WHy did games get easier once the shift to 3D?

I can only come up with checkpoints and A.I.

In the past there weren't really any checkpoints in a game. Each level just had to be beat. Now games gives you a checkpoint walking every 30 seconds and when you die you don't have to restart the level

Also A.I haven't evolved enough to impress anybody. In some games the A.I. have been really good, but I don't think there has really been a game where you really have to outsmart the oponents. WHy is this. I believe the technology is, but maybe developers think it will be too hard.

In terms of A.I do you think developers will program the A.I to replicate actuall people game styles. For Instance lets say in Gears2, the bots were really just replicas of certain people playstyles and statistics during certain modes. The tech is there because if Visual Concepts could do that for NFL2k5; then someone should be able to expand upon it.

Development budgets went up with 3D, so they had to target new audiences by making games easier. And yes, I got that theory from my behind. More likely they just realized that less frustration means more fun.

Development budgets went up with 3D, so they had to target new audiences by making games easier. And yes, I got that theory from my behind. More likely they just realized that less frustration means more fun.

mr_mozilla

3d was not when they got easier. They got easier when there was room to make games longer and add stories. If NES game were easy they would only last like a hour but the countless retrys are what made the worth owning.wooooode

The only way to keep someone playing a 2d game was to make it so they had to play the hell out of it just to be able to beat it. Now with 100+ hour open world games, endless multiplayer and comunity components and cutscene filled narrative stories, there are other ways to keep the player interested as opposed to pounding them into submission i.e. Mega Man games on NES.Il_Exile_lI

I think the range of Movement because when it was 2D it could go up, down, left, and right. But with the switch to 3D they had to make it easier because you could easily get lost play a game that is in full 3D and no clues on were to go.

That's part of the evolution of game design conventions. Way back when, much of the mentality was still focused on bringing the coin-op experience into the living room.

That's why we see many console games of the era with terms like "credits" or # of lives and "continues". Part of that arcade mentality was to motivate people to feed quarters into a machine, so the difficulty was rather harsh. Of course, this didn't translate 100% to a home environment. In the arcade, you could buy as many "continues" as you wanted. If you got frustrated, you'd stop, but there'd be someone else to feed the machine.

But at home, since people owned that game, they could play for as long as they wanted. If they got frustrated, they'd stop playing. Maybe return or trade or regift it. A developer/publisher's revenue stream was a bit different now.

So eventually you saw devs gradually move away from the coin-op game design model to something closer to what we see today.

That's part of the evolution of game design conventions. Way back when, much of the mentality was still focused on bringing the coin-op experience into the living room.

That's why we see many console games of the era with terms like "credits" or # of lives and "continues". Part of that arcade mentality was to motivate people to feed quarters into a machine, so the difficulty was rather harsh. Of course, this didn't translate 100% to a home environment. In the arcade, you could buy as many "continues" as you wanted. If you got frustrated, you'd stop, but there'd be someone else to feed the machine.

But at home, since people owned that game, they could play for as long as they wanted. If they got frustrated, they'd stop playing. Maybe return or trade or regift it. A developer/publisher's revenue stream was a bit different now.

So eventually you saw devs gradually move away from the coin-op game design model to something closer to what we see today.

VoodooHak