Jimquisition: A Different Kind of Difficulty

[Conn1496]

I have to brag. I was doing this well before I saw this video. But, as Jim said, a game can be a challenge alone, but an "easy" game can be amazingly difficult if you set yourself a challenge within it. For example: I thought Tenchu Z was easy. That was until I tried going through the game with ninja 5 ranks on all levels in hard mode and killing everyone with stealth. Never happened.

[HUGE Side note]: What happened to the days when "achievements" weren't just points on xbox to increase the size of your E-peen? Achievements used to be stuff like "100% the pokedex on pokemon red/blue, and have all the final evolutions at level 100 in your box". That stuff used to be an achievement. Nowadays, achievements aren't achievements at all, they're just another medal to add to your collection of medals for doing fuck all.
You know what, I want you all to do yourself a favour. Carry around a pen and paper, and set yourself achievements for games. Forget about getting the "start the game" achievement on the new call of duty or whatnot, and go play smash bros melee's classic mode without taking a single hit. Go on... DO IT.

[TL;DR version]: Go set your own challenges. All the xbox "Achievements" are doing is trying to tell you what counts as a challenge and not.

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

Oh, come on, Jim, Mega Man isn't even that hard as a series, at least not as far as beating them is concerned. I mean, sure, if you play without using any of the special weapons, or go for nothing but S-Ranks in the Zero series, it can be more challenging...

See? I can do it too. But I suppose I've never been the sort of person to base a game on ephemeral things like difficulty or depth; I just play it based on how much fun I have with it. Now that's a revelation gamers as a whole could stand to go through; we ultimately shouldn't give a shit how X feature stacks up to X game as long as we have fun. This need to validate ourselves through something that doesn't even have anything to do with us needs to go, now.

 

[DioWallachia]

Did the Harcore gamers and Jim forgot that Megaman Zero series in the Gameboy Advance HAVE this kind of difficult? Where you have to beat the stages in a good score at the end to get the best abilities to look and do more baddasery??

I dont know what is it lately but it seems that people just forgot what happened during 2002 - 2011. They dont know why games like Unreal Tournament got replaced with brow shooters and make it look like they were there all along making the industry following their steps.

I dont even have a clue anymore.