Modern games have made games less challenging by including features like unlimited lives and save points that allow players to easily overcome obstacles without consequences for failure. While these features make games more accessible, they remove the sense of achievement players felt after overcoming truly difficult challenges in older games that punished mistakes more severely. There is debate around whether today's more forgiving games have diminished players' thirst for challenge or made gaming a more enjoyable experience.

1. Have modern games robbed us of our thirst for
challenge? - An Insight into the Evolution of Gaming
When Did Gamers
Become So Soft?

2. Retro Hell

3. So what about now?
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5. Challenging or enraging?

6. So...... which is better?
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