Lost Planet 2. 8-10 minute long missions. Unfulfilling. Worst game I've played this year. And the moral of the story is...?

GOWIII had a pretty perfect length for me. FFXIII dragged in some parts, sure, but overall it was fantastic.

You know which other game sucked in singleplayer? Bad Company 2. 5 hours. 5. F***ING. HOURS. Not only was it short, it was also easier than just about anything I've played this year.

That's what she said.

oh come on

please justify how this gen some games cost full whack for 5 hour storyline.

games need to be more in depth, but also VARIED difficulty settings.
having these settings will appeal to both casual and hardcore

who the hell approved this BS story!

....or at least, that's what my wife tells me. :)

wow...really? this sounds exactly like something my nephews of 9 and 6 whenever they play uncarted 2...LOLz

Wow, it took way too long for people to comment on the double entendre. You're disappointing me N4G.

stupidest comment this week...Games are to big....
I agree games should have an easier options for gamers who are not hardcore..and still have the high diff for those who can play it that way.
ie: demon souls was just out of my league..if it had and I suck mode, I would have easily purchased it....developer lost my bucks...
I am NOT saying make games overall easier, just put a easy mode for those of us who dont game as much as others

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awe...

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And you know what?! Demon's Souls wasn't even that hard. It just didn't treat gamers like a 6 year old with a frontal lobotomy!

its called play the damn game, u lose then learn how not to lose.

example is i died alot in demon souls 1st play thru, not 12 hours in my 2nd play thru i died only 4 times instead of like 50.

gamers dont take time to try to analyze whats going on, they dont read instructions and they just expect the game to be violent and easy.

demon souls for example is fun because its so difficult, if it was easy the game wud suk, but w/e damn kids growing up this gen r just gonna continue ruining gaming for us

i actually enjoy games that take time to complete
i actually enjoy games that don't let me reach the finish line from the start ..

exploration , experimentation ...having fun... getting the thrill of the battle during some challenges .. i dunno games aren't too hard i kinda enjoy mastering a game mecanic ...

@the article
No dlc within the first 30 days of release is bad dlc ... i'd rather have dlc 6 months later WITH REAL CONTENT ( that make me go play that game again [burnout paradise , wipeout hd ] than the garbage dlc some games have ( Assasin creed 2 , mw2 )

I know a lot of people here will disagree, but i do think DS was too hard. I`m not saying the game sucks or anything, because it seemed like an interesting game. And will try to play it a bit more in the summer vocation to give it a second (more like 100) try.

I play a lot of games, so i don`t consider myself to be too bad at videogames. But DS is really hard. It`s the first game i have to use a guide while i`m playing. I mean if i fall off a cliff because i rolled slightly in the wrong direction, i don`t want to have to replay an entire map just to get to the same spot and go five minutes longer before dieing in a trap or something.

The worst thing i know about games, is to have to replay a lot of stuff because of lack of checkpoints. Call me lazy or bad at games, but i don`t think it`s fun. And i do think that games should be. Fun. I think one of the reasons why GTA4 wasn`t that good, was the lack of checkpoints as well.

If DS2 dosn`t have a better chackpoint system or an easier game mode, i honestly don`t think i`ll buy it. I have no problem with games being hard, but i do think they should let more people get to play it. If people like it being so hard, then fine, give them a hardcore mode, but give us bad playing gamers a chance too ;) I`m also saying this because theres an insane amount of games coming out this year, and i would like to finish them all.

Oh please, my eyes were shining when I first played Demon's Souls.
Uncharted 2 on crushing was the same thing, it just rocked.
Resonance of Fate wasn't hard at all, it was great how I actually had to think before killing something.
Seriously, difficulty is just a balance. If you want a story diven game, difficulty can be a deal killer (Like Earthbound Zero, heck without the easy mode patch it was just annoying) but if you want a dungeon crawler or something, difficulty is the way to go.

I never play games on normal always the hardest set difficulty you can select from the start. Why? Because normal is just WAAY too easy in every game they always dumb down normal to make it so you just breeze through the game. I dont pay 60 dollars to spend 6hrs breezing through a game. I want a challenge something that will make me think, strategize if a game doesnt do that its a waste of not only my time but money.

That headline sounds nasty. Imo i like it big and HARD!!

