Tighe
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This pretty much sums up why I prefer old games to the new stuff these days!
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I thought you were gonna say that today's games need 2 left and 2 right trigger buttons, 2 analog joystics, a D-pad, 4 thumb buttons, internet connection and a hardrive for memory storage, and a big-screen LCD or LED HD TV in order to be played.
If you're talking about all the tutorial hand-holding in games as of late, I agree. But I also think some of it is necessary, since there are about 20 buttons and multiple sticks and gamepads to a game instead of one d-pad and two buttons any more.
Seriously, do you remember playing the original Legend of Zelda for the first time without the Nintendo Player's guide or Nintendo Power guide? Yeah, good luck with that.
Another game that comes to mind is Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. Good Lord, that game is seriously impossible without a guide of some sort.
Many games weren't as linear as they are nowadays where you achieve one thing and it pretty much tells you where to go next.
If they haven't already, IGN or GS should do some sort of segment where they get 6th-12th grade kids to play old school NES games (without cheats or guides) and see how frustrated they get.![]()
I will give you Castlevania II, but I beat Zelda 1 without any guide. It was hard but fun.
Yeah, it was and still is possible, but hard like you said. Then again, I was only like 6 or 7 when I played it for the first time so maybe that had something to do with it. Haha.
That's the great thing about it though. There's much more satisfaction in completing a game that really tests you as opposed to one that just hands you the end credits.
I can see that, I got it for my 13th birthday when it was new.
I will give you Castlevania II, but I beat Zelda 1 without any guide. It was hard but fun.
And you only cut the shrink wrap on the top flap to remove the cart and locked up all the packaging in a fireproof safe and it's still there to this day.
True dat. But alot of times back then, you'd have your friends over or big brother to help you too. Long before the internet, they acted as the rumor and gossip for what they heard worked well for secrets and whatnot. Of course, back then, there wasn't such a huge flood of games and systems, so alot of people were playing the same thing all at once.
Those were such wonderful times.
True dat. But alot of times back then, you'd have your friends over or big brother to help you too. Long before the internet, they acted as the rumor and gossip for what they heard worked well for secrets and whatnot. Of course, back then, there wasn't such a huge flood of games and systems, so alot of people were playing the same thing all at once.
Those were such wonderful times.
People have neither the time to invest nor the attention span for games that make you "figure it out." They want to be able to have a meaningful experience with the time they can allot for a game and then move on.