are games becoming too easy?

[Weedlab]

ishiki said:

Weedlab said:

bananaking21 said:

ishiki said:
it is easier, but imo it happened more with the move to 3D, and then the move to regenerating health from health packs. That doesn't mean we're devoid of hard games though, and I think offering really easy modes is good for the industry as long as they give the option. For instance, Uncharted, Dead Space's, New Vegas Etc are not easy on hard, but very easy on easy.

Assasins Creed is an easy game even for now.

uncharted on hard mode isnt really that hard. i find shooters in general with the exception of killzone2, to be really easy now days. Call of Duty black ops is one of the easiest games i ever played. in single player or online

Which one specifically? I thought the first one on crushing was a BITCH. But darn, did I feel good after beating it. The other two on crushing didn't require much effort from me, but were challenging enough.

I wouldn't necessarily want the uncharted games much harder on crushing, atleast if it involves giving enemies more hp (which is the worst way to make the game more difficult imo). I think a big thing with that is that it uses regenerative health, so the fights can only be so hard, before it becomes cheap, or broken.

With older shooters you had to plan ahead, and if you got stuck with no health you either had to tough it out, or reload and go find more health packs, and do previous areas more efficiently, and they were designed around this.

When it comes to difficulty I prefer more complex AI than simply adding more enemies or giving them more health. Because once I have observed their attack patterns they’re not going to touch me, so stronger attacks or a higher health count won't do much for me really. Let them do things that would make me think harder or even fear for my life (virtually of course). I remember Hideo Kojima talked about AI for this generation before the PS3/360 launched, and he talked about them being so smart that they would do things in a very unpredictable way and picking up on patterns would be difficult. I'm still waiting for that ...  :/