Poll: Do you think you're better at games now than before?
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eh it depends, there are different things that make them hard for more modern games, i think i've gotten better (probably gonna peak soon) over the years, as i go back and play some games and absolutely demolish what i thought was hard years ago.
part of it is the strategy i use but part of it is just skill and reaction timing to the game, so overall i dont think games have gotten easier/harder, just more user friendly.
part of it is the strategy i use but part of it is just skill and reaction timing to the game, so overall i dont think games have gotten easier/harder, just more user friendly.
Yes I've gotten better. I struggled with Halo and Halo 2 on easy when they came out but going back this week I plowed through both of them on heroic in 3 days combined.
That being said, games have gotten easier in hopes to make them more accesable to a lot of people, but you can usually make the difficulty higher if you want a challenge
That being said, games have gotten easier in hopes to make them more accesable to a lot of people, but you can usually make the difficulty higher if you want a challenge
^^ thats the perfect why to put it. I tryed saying something like that but this is what I ment.gmaverick019 said:
I have certainly got better (a lot better) at games that require any form of real stratagey. I was once utterly hopeless at any kind of RTS or world builder etc, but I've become rather good at such things somewhere along the lines.
I think my skill in FPS and racing games has slipt, probabley due to a lack of practice more that anything I suspect though.
I think my skill in FPS and racing games has slipt, probabley due to a lack of practice more that anything I suspect though.
I think games are just taken a different direction. In the nes days difficulty meant longer play time. You would try a part over and over and in the most difficult games had to be near perfect. It had to be this way because they just didnt have the hardware resources of today. In the modern era of quicksave and regenerating health gameplay is meant more to be played through.
I'd have to say it's generally both that people are getting better and games are easier.
Needless to say there are still many games out there that are quite hard, games like Operation Darkness or Demon's Souls that are quite unforgiving.
Anyways yes, as an experienced gamer I still play old games that were hard when I was young, and I still find them to be hard- you ever play Strike Gunner for the SNES? I've probably played it over 150 times all across my life and never have I managed to beat it, now or then- I may be better, but the game is still very hard. Same with Perfect Dark for the 64... and old Starcraft for the 64... and Yoshi's Story for the 64 (did beat that one though, after MANY deaths)- the list goes on.
Needless to say there are still many games out there that are quite hard, games like Operation Darkness or Demon's Souls that are quite unforgiving.
Wow, that seemed like a pretty angry argument...psrdirector said:
Anyways yes, as an experienced gamer I still play old games that were hard when I was young, and I still find them to be hard- you ever play Strike Gunner for the SNES? I've probably played it over 150 times all across my life and never have I managed to beat it, now or then- I may be better, but the game is still very hard. Same with Perfect Dark for the 64... and old Starcraft for the 64... and Yoshi's Story for the 64 (did beat that one though, after MANY deaths)- the list goes on.
I'll say "no" to the title, but I didn't answer the poll because none of the answers seem to fit.
Truthfully I'm worse at games than I used to be, because for one I'm older and my reflexs are a bit slower, and secondly I'm disabled for a reason. While my disabillites are mental/emotional problems stemming from brain damage, they have fluctuated over my life and have "recently" gotten worse than ever before. I have a lot of trouble concentrating in general, and the cocktail of medications I take along with their (livable) side effects definatly affects my abillity to play all kinds of games, even if I still enjoy them.
If my problems continue to get worse, which is possible, I imagine I'll solve the problems in various ways and get by, but I will probably get progressively worse at games. I know from playing old games that there are some things I could do fairly easily 10 years ago that I have to seriously work at today, or can't manage to accomplish at all.
Truthfully I'm worse at games than I used to be, because for one I'm older and my reflexs are a bit slower, and secondly I'm disabled for a reason. While my disabillites are mental/emotional problems stemming from brain damage, they have fluctuated over my life and have "recently" gotten worse than ever before. I have a lot of trouble concentrating in general, and the cocktail of medications I take along with their (livable) side effects definatly affects my abillity to play all kinds of games, even if I still enjoy them.
If my problems continue to get worse, which is possible, I imagine I'll solve the problems in various ways and get by, but I will probably get progressively worse at games. I know from playing old games that there are some things I could do fairly easily 10 years ago that I have to seriously work at today, or can't manage to accomplish at all.
I think there's a lot to this topic, but mainly, when it comes to old games like 2D platformers or whatever, a lot of skill is actually memorisation. Take the sonic 2 special stages, as an example. The later stages are so random and quick that it can be very difficult (if possible) just to wing it. However, once you've played through it 9 or 10 times, you remember where those tricky mines are weird ring loops are, and so you do much better. You're improving as you go, but more significantly, you're just remembering the correct sequence to press buttons. The same goes for all games - goldeneye is a lot easier if you can remember "When I open this door, there are 3 guards, two are facing away, a grenade works best" than if you don't know what's coming next. If you forget that, then what used to be easy for you as a player suddenly becomes tough again. Also, we used to put a lot more hours into our games back then. I've finished sonic 3 and knuckles... well sometimes I'd run through it four times in a day, because it was quick and there was nothing better to do. (once as sonic and tails, once as sonic, once as tails, once as knuckles) And whilst the zones aren't identical as each character, that's a lot of repetition to build up a strong knowledge of exactly what to do next. Most games I play through once and don't go back to - maybe I'll replay it once a few months down the line, but that's about it. If I played through.... Call of Duty 4 daily, I could wing everything because I'd know exactly when every bad guy spawned and the optimal technique to down them. Even the hellish chernobyl ferris wheel segment would be easy because I'd get so used to running through it.
