Casual gamer

A casual gamer is a player whose time or interest in playing games is limited. Casual gamers tend to play games designed for ease of gameplay and don't spend much time playing more involved games. The genres that casual gamers play vary, and they might not own a specific video game console to play their games. Casual gaming demographics vary greatly from those of traditional computer games, as the typical casual gamer is older and more predominantly female. One casual gamer subset is the "fitness gamer", who plays motion-based exercise games.

Mid-core gamer

A core gamer is a player with a wide range of interests and enthusiast toward creative and diverse games, but without the amount of time spent and sense of competition of a hardcoe gamer. The mid-core gamer enjoys complex games but won't buy every novel release, doesn't have time for long games, and is a target consumer that needs features not found in games for the other types.

hardcoe gamer

hardcoe gamers prefer to take significant time and practice on games, and tend to play more involved games that require larger amounts of time to complete or master. hardcoe gamers may take part in video game culture. Competition is another defining characteristic of hardcoe gamers, who often compete in organized tournaments, leagues, or ranked play integrated into the game proper. There are many subtypes of hardcoe gamers based on the style of game, gameplay preference, hardware platform, and other preferences.

Pro-gamer

Professional gamers play video games for money. Whether a professional gamer is a subtype of the hardcoe gamer largely depends on the degree to which a professional gamer is financially dependent upon the income derived from gaming. So far as a professional gamer is financially dependent upon gaming, the time spent playing is no longer "leisure" time.

Hitting random buttons on an arcade machine as your parents held you up at age 2 does not equal playing games at age 2. Sorry.

my baby brother was playing halo at 2 (he's 6 now) and he wants me to unblock Skyrim on his profile on my computer so he can play. (I let him play minecraft on my pc)

This man had written his first concerto at the age of four! His first symphony at seven! A full-scale opera at twelve! Did it show? Is talent like that written on an Avatar?

Why did this devolve into a "how old I was when I played X" argument, lol?

I was playing Wooden Ships and Iron Men before any of you were born. Before there even were RPGs.

Still, you would recall hitting those buttons and continuously play games after that, gaining experience sooner than someone who would start gaming at, say, 5.

Yes that one, just doesn't make sense to me. Spell creation is optional so unless some designer thought "if casual gamers realize there is an optional part of the game for creating their own custom spells their complexity sense will tingle and they will disappear into the night" it makes no sense. Removing it denies it to the people who want it, and the people who don't wouldn't have had to use it anyway wouldn't have been made simpler or more complex whether it is there or not.

By the same token some of the spells removed are the ones that actually make, or can make, the game vastly easier and challenges easier to overcome. If they were cut in order to "dumb down"... well, it doesn't make much sense. Personally with dragon fights being an important part of the game I can understand keeping levitate gone.

1. Because people here are so desperate to prove how hardcoe they are, they have to start playing games younger and younger. I was joking about playing Doom at 2, most people just start saying words at 2.

2. Make ONE constructive thread asking Bethesda to bring back what you want. Not 50 posts in a sea of trolls and whiners. It's annoying.

We could only be so lucky if PC gaming died, just so the PC Master Race would go with it.

I really hope you're not saying that I'm defending bethesda's decision to take things out of the game that were in previous games with hyperbole. I'm just pointing out that all the whining and making threads about it won't do anything to change that fact.

I don't see many random and generic, except fetch quests which are in every RPG and MMORPG.

I walk into a random lighthouse, find a murdered woman and her journal...great random quest I'm not going to spoil.

PC games generaly have more depth. The mod community for one is a great thing. Don't be a hater because you prefer consol. PC is still king because of its power and flexability.

According to you because your views must be correct right?

1. Your the one that started trying to argue about what you think casual and hardcoe is based on your opinions.

2. You are new here, you probably have zero idea that Bethesda checks these very threads to improve their games, so yes if I have something to criticize I will. I am mainly positive but there is a few things that need work. I would like to address them.

PC games generaly have more depth. The mod community for one is a great thing. Don't be a hater because you prefer consol. PC is still king because of its power and flexability.

PC games generaly have more depth. The mod community for one is a great thing. Don't be a hater because you prefer consol. PC is still king because of its power and flexability.

My issue is the complainers keep making hundreds of threads whining. Make ONE and sticky it FFS.

Ive played some 170-200 hours of Skyrim. Have several builds. They work out fine. I smell a ...

Complaining is perfectly acceptable on these forums. Complaining about complainers however is against the rules. :nono:

:bunny: Glorious PC Master Race :bunny:

Well it's only the PC people, as they believe they are superior, console users are idiots and ruining everything they like.Console users just don't care. The PC Master Race people svck. They are their own class really.WHAAAA? 200 hours? I play nonstop after work and on my days off and have 100 hours.Holy good god. Oh and you got your money's worth, go play Dragon Age Origins or Morrowind now and leave the Skyrim fans alone!

Where didst THOU come from?


..nevermind. I shouldn't be here.

Did your kids put you in a home, then get you a copy of Skyrim as a way to get you to stop calling them? Because you're complaining like an old man.

1. People keep calling Skyrim casual, misusing the word as it applies to gaming.

2. Not new here, been here since before Oblivion came out. Lost an old password, made this one today due to a temporary ban. So, snark denied!

My issue is the complainers keep making hundreds of threads whining. Make ONE and sticky it FFS.

Never should've come here!

Funny. Not wanting companies to constantly change our original IP's for the sake of console homogenization is somehow an allusion to a certain unnameable political party. We don't even mind the branching out, we just don't wish to be the one's who are obviously getting the craptastic ports for series that would have no life if not for the PC.

Yet whenever a console exclusive title is even mentioned the possibility of port, effin' riots break out, literally...but they just don't care.

Complaining is perfectly acceptable on these forums. Complaining about complainers however is against the rules. :nono:

:bunny: Glorious PC Master Race :bunny:

Why is Skyrim so dumbed down?

Please explain how it is dumbed down, troll.

1. Thats your opinion. I do not consider it purely casual, its more casual than Morrowind in my opinion.

2. You did not have to explain yourself. I was just informing you about Bethesda watching these forums.

If you do not like threads where people "whine" avoid them its quite simple. You obviously think Skyrim is perfect so why come into a thread about it being dumbed down or flawed?

You have been whining about whiners: that makes no sense if your tired of seeing it on your PC or phone or whatever you are on here with.