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Originally Posted by Tulac
Useless rant. You can set your game to higher difficulty level.
Also the quicksave was always present on the PC, while it wan't on consoles due to memory restrictions.
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a) a lot of games don't have proper difficulty settings - their idea is to simply make the AI cheat. It's not so much about skill as patience in that case
b) many games no longer have difficulty levels
c) many games are designed in such a way to accommodate the casual player - in Prince of Persia, for example, you can't die, no matter the difficulty level.
d) not all genres work with higher difficulty settings: adventures, for example. Never played Dreamfall?
The biggest result is how the interface & structure of games are adapted to be simpler which, in turn, makes games more shallow.
PC games have NOT always had quicksave. Quicksave only became widely used in the late 90's. Before, you had to manually go the the menu and save your game - it stopped you from exaggerating. Before that, some games let you save and even then, only between levels in many cases.
Besides, the article is about how things are getting worse. Games are now piss easy on "normal" while they used to be hard on normal. Now, "hard" is the old normal and easy is ... a walk in the park. You can argue that the modes are closer to what they should be, but when you can play a game you've never played before on hard without a problem, it does say a lot.