Someone please explain 'HARDCORE'......what does it mean?

[CrashMan]

kingofwale said:
>How does graphics make a hardcore game? Graphics is not really a factor. As for reading reviews before buying games, if you are really passionate about games, you'll play the game regardless of the reviews and simply make your own opinion, not make others force their opinions on you.

How does running out buying NinjaBread Man on Wii regardless the review score make YOU a hardcore gamer?

If you are passionate enough about games, you should at least read other people's opinions. I never said you should treat them as Bible. There's nothing wrong with finding out what the rest of the world thinks.

And graphics is a part of what makes a good game great. Okami's art direction was one of the best feature of the game. Same goes for Shadow

Where reviews lie, I think any one who plays games regularly reads reviews and have found reviewers wwith the same tastes and who's reviews they trust, so I think reading reviews isn't requisite of 'hardcore' gaming, but it may be a sign of such.

As for Okami and Shadow, art direction and graphics are completely different, in my opinion.  There are NES, SNES, Genesis, etc games with a lot better art direction than a lot of modern games, but the modern games have better graphics.