How much of a gamer am I?

OK this is a wierd thread. I want to you to rate me as a gamer. This is what I own related to gaming.

Asus A8Js with 512 MB Dedicated Geforce Go 7700 (overclocked)
Napoleon Cooling Pad for laptop
XBOX 360 Controller for Windows (best gamepad available for Windows)
Microsoft Habu Gaming Mouse (one of the best)
Shure e5c earphones (the best - thats ignoring Grado)

New Games that I own:
Company of Heroes
Halflife 2: Episode One
Oblivion Elder Scrols
Supreme Commander
Warhammer 40000 Dawn of War

Games that I'm pro (And I mean pro):
Warcraft 3 : The Frozen Throne
Diablo 2
Warcraft 3 : Dota
Unreal Tournament 2003

Consoles that I own:
Playstation 1 (I own about 60 games) - have finished all the Final Fantasy games for PS-1, big fan of Metal Gear Solid and Crash Bandicoot Series
Ninentendo 64 (own only 7 games) - which includes Mario

Rate me out of 10, as in how much of a gamer am I, or just fill in the poll?

OK. I am editing this thread since I didnt know that you guys required so many details.
Here is a list of games I've finished:
C&C 3, red alert, yuris revenge
NFS 1,2,3,4,5, Underground, Underground II, Carbon
Fifa 99,2003
Pro Evolution 4, 5(Huuuuge Fan)
NBA Live 99,03,04,05
Halflife 1,2,Episode One
Dark Reign
Civiliztion 3
Civ 4(Still playing it)
Rome: Total War (Ive finished the campaigns in all difficulties)
Medeival: Total War (Have a downloaded version, sonna get the original soon)
Same goes for STALKER
GTA: SA,III,II(loved GTA II), Vice City
Hitman: Codename 47(the reason why i performed bad in 11th grade)
Hitman III
Hitman Contracts (hated it)
Halo 1
Doom III (finished it 30 days after its launch date - still waiting to play Ressurection Of Evil)

Now what do you'll think??

 

I am sorry, but I cannot rank you very high. You lack gaming experience of NES, SNES, Genesis and Gameboy games.

 

OK ignore the console stuff.

 

Agreed with above...Mario Kart on the N64 <~~that is gaming

BTW how can you be pro at Diablo 2? the game is dominated by kids with bots..

 

I was hooked on to this game 3 years back. Now its outdated.
By the way, I have mentioned above that I owned the N-64.
Andofcourse, I am a big fan of the Mario Series

 

People vote me considering todays age.
If you consider 10 years down the lane, I agree I'm not that much into too.
This is relative to the fact that I spent my childhood in India where consoles werent even there in the market.

 

If you want to be a professional gamer you are going to have to play more console games. How else will you know every characters weakness in Megaman: 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 for NES?

 

Same problem on the PC side though. You've listed 5 recent games you own (and 3 blizzard games you're good at)

I might consider you a big blizzard fan and/or -gamer, but gamer in general? I'll give you a 4, based on the info in this thread. Sorry kid

(Just for comparison, the oldest game you listed that you own is DoW. So trying to list some of the games I've bought since that came out:
- DoW + 2 both expansions
- Heroes of might & magic 5
- C&C 3
- Supreme Commander
- Medieval 2: Total War
- Civ4 + expansion
- GalCiv 2
- Rome: Total War

Those are just the strategy games I can think of offhand. Then there are the fps'es, rpg's, adventure games and whatever else... Oblivion, Dreamfall, NWN2, Hitman 4, Guild Wars expansion, Dark Messiah, Pirates! and so on....

And then all the older games that I've bought in the same period, which I won't even attempt to count...

And of course, then there are all the old games I've had for ages, ranging from The Lost Vikings, or Stunts or Scorch, over the Monkey Islands', up to WC3, Half-Life, various GTA's or Deus Ex...

I don't have many consoles/console games though, so you can probably beat me there... Not because I don't like console games, but I can't buy everything...
Got a Sega Saturn and Dreamcast with a handful of games for each, but that's all...

Of course, I've played plenty of console games, all the way back to Genesis/SNES (And yeah, NES and Master System too, but was never a fan of those) Commodore 64 (Summer/Winter games! Wooo!), Amiga (Silkworm... Yay), and up to Xbox, Wii, 360 and so on.. Haven't yet tried a PS3 though...

