@Black Francis Thanks for the info about that FF.
Dark Souls sounds interesting, I enjoy the adventure in games, yes. Tutorials aren't this necessary after the first 3 minutes :p:
If I can get that game, I'll check it out for sure. In 3 Months I'll have enough time probably to get into a totally new game.

@djchameleon
MK7 = Mario Kart 7, AC = Animal Crossing (New Leaf)
MTO = Mario Tennis Open, HM = Harvest Moon (just the Tale of Two Towns, sadly)
and MH = Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (still need to get into it) and Pokémon Y.
Oh and I forgot to mention KiU = Kid Icarus Uprising.

Yeah, Bravely Default... got that recommended. I'll try to get used copy.
I heard it's similar to Rune Factory. I loved that game, so I may like Bravely Default.
Zelda - my sister loves it. She'll be playing it instead of me. ;3

About the difficulty levels... I usually try to play games on normal level first as well. Especially if I don't know the franchise.
Then again, I try to improve and well - sometimes I just stop there. Happend with KiU. I need to play it more again, that's for sure.

Another thing that used to piss me off about old games and their unnecessary difficulty was the fact that you would have to start over all the way from the beginning. Until they started using codes that you had to write down with random letters/numbers. Also screw NES games that you just get to a certain level and they immediately tune up the difficulty.

How many times did you die on that stupid bike level in Battletoads!? Or the stupid swimming level in the first TMNT game. They ruined the turtles for me for awhile with that game. Don't even get me started on Ghost N Goblins. Screw those retro games and the people that idolize them with their rose colored shades. It was a horrible time. Mega Man was another horrible game that I don't think I ever beat.

Hyberbolic much?
I do agree with you in a lot of cases though. Still, I'm planning on buying a NES system soon. I never threw out this old 36" Sony CRT TV that I've had forever and the combination will be an awesome link to the horrible past.

The only old games I like are on MS-DOS
DOOM (easy)
Wolfenstein 3D (literally just point and shoot)
TES Arena (hard because theres monsters everywhere)
TES Daggerfall (medium)

You are pretty much going on a nostalgic dumpster dive but hope you enjoy it.

I bought a 13 inch sears color tv for 4 bucks because I thought it looked cool

@DJ

Nobody ever passed Battletoads, that bike level was too hard! The ninja turtles undersea bomb stage it's also pretty iconic for being hard but that one you could actually pass

Like you ive met alot of ppl that think retro games are too hard, they even call them broken games (and it's true some of them were) but the majority of retro games aren't broken they just don't baby you and make it super easy and i like that, i like a challenge.

Ppl are so used to easy games nowadays they call Dark souls too hard!
And IT IS hard but you can totally pass it with a little effort and once you do, it's more rewarding than passing an easy game BUT NOOO~ gamers nowadays want things too easy and complain Dark souls it's too hard. >_>

Oh I am, but I will enjoy it. I really only want it for the handful of games that I loved as a kid. Pure nostalgia trip.

You sound like the kind of person who picks up Ninja Gaiden, plays it for 10 minutes, then complains it's too difficult and isn't fun and gives up. You sound like a quitter, and like you're bad at video games, doesn't mean everyone else is nor that they should share your lame opinion. While I agree the only "broken" game I can think of on NES is Ghost n Goblins, that's only because it never ends. Kid Icarus, The Legend of Kage, now those are hard games. I have never taken playing games seriously enough to get upset over them. Grow up.

Something I can say that I'm happy to see in modern gaming, points-based leveling systems are becoming more popular and more prevalent. As someone who didn't have many other nerd friends in high school, I'm glad to have other people to talk about the **** with nowadays. I mean **** with with Diablo 3 you just know half these people are gonna wanna play the rest of the series so they can pretend they did all along.

I approve of these lies, as long as I have other people to play with.

Edit: Let us not forget all the excellent soundtracks of yesteryear, as this is a music site...