I imagine it to be something like the ’95 movie Hackers except with more old/overweight men. It’s a mystery to me why anyone would dedicate that much time to something that will never acknowledge your achievements. I’ve never fully understood the “hardcore” gaming scene. But why play a game where your high score will never be as good as the ones on the leaderboards? Is that just part of the “hardcore gamer” mentality? Then why do people still play Super Hexagon? I understand the attraction to unforgiving games like Dark Souls where the payoff for extremely difficult gameplay (character growth, advancing the story) is rewarding in and of itself. Still, the leaderboards are littlered with obviously hacked scores. (“hack” word count: 8) Cavanaugh claims that making it easy to hack high scores effectively make it useless to hack because the whole point of hacking a leaderboard in the first place is to show others that you’re good at hacking. The article goes on to explain how Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanaugh made it extremely easy to hack the iOS leaderboards for the game. “cheating” for those who aren’t following). “Why play a game where your high score will never be as good as the artificially generated ones?”īut what happens when the leaderboards themselves are rigged? In this Edge article, the author talks how many hackers are making it their business to plaster their name across the leaderboards without putting in the proper effort (i.e. Even though I’ve never been a high score chaser, it’s not hard to imagine the pride that someone might feel upon realizing that they’re better than the rest of the world at something fairly difficult. Presumably, the reason people go so hard on games like Super Hexagon is because they want to see their names way up there on the leaderboard. Now, there exists tips on how to beat the game (yes it’s possible to beat Super Hexagon), but after looking up strategies and tricks, I couldn’t help but think to myself: what’s the point of all this? As I dug a bit deeper, things got pretty dark. The controls are simple but there are so many things moving around and changing direction that it’s easy to get completely lost and die after just a few seconds (like I did…over and over again).
For those who’ve never played it, here’s some gameplay footage. Obviously, it’s an incredibly hard game. I was wary but excited because of all the good things I had heard about it. On the recommendation of numerous video game podcast hosts, I downloaded Super Hexagon on my iPhone a few months back. Super Hexagon: Are Super Hard Games Really Worth It?
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