/vr/ - Retro Games

CAT your name shall live on
I name all my Links CAT since my first aLttP cart

Hey guys do you think difficulty makes a game better? By difficulty I mean the game is hard and not because of crappy controls. Take for instance games like the Ninja Gaiden trilogy on the NES, those games are pretty fucking hard and I only beat the first one but I felt that whenever you beat a hard level there was a huge feeling of satisfaction. Unlike Ikari Warriors for the NES, which I consider impossible to beat without codes, the difficulty only made the game a complete bore along with the crappy level design, moving slow as a turtle, and turning is a chore. So what Im really asking is does difficulty make a game better for the most part?