Guardian - If a game makes you throw the controller across the room in anger and disgust, is it good or bad?
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Gary Green said: You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the Ar Tonelico trilogy. The previous two games arrived so late in the PS2’s life-cycle that they simply went unnoticed. While most were tinkering with their shiny new PS3s, Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia and Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica were being ‘returned to sender’ by your local Game stores. Luckily, you won’t need to have played them to understand and appreciate this third and final chapter, Qoga (pronounced k-yoga) tells the story of a racial war between humans and Reyvateils, a breed of biologically produced female cyborgs capable of reproduction, while still having a digital mind.
Oh my god. I kinda wish this would get a remaster on PS5, it would be awesome. One of my favorite games on PS3.
That and 3D Dot Game Heroes. It's a shame that some stuff is stuck on PS3.
Ar Tonelico 3 is good I still prefer the first AT game. The music is solid in all the games and Akiko Shikata is a very talented singer bringing life to the game. Only annoying part is well I find is Saki I always choose Finnel or Tyria. KOEI so needs to HD remaster the franchise along with Ar Nosurge and Ciel Nosurge since it never came to North America. I would day one the Ar Toneliceo games and Ar Nosurge if they were remastered.
I still have the limited edition of Qoga unopened. Unfortunately it never went up in value like I had hoped all these years.
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It's bad unless you have the urge to catch the controller another time. And even then, it's risky.
I think it's a matter of preference. Having a good challenge is absolutely necessary, the level of difficulty is the question. As long as the challenge is legitimate and engaging, then somebody out there will crave the challenge, no matter how difficult it is.
Frustration in of itself can be bad or good depending, but it's challenge that games require. Sometimes you face a challenge in a game that makes you want to throw the controller but you pick it back up and overcome the challenge. That is essential, without challenge it's just a mindless distraction.
Frustration can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand it may very well make you want to keep hammering buttons on your controller or keyboard and beat that one goddamn level to prove that game who's boss but equally it might also make you just, well, yeah, throw your mouse/controller at the screen and toss the CD in a furnace.
God Hand is probably my best (and worst) example in my own experiences with frustration related to video games as - on hard difficulty - entering a certain boss fight without the right powerups can pretty much stonewall your progress entirely unless you're an absolutely perfect player. On the other hand, yes I died a lot and in some instances it was pretty frustrating but it rarely quelled my desire to keep playing. Guess it mostly comes down to design, cheap death after cheap death will pretty quickly see you toss a game away and never look back.
If you've gotten to the point where you're just completely annoyed and frustrated, then you just need to take a break for a while.