Malstrom: Mega Man herald of apocalypse (but game won't be all that great)

[Soma]

Picko said:

Soma said:

"Bozon saying Mega Man 2 is ‘hardcore’ sounds like he is using the reasoning of “since I am hardcore and I like this game, therefore, this game must be hardcore”. Some might say, “But Malstrom! Mega Man 9 is hard! Therefore, it is only for hardcore!” Oh please. Everyone agrees that the early NES games were hard and that the NES users were mostly children. Are you telling me that children, most of whom had little to no experience in video games, were ‘hardcore’ in the 1980s? Of course not."

 

^^THIS. END OF DISCUSSION

Unfortunately, "hard" is a relative concept which makes that entire paragraph rather stupid. We define many games as hard relative to our current standards. Adjusted for the standards gamers had then they would've been regarded as relatively easy or of moderate difficulty. Absolutes don't exist when we talk about game difficulty.

So how about we don't prematurely call an end to the discussion (unless the reason is that the article was too silly to warrant discussion).

 

 

The point is not about games being hard or not, but gamers being hardcore or not. How could children be hardcore gamers when WE were new at gaming?

And, are you telling me games like Ninja Gaiden, Megaman, Battletoads, TMNT were considered to have moderate difficulty in those days? I don't think so.