cudnt be arsed readin all that...but games aint gettin easier its just kids are more used to them and have been brought up playing harder games makin us better from an early age.

 one of the first decent hard games i pld was smash tv on snes..... only thing that has come close to that level of difficulty is cod on hardest settin and even then i aint completed smash tv where i can walk thro cod now i done it so many times.

now wif multiplayer bein the way forward. gamers reflexes and general gamin ability will grow to keep up wif better players, where in games it stays at a certain level as the comp only gets so hard, games aint gettin easier our generation is just gettin better at games...

plus most of games we get here are pretty easy.... go get some jap games... they button bashing madness not easy at all!

well i found HL2 rather easy in the end, and on the bits where it was hard i just re did it until i suceeded, which was the point the article was making, (had you bothered to read the article)

basically that multiple save points and no penalty for failing makes it much easier to get through large levels and difficult games, the game may still be hard, but you dont have to really think before you act, you just act, if it doesnt work you try another way, and again until you find the best way of doing it with the least damage

also that online guides and too many prompts in games make the thought process less demanding, you dont problem solve, just follow the only route open to you. its too linear.

personally i think games are not much easier, but completing them takes less effort.

Have a gold star Mojo. You should do a degree in this stuff or something

i loved first project igi, was wicked.

got a copy of the second but didnt get into it so never played it.

dug out igi 1 yesterday actually to have a play on some time.