Zelda: OOT Comparison

[DavidCaruso]

But that doesn't mean it's a bad idea, and getting rid of it is probably a big "fuck you" to someone who just got into gaming.

So wait, not having a FAQ built into the game is a "fuck you" to someone who just got into gaming? Like, we're at that point already? Are all games made before 2009 now telling me to fuck off when I play them? When I played OoT originally it wasn't telling me to fuck off, but now that a portable version is being released with a Super Guide it is?

You also have to consider people that aren't children. Imagine a teenager who got OoT for their first game, they did alright up until the point they got to the water temple, and smash their controller because it was hard as balls.

The teenager, if he got a new controller and managed to beat the temple by himself, would probably find that all that frustration and difficulty makes the sense of accomplishment after he finishes the temple that much higher. And once he develops the reflexes or cognitive thinking skills or whatever to beat the first hard game the next hard game is infinitely easier to tackle. Also I think plenty of teenagers got OoT as one of their first games back when it was released.

The point of the super guide is designed to help people, not make it a huge thing to make everything easy.

It's really the same thing in this context. Selectable difficulty levels have served essentially the same function that the Super Guide is doing now for years, in letting less skilled players still be able to beat the game. The difference is that properly creating a wide variety of difficulty levels requires rigorous balancing and testing of the game with people of multiple skill levels, whereas the Super Guide would require almost no effort to implement at all and lets the developer get away with creating an unbalanced or unfair game (kind of similar to what grinding and unlimited EXP does to JRPGs). This is obviously not a problem with OoT, but it might be in the future as more companies adopt the feature for their original games.

I'm opposed to this on principle but option C would probably be a good compromise if it's off by default. Also maybe if games don't give you the best ending or something if you use it?

EDIT: http://twitter.com/#!/miyamotoSAN