23rd September 2006, 7:48 AM
Prime 2 is more difficult, just ask the people who complained to Retro and forced them to make Prime 3 "Not as difficult".
Alien Hominid and Viewtiful Joe I wouldn't call hard. Not Megaman 3 hard. But i'm talking specifically about the grading curve, how most games are just not that difficult. Sonic Riders is hard, but again people complained of its difficulty. Even reviews of the game gave it lower scores because of its difficulty. How insane is that? You're telling the devs 'Please make it so that when I play the game I never die and always win".
It should never be cheap though, ie unresponsive controls and animation, frame rate issues, unbalanced weapons or enemies, etc. Those are issues easily overcome by a dev worth their salt.
Ultimately as long as a game contains a harder difficulty setting i'm happy. REmake on hard is awesome, Prime 1 and 2 on hard is good but still easy compared to Super Metroid. PN03 in the butterfly suit is extremely insane, one of my favorites.
But i'm starving for more and it's just not there. I think when people start to d/l games on the VC they're going to realize how easy games are now, and just maybe, that's going to spark interest in difficult games again.
Alien Hominid and Viewtiful Joe I wouldn't call hard. Not Megaman 3 hard. But i'm talking specifically about the grading curve, how most games are just not that difficult. Sonic Riders is hard, but again people complained of its difficulty. Even reviews of the game gave it lower scores because of its difficulty. How insane is that? You're telling the devs 'Please make it so that when I play the game I never die and always win".
It should never be cheap though, ie unresponsive controls and animation, frame rate issues, unbalanced weapons or enemies, etc. Those are issues easily overcome by a dev worth their salt.
Ultimately as long as a game contains a harder difficulty setting i'm happy. REmake on hard is awesome, Prime 1 and 2 on hard is good but still easy compared to Super Metroid. PN03 in the butterfly suit is extremely insane, one of my favorites.
But i'm starving for more and it's just not there. I think when people start to d/l games on the VC they're going to realize how easy games are now, and just maybe, that's going to spark interest in difficult games again.