| Bodhesatva said: I actually don't see a problem with this. People don't seem to cry foul when games are criticized for being too easy. Difficulty isn't something like intellectual sophistication in a movie, where there is no limit to the amount that is good. You will never here a movie critic say that a film was too intelligent or that it was too emotionally complicated. That's something that has no limit; by contrast, everyone has a point where difficulty stops being a good thing. Which certainly makes it more challenging to critique game difficulty; when is a game too easy? When it is too hard? What do those terms mean in the context of a professional critique? I'm not suggesting that 1up has correctly decided what is too difficult or too easy; I haven't played New Blood at all. Instead, I simply want to establish that the idea of a game being too difficult isn't an absurd complaint. |
I would. Who cares if a game is really easy so long as it's a lot of fun? I've never died probably half of the PS2 and Gamecube games i've owned... plenty of them were still fun. A lot of the others ones i've only died in the last few levels.
