I was going to write that I didn’t spend that much time gaming today, but after thinking about it, I played over four hours which is a lot for a casual gamer. I was downloading some software on the second PlayStation 3, so I loaded up Battlefield 1943 on my remaining Xbox 360, and spent about 45 minutes in some interesting sniping duels. There not real, but every once in a while you get shadowed by a player bent on revenge, or attempting to match a long distance shot. Later in the afternoon, I decided that I would play Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta for a thirty minutes, about three and a half hours, and multiple deaths (4), I had to stop for dinner. Mildly frustrated, but not stressed because I could save, I closed up shop at the start of the ‘final battle’ of the final chapter. Anyway, we were ordering from a very good Mexican restaurant with tasty enchiladas.
I often wonder about the labels applied to the type of gamer you are-casual or hardcore. I’m assuming that the fact that I don’t spend hours upon end playing a video game or that the game play controls my life, that I’m not a ‘hardcore’ gamer. But is there an official definition of the terms, by the gaming community? Apparently not, Wikipedia, states that “There is currently no unanimously agreed upon definition for the term (hardcore),” and then goes on to document some of the current opinions exploring the relationship between hardcore and casual. I think that the intent to delve into the complexity of the game might have something to do with being a hardcore gamer. But does that mean that you can be both a hard core gamer and a casual gamer based upon the game that you play, or the nature of the game that you play (game is design for casual play). I’ll have to skim about the web in the future to see if I can piece together a satisfactory solution.
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