How to be hardcore according to IGN and other such things.

[Rusty Venture]

I dress up like Sonic every time I play my Genesis, my hair constantly gets blown back in an *EXTREME* fashion from the blast processing...but I don't wear sunglasses to play games.

It sucks to find out you're not a hardcore gamer.

[Metal_Sonic]

They have been playing for 10-15 years, or are 10-15 years old (physically)?

Age wise. To fix your Sonic problems, start spinning like crazy then take off like a maniac WHILE you're playing.

I think what really identifies you as a "hardcore" gamer is whether or not you wear sunglasses while playing games. Another indication is if your gameplay actually blows your hair back in an extreme fashion.

Here is an example of a quintessential "hardcore" gamer.

I think no matter what you do, you will NEVER, NEVER EVER NEVER EEEEEEVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER be as badass as this child. If he and that dancing Asian kid combined then by god I think we have found our overlord.

[Rusty Venture]

[17daysolderthannes]

that article just furthers the necessity for a rift between RPG retards and REAL video game players. I would throw my computer away if anyone so much as installed the demo of WOW on my computer. I'm so sick and tired of people saying they play video games and then talk to me how they liked a game or didn't like it because of the fucking story. STORY DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING IN A REAL VIDEO GAME. WHAT IS PAC MAN!? PAC MAN MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE AND ITS A GREAT GAME! END OF STORY! Video games are about outsmarting either a computer or human opponent to achieve victory, not boo hooing around a fairy forest for 3 hours picking turnips so I can go to the carnival and watch another 4 years of convoluted FMVs. Fucks FMVs, FMVs are the stop signs of the video game world, they stop your fun while you sit annoyed that you had to come to a complete stop, push in the clutch, put it back in 1st, and then finally go, even though there was no real reason to stop in the first place.

This reminds me of a video I was shown recently, just replace Kingdom Hearts 2 with ANY RPG ever made and Resident Evil 4 with a REAL video game (I can't comment on whether or not Resident Evil 4 meets my criteria for a real game since I don't own it, I guess I should though since its gotta be pretty cheap nowadays).

[17daysolderthannes]

I hate the terms "Hardcore" and "Professional Gamer"

Hell, I found it hard enough to be called a "Gamer" by the masses when that stupid phrase was coined.

Games are toys, there's nothing professional in playing with toys. It's that perception that makes me blindly hate most people born in the 1990's and write them off as know-nothing-dipshit's. (Yes, I'm ignorant. I can live with it.)

To me Hardcore is a music genre that died 25 years ago, not the high-five-praising intensity of which "Little Johnny Fucktard" can sit on his ass for 14 hours a day screaming profanity into a headset over XBL.

Whoah whoah whoah now, PLEASE don't go calling video games toys. A GI Joe is a toy, a koosh ball is a toy, a Power Wheels is a toy, a Super Soaker is a toy, don't start calling video games a "toy." Video games should be considered halfway between movies/music and the entertainment machines of old like pinball, fooseball, air hockey, etc. Maybe we have different definitions of what constitutes a "toy" (some people call their $200,000 ferrari a "toy"), personally I define toy as an entertainment device specifically for children, and there is NOTHING I hate more than being called "immature" for playing video games, which is why I hate video game systems being called toys.

I too hate the "gamer" label as it just sounds stupid. I play video games, the end, there is no need for a title proclaiming I do that. Then again, I hate the term "skater" for someone that skateboards as well. I guess I just hate 2 syllable labels that end in "er."

I think Dave and Buster's has the closest mentality to what video games should be "shit, you've had a hard day, eat a damn burger and kick Ted from marketing's ass at Daytona USA, then get drunk if you want and do it again."

I was actually thinking recently about the whole concept of high-end video game competition and how not-fun it is. Once you get to the top 10% or so, it becomes a pixel counting glitch competition and it loses all its fun. Video games were so much more fun when everyone was 10 and didn't know what the fuck was going on than when captain no-life memorized the exact countermove to every character in a fighting game. The same kind of goes for all sports and competitions, competition at the highest levels just isn't fun anymore.

[MrMatthews]

This reminds me of a video I was shown recently, just replace Kingdom Hearts 2 with ANY RPG ever made and Resident Evil 4 with a REAL video game (I can't comment on whether or not Resident Evil 4 meets my criteria for a real game since I don't own it, I guess I should though since its gotta be pretty cheap nowadays).

You're in luck, then. The Blue Fairy made Resident Evil 4 a real video game a few years back, so it just might meet your strict criteria.

[Jesse813]

[jerry coeurl]

I think Dave and Buster's has the closest mentality to what video games should be "shit, you've had a hard day, eat a damn burger and kick Ted from marketing's ass at Daytona USA, then get drunk if you want and do it again."

Dave and Buster's fucking sucks. That place is a rip-off.

[Metal_Sonic]

FUCK....YEA

[17daysolderthannes]

Dave and Buster's fucking sucks. That place is a rip-off.

It seemed like a good deal when I went. Me and my dad went there when we were visiting family in Florida and we played a good hour or 2 off of the $20 dinner deal thing (which included dinner, duh). That's not half bad for an arcade. I think some of that might have had to do with the fact that I was playing Ferrari F355 challenge and each race was a good 15 minutes or so. God I love that game, I just wish I could play it on a cabinet that didn't always try to go from 2nd to 5th and had a wheel that didn't jiggle loose, lol.

[Rusty Venture]

The one "Dave & Busters" I went into had nothing but sniper gun games and fucking SF2 derivatives.

It was like going to every other sorry ass arcade in my area minus the skee-ball.

[17daysolderthannes]

The one "Dave & Busters" I went into had nothing but sniper gun games and fucking SF2 derivatives.

It was like going to every other sorry ass arcade in my area minus the skee-ball.

Well,

#1 apparently every location is different, there were like 2 sniper gun games and zero fighters at the one I went to

#2 I really haven't been to many arcades as I just didn't have any around me growing up (it sucked)

#3 what I was getting at was the atmosphere and mentality carried by Dave and Busters, they don't turn it into kiddie kiddie funtime like Chuck E Cheese or a sweaty long-haired neckbeard meeting about which game deserves +2 respect points, its a fucking bar with a shit ton of arcade machines where you can take a shot of whiskey and then see who can drive the best in 8 player Daytona USA. Its the only place that can be called an arcade that doesn't make the geek-o-meter or the pedophile-odometer go off the handle when you walk in, the way it should be.

[Iron Lizard]

It seemed like a good deal when I went. Me and my dad went there when we were visiting family in Florida and we played a good hour or 2 off of the $20 dinner deal thing (which included dinner, duh). That's not half bad for an arcade. I think some of that might have had to do with the fact that I was playing Ferrari F355 challenge and each race was a good 15 minutes or so. God I love that game, I just wish I could play it on a cabinet that didn't always try to go from 2nd to 5th and had a wheel that didn't jiggle loose, lol.

Best racing game ever.

[jerry coeurl]

Their games suck, their food is lousy and their drinks are overpriced. At least at the San Diego location.

[Rusty Venture]

The last time I played an arcade game I played some "Aliens" marine game.

I shot two of my own guys and killed myself with a grenade and some dude tells me I was pretty good.....then asks me if I ever considered joining the Army.

Despite that, I would have played that "Aliens" game again...but it was gone the next time I went in there.