GamerFitNation's Brandon Russo writes: "Recently, I picked up Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). I had to ask myself this question:
Are the days of pure arcade experience being pushed aside for more story based content?
It’s a common trait for anything to grow bigger and better as technology advances and people grow older, but where have all the hardcore platformers and difficulty-based arcade games gone?"
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Love the NES trilogy! Great gameplay, design, story, cinematics, characters, music! Total package.
The original NES game is still.one of the hardest games I've almost beaten in my life I believe I was on the second final boss using original hardware and carts no save states but I could never finish it
Man, I finally braved trying Master Ninja in Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and… man, I suck, lol. I really want to try for the platinum because I love the game so much, but yeesh…
I remember Ninja Gaiden Black and how awesome the hype and support was around for that. The changes from the base game and the world rankings we could check out in the menus. Played through the OG game once and Black at least twice.
Never played the original 2D games but I'm excited to go through 2 Black soon.
I was there as a young boy playing the first Ninja Gaiden in The arcade. It was awesome for the time! I’ve played every one skins and on every one of those systems. And here I am, as a 50 year old man giddy with joy playing through the most recent release, with more on the way! Heck yeah it’s a great series!
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although i like a fair balance of both, i'd end up choosing arcade experience. i had tons of fun playing pacman and didn't really know what the story to the game was.
Angry birds, subway surfers, all the mindless FPS's, starcraft online and all the MOBA's..uh, no I don't think the 'arcade experience' is going anywhere.
It depends on the game. Certain games are better if the story is focused on and some are perfectly fine having almost no story at all.
If story is the focus, it better be a really good story.
If how the game plays is the focus, the game better not suck.
Too many games this gen took 5 steps forward and 4 steps back with each game that was made.
The obvious things were overlooked and focus was on many things people didn't even want.
I think creativity wins this gen.