| frybread said: 1) It's simple to learn, so anyone can play it. 2) Including grandparents. 3) There is no blood or gore (calm down nerds I'm not talking about battle chess) 4) There is no storyline 5) Game sites are calling Chess casual. 6) It's sold a ton of copies.
Chess - casual game for the masses?
Bonus question: Can you name one game *before* video games that was hardcore? |
My points to say that chess is not casual:
1) It's simple to learn, so anyone can play it.
Everyone can play it but just a few can master it.
Oh and you can master every video game in less than a year, but mastering chess takes more than 10 years.
2) Including grandparents.
Chess is older than all the people alive in the world, maybe in 50 years we will see grandparents playing fps
3) There is no blood or gore (calm down nerds I'm not talking about battle chess)
Battletoads hadn't blood/gore and it was really hardcore. The same can be said of many 2d games
4) There is no storyline
Counterstrike has not story line but is a hardcore game (maybe because of player's skills, but is not simple to learn and it takes a long time to master the game)
5) Game sites are calling Chess casual.
They can say what they want but, who cares?
6) It's sold a ton of copies.
But annual sales are low compared to other games. It has sold a ton of copies because there is a lot of chess fans around the world because it was invented centuries ago, and it's not consider just a game but also an art, a science and a way of training brain (and you can live of playing chess if you are a pro).
ps: I wouldn't call chess a hardcore game, I would say is not just a game.
I know... my english sucks
