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This game was hard. So hard. I dont play games much anymore but I suspect that modern games don't punish the players the way another world does. Wonderful titl

This game was hard. So hard. I dont play games much anymore but I suspect that modern games don't punish the players the way another world does. Wonderful title.

Karunamon 10y ago
Very much so, but only once. Usually every screen has a well defined way to kill you - once you've figured that out, the game maybe takes half an hour to beat start to finish. That first time through is killer. I have no shame in admitting that one of the first things I looked up when I got internet access as a kid were hints on it...
ekianjo 10y ago
> This game was hard. So hard I don't think it was that hard compared to other games of the time. I could finish it in a week, and you could die as many times as you wanted which made it much easier to complete. Compare that with adventure games from the time which were virtually impossible to complete without walkthroughs.
- rangibaby 10y ago
  Whats nuts is that most of those adventure games take about an hour to get through if you know exactly what to do. Sometimes the puzzles were clever, but a lot of the time they were stock "get (literally every word in the dictionary)" and "use (literally every word in the dictionary). I honestly think that is what killed the genre, along with the FPS genre assuming the mantle of pushing cutting-edge technology around that everyone upgraded their PCs for around the mid-90s.
agumonkey 10y ago
Things were stiff at the time. I remember booting up a Game Gear Sonic 1 in the 2Ks and finding myself stuck at Boss #1. The angry shame.
- Sarkie 10y ago
  How many double A batteries did you need?
  - agumonkey 10y ago
    AC adapter at hand.
on_and_off 10y ago
Most modern games focus on accessibility, to a fault. To the point where a game with a bit of a learning curve, like hyper light drifter, is considered exceptional because of it.
m12k 10y ago
Most modern games don't punish players much - however that's created a niche for games that do - recent examples include Flappy Bird and the Dark Souls series.
wolfgke 10y ago
> This game was hard. So hard. I dont play games much anymore but I suspect that modern games don't punish the players the way another world does. There are also modern games that are also really hard. For example "Super Meat Boy" is said to be really hard (in terms of platforming skills): http://supermeatboy.com/ http://supermeatboy.com/ Or if you prefer something that is really hard, but on your brain, I recommend the puzzle game "Stephen's Sausage Roll" that came out about one month ago: http://www.stephenssausageroll.com/ http://www.stephenssausageroll.com/

This game was hard. So hard. I dont play games much anymore but I suspect that modern games don't punish the players the way another world does. Wonderful title.

Karunamon 10y ago

Very much so, but only once. Usually every screen has a well defined way to kill you - once you've figured that out, the game maybe takes half an hour to beat start to finish. That first time through is killer. I have no shame in admitting that one of the first things I looked up when I got internet access as a kid were hints on it...

ekianjo 10y ago

> This game was hard. So hard I don't think it was that hard compared to other games of the time. I could finish it in a week, and you could die as many times as you wanted which made it much easier to complete. Compare that with adventure games from the time which were virtually impossible to complete without walkthroughs.

rangibaby 10y ago
Whats nuts is that most of those adventure games take about an hour to get through if you know exactly what to do. Sometimes the puzzles were clever, but a lot of the time they were stock "get (literally every word in the dictionary)" and "use (literally every word in the dictionary). I honestly think that is what killed the genre, along with the FPS genre assuming the mantle of pushing cutting-edge technology around that everyone upgraded their PCs for around the mid-90s.

agumonkey 10y ago

Things were stiff at the time. I remember booting up a Game Gear Sonic 1 in the 2Ks and finding myself stuck at Boss #1. The angry shame.

Sarkie 10y ago
How many double A batteries did you need?
- agumonkey 10y ago
  AC adapter at hand.

on_and_off 10y ago

Most modern games focus on accessibility, to a fault. To the point where a game with a bit of a learning curve, like hyper light drifter, is considered exceptional because of it.

m12k 10y ago

Most modern games don't punish players much - however that's created a niche for games that do - recent examples include Flappy Bird and the Dark Souls series.

wolfgke 10y ago

> This game was hard. So hard. I dont play games much anymore but I suspect that modern games don't punish the players the way another world does. There are also modern games that are also really hard. For example "Super Meat Boy" is said to be really hard (in terms of platforming skills): http://supermeatboy.com/ http://supermeatboy.com/ Or if you prefer something that is really hard, but on your brain, I recommend the puzzle game "Stephen's Sausage Roll" that came out about one month ago: http://www.stephenssausageroll.com/ http://www.stephenssausageroll.com/