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dedicatedtogamers  +   326d ago
Donnieboi  +   326d ago
^ Sad but true
colonel179  +   326d ago

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admiralvic  +   326d ago

1) Games being more complex gave them new options.
InMyOpinion  +   325d ago
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wingman32x  +   326d ago

SilentNegotiator  +   326d ago
Games don't run on quarters anymore.


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colonel179  +   326d ago

Deadpool616  +   325d ago

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SilentNegotiator  +   325d ago
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coolbeans  +   325d ago
Convas  +   325d ago
coolbeans  +   324d ago

-1 Resistance on Superhuman
-1 Uncharted on Crushing
-1 Dues Ex HR on Dues Ex
-1 Demon's Souls
-1 Ninja Gaiden
-1 etc.

Total: Hundreds of man hours


DragonKnight  +   325d ago
DragonKnight  +   325d ago
The answer is the Nintendo Wii and the Casual Craze.
TuxedoMoon  +   325d ago
IMO, games feel easier to us because we have experience. I'm pretty sure most of use at least grew up on the snes. Back then, games were made with gamers in mind. It was a test of skill and also the system limitations made games hard. Castlevania was our generation's Dark/Demon Souls. We use our past experience when we play newer games and that's why they feel easy...because we've already done something similar before. We know that pits will kill you, spikes might kill you, and duck to avoid some projectiles. This is especially true with Zelda puzzles. A lot of the puzzles are reused in some way, like moving the ice block across a frozen lake to a certain hole.

Games were hard back then because they were new to us. The more games we play, the more experiences gets added up and the more skill we accumulate. We use our past experiences to play newer games. You can play Bioshock Infinite like Left4dead or play MGR:Revengeance like DMC or Bayonetta. I played Ace Combat 5 like Starfox and had no issues. f course this doesn't work for everything, but it does work for most games.

With the casual craze, developers have to tone their games down to appeal to the wider audience. Casuals outnumber gamers and they'd at least want some of the casual crowd to buy their game.

Games feel easier because WE (gamers) are better at them.
Games are made easy because they want to sell more copies to the casual market, which does outnumber gamers by a lot.
DW74  +   325d ago
Sums it up for me.
Aclay  +   325d ago
I would say it has a lot to do with the sheer amount of checkpoints in games nowadays. There are some games that are challenging if you ramp up the difficulty, but even with the added challenge of increased difficulty, all the checkpoints in these games makes the game easier. And if you die while playing a level, you usually don't have to go far before you get back to where you previously died-- especially in Open World games because the game Autosaves after you do virtually anything, like Entering a building or Buy something from a store, and you can save manually anytime you want.

Also I think the absence of previous 'Old School' features like only having a certain amount of Lives has alleviated the difficulty level too, because you can die an infinite amount of times in virtually every game now -- whereas in most Old School games you had only a certain amount of Lives, and there wasn't things like Regenerating Health in almost every big game either like it is now.

I guess as Gaming became more and more mainstream with each passing console gen. it's slowly became more tailored to appeal to wider audiences -- which probably explains why stuff like Regenerating Health and Countless Checkpoints have become the norm.
Rottenspacehead  +   324d ago
Its the same thing with online games to.. Just see how it went with Socom us navy seals. Went from hardcore million selling series, to a casual noob friendly Uncharted/COD hybrid that failed.

And COD + BF has ruined the shooter genre alot, all shooters are respawn casual noob friendly shit now. I WANT A HARDCORE TACTICAL 3PS SOCIAL USER CREATED CUSTOM RANKED ROOMS SERVERS SHOOTER AGAIN !

***** this generation !
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GodsPerfectK7ng  +   323d ago
They put out another cod that is what happened!!!
GodsPerfectK7ng  +   323d ago
BRO PLAY DARK SOULS FOR A CHALLENGE OR raise the difficulty from easy!!!!
GEO9875  +   323d ago
I still find games hard, never beated a new game in a day. Dont know what you mean, maybe i just suck but idgaf

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