A Message to Real, Serious Gamers
For a while now I have been hearing the terms “Real Gamer”, “Serious Gamer”, “Hardcore Gamer” and “Non-gamer” tossed around. Unfortunately my understanding of these words are far more universal and respectful than some.
For the loudest of voices a “Real Gamer” is a person that plays a PS3 or XBox 360 but definitely not one who plays a Wii. Seriously, they will sit there straight faced and say something like: “A real gamer plays all the latest 1st person shooters.” Well sorry if I’ve been playing the same fucking game since Wolfenstein 3D, and it gets a little boring. The “major improvements” that these latest 1st person shooters have over Wolf 3D are: better graphics, jumping, ducking, driving a vehicle and better physics. I’m not saying that the games are boring, but if you’re going to sit there and seriously say that I’m not a gamer because I don’t play every possible version of one kind of game… then you’re an idiot. At most that makes you a “Real 1st Person Shooter Gamer,” but don’t leave out that “1st Person Shooter” part because what I consider a real gamer is someone who plays all games, not just one kind.
A “Serious Gamer” is someone who needs serious depth to their games that can’t come from a system that markets to families. Yes, a serious gamer is seriously serious about playing serious games. So in order for you to consider me a serious gamer I have to only play games that you deem as “serious?” So what, like God of War 1,2 and 3? Fuck that, I’m supposed to take some painted retard seriously while he destroys huge fictional and mythological creatures? No, serious is shit like you see on Life Time and pretty much every movie that has won an Academy Award. Some almost naked, bald, painted freak killing mythical creatures is not serious, it’s cool. Now unless you mean that a serious gamer takes gaming seriously, then I can agree with you, but if you think being a “serious gamer” means only playing games where you kill people in bloody messes then grow the fuck up.
If you want to come out and tell me that because I play cartoon and/or puzzle games instead of limiting myself to just bloody action and 1st person shooters, that I’m not serious or real, then you really need to take a step back and take a look at how wrong you are:
- You’re defining a “real” gamer as one who only plays one or two kinds of games, while some one else who plays a different genre or one who plays all kinds of games is some how less real.
- You’re saying that “serious” gamers only play “serious” games but provide no intelligent way to determine exactly what a “serious” game is.
- You’re taking the easy way out and only playing games that are the same and you criticize other people that seriously develop in other game genres by playing all kinds of games.
- You’re creating some kind of elitism based on nothing more than your meager, unfounded, baseless, speculative, plebian opinion.
- The only time you say “real” or “serious” gamer is when you don’t have a rational point but still think you’re right in spite of reality.
I’m a Real Serious Gamer because I take my gaming seriously and I play all kinds of games not just violent, bloody action or 1st person shooter games, but ALL KINDS OF GAMES. I play games to have fun, to challenge my mind and to release stress.