Growing trend? Little to no penalty for dying in a game.

[exindguy]

dougsdad0629 said:

exindguy said:
I don't like it but it's not like this hasn't been a scourge for much, much longer than recently--it's especially irritating when a game only has one difficulty level and/or you have to go through the game once to unlock a harder one.

However, as a semi-relevant aside, I love when people complain a game is too easy because it provides unlimited continues--apparently not continuing never occurred to these Einsteins.

 

 A game with unlimited continues can still be challenging if you have to start the entire level over again while keeping none of your experience or pickups.

I'm not disagreeing with you but I was remarking about complaints about a game being too easy because it provides you with unlimited continues (and, thus, instead of simply only using one credit, you use them until the game ends which knocks the challenge down to zero in these cases), not when a game is so hard that even unlimited continues results in slow progression.