Tough Love - Can A Game Be Too Hard?

Posted by simoniker on Friday May 7, 2004 @12:19AM from the justified-suckage dept.

Thanks to Slate for its article discussing the excessive difficulty inherent in some videogames. The writer argues: "Some [games] are so freakishly, spoon-bendingly difficult that they take 10 hours of solid play before you've even begun to master the basics... I usually discard them in frustration after a couple of hours and wonder: What's the point? What adult has the time to master this stuff? Could it ever be worth it?" He continues: "The latest test of this thesis is Tecmo's new Ninja Gaiden, a game so punishing that even some hard-core players fear picking it up." Although the piece concludes: "Just because a game is hard doesn't mean it'll have a payoff", what games have you played that are insanely tricky to master?

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Nope.... by Gigahertz · 2004-05-07 00:25 · Score: 0, Troll

If you think it's too difficult, you're just a little slow... read the book, learn the controls, and then play the game as intended. If the quality assurance team could beat the game before release, you can do it now.