I wasn't saying it not cute but it's hard to think that this thing is the most powerful boss in maplestory. To quote from maplewiki :

"The most powerful boss in all of MapleStory. Hits approx. 20,000 on touch damage, and has a mini Genesis attack which inflicts 31,000 damage. This boss is fought after a LONG string of quests in the Time Temple which asks you to kill 11,998 monsters in total + 3 bosses and then defeating a large group of statues, multiple times. Because of this, Pink Bean, in combination with the statues, has 7.65 billion HP. As such, he really can't be considered a real boss, more like a super boss. If actually defeated, it will drop Timeless weapons and armors which is both for level 120, along with level 64 Maple weapons."

And for the fact that you have 1 hour to kill that thing.

I can't take this seriously, just because the author suggested that Ikaruga is the hardest Japanese shmup.

WoW and Halo are extremely casual that what makes them popular.

This too - unless he is oblivious to the bullet-hell genre. Gotta love the Touhou bullet hell series.

and yeh. i love pink bean. its adorable lolrapeface.

....i do think its cruel though. the few classes that can effectively harass 'ol beanie (to keep it pinned facing right) is the Paladin and markman (for lightning charge blast/heavens hammer and snipe respectively), two classes that are particularly rare, especially at the lvl 180+s that beanie requires. (ignoring the entire fact that to even take a hit from bean without being a warrior, you need to invest a good 200 to 300 dollars in HP washing). but like i said, its downright brilliant boss design.

This goes to show the fact that without a good definition of the word "hardcore", it's difficult to reach any meaningful consensus on any discussion involving 'hardcore' games.

Great list, those games are all superb. It doesn't fail at all.

wow, that's a terrible list

Halo 3 and CoD4 are hardcore???? In the traditional sense, hell no. In the modern sense, sure.

this list is wack. theres no way cod4 is more hardcore than CS

^It's more harcore cuz CS doesn't have an awesome story and cinematic gameplay, lol

*sarcasm*