The Ghost of RubangB said:
I should have added "Outside of a minority of SHMUP masochists." Yeah I know about bullet hell games and they're really fun to watch. They make our current top 50 games every month look like dumbed down casual trash. Bullet hell gamers are the only true 1337 hardcore gamers around. Ikaruga's about as much as I can handle, and barely. But I think bullet hell games are some sort of sick demented alternate future of 80s gaming, where 2D games, which were already hard as hell, just got harder and harder, instead of getting replaced with easier 3D versions. I don't know of any 3D equivalent to that madness. I guess a 3D version of bullet hell would be trying to fly through the virtual reality area in The Lawnmower Man, and rotating your body to fit through tiny holes in the walls. They should make one like that on Wii and PS3 for tilt controls to rotate your body. |
Games haven't necessarily gotten easier so much as they've simply changed.
Most games are no longer designed with the intent of being played in a single sitting.
Few games use the endless levels + high score pattern now so the game is over when you finish and not when it gets too fast for you.
A lot of older game mechanics have simply been phased out.
