>it's only hard because of rentals
>quarter muncher
>designed to sell strategy guides

also the classic
>devs and players back then just didn't know better

>>11829170
>This game just doesn't respect my time!
>brb I gotta doomscroll on tik&tok one more hour since I've only done it for 3 hours today

>>11828809
Except when people throw it around for everything that doesn't play like modern games. Like claiming Castlevania is "clunky"

> fighting the engine to get the game to do what you want.
Games aren't always designed to let the player do everything they want, each game can have its own set of rules and control limitation that the design is based around. But the mentality behind users of the word "clunky" is usually "I should be able to do X thing in this game because I can do it in this other game", otherwise it's "clunky" or "devs hadn't figured out how to do it right yet", when in reality it's like saying Go should have the same rules of checkers