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Mummelmann on 06 November 2013
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mjk45 said:
Mummelmann said:
prayformojo said:

Did you it's hear that? Iwata basically just said that if you're a highly skilled gamer, Nintendo probably isn't right for you anymore. For me, that just confirms what I suspected. Their priorities aren't what they were when I was playing Kid Icarus, and cussing at the screen in the 80's.

Just, wow.


To be fair, the only placed for a "skilled gamer" today is the PC, the PS3 and 360 may have chosen a more "mature" route but they have also contributed to a global dumbing down of almost all games and genres and replaced depth with bells and whistles.

I do think that Iwata just shot his foot with that statement though, the core gamer would be the Wii U's only hope at this point, the casuals have long since adopted the phone/tablet market and social and browser games, they're lost to the home consoles by now.

I too remember how hard Nintendo games were back in the day, no saving and certain sections that were damn near impossible! I think I never cleared about half of my game collection on NES! Werewolf and the first Turtles were the worst for me, Mario games were fairly easy though.

To true then again I remember lots of games on Amiga etc where like that ,  it wasn't just specific to one platform.

How many times over the subsiquent years have we heard developers say , we have to make our games newbie friendly while retaining our core  game play , only to see that become the lowest common denominator , rather than games that scaled themselves to the user , another thing that contributed to less challenging games is popular genres like shootemups , that prided themselves on their hardness and skill factor and their lose of popularity , has gaming 's demographics widened.


It's frustrating. And some claim to bump up the difficulty with advanced AI, when in reality they resort to cheap scripted tricks (such as the "clever" AI in F.E.A.R. that is activated when you're walking between two elevators, you're instantly surrounded through no feat of cleverness).

The new Thief, Dragon Age II and a bunch of other games instantly fell off my radar when the developers uttered the words "broader audience", subsequent gameplay info and footage support this view and the game is essentially ruined for anyone looking for something of actual value and beyond cheap thrills.