So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King.

Which got me thinking. Basically every game for the past 20 years has been designed around instant gratification and being accessible. We outright had to make a new concept “hard but fair” to account for games like Dark Souls that are designed to be difficult but beatable as opposed to putting you in a death spiral if you hesitate too long on a hard jump (hello Ninja Gaiden).

So do the younger folk even have a concept of a “favorite game” where you likely never experienced more than fifteen minutes worth of content?

      • Zyratoxx ( zyratoxx@lemm.ee ) 
        1·
        3 years ago

        Ah, I went to play Pokémon Unite instead (even tho Nintendo and their Switch & Mobile only approach)… Bluestacks is an option but not a particularly good one…

        And then there’s Tencent - but you encounter Tencent kinda everywhere right now so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

        • Remmock ( Remmock@kbin.social ) 
          2·
          3 years ago

          So the thing about these linds of games is that you theoretically can master any Champion/Pokémon, but there are some that you just intuitively understand. Keep trying different characters until you find one you gel with in Standard/non-Ranked matches, then get a feel for how to improve your runes/items by playing Ranked and studying your shortcomings. It’s how I found out that I love to play walls and use items that optimize walls for damage. (Iceborn Gauntlet, Sunfire, Demonic Embrace type stuff for LoL and Rocky Helmet/Shell Bell/Drain Crown for Unite.)

  • Communist ( communist@beehaw.org ) English
    13·
    3 years ago

    I brute forced my way through learning starcraft, it took literal years to get out of the bronze league, probably my most played game of all time. Can’t wait for immortal gates of pyre.

    • azthec ( azthec@feddit.nl ) 
      1·
      3 years ago

      Yea StarCraft 2 was this game for me. I first saw some beta gameplay from TotalBiscuit and just got hooked into it and I was so ridiculously bad. I still play every year around Christmas for some reason

  • Moonguide ( Moonguide@lemmy.ml ) 
    8·
    3 years ago

    KSP. Never managed to even land on the Mün without a fast and violent end to the crew, but I loved building spaceships.

    The best thing I managed to do was to achieve an orbit around Kerbin.

  • theshatterstone54 ( theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) 
    7·
    3 years ago

    Did, and still do enjoy fast-paced shooters from time to time but I absolutely suck at it. Sometimes you just need to do something exciting without putting too much thought into it and not having a care about whether you win or lose, what your K/D is or whatever. I just find it a nice way to unwind from time to time.

  • Fizzlebleam ( Fizzlebleam@lemmy.ml ) English
    6·
    3 years ago

    I am a young user of lemmy ( I am in high school ), And, I really suck in games, but I love the blinding of isaac: repentance,I didnt played as many games as that, but I think it is the hardest game I’ve played, and my favorite.

      • Fizzlebleam ( Fizzlebleam@lemmy.ml ) English
        2·
        3 years ago

        yeah, it is fun to try and retry, and I love the fact that every game you play are different in some ways. I began to watch “Learning of isaac” from Shisheyu , it is very fun and usefull. Btw do you think people can be interested by a AMA I’m a high school student ( in France)

        edit: I wrote “I’m a high school”, but I’m a human.

    • HouseWolf ( HouseWolf@lemm.ee ) English
      2·
      3 years ago

      I absolutely sucked at games as a kid, Most of my absolute favourite games I played all day for months on end as a kid I still never finished… even on the easiest setting.

      Wasn’t until my 20s I started going back to a lot of these games and finally completing them 100% on hardest mode. It’s quite a feeling :)

  • MrBubbles96 ( MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml ) 
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    3 years ago

    Dunno if I’d consider myself “younger” anymore (who am i kidding, i ain’t THAT old lol), but…

    If we count really old games: the OG castlevania’s. Didn’t grow up during that era, but thanks to handmedowns, i got to play pre Symphany Vania when i was super young. Love them, wish i was better at them tho. The collections are sitting in my steam library, and maybe some day, I’ll beat at least one of the classics.

    For something more recent(?) tho, i love me some Touhou. fangames, offically made games by Zun, fan games in the style of Zun, ya name it…but MAN do i suck at the actual bullethell Touhou games. i can make it past two or 3 stages, but then the boss destroys me and I’m like “I CAN choose continue, nothing but pride is stopping me…but also, if i can’t manage this far without continuing, how bad is the rest gonna be??” and wuss out lol

  • callouscomic ( callouscomic@lemm.ee ) English
    4·
    3 years ago

    Terraria. Spent so much time in it. Tons of fun. I liked a lot of it. But I compared to other friends and realized I was terrible and barely even saw much of the game cause I didn’t get very far.

  • Digital Mark ( mdhughes@lemmy.ml ) English
    4·
    3 years ago

    Well now I just want to watch young people try to beat the unbeatable games of my yout’.

    Prince of Persia, Mega Man X, Ghosts & Goblins, Ecco the Dolphin (my favorite, but I screamed so much at Ecco dying one pixel away from air). Zork without a walkthru. Solve all the puzzles yourself or by talking to friends also playing it blind.

    And you paid $60 ($200 in today’s bullshit money) for this, you can’t get another for 3 months.

  • SecretPancake ( SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 
    3·
    3 years ago

    I am not young but I can’t beat Souls games. I adore the world design of Dark Souls, Bloodbourne and Elden Ring but I just can’t motivate myself to suffer through them. I know they are beatable, there are many safepoints, but I don’t have fun doing that. Still, I wish these games had a difficulty slider for anyone who just wants to enjoy the story. But that will freak out the gamer bros who think that will somehow ruin their precious game.

    And it’s not like I never play anything on hard mode. Games like Sniper Elite work best in „Authentic“ mode for me. In puzzle games I always turn off any assistance if possible. But simply increasing the health bar of bosses is not my understanding of fun.