"Every studio I've spoken to that does this, to a fault, says that many of the games they've released are far too big and far too hard for most players' behavior. As a general rule, less than five percent of a game's audience plays a title through to completion. I've had several studios tell me that their general observation is that "more than 90 percent" of a games audience will play it for "just four or five hours"

Is this some "Casual wii propaganda" or what? I don't see any self-respecting gamer would spout such atrocious garbage, especially when the majority of their viewers are "hardcore"

-End Statement

Hard? Wat? Where?

There is a complaint for everything nowadays.

Gee games are too hard? Then i guess you could say the games in the 80's and 90's were practically impossible!!!!!

I still remember pulling my hair out and throwing my famicon(Nintendo) controller when Red Falcon would kick my butt in contra even with the famous 30 lives cheat and Ninja Gaiden 2 on nes was... well i don't think i ever passed the fourth level. The thing is those games weren't even the most hardest... Kid Icarus comes to mind, I still remember the ultimate joy I had actually beating the last boss in that. Nowadays beating games is no big deal anymore, it's like games these days were made to be passed just as long as you devote the time to it.

No doubt about it, Demon Souls is damn painful, it will kick you in the groin, and then repeatedly stomp on yo face, until you get used to it, then it will kick you in the groin again! It brought me back to the reality of how games were like back then. Now Demon Souls is quite easy, but getting to that point was a lot of hard work on your own skills, it did not become easy because you grinded that troll for the thousandth time, it became easy because you understood patterns, when to parry and riposte. Is this age taking everything for granted? Hell yes. Do we want to go back to the difficulty of the 80's and 90's? Hell no! But if a game gets released that is too hard for you in this day and age, QUIT COMPLAINING, suck it up and go buy the cell shaded Prince of Persia where you can't die at all, and then realize and appreciate why there is a need for a real challenge!

This article makes me sad.

I can understand that not ALL games have to be Demon's Souls level of difficulty, and I also understand that casual gamers are not the core gamers.

But please, don't completely forsake us hardcore gamers who like challenging thought provoking strategizing games.

Demon's Souls is my favorite game in two generations.

Games arent getting harder, there is one or two that are near impossible but look back to the golden age of gaming, look how hard those games were, they only seemed easier because we were younger, as we get older our motor skills slow down, games we once thought were easy are now much much harder, we need games that are harder to get our aging skills back up, we are gamers, we dont bitch about games being too hard, we take them as a challenge and our naturally occurring stubbornness should push us into wanting a harder challenge, challenges we have not seen before, bring on harder games for we are gamers

The others are just a forgetable rent usually

That`s gamepro for you.

the title deserves a "thats what she said"

Once upon a time gamers needed at least an ounce of brains to play a game. Not anymore. Everyone is now obsessed with making a game accessiable, so they practically hold you hand until the end of the game. What happened to satisfaction, challenge, the joy of beating a particually hard boss and watching it fall because of your skill. Now any jerk can jump in the game and use cheap cowardly tactics to win or simply hack the weaker games to cheat their way to victory. I admit that there is a fine line between frustratingly hard and challenging but it's up to the developers to find that balance. If you have too many weapons for example make the enemies harder to compensate for the number of weapons. In Resistance 1 dispite the number of weapons I had, it didn't stop the Chimera from kicking my behind constantly. Not everything has to be clawingly, control smashing, hair pulling hard like Demon Souls but i want to be challenged.

Tomb Raider 1 with the crystal save scheme. You knew where the save was but the challenge was to get there. Once that was removed the TR series died for me. Too many no Jedi Babies out there LoL. I really hope the casuals don't kill killzone. And don't go there with Demons Souls 2. If you don't like the play scheme don't play it. Play Harry Potter you sad cases Lol (only kidding potter fans)

I've been doing this for a couple years now. I like a challenge, but not a cheap challenge. I don't mind playing (Smarter) A.I., but A.I. that hardly misses a shot or gets 70% headshots is an easy way to ruin a game.

MW2 was one of those "Cheap" games. If you didn't abuse the auto-aim system in single player it was very hard. Only because of the accuracy of the enemies shots and the damage. Upping damage and Accuracy to me, isn't truely a HARD mode, its a quick and dirty way to give someone an artifical challenge.

I platinumed MW2, but I never felt mentally challenged while playing it. It was simply a tweak to a few numbers which made the game artificially harder, which I don't agree with.

Demon Souls is a great game and I enjoyed every moment of it. The platinum wasn't so hard as it was time consuming, but the game was alot of fun. I'd like to see a more realized World in Demons Souls 2. Not just Portals, but an actual realized world.

thats what she said

llolololololololol

No they aren't, you just suck at them :)