308809][quote=Piotyr said:
I own every Zelda, Mario, Metroid and Final Fantasy game in existence.

I guess that would qualify me as either hardcore or insane.

If that includes the 3DO Zelda games, and Mario Teaches Typing for the PC, then it's definitely insane.[/QUOTE]

No to the 3DO games, yes to the PC games (also, Mario is Missing and Mario's Time Machine). The 3DO games go for ridiculous amounts of money for something I'd never want to play.

Dec 3, 2009#46

Frankie Williamson

Piotyr;308819][quote=figmentPez;308809][quote=Piotyr said:
I own every Zelda, Mario, Metroid and Final Fantasy game in existence.

I guess that would qualify me as either hardcore or insane.

Dec 3, 2009#47

Dusty668

I have actually designed the Mastermind symbol and "signature" of my two favorite characters for a tattoo... what category is that?

Dec 3, 2009#48

Chibibar

I'm a casual gamer. I might be "heavy" user for a bit until my attention wane. I do try to do the best I can be in the game I play (like L4D2 and Team Fortress 2) but will probably never be the best or even break the top 100 players, but at least I give a good try and have fun.

I personally believe games are meant to be fun. When it becomes work, I stop playing. (like WoW)

Dec 3, 2009#49

SpecialKO

Chibibar said:
I'm a casual gamer. I might be "heavy" user for a bit until my attention wane. I do try to do the best I can be in the game I play (like L4D2 and Team Fortress 2) but will probably never be the best or even break the top 100 players, but at least I give a good try and have fun.

I personally believe games are meant to be fun. When it becomes work, I stop playing. (like WoW)

It's why I take regular breaks from WoW. I usually play pretty hard for about two weeks, then walk away for two weeks, then come back, etc., etc. It keeps the endgame grind from becoming too much like work, and after two weeks of not playing, I'm much more in the mood to spend 3 hours in Ulduar or work towards an achievement.

Dec 3, 2009#50

Oddbot

I'd say between casual and hardcore. LOTRO is the only game I really play anymore regularly. The only next-gen system I have is a Wii and I only really break it out when company is over, or when the rare game worth buying comes out on it once every few months (just bought mario bros wii, next purchase will probably be Galaxy 2). I'm gonna buy a PS3 soon, though I know I won't play it THAT much, but I NEED to have The Last Guardian when it comes out as I'm a huge Ico/SoTC fanboy. God of War 3, Ratchet and Clank, and Uncharted 2 FFXII and Assasin's Creed 2 also look enticing, but I probably won't but most of those, I'll join rejoin gamefly for a while and work my way through them. Also I'm really looking forward to FFXIV (I played FFXI for a long time) but I have doubts that my PC will be able to play it very well, so the PS3 solves that problem too.

Dec 4, 2009#51

Joe Johnson

(note - this post is a bit disjointed, sorry)

I think "hardcore" gamers would consider Legend of Zelda to be a casual game. The terms are sort of stupid. The modern day definitions seem to be:

Hardcore gamer: one who treats games as a "sport". ie - playing FPS games in a clan that trains to beat other clans, or enters competitions, etc.

Casual gamer: 1. everyone else. 2. noob.

It seems like these terms were created by the so-called hardcore gamers to begin with, as a way to ghettoize the "noobs". Heaven forbid you buy a video game to just goof around with friends, and chill.

In the old boardgame days, we used to call casual games "Beer and Pretzel" games. Basically, you had your Squad Leader/Panzer Blitz/etc games that required a lot of rules reading, time prep, and time allotment. Then you had other games that you could just jump into with a group without having to pore over a giant rulebook with lots of stats just to start. Modern versions of these games are things like Carcassone, Settlers of Cataan, etc.

My big beef with the 360 (the console I use) is that it seems to cater to the perceived "hardcore gamer" crowd. There are lots of shooters involving muscley guys with tight shirts and bad dialogue, and very few with cartoony looks, and zany gameplay (I guess that's what the Wii is for). Don't get me wrong, I LOVE games like Call of Duty, and play those online a lot. But, I have a group of friends that play on Live who are not really big time gamers, they just don't have the time it takes to get good at one of these sorts of games. So, we try to play games that trend toward either the zany, or are easier for a beginner to mix with an expert (Team Fortress 2 seems to be the perfect game, in that regard). It's always hard to find that perfect game for this group.

Dec 4, 2009#52

Shegokigo

It seems like these terms were created by the so-called hardcore gamers to begin with, as a way to ghettoize the "noobs". Heaven forbid you buy a video game to just goof around with friends, and chill.

