Wow, since when did trophies decide that a game is hardcore or not? In that case Half Life 1 should be one of the most casual games in the planet, and Jetpack Joyride should be a hardcore mobile app! Uncharted was a very easy game series, and no amount of trophies can take that fact away.
Do you honestly think I will waste 11GB of my precious HDD space and internet bandwidth to install COD6 for a single match against
a genius like you?
See, the game is
not about the banana peels. The powerups will only occur if you choose to collect them. And these pwerups also require strategy to use. Remember Road Rash? You could kick and punch opponent racers. In a similar vein, you can attack your opponents of become faster with your powerups to try and win the race. How does that make it casual? Or are you telling me that action racing is a casual genre?
Pokemon: the Hardcore Game Hardcore Gamers Don’t Know About – The Movie Fools
Besides, have you ever participated in a single pokemon competition against
real people? Are you so ignorant that you are ignoring all of the mechanics in a game that are exploited by hardcore players to produce goddamn awesome teams that are very difficult to beat? Are the sites such as Bulbapedia, Serebii, Project Pokemon etc around just to waste your time?
In battles against real people you cant even use items. In fact, I learned the hard way that all of those supposedly ineffective moves are actually very useful once you are playing against real people. And if you do not strategize, 90% of the time you will lose in a competition. The only genuinely useless move in the main series games is splash (which is useful in pokemon contests).
I can look far beyond my nose, TYVM, so a non-existent entity cannot help me.
Before, you were relying on consensus and very little evidence to back your claims. Now suddenly when a consensus-driven site proves you wrong you are calling 70-80% of the wikipedia-editing population wrong?
So basically to your ego, the world is wrong and you are right
Stop joking
I said I won't comment on Gran Tourismo because I have never played it. So I have no context to debate with GT players. If you really wish for me to comment on GT, then send over a copy of GT5 because I sure as hell won't be buying that game. As far as CS players are concerned, sure! I can argue with them all about nintendo's hardcoreness because I know where they're coming from.
I can see your ignorance when you mentioned leaf green, sapphire, emerald and
Colosseum (which is not a main series game). Play B/W or B2/W2 so you can experience competitions firsthand. The GBA games did not really enable people to compete because of a lack of long-distance connectivity. Pokemon's hardcoreness does not come from battles against AI. It comes from battles against other people. You really need to take care about how you raise your pokemon, and take advantage of EVs, IVs, breeding etc.
You completely misquoted that article, genius. The president admitted that they had made a mistake in the way they made the market perceive the DS and the Wii. And just because the console is perceived as casual doesn't mean that the games released for them aren't hardcore. Otherwise you would not see Mortal Kombat, Contra 4, and even your favourite
hardcore casual game COD on the DS, or MadWorld, Final Fantasy, Super Smash Bros, and also your favourite
hardcore casual COD games on the Wii.
And Iwata said that this time he does not want to make the mistake of making the market perceive the console as casual-only. With the wii and DS, they first marketed them to the casual crowd, so the hardcore intent was not visible.
