You aren't a "gamer" if you only play games on your iphone.

"Gamer" denotes hours upon hours of grinding out levels, late nights that fade into mornings that fade back to nights, pale and clammy skin, shunning outings with friends, missing family dinners, caffeine binges to the point of arrhythmia, lower-back sweat, and urinating in plastic bottles.

i game until im about to puke. thats when i know to stop, even then i pull one extra, just let me play this round and i quit lol.

3 box EQ while trying for a Brigade of Campers Also I went to two EVE fan fests in Iceland. Got my start playing MUDS. I guess I can safely say I am a gamer.

Why yes I play Excel Online quite often.

I thought bringing up Microsoft Explorer Browser was a video game. It sucked up ALL my memory.

Occasionally my son will want me to play with him & his friends so they can laugh at me. I get really caught up in the game. My entire body moves. Can't control it & I get excited. But I do pretty good.

I'm embarrassed to say that my main game is Runescape. I'm a skiller, love grinding out those levels.
That was until my nephew got me Civ 5. I can only allow myself to play when I can play till 5 am and not have to worry about going to work lol

I make video games for a living, so I'd say yes, I qualify as a gamer.

I don't care for games that are designed to be "beaten." I like to think of a game as being a medium where I can play, not an opponent to be defeated.

If you've ever played pen and paper role playing games, you've probably run across a game master who felt it was "fun" to do their best to destroy every player's character or defeat the party at every turn. You also know how little fun those kinds of games were. P&P games were always best when the GM worked hard to make a challenging but rewarding world for the players to adventure in. When I read that whatever game was designed to be nearly impossible to "beat" or people bragging "I beat the game on super impossible level in less than an hour," I move on. I'm not into competing with the game's programmers. In simple words, I don't want a game I have to beat, I want a story I need to finish.

RWoodward wrote:I don't care for games that are designed to be "beaten." I like to think of a game as being a medium where I can play, not an opponent to be defeated.

If you've ever played pen and paper role playing games, you've probably run across a game master who felt it was "fun" to do their best to destroy every player's character or defeat the party at every turn. You also know how little fun those kinds of games were. P&P games were always best when the GM worked hard to make a challenging but rewarding world for the players to adventure in. When I read that whatever game was designed to be nearly impossible to "beat" or people bragging "I beat the game on super impossible level in less than an hour," I move on. I'm not into competing with the game's programmers. In simple words, I don't want a game I have to beat, I want a story I need to finish.

YES! I want a game that I don't have to dominate everything in order to win. Games, for me, are an escape. If the game is "won" I can't escape into it anymore

curtisuxor wrote:You aren't a "gamer" if you only play games on your iphone.

"Gamer" denotes hours upon hours of grinding out levels, late nights that fade into mornings that fade back to nights, pale and clammy skin, shunning outings with friends, missing family dinners, caffeine binges to the point of arrhythmia, lower-back sweat, and urinating in plastic bottles.

Haha, nice description I would say as well if you are a wooter a few random woot shirts that reference games

Eve is real

Nice! an EVE reference at Woot. Next up some nice EVE-related shirts at shirt.woot? maybe?

Can I have your stuff?

where's the option for "used to be a serious gamer (8+ hrs a day sometimes when not in school), then realized it was hazardous to my health and social well-being?" the only video game i ever play now is fifa. on rare occasions, i reminisce with a game of TF2. after two hours that seems like five minutes, i remember why i quit video games (specifically PC games) in the first place.

I spend all day staring at a computer screen. If I "game", it's going to be outdoors with nature.

curtisuxor wrote:You aren't a "gamer" if you only play games on your iphone.

"Gamer" denotes hours upon hours of grinding out levels, late nights that fade into mornings that fade back to nights, pale and clammy skin, shunning outings with friends, missing family dinners, caffeine binges to the point of arrhythmia, lower-back sweat, and urinating in plastic bottles.

Ummmmm.... that's perhaps a little drastic ;)

The best thing about embracing the fact that you're a gamer is that you don't /need/ to shun outings with friends because they want to stay in and play too. Peeing in plastic bottles, well.. I'd prefer to make the journey to the bathroom.

Husband is hardcore gamer, I'm a casual gamer.

