Duck and Cover

Anyone else than me who thinks that the button-mashing period is over, and that you actually have to learn techniques to beat games now?

Games like Fifa 08 and GT5 take finesse and precision to beat, and I find myself pretty annoyed that I have to spend hours "training" them, to beat teams/tracks with the smallest marginals possible.

And in the end, I don't get that good, far from it, I find a different approach.
In Fifa, I beat them down, play dirty, in GT I skid across grass and rebound on the walls.

Console games that are too hard? Can it be right?

There has been difficult console games forever, and I don't see how you would ever get the impression that they were just button mashing. The only buttonmashing that I really experience in games is fighters but even then you still have some understanding of what your doing unless you literally just pound the pad. I think one of the most complex console games that requires like training and dedication is like Virtua Fighter 4, maybe 5 too I haven't played it. There is so many freaking counters and like anti counters in the game its insane but in a somewhat cool way. Too bad I don't really have like competitive fighting friends or that game would have been awesome, I probably should have gotten 5 for the online play but I'm a bit Virtua Figheter Outed from last summer.

Guess it's just a myth or urban legend then.
I always thought console games were easy back when I visited friends houses, on sega, nintendo and stuff like that.

I didn't think any of my PS2 games were that hard either... but these two are just monstrous.

Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit. Go.

Smiley wrote:Anyone else than me who thinks that the button-mashing period is over, and that you actually have to learn techniques to beat games now?

Learning intricate techniques is just advanced button-mashing.

I feel the complete opposite: I thought games on my NES were a lot harder than games on SNES, not to mention how much easier modern games are than games on PS1... Might have something to do with aging, though.

Depends on the console. Some stuff was just plain stupid on older consoles, like Battletoads, and some stuff was legitimately difficult, like Contra. Though I do prefer modern console's difficult games. Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox blows the NES ones out of the water in terms of fun.

Edward_R_Murrow wrote:Battletoads

That shit was *hard*, I agree.

Thank Aunt Jemima IWBTG wasn't a console game, or Smiley might've shot his monitor.

some console games like cliffhanger (gay as it was) was ridiculously difficult, but some middle of the road stuff like Alundra was pretty sweet

Smiley wrote:

Edward_R_Murrow wrote:Battletoads

That shit was *hard*, I agree.

i cuncure.

Just got my PS3

Grats. What games did you get along with it?

Smiley wrote:Grats. What games did you get along with it?

I'm seeing.....Metal Gear Solid.

S4ur0n27 wrote:Just got my PS3

dork...

Wolfman Walt wrote:

Smiley wrote:Grats. What games did you get along with it?

I'm seeing.....Metal Gear Solid.

Planning to do so. So far, only GTA4 and I didn't get to play it much yet.

I also have this wacky Transformers game, but I'll probably trade it in at ebgames. It's not even opened.

Just bought GT5: Prologue off the playstation store, and it takes a fucking while to download

Get rid of that transformers game NOW it sucks harder than my mum

REVERANDPIP wrote:Get rid of that transformers game NOW it sucks harder than my mum

Will do. It's not even opened.