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Legend11 on 23 September 2008
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RolStoppable said:
Legend11 said:
Soma said:

"Bozon saying Mega Man 2 is ‘hardcore’ sounds like he is using the reasoning of “since I am hardcore and I like this game, therefore, this game must be hardcore”. Some might say, “But Malstrom! Mega Man 9 is hard! Therefore, it is only for hardcore!” Oh please. Everyone agrees that the early NES games were hard and that the NES users were mostly children. Are you telling me that children, most of whom had little to no experience in video games, were ‘hardcore’ in the 1980s? Of course not."

 

^^THIS. END OF DISCUSSION

 Wow, everytime I read something of Malstrom's I'm surprised at just how much he's wrong and yet people still spread the nonsense.  Hardcore isn't defined by a person's age.  Many of those "children" were hardcore because they lived on videogames. 

Also I didn't bother to read the rest of Malstrom's article (verbose nonsense) but I'm going to assume that he's ignorant of games such as Pac Man Championship Edition and Galaga Legions because what he has written makes no sense when they are considered.

Another ridiculous Malstrom article, why is his nonsense still being spread?  At least manure is useful.  Hey maybe I should start calling Malstrom "Manure" because they're both full of sh*t.

So a lot of today's hardcore gamers are children, because they play a lot of videogames. Since the Wii is the kiddy system, it has currently the highest number of hardcore gamers. Okay.

PM:CE and GL are following the trajectory of the industry with improved graphics, better sound and more sophistication. Mega Man 9 has 8-Bit graphics, 8-Bit sound and removed some of Mega Man's abilities from later games.

How can you know that the article is ridiculous, if you didn't read the article which you just admitted in the second paragraph of your post? You are insulting someone based on (wrong) assumptions.

Yes, a part of the hardcore includes children.  The Gamecube despite having a kiddy image still had many hardcore gamers.  The Wii is different than the Gamecube in that a significant part of the audience fueling its growth and many of the games beings made for it are casuals. 

Casuals are the people who don't live for videogames or spend a significant amount of time on them.  They're the people you will never find on forums like these for example.  They are the ones that don't buy videogame magazines or go on videogame websites or have a significant gaming online presence.  They buy a Wii for Wii Sports because they heard about if from a friend or seen it on Oprah or saw it at a party or whatever but at the end of the day they're just casually into gaming.

As for how I know his article is ridiculous it's because there are examples that go against what he's trying to claim.  Take PM:CE for example, PM:Legends is an example of the game following the trajectory of the industry.  PM:CE is a game that could have easily been made for older consoles and still looked and played the exact same.  This isn't a slight against PM:CE since it's an incredible game but it's still not following the trajectory of the industy (production costs increasing each generation, etc).