As in, I bought the gaming computer, Hubby plays on it and allows me incremental time to play Skyrim. I used to have my desktop set up with Fallout: New Vegas - but, unfortunately, he bumped it out of the room for his high-powered gaming monster. Funny thing is - the man hooked me on Skyrim and Fallout to begin with!

:D

Oh, well. Easy come, Easy go...

curtisuxor wrote:You aren't a "gamer" if you only play games on your iphone.

"Gamer" denotes hours upon hours of grinding out levels, late nights that fade into mornings that fade back to nights, pale and clammy skin, shunning outings with friends, missing family dinners, (blahblahblah)

The term for your description is "Hardcore Gamer".

To me, "Gamer" just refers to serious gameplay in any fashion, up to and including D&D, Warhammer, Card Games, any game Console (incl PC), etc. This usually translates to plenty of hours and money spent - just not EVERY waking hour.


Usually, there is crossover to SOME of the above description in "Gamer" types, but not all of them. All of them = HARDCORE.G@MERZ0RZ 4 LYF3

Most Gamers aren't commenting because it's the last 24 hours of the Steam Summer Sale and we're considering our final game purchases.

zokwobblefotz wrote:Ummmmm.... that's perhaps a little drastic ;)

The best thing about embracing the fact that you're a gamer is that you don't /need/ to shun outings with friends because they want to stay in and play too. Peeing in plastic bottles, well.. I'd prefer to make the journey to the bathroom.

Mortimer calls that "efficiency,"* though I don't actually think he's a gamer.

*From the Sport.Woot episode of Monte and Mortimer

About the only games I play are the Guitar Hero/Rock Band series.

I have them all on either PS2 or XBOX 360.

cindyscrazy wrote:I'm embarrassed to say that my main game is Runescape. I'm a skiller, love grinding out those levels.
That was until my nephew got me Civ 5. I can only allow myself to play when I can play till 5 am and not have to worry about going to work lol

As far as MMOs go, it ose one of the better ones. It is better than WOW in every possible way.

A real gamer has nine displays running nine different EVE logins.

RWoodward wrote:I don't care for games that are designed to be "beaten." I like to think of a game as being a medium where I can play, not an opponent to be defeated.

If you've ever played pen and paper role playing games, you've probably run across a game master who felt it was "fun" to do their best to destroy every player's character or defeat the party at every turn. You also know how little fun those kinds of games were. P&P games were always best when the GM worked hard to make a challenging but rewarding world for the players to adventure in. When I read that whatever game was designed to be nearly impossible to "beat" or people bragging "I beat the game on super impossible level in less than an hour," I move on. I'm not into competing with the game's programmers. In simple words, I don't want a game I have to beat, I want a story I need to finish.

This. This is exactly what I came here to say.
Although there's also something to be said for sandbox games... whether that freedom comes in crafting, exploration, or some other way.

cappo wrote:Most Gamers aren't commenting because it's the last 24 hours of the Steam Summer Sale and we're considering our final game purchases.

My hubby hoarded his "allowance" (what spending money he gets after we pay bills, etc) for about three months. He's already spent it all.

FenStar wrote:As far as MMOs go, it ose one of the better ones. It is better than WOW in every possible way.

Yeah, but they are redoing the combat system to make it MORE like WOW. I can't decided if it's a good thing or not. Hopefully, I won't use it much

cindyscrazy wrote:I'm embarrassed to say that my main game is Runescape. I'm a skiller, love grinding out those levels.
That was until my nephew got me Civ 5. I can only allow myself to play when I can play till 5 am and not have to worry about going to work lol

... Good lord, I haven't played runescape since... well... forever. I swear, my last attempt to log in to my account must have been shortly after college. My brother and I played in high school, but he moved on to StarSiege and I moved on to Roller Coaster Tycoon. :D

I am a gamer, and I was excited when the first item on tech.woot was a Razer product....I didn't need one, but I thought "I really hope tech.woot continues to put stuff like this up"....and they haven't. I know it wont be only gaming gear, but tvs to me aren't tech.

Moueska wrote:My hubby hoarded his "allowance" (what spending money he gets after we pay bills, etc) for about three months. He's already spent it all.

Luckily I was mostly buying older games I'd never gotten around to.

I think the most expensive game I bought was under 7 dollars. (Although they were expensive when they were new.)