Hardcore!!... What makes one hardcore anyway??...

Seriously, what does it take for a gamer to be labeled hardcore??...

I myself can only assume that it's a gamer who is deeply devoted to playing games no matter the rating, the review score, the platform, or the genre.

I just classify myself as an advid gamer; nothing more and nothing less.

If anyone can shed any light on this please don't hold back...

Mario games are different. All you do is go from left to right and you don't have to really get into it or think about it in order to enjoy it.The_PirateKing

I reccomend reading this thread. It has a long drawn out argument about what people consider casual and hardcore (as many people have different opinions and views on this). Its a good read I think and a discussion I thoroughly enjoyed. I do not however wish to repeat myself so you can find my rather lengthy opinions on what constitutes what in that thread. In short, people who live and breath video-gaming in terms of the interest and passion they have for the medium as well as their appreciation of it is what makes somebody a hardcore gamer.

This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntF-9w3ciT0

Aaaawh you meant hardcore gamer :P

Hardcore!!... What makes one hardcore anyway??

A label.

It is just a label.

Hardcore!!... What makes one hardcore anyway??

A label.

It is just a label.

duxup

This question is never difficult to answer.

Anybody who loves games is hardcore. Plain and simple. How much time spent playing is entirely irrelevant.

I would say that playing over 10 straight hours a day which some WOW Players do is pretty hardcore but that's just WOW Hardcore not overall Gaming Hardcore.

Being a hardcore gamer I suppose would mean not quitting a game that your playing until you beat it and if it was a good game then you beat it again on harder and if it's a long game with plenty of secrets to uncover like Final Fantasy X then you do them all for like 200 hours Like I admit doing lols :X.

I reccomend reading this thread. It has a long drawn out argument about what people consider casual and hardcore (as many people have different opinions and views on this). Its a good read I think and a discussion I thoroughly enjoyed. I do not however wish to repeat myself so you can find my rather lengthy opinions on what constitutes what in that thread. In short, people who live and breath video-gaming in terms of the interest and passion they have for the medium as well as their appreciation of it is what makes somebody a hardcore gamer.

Arath_1

oh, thanks a lot, mate! ill check this out for sure...

Well, I'll say anyone with over a thousand posts on a gaming forum is hardcore? It also depends, on system wars and the PC board it seems that only PC gamers are hardcore. They might be right, spending a near thousand each year to play games.

But I'll go back to my first idea, that anyone that posts in any game site forum is hardcore.