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I think that the games in general in the last couple years are fine for young guys with quick reaction times and plenty of experience. But the game companies have shut themselves off from a whole set of older gamers that can not keep up. Like women, younger kids, older aging gamers like myself and also a whole set of slightly mentally chalenged people.

I resently tried playing several Playstaion 3 titles of my 19 year old sons and they are for the mostpart all too hard for me. I spent 4 hours of so with each one and only get past parts of the first level with having to re-play sections of the level over and over about 20 plus times to get thru it. That is just not fun. And I am playing on the EASY mode.

I need a supper EASY mode. Plus there are plenty of less capable people out there, younger kids and slightly mentally chalenged people that would love to play some of the games but it is just beyond their skills.

So I would love it if they made a "walk thru" mode, super super easy mode, like 5 levels of easy.

For example, I played the PS3 Uncharted demo for 2 hours and could not get past the camp after you make the leap to the pedistle that you have to drop down. It took me 2 plus hours to get there and try about 15 aattempts to pass it. That just is not fun for me. Then I decided to give it a rest for a while and found that when I quit the demo after playing for 2 plus hours it did not save my place and a restart of it puts me back at the begining. That just killed it for me.

Although I love the walk around and looking and trying to figure out where to go. I do not mind some shooting but hate having to shoot so many guys to get thru a level or partial level. Like it is totally unreal that you could ever think that one person could ever survive such a fight in the first place.

Game companies can still make it challenging for you young guys and have medium, hard and supper hard if you get into that stuff. I just wish they sould make some more easier options so that others can enjoy it as well.

I do not play games much anymore since they are too hard to play for me now that I am 52. I use to love games but many are just too hard to be any fun. Also even the race car games require you to have to customize the heck out of your cars in order to have a chance a being competitive. It is all just too much. That type needs an easy setup option or something.

I have spent 30 years in the computer industry working and like games but these new ones have too much shooting for me. I use to love the first couple Laura Croft games on PC's/ They had just the right amount of shooting and lots of chalenging adventure walks and climbing.

Well that is my two sents worth.

How about giving the rest of us old gamers or non-gamers a chance? The gaming companies could make 4X what they do now. Remember PACMAN? Why was it a success???? Anyone could play it and have fun. We need more of that mentallity assigned to game design nowadays. Still keep the hard mode and insane modes for the true "young" gamers but put in some various levels or EASY mode to let the rest of us still have some fun too.