Yeah, I just won't use it. That is, if I buy another Nintendo game. (mariozeldametroidmariozeldametroimariozeldametroidmariozeldametroid)

Pretty soon we won't have difficulty level choices. It will be replaced by a "Press the __ button to win" mechanic.

I never thought i would see the day they actually made a real "I Win" button

Sweet this means I can now technically play an entire game on my DS with my penis. The future is now!!

i was never pissed off with it to begin with but i like seeing people who agree its no big deal :)

@ diversionmary
do you mean like pokemon fire red?
yeah that was useful but when i hadnt played it in awhile the date of last play depressed me :(

This would be less annoying if the wii and DS had something akin to achievements and trophies, that would only be awarded without the use of the demo play. So, our nerd cred would be intact.

and now we are suppose to be rewarded for cutting corners? that makes no sense no matter how you spin it. games need the challenge and not the option of passing it over. but we got this website loving it because it means money for them to agree with this bullshit mentality. i was raised, if it ain't hard, it ain't worth doing. there are too many easy games as it is.

nintendo just hit a jackpot and now want to capture every women in their hands. nintendos been all about the bitches and not the actual gamer who wants a challenge. what's next? getting other people to play the game for you because you suck? or how about a game that you don't really play? oh wait, we do have those, they're called movies.

Nobody complains about the presence of easy/casual modes in games... how is this different? This in is the same vein of an easy mode where a casual player just wants to passively enjoy the medium without retrying failed objectives.

While I see your point, Conrad, I, unfortunately, don't think that games will be harder just because you can skip parts of it. Actually, I expect Nintendo games to be even more easy than they already are (Metroid Prime 3 was a nice exception. Hypermode was fucking hard as hell, to me at least.).

Anyway, I just hope this feature can be turned off at the start of a new game, so I will never need to be bothered by it.

I'm not part of the NO NEVER IT SUCKS crowd, but I do think it is a further sign of the laziness of Nintendo, and is not a good way to introduce gaming to the masses.

My contention is this: why not create an easy difficulty that completely changes the level structure and enemy placement, so people will learn how to play the game? Would it really cost that much more for Nintendo, who is making bankloads of money, to do this for such a cash and carry game like New Super Mario Brothers Wii?

Example:
Would we simply put our children on a motorized bike that drives for them, or hold their hand whilst they have a sturdy pair of training wheels to protect them? If the automated bike just does the pedaling and steering for them, they aren't learning anything, and will never move on to the next level, which is habitual game playing. Senior citizens and young children are the exact same way with video games. Sure, it's optional, but it's very poorly thought out in my opinion.

I feel like championing this poor system will only lead to gamers not actually playing video games, which ruins the entire point of the medium. Don't you want your posterity to be able to work up to your level of skill, so you can enjoy some of the harder games you play together? If they were able to play an incredibly easy rendition of a level rather than "no level at all", that would certainly be a reality.

who cares, dtoid doesn't really play nintendo games anyway.

Harris Hatsworthat, i don't care what you think about me. go ahead and believe i'm a ten year old. i'm was talking about how nintendo is gimping everything just so a bitch can play a game without getting challenged.


we all know now that ten year old little kids are on your mind.

@ Qraze

Wow that was both stupid AND sexist, nice job.

Also I think people learn values and stuff doing things in real life, you know like the rest of us normal did, if you where raised on games well that would explain why you're such a retard.

go back under your bridge nanbu. i am a sexist mother fucker and i make no excuses for it. if you don't like it, go fuck yourself. if you ever seen me, you wouldn't say shit or i'd pop you in the nose because i'm fucking stupid like that.

Well, many of you here will probably disagree with me. But that's ok as it is your opinion. I'm a completionist, a competitive gamer, someone who likes bragging rights etc. Now, I don't go around bragging and so perhaps it's the wrong term but I do like people to know my accomplishments. It's also why I like achievements so much since you can see who's done what and if the person is telling the truth about what they have done. This games which contain this feature effectively ruin my interest in wanting to play them. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. Nintendo, I don't think will have any kind of way to prove whether or not you cheated your way through the game with this feature. If they do have a feature which does this, then I'll take this message back.

I'll give an example. Lets say that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will have this feature since it's quite possible. I loved the original Super Mario Galaxy and am really anticipating its sequel. If it has this feature and no way of proving you get every single star properly then I will just lose interest in it. A lot of you may well think I'm just saying this but it is true. I do play games for fun, but my fun is in the completion of things and then people knowing that I have completed them using no cheats. It's not even that I want people to admire me for completing the games, just people to know that I completed them. I can no longer say that I completed games with this system because people would be less likely to believe me. Sorry, I can't play any games with this feature. You can go ahead and do so if you want, but it just isn't fun for me whether it is an option or not.

That is the scariest picture of Rev that I have EVER seen.

What worries me the most is how I'll be able to resist the temptation of using this feature in case I'll get stuck in a game for a lengthy period of time.

First reaction: That's some dumb shit.

Second reaction: Maybe I could use this like state save, like for practicing harder parts of the game w/o having to go through the other parts first.

Third reaction: Absolutely zero of the games that use this system will actually be hard enough to warrant it's inclusion.

Fourth reaction: When was the last time Nintendo even made a hard game? 1994?