Thread: true gamers

myself i consider myself a gamer becuase i have played over 63 rpgs for play station
,nes snes n64 and so on and i have beat them all with out a walk throiugh yeah i
used them for after i beat the game to get things i missed.

my favorite game was ff7 and i have yet to obsess over another game before
that that mmom and those other fancy words dont mean anyhting to me
heck where i live they dont have partys for anything,but for me a gamer is somone
who can play a game and take something from it and compare ii to other games.

you have to have game standerds and i put all the games i play
up to the standerd of ff7

Originally Posted by mechataku

what defines a true gamer? how involved in video games do you have to be to be a true gamer? i've never been to a lan party, i've been to 2, maybe 3 halo parties my entire life, i never play games online, and i play mostly console games. my friend says im no gamer. he knows his IP by heart, goes to lan parties on a frequent basis, and has played almost every PC game online endlessly. he doesn't even count console games as true games(like i said, he's a bit of an idiot). i consider myself a gamer. a serious gamer even, even though i don't like playing online, and even when i do play online games i solo whenever possible.

Wow, for a second I thought I had gone back a decade or two to when there were Console Gamers, PC Gamers, Pencil & Paper Gamers, and Table Top Gamers and never the two (four?) would meet. They all considered themselves the only true gamers and everyone else just had a silly hobby. I am so glad that now just about everyone I know "cross-platforms", life is so much more interesting that way.

A real gamer? Anyone who has taken a half an hour (or more) to try and convince someone else that whatever it is they do play isn't just some "childish game of make believe"

I for one think i'm a gamer. That might shock some people cause i'm a girl, but i just like to play video games. I've watched my brother and sister play since i was little and have wanted to play too. I wouldn't say i ama true gamer, but at least i play tons of different games. RPGs, fighting, sports, stagity(however you spell that dang word)pc , and many more. I have love games since i was little. I realy don't know what makes a true gamer. I think that you just have to like video games. Doesn't matter what kind.

i also a gamer.....with this kind of stuff im game adict...
oppsss....wrong word.. lets just say we are in loved this kind of treand..
with this a feel im in other time and placed.
its our gate pass of our bordamm and escape of our problems in the real worl..
its may help sometimes but we should be back at the reality to became what we want to be...
sad to say only in games we enjoy without hurting our self.....

Just like what tsurara said, its the type of consle you play the most. If your a person who plays different console alot does this make you a true gamer. Does playing a gameboy advance or a playstation or a xbox only and all the time make u a true gamer.

Noticing a few females standing up & taking up the title of Gamer. Good to see. Heck, If I get this thing gaming again & then get my new one, my sister will become my sniping backup in BF2142. It doesn't matter what gender you are, your a Gamer if you love playing games for entertainment. Consoles Gamer, PC Gamer, Board Gamer, Tabletop Gamer, as long as you in it for the fun, then it's cool.

Those guys who play purely to win though, they slip away from the title of Gamer to me. That's when you're in danger of becoming an A$$hole Elitest. Games are designed so people can have fun. I get blown away on BF2142 pretty often, but I still enjoy it. My Blood Angel successors & Tau occasionally end up as nothing than a speed bump, but it's just a game. I've met & played a few A$$hole Elitests, even learnt how to play 40K against one with my Marines, & it's never fun their playing for. Mind you, their attitude does make each victory all that much more sweeter...

Originally Posted by Daniel219

Noticing a few females standing up & taking up the title of Gamer. Good to see. Heck, If I get this thing gaming again & then get my new one, my sister will become my sniping backup in BF2142. It doesn't matter what gender you are, your a Gamer if you love playing games for entertainment. Consoles Gamer, PC Gamer, Board Gamer, Tabletop Gamer, as long as you in it for the fun, then it's cool.

Those guys who play purely to win though, they slip away from the title of Gamer to me. That's when you're in danger of becoming an A$$hole Elitest. Games are designed so people can have fun. I get blown away on BF2142 pretty often, but I still enjoy it. My Blood Angel successors & Tau occasionally end up as nothing than a speed bump, but it's just a game. I've met & played a few A$$hole Elitests, even learnt how to play 40K against one with my Marines, & it's never fun their playing for. Mind you, their attitude does make each victory all that much more sweeter...

i kinda have to disagree here ... i play for victory and i'm having fun with it .. i feel very relieved while winning on others (i feel guilty many times though) but that doesn't make me unworthy to be called a gamer ...