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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[–] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 60 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I tried, but I just can't go back and play Oblivion after playing Skyrim with all the quality of life mods. I'm waiting on the Skyblivion release to revisit it.

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 days ago

The loading screens omg

I put hundreds of hours into that game and loved all 15 of them I spent actually playing

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

I agree, but going back to Morrowind is incredibly easy oddly. Oblivion was on the path to Skyrim, but Morrowind is in a totally different position.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Oblivion's graphics did not age well, but just about everything else about it was better than Skyrim.

Better quest lines, better setting, better plot (probably, I never really get super far into the main quest of these games)...

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I managed to play and enjoy Oblivion after Skyrim, but found a brick wall when trying Morrowind.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I could and i did. It was great. Sorry you couldn't find a similar feeling.

Ps: nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I actually did. After waiting 10 years for a new TES game after Skyrim, I got bored and installed Morrowblivion. Played that all the way through. Then I played Oblivion with some visual mods. It was still quite fun, though I didn't do a full play through. If I hadn't already done a full play through, then Oblivion would still be an awesome game after playing Skyrim.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd say TES as well, but with Oblivion > Morrowind. I had trouble getting used to it being more toward the RPG side than Action. But it's rewarding if you see it through.

[–] monarch@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I couldn't ever get into oblivion since skyrim was my first Bethesda game and a lot of oblivion felt like (to me) slightly janky skyrim. I was able to get into morroeind though because it was just so diffrent.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

And I'm from the other end where I came from Morrowind and couldn't get into Oblivion because it was so generic compared to the earlier game. Monsters leveling to the character made it so safe.

I remember when the monster that was spawning everywhere changed type I knew I had leveled up.