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So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King.

Which got me thinking. Basically every game for the past 20 years has been designed around instant gratification and being accessible. We outright had to make a new concept "hard but fair" to account for games like Dark Souls that are designed to be difficult but beatable as opposed to putting you in a death spiral if you hesitate too long on a hard jump (hello Ninja Gaiden).

So do the younger folk even have a concept of a "favorite game" where you likely never experienced more than fifteen minutes worth of content?

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[–] Castob@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Slay the spire I must have 400hrs+ of game time on multiple platform. Yet I still suck ass!!

All rhythm games and fighting games.

[–] sparky678348@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

League of Legends

Damn that shit is hard

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Overwatch. I've played since 2018 and I still haven't climbed out of Bronze. I love the story and character lore a ton though!

[–] Doxatek@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I used to be gold and platinum but I think the ranking system is broken because I'm as good as I ever was and am consistently bronze -__-

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[–] python@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Binding of Isaac! I must have watched at least 2000h of Northernlion playing it and have complete knowledge of everything about that game. But I do suck at it and have played maybe like 10h in total just cause I don't have the hand-eye coordination for it haha

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago
[–] minthenry@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Does it count I loved Quake 3 back in the day? Wasn't good at all at it but still I think it's one of the greatest games ever made and I loved playing it, especially Rocket Arena.

[–] tebro@lemmy.tebro.fi 2 points 2 years ago

Escape from tarkov. I am intrigued by the concept of the game, but each time I played I was outmatched in gear and skill.

[–] MycoBro@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The fucking lion king. Aladdin was hard af too. But roger rabbit? I couldn’t beat that bouncing around mother fucker and I don’t know if I ever did. And fuck kid Icarus. Another one I never beat. But the answer to the question is Turok for 64

[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I wasn't expecting to call myself young but I guess I never did experience any games that were just brutal though I did get into gaming a bit later in life. The earliest game I played was Warcraft 3 and the main campaign was easy enough, some custom maps were harder but nothing really hard so 20 years ago games weren't really harder. The hardest thing in any game I have experienced in about 20 years of gaming was Midir with a magic build in dark souls 3 which I never did beat.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I could never beat PokΓ©mon Blue because I chose the grass starter.

I beat that game at 10 years old with only my starter. Like I knew in concept you should train other Pokemon but I just had a level 86 Blastoise by the end of the game.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the grass starter is the best one?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It has a smaller strength-to-weakness ratio than fire and water which are both equal.

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[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Fortnite lol, but now I’d never wanna touch it again.

I def sucked at Quake Champions at first but now I think it’s the best shooter around

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

How do you define young?

I'm definitely too old but I loved Tarkov before cheaters ruined it.

I know some early-20's folks who grew up on DayZ.

Both games very hard to not suck at.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

For me it was Rainbow Six Siege.

Absolutely fell in love with the gun play (leaning in that game is my favorite mechanic in any game), destructible environments, operator gadget interactions, and repelling.

However, I was trash at the game because of slow reflexes due to bad eyesight, and poor aim. Relied on the gadgets while my team got the kills.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Tried for months but couldn't beat Rayman 2. Fuck you, razor beard.

[–] gnzl@nc.gnzl.cl 1 points 2 years ago

I don't qualify as a "younger user of Lemmy" but I love games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. I suck at all of them, except for Killer Instinct but I'm only kinda good with Combo.

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Karate Champ. I probably spent hundreds of dollars on that game and never got past the third match, and don't have the slightest clue what would make a round kick score a full point or a half point... You could come up with strats that usually worked, but nothing ever worked reliably... Mortal Kombat you could come up with strats that would 100% get you double flawless, but it's grandpappy would toss all manner of randomness at your ass and fuck you up pretty reliably :)

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think there's any game I like that I'm good at

[–] lichtmetzger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I love "Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos". I even run its official fansite.

To this day, I have never finished the game because it's hard. I mostly play it like a sandbox space pirate simulator. :D

[–] Mrderisant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I'm bad at most games so yes

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I feel like the answer is yes, but I can't remember what if any game it was. Its just the feeling is familiar.

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Whoooaa talking about the NES for me it was always "Castlevania" and "legends of Zelda II", gawd damn they were so difficult when I was a child.

Tbf you didn't say video game :p so basketball was another, used to think I was so Kool playing it. But dayumn did I suck at it.

Current day would probably be call of duty, I always think I'm gonna slay, then I get killed an call it bullshit >!but I know it's not bullshit, it was me!<

[–] TALL421@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

I just played Zelda 2 recently and that's just a hard game period. I would go as far as to say its unfair during its late game. But I'm also a child of the GameCube/ps2/ og Xbox generation, I never really grew up having to play games like Zelda and Zelda 2 being the best of the best

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

Young? How young? Because I'm older than most video game consoles...

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