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| shoryuken4u:
I ask this because I am getting my ass handed to me in Donkey Kong Country as well as a slew of other SNES games. My PS3 games have not been all that hard with the exception of the notoriously difficult Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. Out of curiosity, what have been the most difficult retro games for you guys? |
| htimreimer:
the reason why retro games are so difficult is because the lack of memory on the cartridge see what most game developers did back then is make 5 to 10 levels and pump up the difficulty to make it feel longer than it is now some developers did make games with more then 10 levels but it was very hard and expensive to do --- Quote from: shoryuken4u on October 19, 2012, 11:38:27 am ---Out of curiosity, what have been the most difficult retro games for you guys? --- End quote --- For me it a FPS from 1998 called nam and lets say that i died in 40 seconds of playing the first level on the easiest setting those virtual vietnamese people don't fu@k around |
| matt:
Absolutely. There are very few modern games that capture the difficultly of the classic games. Games back then were more skill based and really forced you to get better. A lot of the early games were ports of arcade titles which by their very nature were difficult since the goal was to hopefully force the user into pumping in more quarters. Publishers also weren't so worried about competing against movies and other forms of entertainment. It seems that now the target market has shifted and so has the difficulty. Thus you'll see most games with a casual setting where the user can simply coast through the game in order to be entertained. The only games that buck this trend are from the indie market where they don't have to worry so much about sales figures and pleasing a publisher. |
| tpugmire:
I wouldn't necessarily say that retro games are harder. Sure, some retro games are hard as hell, but so are some newer games too. The challenges are different, and what htimreimer said is right to a degree. I find it hard to compare retro games and new games because they are so different. Is Adventure for 2600 harder than Skyward Sword? Some would say yes, I personally wouldn't even compare them. |
| jcalder8:
If you look at a single level I think that modern games can be just as challenging as retro games. When you consider that retro games do not allow you to save or restart right from where you died I think the challenge is greater in retro games |
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