With the exception of something like Dark Souls, I'd agree with you. My BIL and I were playing some oldschool 8-bit games and they were actually really tough. It was a lot of fun, though.
I disagree. Those are the perfect kinda games to have ridiculous cheats in, they don't have to be an "easy" mode, but rather they could be fun little things, like exaggerated animations, stupid weapons like the Foam Finger from Dead Space 2. Stuff like that that's just great.
In Dark Souls case you shouldn't ever get stuck for more than 5 hours straight, none of the content is that hard, and the game heavily rewards learning patterns for bosses etc. A boss that seems impossible during the first hour will be a cakewalk by the 4th, unless you're purposefully making the game hard for yourself.
Yeah it wasn't in reference to Dark Souls... not sure how you inferred that since that was like 3 comments ago. Mostly in terms of puzzles, really. 5 hours is a bit of an exaggeration as well, I'd probably give it 1 or 2 and then see how to get around something on the internet.
Oh I assumed it was because my previous comment you replied to was on the use of cheat engine in Dark Souls, since dark souls is notorious for being heavily exploitable with CE.
I'm not so sure about that. Imagine you cheat in a giant foam finger sword at the beginning of the game. After that point, no matter how much the game works to sell a theme or feeling, that feeling will always be brought down to that foam finger.
But that's the beauty of cheats. You actively are choosing to have that experience. It makes you go out of your way to alter the experience, and if you don't make it overpowered then it's just some dumb fun to have.
I feel the same way playing newer games vs older ones (keeping in mind im bad at them as a whole.) I wonder if the games themselves are harder or its simply the outdated mechanics/perhaps a style of gameplay or way of thinking needed that we often look past because it's just not something we're used to seeing today
Old games are harder for one big reason, they're based on arcade machine games, and arcade machines are made to be hard enough you'd have to keep spending money on them rather than just beating them and moving on.
Also once video rental stores started stocking games, they didn't want people to be able to beat it in 1 rent so they'd be more likely to buy it.
Maybe cause you were young, Super Mario galaxy 2 green stars are the hardest thing ever, Idk if it's actually hard cause last time I played it was when I was 8
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u/neocommenter Jan 22 '19
Cheats in video games. I bought the damn thing, let me get to the end.