ESRBTMND: Donkey Kong
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I can beat Super Mario Brothers in 7 minutes flat, Contra in 16 but that game is still harder than a 60 year old man on Viagra. Modern video games just don't stack up to older games. Sure the graphics are better and they have stories behind them but does it really matter when you buy your game at midnight and beat it at 3 AM?
The last game I actually played was San Andreas. And yes it took about a total of 20 hours to beat but given the medium, the technology and the funding they could have done so much better. Pacman, Space Invaders, Frogger and the original Donkey Kong posed as a challenge. Now you just continue your game from your last save point. Why not just build U U D D L R L R B A SELECT START into every game?
SO many developers could do SO much better... unfortunately, even though they now have the power to patch and expand, many console games are released only once and with many shortcomings. Me being the perfectionist that I am, though, I'm just never fully satisfied with anything these days, so don't take my word for it. I just look at a lot of games and say "they could have done (this) and changed (that) but they probably never will."
Harder doesn't always make them better, but I can see what you are saying. The industry has sacrificed difficulty for accessibility. I am a man who needs his saves, however. Without saves, progress is meaningless, and the game is a lot less satisfying imo. Nothing says fun like passing those same boring first levels over and over just to get to the new challenging stuff. Sure it extends the game's length and value, but at the cost of repetition, and there is nothing I hate more than watching reruns on TV.
For a game to be really great, it needs to strike a perfect balance between difficulty, accessibility, and of course fun. If its more frustratingly difficult than fun, why are you wasting your time on the game? You might as well do something constructively painful, like work, or chores. Alternatively, a game that is too is easy, while lacking in frustration, is simply boring, because challenge increases the sense of accomplishment one can get from achieving a goal.
You know if you guys want to get into some difficult games, there's a series called the Wanderers from YS which are actually rather hard. They offer saves, levels, all those types of typical RPG fun stuff, however it's an action RPG where -your- moves, not your -stats- keep you alive. They released some fairly new ones which still play very old school, The Oath in Felghana and I forget the other one. You can torrent them, or if you want to go out of your way and get an import you can do that.
The ESRB is only a safety net for the video game industry. They can put a content and age rating label on any game and if some f*cknut goes around and shoots a bunch of people they can't blame that the video game made them do it. They have to put the responsibility on the parents and community. Think of it as the MPAA.
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