In my childhood, if I liked a game, I could play it from the beginning again and thus spend more time
Wellp, that's what happens when making money is a top priority.
This was not just a way to make money, it was also the environment. Games just were harder back then.
In fact, games were made more accessible to open the market to a wider audience.
Part of the appeal of playing video games for kids in the 90s was to make it an art. Remember that there was no internet either, so the competitiveness came mostly from bragging to your friends on the school yard: "I beat such and such boss in xyz game last night!"
And then the answer would be: "Gasp! How did you do that?!"
And then you would have to make it seem as casual as possible to look cool: "Oh, man, you just have to use the gun that you found in level x (that was completely useless up until here), and then there's a one-second time window to hit the boss with your special ability every time you shoot him."
And then there would suddenly be 10 people around you, hanging on your lips, going:" Wow!"
I never had a console, so I just observed this from afar.
I think the closest thing to it in our day and age is Dark Souls. Gaming in the 90s was much more limited to that niche.
Nah, I honestly don't think Dark Souls is our version of the games back then. Dark Souls has it's level of challenge but it never goes out of its way to be unfair with never ending spawning enemies popping up right in front of your and a life limit forcing you to restart the whole thing if you die too much.
A lot of games back then really asked you to win solely through trail and error, sending you back to the very start and a large part of beating them was to remember where the enemies pop up from and such.
They really were "difficult" for the sake of padding.
At the same time there were games back then that didn't do this padding and went out of their way to be enjoyable making it even more obvious.
Honestly, can't say I like either the shit back then or today. Padding out the game time with bullshit or making games be as brain dead as possible and instead padding out shit the Ubisoft way of filling it with shit to do that is all the same... both kinda suck.
I do want more games like Dark Souls. That time gameplay and world building into one and instead of having a bunch of badly written goofballs hit me with non stop witty dialog and map pointers and all that this... just put me in the world and let me explore.
Because yeah, Dark Souls was marketed as super hard and everyone keeps sucking it's big hard dick... but that's really not the games strong side at all. Especially as it's not even all that hard to begin with. No, the games strong side is building a world that feels worth exploring.
https://youtu.be/1U-xN8IgVHc
Does anyone here has Crash 4 digitally on PS4?
Personally, I Got It on Physical !
I have it physically too but is still sealed
And I don't wanna open it xD
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