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What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? (kbin.melroy.org)

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I tried playing Harvest Moon on the SNES today and having played Stardew Valley for hours, I thought I'd try and see how tolerable the original Harvest Moon was in comparison. I know and understand it is unfair because there's a 20 year gap between Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, while also discrediting Harvest Moon's later entries since there's more than one.

Harvest Moon to me is a bit hard to revisit. Having to get used to only carrying two tools at the same time, your farm doesn't seem as big, you don't have a way to know that you're tired as readily, you just have to watch for the signs and the village you visit doesn't seem as characteristic. It's a basic farming sim, it has to start somewhere.

But Stardew Valley does so many things that it is easier to revisit.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The Battlefield franchise. I went back and played 1942, and disregarding the graphics, omg it’s so slow and clunky. It was the shit for the day, but man…compared to 2042 it’s super-dated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Those old computer dungeon crawler games, like Wizardry or Might and Magic 1-2. Jesus, they're absolute exercises in patience. You don't even have to play anything very recent to see how poorly they aged, even SNES JRPGs of 1992-4 were much better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Black Mesa & SystemShock-Remake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Almost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

From GTA to GTA san andreas are all a pain now because the control scheme is so outdated, The pcs ports are even worse because they have the shittiest jankiest controls imaginable but they had that from the start. GTA 4 is borderline unplayable because of the trash camera controls but that was true when it came out as well.

The original Metro 2033 is a bit of a slog to get through as well if you can even get it to run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The older Final Fantasy games. I made a point of doing a playthrough of the NES version of FF1, and I'm glad I did. The increased difficulty over the GBA version is mostly better than the absolute lack of challenge in later versions, but the added content and qol improvements make it preferable to play a hardmode hack of the gba version in the future.

The NES FF2 is just too much. I lose stats? No thanks.

And I'm really glad the Pixel Remaster version of FF3 exists now, the NES version was pretty unpolished and glitchy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

After playing Megazeux, going back to ZZT just was never the same

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