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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)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] skulblaka 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Perfect Dark, on the other hand, totally still holds up today in my opinion, and there's a decompilation project that works great on PC and Steam Deck.

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

Perfect dark holds up even better if you use two n64 controllers. Basically modern FPS style controls! I think Golden Eye had the same option?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I tried that with a friend once and we were confused about the purpose. Now it makes sense!

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

I love love love perfect dark. But it's uhhh it does not hold up. The campaign starts fairly strong and craters pretty quick. It really feels like they just weren't able to really... Finish the game when it came out.

Also, like GoldenEye, a huge component of Perfect Dark was multiplayer.

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

Yeah, I felt that way about GoldenEye after getting used to PD. GoldenEye was one of the GOATs in its day, but that day passed pretty quickly. Halo then further improved on the controls and CoD improved on the multiplayer mechanics.

When that GoldenEye for PC project released some years ago, I was excited to download and install it (because PC port meant it would get PC controls, which have always been superior to console controls, even after Halo fixed them) but I think I only played one game before remembering that you start with nothing and have to find guns and the port was more crowded than the 2-4 player games back in the day where you could at least spawn away from the action and get a chance to arm up before others made their way to where you were.