Comments on "Remember what the dormouse said": 49% Casual Gamers play everyday

I think that's definitely something that game desi...

2008-04-07T20:50:00.000+02:00

I think that's definitely something that game designers think of. I think the fact that most games are never actually finished, so the story never completely told is one of the reasons why so many are talking about gaming episodes (that and money, of course).

But you bring up a relevant point. If the stories in games are so important to us, why don't we finish them? I'm definitely guilty of that. Does the narrative become too dreary? Do we get bored with it? Are there too few suprises and climaxes for us to want to finish the story? Too little emotion?

huh...

I'm not surprised, but it comes as a comforting co...

2008-04-07T12:38:00.000+02:00

I'm not surprised, but it comes as a comforting conformation to my claim that games are, -to a considerable extent-, storytelling. And even though it is possible to construct "games" that does not tell a story (and I do not agree that tetris or checkers can be considered to tell a story, even though it's not hard to find those who claims so), it is exactly the story that is so important. Not solely, but considerably.

With that in mind I find it puzzling that most games are not completed (I think I read that somewhere), so most game-stories are thus not consumed fully. The ending is not revealed. I wonder if this is something game designers think of when they (or the script writher) put story into the mix..

Well there you go. I guess I just think of casual ...

2008-04-03T22:55:00.000+02:00

Well there you go. I guess I just think of casual gamers as those who may have a consoll and just play a little bit every now and then. But I guess it says more about how much games are in our daily lives, than anything else.
Hmm

This doesn't surprise me that much. In WoW, for e...

2008-04-03T02:05:00.000+02:00

This doesn't surprise me that much. In WoW, for example, you are considered 'casual' if you don't play at least 4-5 hours a day, are in a serious raiding guild, or a serious arena team. Anything less than that is 'casual'.