So, let's make a list of hardcore games(not rpg).

[Luzur]

hardcore as in hard to play or just hardcore in style?

Moonstone.

 

[FaChoi]

Hardcore with capital H. Bible black, damn trannys, black madjic and much rape. Was difficult as hell to get anything like a good ending too.

 

[Nihilism]

TMNT II
Mega Man

 

[Metro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXkX96asiUM

 

[Felix]

define hardcore.

In before Rapelay.

Rapelay is nothing compare to other stuffs from Japan.

 

[laclongquan]

Patrician 3 is for hardcore, fuckers!

PLaying it can get your brain running out of your nose if you dont have the head for that.

 

[Destroid]

To my mind this comes down to accessibility, the more 'work' you need to put in before you can play the game properly.

OFP and Hearts of Iron are probably the most hardcore games I have played a lot of. I recall when I was younger firing up EU2 and quitting halfway through the tutorial.

Most comlicated strategy games come under this category, and anything with exceedingly high difficulty right off the bat.

 

[oscar]

OFP and Hearts of Iron are probably the most hardcore games I have played a lot of. I recall when I was younger firing up EU2 and quitting halfway through the tutorial.

Only thing with Paradox games is they become relatively easy when you figure out the game mechanics. The real challenge is learning the details.

 

[piydek]

Hardcore with capital H. Bible black, damn trannys, black madjic and much rape. Was difficult as hell to get anything like a good ending too.

Then this is Hardcore itself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV_JXCEqkbA

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Thief 1 and 2

 

[Kthan75]

No hardcore games list is complete without I Wanna Be The Guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l-kBGr-tB8

Unfortunately, the video doesn't convey the hardcore-ness too well, because the guy is pretty good. You need to play it, it's pure evil.

 

[CrimHead]

Your mom does hardcore

 

[Hoodoo]

I wanna be the guy

 

[markec]

Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat is the only game I ever played for which I can honestly say it was difficult.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Flanker

 

[Boyarpunk]

Men of War series

Red Orchestra

 

[spectre]

Falcon 4.0

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

x-com?

 

[forgotmypasswordagain]

Bravo Romeo Delta. The most realistic simulation of global thermonuclear warfare set in the last thirty years that I have been able to find. It is essentially unwinnable, but it's not too boring to try anyway.

 

[Zomg]

Fighting games are ridiculously hardcore

You can't really do like abandonware or indie shit with them though because you have to constantly migrate to whatever human beings are currently playing and hope the popular shit is decent because there is no recourse

Or you can be a fagboat and play whatever shit with your 4 buddies but that's not the hardcore thing I'm talking about.

 

[Ermm]

Gears of War
Good for what it is

 

[Martin]

Severance: blade of darkness.

It was so hardcore I gave up and uninstalled, pretty hardcore though.

And XCOM on a high enough difficulty setting is pretty hardcore too.

So is mastering prince of persia 1 to the point of having tons of minutes left

and...


fuck this shit.

 

[FaChoi]

Hardcore with capital H. Bible black, damn trannys, black madjic and much rape. Was difficult as hell to get anything like a good ending too.

Then this is Hardcore itself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV_JXCEqkbA

The Sadistic Butchering Of Humanity looks quite a fun game, seems quite rpg...by new shit standards anyway.

 

[juggernaut]

SAM Simulator

a realistic surface-to-air missile system simulator of cold war Russian tech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYGF9njTegs

http://sites.google.com/site/samsimulator1972/home

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/12/20/serious-sam-simulator/

 

[VasectomyOmega]

Red Orchestra

Not really. Sure, a rifle shot in the middle of the torso is surely going to bring you down and being under fire blurs your vision and shakes your aim, but that's as hardcore as it gets. It's not much of a deep game. Tank combat is somewhat deep, but it's not even at simulation levels. It's still a great game though. It's very easy to get into (at least it was for me), yet it somehow manages to encourage players to use more realistic infantry and tank tactics. Unlike Call of Duty where you run around shooting whatever comes out (popamole?).

Now for my contribution

Project Reality. A BF2 mod, but I feel there's enough to call it it's own game. The majority of the maps are kilometers wide. Most of my time in that game is spent building a fire base for my platoon, patrolling the area around an objective, dropping off supplies to firebases, or moving towards an objective. I usually spend that time cracking jokes with my squad and stuff. When I'm not doing those, I'm surveying enemy movements, performing flanking maneuvers, laying down a base of fire, or taking cover from an airstrike or artillery strike. Those short moments are worth all the boring moments, as they're extremely intense and fun.

Gears of War, now that's a fucking hardcore game. You have chainsaws mounted onto machine guns in which you can use to cut ugly ass motherfuckers in half.