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This game is more difficult than it used to be!

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    Ever played one or more particular games as a kid, then, years later, when you replay that/those same game(s), they seem to be FAR more difficult than they were when you first played them as a kid?


    When I was 10-11 years old, I would regularly play the classic Super Mario games, from Super Mario Bros., SMB2, SMB2J, SMB3, and Super Mario World, and I seemed to have a fun time, and I seem to remember getting through most of those without such difficulty.
    Nowadays, playing these same games as an adult, they've all become much more difficult than I remembered playing them as a kid. Certain levels and missions that I was able to get through without much difficulty then are now insanely difficult and I have to keep redoing them over and over nowadays.
     
    Yep, as a kid I had no trouble beating platinum, but now I find it super tough. Might be because my favorite starter went from torterra to piplup.
     
    I don't have any similar examples, but one thing I can kind of relate to is that I find a lot of building games "harder" now that I'm older. Not because the mechanics are any different, but I'm a lot pickier with micromanaging and how I want things laid out - when I was a kid I'd just build whatever and be happy with it, but it takes me a much longer time to plan out structures or areas in the same games now, and sometimes I just sit there struggling for a while before I do anything, lol.

    I know it's not the same as what you guys are talking about, but a different kind of interpretation of the question. :P
     
    I was bad at every game when I was younger, now I can play any game and be decent. "Dance Dance Revolution" might be an exception, but if I tried hard enough I could be good at it.
     
    I think the main reason why we think games are harder now is simply because we grew up to be more impatient and self consious of our skills. We probably had as much trouble beating these games then than we have now, it's just that our younger selves couldn't be bothered with it because we were too busy having fun and discovering a brand new game.
     
    There doesn't seem to be a single example I can think of, I've always gotten better at the games I've played. :P

    There were even some that I hadn't completed all the way through as a kid that I went back to many years later to finish. I think that they were just too frustrating as a kid.
     
    I definitely remember being better at New Super Mario Bros. on the DS than I am at pretty much any platformer now xD
     
    I had the reversed effect.
    When I played games at a younger age sometimes I wasn't able to get past some stages for example; but if I were to replay them, say, one or two years later I was able to finish them, not with ease but at least I could get past the stages I wasn't able to beat at all.
     
    A large part of it is probably that people tend to sugar coat their memories. I.E. you remember something as being easier than it really is because you don't tend to remember dying in a game as much as you will beating the level.

    Unless you died at the same point a million times. You're still going to remember that lol.

    And, no, I don't think any games are easier or harder than I remember them. I struggle less than I used to for sure.
     
    They haven't been harder, I just overthink things a lot now in certain games whereas as a kid i just brainlessly rushed in and it worked 9/10 times.
     
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