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HappySqurriel on 27 August 2012
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prayformojo said:
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.


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.

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.


What you're talking about is a non-gamer ...

My sister, sister-in-law and niece would all be classified as casual gamers based on their game preferences and they have no difficulty playing my nephews in their FPS du jour. In fact, my sister wanted to increase her "geek-cred" so I lent her Mass Effect 2 and Bioshock (games I knew she would enjoy from a story telling perspective) and she had no difficulty completing the game.