If games are so easy for you why did Blue Shift take you so long? That's like a (possibly) 2 hour venture.

I think most games are at a good difficultly level. There's a difference between being hard and being ridiculous. I have no problem with a game being difficult, but there are times where it's just too much. You have to be able to balance everything out really well. Making a game ridiculously hard is not a good balancing technique.

I just have a beef with developers who make a game "harder" by increasing or decreasing damage and health to you or enemy's. Like Medal Of Honor for example. When a game makes it so you have to shoot an enemy in the head three times before they die... they've done a terrible job on difficulty fronts.

Personally, I'd like to see different game modes for different difficulties, ones that may put you in a more difficult situation. Even though that would cause insane development periods, it would give the game such an overwhelming dynamic.

However, I also think there should be games that have appendixes after you beat them that extend the story and uses your previous game play against you. Imagine something like Metal Gear Solid and playing through again as Grey Wolf and the AI used your previous game as a basis for Snakes AI. That would be great.

But I've babbled for too long.

I don't think games are too easy, because easy is a relative term. Define it and I'll give a better answer.

Have you ever played the "Myst" series? It's by far the most tedious game ever. I was this close to falling into a permanent coma from playing it.

However, the puzzles are nearly impossible to solve.

One of the things about games that makes them seem simpler is the incredible ease that save features now allow. Remember when beating a level gave you no more than a password you could put in to say you beat it? Or when games made you play the whole way through in one sitting? You had to actually master the game to get through. Now, a rabid quicksaver can just repeat a difficult section indefinitely until getting it perfect or with minimal damage, and then move on to the next area.

yeh i would agree with you in some games, they are getting shorter in stories and levels, instead of being longer and harder , because i like games which are long and have a sweet scent of Challenge....this is the game i like !!