Be the change you want to see in this world. Go make some men make noises in bed!

Sorry... i made it for the meme...

You've got your big "I ❤️ psychopathic goth mommies"-shirt on

At last...

It's only acceptable if you intend on clearing out the entire box in one sitting and aren't going to go to the trash can before you do.
Source: obsessed over them as a kid.

OoT on original hardware: beautiful. my baby boy. sunshine. darling.
OoT in 60fps on PC: nice gmod addon bro

damn your wife sounds great, she single?

Yeah I'd get violent too if I was forced to play the game like that

i like you

Could I have beaten Dracula without save states? Sure. Should I have attempted it another day? Probably.
But when half the battle is trying to hit a minuscule target while your fat butt attracts every single thing in the room, I get frustrated. Even if I had done it, I wouldn't have been less mad.

What bothered me was how fair the game started out, but how much it punished mistakes after a while. Get hit once? Die instantly, do it all over. The entire level, actually.
I just don't understand why they felt the need to do this, when the rest was perfectly fine.

I agree, and C4 definitely is the most fair out of any of the classic games, but it still has many of the same unfair pitfalls (often literally). I used save states sparingly at first (one per level), but at some point, I just got fed up with having to replay the same sections that I used them more.

Super Castlevania (SNES, 91):
Add this one to the list of Castlevanias that started out great, only to devolve into using the same cheap tactics as always. Phenomenal art, music, levels and controls, but downright unfair enemy behaviour. Couldn't beat Dracula without saving after each hit. Just sad.

I'd argue that being (borderline) unplayable for some people counts as "poorly aged". I mean yeah, every game has its niche and there are no bad games, but that doesn't mean all games are equal either.

Portal is a perfect example, because it really was made for EVERYONE, and everyone can appreciate it for different reasons. And puzzle games are notoriously difficult to balance, because their difficulty is harder to quantify.
And even Half-Life 2, despite its flaws, is never impossible to play.

Video games might genuinely be the worst-aging art medium out there, it's insane.
Anyone can read an old book or watch an old movie to the end. But old games? A lot of people will never be able to enjoy them, not for a lack of trying, but because the barrier of entry is simply too high.
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Something really needs to be said about old games aging poorly not because of graphics, controls or whatever, but simply because executives in the 90s didn't like the idea of kids being able to beat them in a weekend. But instead of making them replayable, they were artificially made harder.
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