Of course, I'm not aware of any official definition of a gamer, but to me, it means someone who's familiar with a wide variety of platforms, genres and games, including older ones. To me, a gamer is not someone who plays Diablo 2 for 3 years straight, but rather someone who, in the same period, plays Diablo 2 *plus* a few dozen other games. Diversity, that's the key...

 

i'm not exactly sure what you're trying to get out of this but it seems pretty clear that you're heavily into games/gaming gears.

 

I wonder how I fair. Have owned and sometimes use my NES,SNES,Sega Genesis, N64 and PC (oh and an original commodore 64).

Loved to play "jumpman" back in the day (some too young to remember this one).....beat it many times.

Current Games I keep up with

Lord of the Rings Online
World of Warcraft
FEAR
Halflife 2
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Quake4
Doom3

(as u can tell an FPS fan)

All good games that I recommend, thought Quake 4 servers online with people are kinda scarce

 

Branching out a bit would definitely help your score a bit

 

Gotta agree with Homer and Jalf...

 

Lets find out. In Dragon Warrior why did you need the Rainbow Drop?

 

I gotta agree with Jalf man.

I voted other prioritys.

I'm more of a strategy gamer myself then anything. Maybe you should look into some of the games Jalf posted (nice list BTW).

 

Read the first post again please.

 

For the record I voted "You are a gamer, but you got other priorities"

I'm an online player myself + some FM 2007 and Civ4 (semi-retired for the minute, waiting for new GW game)
WoW/EVE/GW/D&D Online - Currently owned with accounts

 

nice headphones man!!! those things are like 500 bucks though. i got the e4c's and they sound pretty good but i wanna know how the 5's sound

 

pro as in progamer? or pro as in you think you are good?

 

pro=professional

 

then i seriously doubt you are pro in that many games

 

im not pro in all the games man
its just warcraft,UT-2003 and diablo that I'm pro in

rest are the games ive played and finished

 

LOL I voted in the last category

Yeah u played some games, but ya got a long way to go before you can become a jedi master

 

Yeah too bad I'm not much a Star Wars fan.

 

me neither really but i find the games are not bad

Im a TF fan, too bad they dont any good TF games

 

If you didn't have a Snes, N64 or Gameboy then you are no gamer

 

Gamer but has other priorities;

 

to be a true hardcore gamer, the these games must be on your list:
Halo1,2
Half-life2
doom 3
far cry
fear
and at least one battlefield game

as for consoles:
resident evil 4
ninja gaiden
KOTOR
god of war
metal gear solid 3:snake eater

 

You need the Rainbow Drop to create the bridge that leads to the Dragon Masters island. Even though the graphics are so bad the bridge is about as long as your character is tall. You character should be able to jump to the island.

 

So, a "true hardcore gamer" is one that only plays FPS games on his PC?

Yeah right...

 

i still seriously doubt you could be pro at 3 games, sorta hard :/

 

At this camp I go to over the summer, they have a computer lab so that I can check my facebook and whatnot. My friend was playing against these kids from Korea, and they seriously kicked his ass in Starcraft. Also, being pro in 3 games is actually really hard, you can be above average in them, but not pro.

Well... Do you have any videos that we could see online?

 

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ALL (except maybe far cry?.. idk) of those games are for console as well as PC. and Halo started on Console.

one of my fav FPS is R63 Black Arrow and some others from that series.


but i dont really get this post
you know yourself better than anyone on here.


i think whether your a hardcore gamer or not, should be decided from a balance between the hours you play and what you know about gaming.





but from the games you say your pro at (couple being MMO) I would say definitely gamer, maybe with some other priorities.

 

I disagree. Everyone has their own preferences about what games they liked. And also I don't think age has anything to do with "if your a true gamer" or not. Personally I wasn't around for the SNES era so I wouldn't know.

Hardware doesn't have anything to do with being a gamer eiter -.-

IMHO to be a 'true' gamer you have to have a passion for playing any genre, on any platform, and being able to tell which games are relatively good and worth your time. You don't HAVE to play every platform, but if you have the oppurtunity to then you will relatively know what your doing and be able do it reasonably well.