That said, yes, I'm a lot better at games than I used to be. Since I play multiplayer games, other people are a useful metric to measure myself against. Driving games are another good way to measure 'improvement' because there are techniques (racing line being the most obvious example) that I simply used to not know, that I have since learned. I am better at these games than I used to be.
That said, I don't really seem to have got much better at RPG's...
That said, yes, I'm a lot better at games than I used to be. Since I play multiplayer games, other people are a useful metric to measure myself against. Driving games are another good way to measure 'improvement' because there are techniques (racing line being the most obvious example) that I simply used to not know, that I have since learned. I am better at these games than I used to be.
That said, I don't really seem to have got much better at RPG's...
Well, duh, obviously it's easier now than when you were 8-14, learning a lot more English for one, and increased understanding for what is actually going on and what you're supposed to do to beat the bloody things.
... not to mention you can search for walkthroughs on the intahwebbz if you're really bashing your head against a wall.
Or perhaps games are just easier because the developers know they can reach a larger crowd if most people can play the game instead of some elitist bunch. (winkwink WoW winkwink)
... not to mention you can search for walkthroughs on the intahwebbz if you're really bashing your head against a wall.
Or perhaps games are just easier because the developers know they can reach a larger crowd if most people can play the game instead of some elitist bunch. (winkwink WoW winkwink)
I would have to say that I am better. I've gone back and breezed through games that I remember being challenging.
Games made now are quite a bit easier because of guides like Prima or Gamefaqs, they are less artificially difficult due to bad controls or buggy programming, and they have better playtesting which eliminates nigh-impossible scenarios.
There's also a different mindset: back then beating the game was something you could brag about, an accomplishment. How many of you completed Mega Man fair and square? Or, for that matter, Ninja Gaiden? Nowadays, making it to the credits is a given for any competent gamer and it's the achievements you brag about.
Games made now are quite a bit easier because of guides like Prima or Gamefaqs, they are less artificially difficult due to bad controls or buggy programming, and they have better playtesting which eliminates nigh-impossible scenarios.
There's also a different mindset: back then beating the game was something you could brag about, an accomplishment. How many of you completed Mega Man fair and square? Or, for that matter, Ninja Gaiden? Nowadays, making it to the credits is a given for any competent gamer and it's the achievements you brag about.
When I played Sonic 3 when I was 11, I never got past the Carnival Night Zone. Now, I can breeze through with all of the Chaos Emeralds. I also can beat any Sonic Advance and Rush game.
When I first played Half-Life, I never got past the Blast Pit chapter. Now I can beat it on hard, along with Half-Life 2 and it's Episodes.
So yes, I'd say I'm better at games now then before.
/gloat
When I first played Half-Life, I never got past the Blast Pit chapter. Now I can beat it on hard, along with Half-Life 2 and it's Episodes.
So yes, I'd say I'm better at games now then before.
/gloat
Definitely yes. I played the Xbox version of Sands of Time when I was but a wee lad (ok, it wasn't that long ago, shut up) and there was this elevator part near the end that completely kicked my ass and I never beat it or the game. I went back and played through the game again a few weeks ago and got through that part on the first try.
me and mate mate were gonna pull an all nighter playing old ps1 games we used to play as kids. we played Rugrats: search for Reptar, Rugrats in Paris and tom and jerry house trap in about 4 hours. the all-nighter was a brief night cap and we came to the conclusion that ps1 games were more interesting when i was 7 and games that took me weeks to Complete at that age are mere alternatives to tetris and snake now. i'm better at games now...no question
I hope I am, I've been playing games for 20 years, I have to improve SOMEWHAT right?
I know I've gotten better at shooters than when I was younger and I manage things better in RPGs.
I know I've gotten better at shooters than when I was younger and I manage things better in RPGs.
Yeah I've gotten better, when I was ten it took me months to beat dragon ball z the legacy of goku 2. But I played it recently and beat it in a day.
Of course. After so long you learn to strategize and notice common patterns instead of just jumping headfirst into the closest enemy and hoping for the best. In fact you end up recalling your many deaths before and thinking 'God I was an idiot, it's so simple'.
For instance, I recently beat the abominably hard 2nd Quest of Castlevania III. 10 years ago even the first time was beyond me, usually around the 3-boss gauntlet of Mummies, Cyclops and Gargoyle (same thing on both paths). While it's true more modern games have gotten way easier (Prince of Persia for instance), the older ones are a clearer measure of how much better you've gotten, particularly if you haven't played it for a long while.
For instance, I recently beat the abominably hard 2nd Quest of Castlevania III. 10 years ago even the first time was beyond me, usually around the 3-boss gauntlet of Mummies, Cyclops and Gargoyle (same thing on both paths). While it's true more modern games have gotten way easier (Prince of Persia for instance), the older ones are a clearer measure of how much better you've gotten, particularly if you haven't played it for a long while.
