Are videogames getting easier?
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Yes, sadly they are much easier these days then what they used to be.
Case in point: NES
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These 2 games continue to be some of the hardest ever created for a mass market, and they are 20 years old (give or take a year)
Case in point: NES
Battletoads
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
These 2 games continue to be some of the hardest ever created for a mass market, and they are 20 years old (give or take a year)
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3. ?
4. PROFIT!!!
Yes they are definitely getting easier. I recently replayed Sonic 2 and could only get half way through the game where years ago I could get to the end.
hmmm, maybe the question really is : Are video gamers getting too good for companies to keep up? Sounds like a joke, yes, but when you think about it, most of the newer games are just the same old ones with a new makeover and maybe a few new abilities. The formulas are all the same, FPS, RTS, RPG, etc. It's not that games are easy, it's that each game is so similar gameplay wise that its as if we're just playing the same game, and we got so used to it that we're now really good at them.
yes i think the games are getting easier but one part lies in the hardware its now more reliable than some years gone becous if you pushed the button it would not always work. and the games are getting shorter, but the multi player is getting larger , for example in killzone1 you had won the whole planet back, in killzone2 u only take over a city and killed a general, and the gamers are getting much better
yes they are; the gaming industry realizes that people are stupid and dumb the games down so much that they aren't fun anymore. I remember how games like Crash Bash was kicking my ass and it took me months to get 100%. Whereas even on Bioshock's survivor, I still beat it in a few days. I beat Resistance 2's superhuman in a day in half. FEAR2's hard difficualty only lasted a 7 hours. Not to say all of them are easy, uncharted and Deadspace's crushing/impossible difficulties provided a good challenge... if only for a week.
Sure, most big money AAA titles today are focus tested and made sure that they are a smooth run through and through.
What people forget, though, is that there are plenty of games outside those titles that do offer a challenge. You just need to give those titles a fair shake.
What people forget, though, is that there are plenty of games outside those titles that do offer a challenge. You just need to give those titles a fair shake.
It is a mixture of both. Some games have poorly balanced difficulties.
Others, like Zelda and the FPS genre are so similar to previous games that gamers find completing them rather easy. Thus multiplayer has become a far more important aspect to gaming these days.
Others, like Zelda and the FPS genre are so similar to previous games that gamers find completing them rather easy. Thus multiplayer has become a far more important aspect to gaming these days.
It's also good to remember that in many cases, games appear shorter to us today BECAUSE they're easier. Those really hard games back then could be beaten really quickly if you memorised everything and became really good at them (most of them, anyway).
But yeah, games are definately less difficult than they once were, presumably to make them more accessible. What most games lack these days, however, is different (or more varied) difficulty levels. Especially in RPGs.
Also, that video at the top of this page is crazy! 0_0
But yeah, games are definately less difficult than they once were, presumably to make them more accessible. What most games lack these days, however, is different (or more varied) difficulty levels. Especially in RPGs.
Also, that video at the top of this page is crazy! 0_0
well if ur playing the game on easy difficulty of course its easy, thats why you step up to the other Difficulties like hard, medium.