So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King.
Which got me thinking. Basically every game for the past 20 years has been designed around instant gratification and being accessible. We outright had to make a new concept "hard but fair" to account for games like Dark Souls that are designed to be difficult but beatable as opposed to putting you in a death spiral if you hesitate too long on a hard jump (hello Ninja Gaiden).
So do the younger folk even have a concept of a "favorite game" where you likely never experienced more than fifteen minutes worth of content?
Ah, I went to play Pokémon Unite instead (even tho Nintendo and their Switch & Mobile only approach)... Bluestacks is an option but not a particularly good one...
And then there's Tencent - but you encounter Tencent kinda everywhere right now so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sort of relevant, I had a friend who was really into super smash brothers (brawl, I think). Talked a lot about the competitive scene, different moves and tactics etc. He didn't have a Wii or Switch though, we were all pretty broke.
Anyway, some money came buy and he was able to grab a Switch and SSB finally. Super keen.
And then he just kinda sucked at. It was pretty sad, he almost immediately stopped being excited about it and the Switch, which he had bought new, was barely used a couple of months later. I was kinda worried about him because he wasn't mentally in a good place before that and talking about SSB seemed like an outlet for him (none of us in the mutual group played or cared about the game).
This was a while ago, he's doing much better now
Smash Brothers is one of those games where you think you're good casually but it has such high skill cielings that even other casual players can curb stomp you. It depends so heavily on what sort of games you played growing up. (Assuming you don't out in effort to practice I mean.) I (used to) be able to reliably win against my wife because she never played anything growing up, but my friends that played a lot of fighting games growing up easily beat me.
I feel like I had this experience repeatedly in RTSes. I don't think I quite had the same dive as my friend did, but still
KSP. Never managed to even land on the Mün without a fast and violent end to the crew, but I loved building spaceships.
The best thing I managed to do was to achieve an orbit around Kerbin.
Shoot same! I swear to God it was like the controls were broken on every rocket I ever made. No matter how symmetrical it was I felt like I was always fighting the controls.
For me, Dwarf Fortress. I have never gotten far in that game. It's fascinated me since I was 13, and I still suck at it.
I am a young user of lemmy ( I am in high school ), And, I really suck in games, but I love the blinding of isaac: repentance,I didnt played as many games as that, but I think it is the hardest game I've played, and my favorite.
Keep and it, in a few years you can be like me. An old guy who loves Issac, but still sucks at it!
yeah, it is fun to try and retry, and I love the fact that every game you play are different in some ways. I began to watch "Learning of isaac" from Shisheyu , it is very fun and usefull. Btw do you think people can be interested by a AMA I'm a high school student ( in France)
edit: I wrote "I'm a high school", but I'm a human.
I absolutely sucked at games as a kid, Most of my absolute favourite games I played all day for months on end as a kid I still never finished... even on the easiest setting.
Wasn't until my 20s I started going back to a lot of these games and finally completing them 100% on hardest mode. It's quite a feeling :)
Well now I just want to watch young people try to beat the unbeatable games of my yout'.
Prince of Persia, Mega Man X, Ghosts & Goblins, Ecco the Dolphin (my favorite, but I screamed so much at Ecco dying one pixel away from air). Zork without a walkthru. Solve all the puzzles yourself or by talking to friends also playing it blind.
And you paid $60 ($200 in today's bullshit money) for this, you can't get another for 3 months.
Dunno if I'd consider myself "younger" anymore (who am i kidding, i ain't THAT old lol), but...
If we count really old games: the OG castlevania's. Didn't grow up during that era, but thanks to handmedowns, i got to play pre Symphany Vania when i was super young. Love them, wish i was better at them tho. The collections are sitting in my steam library, and maybe some day, I'll beat at least one of the classics.
For something more recent(?) tho, i love me some Touhou. fangames, offically made games by Zun, fan games in the style of Zun, ya name it....but MAN do i suck at the actual bullethell Touhou games. i can make it past two or 3 stages, but then the boss destroys me and I'm like "I CAN choose continue, nothing but pride is stopping me...but also, if i can't manage this far without continuing, how bad is the rest gonna be??" and wuss out lol
Binding of Isaac! I must have watched at least 2000h of Northernlion playing it and have complete knowledge of everything about that game. But I do suck at it and have played maybe like 10h in total just cause I don't have the hand-eye coordination for it haha
Shoutout to mah boi Ryan.
Shame he swapped Isaac with Super Auto Pets. It's so fucking boring to watch.
oof, that's true
SAP is a great game, but he just isn't very good at it and pure technical skill and reflexes don't make up for it. At least the banter is top tier as always
Terraria. Spent so much time in it. Tons of fun. I liked a lot of it. But I compared to other friends and realized I was terrible and barely even saw much of the game cause I didn't get very far.
Age of Empires 2. Love the game, but I'm terrible at it... I can barely beat the medium AI. I was defeated in pretty much every online match.
Pretty much all of them, especially fighting games. I liked SF4 but absolutely sucked at trying any more complex combos.
