LogFAQs > #903039986

I often have moments where I kind of look around the current state of the industry in disgust and bemoan the lost Good Old Days when games were designed to be fun or narratively interesting and/or fulfilling in some way, rather than developers trying to find new ways to incentivize addiction and turn the entire process into a money farm.

But then I remember that video games went through a very long span where they were deliberately coded to be hard as fuck and twice as bullshit, because the idea was to repeatedly kick the player in the dick so they'd have to keep pumping quarters into the machine (and most of the reason "Nintendo Hard" is a concept in the first place is because developers kept making games that way even after they stopped release them in arcades and started pushing them on consoles - it took a while for the idea that games could actually be about player ENJOYMENT rather than players' willingness to spend their entire allowance). And when I remember that, it gets a bit harder to really call the game industry out on its bullshit, because in some ways, it feels like it's just going back to doing what it used to do all the time, only on a much grander scale.

To be fair, though, it still annoys the piss out of me, and those developers can still go fuck themselves with a rusty fork.


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