View Full Version : what makes you a true gamer?
saxxon=red-eyed-dragoon
14-10-2005, 10:12
i was wondering what makes you think your a true gamer? is it because you can pwn noobz in HALO1+2? is it because you can beat super metriod in under 3 hours and see her without her suit? or is it the ability to play for hours on end like a zombie pumping up your characters to make that final boss fight so much easier?
what makes you think you are a true gamer?
Tharrick
14-10-2005, 13:10
I always thought that the thing that makes me a 'true gamer'...
wait for it...
is that I play games.
If you play games, one game is okay. Ninty eight billion hundred fourty four one sixty six eight zero two plus one is too much o_o (NOTE: That is NOT a REAL number, but merely words which siginfy numbers put together randomly). Seriously I don't see the point in this whole concept of a "true gamer", like it's a game... it's made for fun and enjoyment. Though if I wasn't thinking that way, I would say a true gamer is someone who plays too many games for their own good =P
Tharrick
14-10-2005, 16:31
Ninty eight billion hundred fourty four one sixty six eight zero two plus one
9800000000000441606803
Don't think there's quite that many video games in the world :P
Whoever calls themselve a 'true gamer' is just using fancy words and talking out of their ass, we're all "true gamers" we all specalize in different sections. Someone maybe better a one game then you but you maybe better then the other person at another, we're all different anyone who says there a better gamer then you, really do has a cork up there ass.
if you call yourself a true gamer then you are not really one, you are someone who is trying to boost their ego. you can just tell someone is a "true gamer".
BTW. counter strike n00bs can kiss my 4$$ the game sucks give it up!
There's no "true" gamer, because that'd imply that there are "false" gamers, and if someone is "false", it implies he doesn't exist, which is absurd.
Now that that's said, I'll agree with Auron-X, except there's no true gamer, only people who play games ( and even then, that includes everyone in the whole wide world...everyone plays games, wether using consoles or not ).
saxxon=red-eyed-dragoon
15-10-2005, 03:00
i am not saying that you have to be a great gamer or anything to consider yourself a TRUE gamer. i am talking about the difference between poeple who will only dabble in games here and there compared to poeple who live with a video game controller in one hand and can study the game while you play it.
i am great at rpg's and adventure games and shooters, but i wont go and have an over inflated view of myself and say i am the best at a certain game. i know that there are poeple who are much better at games than me and i dont mind. but what drive me is the want to try and match them.
i may be pretty good, and use strategies that poeple wouldnt think of quickly and use the envirement to my advantage, and i am not saying i am the only one who does. but i am just asking what do you think sets you apart from other gamers in th way you play.
Tharrick
15-10-2005, 04:15
i am talking about the difference between poeple who will only dabble in games here and there compared to poeple who live with a video game controller in one hand
Well, some of us have these things called 'lives', see, and also have the energy to get our lazy arses up from the sofa and put the controller down for a minute to do this thing called a 'job', which involves 'working'. These 'jobs' are actually good, because they get you 'money', which you can then 'spend' on new video games if you want, or you can alternatively pay your rent and utility bills. The other great thing about these 'lives' is that you can get what we call 'exercise', which stops you turning into a fat bastard.
I hate the type of person who only gets up to go to the damned fridge, and usually leeches off their parents, who make up for their inadequate parenting skills by providing a relentless stream of expensive entertainment for their child in an attempt to distance themselves from any form of responsibility.
~UltimateGamer~
15-10-2005, 18:00
Whoever calls themselve a 'true gamer' is just using fancy words and talking out of their ass, we're all "true gamers" we all specalize in different sections. Someone maybe better a one game then you but you maybe better then the other person at another, we're all different anyone who says there a better gamer then you, really do has a cork up there ass.
I agree there are gamers who are better in certain types of games. Like some experts in first person shooters might suck ass in like Final Fantasy.
I always thought that the thing that makes me a 'true gamer'...
wait for it...
is that I play games.
same, I also agree with Tharricks third post, the one that we have lives.
Yeah the people who play CS can get annoying with them thinking they're ub3r l33t and always using leet speak (I do to but it's different, xD), but CS does NOT, I repeat NOT suck, you only hate the players not teh game Archie =P It's pretty fun and enjoyable and like since it's a multiplayer-based FPS so that's good, but sometimes you'd rather play a campaign (and that's what the other FPS games are for lol).
Like dude (as in you, saxxon=red-eyed-dragoon) what we are trying to say here is that we (well I think most of us are trying to say the same thing anyway lol) think that the term "true gamer" is stupid and that all gamers are the same - except some are better at games some are worse, some are obssessed and some have lives, xD. We all know what you mean by "true gamer", but again we just thinkign that it's stupid =/
Tharrick
16-10-2005, 14:38
The actual game of counterstrike ALSO sucks. It's poorly made, the graphics aren't good at all, the gameplay is lacking, and the rules are all shite. For example:
me (terrorist):*points gun at hostage* 'you're being my human shield'
Hostage: 'only counter-terrorists are allowed to move hostages'
Me: 'I have a gun in your FACE, you'll do what i say!'
Hostage: 'only counter-terrorists are allowed to move hostages'
Me: *shoots hostage*
Game: 'Counter-terrorists win'
...
Surely the point of hostages is a) you can use them as human shields, and b) you shoot them when your demands aren't met?
Davidonsnake
17-10-2005, 01:32
I'm a SOCOM II addict.
The actual game of counterstrike ALSO sucks. It's poorly made, the graphics aren't good at all, the gameplay is lacking, and the rules are all shite. For example:
me (terrorist):*points gun at hostage* 'you're being my human shield'
Hostage: 'only counter-terrorists are allowed to move hostages'
Me: 'I have a gun in your FACE, you'll do what i say!'
