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A hardcore gamer , term English that one can interpret by “unconditional player”, appoints a player who implies himself enormously in a Video game. He plays much, and for example can spend its days to be tempted to obtain better scores only or equips some, often against of other players or other teams and entirely explores a play to unearth its subtleties of them. The hardcore gamer is connected with the Power to use which buys the best electronic material (Informatique, video Game console).

Definition

The hardcore gamers can indicate three types of players:
  • Those which consume video games enormously, that it is in time or of many plays.
  • Those which seek the challenge, the difficulty, the competition. Very exigents, these players are in the search of plays very technical requiring a training, able to put at evil their capacities (reflection, speed, precision) and to develop their talents. Therefore the hardcore gamers generally turn to FPS, the plays of race, MMORPG, and RTS. These types of plays generally propose a Gameplay technical, pointed and precise, with challenges, scores to be beaten, strategy, or competition multi-players, from where them success near the hardcore gamers.
  • Of others hardcore gamers and some of the players above are registered on sites of reference of records of the best players of the world, in particular the official site twin galaxies (http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=62) or celebrates it Cyberscore (http://www.cyberscore.net/), these players are made the competition while always seeking to push back the limits of the play, already reached on certain plays, and also seek to have the best possible position than it is, and this in any classification of the site or the plays. Most of these players have records so incredible that on certain sites, one obliges to send video or a photograph of his record by sending this record (twin galaxies) or, on the other sites, no matter who can require a proof of any record of any other player (cyberscore), if the evidence is not sent, either the record is not posted, or this record is unobtrusive site, well évidamment, this such point requires an impressive record.

Connotation

The term hardcore gamer is a rather méliorative designation, unlike the terms Nerd, Geek, Nolife which them is rather pejorative. The hardcore gamer can be regarded as a player very experienced, very talented, with a field crop of the video game and high level material. From their competitive spirit, their rage to overcome, the talent of which they make proof, and their prowesses in speed and precision, the hardcore gamers are sometimes compared to high level sportsmen. For this reason the competitions between players are sometimes called E-sport (electronic sport).

Psychological profile

There does not exist yet of reliable study on the phenomenon but in general, a hardcore gamer is a player (few listed female cases) having between 16 and 25 years, introvert and intelligent but with difficult psychological relations which perhaps started at his place a addictif use of the video games, which can bring it closer to the Geek.

Plays

The games most played by the hardcore gamers are mainly the online games - more specifically strategy games, FPS, or MMORPG - proposing qualities of the player. Among these plays, one finds:

Esport

The whole of the competitions between players is called esport, diminutive of electronic sport . These competitions of video game are compared with sport, because of qualities of the participants who show of incredible reflexes and surgical precision. The hardcore gamers are the athletes of the esport. To arrive at such a level of play requires an intensive drive and material of high-quality, from where the analogy with the sport.

See too

External bond

  • Megatokyo, manga on line telling the adventures of two '' hardcore gamers ''
  • http://www.esportsfrance.com/ EsportsFrance, the French site of reference on the esport.

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