You're a pansy: Defending difficulty in today's games.

omodis420 - 381 days 6 hours ago

I didn't see that one coming. Wow, what a shocker.

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Raz - 381 days 1 hour ago

It may come as a surprise, but most gamers simply want to enjoy their entertainment, not be frustrated by it. There's a line between keeping it fun and making a game into work. (Evidence: Silent Hill; Homecoming)

..So quit being an insulting little elitist. I'll continue to enjoy games at my own pace and difficulty, thank you very much; and if I want to complain, I will - I paid for the game, after all.

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-GametimeUK- - 380 days 11 hours ago

is because the controls suck and enemies are so dumb they are hard

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demoneyeslaharl - 380 days 11 hours ago

Where's DMC4? By the time you hit Son of Sparda... the difficulty spikes up its not even funny. XD

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Pennywise - 380 days 11 hours ago

I beat all my games on hardest difficulty available at the start.

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thelastawakening - 380 days 11 hours ago

I like a challenge but not bad programming, it depends on the game. I'm playing R2 for the 3rd time on super human and it feels like the first time I played doom,fun and challenging, and the controls are tight. but I only play games on hard if the game is really enjoyable. Now for bad programming and the frustrating that goes with it, are real example would be Tomb Raider : angel of darkness. I really wanted to like the game and all but the death facot and the glitches I couldn't take.

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kevnb - 380 days 10 hours ago

have to disagree there. Its one of the best fps Ive played in a long long time.

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GWAVE - 380 days 10 hours ago

History lesson: games were hard to steal more quarters. Don't be under the false impression that Contra was super-hard just because Konami was hardcore. Contra was hard because Konami wanted to make some $$$ in the arcades. Unfortunately, lots of older gamers misunderstand this and treat their difficult games as some sort of elite standard.

These days, game difficulty is the same farce. It artificially extends the life of the game and gives the "hardcore" more fuel to feed their elitist fire. There are some games (MGS4, for instance) where higher difficulties actually add dynamics that aren't found in the lower difficulty levels, but those games are few and far between.

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OnslaughtX - 380 days 10 hours ago

I'm sorry, but most games these days are made for pansies. In the quest to casualize gaming (a la the Wii)they end up taking it too far. Useability becomes pandering, and frankly it sucks IMHO. Mega Man 9 and Contra 4, at least, are a good indication of how games can be challenging and not cheap.

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Killjoy3000 - 380 days 10 hours ago

Every game I get, I beat it on the hardest difficulty. Has anyone here ever beaten European extreme mode on MGS3? What about RE4 on Proffessional? R&C should have had difficulties.

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narked - 380 days 10 hours ago

agree with every word he said, i complain on the other hand that games arent as challenging as they where before.

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No FanS Land - 380 days 10 hours ago

Mirror's Edge is goddamn hard! I'm currently at last chapter and I struggled in half of all the chapters. Really hard.

And R2's difficulty was hard yeah But I don't remember a part where I really rushed. I think the whole game was globally hard.

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Sharpshell - 380 days 10 hours ago

especially the stuff about R2. i was so happy when R2 was HARDER than R:FOM (my memory might be faulty though) but i was terrified it would be subject to the Halo treatment, where each game was easier than the last. I love the tiumes in the game where I'm like "I don't know if I am capable of beating this" and then when i Do i'm like HOO-RAH! Take that chimera! It's always lame in a game like R2 where your like, are these guys even trying to stop me? But in R2 it feels like the Chimera are throwing EVERYTHING they have at you, adapting their stragety, trying to lure you into traps, so when I get through each section I feel like Nathan Hale single-handedly winning the war. For those who says they jsut want story, well difficulty is part of a games narative, therefore its essential! Yes in hte early days games were hard to make money, however newer games are easy for the same reason, greater appeal, but really there is a sweet spot in-between Contra and SMG(just getting enough to beat the game not extra stars which are damn hard lol)

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lordgodalming - 380 days 9 hours ago

First of all, would posters please stop saying "elitist"? All that word proves is that you watch Fox News. This article mostly seems to be a call for awareness that mainstream games are easier than they used to be, which is true. He's not saying that easy games suck, but that hard games DON'T suck just because they're hard. Take Wipeout HD. It's both fantastic and hard. I have already played the hell out of that game even though I'm pretty sure I'll never be good enough to beat all of the races (or even unlock some of them).

The argument that if you paid for a game then you should be able to finish it doesn't fly either. With the glut of video game review sites--most of which say exactly the same things--you should know a week before the game comes out whether it will be easy or hard. And don't say that you don't have time to read review scores, because you obviously have time to post a comment in a gaming forum.

The bottom line is that this article is one person's opinion, and there's really nothing offensive about it unless you REALLY don't like being called a pansy (in which case you are a pansy). The only problem in this article comes at the end, where the author writes "than your a pansy...LEARN SOMETHING." The "learn something" is hilariously offset by using "than your" instead of "then you're." Or is it elitist to expect a professional writer to have good grammar?

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iceman2885 - 380 days 5 hours ago

And I'm loving every minute of it so far. Heck, I died at least 15 times just at the ambush part on the first level, but after I finally beat it it was that much more gratifying. Also, it helped me win the Purple Heart Trophy, I was pumped b/c I got a trophy basically for sucking (actually for persevering in the face of danger, ha ha).

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ChrisGTR1 - 380 days 4 hours ago

i dont know but i kind of dont see the point in games that are too hard. you just get mad over and over and end up getting more pissed rather than enjoying a game. perfect example ninja gaiden 2 hard mode. i just couldnt beat the 2nd boss. tried for over 2 hours then gave up.

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