Super Metroid proves modern gaming is crap...

I was kind of surprised at first seeing all those people who are stuck. I personally don't remember getting lost in this game or having much trouble though, so I guess I was comparing it to my experience, but yeah, you guys are right and it really isn't surprising to see people getting stuck. Still, things like "how do you open red doors?" I mean, the guy has 5 missiles right? Switch to missiles, shoot one at the door, notice that something is happening so keep shooting it. At least try first before relying on the internet =\

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Originally Posted by Soulis

This game is not about navigation though. You don't get stuck because you don't know where to go and you have to explore/memorize/observe. In this game you get stuck because the enemies rape you. Its a different kind of difficulty. Super Metroid is a very easy game in this regard. Ghost and Goblins will frustrate them but they will realize that they just don't have the skills for it. Super Metroid just confuses them. They don't die but they still can't advance. They simply can't realize that you have to use your thinking and logic to do it, because they never used it in modern games. Its above their heads.

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i was referring to general level of difficulty and how modern games tend to mollycoddle the players
the likes of ghosts n ghousl shoudl come as a culture shock at the very least

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Originally Posted by KimbleJustice

It's not. When I saw those pictures I had to go outside, scream and beat my fists against the pavement while cursing the name of every single game released after 1995.

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Yeh, that didn't happen.

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Originally Posted by KimbleJustice

It's not. When I saw those pictures I had to go outside, scream and beat my fists against the pavement while cursing the name of every single game released after 1995.

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Repped for maximum hilarity.

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Originally Posted by KitsuneNight

your 21 so what ? ill be 26 next month

do you think your age some how makes your opinion more valid ?
that being stating you are 21 your opinion suddenly carries more weight ?

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Oh for f#cks sake it's "you're". I even highlighted where you wrote "you are" just so you know why it's spelled that way..

I don't consider myself a "gamer", and modern gaming is great.

I don't see this as a problem. "back in the day" you had the manual and the odd magazine that maybe had tips and hints for a few games. And maybe you were allowed to use the Nintendo Power Hotline. If you were REALLY lucky you had some crappy dial up internet and maybe could find some online information about a game.

It was expected that you would go into a game completely blind and alone.

Nowadays you have gamefaqs and countless fan sites about any given game. The games are so much larger (actual file size) and they can include all the tutorial stuff right in the game.... manuals are needed for anything, it's all right there in the game.

New players just starting out kind of expect the game to teach them how to play it as they go along. When they are thrown into an "old school" game where that luxury doesn't exist... it can take awhile for them to "click" that they basically need to just die/restart a few times before they get the hang of it. Very few modern games are like that.

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Originally Posted by GameMaster600

Yeh, that didn't happen.

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How dare you doubt me. I'm getting you banned from this forum - my dad knows this guy who works for Melf. You're being banned right now.

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Originally Posted by KimbleJustice

How dare you doubt me. I'm getting you banned from this forum - my dad knows this guy who works for Melf. You're being banned right now.

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you monkies !
i know your dads and your dads' dads i have a wolf ill have your hides !

I was actually playing Super Metroid this week. Is this game really so hard to figure out for them? I mean, wow...
For me part of the fun is actually trying to find your way through the game. But I admit I still went online to check how to get the grappling hook and the gravity suit, just so i would not run in circles for an hour.
But i found the spring ball all by myself :D
Im halfway through Maridia now.

The funny thing is that in 1994 Super Metroid was considered too easy and handholding by a lot fans of the original.

Even if what you believe is happening really was, this doesn't prove anything about modern gaming. If anything, it shows how primitive 16-bit games are and why optional tutorials are useful.

But all that has really changed in terms of your having access to these comments, is the internet. All of these kinds of comments were spoken and thought by millions of people of all ages back in the day. But now everyone blurts out every impulse onto social media. To this day I never read a game's manual before playing. There's no reason for someone not to think that Metroid is the name of the main character (if they don't bother to read the intro text) and I remember several people thinking so bitd with the NES version.

This thread is exactly the same thing as the comments that it is complaining about. It's a knee jerk reaction taken to social media.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

The funny thing is that in 1994 Super Metroid was considered too easy and handholding by a lot fans of the original.

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Yep. Games like the original Metroid were how most old gamers started gaming. We started our "careers" with hard and many times confusing games. Even figuring out how the game works was a part of the deal. 8bit home computer games tended to be even more confusing and cryptic at times. Hence Super Metroid is actually pretty easy and self explanatory in comparison. With modern gamers its the opposite. They started gaming with easy, hand holding games with endless tutorials and prompts and that's why Super Metroid is so confusing to them.

In Ghost n Goblins:"you get stuck because the enemies rape you."

Yes, yes they do. And you cant blame them, Sir Arthur Is in his privy's after all .
He is kinda asking for it.
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