Being called "A Casual Gamer"

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Flamebeard 7 Jun 2013 @ 10:58am

Being called "A Casual Gamer"

Hi there. I've been gaming since I was 3 years old, grow up with a Super Nintendo and an N64 and played the living crap out of them. I'm 21 right now so that means I've been gaming for about 18 years and I enjoy all kinds of games out there both Retro and Modern. That's not what I wanted to bring up though.

What I wanted to bring up is being called a Casual Gamer for enjoying games that maybe stray away from a series original formula. Take Hitman: Absolution for instance where it's a lot more stealth based then the previous hitman games, Smaller Levels, not as open ended as say Blood Money. Now I currently going through the original game and quite loving it as much as I loved playing Absolution. Another thing is that I also enjoy the CoD games (Don't own any on steam yet but been playing them on consoles for some time) and I see people saying that "You're a Casual Gamer if you like CoD".

I want to know what you people think about this as I don't consider myself a Casual Gamer at all not with the amount of time that I spend playing Video Games as well as games from different genre's and time periods.

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The Akashain 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:00am

You are not a Casual Gamer at all!

Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:00am

Why do you care about what other people think?

Terakhir diedit oleh Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel; 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:01am

Marble 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:02am

Where exactly are people saying that's what a casual gamer is?

As far as I am aware, a casual gamer is someone who doesn't play games so often, or likes to stick with games that give a very low challenge level to unwind.

Flamebeard 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:03am

I care as I don't like being misrepresented as a Casual Gamer when that particular person doesn't know who I am and what I play and enjoy. I probably shouldn't care about it but this was my way to get it off my chest as I've been thinking about this for sometime now.

Kenny32673 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:12am

Shouldn't this be in off topic really? Or maybe on your own personal blog?

Flamebeard 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:14am

Yea sorry,I didn't really know where to post this.

Tito Shivan 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:45am

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Rolling Ghost Cheese:
Why do you care about what other people think?

Basically.
I stopped caring about what random people i met on the internet think about me.
And so far, i've been called far worse things than 'casual'. I ended up making a checklist for laughing purposes.

Now that's off your chest OP, you'll be able to laugh at the next one who calls you names.

Flamebeard 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:47am

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tito Shivan:
Diposting pertama kali oleh The Rolling Ghost Cheese:
Why do you care about what other people think?
Basically.
I stopped caring about what random people i met on the internet think about me.
And so far, i've been called far worse things than 'casual'. I ended up making a checklist for laughing purposes.

Now that's off your chest OP, you'll be able to laugh at the next one who calls you names.

Yes thank you so much :) I wasn't sure what comments I would expect when I was writing this Discussion but they haven't been bad. Thank you Tito Shivan, I'm sure I'll be just like you. :)

Meta_Merks7.0 7 Jun 2013 @ 4:24pm

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Rolling Ghost Cheese:
Why do you care about what other people think?

hey like your comment ;)

nfr mdw 7 Jun 2013 @ 11:01pm

if u r happy with what u r doing just forget about them ..

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Tito Shivan 8 Jun 2013 @ 5:56am

Diposting pertama kali oleh Butcher:
If you play only shooters and browser games then you casual gamer.

Tell that to CS players...

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Tito Shivan 8 Jun 2013 @ 7:28am

Diposting pertama kali oleh Silo:
Diposting pertama kali oleh Tito Shivan:
Tell that to CS players...
Especially those 1.6 OR NOTHING "enthusiasts"

It would be fun seeing someone calling them 'casuals' then trying to make it out alive of it...

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Thordred 8 Jun 2013 @ 8:05am

Shooters, like all games of skill, are casual games. At its core, gaming is a thinking man's pastime. Always has been.

(just trolling)
(and being serious at the same time^^)
( only saying this because I can't imagine to show as much commitment towards action games as I do towards strategy games :D)

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Tito Shivan 8 Jun 2013 @ 11:51am

Diposting pertama kali oleh Thordred:
Shooters, like all games of skill, are casual games. At its core, gaming is a thinking man's pastime. Always has been.

(just trolling)
(and being serious at the same time^^)
( only saying this because I can't imagine to show as much commitment towards action games as I do towards strategy games :D)

Don't go tell the CS players their game lack strategy. ;)
Many games that seem 'light', like some shooters, can have a level of metagame and strategy that can have the depth of an strategy game for some. And some Strategy games reduce their 'strategy' to a couple of known tactics/strategies.

It's just apples and oranges, and we all play our brand of choice to have fun*

It's just when someone decides that his brand of choince or his definition of 'fun' is somehow better, bigger or holier than everyone else's when the problems starts. When people decides to spend more time in telling people how they should have fun gaming, instead of having fun.

At the end of the day, the term 'casual' is what one makes from it. I've clocked over one thousand hours of TF2, and i consider myself a 'casual' TF2 player.

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