What's your definition of "gamer"?

[Flying Taxzi]

I started gaming when I was 6 probably with roller coaster tycoon as my first game ever. Then when I was 8 my cousin introduced me to runescape, eventually maplestory, countless other online games mmo/rpg and I was hooked. I've played a lot, of many varieties of games, solely on PC, definitely a lot on steam. I have a maxed RS3 account which I know is not very impressive now a days but hey childhood dream fulfilled, stashed away for reminiscing. I definitely consider myself a gamer.

Today I was talking to my friend and next thing you know he's like oh yea you're not a gamer. I was so offended. I was like wtf is a gamer to you then. He said a gamer must play competitively. I'm salty guys.

So what do you consider as a gamer? People who do candy crush / phone gaming? casual only? competitive only? pin ball machine-ing? virtual chat worlds? choose your stories? people who have those custom set ups? club penguin? cookie clicker?

[Hiphastis]

Crazy Tiger eredeti hozzászólása:

Here Kitty Katie eredeti hozzászólása:

As an older gamer myself, i personaly miss the excessive passion that used to get put into every aspect of a game, from the engine, to the models, to the art, even the maps. just look up a doom2 map compared to any modern shooter. There is a massive decline for the majority of quality of games, but there still exists the ones who mod and make games more related to the people who defined games years ago.

The amount of mods and mappacks I have for the UT games, I still have them on a disc I burned them on back then. All of them great efforts. Hell, the maps and modes in the basegame itself were all terrific and had such different pacing.

Luckily, some games age very well.

Oh i agree, i know older games can still be great today. But i am holding out hope that oneday there will be some learning, and i will be able to enjoy a new game made with the passion of an older one. i still own all my disks, even my floppys. I just not giving up hope that some games new can be done decently at least, in a modern setting. I started the newer hitman2, its the the same but there is a lot of possitives. And there are some gems every few years.

[JimDeadlock]

@SelfAwareTsunderé - this is the correct response to your friend:

https://youtu.be/pWdd6_ZxX8c

[The Rock God]

A gamer is someone who has a shelf full of boxes that say Avalon Hill, FASA, or Games Designer's Workshop on the side. Or, at the very minimum, Milton Bradley. If you don't have a shelf of such games, you're not a gamer.

[CUTI]

someone that play game more often that other people

[Sleepy Yoshi]

When people say games were better in yesteryear I have to pause and wonder did they really play in the 80's, cause some of the worst games ever made occurred in that time frame. Of course the flip side is true that some amazing games were made as well, but people tend to gloss over the crap that did exist, whether it be on Atari (custer's revenge etc) or NES (a long long list).

I'm certainly not suggesting gaming hasn't changed, but there was crap then and there's crap now. There were companies out to make a quick buck then, just like there is now. Games have no passion, reminds me of what my parents told me in the 80s about the music of "my generation" having no soul. xD

[Hiphastis]

Sleepy Yoshi eredeti hozzászólása:

When people say games were better in yesteryear I have to pause and wonder did they really play in the 80's, cause some of the worst games ever made occurred in that time frame. Of course the flip side is true that some amazing games were made as well, but people tend to gloss over the crap that did exist, whether it be on Atari (custer's revenge etc) or NES (a long long list).

I'm certainly not suggesting gaming hasn't changed, but there was crap then and there's crap now. There were companies out to make a quick buck then, just like there is now. Games have no passion, reminds me of what my parents told me in the 80s about the music of "my generation" having no soul. xD

well there is truth to what you say. there is a large ammount of bad games at all times. Im sure in a lot of cases people remember what they enjoyed more then what was "better" in terms of quality. and the meaning of quality in gaming has changes. There is starting to be a standard where the worse games are not noticed so much anymore (COD). which has just gone down but kept up with remaining with popular demand.

[Elymnir]

Sleepy Yoshi eredeti hozzászólása:

When people say games were better in yesteryear I have to pause and wonder did they really play in the 80's, cause some of the worst games ever made occurred in that time frame.

Sometimes, I still think of games like Ninja Turtle on NES or The Lion King game on SNES... still gives me nightmares.

[Flying Taxzi]

Dumah eredeti hozzászólása:

Not a girl.



:HappyMask:



yes, im totally Sirius.

Guess I’m not a gamer
Totally Sirius.

