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Episode 5—Zelda Special
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Broken Pixel—Skyward Sword: Stop Helping Me!
If you thought “Hey! Listen!” was bad…
The debate rages on regarding difficulty in games. Are older games harder? Are harder games better? Do modern games hand-hold too much? How much should games spell out for the players?
Sure she looks cool, but wait until she opens her mouth.
We’re not here to answer those questions.
No matter where you stand on that debate, I think there’s one thing we can all agree on: no one likes annoying helpers. What classifies as annoying? Well that’s different for every person. But if you’ve got to the point where you’ve shouted “Stop helping me!” at your TV screen, then you’ve met an annoying helper.
What Makes a Game—What makes a true sequel?
“Yeah it’s pretty good, but it’s a lot like the last one.”
A topic of fierce discussion and frustration from gamers is whether or not a sequel to a beloved game is actually a fully realized new game or could have easily been an expansion. What games can be considered expansion packs; better known today as a very large DLC? Arguably, there are games that walk the line, but there are also games that have some gamers believing that developers are just plain lazy.
One of the most prolific games that have some players hopping mad about shelling out $60, is Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Many arguments can be made that this game being nothing more than an expansion pack or very large DLC pack for Modern Warfare 2. The most obvious issue is that the graphics remain largely the same as Modern Warfare 2. To be fair, the Call of Duty series has been running the same modified engine since the 2nd Call of Duty, but the newest modifications aren’t showing much of an improvement to a player’s view of the game’s graphics.
Can you figure out which one came first?