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09/01/09
Kiddy platformer movie tie in, it will not work as.
09/01/09
The trailers have at least left me hoping that they'll do the book justice.
Hopes for the game? Not so high.
That being said, I'm still confused as to how you turn 20 pages and maybe 200 words into a 90 minute movie. Are they just trying to recreate the charm of the illustrations and keeping this really light on dialogue?
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To Majesco: Don't bother screwing with the difficulty either. I find triumph over a difficult puzzle to be incredibly rewarding. A proper solution, if one is in fact desirable at all, would be to introduce difficulty levels.
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I don't recall it being THAT hard to beat, certainly not "Sadistically hard" as mentioned in other comments.
I'm also not saying I'm some genius gamer where everything comes naturally and the challenge of videogaming is lost on.
Just that the original NES game isn't that hard.
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Part of what made it so difficult, especially for an NES kid, was that the game didn't exactly go out of its way to put you on the right track.
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It was definitely crushingly hard by today's standards. Sure, you might have beaten it in a few days, but that's still a long time to be stuck on one level.
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Wario Land: Shake It! for Wii did an excellent job of balancing the difficulty. As you played the game, the difficulty grew smoothly from "easy" to challenging "challenging". And then after you clear the game, you get some murderously difficult stages for the people who want them.
I wouldn't mind if more games followed a formula similar to that.
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Nothing like seeing someone play a game that 'looks' cute and child like thinking is going to be easy and then cursing at it for it being super hard xP
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But yeah, I'm looking forward to the game and that article was a great idea.
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By this point in our lives we should be mature enough to know it's just a game and not to get upset.
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I can appreciate difficulty, but if it's unfair then it's unfair.
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It's the old-school platformer stuff that bugs me. It's when it just seems unfair that I get the feeling it's being used to extend the game.
I'm not saying it's wrong to appreciate a challenge. I just suspect this is a lame one.
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Ever since I got into RPGs, I've started looking for stories in my games, and it is quite possible for the difficulty to get in the way. I don't want to feel like I've "accomplished" something insane, necessarily. I just want to experience a great story that I took part in.
I don't want to spend my time just trying to get good enough to beat one level anymore... That was something I could do when I was 7, but not now.
I hope there will always be an "extreme" mode to please people like you, but I hope that doesn't again become the standard and ONLY way to play through a game. I agree with hot_heart, in that a lot of those old platforming games were cheap. You beat cheap games with a great memory. Memory isn't skill.
07/31/09
So a 2d game can't be hard to extend length but a 3d game can? I don't understand this (not being rude, literally confused and hope you can elaborate.)
And, maybe you can use examples of games which have been released. I would say not to take this one persons experience as the game being unfair, because he may just suck at playing games overall.
If you know HOW to beat a hard game (or section of it) and can beat it on your first try every time, it isn't a hard game, it's more of a puzzle solving thing. So trial and error, and memorization. But if you know how to beat a hard game, and have a hard time beating it, but can, it is challenging gameplay. Which is what I am gathering is the experience Mr. Totilo and this producer had with this game.
07/31/09
That may not be the case here, but Stephen seems to have a problem with it.
And I wasn't saying NG was allowed to be difficult to extend its lifespan. I said it was different. I never felt overwhelmed playing it, just that every fight was for my life... But as has been said, your mileage may vary.
I think ex_nihilo hit it on the head otherwise. Could be more to do with poor design, programming, controls and/or no testing. Recent case in point: Star Destroyer section of Force Unleashed.
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