People label "casual" for almost any wii release?

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The Ghost of RubangB said:

The word "hardcore" is a pornographic term.  Considering I'm the only member here who has posed nude with Game Boys and uploaded the photographic evidence to the internet, I would be the only "hardcore gamer" here.  And I love Animal Crossing.

You think somebody can play Tetris for 100 hours and still be casual because the game has casual appeal?  How does the casual appeal affect the fact that they just dumped 100 hours of their life into it?  Is it actually possible to just casually dump 100 hours of your life into something?

Besides, casual sex and hardcore sex are not opposites at all.  Sex can be both or neither as well.  Games are the same.  If you insist on using pornographic terminology to categorize video games, you should at least keep the definitions.

My fiance might break up with me....so im staying on much longer then intended :( im going to die at work

OP: Yes i am saying that. My granda plays 1,000s upon thousands hours of tetris, and a website called Pogo. I still consider her a casual gamer and those games casual games. She wouldn't even begin to understand how to play an RPG, or something non puzzle related. Just because you played a game 1,000 hours doesn't make the game hardcore or the player. The player must be skilled at multiple game genres, and be able and willing to accept new ideas for games.  It requires time and actuall effort. Time is not a factor alone. Otherwise we could be playing a hardcore game of duck, duck, goose right now.

just because a game is casual does not render it a bad game. It just means it's a game that many people can play right from the get go and doesn't really push the player in terms of difficulty or mastery. I played animal crossing on my gamecube. While i didn't dump hours into i thought it was an alright game just not my cup of tea. (what I do have a problem when a companies main focus is casual games)

Edits: realized i forgot half my post.