| Kasz216 said: No, putting lots of hours into a game = hardcore. That's the only definition anymore. Otherwise there haven't been more then 6 hardcore games created since the SNES because games have become a LOT easier and require a lot less time and skill since then. Even games that require "skill" are really just a matter of time, as I haven't played one game in the PS1 Era on that was ever unbeatable to anyone who had ever played a videogame system before. There is no game that can't be beaten, so to make some fake dichotomy where the difference is your expierence or your virtual avatars expierence is silly. Hours spent on it are pretty much all that matters. Also, it's not that RPGs are boring (You may think they are though.) They are hardcore, because at bare minmium your looking at 30 hours for most RPGs, with NO sidequests and NO level grinding. That takes a serious dedication there... if you want to do nearly everything it takes HARCORE dedication. Plenty of people put 150+ hours of play in some RPGs just to max everything out. Then they replay the game from the start to play it another way and get an alternate ending. The more time your average player puts into a game = the more hardcore the game is. |
Ergo, Solitaire is the most hardcore game ever created, right?
"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
