videogames today are for pussies

Ever work your ass off to get through level after level in a super mario game? Only to reach the final level and have your ass handed to you forcing you to start all over again from stage 1. I did.

Was thinking about it on the way to work, I haven't had it that hard in a videogame in a long time. Games I play now are too easy, give you a chance to start off at the checkpoint you last got to and there's no real penalty for losing.

I used to have to grit my teeth and deal with the reality of losing EVERYTHING after fighting my way through level after level. Not anymore. Uncharted while fun is a breeze to play, I find it too easy especially considering there's nothing at stake if you don't beat the big baddy. Red dead redemption, same thing. GTA 4, piece of crap.

I remember the feeling of triumph that I got after struggling all day to kick some level in supermario dx's asssssssssss. It was a level in which, if you made ONE tiny error you were bitch slapped by the game way back to to the beginning, no mercy. And this wasn't a special difficulty setting, this was the regular gameplay. These things were made to challenge the hell out of you.

I guess hindsight is 20/20, since at the time I didn't think things today would be so goddamn pussified, but they are. Nothing today compares to the oldschool gameboy and snes games where you were truly not going to get away with taking the easy road and had to actually develope skills to a point where you mastered the game.

I'm seriously pissed off about this. Not that I want games to be impossible. but there're too simple and easy. At least make me care if I fuck up. Having no conciquence makes the game basically like watching a movie unfold. I can't remember exactly but I think it was Gta 3 that truly balanced this out with a system that didn't let you progress unless you climbed through mountains of shit first, had to have enough ammo, enough life, enough money, good car, skills, Ah, satisfying. Maybe it's because of online play that there's less care taken in crafting a challenging single player experience. Since who the hell cares about playing by yourself anyway these days.

Im just bored by the system now. It's always the same. Pass this level and get to the next one. Not pass this level, get to the next one, and if you fuck up that next level, you have to do both of them over again, bitch, deal with it.

What happened?