yes actually and many were longer as well ,
lets look at a old fps like goldeneye
-yoiu get an objectives screen but thats it, theres no arrows or waypoint helping you figure it outÂ
and you have a health bar ,so you could not just run blazing ,especally on the higher difficulty setting and theres one level in particular that is hard on any given difficulty -egyptian plus you were given an insentive to complete levels in a certain ammount of time -now adays you dont recieve anything for beating the game  -except a fake trophy or useless number,Â
back in the day also mario had no save option , 5 lives and its game over ,back to world 1-1Â
the only genre i believe that hasnt changed besides sports and racing is rpg, those are still quite hard ,and long -yet scarce compared to snes ps1 ps2 era
but fighting games platformers adventurer/action and fpses were harder and much more longer and had many options eg-ai in multiplayer -split screen , the last game i seen with split screen and bots was pd0Â
after that quantum of solace wii .goldeneye and 007 legends and cod are the only fps combatgames with split screen , gow has co op but ya games were longer and more diffcult
mariokart64fan
Was there any actual game released within awhile that actually had lives? That's another thing I forgot to put in the OP, everything seems to give you way too much help. I understand having no lives and having placed checkpoints, but a lot of games just kind of put you in the same spot, and some have it so the difficulty automatically goes down if you lose a lot. But how about shooters Mariokart fan? not FPS games but other types of shooters that were usually known for being hard? I still think some of those are ok, and Rpgs seem to do well I agree, games like Oblivion, Star Ocean, Witcher, etc. are still pretty balanced in difficulty. But I think they are starting to decline, look at games like Fable 3, Two Worlds, FFXIII, lS and more. 
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