Current Events > Most old games really wouldn't have been that hard if

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they just had infinite continues.

Or anothrr way of outting it is if today's games had three lives and then you had to start the whole game over, we would consider them much harder.
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a lot of them werent very balanced which i think is where most of the video game difficulty comes from

good example are those beat em up games in arcades, like X-Men, The Simpsons, etc. there's very little strategy in them and not much you can do to avoid death like 90% of the time. the game is really just designed around you feeding quarters into the machine constantly after you die
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As I work my way through the games on the NES classic I completely agree. The ability to save at any time, basically unlimited lives, makes things a hell of a lot easier.
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Wolfenstein 3D had a lives system, but its usefulness was rather moot. Whenever you die, not only do you have restart back at the beginning of that level, but your inventory will be reset to a knife and a pistol with 8 rounds. In other words, avoid death at all costs. You could save anywhere, but still. Lives are virtually useless.
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Romulox28 posted...

the game is really just designed around you feeding quarters into the machine constantly after you die

Not really. Arcade games are designed around playing for score, feeding a quarter zeroes out your score. The only way to be remotely competitive is to play for a 1cc.
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