Think back to when you were a little kid. When you played a difficult game (that was difficult to you at the time), did you have the patience and determination to beat it or were you quick to give up and play easier games instead? I'm a millennial and was guilty of giving up to play easy games. Which is why I liked Sonic games and JRPG's so much when I was single-digit age.I'm really just curious to hear stories about little kids who really did have the stuff to die dozens of times and overcome challenges beyond your years.
While I'd often give up, I also felt compelled to go back and give harder games a shot periodically as well. It was always really exciting when I did better than I normally did or had noticeably improved to the point I could beat the game.
>>735577237Yeah, that makes sense. I always came back as well. I played a lot of hard games repeatedly but I'd get a few levels in, hit a roadblock, get frustrated and play something else instead. I also know that zoomers lived in a different landscape to me. Early 2000's platformers were easier than some of the bullshit I played during the 90's. I don't want to discredit your hardships though, if the game was hard for you back then, I'm sure it would've been hard for me too!
>>735577743To me at least, there was always something "cool" about hard games and being good at them. Maybe that came from seeing my older brothers or neighbors handle NES games like they were nothing. I still think it's cool to be good at hard games.
>>735577160I'm a zoomer, I did this as a kid but now I persist enough with hard games that do fuck me over but I am usually determined enough to beat it. But really, the challenge is the most fun part of the journey.
>>735578335Beating and being good at hard games IS still cool, it was my biggest bragging right with my siblings.
>>735578335I used to go to my friend's house all the time (he was a few years older than me) because he was better at games>>735578484I think that's most of us now. As adults, we all have our reasons for playing hard games through to the end. We either love the challenge or you feel obligated to bash your head against it until you win.
>>735577160It took me 3 goddamn years to beat The Machine in Ecco the Dolphin.
>>735578658Even as a kid I loved hard games even if they filtered me, I still love them now but being older and wiser doesn't make them as hard anymore.
>>735578935would you game over a bunch and keep on playing or would you pop in something easier? hard doesn't mean "I hate it", it's a question of having the determination to keep playing even when you're dying a ton.
>>735577160I never beat most of the games in my youth until later on. There are exceptions like Mario games, Kirby games, Pokemon games...but generally, I wasn't good enough to finish them. Not even Genesis Sonic which I first beat without a level select in high school. Never gave up, just wasn't good enough to do it and didn't put my nose to the grindstone.Nowadays I fucking love hard games, especially arcadey ones, and beat them a lot. The exception funny enough is Dark Souls itself as I just did not feel like grinding souls to last longer in my attempts against Ornstein and Smough.
>>735579078I'd game over and keep playing until I got bored or angry enough to call it quits, and then come back and do it again.
>>735577160Depends on how young are we talking about and what's considered hard. I was able to beat Lost Vikings but couldn't make the jump across the broken bridge at the end of the first page of Comix Zone for some reason.
>>735577160I powered through. I didn't get new games very often though, so it was that it nothing. I brute forced my way through Castlevania 2 despite barely being able to read.
>>735577160I would just get as far as I could until I got filtered, then I would later come back to the game and play as far as I could again.It's kinda funny going back to those games now and realizing how many of them are actually pretty easy. I was just a dumb kid.
>>735577160I used cheat codes and Game Genie
>>735577160nah i just stopped playing. In mario 3 I used flutes to get to the last level and skip the sky level, and in Lion King I think i quit at the jungle level boss.I mean most people wouldnt be able to handle old nes/snes games where the "run backs" after a game over included multiple levels.
>>735577160As a kid I struggled against the big eyeball in Chrono Trigger, the player is supposed to beat the two sputnik drones first then attack it, since they regenerate I took it for granted this wasn't a good strategy.Maybe two years later I got the game on DS and managed to beat it. I couldn't beat Lavos at the time though, maybe because I didn't want the game to end.
nigga you rented the game you had to play it the whole weekend
When I was real little I usually gave up, but after I turned about 13 or so, I did start booting the NES back up and beating old shit I had as a kid that I never beat, like Castlevania and Mega Man 3.
I beat the hard games, but I acted like a fucking asshole and screamed at my little brother for "distracting me" when I lost. I should have been smacked in the mouth and had my games taken away for acting like that, really. Would have done me good.
>>735577160games that I remember finishing back when I was 8 to 11 years old which are considered challenging.Lion KingAlladinBoogermanMega Man 7Sonic and KnucklesResident EvilResident Evil 2Ocarina of Timemany others, all without any hints or guides from others.
>>735577160I played games on the easiest difficulty until like highschool. I used a game genie to give myself infinite lives and level select as a little kid on the NES. But I only really realized that you can have a lot more fun challenging yourself in like my mid-twenties, and that a lot of the games I thought were crazy difficult as a kid like Castlevania or Ninja Gaiden were actually entirely reasonable as long as you actually sit down and give it an honest effort instead of giving up and not learning from your mistakes.
>>735577160Games weren't that hard back in the day, only had issues with Undertale because I still couldn't read really well
>>735586413>back in the day>Undertale
>>735586119>Ninja Gaiden 6-2>World 6 in general booting you to the start of the world on Game Over rather than the level>Reasonable
No I was a Chad as a kid and hated rpgs and played nes games and shit. Now im a casual and suck at games and love rpgs. Lol
>>735586572I do 100% agree on that. Having to redo double as much as the other levels is too far for how much of an asshole the final boss is. But also it has infinite continues which is extremely generous compared to most games.Little kid me didn't get stuck on the final level though. He gave up on like the second.
>>735577160didn't have much choice back then i didn't have access to infinite games. the first game i remember completing was Enduro Racer on the Master System (although it just looped like an arcade game, on i guess harder difficulty)i also played Ninja on SMS a whole lot but never beat it. years later i watched a friend's older brother sit there and beat it in one sitting. imagine the awe of seeing a cool teenager (to a kid) beat your game like that.
>>735577160as a kid you either:-powered through a hard game because you had nothing else-cheated because the game was impossible and you wanted to see all the content while renting it for a week
>>735577160BothI still played the game from time to time trying to beat whatever I was stuck at but if after some time I was still stuck and my friends weren't able or didn't know how to beat it I eventually dropped it.
>>735577160I would go back to them, but I didn't seriously try to beat a hard game. I tried games like Comix Zone and Kid Chameleon multiple times and would inevitably game over in the same spots, but it didn't bother me that I couldn't make it far, I'd just move on and come back later when I was bored of other games. I don't remember ever really being determined to beat a hard game, I'd just eventually get good enough to beat some of them just from casually playing over and over.
>>735577160We beat some hard games as kids cuz we had to make do with the games in our collection. Couldn’t just log onto Steam and buy a new game for two shekels.
