Zelda: OOT Comparison

[DavidCaruso]

Three games in 3 years by the same company on 2 different consoles = a generation?

Okay.

Not talking in the short term. A "generation" was probably the wrong term to use, it will likely take longer than that. Obviously we aren't seeing a huge deluge of Super Guide games or games with similar features right now. I believe we probably will be in the future though, to the point where it becomes widespread practice. The reason is that more "accessibility" = more revenue. This has been recognized by the industry for years by now.

It's probably a slippery slope argument but it's not like I or anyone else can establish the chain of events leading to the future without actually being there -- all we can do is make predictions and then see if those predictions turn out to be valid. If we're not going to talk about how it might affect games in the future and it might become widespread because it's a slippery slope then there's no real point in having this discussion since I already conceded that it doesn't matter so much for OoT3D, NSMBWii, or L.A. Noire.

EDIT:

imagine a future where people can't play a game like donkey kong country anymore because it was too difficult to beat a certain level and there was no super guide to do it for them when they lost a hundred times; this is obviously worst case scenario, and it likely won't be to this extreme, but i could see a LOT of games from older eras be considered unplayable by the new audience who simply have too much trouble with a certain part and won't bother to try to beat it due to the impatience possibly caused by the super guide

This really make me wonder if the guys on BBSes in the 90s were having similar discussions about arcade games or early console games or whatever. Hm.