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Welcome to Playithardcore.com, the site dedicated to quality walkthroughs and guides focused on completing games without dying or reloading. Our guides are geared towards caution, never leading you into deathtraps or telling you to "reload until it works". Our guides emphasize skill and preparation, demonstrating that a game doesn't have to look like a thousand lucky breaks marked by frequent reloading. A character death to us means starting over.
All games are welcome here, as are specialty walkthroughs and artificial rules that make games more interesting. The only thing we do not allow here is cheating and, of course, reloading. We are dedicated to the highest quality guides and data for the games we host on the Internet. We are a community of the highest caliber gamers. We don't cheat, twink or reload - we play it hardcore.
All of the glory. None of the dying. Playithardcore.
Recent Updates: 8/19/2010: As all of our 5 legitimate users have realized, spambot activity on the wiki is off the charts. The real solution to this would be to update mediawiki, turn off all powers except reading powers for unregistered users, and install recaptcha. However, this would require a significant amount of work and coordination with a number of other people and with my current schedule of 60+ hour work weeks and intense family pressures I simply don't have the motivation to wrestle mediawiki's often unhelpful mechanics and bad documentation to get all of this done, especially when it seems there is almost no legitimate traffic on the site. When the site was founded, we thought our fellow game enthusiasts would jump at the chance to collaboratively uncover the secrets of the games we love so dearly. And in spite of weeks invested in vetting and documenting game mechanics and secrets, promoting and showing off the site, it looks like we were wrong. Not only are people not contributing, but it seems very much like very few people care to even read.
The current plan is that I will check PIH roughly once every week, deleting spam pages and protecting legitimate pages that have been vandalized. Every vandalized page will go to sysop-only protection until there is no more legitimate content for the bots to vandalize. The site will slowly become frozen and the only refuge for the spambots will be unused talk pages and orphaned links. It's not the way I wanted this site to go, but it is all the more I am willing to put forward with my current perception of the site: Unused, unappreciated, and unmourned.
You can change this by proving my perceptions about the site's traffic wrong. If you are a legitimate user of any kind, whether a reader, a frustrated contributor, or just an enthusiast who doesn't want to see the site die, post on my Talk page. Just a sentence is fine. You do not need to register. If the response surprises me, I will refocus what little free time I have into making this the luxurious, modern, bot-free place you all deserve.
Thanks to all of you and keep on playing it hardcore. --ThunderClaw 16:14, 19 August 2010 (EDT)
Currently Supported FAQs/Walkthroughs
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
Non-Canon Guides and Walkthroughs
These are guides for games that don't meet certain criteria for playing on Hardcore, such as an inherently pointless combat system or an already-integrated system to handle character death aside from "Game Over", but are still beloved by the guide author. Some of the guides were added due to existing guides being incomplete or too scattered, outdated or otherwise unsatisfactory. We here at PIH are lovers of games, old and new alike, and hope that these guides get people interested in them
If you don't see a game you love up here, console or PC, feel free to start your own guide!
Please see the FAQ page for further clarification of our purpose and important information regarding the site. If you're doing anything besides just reading the wiki, we assume you've read the FAQ. Then, use the search bar or start browsing the Genres to get started!
- NOTE: This wiki is still quite new and is under heavy construction. If you are a gamer who is thrilled by the idea of completing games without ever dying or even if you're just a challenge junkie, feel free to start pages for your favorite games! See the Created Page Standards for a rundown of the sysops' expectations (trust me, it's not picky). Further, if you're interested in helping us create logos or styles for the wiki, head on over to our forum topic and submit your work! Alternatively, go to the Help Request page to see what our current needs are.
- NOTE: As we add videos to the site to add on to our walkthroughs, they'll be located at http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=playithardcore
- NOTE: A list of current recognized staff and significant contributers is on the PlayItHardcore Staff page.
