Ep 92 - Difficulty VS Accessibility

Pre-Show What did you buy? What did you play? Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I'm Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers. And today we'll be talking about ________________ But RetroLogic isn't just a podcast. It's a community of retro gamers! - We've got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games Tell me one thing that happened this week! Housekeeping Sam: Blog and Streaming updates John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here's how we play. I'm going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for this own guess! Dan's list John's list Sam's list LIAM'S SPOT THE FAKE TheAmbassador Game Quiz: Which 90s Not-Tendo Console are you? Trivia Card Show Topics Sam's Topic: Game Difficulty/ Hard modes -Good difficulty, bad difficulty -Default difficulty: the way a game is meant to be played (?) -can a game be too hard/ too easy? -*RPGs and grinding to adjust difficulty yourself Community Couch ChrisHL94 Question for the podcast; is the only way to play NES Power Pad games on original hardware? Mike Writes (AKA The Ambassador) Which one of these Playstation IPs deserves to replace The Last of US Remastered ? Syphon Filter Resistance Wipeout Twisted Metal Sly Cooper Flightsy CCQ: Are Cheezits and Cheetos Chips? Presto the Magnificent What is the worst game you've ever played? Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter and Instagram @RetrologicGames. You're also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games