SOME GAMES ARE EASY, SOME ARE HARD.
(Posted 2007-07-17 14:08:30 by basscomm)

While I've been whinging about games being too easy [
http://crummysocks.com/node/4 ], Jim Rossignol is of the opposite mind.
He's arguing that games are too hard [
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=14702 ].
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Games _are_ generally too hard to play. _Spider-Man 3_ was on [sic] such
culprit. This should have been a game for everyone. Instead of being a
totally pop game defined by accessibility and easy of play, it immediately
bombarded you with instructions, and seemed to want to use all the buttons
on the controller just because it could. That meant that web-slinging, the
one easy thing in the game, became its sole joy.
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I'll concede that there is the odd mainstream game that is way too hard for
its demographic (i.e. any _Simpsons_ game), but those are the exception
rather than the rule.

Link! [ http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=14702 ]
(Gamasutra)

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