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So, IW themselves say "CoD players aren't **** games, or even gamers."

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« Reply #60 on: October 24, 2013, 05:08:31 pm »

So your definition of a gamer is someone that plays video games along with having knowledge of the gaming industry in those cases?


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« Reply #61 on: October 24, 2013, 05:28:36 pm »

The lack of the ability to edit is really getting to me. I didn't even finish my thought, this is awkward. I meant to say that what I refer to at the end is someone who is completely different than me. Simply applying "gamer" to both of us, while true, is a really general statement. There always needs to be more specific terms to divide people.

We're all human, that doesn't mean that's the only way to describe everyone.

I'll just say this one more time and then I'm done. You're only looking to differentiate because you want some sort of "status". You're not happy being lumped in with the gaming "lowlifes".

The same goes for your hockey fan analogy. Again, you are trying to prove that you are a "better" fan. Other red wings fans that haven't gone to all playoff games or own sweaters, etc shouldnt be called hard core by your definition. Maybe they don't have the money for those activities. Does it make them any less of a fan? In your mind it does.

Labels...status....I'm not the one putting a negative spin on it.

I'll leave you with this thought. I played just about every game I could put my hands on when I was younger...played Atari, colecovision, nes, snes, commodore64, vic20, PC, Sega, game boy, blah blah blah. Because I have such a history with gaming does that earn me a special label compared to the younger generation that didn't play any or all of those? I guess I'll call myself an original gamer and that trumps any kind of gamer that comes after. But wait, that would be stupid.

We're all gamers.
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« Reply #62 on: October 24, 2013, 07:04:37 pm »

Sure, Krazy. @editing posts

Of course we're all gamers, Term. I'm not disputing that. I think it's pretty silly to claim someone who barely plays games is equal to someone who plays a lot as far as passion goes. Of course I want to stand out, I love games and I'm proud of it. Everyone has that one thing they love to do, and they enjoy talking about it. There's no need for a label like 'casual' since it sounds degrading but that seems to be the only thing that gets the message across quickly. Otherwise I'd have to go in to explicit detail to everyone when explaining what kind of gamer I am. It's much easier to say "well, I'm not just a casual gamer, I play tons of games - daily" then to say "well I don't just sit on my iphone and play candy crush while on break at work, then go home and play 30 min of CoD on Tuesdays". Terms can help as long as you're not just using them solely to belittle someone in a rude way.

So your definition of a gamer is someone that plays video games along with having knowledge of the gaming industry in those cases?

Nope. I said a gamer can be anyone, but in order to make it more specific, you can apply "cares about/studies the industry" or "casual iphone gamer" or "CoD for an hour a week" to people to define what kind of gamer they are.
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« Reply #63 on: October 24, 2013, 08:03:20 pm »

Well would you look at what just came out. Cool. I love these guys. Great discussion on this subject with a couple different points of view.

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« Reply #64 on: October 24, 2013, 08:07:36 pm »

Wait, so are you saying that to be defined as a hc gamer you should play games every day? Huh?
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« Reply #65 on: October 24, 2013, 08:58:07 pm »

No, note necessarily, but that would definitely be a trait of one if that were to be the term of choice.

Honestly the best way to go about it was mentioned in that video. It's a really self-defined thing. If you consider yourself a gamer, you are. This actually makes sense because there are probably a lot of people out there that just casually play once in a while that would not call themselves one. Same goes for people that play a good amount of a certain shooter/iphone game.
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« Reply #66 on: October 24, 2013, 11:02:57 pm »

Off-Topic: All cleaned up with the editing. Got rid of those secondary posts and added them to the post you tried to edit into to the best of my ability.


On-Topic: I meant your definition on what a "real" gamer is as you put it in that post.
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« Reply #67 on: October 25, 2013, 05:12:07 am »

I just don't feel like these three people are the same:

1. Plays candy crush all day (Facebook game).
2. Plays Call of Duty/Fifa for 2-5 hours a week.
3. Plays Call of Duty/Fifa for 20+ hours a week.
4. Plays LoL/Dota/[insert MOBA here/[insert MMO here] for ___ hours a week.
5. Buys a game every few months, plays it over the course of a couple months then gets a new one.
6. Plays that one game that they love to death, and rarely plays anything else. Waits for the sequel, then moves on to that. (e.g. Pokemon, Dark Souls, etc.)
7. Plays obscure indie/PC games mostly, occasionally plays games they deem 'worthy' that are more mainstream.
8. Plays old-school stuff, doesn't care for new stuff. Still plays SNES.
9. Plays a variety of games of all genres, likes to be up to date in current gaming trends/discussions.
>9
Also, I feel that the only difference between 5 and 9 is budget.



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« Reply #68 on: October 25, 2013, 12:25:39 pm »

That's true.
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« Reply #69 on: October 25, 2013, 12:26:44 pm »

Oh wow, I didn't even notice that I said 3, and I didn't notice that you pointed it out til now.  Cheesy I would edit my post, but you know, that's too fancy for this board.
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« Reply #70 on: October 26, 2013, 11:33:36 am »

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« Reply #71 on: October 28, 2013, 05:01:12 pm »

thought it was just old topics....


Does anyone ever do this? I just did, and found a pretty interesting one. It's actually annoying me how annoying I used to be sometimes.  Cheesy

http://wiiunite.smfforfree3.com/index.php/topic,3338.0.html

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« Reply #72 on: October 28, 2013, 05:41:29 pm »

Implying this:

Honestly the best way to go about it was mentioned in that video. It's a really self-defined thing. If you consider yourself a gamer, you are. This actually makes sense because there are probably a lot of people out there that just casually play once in a while that would not call themselves one. Same goes for people that play a good amount of a certain shooter/iphone game.

is annoying. wat
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« Reply #73 on: October 28, 2013, 06:01:35 pm »

you're annoying
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« Reply #74 on: October 28, 2013, 08:37:32 pm »

 Cheesy
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