No Sarcasm, no lieing, no agenda, final destination.
Its amazing how I keep reading on views or ideas on casual gaming lately on the big bad internet. Suddenly what was the saving grace for the playstation 1 and 2 (appealing to people who weren't sci fi, comic book or nerds in general) which now Nintendo controls is suddenly a bad thing.
Lets be honest the amount of bitterness or anger suddenly towards people who play games casually is absolutly childish and pointless because, gaming was born from it.
It all began in the Atari era. Casual gaming. You see everyone use to play pinball (my dad being a pinball wizard in his days) but something was different about people playing games back then. Yes most were *gasp* social and *gasp* went outside to go to bars to *gasp* play video games. They played games, casually. Also disco'd REALLY HARD.
A man then took advantage of this casual market.
"I had to come up with a game people already knew how to play; something so simple that any drunk in a bar could play."
His name, Nolan Bushnell. His game. Was Pong. He founded Atari.
Your hobby came to exist from a game which was based on a simpler version of its real counterpart. Which had to appeal to casual going audiance.
Its not that bad. Its just history. Besides do you really want to be associated with the word hardcore anyway?
hard-core also hard·core (härd'kôr', -kōr')
adj.
- Intensely loyal; die-hard: a hard-core secessionist; a hard-core golfer.
- Stubbornly resistant to improvement or change: hard-core poverty.
- Extremely graphic or explicit: hard-core pornography.
I sure don't want to.