[Dumah]

SelfAwareTsundere eredeti hozzászólása:

Guess I’m not a gamer
Totally Sirius.

- yep, Sirius is a cool planet for cool people only

[NS Plover]

Sweetie Pies - I've played computer games before most of you were (a) born or (b) knew they even existed. To attempt to tell me I'm *not* a gamer because I don't fit your concept of what a gamer is - that's beyond stupid!

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

SelfAwareTsundere eredeti hozzászólása:

I started gaming when I was 6 probably with roller coaster tycoon as my first game ever. Then when I was 8 my cousin introduced me to runescape, eventually maplestory, countless other online games mmo/rpg and I was hooked. I've played a lot, of many varieties of games, solely on PC, definitely a lot on steam. I have a maxed RS3 account which I know is not very impressive now a days but hey childhood dream fulfilled, stashed away for reminiscing. I definitely consider myself a gamer.

Today I was talking to my friend and next thing you know he's like oh yea you're not a gamer. I was so offended. I was like wtf is a gamer to you then. He said a gamer must play competitively. I'm salty guys.

So what do you consider as a gamer? People who do candy crush / phone gaming? casual only? competitive only? pin ball machine-ing? virtual chat worlds? choose your stories? people who have those custom set ups? club penguin? cookie clicker?

To me, "gamer" is largely a self-identification term meaning "games mean a lot to me and/or are or have been a big part of my life" (and by which we usually mean "video games", though sometimes tabletop game players can also count).

It doesn't depend on what games you play -- it depends on your personal level of attention/dedication to the hobby.

To use a related example:

I've briefly played Halo on XBox, and it's the only XBox game I've played. For like five minutes. You could say that I'm an XBox gamer because I have played on an XBox before, and you could say that I'm not an XBox gamer because I've only ever played one game on it, for only five minutes. But the important thing is that I don't call myself an XBox gamer, because I feel it really doesn't have much to do with who I am as a person, and is of very little significance to my hobby.

Your friend is just using a personal definition, and he should realize that not everyone shares that definition.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Nightlight eredeti hozzászólása:

The safest and most acceptable definition is probably "a person whose main hobby is video games." My own definition for it, however, is more like: "a person whose main hobby is video games and is enthusiastic/passionate about them."
I feel like you can like playing video games without being a "gamer" and when I ask myself what I think the difference between a "gamer" and "someone who just likes playing video games" is, the answer that usually comes to mind is the level of enthusiasm/passion they have for video games.

That's just my personal take on the word, though.

I'd say it doesn't have to be one's main hobby. Just among one's major hobbies.

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Miss Ann Thrope eredeti hozzászólása:

Didn't you know? The far left media is responsible for all of society's problems.

Agreed.

I'm pretty sure the person you're quoting is being sarcastic. :P

[nullable]

What's your definition of "gamer"?

One who plays games. I'm not really interested in owning a title. You can't really succeed and the definition is so fluid anyway. But some people are going to try, because they're primates and they've got to set a pecking order.

Today I was talking to my friend and next thing you know he's like oh yea you're not a gamer. I was so offended. I was like wtf is a gamer to you then. He said a gamer must play competitively. I'm salty guys.

You're salty because some jagoff has a stupid narrow opinion that's not universal. Fortunately for you the universe is never going to care what he thinks. Dude was just stroking his own ego. Get used to it, people do it all the time. No point in feeding them, best to just sit back and let them insert their feet into their mouths.

[The Rock God]

NS Plover eredeti hozzászólása:

Sweetie Pies - I've played computer games before most of you were (a) born or (b) knew they even existed. To attempt to tell me I'm *not* a gamer because I don't fit your concept of what a gamer is - that's beyond stupid!

Like I said:

The Rock God eredeti hozzászólása:

A gamer is someone who has a shelf full of boxes that say Avalon Hill, FASA, or Game Designer's Workshop on the side. Or, at the very minimum, Milton Bradley. If you don't have a shelf of such games, you're not a gamer.

[Start_Running]

OP You've experienced what's known as group 'sub-division' with a side of 'no true scotsman'. Basically humans like to be in groups for a sense of community and shared experience and when the group is small it tends to be pretty united but once it hits a certain size... then it starts developing internal divisions.

You know like how the current idea is that mobile games aren't real games. Yeah. Same deal or the whole hardcore vs casual, etc.