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A lot of core gamers today are just "casual" gamers from the wave that happened nearly 20 years ago ...

Cinematic games became popular with CD based home console systems (due to the "massive" amount of storage on these discs) started introducing shallower and easier gameplay and motivating gamers through story advancement. As a result of this gamers who would have previously quit games because they no longer had the obsessive nature of a 10 year old boy continued to play these easier games that were story driven.