Jaycee_Bam on 17 July 2010
I think it is really hard to define what constitutes as a casual game. I was talking to my friend about Kinect and how I was disapointed that it's launch line-up is very casual. He quickly pointed at Dance Central as a hardcore game, and I disagreed. I asked questions like: Is Dance Dance Revolution not casual? Guitar Hero? Rockband?
While in general I still maintain those as casual games (in general), I realized it really comes down to what the gamer makes of it. You can go all out in Rockband and try to get perfect on every song on the hardest difficulty, that is pretty damn hardcore, not casual at all. I think the same can be applied to many other games.
Casual or hardcore, it all depends on how the gamer plays the game.
