Core vs. Nintendo Core

[Steel Diver]

I keep hearing people say that Nintendo games are Nintendo core like Star Fox, as in the game is not "hardcore" unless you like Nintendo. What exactly are people trying to get at? Does a game have to have guns to be core? Or be rated M? Or not be on a Nintendo System?

[Agent_Rad]

You might be thinking of the term "Nintendo Hard," where a game is hard enough to hearken back to the NES/Arcade days.

"Nintendo Core" is basically core-gamers. Everyone who's a core gamer had, has, and will have Nintendo systems. People trying to distinguish "Nintendo Core" from "Core" are just haters and tend to be ignored.

[Gulshog]

I think people are just tired of the term hardcore. I use the term traditional, and it gets the idea across better, for me.

[thresholdXCI]

I guess it could mean that games like, for instance, Mario Galaxy are easy to jump in and play and are attractive to very young and/ or very casual players whilst still being deep and challenging enough to really satisfy 'hardcore gamers'.

Or, if it's used as derogatorily as you suggest, it could just be lame troll lingo designed to rile up the more uptight members of communities like this.

[Nintend()\/\/|\|312]

I don't think "Nintendo core" gamers would really be diminutive versions of "hard core" gamers but rather a subset. I think it would be foolish for anyone to say that there are no hard core gamers on this site because Nintendo cannot be hard core. To me, a gamer that is going to spend all night playing Skyward Sword the day it comes out is just as hard core as someone who is going to stay up all night playing Skyrim the day it comes out. My definition of "hard core" is solely based on the amount of time, effort and money one invests in one's interest. So, if you are hard core into Nintendo games, I suppose that would qualify as being "Nintendo core".

I think the idea that a hard core Nintendo gamer is less dedicated to gaming than other hard core gamers would be mostly because of the reasons thresholdXCI mentioned earlier. Nintendo, even with their most hard core games, try harder than others to be casual friendly. I highly doubt Gears of Wars 3 is going to have a character in it that suggest you take a break from the game like SMG2 had. (Of course, all us HK motherfudgers told that luma where to go and kept on playing for another three hours.)

[Devil_Rising]

Honestly, I for one and sick and tired of all this "casual" and "core" gamer bulls*** talk. It was old when it started. It's beyond old now. I'm almost 30 dude. I grew up playing Atari 2600, NES, and Arcade. By the time I was in my teens, SNES and Genesis, and then Playstation and N64 were "It". But never in my life did I hear anything about "core" games, OR "core" gamers. As a matter of fact, in my latter teen years and into early adulthood, I referred to MYSELF as a "casual gamer", meaning that I didn't play all the time anymore, but only sometimes. Then all the sudden that term takes on a whole new meaning, and it's some kind of gaming nerd pissing contest, to see "who's really a gamer and who isn't". You know, "I'm more gamer than you are", etc.

It's sad, and bothersome. If anyone in their right mind honestly doesn't consider MOST Nintendo franchises to be "core" games, then they're retarded, flat out. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Star Fox, Mario Kart, Earthbound, Fire Emblem, etc. That stuff is gaming lore. Old classics like Star Tropics and Kid Icarus are some of the hardest and most complex games of their time. Even something like Pikmin or Animal Crossing or Wii Sports has enough nuance to it, that it should be considered "worthy" by gamers.

The only people who would actually ever find themselves saying something as dumb as "The only people who like Nintendo Core titles, are Nintendo fans", are silly teenagers, and 30-something tardcore fanboys who can't get this "Playstation and Xbox are for KOOL KIDS, Nintendo is for BABIES" mentality out of their head. Nintendo never propagated that image. Dumbasses from my generation who bought into Sega's dumb "Genesis Does" ads, and onward through the years, have. End of story.

[Koopzilla]

I think Hardcore gamer means you play violent FPS's.

[Veitch11]

I think people are just tired of the term hardcore. I use the term traditional, and it gets the idea across better, for me.

This is also what I've been using lately. Whenever I say "I'm a hardcore gamer" people think I just play Call of Duty or something and that annoys me...I've come to hate the term "hardcore gamer." It really means nothing.

[cobaltorange]

I think Hardcore gamer means you play violent FPS's.

What are you if you play non-violent FPS's?

[Koopzilla]

I think Hardcore gamer means you play violent FPS's.

What are you if you play non-violent FPS's?

I don't know, pansy core? Cause you sure as hell aren't hard!

[cortjezter]

What are you if you play non-violent FPS's?

one of the bang bang kids.

and that's why your'e still a kid.

[cobaltorange]

I think Hardcore gamer means you play violent FPS's.

What are you if you play non-violent FPS's?

I don't know, pansy core? Cause you sure as hell aren't hard!

For example, paintball mode in Perfect Dark.