this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
210 points (98.2% liked)

Games

37263 readers
1685 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here and here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
shitpostpolice@lemmy.world
Dremor@lemmy.world
210
What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 1 week ago by venotic@kbin.melroy.org to c/games@lemmy.world
173 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't see myself going back to the original Half-Life after playing Black Mesa. The changes to Xen alone are massive improvements.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still do it from time to time because I like playing them on original hardware, but Sonic 1&2 on Genesis/Mega Drive. The Origins Plus versions may not be 100% accurate gameplay with regards to movement/moveset, but anniversary mode's retry special stages is real nice when half of the time I get screwed in those. Especially 2's special stages where I feel I feel like I'm constantly getting screwed over by my favorite character/sidekick being incompetent at the special stages.

Just recently got the 3rd game (still need & Knuckles to complete the set) and while not being able to retry special stages is an issue, I can at least reset the game without having to worry about needing to replay the whole entire game over from the start. So it gets a pass because all I gotta do is replay a stage.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I find it the other way around. I can't play Vampire Survivors because of Robotron/Smash TV/Geometry Wars.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

That's not quite the same, though; bullet heaven ≠ twin-stick shooter.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›