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Have you ever thought about what really constitutes a ‘hardcore gamer’? Over the weekend, i felt more like one than i have in weeks. A few of my non-gaming nerd friends were over my house recently and since we had to kill some time, I thought it would be fun to pop in some Gears of War 2 into my xbox. Since all my friends are between the ages of 20-25, i figured “hell, theres no way they can’t play Horde, this will be fun!” Boy, was i wrong.

What I saw and experienced when actually playing the game literally blew my mind(no, really, literally). I kept repeatedly getting my head stomped in by locust because my friend was to busy making himself dizzy trying to look straight ahead. Another one, when telling him to change to the shotgun by using the d-pad, didn’t even know what i referring to! It was so frustrating to try and get these guys good enough to just actually play the game, never mind be good at it. So frustrating to the point where I just was not having any fun at all. How could I focus on killing locust horde when I couldn’t tell my partner how to stay in cover? Or even aim at the enemy right in front of him?

This experience got me thinking; maybe gaming isn’t as easily accessible as i thought it was. Besides the Wii and its target on the casual audience, ‘hardcore’ games seem to be more and more complicated and excluding to most average players. Even people who are in the prime target range of the title and could be interested in the story lines, like my friends were when explaining the story of Gears of War to them, seem to be lost in the complex mechanics that our generation of gaming has developed into.

So what is the solution to this problem? One answer: Guitar Hero. And snacks. Lots of snacks.


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^ You’re over the top , ALexA! you’re killing meee .
Oh HAIL NO, its bad enough to eat cheetos but then the biggest cheeto in the world over the golden keyboard @_@

^ NEVER GAME WHILE EATING!! >> http://gizmodo.com/5224528/i-ate-the-worlds-largest-cheeto-over-the-worlds-most-expensive-keyboard

Btw Jordan, is that your room? Nice. :D

AlexaNguyen said: That’s why I game by myself.

There’s always an imbalance of gameplay when it comes to players. When it comes to certain games, some are too difficult like FPS online, some people are too good for to last a round before I can say “Railgun” and come back to the spawning ground. I joined the blu-ray clan tournament to get rankings for COD4, but our team ranked like 2400th in the world.

Then as you speak, there are players our age who don’t know what the directional pad is.

I’m highly against people eating in my room, and even more against people eating, and touching their cheetoe’d fingers on my controllers. OH HAIL NO!!

That’s why I game by myself. :(

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