| Khuutra said: Do you guys know what is a really hardcore game? God Hand. God Hand is a really hardcore game. Also the chief reason I don't take review scores seriously anymore. |
We get more reasons to not take reviewers seriously every day, like overlooking horrible driving controls in GTA4 and giving it a perfect score anyway. A PERFECT score should mean ZERO room for improvement.
My take on the situation is that "hardcore" does not define a game but a player. Most wouldn't consider Solitaire a "hardcore" game, but someone who plays 200 games of it in a single sitting is pretty damn hardcore.
I can understand saying that a game has attributes which typically appeal to only players of the hardcore nature, but "story" actually makes a game LESS hardcore, given that the game is attempting to offer you something other than the gameplay and your own grim determination to keep you playing.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
