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Explaining Gamin’ to the Layman - Casual Style
Explaining Gamin’ to the Layman - Casual Style
In a series of articles that examines the different times of gamers, and why they are the way
they are, this time Andrew takes a look at the Casual genre.
By Andrew Duncan
W
e all have that
person who doesn’t
understand our
hobby - our love - of gaming.
Most of these people are
football hooligans or the elderly,
sometimes both. But other
times they are other gamers.
We all love games, but some
people enjoy casual, some are
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hardcore and still others only
play MMORPGs. This is a guide
of how to talk videogames to
anyone, be they the 95 year-old
lady at the bus stop or the kid
who keeps stealing his mum’s
phone to play Angry Birds at
the shops. For instance...
Why the laymen doesn’t get it:
It’s a free game - when floppy
discs came taped to the front
of magazines with a free
game on, they didn’t then tell
you to post them a 50 pence
piece half-way through! If they
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