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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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 4 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.

[–] catalyst@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

For me games from the NES era can tough to enjoy for more than a short period of time. They just tend to feel punitively difficult in a way that is not very fun. I’d much prefer a Mario from SNES onward any day for example.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This will be controversial but Hitman blood money.

I have put hundreds of hours into the Hitman trilogy, but no matter what I can't get past the first guard of blood money, that is if I can get past the clunkynes to even get to him in the first place.

I would like to try it as I have heard a lot of good about it, big portion of the fan base think it is the best game ever, but no matter how many time I trow that god dame coin the guard refuses to move and I can't progress and that combined with general age and clunkynes of the controls don't make it an enjoyable experience to try.

In the trilogy and Absultion if I got stuck it was at least enjoyable trying to get around it, this is just frustrating.

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[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago

Pretty much all the racing games from my childhood. I remember them having super realistic grip and aerodynamics, but playing them again compared to even sorta SIM modern racing games today is just night and day.

I will blame my 1000+ hours in beamNG for some of that. Once you have seen super detailed soft body physics it's hard to play anything that doesn't have it. Wreckfest 1 had a decent hybrid soft/ridged system that worked for that game. Seems the second game that just dropped on early access improves on it some, but I'm gonna wait for the full release before I pull the trigger on that one.

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Diablo 2 Lord of destruction, Diablo 2 resurrected is sooo much better in many ways I'll probably never play the og again.

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[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I would love to experience X-COM UFO Defense, but the only X-COMs I've played to any extent are the two "modern" Firaxis games. Going back to the originals is a real effort, especially without having the manual to hand.

[–] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

OG XCOM has a really rough learning curve for sure. It is easy to understand the fundamentals of but it takes a lot longer to get it well enough to really enjoy. Once you do learn it I feel like it is different enough from new XCOM that you can enjoy both. I love new and old xcoms a ton.

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Old XCOM also likes to bend you over and fuck you over a lot. And that's the way we liked it!

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Ah yes. Land Skyranger, open door, sectoid throws grenade into Skyranger. Evac with one survivor. Good times.

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