for those of you who read VG Cats read this comic, for those of you who don't, still read it.
this brings up an interesting point. As the medium of video games becomes more popular, games become more accessible, not in number, but rather in the skill that is required to play them. at any given time if you are to talk to someone under the age of 30 they likely either currently have of have in the past owned a console of some sort. and with the advent of the WII the number has grown to include almost anyone with children.
because of this shift in popularity the question is raised, what is a gamer? it used to be that a gamer was often a person who spent hours a day toiling to get through a pixalated hell scape, digging through insiders guides, industry magazines, and online resources for any combo code they can get their hands on, and if all else fails the least invasive cheat code they can find.
then gaming got it's limelight, it wasn't popular, but it was mainstream enough that people might know what you were talking about if you mentioned what game you were playing at the time. it introduced the Casual Gamer; They might dabble with the thumb wrenching tests of endurance that the now termed hardcore gamer thrives on, but not with the same zealous nature, and online game companies produced small and simplistic games such as the well known Bejeweled. And while no-one would claim the office worker playing Bejeweled while looking over his shoulder to make sure the boss is nowhere near his cubical a gamer, it helped make the industry more for the common man.
so now, what is a gamer truly? what makes it so that a person can claim this boisterous title? is it the amount they play? their dedication to completing every last bit of what can be done? is there some sort of minimum time that a person must play per day before they can be considered a gamer? or is the gamer now the equivalent to the movie buff, the bookworm and the rabid sports fan?
Also; Stephen Colbert still rocks, I can't wait to see the "Who's Chasing my Coat-tails on this comic.
