Kantor on 25 May 2009
| Showertea said: 'Hardcore' exists as a way of seperating out games you don't like. "Oh, man, what was the best selling game last week?" "Wii Fit" "Doesn't count. It's casual. Bunch of idiots. What's the best selling real game?" "Blood Guts Kill McDeath: Killvengeance 2: The Deadening Blood" There were casual games in the PS2 generation, and in the N64/PS1 generation, and in SNES and NES generation. Hell, one of the first games I ever played was a Sesame Street matching game for the NES when I was, like, 5. Nobody cared back then, because those games weren't selling better than the big-budget, 'hollywood' 500 hours-of-nonsense-story games. |
I have never played a game for 500 hours, and it's actually the hardcore games that tend to be shorter.
A hardcore game has nothing to do with hardcore gamers. A hardcore game is generally violent in nature, and appeals to the main demographic of gaming (young males).
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