Most people think hardcore means blood, gore, and languge. I don't think thats what it means at all. Most people who think hardcore means all of those things are completely wrong. I think hardcore means your a fan of the BIG franchises. I'm a hardcore Nintendo fan (always will be) so for me I like the Mario, Metroid, SSB, Zelda, ect. franschises. People say Nintendo is for kiddies, yaaaaa those people most likely smoked weed when they said that. I mean look at the games they have. Mario Strikers Charged, thats full ofelectric fences of all kinds of tourchering tools to make soccer harder. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Shootingfuturistic guns,wierd but cool looking aliens, a dark stroy line (oh andto add MP Hunters). What I'm saying is, don't think hardcore means games likeGears of War, it means huge die hard fans of any video gaming company and their franchises.