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19 Apr 2012, 11:40 am

I can't even play a lot of fps games if I wanted to. Those kinds of games are likely to have the kinds of camera movement that gives me motion sickness.

I'd consider myself "hardcore" considering that I tend to play video games for many hours a day. Which specific ones I'm playing doesn't matter.



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19 Apr 2012, 4:14 pm

ZX_SpectrumDisorder wrote:
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19 Apr 2012, 4:26 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:
ZX_SpectrumDisorder wrote:
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Not much, just browsing the forum.


You're spot on about the lack of variety in colour palette in 'hardcore games'. We have several shades of brown and grey/gray.



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19 Apr 2012, 4:30 pm

I agree that the industry is way overfocused on bloody, violent, and "gritty" games. Those themes just have little appeal to me. I suppose that's just what their target audience likes these days.

I also think the market is completely oversaturated with FPS's. I don't have a problem with the genre(I thoroughly enjoyed Crysis 2, for example), but sometimes it seems as though their popularity has come at the expense of other genres.



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19 Apr 2012, 4:31 pm

I'm more into level grinding and item collecting, like in rpgs and simulation games.



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19 Apr 2012, 4:57 pm

UnLoser wrote:
I agree that the industry is way overfocused on bloody, violent, and "gritty" games. Those themes just have little appeal to me. I suppose that's just what their target audience likes these days.

I also think the market is completely oversaturated with FPS's. I don't have a problem with the genre(I thoroughly enjoyed Crysis 2, for example), but sometimes it seems as though their popularity has come at the expense of other genres.


Tried Bulletstorm?



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19 Apr 2012, 6:32 pm

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I think the hardcore label is misleading. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is pretty hardcore. Just try getting all the stars.


This. And you'll be hard pushed to find a brighter, more visually varied game!


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20 Apr 2012, 3:12 pm

Today's "hardcore" isn't the same "hardcore" of 25 years ago. Back then, it meant beating a difficult game without cheating (think Battletoads or Contra). Today, it refers to any game mass-played by whiny teenagers who say stupid s**t on Xbox Live and think they're cool.