Also you can't judge a gamer by whether they are very good at one game or decent at a wide variety of games. But it is my personal opinion that a 'true' gamer will be able to jump into any genre/gamestyle and be able to do reasonably well. If the "pro" in one game couldn't jump into another of a different style even if it was from the same genre I wouldn't consider them a 'true' gamer, just one with priorities or whatever.

 

hehe i love the korean sc scene, so cool to watch

 

BTW could you post a VOD of a wc3 game you played? Your pro you have VODs right?

 

Yes I have VODs
They are uploaded on a website.
http://www.meetyourmakers.com/en/loungevods.html

You gotta check out the archives coz they are quite old

 

Sorry, I meant that the only PC games in that list were FPS'es. There were a few non-FPS games, but only a few, and only on console.
My point was just that a "hardcore gamer" who plays such a narrow selection of genres isn't very hardcore.

 

Differeent people have different perceptions
Some prefer sticking to a genre and mastering
Others like variety.

 

you are from mym?

whats your sn?

 

Does anyone here remember the fastest way to defeat all 6 characters in Megaman?

 

Megaman?! wow thats going back a few years...god knows

 

Without looking it up.

Fireman kills Bombman
Bombman kills Gutman
Gutman kills Cutman
Cutman kill Electman
Elecman kills Iceman
Iceman kills Fireman

 

Lol...I'm not sure if you knowing that is a good thing or something you need to look into

 

Hello??????? Guys arent you going out of topic??

 

How much u make playing games? Then not a pro (not flaming, I just mean I know professionals that suck.)
If they are all out at the same time yeah it would very very hard to excel at several games at once. I was/am extremely good (meaning I beat the pants off of those claiming to be pros, but I never got paid to play) at quite a few games (GT, Tekken2, Battlezone, Tetris , Starcraft, Madden, Tribes, Q3, Joust, and some more). I have played some of these recently and 'I still got it'.

I think being a hardcore gamer is more about loving (and playing) all kinds of games not how much equipment you own or how good you are. It also should look at how big a thing gaming is in your life. For instance, in college I played battlezone, starcraft, and tribes 8-10 hours a day.
Being a 'pro'(hate using that word I mean being really good) takes a hardcore gamer focusing on 1 game. I was one of the best battlezone players on the planet, and in a tribes clan that was top ten in the world. To be a top player that is what you do...I played battlezone all day every day until I moved to a new game. I recently got to play tribes at a lan and I was shocked that I could still air disk and eagle snipe. I am not as good as I was 7 years ago but I still have the skills.

BTW-I no longer even really consider myself a gamer. Wife, kids, work, travel, and other priorities and now I am just a guy who owns a few games

 

Nope, they are discussing what it takes to be a hardcore gamer and trying to answer your questio.

You can't ask an opinion and then restrict the answers to a narrow little field of answers if you want an honest response. If you want everyone to say how good you are then go ahead and restrict the criteria....of course I would just post 'Hey, Homer, tell me how great I am."

I know thats not what you are doing, just making a point and I hope you appreciate this board as much as I do because there are so many people here that give honest, thoughtful answers.

 

A professional gamer knows exactly where to find the Magic flute (3 steps bellow the fountain), Erdrick's token (6 steps out into the middle of the slime) and Erdrick's Armor (must defeat the axe knight in the ruined city).

 

Listen up man, I really do appreciate you guys giving your views in this forum. Who else would do that???
By saying that you guys are going out of the topic is directed to those people who were discussing a specific and is only limited to players of the particular game

 

A professional gamer is one that makes money off it. That's a fairly standard definition of "professional".
A gamer is simply one who loves gaming in general, plays a lot of *different* games and knows a lot about games and gaming. (That's not a standard definition, but it's the one I use)

And while we're discussing random game trivia, who else can remember the code for the last level in The Lost Vikings?

 

Greg kasavin from gamespot is such one, he's been playing games for his entire life, simply everything from arcade 2D fighting games, japanese RPG's, RTS and strategy games, action games, first and third person shooters...just everything, and he's even better when it comes to writing about games as well, he's just kinda covers everything in his reviews, and he gives so much attention to how deep the gameplay is, and i like when he's impressed by a game, you can actually feel his excitement when he describes how good the game is, it's too bad that not every games is reviewed and tested by him, as the reviews written by the other guys are hit or miss. it's thanks to him, gamespot are the number one today, now that he's left, gamespot will never be the same again.