| DieAppleDie said: most games can be played as casual or hardcore its not about the game but about how much time and effort you put in it |
Quoting because this needs to be repeated.
Unfortuantely, the term casual gaming has had many definitions over the generations. Back in the 6th generation and before, causal gamining simply meant gaming only occasionally. Casual games under this definition included titles like Madden, GTA, Halo, etc... This is because those titles tended to have a large audience that was composed of gamers that only gamed occasionally and many times that was the only game they played.
It has since come to have connotations of simplistic gameplay mechanics and minimal time effort required. The irony being that this generations "casual gamers" would never play last generations "casual games".
However, DieAppleDie's definition is technically the correct one...regardless of the frequency with which the gaming media espouses the incorrect versions.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
