I could care less, having been playing through New Vegas... I have found myself to be avoiding Giant Rad Scorpians, Deathclaws, and THE GOD DAMN FLYING BEES OF DEATH (known as Cazadors; caps added for emphasis) like the friggin' plague. I love games which do that though, even though it's superbly difficult to take down and overcome these creatures, it makes me more immersed into the game. Still very fun. I don't games to be entirely mind-numbingly difficult. :/
Yes, most are far more easy to get into today because the market is gigantic and devs need to cater to the consumers. There are exceptions of mind boggling hard games though. What i dislike is insultingly simplistic games, like heavily scripted cinematic garbage with pathetically simple dramatic stories (at least make them entertaining, Serious Sam had a horribly simple story, but funny as all hell). I usually don't have a problem with easy games though, it's all in good fun.
I've been playing Mega Man and Mega Man X as of late, so yeah, today's games are way too easy.
Renegade_Fury
Yes, first time I played Megaman X when I was a kid, I had so much trouble. That is until I got the Leg Piece of the Armor which let me dash. Current games have become easier that is true..
Games used to be difficult often because of bad design, not because the creators wanted a hard game. Better game design has created easier games to a degree, but most games now can be immediately turned to a higher difficulty.
Challenge is good, but not to the point of anger and frustration.
jimkabrhel
I agree with this, older games felt more cheap than difficult
I think the best game to offer up a fair challenge is F-Zero GX.You actually had to have skill to beat missions on the harder difficulties.It's one of the most rewarding games I've played.
somewhat. there's always a higher difficulty setting. and people seem to forget that old games were usually difficult because they weren't intuitively designed or had less-than-adequate controls. games are "easier" today because they're better.
Most of the time if a game is too easy, the hard mode will prove to be a decent difficulty in my experience. A lot of the time the difficulty is just cheap, but old games had very cheap difficulty too.
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