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The term casual apparently has a lot of different meanings, but it’s treated as a four letter word when it comes to video games. Admittedly, I don’t fully understand or agree with what a casual game or casual gamer actually is. I mean, these are just video games after all, how can they be anything but casual fun? Yet somehow gamer’s use the term casual as a way to attack anything that they don’t enjoy or think is “hardcore” enough. At this point, it’d be easier to list the games that haven’t been called casual, rather than list the ones that have had that label applied. I’ve heard Call Of Duty, Halo, Uncharted and Super Smash Brothers all called casual at one time or another this generation. The question begs to be asked, Do we throw around the word “casual” too much when it comes to gaming these days?
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars debuted in 2011, and later updated for modern consoles. However, it's the PlayStation 3 edition that stands out.
Joy Ride Turbo launched 10 years ago today. The first title was Xbox Kinect exclusive, yet this sequel failed to support the device at all.
Cultured Vultures: "Sadly, not all hardware is created equal, and no matter how much developers might try, some gaming hardware just fails to hit the mark. We’ve compiled a list of 10 gaming hardware fails, and boy did some fail hard."
I would label the Power Glove, Kinect, and that Tony Hawk skateboard more as hardware addons hardware failure would be like the Virtual Boy and one day Stadia.
The picture should be the 360 RROD. When I think of gaming hardware failures that's what springs to mind. Kinect and it's bundled price tag definitely hobbled the already underpowered Xbox One though for sure so I would give it a close second place.
Lol I had the Atari Jaguar, surprised its "competition" the 3DO isn't on the list too, both as "popular" as each other.
Stadia is a weird one. It hasn’t sold at all well but in terms of how it works it’s still miles ahead of Xcloud in terms of stability and performance. Xcloud is still a way behind and that needs sorting but it will be in time. Stadia for me is one of those things that will go down as a what could have been moments. With better marketing it could have been a roaring success. I still play it and it remains the best place in my opinion to play CyberPunk 2077. Only platform I have played it on without having any issues at all. The tech is great. The concept is fine. Marketing terrible. Shame really.
The Xbox One was Microsoft’s Nintendo Wii U. Undercooked, undersold and just an unholy mess. The thing is with any of these failures is to learn from them and thankfully both Nintendo and Xbox did just that to the benefit of gamers everywhere.
think of it like this: If gaming was football, hardcore football fans would be into it. Then there are people that just watch it sometimes but do not follow the stats players like the hardcore fan does.
Yeah... we use it pretty casually.
No. Because Casual Games are in fact casual. And casual games are being casually released on a casual basis to the casual gaming fan, this has been a casual occurrence lately.
Well, first off, it should be noted that there's a difference between casual games, and casual GAMING.
Gears of War is not a casual franchise, but a core one. Still, if you only play it every now and then, and are not really into it, you play it casually. And if your interest in gaming falls along those lines more often than not, then you are a casual gamer.
Angry Birds, as Reverent notes, is a casual game. It is designed to be played in a casual fashion. However, if you play it for five hours a day, you're most definitely NOT playing it casually.
Here's where things get a little tricky:
If you play core games, but only play them casually, you're a casual gamer. Why? Because your interest in gaming is casual.
If you play casual games, but are into them hardcore, you're STILL a casual gamer. Why? Because the games you're interested in are casual.
These two things only work if you're ONLY playing one or the other. If you play a mix of both, you can't automatically be called casual OR core; it then becomes an issue of how frequently you play, of how intense your interest in gaming, overall, is.
Of course, this calls into question the status of individual games: is Call of Duty casual or core?(I'm inclined to say it leans far more toward the former than the latter.) What about FIFA or Madden?
It's not a super simple answer, but nor is it as complex as it seems.