Casuals took over the entire gaming industry and now hardcore gamers are a minority. If you think you belong to the latter group, you probably don't. Most of /v/ is casuals hence why anons spend more time bitching about games than playing them. Almost all youtubers, streamers and content creators on the Internet are casuals, because nothing is more appealing to normalfags than watching someone who sucks at games even more than they do. This is also why nostalgiafags are so profitable, because all they want is a casualized version of the game they played as a kid.

For every 100 self-proclaimed videogame enjoyers there is only 1 person deserving the title of hardcore gamer. But because gaming is such a casualized hobby chances are he wouldn't want to even refer to himself as a gamer, lest he be lumped in with shitters.

The lone hardcore gamer also has to contend with the ever-increasing flood of compfags and metaslaves, who aren't gamers so much as narcissists and accountants, respectively. Being good at a competitve game has little to do with skill level in any modern context and following a guide has not, nor will it ever, make you good at real games instead of glorified skinner boxes. That hardcore gaming includes these two subsets of gamer is a disgrace. While they aren't necessarily casuals, they might as well be.

Note also how anytime someone takes even the slightest pride in hardcore gaming, the common response is to say it doesn't matter, no one cares, blah blah blah. This is because casuals love to project their insecurity and the only thing they can do consistently well is show up to their job and appeal to the status quo. Hardcore gaming is basically incompatible with them and so they lash out at anybody who dares suggest that they might be a casual.

As part of the genuine 1%, they will see at this, but you are absolutely right

Open your steam and sort by recent.
Show me the screenshot like pic releated.

>>715443364
the self proclaimed 1% of true hardcore gamers fail to comply every time

>>715443364
Hey >>715443159 (OP) I'm waiting, faglord.
All that write up and you can't even prove that you play video games.
Should've spent time playing vidya instead of writing your faggy essay that betrays you as a cosmetic hardcore gamer.

>>715443159 (OP)
I wish online and subscriptions would go away
I miss the days when movie games meant shitty games riding the coattails of Hollywood movies
I was perfectly content with the climate of gaming during the gamecube/ PS2 era, and have seen no point in all the "progress" since
I miss when glitches and cheats were fun, and not sneered at because tryhard online faggotry and trophy/achievement whoring
I find all the trendy modern practices in gaming development and consumerism to be unsustainable
Just because I don't claim to like some obscure game only 700 people have ever heard of doesn't mean I'm not a gamer. But I understand there's hundreds, if not thousands that frequent /v/ and pretend to be a gamer, so I get it.

>>715443364
>Elysium 5
Impeccable taste, anon

>>715443836
>I miss when glitches and cheats were fun
Still are.

>>715443364
>>715443764
Seething casual

I

DON'T

CARE

>>715443364
Well, OP?
Not so hardcore now, eh?

>>715443836
I miss free online for consoles but I play multiplayer games on pc now. I actually like gamepass a lot, it’s like Blockbuster from the old days where you can just rent a game for a month but in this case it’s their entire catalog and all online, like a dream come true lol. It’s not my fault if a dev chooses to publish on gamepass for a fixed fee and then scream a year later about how they didn’t make any money. Lies of P devs were the only smart ones, they published their game on gamepass for a fixed time, then after the period expired they released an expansion that required you to buy the game outside of gamepass. Not good for consumer but smart on them. I don’t mind trophies and achievements but I hate that they killed cheats. I miss cheats both the external devices like gameshark and codes in the game too. It’s really awful because most people who grew up on games are old now and all games are bloated open world crap that takes hundreds of hours, I want to cheat more than ever now and I can’t. Thank god for pc ports and cheat engine.

>>715443364
not him but what exactly does a steam recent screenshot prove? afaik just buying the game makes it show up on the recent list, so all this tells me is that you're a consumer

>>715443159 (OP)
Zoomers

Zoomers killed the industry

>>715443159 (OP)
blame Nintendo

The tipping point was when it overtook hollywood as the biggest entertainment medium, corporate vultures came in looking for a piece of the pie and its been a nonestop race to the bottom with shitty practices ever since. The days of a bunch of dudes pouring their blood and sweat into a pasion project is well and truly over you might get the odd project like that but they are outnumbered 100 to 1.