Dec 4, 2009#53

Joe Johnson

That was no indictment on actual hardcore gamers, as I think gaming at the professional level is pretty damn cool. Like I said, we need new definitions. The "so-called hardcore gamer" I referred to actually meant "16 year old, insecure teen boy who thinks he's awesome at games, and laughs at the 'noobs' that deign to play non-FPS games"

Dec 4, 2009#54

fade

I hardly play at all anymore. I just haven't found anything unique, challenging, and fun in a very long time. They're all the same game. Stay alive, don't let your lifebar run out, and hit the other guy. Change graphics, lather, rinse, and repeat. When someone interestingly (and I don't mean simulate an instrument) breaks that paradigm, I'll play something.

Dec 4, 2009#55

SpecialKO

fade said:
I hardly play at all anymore. I just haven't found anything unique, challenging, and fun in a very long time. They're all the same game. Stay alive, don't let your lifebar run out, and hit the other guy. Change graphics, lather, rinse, and repeat. When someone interestingly (and I don't mean simulate an instrument) breaks that paradigm, I'll play something.

Machinarium?

Dec 4, 2009#56

Null

Sounds like he's describing Spore, and from what I heard, it was somewhat disappointing.

I'm a casual gamer. I like console RPGs but haven't bought a system since 2006 (replacing a worn-out PS2 with a slimline PS2). The only PC games I play are the ones on Armor Games, or the occasional AIF.

Dec 4, 2009#57

Oddbot

fade said:
I hardly play at all anymore. I just haven't found anything unique, challenging, and fun in a very long time. They're all the same game. Stay alive, don't let your lifebar run out, and hit the other guy. Change graphics, lather, rinse, and repeat. When someone interestingly (and I don't mean simulate an instrument) breaks that paradigm, I'll play something.

That's the problem I've had with games for a while now. I've been just plain sick of the same ol' stuff.

Every once and while a game comes along though that is truly a gem though.
The aforementioned Machinarium is one. I also recently played through two awesome little games on Wii Ware. Lost winds and it's sequel Lost Winds: Winter of the Meloldiaa. If you have a Wii, you owe it to yourself to snatch these up. Also going back to PS2 Ico, and Shadow of the Collosus are two of the most original and artful games I've ever played.

Dec 4, 2009#58

Methuselah

I'm paying a fee to compete in a TF2 league, and I practice every weeknight with my team, so I guess I'm hardcore, though saying it sounds silly. I'm only putting about 2-3 hours of gaming per day, though.

Dec 4, 2009#59

fade

Methuselah said:
I'm paying a fee to compete in a TF2 league, and I practice every weeknight with my team, so I guess I'm hardcore, though saying it sounds silly. I'm only putting about 2-3 hours of gaming per day, though.

Geez, I'd say that's pretty hardcore.

Dec 4, 2009#60

Methuselah

Amorous Vyxen;309564][quote=fade;309558][quote=Methuselah said:
I'm paying a fee to compete in a TF2 league, and I practice every weeknight with my team, so I guess I'm hardcore, though saying it sounds silly. I'm only putting about 2-3 hours of gaming per day, though.

Geez, I'd say that's pretty hardcore.[/QUOTE]

If that's hardcore practically everyone I know is a hardcore gamer.
You can't even play Zelda for just 30 minutes (well you could, but it'd be silly), and even a game of Mario Party can take a few hours. Are those Wii'ers hardcore too?[/QUOTE]

Exactly. It's so easy to put in 4 or 5 hours of gaming throughout a day. Plenty of people on my friends list play TF2 more than 60 hours a week.

Dec 4, 2009#61

Shegokigo

Again, you're defined by the level of dedication. You're definitely a hardcore Methus.

Dec 4, 2009#62

fade

I'd say spending 2-3 hours on gaming is hardcore regardless of whether it's a wii or not! I'm hard pressed to find 2-3 hours of free time for anything, much less gaming.

Dec 4, 2009#63

figmentPez

fade said:
I hardly play at all anymore. I just haven't found anything unique, challenging, and fun in a very long time. They're all the same game. Stay alive, don't let your lifebar run out, and hit the other guy. Change graphics, lather, rinse, and repeat. When someone interestingly (and I don't mean simulate an instrument) breaks that paradigm, I'll play something.

Hmm, I guess my standards for innovation aren't as high. I've thought Trine, Braid and World of Goo, among others, were charming deviations from what I normally expect, even though they're still very similar in some ways. Sure, Trine and Braid were just platformers, and World of Goo was a lot like Bridge Builder, but the details matter.

Then there's Left 4 Dead, which on the surface is just like any other FPS, but the cooperative gameplay feels so different from anything else I've played.

Of course, I don't just play games for newness. I just plain enjoy controlling a smooth playing game. Trine did that while being new but having very familiar platforming. New Super Mario Bros. did that while being completely old school. Pretty much the only new thing in Zelda Phantom Hourglass was the stylus control scheme, but I loved that a lot just because it was fun to control. In a well done control scheme it can be a thrill just moving your character around the map. If you don't feel that thrill too, then I understand why gaming doesn't hold your interest.

