When did they get so hard?

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When did they get so hard? Anonymous 08/29/15 (Sat) 19:37:01 No.3700

I remember when I was a child, I got Mega Man 3 for my birthday. I spent the entire day playing it and was able to beat the game by the time I had to go to bed. How that I'm much older and I try to replay it I can't even get to Dr. Wiley. I get stuck at having to beat the bosses from MM2 in those last 4 levels before getting to Dr. Wiley.

If this is what will happen with other games I'm gonna hate old age.

Anonymous 08/30/15 (Sun) 08:29:30 No.3701

Same shit happened to me with Metal Gear Solid 1, I recently replayed it and had such a hard time. I have no idea how my kid self managed to beat the game.

Anonymous 08/30/15 (Sun) 14:04:59 No.3703

You got too used to games holding your fucking hand, and you lack patience.

Anonymous 08/30/15 (Sun) 16:36:32 No.3706

I always attribute it to the fact that as a kid, games were like the most important shit on the planet. I had to save the fucking world and nothing was gonna stop me.

Anonymous 09/02/15 (Wed) 12:53:03 No.3720

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>>3703

>>3706

You're both right.

Back then, a lot of games were hard as fuck - you had to put the time in to git gud if you wanted to beat them. Some games were easier than others, sure, but in general they were concerned with offering a challenge; rather than whether or not the audience had that challenge overcome for them and nursed the director's snowflake narrative to completion.

That, and our priorities were a hell of a lot different as kids. Now, if you suck, you're wondering whether you should put the time in to beat it, or just get on with something more productive.

Anonymous 09/02/15 (Wed) 21:16:34 No.3725

You just need to play it more and get used to it again.

Anonymous 09/04/15 (Fri) 12:17:40 No.3734

>>3700

Back when I was a kid, buy a game was rare, I had maybe 7 of them at once, tops, and I got to rent a game every second weekend or so. Now I have like 300 games, if I suck at a game I don't feel the same need to "git gud", I can just put on another of my collection or pirate, or play one of the millions of free games out there.

The edge is gone. There's no more sore hands or spite over platformers any more. No need to compete with bragging friends, because there's nothing to brag about anymore.

I think the solution might be prison, and a limited selection of old school games, then I would probably have the drive again.

Come to think of it, jail wouldn't be so bad if I had an nes.

Anonymous 09/05/15 (Sat) 02:38:08 No.3739

>>3734

>being pounded in the arse by Bubba

>"at l-least I've got D-Ducktales woo-oo!"

Anonymous 09/05/15 (Sat) 09:22:26 No.3741

>>3734

> Now I have like 300 games, if I suck at a game I don't feel the same need to "git gud", I can just put on another of my collection or pirate, or play one of the millions of free games out there.

I think this anon nailed it…when you had a really difficult game, there was no choice. It was all you had. What's funny is that being stuck with a shitty game is sort of like being in prison in the sense that you're getting punked around at first while you learn the ropes, and you better learn them fast, or you're going to get fucked. After you git gud, then you're the one doing the raping. "Super mario land with my eyes closed? No problem."

>tfw you try to git gud at prison IRL and get stabbed because there are no respawns