Kenryoku_Maxis on 06 August 2009
While the article writer kind of has his own spin on the 'these are my opinions and I want to rant a bit', I agree with his views on the hardcore topic. The original use of the term hardcore wasn't a way to diversify yourself as a 'elite' gamer or to describe your game as 'mature' (or to differentiate one type of game from another to make the others 'casual'). All the ways the term has been applied to gaming has made the term so dried out, we might as well just start calling everything hardcore (just like eventually, everyone on the internet describes something as being 'F****** badass', another overdone expression commonly associated with hardcore).
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