Of course, some games I play for the story/art/comedy. Zeno Clash or Tales of Monkey Island, for example. To me complaining that games are "Stay alive, don't let your lifebar run out, and hit the other guy." is like complaining that movies are "introduce your characters, set up your conflict, bring it to a climax and resolve". Not all games are that way, not all movies are that way, but even those that are can be radically different while still holding to such a general formula.

Dec 4, 2009#64

RealBigNuke

Strong agreement here with Figment's entire post. Except Zeno Clash. Sincerely wish I didn't spend $2.50 on that game.

>>

Er, anyway, I'm not sure how I'd define hardcore, and everyone seems to have a different one in this thread.

So I'll just say I play around 1-4 hours most of the days of the week, with the occasional day of 0 or 6 hours. About half what I spend in photoshop. I don't take games especially seriously and prefer to play without competition in mind in most games - except every three or four years I'll find a new competitive game like WoW or UT2kxx and play it with a guild for a while. I'll leave the definition to individual perception.

Dec 4, 2009#65

Shegokigo

That's a shame Nuke, I thought Zeno Clash was awesome too....

Dec 5, 2009#66

RealBigNuke

Shegokigo said:
That's a shame Nuke, I thought Zeno Clash was awesome too...

I think I walked into that one with the wrong thing in mind. As a first person fighting game, it's certainly the best attempt I've ever seen. The shooter elements were painfully awkward, though. As was the entire story.

I was expecting something trippy with an in-depth story, but all I got was something trippy. I thought the writing was extremely weak, and the 'big reveal' had me going,

'What the hell? That was the big secret that has been the only plot point in this entire game? I had assumed that from the very start! I didn't even know that was a secret! Can the sequel be about leaving the village to find a basic biology teacher?!'

It sort of left me with the feeling that I'd just done a cannonball into a puddle. I wouldn't mind seeing the playstyle being developed, but oh man, five hours of game and one basic plot point hurt me in the attention span. I did like the 'I feel like we're just going in a straight line, like Andromiter' line, but that was all I got out of it

Well, that and the hunter character. He was pretty badass. I'd like to see more of him.

Dec 5, 2009#67

Necronic

For me the term hardcore or casual isn't specific to a title, but how you play it. Zelda could be played hardcore if you put together min max sheets and civ 4 could be casual if you set your cities to be run by governors and don't painstakingly manage your city placements. I play DoW casually, I don't play online. I play gal civ hardcore, 1 turn could take me 2 hours. If you keep playing a game for personal goals after you don't easily enjoy it, that may be hardcore, or just an addiction.

Generally though I don't think they are appropriate categories. More appropriate would be if you are a hater or not. And I think I am a hater. Just slightly.

Dec 5, 2009#68

LordRendar

TeKeo said:
Machinarium?

Machinarium is an awesome game.Loved every braintwisting,handdrawn minute of it.

Dec 5, 2009#69

Hailey Knight

Necronic said:
Zelda could be played hardcore if you put together min max sheets

What in Zelda would you min-max?

Dec 5, 2009#70

AshburnerX

Amorous Vyxen;309827][quote=escushion;309824][quote=Necronic said:
Zelda could be played hardcore if you put together min max sheets

What in Zelda would you min-max?[/QUOTE]

No clue. I did draw maps of Zelda I though.[/QUOTE]

To this day, I still draw maps for games and put notes in a binder. Some things just never go out of style.

Dec 6, 2009#71

@Li3n

I'm always casually playing hardcore games...

Dec 6, 2009#72

figmentPez

escushion said:
What in Zelda would you min-max?

Biggoron's sword! All offense, no defense!

Dec 6, 2009#73

RocketGirl

I think there was a time when you could call me a hardcore gamer.

Nowadays...I barely have time. I just don't game like I used to; I've got my webcomic, my martial arts, going out clubbing. Probably doesn't help that I'm mostly broke and my machines are usually too out of date to play the latest games...
So I'm kind of out of practice, and focused on other things.

But every now and then, I'm at a party or something where they've got a game set up, and I find that one game where I just plain kick booty as soon as I pick up the controller. That happened at Thanksgiving this year with one of those Wii games, the one with all the sports and party games and stuff? People wouldn't play me at the frisbee game or the fencing game after a while...though they kicked my butt at ping-pong.

Dec 6, 2009#74

@Li3n

RocketGirl said:
Probably doesn't help that I'm mostly broke and my machines are usually too out of date to play the latest games...

There's nothing more hardcore then playing older games.

Dec 6, 2009#75

RocketGirl

@Li3n said:
There's nothing more hardcore then playing older games.

