Myth: Nintendo games are too easy nowadays

[Feel Good]

Play the Perfect Run from SMG2 and not get a single game over.

[Bad Asp]

Just try completing World 9-7 of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Also, try getting all three Star Coins.

There's a trope called "Nintendo Hard", and it's named that for a reason...

[Seagull Dien]

HAHAHA, what a coindidence, me and my brother just beat new super mario bros wii today (all stars) and we even thought that super mari world was harder than this :(
Still had fun though :P

[tapixt]

Yeah. SSB Wii is HARD AS CRAP. D:< My brothers and I STILL haven't beaten it fully.

[darkarcher]

Apparently the new Donkey Kong game is hard in its own right

[killshot]

I agree that Nintendo games aren't easy, but they are much easier now than they have been in the past. Looking over my NES collection, I can't say I have beaten a single one completely. Nowadays, it is the norm to be able to beat a game. It may not be easy, but its not borderline impossible like it used to be.

[Ganjamira]

Nyeh, i´m still in a war with SuperSmashBrother Brawl on the WII, damn thats hard! In games like SoulCalibur i get all fighters on two days adicct-playing and on SSBB i played at least a year!!! (yeah, i felt as moron as Yugi in the manga with that case....)

[Ganjamira]

PS: Metroid: Other M -> hard as hell!!! Before i played that i liked the idea of a shooter on WII, but now... The targeting is nearly impossible if you haven´t reflexes like a predator!

[ggbhtg]

I haven't played any head-banging hard games recently but N64 games are the first games I think of that make me go "GRR I wanna throw this out the window!". Maybe it was because I was younger. I keep playing a game until I win. Though I don't always go for 100%. The first game that comes to mind is Mario Tennis, surprisingly.

[OverMind]

Originally Posted by killshot

I agree that Nintendo games aren't easy, but they are much easier now than they have been in the past. Looking over my NES collection, I can't say I have beaten a single one completely. Nowadays, it is the norm to be able to beat a game. It may not be easy, but its not borderline impossible like it used to be.

I'm totally thinking Kid Icarus here. And Super Metroid.

Apparently, both were the brain-children of Gunpei Yokoi.

[PoisonXLilly]

It's GOOD that their getting easier. Then I won't have to spend several frustratingly long hours trying to beat pixels. =/
I hate it when video games are too hard.
Yes, I hate it when their too easy, but c'mon...

[Ohara]

Argh, Kid Icarus. It took me about 3 hours to get to level four, and after another few hours of trying to figure out where the bloody hell I was meant to go I ended up quitting out of sheer frustration.
I think the general difficulty of their more recent games are perfectly fine.

[OverMind]

Originally Posted by Ohara

Argh, Kid Icarus. It took me about 3 hours to get to level four, and after another few hours of trying to figure out where the bloody hell I was meant to go I ended up quitting out of sheer frustration.
I think the general difficulty of their more recent games are perfectly fine.

Well, you made it farther than me, I gave up on Kid Icarus in 10 minutes.

I made it halfway through Super Metroid before giving up. Mind you, I barely made it that far using a strategy guide and I still got stuck.

You have to be like a goddamn Nobel prize winner, a child prodigy with an IQ of 140, or an intuitively good at brain teasers to figure out some of the puzzles in that game. I'm actually impressed by anyone that can complete Super Metroid without a strategy guide.

[ggbhtg]

Ooh, Super Metroid. I played it when I was 7. Couldn't even leave the area where you get the item to turn into a ball.

[Ohara]

I didn't find Super Metroid nearly as hard as the original NES Metroid, personally - I did finish it without a walkthrough. The first time I played it was after 100% completing Fusion and Zero Mission, though, so I'd had some experience in understanding how the games work.

[pandapat]

Back to Kid Icarus, god, I'm still stuck on the 3rd level! that bitch is insane

[Yuikiko]

Originally Posted by PoisonXLilly

It's GOOD that their getting easier. Then I won't have to spend several frustratingly long hours trying to beat pixels. =/
I hate it when video games are too hard.
Yes, I hate it when their too easy, but c'mon...

I would honestly prefer games to be reasonably hard, as in I don't die because the game is being cheap.

[Anna-aurion]

FALSE, I sucked at playing SMG, SMG2 I only beat because I was trying to beat it.

[Jotenks]

Uhhhh, that means you sucked at SMG because you weren't trying...

[ggbhtg]

Originally Posted by Ohara

I didn't find Super Metroid nearly as hard as the original NES Metroid, personally - I did finish it without a walkthrough. The first time I played it was after 100% completing Fusion and Zero Mission, though, so I'd had some experience in understanding how the games work.

I started playing those this week. Figuring out where the passageways are is already annoying.

Oh, and SMG? Piss off tedious Purple Coin Stars....especially the one in the ghost galaxy.

[darkarcher]

I submit for your evaluation Donkey Kong Country Returns, the only game I've played in a long time where I've lost more than 20 lives in a level.

[SupermewX300]

Originally Posted by ggbhtg

I started playing those this week. Figuring out where the passageways are is already annoying.

Oh, and SMG? Piss off tedious Purple Coin Stars....especially the one in the ghost galaxy.

Luigi's Purple coins was infuriating. I completed the whole game other than that in a few months on and off playing, and stayed with just that to do for about a year. And then I had to do it with Luigi ¬_¬

I just got Metroid: Other M and God it's hard. Several times I have died multiple times on minibosses, and I had to use a walkthrough to find pathways in Sector 1. Damn it's hard. But when you do manage to beat something hard, it looks bloody awesome.

[thegluestick1]

Goldeneye 007 (Wii) on Classic mode is so ridiculous.
I was testing it out the other day and was like :OMFG

[SupermewX300]

Originally Posted by SupermewX300

I just got Metroid: Other M and God it's hard. Several times I have died multiple times on minibosses, and I had to use a walkthrough to find pathways in Sector 1. Damn it's hard. But when you do manage to beat something hard, it looks bloody awesome.

Just to follow this up, the Squid (last last boss) is damn near impossible, I actually found it harder than Ridley, and in this game, Ridley was pretty damn hard.