Hostage: 'only counter-terrorists are allowed to move hostages'
Me: *shoots hostage*
Game: 'Counter-terrorists win'
...
Surely the point of hostages is a) you can use them as human shields, and b) you shoot them when your demands aren't met?
Yeah that's gay, but then it'd be kind of easy to win, since the hostage would be in the way of you (say your CT) and therefore can't shoot the other player (who is obv. a T), well that'd ALSO be stupid. They game ain't meant to be realistic you could say xP. The graphics aren't GREAT, but they're "normal" graphics if you get what I mean - graphics shouldn't mean shit if your enjoying it. Only in some cases, I mean if it's REALLY REALLY poor then it matters. Gameplay is fine, nothing wrong with it, though no real bonuses either but still it's FUN. Though i'd prefer playing Ghost Recon or Halo.
Tharrick
17-10-2005, 12:23
the hostage would be in the way of you (say your CT) and therefore can't shoot the other player (who is obv. a T), well that'd ALSO be stupid.
But that's the way these things go, they're how it's supposed to happen
But that's the way these things go, they're how it's supposed to happen
Yes maybe in real life your typical terrorist would most likely use a hostage in different situations, but the main point of CS is to just shoot the hell out of the opposition and that's pretty much it. Though you may complete the ACTUAL objective if you wish, such as if your being a Terrorist you have to plant the bomb at a certain area and the CT have to stop them or CT have to rescue the hostages and the Terrorists have to stop them =/ But it's more fun to just kill everyone lol.
Tharrick
18-10-2005, 01:47
Y'see, this is why I hate CS. When I actually DO follow the mission, I wind up losing anyway... e.g. if I execute the hostages because my demands have not been met, for some wierd reason I'm penalised and lose the game. If I wanted just a brawl, I'd play a brawl game, yo.
saxxon=red-eyed-dragoon
29-10-2005, 09:37
wow, the direction of this thread really changed. but i agree, if i wanted a game thats made for a special reason like a brawler game, i want to get a brawler. i dont want to get a shooting game and end up playing whack-a-mole. but really, a game should be played the way its meant to be played, that why game designers put so much into what they make. not so you can just go haphazardly through the mission just shooting anything that moves.
Burfoot Tasslehoff
04-11-2005, 03:03
i think a true gamer is a true term. some1 who gets a lvl 999 with 999999 attack isnt a true gamer there just bored and have alot of time. i think the true skills lie in games like super smash bros. melee. :D
btw people i no what ur gonna say!!!!!!!
so dont bother
To be a true gamer you have to be devoted to games as a whole. You have to know that you can be wrong about a game, and always know that thers something new. And you have to like a game because it is actually good. O and you have to realize that Halo/Halo 2 are not the best games in existance and that they have spawed a whole damn generation of Psuedo-Gamers.
i dunno, i never really thought anyone was a true gamer, i mean its like saying your the best at something......its pretty much never true there is a 99% chance that there is someone better then you out there. I say if you have fun playing games then do it.
A true gamer? What the hell is that? No one is a true gamer, no one is a false gamer. If you play games, you're a gamer. If you live with a controller in one hand, and can manage everything else in life...great multitasking, but you're still a gamer. :)
TriggerHappi:D
10-11-2005, 01:23
I don't think you can be a "true" gamer, but you can be a better gamer than someone else. You can whoop a person a zillion times at someone in one game, but they might annihilate you in another. It all depends on what you're good at and what kind of games you actually like to play...
To be a true gamer you have to be devoted to games as a whole. You have to know that you can be wrong about a game, and always know that thers something new. And you have to like a game because it is actually good. O and you have to realize that Halo/Halo 2 are not the best games in existance and that they have spawed a whole damn generation of Psuedo-Gamers.
No, thats what we call 'coach potatoes' or 'people with no lifes'
No, thats what we call 'coach potatoes' or 'people with no lifes'
I agree with the second one, xD.
And like the Halo series is still a GOOD game, though DEFINATELY not the best.
hehe, you people should see Pure Pwnage...
check www.purepwnage.com...
Coach Potato, awesome. Being a potato would be awesome, especially when you get to coach people around, Id be like Phil, only a potato instead of a minitour thing.
Ok now Im just being an ass. But seriously, my requirments to be a true gamer doesnt make you a couch potato. I am just like my definition for a true gamer, but im not a couch potato. I have a job, school, a life outside of games, but at the same time games are a big part of my life. Im active, Ive recently returned to BMX at our local skatepark. So Kaede, im gonna have to disagree with you.
well, if a true gamer means being a so called "couch potato" then im not a true gamer.
but thats the thing, you dont have to be a couch potato, you just have to love games, and try to know all you can about them, but you can still have a life.
Tharrick
10-11-2005, 15:26
but thats the thing, you dont have to be a couch potato, you just have to love games, and try to know all you can about them, but you can still have a life.
Admittedly, a life which is going to get you no jobs, no university places, and no qualifications.
Dale Anthony
10-11-2005, 15:35
Yeah, I mean I'm a great fan of games but I'd rather put my knowledge of them aside for times when I'm out and about. When I'm away from HHN, I'm either at Work, College or doing some kinda exercise at a gym or some form of Martial Art. When I'm there I don't brag about how great I am on Halo or how I know the name of all of Mario's family members. I put that aside and prove I can work and get qualifications etc. for a future University place.
So I agree with what Tharrick says, cause to be honest as much as I'd sit around playing games all day, I've gotta go out and work for a living to make sure I don't end up nowhere in the future.
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