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Edited by TheLegs41:
5/2/2017 12:44:14 AM
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What makes a gamer a veteran?
I was looking through some gaming articles and I saw [url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch-vs-tf2?amp]this[/url] one about a Team Fortress 2 "veteran" who had decided to play Overwatch after 10 years of playing TF2, and I wanted to get some other opinions on it.
As I read I noticed the author seemed to have a different understanding of the word "veteran" than I do. Here's a quote:[quote]It’s been my go to game since I started PC gaming, and I’ve racked up nearly 400 hours in it.[/quote]
Either that's a typo, or they're one of the most casual players I've seen in a while.
I wouldn't think much of it if they had just said 400 hours, but the fact that they made a point to say "10 year veteran" in the headline is a little ridiculous.
400 hours over 10 years? That's not even an hour per week. For a game that's supposedly their "go to" they didn't really play it that often.
I don't think I'm alone in thinking that a person's time played should be way higher to be considered a veteran.
I've seen people who have played games for thousands of hours in less than a year. Games like Skyrim, CSGO, WoW, LoL, and, yes, Destiny.
I guess what I'm trying to ask is this: What makes a person a veteran? I don't know the right term to use, but would it be years that you've played in terms of just logging on at some point in a year, or would it be total hours?
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Edited by PermaBanned: 5/11/2017 5:12:11 PMBefore I quit destiny I racked up a little over 2k in hours.
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I guess its following a particular game. I played cod since cod 3 only touched on cod 2 n stopped at the current one. With around 200 days 4800 hours across the board n still got called a noob...
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2 RepliesI play more than 400 hours a month.
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He might have a ton of other games.
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I've got well over 2000 hours in destiny over 3 years, so 400 over 10 years is a joke
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1 ReplyFighting in a war
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Time played and skill is rather meaningless here. So long as they've played a game throughout it's lifecycle, they are a veteran.
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400 hours= veteranx? What a joke.
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400 hours over 10 years literally is not shit. I got over 3000 hours of Borderlands 2 in less than 5 years. I got over 400 hours in BF4 in under a year. I wouldn't call them a vet whatsoever tbh.
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A veteran has played a lot of a game and knows most of the mechanics, endgame content, and has knowledge of all the classes. He is not necessarily the best, but he doesn't suck.
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A veteran is usually someone who played since launch or base game
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2 RepliesMore time spent playing doesn't always mean you're better.
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I guess I'd define a veteran as someone who knows the in-and-outs of all the maps, weapons, play-styles etc. Knows the most advantageous tactics, and how to counter other strategies. Number of hours played would correlate to this, but wouldn't define it.
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400 hours in 10 years is a veteran? I have 750 hours in CSGO and I've been playing a little over a year and I consider myself pretty new. Even if it was 4000 over 10 years, I got 1000 hours in the first year of destiny alone.
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It's one of those things you can't quite explain but know it when you see it. If someone other than themselves can say that they're a gaming veteran I think at that point they are. Someone who plays well but is still relaxed... I guess its when someone has reached the top and then gone dropped down a level because its either to stressful to sit at the top or they just can't play enough to stay there. But if needed they could go back up. There are kids who have logged thousands of hours into a COD and I'd consider them good players but not veterans. meanwhile someone who logged maybe half a month for a two year game but knows it's in and outs and gets on a few times a week to meet with friends and played well when it first came out but now more casually I might consider a veteran. I guess it's how they carry themselves, they know it all but aren't a "know it all" they have played the best but don't go balls to the wall every single match, and depending on the game are more ready to teach instead of earn.
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I think it works like this. To be a veteran of a particular game you would of had to stick with it for years watched it grow and learned the ins and outs of it, or at least that is my brief summary of the process. To be a veteran of a gaming franchise, cod for example the process would be similar but it would take place across multiple titles. The same applies for a console or a genera of video games like fps. To be a video gaming veteran you would have to again follow the same process but it would take place across multiple consoles, titles, series, generation, etc. [spoiler]touch me bby[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyYea, 400 hours isn't much
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2 RepliesI think a general gaming veteran is someone who knows the mechanics of a game as soon as they play it since they've played so many games
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Not sure what defines a veteran exactly but maybe it's since its first years of a games/series life.
