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Chris Trottier | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Sometimes I read Steam Reviews and it seems to me a good portion of people are angry because a game is hard. 

As in, “Boo! This game has lives! And when you run out of lives, you die!”

If you talked this way in the 80s and 90s, you would have been laughed out of the arcade.
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4cba3152 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @Chris Trottier 

These kids, I swear.  Did they ever feed an entire roll of quarters into a TMNT cabinet?  Did they ever have their entire SimCity stomped by Godzilla and have to start over?  Have they ever shot the food at the worst possible moment, leading to the death of the Blue Wizard?

Have they ever been beaten down by Warmech?  Thrown a controller at the screen because of Air Man?  Memorized the ghost patterns in one version of Pac-Man, then gotten tripped up because they keep changing in different releases?  Cried because of those damned sharks in the Final Sector and a complete lack of ink pellets?

There's a place for easy games, and a place for hard games; there's a place for your walking simulators or your arena shooters or your fighting game bosses with frame-perfect moves and even your pixel-hunt 'find the object' games.  For heavens' sake, don't downvote a game because it's too hard -- or too easy.  Ask instead if the game did what it set out to do.