I remember fondly, wanting to destroy my old consoles, not because i was unskilled but because the games were Fudging hard! Games like 'Altered Beast' from SEGA Mega Drive, or even stuff like 'Tetris' come to mind... not even sonic the hedgehog was as easy as games are today, and you didn't have difficulty settings. The only game that comes close i think to what games use to be like is 'Dark Souls'. I know this post isn't particularly helpful in any way, but i wonder how many people have fond memories of such games... List your favs
I agree with you on the difficulty of old school games but you just used to feel so much damn pride for completing a game back then! I think you are just kind of walked through a lot of modern games now. You should try something like 'Super Meat Boy' now if you are in to retro style games. It's super difficult but also brilliantly designed and amazingly addictive!
That is complete truth, imo it's because companies are making games for big masses of people, which involves high simplicity in games, and "first imression" factor, just for people to buy game and then see whats going on. More emphasis is being put on graphics and less on gameplay itself. People are just making games for money, not by idea like Molenye did back then.
Hello, public changes, games change, that's all. The main selling point of Dark Soul is "our game is incredibly difficult." We would not have seen this kind of advertising time of Super Nes. And the story ... Final Fantasy 6, incredible, touching! Xenogears, it kills your brain! And Secret of Mana, beautiful. Now ...
Most games are about graphics and not about gameplay anymore. Games like Counter-Strike 1.6 and Call of Duty 4 could survive for multiple years because of there gameplay. Beside that a lot of games have become to casual and won't challenge the more hardcore gamers. Something I hate about the current gaming industry is that they split games up in different DLC's to make money out of it....