Spindel said:
Oh you don’t like some of the things that makes games worth the time to play and is lacking in most games from bigger studios today. I like, and think there are way to few, games with punishing difficulty and long gaps between save point (that add to the difficulty and add consequences for stupid actions in game). And no, don’t bring up Dark Souls games, they are not difficult because of good game design, they are difficult because of poor and clunky controls. I voted false in the poll, but it’s not entirely black and white. The up side to today is that you have access to a large back log of games (even if a lot of older games are hard to get or really fiddly to get running on modern hardware). But in general for games there is way to much focus on just making things look nice but with the blandest of game plays (specially true for games from bigger studios). Add to this way to many games that are basically MTX hell and I would say we are far from the â€golden age†of gaming. Creativity is mostly found in indies, the problem there is that there are 500 bland rehashes with pixel graphics for every interesting game that makes the gems really hard to find. Sure, there where a lot of duds in all previous eras of gaming, but the sheer amount of games being released today compared to previously makes the gems much much harder to find and pick out even if you try to research them and read forums and reviews. |
I'm not entirely sure what you are saying but QoL have gotten better with time. Zelda, dying and starting with 3 hearts is annoying. Zelda 2, dying in a dungeon and starting back at start is annoying.
The things above are not good design. Battletoads, on the NES, is flatly punishing, especially two player.
Games are more balanced now.
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Actraiser 2, MDK2, etc. Good luck playing those games. Christ the difficulty is brutal to the point of no fun.
No map in the original Metroid wasn't good design.
Last edited by Chrkeller - on 19 October 2024
