How Many Hours Makes One Hardcore?
I saw this on another message board and it seemed like a good question, especially since so many people put a lot of emphasis on how long a game is.
Obviously more factors are to be considered than time spent playing games, but as a general indicator, I'm sure it's a fairly good one.
I think the average person watches 3 hours of TV a night or something, for the sake of comparison.
I play about 4 hours of video games a week, and watch a little less TV.
That's why games like Pikmin are really good for me as far as progression-based adventure games go - I don't have to invest an awful lot of time to glean any satisfaction from it.
I recently played Morrowind for about 5 hours non-stop, and while it's a pretty cool game with lots of stuff to do, it's not a good game for me, because I will never even scratch the surface of what the game has to offer, due to my light playing habits.
Obviously games that I can keep going back to, like Halo are also good for my gaming style.
How to tell if you're a Hardcore Gamer!
- You own more than one console and actually play them both
- You can get into a debate for approximately 1 hour and 35 minutes or more about the future of video gaming
- You spent 100 hours+ building a city in SimCity 2000.
- You spent 10 minutes destroying it.
- You know the keyboard commands for TIE Fighter by heart
- You know exactly where every last star in Mario 64 is
- You know who Shigeru Miyamoto, John Carmack, Sid Meier, Warren Spector, Ed Fries, Saturo (?) Iwata, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ken Kutagari, J Allard, Seamus Blackley, Yu Suzuki, or Peter Molyneux are.
- 'Going to E3' is on your Priorities in Life list.
- You have more than 1,000 posts here
- You don't believe in rumors (PS3 coming out next Christmas! Xbox 2 won't let you play Xbox 1 games!, etc., ad nauseum)
- You've orchestrated a Halo tournament
- You pay $10 a month to play PSO on the 'Cube
- You bought the ethernet adaptor for it.
- You enjoyed Jet Set Radio Future
- You enjoyed Eternal Darkness
- You'd like to take a dead PS2 and rip out it's Emotion Engine and wear it as jewelery
- You can't keep track of how many hours you game a week.
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