Two Video Links - Haloid - Super Mario Frustration

Everyone's taking about Haloid, a mix of Halo and Metroid and The Matrix that is technically very well done. All style.

And this video (Super Mario Bros. Frustration) just brings back warm memories. WARNING - adult language saturates this from beginning to end. It's an unbelievably long (23+ min.) of someone attempting a hacked/modded level in Super Mario that is breathtaking in it's cruelty. For all that, it's almost amusing, if you can consider sadomasochistic level design amusing. Funny that I feel empathy for the player/narrator though.

Comparing the two is revealing in that we see the enormous jump in graphics from what seems like ages ago (but it was only the 80's) when Nintendo dominated to today's multi million dollar triple-A games. Gameplay-wise, I'm not sure much has evolved in that same time frame. As to the videos themselves, as I noted above, I felt empathy in the second, while in the first I was simply wowed by the technical achievements, and nothing more.