| vizunary said: According to EA chief executive John Riccitiello, in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, "We're boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play." God forbid you have to have some skill. I too enjoy NHL but I would NEVER want the game to be any easier, those people need to play Mario Party or something. Though I agree, most EA games are "boring" LOL Are you surprised that EA is shifting to the Wii??? They have always been the whore of the video game industry. Now all the piece of sh!t games that they made for the PS2 got last gen will go to the Wii, just with waggle now ;) |
I actually think he meant "Harder to Play" as "Currently games have an unnecessary level of complication" rather than "Currently games are too challenging." Back in the day many arcade and NES games were remarkably challenging yet didn't require 2 joysticks, 6 buttons and a 4 hour tutorial mode.
Eliminating "Complexity" may not (dramatically) decrease the challenge of a game and may make it easier to deliver the quality of experience you want. Many developers would have included player controlled jumping in The Legend of Zelda but the added complexity wouldn't have added much to the game and would have (potentially) made the game far harder to control; the extra difficulty to control the game does not make it more 'challenging' as much as it makes the game more frustrating.
