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archer2371 · 11-08-2003, 02:29 PM

There I am in Blockbuster and I see the latest release for Game Cube that I have wanted to play since I heard about the first develoment stages. I go home, pop the disk in, move some memory files around and start to play. It's now three days later, and the game has been beaten, the foe vanquished and the universe/world/land is rejoicing in my greatness. And I'm sitting there thinking "Is this all?" Is it just me, or have video games gotten perpetually easier with all these new consoles out? With very few rare exceptions like the Final Fantasy series, Legend of Zelda, Metroid Prime, and others like them, games take only a few days for me to beat now. I figure, maybe I've just gotten really damn good at playing them, so I decide to pop in some oldie but goodie Super Nintendo games figuring I can beat the all holy hell out these games. Nope, not a chance, I spend weeks trying to beat my SNES games, and days beating my GC/PS2/XBOX games. Has the video game industry lowered itself to actually making the games easier so that the little kids can feel good about themselves? I would surely hope not, but alas, I think it a dream, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain. Granted, as I said before, there are games that push me to very edge of my gaming abilities, but now a days, they are few and far between. I'm just glad that I didn't sell my SNES so that I can actually get some replay value out of video games now.

11-08-2003, 02:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
archer2371 Sarge of Blood Gulch Red Outpost Number One Location: On the front lines against our very enemy	Getting Good at Video Games There I am in Blockbuster and I see the latest release for Game Cube that I have wanted to play since I heard about the first develoment stages. I go home, pop the disk in, move some memory files around and start to play. It's now three days later, and the game has been beaten, the foe vanquished and the universe/world/land is rejoicing in my greatness. And I'm sitting there thinking "Is this all?" Is it just me, or have video games gotten perpetually easier with all these new consoles out? With very few rare exceptions like the Final Fantasy series, Legend of Zelda, Metroid Prime, and others like them, games take only a few days for me to beat now. I figure, maybe I've just gotten really damn good at playing them, so I decide to pop in some oldie but goodie Super Nintendo games figuring I can beat the all holy hell out these games. Nope, not a chance, I spend weeks trying to beat my SNES games, and days beating my GC/PS2/XBOX games. Has the video game industry lowered itself to actually making the games easier so that the little kids can feel good about themselves? I would surely hope not, but alas, I think it a dream, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain. Granted, as I said before, there are games that push me to very edge of my gaming abilities, but now a days, they are few and far between. I'm just glad that I didn't sell my SNES so that I can actually get some replay value out of video games now. __________________ "This ain't no Ice Cream Social!" "Hey Grif, Chupathingy...how bout that? I like it...got a ring to it." "I have no earthly idea what it is I just saw, or what this place is, or where in the hell O'Malley is! My only choice is to blame Grif for coming up with such a flawed plan. Stupid, stupid Grif."