No trust me, those nintendo games are absolutely hair-tearingly difficult. I don't know anyone who can beat Mario Bros. 1, without skipping atleast 1 world because it's so damn hard. The extremely difficult newer games are a shock, and by the time you beat them, your adjusted to the difficulty, but then you find one of these simple games, forget the skills you had for the difficult game due to how easy it is, and your screwed basically.
"I don't know anyone who can beat Mario Bros. 1"
I pulled it off from start to finish when I was six. It was the first videogame I ever had. That's probably why I OWN at every other game today.
Kids today have such easy games to play. It's about time someone removed the "easy" option from games altogether.
Anyone else played Call of Duty on PC? One of the few games I have ever completed without any form of cheating/getting bored and coming back months later.
It's easy. Even on the hardest difficulty setting, its fairly easy to outwit your opponents.
However, it has an amazing online multiplayer IMHO. I have played it for soo long, and the only reason I'm not playing it now is because UT2004 has distracted me.
Speaking of UT2004, even on the easiest mode I find the Mothership Assualt and Clanlord 1v1 on the single player very hard. Though I would put that at least partly down to AI levels I.E. the Clanlord is insanely good, while your team members are incredibly stupid, and follow you like sheep on any command with the exception of Search and Destroy
Ocarina of Time is a great game as well, because it takes so long to complete that when you do finish you get quite a sense of acheivment. I'm yet to find a better RPG that doesn't involve levels, although I am free to suggestions.
I would still vote Unreal Tournament 2004 the best game of 2004.
Never played Call Of Duty, and I perfur Unreal Tournament over 2004, but it's still good.
OoT really isn't THAT long, although it IS an RPG of course, but yes, it is an incredible game. Too bad Wind Waker wasn't as incredible.
So, like I said, in 5 days I will have Resident Evil 4, and we will see if Capcom screwed it up, like Viewtiful Joe 2, and CODE:Veronica X, or succeeded in full, like the original trilogy, REmake, and Zero.
Originally posted by frodo34x
OoT probably seemed longer, because it is one of the few games I ahve completed.
OoT had more gameplay toward the story, Wind Waker had 100+ some odd chests hidden in the ocean, and that's stupid to waste people's time like that.
The new Zelda game:Minish Cap, is pulling this crap to, 5 dungeons! Is Nintendo kidding? Zelda on NES and Game Boy had more! Zelda on NES had 9, and on Game Boy they had 8. In OoT there was 11, 11 1/2 depending on how you count "Bottom Of The Well". I don't know what Nintendo is trying to pull off with 5 dungeons, but that isn't enough at all. LTTP had 3 in the "Prologue", Hyrule Castle after the Master Sword, 8 in the Dark World, and Ganon's Castle, INCREDIBLE game, I don't think any of the other Zeldas can screw with LTTP and OoT as some of the best.games.ever.!
Sure, Zelda's dungeons are more puzzle based, but that is no excuse for any less then 8 dungeons per game. I'm sure every Zelda fan here can agree with me.
Yes but its hard to make the AI the hardest it possibly can without being Impossible (because the actual difficulty is decided based on how stupid the developer has made the AI.. such as not blocking on purpose when you throw a punch or an item) Also, for most games back then, you got hit once you died, whereas today you have like a 15 or 20 segment life meter that keeps you in the action. The "Continue" system is also another factor.. older games you got 1 to 3 lives then the game started over.. today you can basically continue as much as you want, voiding the want to perfect ones style.
The only games that I can possibly think of that are hard are DOA3 on it's hardest level in survival mode. Especially hayabusa using that Izuna drop/counter which took half your life away...
That's why you play online where you play other people who are not designed and make their own desicions to base movements and actions. Then you just have to hope they don't cheat to have to win.
Like ****ing halo 2 when I was waiting for someone to invite me I played a head to head and went against this level 22 who had to use the standby glitch to cheat becausse I was owning him 8-O. That pisses me off. Then at the end he turned off the standby off and said I was owned!
The only reason why I didn'tleave was because that drops your level faster...
Yeah...so anyways...play online..some people online when not cheating are harder than the AI is...
Man, you guys should have lived through the old Spectrum/Commodore days... in the days where there was very ltitle TO games, they were made difficult beyond belief and sanity to increase play time.
Lords of Midnight (1985) was the threshold when games started to work as games (it is also where my avvy is from).
Someone mentioned playing Doom on Nightmare...haha, do I remember doing that...that was HARD. But still a great deal of fun 😄 Scared the hell out of me, though...I was like 8 years old when I played that game. It gave me nightmares. Heh.
There was some old NES game which the name of escapes me right now...but I remember not even being able to get past the first level. Of course, I was 5 when I played it, but I remember it being so hard that I doubt I'd be able to get very far in it now.
And I still pull out my NES and play the original Zelda or Dragon Warrior (first video game I ever played, I still play my original file that was started when I was 3 years old) when I want a challenge.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Man, you guys should have lived through the old Spectrum/Commodore days... in the days where there was very ltitle TO games, they were made difficult beyond belief and sanity to increase play time.Lords of Midnight (1985) was the threshold when games started to work as games (it is also where my avvy is from).
Thats what I am talking about. Contra (NES) is insanely hard. Even Contra III: The Alien Wars is harder then a lot of the games out now.
Originally posted by Silver Stardust
Someone mentioned playing Doom on Nightmare...haha, do I remember doing that...that was HARD. But still a great deal of fun 😄 Scared the hell out of me, though...I was like 8 years old when I played that game. It gave me nightmares. Heh.There was some old NES game which the name of escapes me right now...but I remember not even being able to get past the first level. Of course, I was 5 when I played it, but I remember it being so hard that I doubt I'd be able to get very far in it now.
And I still pull out my NES and play the original Zelda or Dragon Warrior (first video game I ever played, I still play my original file that was started when I was 3 years old) when I want a challenge.
See? Even the lucious Lana knows the score. hug