Know what makes me mad the most about modern day games? Death.

I mean, it was bad enough when I bought a ps2 and found out every game I played was insanely easy. In the off chance I actually died...nothing happened. I checked my stats, but none had dropped. I checked my loot, but none was missing. They didn't even show an annoying antagonist dancing in the background while laughing maniacally. Nothing.

So I sit there, with absolutely no adverse effects, and think, why didn't I just read a book instead? There is absolutely no reason to work, to push yourself, to achieve things when someone is always there to hold your hand and wipe your tears when you fall down.

Even games that were traditionally hard are now easy. Take Grand Theft Auto IV. A fun game. I liked it a lot. However, when you die, you lose a little cash. Big frickin' whoop. You never even spend cash in that game. I had millions of dollars by the time I was half way done. And that is only if you manage to die. It's not easy to find death.

Stand up, my fellowgamers and demand something more. Companys have it in their twisted little minds that people want to be coddled. We don't. I though Demon's Souls would have convinced a few companies that a yeah, an insanely tough game may make us want to put a new painting on our wall to cover the holes from thrown controllers...but at the end of the day the achievement of accomplishing something we weren't sure we could do far outweighs any frustration of the process.

Bring back the golden days of gaming. Put the new advances in AI and mechanics to work!