Poll: Is anyone here NOT a gamer?

[Racecarlock]

Truthfully I'm only hanging around games until I can get a career as an amusement park reviewer, then i'll be able to go to amusement parks every day and thus will my life be forever set in happiness.

I wish I had that kinda life

Me too. The thing posted above is a fantasy, albeit one I hope to have come true. I mean all you gotta have is good descriptive skills so you can describe the feelings you get at the amusement parks and why you get them. I just love amusement parks, but sadly can only go to my local one once or twice per year, twice being if i'm lucky. I hope to correct that one day.

 

[Myskomunken]

Is it some sort of law to have at least one thread like this every month?

 

[Glamorgan]

If you want to define Gamer as someone who plays games, I'd assume so. There are a few shows on here which arent to do with games, so they may only come here for that: LRR, for example.

 

[Lionsfan]

I'm not, but I'm also a filthy liar

 

[Ninjat_126]

Gaming is my recreation, hobby and (hopefully) career.

So yes.

 

[MeatMachine]

I'm a gamer, but I have a few other hobbies. Not to mention I work 60 hour weeks, so I hardly have the option to be a computer recluse.

 

[floppylobster]

I used to be. But these days I only play games for a couple of hours a week, and even then they're usually only casual DS games or free Internet games so maybe I'm not any more.

I don't buy the latest releases. In fact I only buy about two games a year these days. But when I get a game I like, (a rarity these days - (roll on The Last Guardian)), then I'll play it most every day until I finish it. Back in 'the day' I used to own every system that was out, collector's editions, and even a few arcade machines, so I definitely was a gamer. What have I become? Is there a word for ex-gamers or in my case, retired gamers? Wait... yes there is - old.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

I'm the opposite. I'm a gamer, don't consider myself a nerd, and I find gaming "culture" pretty annoying and pathetic. I just enjoy playing games and using my PC, along with several other unrelated hobbies.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I am not but when I joined the Escapist I was actually on a long break from gaming (Between PS2 and PS3), mainly because I wanted to get my A-levels over with before I got one.

 

[Guffe]

Well first of I want to start by asking someone to define "gamer" but I think I don't play enough games to be a gamer but I do play and I enjoy it when I'm doing it!

 

[Vault101]

I'm the opposite. I'm a gamer, don't consider myself a nerd, and I find gaming "culture" pretty annoying and pathetic. I just enjoy playing games and using my PC, along with several other unrelated hobbies.

just out of pure interest what part of gamer "culture" do you find annoying and/or pathetic? (not attacking you just geniunly curious)

like part of gaming culture I personly find annoying and or pathetic is people losing their shit over games that havnt even come out yet, and/or complaining because x game doesnt meet their exact expections, or imply that they are somhow entitled to x game and if its not what they want act liek the developer killed their dog

Im also wearing a T-shit that says I <3 yoshi on it, I like the figurines you get from collectors editions (got the guy from splintercell on my desk) and have a WOW mousepad, not because I play WOW but because it looked pretty and I freaquent this site alot, and socially....I havnt really got it together in that area

would you called that sad/pathetic?...I hope not because who the hell wants a plain old mouse pad?

 

[TheFinalFantasyWolf]

Gaming is my recreation, hobby and (hopefully) career.

So yes.

Yeah pretty much this

 

[mysecondlife]

Gamers are generally nerds. Nerds mostly like anime, tabletop games, conventions, etc. That's basically it.

I say it's more like nerds are generally gamers.

I know a lot of 'gamers' that have little or no interested in things you just listed.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Well, I never really found the term "gamer" useful, as many people can and play games. What I do call myself is a game enthusiast, ranging from videogames to boardgames, tabletop (still waiting for a chance to play Warhammer40K though), cardgames and even sports (which I sadly don't play nearly enough).

So yeah, I like games in all their forms, videogames included. They're a very fascinating medium to boot with fantastic possibilities and a completely unknown future. I remember a cracked.com article that labeled that unknown future as omnious, it just makes me excited really. I might even try to get work in the gaming industry to be a part of that future, steer it.

Well as of late I've begun to wonder if being a gamer is really a condition to be desired, but yes I still consider myself one.

In moderation; of course, why not?

I'm the opposite. I'm a gamer, don't consider myself a nerd, and I find gaming "culture" pretty annoying and pathetic. I just enjoy playing games and using my PC, along with several other unrelated hobbies.

What exactly is gaming culture anyway? LAN-parties? Conventions? Cake-jokes?

 

[MercurySteam]

Gamers are generally nerds. Nerds mostly like anime, tabletop games, conventions, etc. That's basically it.

I say it's more like nerds are generally gamers.

I know a lot of 'gamers' that have little or no interested in things you just listed.

I don't go to conventions or like tabletop games either. Still I'm sure there are plenty of people here that enjoy them.

 

[spacepope22]

The results for the poll at the moment is the obvious answer.

 

[Artina89]

I play videogames, and it is one of my main hobbies, but with my life being rather hectic I have not been playing games as much as I would have liked to, but I am taking about 6 weeks off to have a bit of a break so I might catch up on playing games. So yeah, gaming is one of my main hobbies, but other things take prescedent over it. It is not the most important aspect of my life.

So in short, I wouldn't consider myself as a gamer but I do play games.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I might consider myself a gamer,since that is the only thing I am doing is playing games for the past few years every single day without anything else in between(apart from the obvious eating and toilet breaks).

 

[Daymo]

Gaming is really all I'm here for, I have a mild fasanaction with magic the gathering and tabletop games but hardly ever play them. Anime is also something I don't watch that much of, the ones I really like are Dragon Ball Z and Gundam. DBZ is a very popular one that everybody knows of and I got into gundams because of games.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Nerd is a derogatory term, kind of used by a lot of people the same way they use "******".

Gamer doesn't have this connotation, thankfully, so I don't mind calling myself a gamer, but I do mind calling myself a "Nerd"

Actually, the definition of nerd is one who enjoys intellectual pursuits. The average person just uses it to insult someone.