Poll: Do you believe games today are too easy?

[Noone From Nowhere]

Modern games only seem too easy because of their superior design and a greater number of features which make the games' difficulty manageable.

I know that Ninja Gaiden on the X-Box is harder than the old NES version but I have a much easier time with it due to Ryu's wide variety of attacks and evasion manuvers. NES Ryu could only attack straight forward unless he had magic left and even then his attacks were weak and/or slow, a bad combination for enemies with no hit-stun reactions.

The Mega Man (particularly Mega Man 2)games were even worse. Any game that gave me grief at first which I could then beat the final boss on a no-hit run shortly after is a poorly balanced game.

If Super Ghouls and Ghosts kept the ability to shoot upward or use melee weapons from the earlier games of the series, it would have been only moderately tough, not almost unworkable. Devil May Cry 3 is harder without all of the cheap collision from above related deaths.

Take out One-Hit deaths, bottomless pits, collision damage and all of the other hallmarks of inexperienced/lazy game designers, most of the old games just wouldn't hold up to their modern counterparts.

 

[Roganwilson]

Depends on the genre. I grew up playing adventuer games like King's Quest and Monkey Island, and would be stuck for weeks, and if someone were to release a new game, I still would be stuck. But if you are to play a game that doesn't always take thinking, of course it's gotten easier. Shooters used to be almost impossible on consoles until the the dualstick controller was created. Now, they are cake compared to the old ones. But there is such a thing as difficulty settings. Old games didn't have that.

 

[NickCaligo42]

I don't think games are too easy necessarily, but definitely way too straightforward in the way that they challenge the player. "Here's an enemy! Kill it!" seems to be the extent of most developers' vocabulary in this matter.

 

[Smack-Ferret]

Modern Warfare 2. Spec-ops oil rig solo on veteran. Need I say more?

 

[SF_KiLLaMaN]

It depends on the game. STALKER is ridiculously hard on the hardest difficulty (one shot can kill you). But then there are a lot of games like Super Mario Galaxy that were so easy they became boring.

 

[No_Remainders]

Yeah, they're getting easier.

Take Half-Life for example, that difficulty took a massive dive after 1. 2 was a stroll in the park in comparison.

Heck, fallout 1&2 were harder because they required more work than 3.

CoD 1 on Veteran is harder than MW2 on Veteran

Halo: Combat Evolved; harder than halo 3.

The list is endless.

 

[TransMando]

Depends on the game really.

I think that a lot of games are just bad and I haven't played anything that I would say that I breezed through. When a game is bad it is either a total throw away holy god difficult or too easy.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

that's the kind of question i made when i started playing console games!

 

[Cmwissy]

I care more about story; depth and decent game-play/gimmick use.

I'm your typical games are art kind of guy so I say no.

 

[Bocaj2000]

After playing Dragon Age: Origins the past week or so i'd say thats a big no. Even with an IV drip of potions some fights feel unwinable.

Agreed. It took me 5 hours of dying to kill a Reverend. Some games are too easy though, like Fable. That doesn't mean that all games are easy. Take a look at Ninja Guiden I and II- they are fucking impossible.

 

[Atheist.]

Most games now days are FAR too easy for my tastes. I can usually beat most games without dying. However, when we get to games like KZ2 on Elite, things can get hard for stupid reasons, but still pretty managable if you take your time. Demon's Souls is a great exception this, and that's why I enjoy it so much. The first time you play this game, most people are taken back by the difficulty. While it's not hard to a cheap extent, it relies on your continuous skill progression as a player to keep moving forward.

Surely there are some difficult games, but the majority of them are ridiculously simple to beat.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Nah, that's what hard mode is for. Also, the Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry series don't need hard mode to be difficult. But yeah, hard mode. It usually solves any complaints you have.

 

[Pimppeter2]

No, their harder, but in a bullshit way

 

[JaymesFogarty]

Yes they are too easy these days. But people don't play for the Singleplayer these days do they?

I think traditions like Singleplayer should be kept alive.

I salute you! (Salute)

 

[Spitfire175]

FPSs get easier, RPGs vary a lot and RTSs stay the same.

 

[BlueMage]

I can beat almost any game I play now on the harder difficulties. This is not right

 

[Godhead]

I dunno, audiosurf is pretty damn hard

 

[Georgeman]

Having played Farcry (a 5-years old game) and having my ass handed by it even on Normal difficulty (2nd out of the possible 5 difficulties), I'd have to say no. Games aren't necessarily getting easier.