Anyone who regards games as casual or hardcore doesn’t know what they’re talking about. It’s just about drawing the line with each game. Sure we have lots of babyish games and childish games, but they are just that. Games. Games for different types of people. Let’s take Pokemon as an example. Childish game with adults playing it, fine. However is it casual? No. Is it hardcore? No. What is it? A video game. A video game that can be played casually or on a hardcore level. Any game can be played casually or on a hardcore level. People often don’t understand the true meaning of casual.

From Dictionary.com

casual

1.	happening by chance; fortuitous: a casual meeting.

2.	without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand; passing: a casual remark.

3.	seeming or tending to be indifferent to what is happening; apathetic; unconcerned: a casual, nonchalant air.

4.	appropriate for wear or use on informal occasions; not dressy: casual clothes; casual wear.

5.	irregular; occasional: a casual visitor.

6.	accidental: a casual mishap.

7.	Obsolete. uncertain.

–noun

8.	a worker employed only irregularly.

9.	a soldier temporarily at a station or other place of duty, and usually en route to another station.

Let’s see here. Nope, nothing concerning content of something, only regarding how something is done. That’s the point. The game isn’t casual, the only thing casual is how you play it. Let’s expand on the second definition for a second that reads “without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand“. What that means is if you play a game for the sake of playing it (you play it because you’re friends are playing it) you’re a casual player. If not? Well let’s take a look at hardcore now.

Again, dictionary.com

hard-core

1.	unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.

2.	pruriently explicit; graphically depicted: hard-core pornography.

3.	being so without apparent change or remedy; chronic: hard-core inflation; hard-core unemployment.

There you have it. If you play a game to complete it, night and day, non-stop without rest, or you refuse to play anything else before you beat that game. Then you are a hardcore player.

But wait! What if you’re in between? What if you play a game to have fun and enjoy the game? Then my friend you simply like video games and you are the best of them all. A casual player and a hardcore player will never enjoy games like you do.

You shouldn’t regard yourself (or others) as one type of person, you could of played Myst on and off whenever you felt like it, and you could have beaten Tales of Vesperia 4 times to get everything there is to get in the game. You can mix styles, people are dynamic, not linear.

The point is, it’s not the game, it’s you. You play casually? That’s fine, you can play a “hardcore” game on and off. If you’re a hardcore player you can play a Bratz game until your eyes bleed out, you’re still hardcore for putting commitment into it. I don’t know why people love to brand people so much.