Experiment: What Kind of Gamer Are You?

Started by Sapphire Knight, December 29, 2009, 02:42:17 AM

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Sapphire Knight

Okay, here's the scoop. I am thinking of an experiment to see who are the hardcore gamers, softcore gamers, and casual gamers. Here are my requirements for each:

EXTREMIST
-Meets HARDCORE requirements
-Owns all systems
-Owns 20+ games each

HARDCORE
-Plays video games for AT LEAST 168 hours a month (one full week of time, 6+ hours a day)
-Owns at least 1/2 of all systems
-Owns at least 10 games for each owned system (unless said system doesn't even have 20 games)
-Compete in National/Internation Video Game Championships
-Meets 3 of the 4 above requirements

SOFTCORE
-Plays video games for at least 84 hours a month (3+ hours a day)
-Owns, or has played several games on, at least one of each generation's systems
-Owns 10+ games for at least one owned system (this would be overall, including crap games that got sold back)
-Meets 2 of the 3 above requirements

CASUAL
-Does not meet any requirements of HARDCORE, SOFTCORE, or EXTREMIST

So, here's the experiment. I'm curious to know who fits under which category. To do so, I would need anyone wanting to participate in the experiment to keep track of how much time they spend playing video games in a month (28 days by the calculations I used), count all of the systems they have (including the ones that were put into a box in the back room because they don't work), and count their total games per system (including games that got broken and thrown away, and crap games that got sold to stores like Gamestop). Then, post your numbers here. A bit tedius, but simple.

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I would fit under the casual area, but even then that's pushing it for me.

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<- Hardcore if you have nearly every (not counting SNES and a few others) console in existance, played, and nearly beat all of the games you have.  :P
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I'm casual... :'( but even then I'm not certain of my category... :\
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I'm a casual gamer.  Used to be a sorta-softcore gamer back in the days of the Genesis, 32X, and the N64.  

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I think I'm a casual gamer only because I own a little less than 20 DS games since lately I haven't found any that appeals to my intrests for some reason I mean, Target only has the sucky games, and Gamestop doesn't have enough veriety lately or at least my Gamestop doesn't.  Not to mention I'm not really made of money and I'm saving up for a DSi since my DS hinges are breaking apart.

Plus I don't have an Xbox and my brother took the Wii and PS2 to college with him since I don't usually play console games.
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By your definition, softcore. But by Vixy and others' definition, I'm old school.

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Sakura Leic

Wait a minute I think I am soft core because my brother took some my games with him to college.  I miss my Chrono Trigger now. :'(
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I'd actually be surprised if someone owned 20 PS3 games.

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I think so, but I don't know of 20 appealing PS3 games.  Hell I can barely think of 10.

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I'm sure if I went over a list of PS3 games, I could name about 20.
And I am picky when it comes to console games.