Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Is it me or have they started making games easier especially on the wii, I believe this conspiracy was concocted to appeal to casual gamers. Declining difficulty cant be blamed on my intellect no longer.

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Making games easier? Pfft – games have been easy and effortless for well over 10 years now.

It's nice that we're finally seeing games being announced for the Wii, though. I was starting to worry that it'd be Port City until the lack of games just burned the Wii out.

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What i meant is even easier than the state its in now. We are going back to pong difficulty styled games and i wasnt even born then.

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What i meant is even easier than the state its in now. We are going back to pong difficulty styled games and i wasnt even born then.

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Yeah I do have to agree that games are getting dumbed down. I guess it has to reflect to the lack of good education in this world. That is the main reason I even left the Final Fantasy series behind. After FF8 the games have gotten so damn easy that I just had to stop playing. Maybe with better graphics comes less game play.

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I love roguelikes. Angband being one of my top 5 games of all time.

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I weep to think that this game has basically no chance of ever making it stateside. If they made it real time and added chicks in metal thongs (*cough*Diablo*cough*), it would sell like hotcakes here.

I thought we'd stop getting screwed on import releases after the SNES era, but I guess I was wrong.

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@Jeremy:

FF10 had some challenging bosses and FF12 is definitely one of the most difficult FF's to come out in a while, one of the most difficult RPGs that have come out in a bit.

I do wish games were more difficult, Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox made me throw my controller at the tv. Crazy stuff.

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@JC: Wow, I can get some portable Roguelike love without trying to get Nethack to cross-compile? Man, I am *really* looking forward to that. Do we know what they're going to translate the name as? I can't find much info online...

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Jeremy:

You mean "the lack of good education in america". kthxbai.

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I still feebly hope we'll see this here in the states!

Several months ago they revived the Shiren series by releasing Shiren DS. It was still pretty hardcore but many of the subtle tweaks made since the original SNES version made for an easier main game (the dungeons opened up after the main quest is completed are still fairly hardcore, but its still a greatly toned down difficulty compared to the original). I hope they don't nerf the game even more with this upcoming Wii version. Losing all of your stuff and having your level reset to level 1 when you die is half the fun and what makes this series so compelling...but at the same time I *KNOW* this feature would never sell here in the States. My only hope is that if it becomes a huge enough hit in Japan they'll just port it over anyways and let the addiction take hold even with these features intact.

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