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Message: [QUOTE="Jeanfranc, post: 28335, member: 114163"] Yet arcades ARE dead, design-wise I mean. While I understand you guys missing the social environment that naturally forms around arcades. The greatest loss here is that of the guiding principles behind arcade game design: Arcade games are meant to be short, difficult and dense with content. In games like Metal Slug 1 there is no waiting, no time wasters between "action scenes" to stretch the game; in the Arcades devs want you off that cabinet ASAP, all the mechanics must be quick to explain in the HOW TO PLAY (which usually lasts 30 seconds and is always skippable), easy to learn but hard to master. The difficulty progression of these games is also great: unlike modern games (this includes most "retro" indie games) where difficulty slowly ramps up as you progress through the whole game, usually, but not necessarily becoming actually challenging in the last 10% of the game, the ideal arcade game usually goes from easy to hard by the end of the first stage and only gets harder from there. [/QUOTE]

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