Are Modern Video Games Too Easy?

In my day you had to play NES through a mile of snow.

Are Modern Video Games Too Easy?

The thing that makes video games fun is that they pose a challenge. Sure, good music, books, and films, can be "challenging" in a certain sense if you engage with them, but games demand a certain level of skill to even experience them at all. However, there's a sentiment that modern games are getting too easy to be fun, which is sort-of true, but not how you think.