Why is a Hard game "hardcore"?

[Valkyria00]

vaio said:

TheBigFatJ said:

steven787 said:
A hardcore fan of anything
Likes it more...
Knows more about the subject (or is better at the activity, if it applies...
Doesn't need coddling...
is involved in the activity (watching the games, shows, playing vgs) and in activities related to the activity...

... than a normal person.

I think you could make your definition a little more accurate and concise by simply saying that a hardcore gamer is one for whom gaming is much more important than average.  Lots of gamers you may consider hardcore that I know care about silly things like their gamer score, which I'd consider a casual thing.

or you could say that for a hardcore gamer gaming is a sport where the higher the difficulty gets the better challenge it is for you to win over that game or that special part of the game that required you to get into hardcore mode just to pass it.

OP: Fun playing games is for when you just want to hae fun playing games, hardcore is when you want to beat something or someone and any cost and put the effort to do so which will be repaid to you in satisfaction when you beat the game/boss/level.

 

You put effort in playing fun games too. You cant beat a Zelda game or an RPG without putting in effort. You dont really have to put in effort in fighters but they would be consider hardcore too rigtht?