I agree with Happy Squrriel, hardcore in other things like saying I'm a hardcore smoker or a hardcore swimmer means your life is devoted to that one activity much more then other activities.
I saw on G4 some movie about a few guys who are playing donkey kong to get the highest score for years and they are so into it, now donkey kong is such a simple game but I was like "wow, these guys are f'ing hardcore".
Now saying casual for people is ok, because people can play games and not be devoted for it that much but saying casual games seems wrong. Pokemon may be thought of a casual game but I spent 100's of hours across all pokemon games, maybe like 400 hours+, now I devoted lots of my life to Pokemon so now I'm not a hardcore gamer then because its Pokemon o.o







