Tough Love-Can a Video Game be too Hard?(Good Article)

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posted05/10/2004 12:15 AM (UTC)by

ScorpionKing2003

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02/10/2003 05:30 AM (UTC)

http://slate.msn.com/id/2100116/?GT1=3316

it's good article scope it out, i find myself in the same way when i bought ninja Gaiden. i was like damn this damn game is too hard and oh by the way i was button mashing..hehe i knew that crap wasn't going to cut it. so i keep playing and learning some combos i knew as i keep playing im getting better and better..this was on normal, still the fact remain ninja gaiden is one of those game that can be hard as hell. early this morning i beated the game on the hard.im not even going to try very hard yet i still with hard mode and get myself ready for it. here's a little bit of the article you can read the rest at the link

(The trick behind cracking a difficult game is to surrender to the chaos. Gamers call it "button mashing." When you first encounter a difficult game, just wade in, thrash away at the buttons, and hope for the best. Eventually you'll do something accidentally brilliant, and then you can try to repeat it. (Not much different from how we approach everyday life, really.) We tend to think of top players as having Jedi-like Zen control over the game, but they too started out by flailing.)

as i call it no skills. tell me the game that been giving you your share of troubles. like for me it be mostly ninja gaiden but i over came it with time and practice.

ShingoEX

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•05/09/2004 02:39 PM (UTC) •

Soul Calibur 2's Weapon Master Mode.

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•05/09/2004 03:29 PM (UTC) •

F-zero GX which not only requires MASSIVE amounts of skill but GODLY REFLEXES!!! that is probably the hardest game I ever played... or that I mustered myself to play... shinobi(PS2) is pretty hard too, damn Ninja games. or perhaps REmake with the 'one dangerous zombie' mode which has a C4 Strapped Undead Folowwing you around the ENTRE Time! wait wait DONT TOUCH HIM!

FROST4584

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•05/09/2004 04:16 PM (UTC) •

F-Zero GX and Viewtiful Joe are games ( for me at least ) are extremly hard. I've stopped playing them long ago since Both games are insane. F-zero GX tracks are not so good to drive on at speeds at which you do in the game( to me). Also I have been able to to beat Viewtiful Joe on kids mode , but never adult mode. I've gotten to the last level on adult mode but never got the 1st area of the last level. Even if I did , I don't think I could ever beat the super cheap last boss of the game. To me these 2 games require lots of amount of skill to beat.

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•05/09/2004 04:24 PM (UTC) •

syphon filter: the omega strain, im having difficultys with it but hey, i just got the game today, its mainly that the p.i.d. su-ucks! and i cant find a fucking pair of night-vision goggles.

NeedlesKane

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•05/09/2004 04:43 PM (UTC) •

Game's aren't difficult. Some people just aren't good at them. Most people who bought Ninja Gaiden, probably played alot of RPGs and used alot of cheats on most games they owned. Ninja Gaiden wasn't hard at all, I had the thing down when I first bought it. Maybe it's just layed out to my likings? Ya see it depends on who "you" are, I'm not good at Sports games basically because I don't understand and there's not enough eye candy, so by the first hour I'm in a deep state of depression, lol.

Kahn91

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•05/09/2004 06:56 PM (UTC) •

Oh boy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If anyone has any helpful tips, just post in my topic asking for any tips/codes.

Back on topic, ROTK is so hard. All those creature are killing me dead! Especially when I'm Frodo. I can't even find any helpful codes!

overkill_78

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•05/09/2004 07:10 PM (UTC) •

pong 15 t3h h@rd35t g@m3 3\/3R!!!

Seriously, though, the hardest game I have right now is...well, I have no hard games. The only remotely hard game is Morrowind, and that's only for the first 2-3 hours of a new character.

But, I never understood Zero Wing ;).

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•05/09/2004 07:30 PM (UTC) •

The 2 devil may cry games are HARD.Especially on Must die mode.
So is FF6(FF3 in the U.S.) from time to time.
But the hardest i've ever played must be MGS2 on extreme. WHOA. Although Z.O.E the second runner is shithard at some places. Like when fighting SPOILER the viola A.I. in Ardjet, trying not to get killed,nor destroy Ardjet, but to delete the A.I. Carrying the Ardjet to the top of the facility is not cool either.END SPOILER.
It's a tie between Konami and Capcom games. But i agree tha Ninja Gaiden is really hard. Watched my friend fight the first boss,SPOILER Murai END SPOILER,for 2 hours! And yet, he is a damn good player.

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•05/09/2004 08:45 PM (UTC) •

NeoScorpion Wrote:
F-zero GX which not only requires MASSIVE amounts of skill but GODLY REFLEXES!!! that is probably the hardest game I ever played

You are damn right about F-Zero GX. That game is impossible sometimes. Even the story mode drives me crazy.

Kahn91

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•05/10/2004 12:15 AM (UTC) •

MetadragonX Wrote:

NeoScorpion Wrote:
F-zero GX which not only requires MASSIVE amounts of skill but GODLY REFLEXES!!! that is probably the hardest game I ever played
You are damn right about F-Zero GX. That game is impossible sometimes. Even the story mode drives me crazy.

Yeah, a couple of Fridays ago, when I was at my friends house because we were going to see "The Girl Next Door"(now its out of theaters! NOT FAIR!), we were playing the multiplayer of F-Zero GX and he was going on about how hard the story mode was.

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