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Anonymous 10/21/2025, 2:14:35 AM No.12115327 [Report] >>12115370 >>12115470 >>12115543 >>12115863 >>12115924 >>12116023 >>12116030 >>12116051
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What makes a game "Nintendo Hard" and what makes a game unplayable dogshit? Why do Ghosts n Goblins and Battletoads get a free pass while countless NES games exist purely to star in an episode of a Youtuber shouting at the camera?
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 2:19:15 AM No.12115335 [Report] >>12115356
There's no such thing as a "hard" NES game. Some require more memorization than others, but that's all it is.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 2:29:14 AM No.12115356 [Report]
>>12115335
The hard part is the length of the game, and whether or not you're granted continues or checkpoints of any kind.
Restarting from the very beginning is challenging and associated with "Nintendo Hard", but it's also just tedious because it makes you replay whole sections of a game you've gotten good at, to get back to the part you're struggling with and have lots of down time between attempts.

It's not like AVGN videos haven't covered this in excruciating detail for dozens of NES games.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 2:32:10 AM No.12115370 [Report]
>>12115327 (OP)
Battletoads feels competent and dripping with soul. The juice is worth the squeeze.
If a game is poorly coded and yet highly demanding, it feels hypocritical.
Like the devs are holding you to a standard they are not even meeting themselves.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 3:08:17 AM No.12115470 [Report]
>>12115327 (OP)
>What makes a game "Nintendo Hard"
A child calling it that? Only a silly baby would use that term or care about anyone who does.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 3:30:46 AM No.12115543 [Report] >>12115648
>>12115327 (OP)
Who fucking cares about your zoomer insecurities? This isn't worth wasting a thread on.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 4:17:01 AM No.12115648 [Report]
>>12115543
still can't beat a mediocre Sonic game award
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 5:38:21 AM No.12115820 [Report]
Us Hardcore Mature Gamers REFUSE to use Nintendo and Hard on the same sentence.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 6:02:37 AM No.12115863 [Report] >>12115870
>>12115327 (OP)
I don't give GnG a pass. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now, tolerable only with save states or autistic levels of devotion.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 6:11:44 AM No.12115870 [Report]
>>12115863
Maximo was the realization of what fags pretend GnG was.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 7:01:30 AM No.12115924 [Report]
>>12115327 (OP)
>What makes a game "Nintendo Hard"

some douche having the whim to call it that, nothing more and nothing less

>Why do Ghosts n Goblins and Battletoads get a free pass

Battletoads does cos it's generally cool and fun, Ghosts 'n Goblins often doesn't but if it does it's because it's so old and it gained status as a classic before people were nitpicking quite so much about this stuff
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 8:53:56 AM No.12116023 [Report]
>>12115327 (OP)
Battletoads is great, it has great graphics, great music, great gameplay, it's just fucking difficult. Ghost and Goblins meanwhile is so difficult because it's broken shit.
Anonymous 10/21/2025, 9:04:01 AM No.12116030 [Report]
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>>12115327 (OP)
Challenge was the entire point of video games then.
Dave 10/21/2025, 9:32:33 AM No.12116051 [Report]
>>12115327 (OP)
>What makes a game "Nintendo Hard"
Youtubers