What is a "hardcore" game to you?

[freelywillynillyMember]

Let’s be honest everyone can never agree what a hardcore game is.

Some people will say Pikmin is a hardcore game, others will say Assassin’s Creed is a hardcore game.

But seriously what do you think a hardcore game is?

[hylian17Member]

Dood!, Pikmin is so Strategy hardcore!, those people are crazy!

[Duncan325Moderator]

I kinda think hardcore is something that describes gamers rather than games. Just about anything can be played to a hardcore level but it’s hard to label any game as hardcore when they can pretty much all be picked up and enjoyed to some degree by anyone.

[proudplatypusMember]

Anything that takes a longer time investment before being faces with a good opportunity to put it down/save and quite, and longer time period before reaching a satisfying pay off. Casual games being much more pick up and put down and giving the opportunity for the player to feel satisfied with a short play session.

• This reply was modified 11 months, 2 weeks ago by  proudplatypus.

[lihjeMember]

Most games are both casual and hardcore

[eldangoMember]

It all depends on how much brown and grey they have.

[awhaleableMember]

Most hard core games can be filed under the “Does not use/have a heavy focus on motion controls” label.

[shinmaruMember]

A hardcore game is something silly people argue about.

[laughingramMember]

It’s when one or more of the actors take plenty of di… Oh, wait, wrong version of hardcore, sorry.

A hardcore game is any game you play wearing one of these
Or failing that, one of these

[oidiscoMember]

pokemans

[dimfishMember]

Any game that requires effort and interest to beat, and also had actual thought and work put into it’s design. Anything can be a hardcore game, even games made to teach first graders can be. As long as the game has an appeal, offers a challenge, and presents an experience memorable and personal to the person, it’s hardcore.

[trakenMember]

dimfish:
Any game that requires effort and interest to beat, and also had actual thought and work put into it’s design. Anything can be a hardcore game, even games made to teach first graders can be. As long as the game has an appeal, offers a challenge, and presents an experience memorable and personal to the person, it’s hardcore.

Hardcore PooYoos.

[SRTMember]

it’s a buzzword people use to make their game seem superior to others

[dimfishMember]

traken: Hardcore PooYoos.

Sure as long as it reaches all of the qualifications I said
>has appeal
Check(depending on age)
>Offers a challenge
Half-Check(only for Fraser)
>Presents an experience memorable and personal to the person who is playing
Uhhhh Checkeroney

[twitchmonkeyMember]

dimfish:
Any game that requires effort and interest to beat, and also had actual thought and work put into it’s design. Anything can be a hardcore game, even games made to teach first graders can be. As long as the game has an appeal, offers a challenge, and presents an experience memorable and personal to the person, it’s hardcore.

Pretty much this. I would add that it’s important that it be designed to be played for extended periods. That’s one of the many issues with motion controls, you can only tolerate to flail your arms around for a couple of hours before you have to put it down. That isn’t hardcore to me.

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