How are non-Americans so sick at gaming?!??

[Riachu]

d21lewis said:

rocketpig said:

d21lewis said:

Asian gamers can do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZuidKexBQ&feature=related

And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_tmFUWu9bI

And Super Mario Bros. 2 was considered too hard for the retarded Americans to play.  We've been spoon fed easy gaming experiences while the Japanese have been playing the tougher games, there whole lives.

Actually, that is completely untrue. Google around and you'll find dozens of comments from developers about how Japanese gamers hate overly difficult games and despise dying in-game... and most of them are from Japanese developers themselves. Ever wondered why the Japanese and Americans have drifted so far apart in gaming tastes? By and large, their gaming experiences are RPGs (no dying, your own pace) or puzzle games while Americans have delved into the cut-throat world of online gaming, the most difficult of all gaming experiences short of playing a game on Insane in a time trial. Europeans seem to be more of a mix.

Now, this isn't true for ALL Japanese gamers versus their American counterparts but I've heard it from enough respected developers that I'll take their word for it.

Dammit, Rocketpig!  Weren't you gone?  You came back just to prove me wrong!!

He's right.  They actually upped the difficulty of their games for us.  Devil May Cry 3's American normal difficulty was the hard difficulty in the original Japanese version.  Those videos you gave us links to were hardcore Japanese gamers.  Also, any gamer can get through that final boss if they have enough coins to continue.