[QUOTE="Hewkii"][QUOTE="proud722"]Hardcore exists well in the minds of good businessman in the gaming industry, your comment seems quite foolish to me. Just because I refer to a game as hardcore and enjoy playing hardcore titles does that somehow mean or do you somehow think that means I wouldn't buy a casual game and openly praise and enjoy it?
proud722
define harcore.
Well imo: In business terms a market that expects certain aspects in a game to be strong in one of or more of some of these particular areas, the depth of the story of the game if it has one, the depth of the gameplay, possible graphical expectations and often getting a certain amount of time out of the game. Essentially casual gamers will have lower expectations in some if not all of these areas.
I suppose the core things here are depth and difficulty though. In gamer terms usually its just a reflection of much you play or just how interested you are.
Ah wait I see your point now. Ok so I should add these markets overlap. Now for example lets say I play games like PGR4 and GoW on my Xbox360. Now generally these games are considered hardcore so for any console gaming I do that's the market I stand in. But what if you take into account I own a DS. Now being a handheld your more likely to play casual games as they're more convenient to pick and play, now seeing as the £20 I spent on 42 all time classics I still feel was one of the best £20's I ever spent I'm now in both the casual and hardcore markets. The other way the markets may overlap is if a game reaches critical acclaim. So a casual gamer may end up getting a game like GoW and a hardcore gamer might end up getting a game like boomblox.
Ok maybe you have a point no real gamer can be exclusively casual or hardcore. That would cut them off from a whole pile of games and after all games are what being a gamer is all about. But the same consumer can have multiple needs, for the sake of this example both casual and hardcore needs to simplify it. So when a game developer decides to make a certain type of game they are also deciding which of these needs they are trying to satisfy. So in this way for a games developer to ignore which these of these casual or hardcore needs they are trying to satisfy with any particular game would be rather foolish and for this reason I feel my previous comment "Hardcore exists well in the minds of good businessman in the gaming industry" is still valid. Well that's why I feel that hardcore does exist outside of the minds of those that aren't comfortable with playing any sort of game as you put it.
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