<p>calmdownbro, i don’t even play fps’s except for tf2 occasionally.</p>
<p>and those console games are fun to play with a lot of people, not necessarily competitive or hardcore.</p>
<p>Calm as a cucumber.</p>
<p>I think the OP was using the word “hardcore” in the context of amount of time playing games, not the skill level of games played.</p>
<p>I think trying to argue about what games are hardcore in your sense is kind of pointless. Chess, while not a video game, trumps all the games you mentioned in terms of skill-dependency. On a side note, what makes CS 1.6 more skill-based than other PC FPS games?</p>
<p>if you don’t got the twitch, you’re not gonna win and get BOOM HEADSHOTS!!!</p>
<p>I would estimate that there’s no chance in hell of someone who could be considered “hardcore” in the sense caiacs seems to mean it ever being on CC.</p>
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Maybe popularity and competition. At least where I come from CS was extremely famous and if you wanted to compete with the hardcore gamers you would need years of experience to even have a shot. CS has been around for 10 years (I don’t even know, is it still being played at competitions?) and skill is basically equal to experience. That’s not true for most other, less popular, FPS.</p>
<p>Oh, I guess I would be considered a hardcore gamer. During 2002-2005 I played CS semi-professionally and went to a lot of tournaments with my team. I spent around 8 hours per day playing CS, every day. I haven’t touched any videogame since 2007 though, so I doubt that there is any skill left, haha.</p>
<p>well the amateur league died so no more boasting about what cal-x you are in haha oh man good old cs days</p>
<p><em>never played CS</em></p>
<p>I was pretty heavy on Brood War during Senior Year of HS, but then I got sick and couldn’t be bothered to practice to get back to the level I’d been at (which hadn’t exactly been impressive).</p>
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What’s cal-x?</p>
<p>Although the strategic depth of chess is very respectable, it may not trump video games in terms of skill cap. Chess is purely strategic so typically the player who can think further moves ahead wins. In a game like SC or Quake, strategy and tactics are coupled with understanding of timing, economic management, map awareness, and an extremely high level of manual dexterity.</p>
<p>That post was completely off topic.</p>
<p>This video was so funny I had to share it with more people:</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Greg Jennings (Broken Leg) scores on the saints](<a href=“Greg Jennings (Broken Leg) scores on the saints - YouTube”>Greg Jennings (Broken Leg) scores on the saints - YouTube)</p>
<p>It’s a video of someone playing Madden but watch it even if you don’t care about Madden at all.</p>
<p>i am ben from priestly hell. i play a lot of games like sc2, and LoL, and black ops, big 2, kirby adventure(aka super smash), pool, tf2, boxhead.</p>
<p>SC TWWWOOO . . . I live in Ida. Wanna meet up for some SC2 or Brood War sometime?</p>
<p>If you really want to play games, you can bring your friends over to Eudemonia (near the corner of University and Shattuck). I’ve been there a couple of times and it’s pretty fun! It’s like an internet cafe/game station (xbox).</p>