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Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle
Okay so the other night I was playing the NES Metroid, and is it just me, or have Next Gen Video games somehow killed our gaming experience?
I mean, I used to beat everyone at Contra, ultra High Score style, now if I go back and play it, I suck. Same with Pacman. Oh and let's not forget Mario Bros.
It also seems that back then I could play a game, beat it, and still want to play it again the next week. Now if I beat a game once and even think about it again, it's a very lucky game.
It just seems like we have lost something in the transition from 8-bit.
*shrugs*
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Heh. You know what's odd? I was thinking this EXACT thing just a few days ago. When the gametavern arcade first arrived, I thought I would easily get the high score in pacman, because when I was like 5 years old, I owned the game for the Atari, and I would play it every day. I made it past probably a hundred levels without getting caught by any ghost. I play all day long, and I loved it. It was my favorite game of that time period. And you know what I thought was "cool" back then? I thought it was cool that the color of the level changed each time you beat one. I just thought that was awesome.
Now, I play the game, and I can barely make it past the fourth map.
Then, a few days ago, I hooked up the Metroid Fusioni game that you let me borrow to Metroid Prime, and I got the first Metriod game. I started to play, and I died in just a few minutes. I SUCKED at it. Back when I was a kid, about anywhere from 5-10, I would have owned that game. It would have been no problem.
A few months ago, I purchased "The Adventure of Link" at a flea market. Again, the gamed owned me. I couldnt find out where to go, and when I did, I got killed.
It may have something to do with not playing the games in a while, but I truely believe that games are so insanely easy now days that my skills as a gamer have actually decreased. I am not the same as I used to be.
Moogle, we should get out our old NES's and start playing all the old platformers, like Mario, Mega Man (which is insanely hard), etc. Maybe if we get good at these games again, our skills at new games will be ungodly good. lol. It's worth a shot.
The hardest *new* game I have ever played is Mega Man Transmission, for the GCN. Not only is it hard in todays standards, but it also stands as a hard game when compared to old video games. And you know what? I love that game. It's one of my favorite GCN games ever. I used to spend hours upon hours playing that game. Trying to get new chips, and trying to get passed levels. And when I died, I didnt really mind, because it was so much fun getting back up to where I was. The game was hard, yet challenging and rewarding, just like the old games were.