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 ) 15•11 months ago
Do I need to explain any further?
- Footnote2669 ( @jaykay@lemmy.zip ) 5•11 months ago
That’s why I only play aram, urf and 5v5 lmao
- Zyratoxx ( @zyratoxx@lemm.ee ) 1•11 months 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•11 months 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 ) English13•11 months 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•11 months 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
- sexual_tomato ( @sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•11 months ago
After years of dominating everyone at my high school in LAN parties, we finally got the Internet at my house and I played my first few online games.
I got my shit wrecked 10x in a row. Haven’t played SC online since lol
- Moonguide ( @Moonguide@lemmy.ml ) 8•11 months 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.
- PresidentCamacho ( @PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
Shoot same! I swear to God it was like the controls were broken on every rocket I ever made. No matter how symmetrical it was I felt like I was always fighting the controls.
- Moonguide ( @Moonguide@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
It was the blessed Kraken.
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 2•11 months ago
I could do manned missions to Mun and Minmus, but I don’t think in my hundreds of hours of play I ever set Kerbal feet on another planet. I did launch some probes though.
- theshatterstone54 ( @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) 7•11 months 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 ) English6•11 months 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.
- bigoljim ( @bigoljim@lemmy.ml ) 3•11 months ago
Keep and it, in a few years you can be like me. An old guy who loves Issac, but still sucks at it!
- Fizzlebleam ( @Fizzlebleam@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months 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.
- bigoljim ( @bigoljim@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
Yeah, the variety is amazing. That is the best part by far!
- HouseWolf ( @HouseWolf@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months 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 :)
- Destraight ( @Destraight@lemm.ee ) 5•11 months ago
Noita. People say the final boss is the tutorial boss 💀
- sexual_tomato ( @sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•11 months ago
Same with the Xbox version of ninja gaiden
- MrBubbles96 ( @MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months 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
- nayminlwin ( @nayminlwin@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months ago
Dota and Starcraft 1/2
- callouscomic ( @callouscomic@lemm.ee ) English4•11 months 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 ) English4•11 months 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.
- populustree ( @populustree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•11 months ago
i like ddr alot, but i suck ass at it
still a fan
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@feddit.de ) English2•11 months ago
DDR?
- theskyisfalling ( @theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•11 months ago
Dance dance revolution.
- populustree ( @populustree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•11 months ago
dance dance revolution, a neat arcade rhythm game played with your feet
- Xariphon ( @Xariphon@kbin.social ) 4•11 months ago
Have we reached an age of the Internet where people don’t know what DDR is anymore??
- populustree ( @populustree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•11 months ago
damn, i guess so
- Ferro ( @ferrodegaragem@lemmy.eco.br ) 1•11 months ago
Dragon’s Dogma Remix 😂
- MrBubbles96 ( @MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
I’m obligated to post this since Dragon’s Dogma was mentioned:
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
CS:GO
- space ( @space@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•11 months ago
Age of Empires 2. Love the game, but I’m terrible at it… I can barely beat the medium AI. I was defeated in pretty much every online match.
- SecretPancake ( @SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 3•11 months 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.
- AndyLikesCandy ( @AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com ) 3•11 months ago
How do you define young?
I’m definitely too old but I loved Tarkov before cheaters ruined it.
I know some early-20’s folks who grew up on DayZ.
Both games very hard to not suck at.