I recently read an article which pretty much said “You’re not hardcore, my raptr tells me I’m good.” I began to obviously, A: get annoyed because some idiot thinks that the only thing that makes a hardcore gamer is his internet penis, and B: Ponder what does it really mean to be a hardcore gamer?
I was taken back a year or two, before companies sent me games, and when I would sit in the cold all night just to get my grubby hands on the new game. This is the dedication to hardcore gaming, saying “I was first in line, I waited days.” With a complete disregard for health.
Now, the article said that the guy was 300% higher than average, and from what I could understand, it meant 300% higher than people on his friends list, well there’s an obvious theory on why that would be. I’m sure you know what I’m driving at here. But perhaps it meant 300% higher than the community as a whole, well this “Raptr” doesn’t track retro games.
I have an arcade machine in my kitchen, I have a Zelda board game I imported from Japan, being a hardcore gamer means doing anything for the thing you want. Knowing pretty much everything there is to know about games, things like Poison being a man and not a woman.
Okay, so the chap with the highest gamerscore has something over 500,000 which is pretty damn impressive, that’s hardcore. But having a Raptr doesn’t really prove too much, it doesn’t take into account the other kind of gamers.
Think about the people who play only arcade machines, the people who go in and out of shops day by day looking for that Gold Edition World Champions on the NES, the people who don’t sleep just to play a game. They don’t have to be good to be hardcore.
There is, however a difference between hardcore and stupid, but it’s a damn thin line, I hospitalized myself playing a video game once, gauntlet. Drinking nothing but health potions, lucozade and red bull (Remember that uncharted promotion where you got a free 24 pack of red bull? I abused that and cancelled the rest of my orders, I win Play.com.) and eating pot noodles, chocolate and sugar.
Anyway my point on that was that it was stupid more than hardcore, people have told me it’s hardcore, but I’ll be honest and say I think it was just stupid. What do you all think? And finally, what do you think makes a hardcore gamer? His internet penis tracked by a social site or the dedication to reaching that top level?
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