If I could get it to bloody run under Vista, I'd play Master of Orion 2 a fair bit...and pretty much the entire Sierra collection (Space Quest junkie, checking in!)...

Dec 6, 2009#76

RocketGirl

Amorous Vyxen said:
I'm a huge.. HUGE fan of old school adventures.. both Sierra (King's Quest, Space Quest) and LucasArts (Monkey Island, Zack McKracken)...

See, I USED to be a huge fan of 'em...then I lost all that weight. *ba-DUM TSSSSSHHH!*

No, seriously...I dig those like a backhoe. Y'ever play The Dig? That one was amazing in my never-humble opinion. And Full Throttle was pretty nifty-keen, too.

But my true first love will probably always be space Quest.

Dec 6, 2009#77

Kitty Sinatra

I've skipped right from the OP to replying, so I have no idea if this is on topic anymore.

Let's see. I just bought 5 xbox games today (used, older games for like 10 bucks each; it's why I waited so long to buy the 360 until now, too; I don't ever want to pay full price for these games)

I was happy when the store clerk told me he felt Ninja Gaiden 2 was too hard.
When I started up Forza Motorsports 2 I immediately set it to pro.

Yet I don't really think I'm a hardcore gamer. I certainly don't measure up in online play, mostly because I just don't have the stamina to practice for any length of time. And playing Saint's Row 2 I left the difficulty on normal because I just want to drive around shooting up shit without worrying about being challenged.

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RocketGirl;310122][quote=@Li3n said:
There's nothing more hardcore then playing older games.

If I could get it to bloody run under Vista, I'd play Master of Orion 2 a fair bit...and pretty much the entire Sierra collection (Space Quest junkie, checking in!)...[/QUOTE]

I have the complete Space Quest and Police Quest collections. I haven't played through them all yet. Not even close. It turns out I don't like adventure games as much as I used to.

Dec 6, 2009#78

RocketGirl

Amorous Vyxen said:
The Dig was pretty good. Full Throttle, and likewise Sam & Max, were good but a bit too cartoony for my tastes. Kings Quest was my main adventure series, Space Quest second, then Monkey Island.

Well, only the incurably dense won't have yet figured out that I'm something of a sci-fi nut...which might go a long way to explaining why Monkey Island and King's Quest take a back seat to Space Quest and The Dig for me...

Nuffin' wrong with those games; on a scale from 1 to 10, they make at least an 8...it's just that the sci-fi games are about 47.

Dec 6, 2009#79

figmentPez

RocketGirl said:
If I could get it to bloody run under Vista, I'd play Master of Orion 2 a fair bit...and pretty much the entire Sierra collection (Space Quest junkie, checking in!)...

One of the first things I did when I got my netbook, earlier this year, was to see if I could install and play MoO2 on it. I guess I've never installed it on my current Vista desktop, because I don't ever remember having troubles running it. (I think I've run SMAC without troubles on Vista.)

I've heard the best way to run MoO2 on modern hardware is to run the DOS version of the game using DOSBox. Same goes for the Sierra games (which are on Gametap, as well as Steam and some other digital distribution sites, though not on GOG, sadly).

Dec 6, 2009#80

RocketGirl

figmentPez said:
One of the first things I did when I got my netbook, earlier this year, was to see if I could install and play MoO2 on it. I guess I've never installed it on my current Vista desktop, because I don't ever remember having troubles running it.

I don't exactly WANT Vista, but it's what my new laptop came with. And, honestly, I haven't known enough about my own computer since the end of the DOS days; there was a time when, if my computer broke, I could fix the @#$%er... Alas.

I've heard the best way to run MoO2 on modern hardware is to run the DOS version of the game using DOSBox.

Well, I still have the CD; this is something I could do.

Same goes for the Sierra games (which are on Gametap, as well as Steam and some other digital distribution sites, though not on GOG, sadly).

Actually, I have a lot of the original CDs for THOSE games as well. Heh.

Dec 6, 2009#81

ThatGrinningIdiot!

The Dig is an amazing game. If I were to ever have a wish, it would be that it is made into a film that would do the game justice.

Dec 7, 2009#82

Joe Johnson

Oh man, I miss Space Quest so much. That's the first game I really got into after the post Atari days. For a sci-fi fan it was pure heaven. I miss that sort of game, the only thing that's come close for me is Half-Life, which I also love.

WHAT? I didn't know they released the collection on Steam - and is compatible with XP.
OK, I know what I'm doing when I get home.

Dec 7, 2009#83

Fun Size

Fun fact: The Dig was originally conceived by Steven Spielberg as either a film or an episode of Amazing Stories, but when it was determined that it would cost too much to make, was re-imagined as an adventure game.

Damned fine game it was, too.

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