HappySqurriel said:
| prayformojo said:
A casual game is defined, generally, as a game in which someone who doesn't play games can pick up, and play. Your grandmother could NOT pick up a 360 controller and play that game online. She'd be running around in the middle of a map in circles, shooting bullets at the sky and wondering what was going on.
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The only thing that would stop a grandmother from playing Call of Duty (or the vast majority of modern first person shooters) is interest ... My 9 year old nephew regularly struggles for months to be successful in games like New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy, but can complete the typical FPS in (about) a week on normal difficulty. Modern FPS games are embarassingly easy compared to what they were in the late 90s.
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Obviously, you haven't seen someone who's never held a controller before trying to play FPS games online. I have, and it's exactly as I described. They have no idea what they are doing, which buttons to push, which direction they are in and they usually die every 5 seconds because the other team/players are picking them off and laughing at their stupidity.
A casual game is a game where someone who's NEVER played a game can play it. Wii sports is a fine example. As much as we all love to hate COD, it's a core game. Just because something is popular, or easy for you and I to play, doesn't make it casual.
