A great deal of games you grew up with didn’t have save features, analog controls, or more than two buttons either.
Crying bout easy modes…
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This is the part that pisses me off:
GameStop also announced a “cost savings and profit improvement initiative” that will consist of “supply chain efficiencies, operational improvements, expense savings and pricing and promotion optimization.”
IE: Less employees and less hours for existing employees. Even more ThinkGeek Shit, Less New Games and Hardware. Push Pre-Owned, and Attachments (Warranties, Pro Cards, Preorders etc) even harder than we already do.
That’s how I feel this comes off as.
Power to the players! But not our employees!
Certain Mega man’s had difficulties.
But that’s because Japan thought we were a bunch of pussies and couldn’t handle “their” version.
And though they didn’t have “save features” a lot of games had passwords. You could just put those in and jump back into the game. Mega Man, Punch Out and Kid Icarus immediately come to mind. I think Metroid had a password system too? I don’t remember.
Save files didn’t become a thing until the first LoZ. Then a lot of games followed suit like Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest) and Final Fantasy.
Sony announces borderlands 3 release date
Sorry Steam users @hawkingbird @Darksakul @azure @mikeohara (maybe?)
Looks like the $250 “Diamond Edition” of BL3 might be GameStop exclusive
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Great, another game I have to a year to play. Fuck you Gearbox.
Gonna have to get parts of my life in order so I can f it all up once BL3 comes out.
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DMC5 and Borderlands 3 in the same fucking year?
Also on easy modes INB4 “But mah story”, git gud or git bent you fucks. There hasn’t been a difficult game released since Bayonetta 1 and Ninja Gaiden 2/Razor’s Edge.
Weak ass scrubs gotta temper the best timeline with dumb shit.
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Curiously why do you guys give gamestop business if you dont like them. Go buy your games somewhere else maybe?
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Outside of buying the physical edition of Katamari Rerolled which was exclusive to them and the occasional store exclusive Amiibo like Diablo III Loot Goblin and the praise the sun dude from Dark Souls I don’t. Haven’t since I quit almost 3 years ago.
Even when I worked there I rarely bought games from them. I always went through amazon. When Amazon had the 20% off games when you preordered them there was literally no reason for me to shop anywhere else BUT amazon for new games.
The only time I’d buy games there when I was an employee was during “employee appreciation week” which was right around holiday season. our employee discount would be 25% instead of 15% which stacked with your power up rewards card which is another 10% off. So I’d buy used games I knew friends would want but didn’t have the money to buy or they kept putting off buying them for one reason or another.
Main Reasons I don’t go now.
They’re a shit bag company that treats their employees like shit. They don’t deserve my money.
I don’t buy used unless I absolutely have to.
Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart all do release date delivery.
Their online store shipping blows. Minimum $5.99 sometimes PER ITEM in your order. Unless they have a “special” going on where you spend X and get free standard shipping which is 5-10 days. Fuck that.
Even though there are 3 gamestops “near me” they’re all about 45 to an Hours drive away. That’s not worth it to me. (This is also why I don’t go to my “local” Best Buy. It’s almost an hours drive from my house. Not worth it.)
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For a couple of places, GameStop is the only retail store in town that sells games. I usually buy my physical games from Best Buy but some people don’t have those options.
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It isn’t just games man. Society has moved to this misguided view that everything should be for everyone.
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I don’t. They hardly have anything good used near me and they dont keep a good stock of popular games new. For preorders I rather do Amazon.
New from a brick and mortar retail? Best Buy, as there I get certificates towards purchases
I’m gonna throw up for unrelated reasons and then go home and play Devil May Cry 5 on Human.
Re: GameStop
I sell games to them sometimes if I need quick cash. I don’t often buy. I only preorder Final Fantasy games and the best way to do that is through Square Enix directly.
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Also BL3 being a epic store exclusive for PC is a hard pass for me. Give me a steam version or one that tied to no services.
I really don’t like how Epic run things.
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Clearly didn’t say that. But when you got people crying bout how hard Nioh, Bloodborne or Sekiro it’s fucking pathetic. Hell you got DMC5 on human and got the gall to call that playing when it’s already piss easy. They literally hand you the strongest iteration of Dante ever and you still gettin’ clapped and spamming gold orbs?
Git bent and keep crying bout easy modes.
You’re the one crying because of some shit that has zero effect on you. People play games for reasons other than a desire to flex on a motherfucker, you know. If you’re so hell bent on showing everyone online that your e-penis is big, then don’t play it on easy mode. I usually don’t.
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Playing DMC
Not trying to flex on motherfuckers
I call bullshit.
Also I feel it does effect me. Internet and crying have dumbed games down to a trifling level because of how incompetent whiny shits like yourself have become. People were comparing the damn Crash Bandicoot remaster to dark souls and I beat every one while still in elementary.
Catering to shit stains is why I haven’t struggled or found a game difficult in 7+ years.
This dude cannot possibly be serious.
Think I’ll say this and then let it go as far as the whole difficulty conversation goes:
Video games are entertainment but a terrible ass hobby. Just like all sorts of media is not written with me in mind, there are a lot of games designed without me in mind. So if a company makes a game that isn’t targetting you as its audience by adding features you want, then go play anything else.
This idea that everything ever made should also be for you too is dumb as all hell. Whether a company decides you are or aren’t their target audience is up to them. You as a costumer are free to petition them and make them aware that you could be a potential customer. But that’s about as much as you’re going to get out of that interaction. They made the game they wanted to make, you can take it or leave it.
There’s lots of things I don’t like in games. I can choose to play them or not. I can make my opinion known but after that, asking for massive changes to an entire industry just to fit your needs is silly. About the only time that’s been valid was in terms of allowing disabled people the ability to remap buttons in all games. The PS4 went 3 extra steps on that by letting you remap the controller at the system level (and they don’t get enough credit for really going that mile).
But the fact people are crying over a game being made easier to suit their needs says a lot. This isn’t really about a lot of weird constructs that are being made out to be. What this really is about is a group of people who need a cheap dopamine high from beating games. Instead of wanting the bigger high from surmounting challenges (which is about one of the few good things about gaming, you know putting your brain through artificial challenges then overcoming them), you want those taken away so that individually you could feel better.
I have a bunch of games unfinished for a lot of reasons. Some just weren’t for me. Sekiro is just not for a lot of people. And that’s okay.
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He’s right about the Crash remaster. So many people bitched about the difficulty and went as far as to call it the dark souls of platformers.
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