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[(Anonymous)]

I miss scary bosses, for the thrill of victory and the actual feeling of risk.

To put an example, I remember Donkey Kong Country 2. Those boss fights scared me a lot when I was a kid (the ghost of a gigantic crow you killed earlier, a demon sword from hell, a nigh-invincible and gigantic bee-wasp that pursues you to terrifying music the previous level), and yet it always felt so triumphant when I finally got to beat any of them, I felt I was actually in an adventure.

Either I have grown up too much, or most games struggle to make bosses that can actually scare you and be actually difficult to fight, so you do feel accomplishment when you win.

[(Anonymous)]

same

i also think a lot of games struggle to balance making a boss difficult enough that it feels like a real triumph when you beat them, without making them so difficult that they stop being fun

[(Anonymous)]

Well, most games also don't even try to be difficult anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

dark souls tho

[(Anonymous)]

rosebud, even

[(Anonymous)]

That's one out of numerous games that come out. Plus the fact that it's pushed as being a challenging game shows just how much most games are lacking now.

Even with higher difficulty modes in most games, they just aren't hard. Part of this is indeed the fact that devs are clueless about how to make a challenge, but a larger part is that a lot of players don't want one.

[(Anonymous)]

god forbid they make games more accessible to the general public. makes being a gatekeeper a lot harder for you cheeto dusters, amirite?

[(Anonymous)]

found the angry casual

[(Anonymous)]

twine is the future of gaming, anon, accept it

[(Anonymous)]

silly casual, vidya games aren't for you!

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I personally never found DKC2's bosses particularly scary or threatening at any age tbh. In fact, I always found the bosses to be the weakest part of the game. The platforming was always the most difficult and challenging (and fun) to me.

However, I don't necessarily agree that old games had harder bosses or harder gameplay. A lot of the difficulty in older games comes from bad game design, poor coding, bugs, or intentionally making things unfairly difficult in order to extend the life of the game to prevent people from beating it in a few days and returning it to the store afterward. So while they were hard, it wasn't because they were designed with the idea of difficulty = accomplishment or fun. To make something that is both hard and fun without relying on bad mechanics or cheap tricks is in itself very difficult. Most games today focus more on having a good gameplay experience and bosses that are fun to fight, not necessarily difficult.

That said, DKC2 is a beautifully designed game.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

in the height of the video game rental period in most of the world, a lot of games were made intentionally difficult to extend the life of play so people would keep renting the game in order to beat it, rather than clear it in one rental period.

same reason why arcade games are classical difficult, too. it's not meant to reward the player, it's meant to reward the dev/publisher with more of your money.