RageOverdose wrote:
There are, oh, 3 categories of gamers.
Hardcore, casual, and nongamer.
The first is the true, bona-fide gamer. He plays anything, and goes all out. HDTV, powerful PC rigs, mods, Mario, Gears of War, whatever he can with his money.
The casual is the guy who will go in, buy a few consoles, if they support HD and he has an HDTV then good for him, and he’ll play just about any game too, but mainly mainstream, popular games. Halo, Gears of War, Final Fantasy maybe, Mario, Burnout, the basics.
The nongamer is the people that don’t play, because all games are practically complex to them and in the end they generally stick to puzzle games such as Meteos or simple oddities like the Sims. These may be the ones that used to casual, getting into the simplicity of Mario or Sonic, but then games became more and more free, and bam, no more simplicity. All sorts of button combinations and such. Nintendo has, however, released games to tailor to them on the DS and Wii. However, in both cases, the games will further grow into games with depth, so that the other 2 won’t be left out by having to buy simple pick up and play.
Pick up and play games are not Mario anymore, they’re games such as Brain Age, Warioware, Elite Beat Agents, Meteos, Lumines.
I would hardly consider Halo hardcore. A hardcore game is something along the lines of Vagrant Story, Ogre Battle, Armored Core, or most RTS games. Halo is casual.
Not necesarilly...
Halo may be full of noobs who play online, but there are also hardcore gamers (e.g the ones that start out playing Legendary on storymode and kick the crap out of everyone else online). A game that isn’t that hardcore would be something more like Prey; I mean, come on! You can’t even die in that game!
And, about that hardcore gamer definition of yours... you know that most people who buy games are kids, right? Kid’s tend to not have much money, and yet they end up being just as good or better at games then the ones who do. Money shouldn’t be taken into consideration. I, for instance, would be an example of this. While I do have a PS3, PS2, PSP and all the consoles before PS1, the latter are stuff my parents had, and
I had to save up for my PSP and my PS3 (got my PS2 free because it was a cheap DVD player. If only HD-DVD hadn’t ruined my chance of getting a PS3 because it wasn’t the “definite format”
And, hardcores don’t have to necessarily like a specific type of game (such as RPGs); they could love Half-Life 2 and yet they play the Sims.
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