I need to be immersed because I need to feel the story. I research the games I purchase sometimes longer than the time actually spent playing the game. I play my FPS and racing games on the hardest difficulty, my RTS and RPG on normal. I beat all achievements, secrets, primary objectives, secondary objectives, and then check to see if I missed anything. What am I then?

I am a perfectionist and am perfect, an audiophile and a videophile, an artist and a scholar. I like eating smalltime Italian and Indian cuisine with my fine wine and beer. I am a man of all flavors; I like most genres of games, movies, music, and life. I am proud and humble. I dare you to classify me. Each is unique to his own. Surveys and classifications with scales and tables just simplify a person to the point they are so easily understood that they are never understood. I could write a book about myself. You could write a book about yourself. Are you a hardcore or casual gamer?

To me a hardcore gamer represents one who invests interest in the story, graphics, sound of a game, and how it all fits - technical and plot elements together. To me a casual gamer represents one who is indifferent and plays for thrills or any of the aforementioned elements alone; a casual gamer goes for just eye candy, just story, just sound, and doesn't care really if it doesn't work out with everything else, not because they care so much about that one thing but that they really could care less at all. Does anyone agree?