Have you stopped being a hardcore gamer?

[spaceman]

getting older.
less time, more interests in other hobbies.
still, on avg i probably beat 5-8 games a year still..but i am very selective about what i play.

 

[Rebasxer]

College and partying for me, no time to play games anymore (I used to be a CSS calmain star and just stopped playing for a week, and never went back)

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
wtf does 'hardcore gamer' mean? that i refer to gamecubes, DSes, and wiies as 'kiddie'? that i ignore fun games that don't have a minimum level of violence, blood, and gore? if i play madden all the time, am i not hardcore?

I think it just means you spend a lot of hours per week gaming.
As for me, there's the kids, and the band, and now being a homeowner, a bajillion projects around the house. But even now I can go a couple weeks without playing a game at all, or spend 20-30 hours in a week gaming, or anywhere between.

 

[chambersc]

Yes, I have. Life happened.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
I am no longer a hardcore gamer because I find myself doing other things a lot. Also, I decided after quitting WoW that I didn't want to be a hardcore gamer.

That being said Total Annihilation frickin ROCKED the house.
I too am looking forward to Supreme Commander.
Have you played TA: Spring?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(computer_game)

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[SWScorch]

Not really sure. I still enjoy games and play from time to time but I guess I just tired of them and found other things to do. Even if I'm sitting at my computer bored I'll usually just surf the web before playing a game unless I'm a mood to play a certain one.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
I am no longer a hardcore gamer because I find myself doing other things a lot. Also, I decided after quitting WoW that I didn't want to be a hardcore gamer.

That being said Total Annihilation frickin ROCKED the house.
I too am looking forward to Supreme Commander.
Have you played TA: Spring?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(computer_game)

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!1

i have a feeling youre going to be playing video games more now

 

[Patt]

Bought a house and had a kid ... both really dropped off the playing, though I wouldn't say I ever spent more than 10-15 hours a week on average. Now it is more of the pick-up-occasionally or some NHL 2004 tourneys on the PS2 with some friends.

 

[Fern]

I haven't played in a while. I used to play a lot with my son, but have basically stopped. Seems to be two reasons:

1) I workout (weights etc) for about 8 hrs a week. That has cut into what used to be my gaming time.

2) Recent games seem to suck, at least for me.

Fern

 

[ggnl]

I've just become more discriminating in how I spend my free time, especially since it's been decreasing steadily since age 18. Gaming has had to take a back seat to more constructive activities (work, reading, socializing).

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Yeah, I stopped. Why did I quit? Cause I have a life now.

:thumbsup:

 

[Canai]

I quit playing for about 2 years and lived up the college party life. I got really sick of that a few months ago and bought myself a new comp and have started getting back into gaming.

 

[RbSX]

Expense of upgrading the computer/games/my brother buys everything now.

I'll play games occasionally when I come home, and I'll play starcraft on my computer a few time a week.. but it really isn't worth it anymore.

 

[lokiju]

I never would have considered myself a hardcore gamer but I have always played here and there but have noticed it's less and less as time goes on.

I'll get really into a game like when HL2 and Doom 3 came out I played them straight through but besides those rare events, I'll usually play a little of something then either never play it again or only every once in awhile.

Though my DS Lite is an exception to that.

 

[NorthRiver]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Game quality. Nothing is new and interesting anymore. Newer games just aren't fun, and that's devastating when you're spending $40-$50 a pop on a highly anticipated game only to have it be very disappointing.

I was really looking to Dark Messiah. It turned out to be too short, too many dark dungeons for my taste, horrible ending, and in the end it got too easy because the end weapons are so powerful. Kept me occupied for three days. I want my money back. There's no replay value.

Yep! Games are more rushed then ever, and they're all the same ****** over and over. Everythings a freakin trilogy now because of Halo, and every game has to copy Halo looking for some kind of success. We need more games like System Shock, Half Life, Deus EX, Command and Conquer, ETC.

 

[BooGiMaN]

i dont consider myself a hard core gamer, but i have to say marriage kids and work have cut my gameplay down significantly...and i have also noticed games dont hold my attention much anymore...

i mean ill go throguh phases where im playing a game when i can then just stop for a few months then come back to it.

 

[DaShen]

I used to clock 2000 minutes of Tribes a week. I was in a clan and was really pretty good. Meh, I realized how detrimental spending that much time on something that isn't that productive is after I did terrible in college my 3rd year. After that, I stopped playing computer games mostly, except for the occassional Starcraft game.

 

[Parrotheader]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Wife, kids, life

Ditto.

The only time I have to play now usually falls sometime after 10:00. I stay up until 1:00 most nights, but if I play computer games too late (beyond 11:00) my mind gets too stimulated and I have a hard time winding down until well after 2:00. When you have real-world working hours that just doesn't fly.

Plus I was never really hardcore to begin with. I just enjoyed a small daily doseage of some FPS. I liked FPS because I personally found them to be a lot easier to just sit down with and enjoy on a 'quickie' basis rather than other style games. Whenever Team Fortress 2 comes out I might start playing semi-regularly again. But whenever I play a multiplayer game now and realize (thanks to in-game audio chat) that half the people I'm playing with are 14 it also makes you feel sort of weird.

 

[Dritnul]

finals but ill be back in 1 week

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: NorthRiver

Yep! Games are more rushed then ever, and they're all the same ****** over and over. Everythings a freakin trilogy now because of Halo, and every game has to copy Halo looking for some kind of success. We need more games like System Shock, Half Life, Deus EX, Command and Conquer, ETC.

QFT. I loved Deus Ex & SS.

I'm awaiting the release of BioShock. Sort of a sequal to System Shock, but it won't be out until next year.

Fern

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Friends stopped playing as much, so I stopped. Also girlfriends > Video games so thats that.

 

[spunkz]

after playing CS for a long time, then Guild Wars and WoW, I get bored easily by single-player games. even WoW gets old after you've raided the same dungeon more than twice, and the pvp was fun until, as a priest, I had to respec holy to raid. i would go back to the original cs and dod, but the communities and the leagues are so split now between all the newer games that it's much less interesting. hl2dm was the last fun multiplayer game, but it has no real competitive following, and the only games worth looking forward to now are both HL2 mods: Team Fortress 2 and They Hunger. even those games are only worth mentioning because the originals were good, not because they have any new or exciting features.