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Games Are Supposed To Be Fun, Right?

The Game Chair has up an editorial examining the increasing complexity and learning curve that pervade todays games. He examines the reality that, for many people, games are becoming simply unfun. From the article: "As a Gamer, I am amazed and delighted that games have advanced as far as they have. I'm still blown away everytime a new Final Fantasy or Legend of Zelda game comes out, and I look forward to spending hundreds of hours with them exploring all of their intricacies. That being said, the same things that attract me to these games might repel others who are casual gamers or non-Gamers. The importance of the 'pick-up and play' style of games, for me, lies not only in the nostalgia that I feel for them, but also in the importance of having games that are accessible to everyone."

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  1. This guy must be mentlaly retarded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can learn all 40 buttons, 3 joysticks, 3 footpedals, 5 switches and the thumbhat for Steel Battalion and have fun playing it. IF he cant get used to a simple controller he needs to go and get his labotomized piece of brain tissue back.