this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
200 points (98.5% liked)
Games
37293 readers
1606 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:
Rules:
-
Submissions have to be related to games
-
No bigotry or harassment, be civil
-
No excessive self-promotion
-
Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
-
Mark Spoilers and NSFW
-
No linking to piracy
More information about the community rules can be found here and here.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'd kind of like to see someone review retro games on a "equal standing" with current games. That is, sure, they're using old technology, sure, but see how they stand up to current games in terms of what you pay and the time investment in playing them.
While I remember having fun with Chrono Trigger, I don't know if, in 2025, I'd recommend it or any older RPG to someone who has never played them. By the standards of its time, it wasn't very grindy, but speaking broadly, older RPGs have a lot of repetitive combat.
On the other hand, a lot of, say, older shmups are, I think, still competitive. I don't feel like the genre has changed as much (though I'll concede that I haven't spent a lot of time on modern shmups). So I'd probably be more-inclined to recommend an older shmup, even though I'd say that Chrono Trigger was probably, in its time, a better Super Nintendo game than any Super Nintendo shmup.
EDIT: For an extreme example, I think I first played Tetris on a Game Boy around 1990. I think that that's probably still about on-par with the 2018 Tetris Effect: Connected with a VR headset. The thirty intervening years haven't really seen that much change in the fundamentals of falling-block games.