How difficult is too difficult?
>>12145897It was a masterpiece in getting more coins. Coin eating refined to art.
>>12145897GnG, like most arcade games, doesn't try to make a good faith effort to challenge the player. It's just trying to scam as many quarters out of your pockets as possible, and it preys on the stubborn and the addictive. So as a question of ethics, you could say that a game is "too difficult" when it's designed in a financially predatory manner.That said, it's a 40 year old game that people still seem to enjoy, and it spawned a very successful and beloved franchise, even among those who saw through the obvious monetary scam. The game's difficulty is regarded as an iconic trait rather than a sore spot. So who knows? Maybe there is no such thing as too difficult.
>>12145969This. The retro difficulty so many people are nostalgic about was basically just an attempt at gouging rather than a fair challenge. GnG is fun for a while but the final stages are bullshit
difficulty based on tough but fair challenge - gooddifficulty based on bad design - badghosts and goblins falls somewhere in between
>>12145897Just play the jap revision and it's a reasonably challenging game
>>12145897GnG arcade is a genuinely great game with very solid design principles. The NES game is shit though
>>12146039it's all pretty fair imo until it forces you to fight three satans with the shortest range weapon (and then three more in the second cycle)i say 3 because i never found out if it's possible to get the shield in level 6, i always assumed it sent you back to level 5 because that's where you're supposed to get it but maybe that's not true
>>12145969>>12145982Yes.
>>12145969LOL. maybe if you spent your time actually playing games instead of scouring reddit for gay shit to paste on /vr/ then you'd beat one of those le bad arcade games without having to feed it credits. you clueless shitter.
>>12146058You are supposed to get the cross in stage 4 with the little spawning faggots just after the platforming section
>>12145897I hate Satan I hate Satan I hate Satan I hate Satan
>>12146065Except I've 1cc'd GnG. Miserable experience, only Art of Fighting 2 and Athena were less enjoyable to 1cc
>>12146065stop being so angry anon, this is a /comfy/ board
>>12146098Did you feel strongth welling? in your body?
>>12145969>>12145982>>>/v/ is down the hall and to the left
>>12146067>>12146058You can farm shields from the ghosts at the beginning of level 6 if you're desperate. They take so long to spawn that you'll probably lose a few lives to the timer running out at least 3-5 times.There's also a chance to farm shields from one of the goblin dudes, but for whatever reason, I've ONLY seen a goblin carry an item if I allowed the dragon to chase me to that point. Otherwise it only drops high score point items. Maybe there's no correlation and I was just getting unlucky though. I didn't investigate too hard
>>12146724>There's also a chance to farm shields from one of the goblin dudesalso you can't really "farm" the goblins since they don't respawn, unlike the ghosts, so you're better off farming the ghosts or just getting the shield from an earlier stage and hanging onto it.this will entail learning how to fight the satan in level 5 with the shield, but it's good practice because you're forced to do this in level 6 anyway.
how the fuck are you supposed to avoid it when satan dives at you while remaining close enough to attack him
>>12146724I always farm a shield/cross on level 4 with the little imps that fly out of the fire
>>12146065You didn't even read his post.
>>12146770Jump away from him then turn around mid air and start firing at him. That's a big tactic in gng but I forgot the name for it.
It's pretty fair, but definitely requires a lot of practice and memorization to consistently clear it. The Red Arremers are absolutely the hardest part of the game (assuming you're playing one of the fairer revisions, and not the one which has two Pegasus enemies at the start of stage 6), and despawning the ones in stage 6 is probably the best option. I probably couldn't do it now, but I used to be able to multiloop it.
Ghouls n Ghosts > Ghosts n Goblins
