I've been asked several times why I don't like Fallout 3. To be honest, yea the concept of taking guys heads off and having them fall to pieces is cool, it becomes uninteresting when all it takes is pretty much hitting make guy fall to pieces from a menu (or the alternative clicking your mouse when your cursor is over them). So what I'm saying is I like my games with at least a bit of a challenge (
I want to be the guy is a bit excessive), so it at least feels like my accomplishments have some meaning.
I don't understand how people can have so much fun with a game that pretty much bends itself to let you beat it. To illustrate this point I'll compare the games as schoolyard adversaries, with tough games being tough guys and Fallout 3 as a crippled kid. There's chances that even crossing paths with the tough game means it'll beat you up, and quite possibly steal your lunch money, and you could just quit right then and cry then only stick to easy games and give Fallout 3 and Bioshock undeserved praise, or you could reflect on what went wrong and go back after the tough game. The game may end up humiliating you again, but this is no reason to quit at this point, you should be getting back up and trying again. If the game is tough enough, the mere act of making progress will feel like small accomplishes, and these will quickly add up, some say it's masochism, others say it's you just wanting to miss out on more school through suspensions but we'll ignore them for the sake of personal growth. One day you'll finally beat this tough adversary and the personal glory you receive from this is unmatched, and if the adversary has some fame about him, the side cheering you get from others who have failed against them is a nice bonus. Compare this to beating up the crippled kid and you see why I see no glory in it.
