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What is a gamer?
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Reply by Lame Genie - Video Game Music
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You could probably work in mobile games, a lot of them are reskinned versions of classic concepts from the 80s with modern twists. Depends on how you want to look at it
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Reply by KiethBlackLion
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This is a tricky question and really depends on the community in which you ask it.
Frankly, there are no real qualifiers. Some people think that unless you play only on hardest difficulty, you're not a "real gamer". I've seen some act like if you aren't a competitive player, you're not a "real gamer". Personally, I think anyone who loves to play video games is a gamer.
On a side note, I find it rather humorous when young players (20 somethings and younger) try to trash talk me because they beat me or because I'm not as good as them. Mostly because I was playing games a decade or so before they were ever born (I started in 1988) and I've just gotten to the age where I don't care about competition or trying to prove I'm the best. With my family responsibilities, I have limited time during the evenings to play and prefer to focus on accomplishing game objectives and having fun.
Reply by Duffin
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You play video games often for your genuine entertainment?
I feel like you qualify.
Reply by JillTheSomething
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Answers vary depending on context so here are a couple of uses Ive seen.
- Any person who plays any game on a computer of any sort.
- People who spend the majority of their free time playing video games.
- People who play video games in a "hardcore" manner. Hardcore as in spending thousands of hours on one game, playing with the highest difficulty possible, being the best in any respective league, completing all of a games achievements, etc...
- People who define themselves as gamers and in the gaming community (as apposed to not being a gamer and thus not being in the gaming community)
This is probably the most clinical way I could have broken this down lol. Hope it helps.