Simple games, difficult games, old games.

As for now, I can tell the last games I beat were 'An Untitled Story', 'Cave Story'

Excellent taste in games, good sir. Since you seem to favor gameplay over fancy shiny graphics, I'd recommend you give Final Fantasy V a look. This one didn't make it stateside in the first release on the snes, but it boasts my favorite game mechanics of all the FFs I've played. And it has super enemies like Gogo and Shinryu, to give you a little more to strive for after beating the last plot related boss.

Adventure quests simply merged with the other games of the time. Quite honestly, they basicially were stories where you just mashed various objects together and hoped that they would create something useful to get through the stage.



[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Which games? Most older console games are fairly quick to beat, the only difficulty is in continually having to replay them if you lose enough lives. Gears of War is just one of many games, and besides, the FPS Genre is generally more geared towards multiplayer - not long, epic, quests.

I don't get what you mean by awesome playability either. [/COLOR]

Ummm... isn't that the definition of a difficult game? Kicking your ass repeatedly until you've mastered it? Dying with no penalty is just bullpomegranate, plain and simple. How can you have challenge with no penalties being handed out? I'd consider that a much more real difficulty than spending 8 hours watching FMVs. Wait... Actually, I think it might be harder to watch the FMVs now that I think about it.

And Contra games pretty much fit the bill for short but difficult, incredibly easy to pick up and play, will likely be replayed many times, and good for their multiplayer options too.