Hi
085Jay1991, and welcome to RU, the best site on the net!
I think game difficulty begins with the Gamer themselves, within their own individual strengths and weaknesses.
For example, some people have more patience, some better eye - hand coordination, some better attention to detail, and yet others have phenomenal reflexes.
And then there's Gamers like myself.
Seriously though, what I mean is that I think difficulty is an individual thing.
I would guess that our own High Score Champions
Elrod21, Winnebagel, and
Dojah may consider some games on RU to be easy, and from their point of view that may be so, given their Gaming ability.
Gamers like myself would probably consider those same games to be quite challenging.
I mean this in a general sense, of course.
For instance,
Haunted Castle ยป
Coin Op , I can't get past the first level, so there are genuinely difficult games as well to be sure.
Concerning the newer games I find there to be quite a wide variety of difficulty, {not including the current generation of consoles} but to compare them to the classic 2D retro games is like comparing apples to oranges, in my opinion.
Hard to put into words.