Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 day ago
Controversial take, perhaps, but I don’t think there are any games from the 1980s (or earlier) that I think hold up. Wasteland form 1988 is impressive but ugly (and a remaster exists that is better) and other than that, uh…
TLoZ is so utterly hideous that it repulses me. The NES colour palette is just so tremendously ugly.
Tetris is fine, I guess, but I’ve always found it a bit plain. Much like picking up individual grains of rice with chopsticks it requires skill but as with that it’s only your own time you’re wasting - unless you enjoy it, which I don’t. Or to put it another way - I don’t find the core gameplay loop rewarding.
There’s plenty of cool stuff from the early ‘90s but the 1980s are pretty much a case of “it was good when we had nothing better” territory, in my opinion.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 day ago
Interesting, I think you are the first person i met who enjoys games but doesn’t like Tetris.
missingno@fedia.io 1 day ago
I'll be that guy. I do think the Tetris: The Grand Master series built on it in really good ways (shame this style was then discarded in favor of Guideline, but that's a rant for another day), but classic Tetris kind of just falls apart as soon as you start to get good at it.
It's a product of its time, but I honestly feel there's an entire genre worth of better puzzle games that came after it, and I have a small chip on my shoulder at the fact that Tetris is the only one that gets any recognition while every other IP lies dead and buried.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Squarez Deluxe