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Message: [QUOTE="Graves Ruinwalker, post: 59632, member: 186183"] Great article ! TldR; About difficulty in Retrogames : I dont have any gripe about it but i still use savestates when the game is very tough and i need to understand every mechanic to play efficiently till i master it with limited continues , lifes or even deathless runs without any savestates . Im still a noob at the R-type series but it helped me to get really good at the Gradius-series which i didnt needed savestates at all . (Except Gradius 3 ... what a backstabbing game with a special kind of difficulty to kick your balls and spit in your face without any remorse . But the Soundtrack is awesome ! ) About complexity : You know , back then gaming had variety of genre-designs that were either complex & hard , simple & hard , simple & easy , complex and easy or something inbetween. You had games in genres : -For noobs that were very fun overall and beloved by many because its just to get into a game and there is no worries about the mechanics that can be challenging in higher difficulties but still wanna give fun for the players first . -For advanced gamers that brought fresh elements that gave the games and genres some bite that was still fair and square while it allows to go into daring mechanics which when mastered , opened up the game way much more with huge depth and possibilities . -For the best of the best that has a design thats extremly punishing at first but demands more than the basics to overcome the challenge , even when some cheese-tactics are needed to get through , some out-of-the-box is necessary and the games flaws can be ruin so e parts of the games but allows to go Bonkers with its mechanics that underlines the games setting and lore perfectly while making itsself into a legend on its own for its very complex design. While Trends brought gaming further with QoL- elements and revolutionary game-designs , i still think that older game-designs arent outdated or unecessary overall . It brought variety and different approaches to each genre that can be designed for a focus what the genre should archieve and be designed for . Not only for story-telling purpose but for the possibilities and freedoms that the gameplay can have outside being hold hostage in a story that is extremly linear and makes mechanics (even basic ones) redundant overall . Variety in game-design is more needed than going only for trends. Good thing , indies exist . Bad thing , its still not daring enough to bring some impactful innovation into gaming imho . [/QUOTE]

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