Name the universally recognized "hardcore" games

[KaedesDisciple]

Anything Metal Slug and anything Dragon Warrior, plus a good number of C=64 games (Last Ninja series, Aliens, Project Firestart), just to name a few.

 

[Devil_Gans]

KOF
Thats hardcore!

 

[FeelGood]

Pounding one's penis with a sledge hammer?

Sounds too hardcore for me.

 

[SNK4EVER]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Valkyrie Profile
Guardian Heroes

I know I'm missing a lot here, but this is all that come to mind at the moment.

 

[JHendrix]

KOF (hardcore, definitely)
Final Fantasy (it's gone sorta mainstream, but come on you gotta be hardcore to put 60+ hours into a game just for the "story").
Xenogears
Chrono Trigger or Cross (get all the endings and you be livin' la hardcore loca!)
Operation Flashpoint (gotta be hardcore for that shiznit)
Delta Force (same as above)
MOTW, LB, SS (Neo Fighters in general) are hardcore as you have to be to still play those damn things! <IMG SRC="smilies/glee.gif" border="0">


Probably more, but there you go!

Peace

JHendrix

 

[Kiel]

Gunstar heroes
or any other Treasure game
Super Metroid
Neo geo games
PC Engine games

I know there are lots more but I'm drawing a blank right now.

 

[Kiel]

Originally posted by JHendrix:

Final Fantasy (it's gone sorta mainstream, but come on you gotta be hardcore to put 60+ hours into a game just for the "story").
Xenogears
Chrono Trigger or Cross (get all the endings and you be livin' la hardcore loca!)

MOTW, LB, SS (Neo Fighters in general) are hardcore as you have to be to still play those damn things! <IMG SRC="smilies/glee.gif" border="0">


[/QB]

Yeah those too. Its a good thing I didn't have a job when I played those, I put 80-some hours on Xenogears and that was without dorking around. thats a fucked up game...