This is an event that goes out of its way to cater to the hardcore game enthusiasts of the world.
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Team Ninja should add a super-easy mode called Ultimate Hardcore Nightmare Mode to the next game.
Not exactly a challenging game from a typical hardcore perspective.
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In general, however, fans of hardcore puzzlers will find little to challenge them, and action game fans will find Long Road Ahead thin gruel.
It has stunning graphics and the kind of processing power necessary to create lifelike movement and even give game characters artificial-intelligence capabilities that should make hardcore gamers hungry with anticipation for the end of the year (the most specific Sony got about the release timeframe).
But for the most part, a Bond game is developed for the mainstream audience, not the hardcore gamer.
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But while Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida was packed to the brim and loud as can be, outside of the hardcore fans, it appears that people are content with watching the game at home.
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Lewis Digby from Gameloft's UK branch told the BBC the company responded to comments of "a selected few hardcore older fans of My Little Pony who were wanting to progress through the game very quickly".
While some other games have a habit of irking hardcore fans with microtransactions or content they feel should have been in the main game, Gearbox has done a fantastic job of releasing high-quality DLC on a regular schedule.
This may be a little too much honesty for some people, and they may call Levine a sellout or misleading marketer, but the truth is the game does need to appeal to more than just a niche of hardcore gamers.
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The company will be showcasing a new stand-alone device -- the portable Nintendo 3DS. The handheld game is expected to feature glasses-free 3-D, which has hardcore gamers wondering just what 3-D on a small screen will look like.
Agawi stands for "any game, anywhere, instantly" as its mission to offer all types of games, from casual to hardcore, across all devices.
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