Talk:Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/@comment-94.140.84.108-20131023121729/@comment-4613046-20131023162448

Ahh, now we're on the same page.

I can understand that you hate the prologue, the only way I know you can "skip it" would be to die during the Chimera fight. The problem is, is that it's already at the end of the prologue. At that point you'd just be better off beating it.

But yes Hardcore Mode (Not to be confused with Hardmode) is the process of permanent character death. Basically you have one life. If you die, you die.

More information regarding Hardcore mode can be found here on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_death

I still have nightmares from playing Diablo 2 Hardcore. Lost a lot of good characters due to lag. D=

Another way would be: "200 or bust" meaning hit the max level within a certain amount of time or delete the character and start over. I used this phrase quite often back when I still played World of Warcraft, telling newer members who've hit level 50 (at the time the max was 60) to "60 or bust" meaning they had one day to gain the last 10 levels otherwise start from scratch.

Since hitting level 200 in one day would become super boring, I would not recommend this route. >_>