Originally Posted by
Milady
The argument that harder = better is ridiculous. It's perfectly fine to enjoy a challenge, but I just love it when I have to start my entire game over again because I died during the last boss fight.
If you miss the lack of a lives system, then give yourself three chances. If you die once or twice, continue from the checkpoint. If you die three times, just hit reset, delete your auto-save, and restart the game.
Sonic takes what, an hour or two to beat if you don't die? It's different if there's hardly any gameplay to be extended in the first place. Let's try the lives system on ME2. Died during the last fight? Redo that 20 hours of work. Maybe implement an obnoxious password system.