Since when have video game players been characterized as casual or hardcore? Since the advent and enormous success of Wii perhaps? A stereotypical idea of a casual gamer would be a dad playing the modern version of Pong, i.e. Wii tennis, with his children.
Does this mean that anyone who is interested in videogame culture, reads blogs like this one, plays and tries to finish games like Gears of War (not necessarily on the most difficult level) is a hardcore gamer? If so, this would mean that the majority of gamers are hardcore.
Maybe another adjective is needed to describe the next level of gamer. The one who does insist on playing and finishing on the hardest level, etc., etc., and what better way to describe this type of gamer than the next level up of GoW: INSANE, and this is the finest compliment you can pay to a real gamer.
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hardcore = someone who breathes games. It helps if you know stupid crap like the mascots for publishers. Bonus points for retro codes (19, 65, 9, 17)
Your Post is not fleshed out. It's like you started a post with that paragragh and stopped there. Am I missing something ??
I'd say the hardest hardcore hard single player FPS out right now is COD4, you put that on Veteran and some of those missions take pure luck to beat. I got fed up with about all the missions on veteran to about one shot one kill, which i was not going to waste my time on that.
I think you can add tags like "hardcore" or "casual" just not to something as general as gaming as in I'm a casual CoD4 player (play it every now and then) but I'm a hardcore Rock Band player(play it pretty much everyday), and maybe that's still too ambiguous.