This guy has an incredible amount of tunnel vision. He's one of the PC superiority freaks that call themselves the hardcore. There came a point when console became hardcore and that was during the time of the Genesis and SNES. It's not the console communities fault that Sony and Microsoft entered the gaming region with their towering power and ate up all the third parties. PC's couldn't dominate forever (especially when they have the highest rate of piracy). The sales of console titles are the reason PC developers and publishers are thinking of switching over. I mean really....it shouldn't be hard to make profit on an "inferior product" right? Has this jerkoff ever though that people like to game in their living room or in their bedroom, without sitting on a chair and building a beast of a computer?

Are you actually saying that the MegaDrive and SNES made gaming "hardcore"? :D LOL I won't even get into why that statement is ridiculous.

Consoles never became "hardcore"! No platform is "hardcore", the point is console libraries are much more "casual" than the PC library, and "hardcore" should only be applied to games that are played in a hardcore fashion, (a competitive and professional fashion to be precise)

I find it ironic that you defend the casualization of games (PC games moving to consoles) and think consoles are "hardcore" at the same time.

consoles have always been casual gaming PCs. The guy just lost it right there.

As long as there is history, standards and styles, there can be a hardcore. In the arts we would call it the Avant Garde. Consoles have their own Avant Garde, while PC's have their own as well. The Wii is the grandest stage for Kitsche (Casual or pop) entertainment. Consoles haven't been as attainable to the masses as they have had a core group of people (like many on this website), who know about all the core titles and when they are coming out. Casuals would not care to know the ins and outs of a game with a thirty minute learning curve. The reason the author cannot see this is because of the fact that he has PC superiority issues and is awaiting another golden age of PC.

Why do people still pay attention to Malstrom?

Sure, there may a few cult games on consoles that could clssify as "hardcore", but I would really ylike you to mention some "hardcore" console games, and then explain to me exactly why they are so "hardcore"

As for PC elitism..... Well, ever seen this on a console? This is the true meaning of hardcore gaming.

Ever heard a professional comentator scream REVOREAVOREAVO faster than Slayers BoxeR's APM during a professional televized game an a console? I didn't think so.

Sure, I can agree that consoles have many traditional games, but "hardcore"? no. Traditional games can be casual too, so "hardcore" doesnt really apply. "hardcore" barely applies to anything console related so it shouldn't be used.

I like that you are using the word "core" instead of "hardcore". It's more accurate since the core games are games usually found in the old core market. I would still prefer calling traditional games traditional games.

I use core in the Nintendo sense, games or gameplay styles with an existing fanbase.

There was nothing new in this part of the article, even Malstrom talked about it before, and basically everyone who is not too biased with the current casual-hating, should admit that.

There is even that Yahtzee-inspired signature and its parodies appearing, with the "console peasant" and the "PC master race"!

I just like how this article highlights the hypocrasy in using the term "hardcore"

A hardcore gamer would be someone who games while having anal sex with their girlfriend whilst having a butt plug in your ass. That is hardcore, everything else is just gaming.