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Edited by FoMan123: 1/3/2014 11:50:53 PM
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So many people are quick to trash "casual" gamers who don't play [insert game franchise here] as somehow not being dedicated enough to gaming to be allowed to claim the "gamer" title. But that's a load of bollocks, really, isn't it? I mean, I'm pretty old by the standards of people who enjoy video games enough to post on forums about them. Every day, I talk to dozens of people who never played a 90s Cliffy B-era Epic Megagames PC platformer. I bet only a handful of people on this site have even [i]heard[/i] of Jill of the Jungle or Xargon or Jazz Jackrabbit, let alone played them through. But they call themselves "hardcore" gamers because they've played all of the however many CoD titles there are, which are so mainstream that it's laughable. "Hardcore" is such an arbitrary standard. In my mind, if you want to play mainstream shooters and claim that you're a real gamer, you don't really have a leg to stand on when bashing people who enjoy Wii games or handhelds - or hell, even phone games, for that matter. If you weren't around for when gaming as we know it today was actually starting up, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to throw stones. Maybe we should all stop trying to judge who deserves to be called a real gamer and who doesn't and just enjoy our hobbies, right?
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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] halo3genius [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] colbyrules8 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] colbyrules8 None of you are hardcore gamers, I probably would be the closest one to a hardcore gamer if you take into account my prior gaming "adventures". I was ranked for 1v1ing on MW3 on [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/sniperleaderboardog] When they had a ranked portion, they moved it though[/url] and I was ranked 9th in North America on [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/1v1leaderboards] here, if you want me to prove it just look at my gamertag here and go off of that and look at the rankings on either channel or just look for a video by sin bulletproof on SLB, he's on my FL and I actually trained him[/url]. Don't think I'm arrogant about that, because I'm not. I only bring it up in threads like this. [/quote] Just to make you guys mad.[/quote] It makes me laugh because you actually "trained" someone to be good in a video game. Don't take offense, though.[/quote] Well, it was on a national level... Also, it wasn't a straight up ," Come join my training program". I normally join matches and play a regular game in pub and after a while I just give a huge mass message out offering 800 MS points to anyone that can beat me in a 1v1 (it never happens because most players are casuals and I used to be continentally ranked). I normally beat the people that join pretty badly, around 20-5 is my average game messing around and quite a few of them try to add me or try to get me to teach them how to get better. So I just begin playing with them more and more and over time they get better but with Sin Bulletproof, he 1v1ed me more than ten times a day and took it pretty seriously.

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