Thread 724917140

Why were old games obsessed with being ridiculously hard in a time wasting kind of way?

>>724917140 (OP)
Rentals. If a game was really fucking hard the chances of you beating it with one rental was very low. More rentals = more money.

You're not supposed to take too long to get good at them, some people are just slow. You're supposed to get into the "zone" with them, a gaming high.

youd finish it in two hours otherwise. also mechanics ar esimple so you have to rely on challenge

>>724917140 (OP)
Because they were retarded

>>724917319
This, but old games also had extremely limited space. Devs would make their games insanely hard because otherwise people would beat them in an afternoon. They often playtested their own games and they'd make them hard because they were good at them and knew how they worked