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Akvod on 02 May 2009

@noname

I haven't read your earlier posts so I may have missed an answer to my question, but do you distinguish between a game being "hard" vs. "frustrating"? (I agreed with your long post BTW, and it was easy to read and very hooking so it didn't feel like a wall of text).

You argued that it's a good thing that games allow you to save, and don't have glitches, etc. However I do think that some games have been "dumbed" down for the sake of making it accessible. For e.g., a game I haven't played yet, Prince of Persia, apparently doesn't allow you to die, at all. Would you consider this as a good thing or bad thing?

How do we distinguish a barrier from having fun, to simply an legitimate challenge that's part of a game (all games have to have an challenge).



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Dark_Rulez89 on 02 May 2009

Speaking of ultimate gamer on sci-Fi,has anyone seen that show? Man the show sucks lol



theprof00 on 02 May 2009

That was hilarious.
It doesn't matter how long you've played and what you've memorized.


I will still beat you. :P



Kasz216 on 02 May 2009
SRPG said:
ChichiriMuyo said:

This is old, and it's sad to know that people agree with it too. I've beaten the Robot masters and saved the princess plenty of times myself (though I never fought Tyson) and all I can say is that I'm glad the days of overly difficult, inaccessible games is gone. For every gem on the NES there were at least 20 turds, and it's only nostalgia that helps the insecure "gamer" represented in that comic to forget that fact. The greats have always been few and far between, but what we have seen is fewer games that are absolute trash and more that are average to good. It is now exceptionally rare to throw your controller down in frustration due to a poorly designed game, yet the NES was once filled to the brim with games that were only difficult because you could barely make the game do what you wanted. 

Besides, most of those obscenely hard games were that way either because they were ported from the arcades, where frequent deaths meant more revenues, or because the developers wanted to make it last longer.  Nowadays people complain that a game ONLY lasts 5-6 hours, yet back in the day it was all too common to see game last 5-6 only because you died a million times in what was otherwise only a 45 minute adventure.

Really, I'm glad those days are gone.

I just love it when my favorite hobbys become popular and get ruined by people who just jumped on the bandwagon late (and change the course the waggon is headded in)

 

Its like when you go to a concert of your favorite band and a majority of the people there only came to hear the band's one hit song thats played on the radio. This happens in almost everything: wrestling, anime, music, movies, ect.

 

Casuals ruin everything no matter what it is.

 

I think everythings fine... and unless you own a magnavox Oddesey I don't think you can complain about the "Jumped on the bandwagon late" thing.

 



theprof00 on 02 May 2009

is srpg coolestguyever?



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Blacksaber on 02 May 2009
theprof00 said:
is srpg coolestguyever?

 

No he's JRPG..



Former something....

Mr Khan on 02 May 2009

I said this had to be satire. We killed this discussion on joystiq (it came in first in last week's webcomiq wrapup), since it seemed like a lot of people read it, and laughed, because they could sympathize with the rage the comic presented, while other people read it, and laughed, because they saw a satire of the elitist opinions that are widely voiced across the gaming community. I was one of the latter

 

It would really be sad, pitiable, if this weren't satire, but a factual rant.

 

Extraordinarily sad.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

Khuutra on 02 May 2009
Soriku said:
Personally, the only thing I see funny is JRPG taking this seriously when it's really a satire.

Not a bad strip.

The best part is that he can't even pretend he wa just kidding the whole time, because that translates into "I was trolling all along".

If the strip is satire: ha! That's pretty good.

Unfortunately, I haven't had faith in Ramsoomair's ability to write satire in ... ever. The man can't write satie. I don't know if he's ever even tried.

So.

This strip is ridiculous and agreeing with it is a patently ridiculous sentiment.



Shadowblind on 02 May 2009

Wow...I don't know whats funnier...the strip, or the idea that noname actually typed all that out. But yeah, saw the strip a while back, sent it to 5 people, all thought it was great.



GOTY Contestants this year: Dead Space 2, Dark Souls, Tales of Graces f. Everything else can suck it.

theprof00 on 02 May 2009
Khuutra said:
Soriku said:
Personally, the only thing I see funny is JRPG taking this seriously when it's really a satire.

Not a bad strip.

The best part is that he can't even pretend he wa just kidding the whole time, because that translates into "I was trolling all along".

If the strip is satire: ha! That's pretty good.

Unfortunately, I haven't had faith in Ramsoomair's ability to write satire in ... ever. The man can't write satie. I don't know if he's ever even tried.

So.

This strip is ridiculous and agreeing with it is a patently ridiculous sentiment.

apparently niether can you!

OT: casual spelling is killing the forum experience.