Comment on Does anyone else feel like game recommendation engines are completely useless if you play older games?

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In my universe, it would be Tetris > Emlith

  www.myabandonware.com/game/emlith-fmf

  Also there’s Tetris 2 - The New Blood, but that’s a homebrew game that for whatever reason only runs in the QuickBasic interpreter, it refuses to compile for some reason.

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  • YUART@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks for sharing that webpage, I see some cool games present there

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh man, my actual favorite game of all time is Descent 1 and 2…

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_78HTkRbQ

      The proper spiritual successor to that (looking past Descent 3, for reasons), is Overload…

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5RFBo0L_U

      The catch with Overload (which was actually developed by the two lead developers of Descent), is that it really will overload your system and push it to the max.

      Overload is like 20 years newer than Descent, and I can only get like 3 frames per second on my potato laptop. ☹️

      So, with that thought in mind, even though both Descent and Overload are both exactly the same genre of game, they are two decades apart in system requirements…

      Take that information however you will, but yeah I’d probably have some sort of toggle option to limit suggestions to similar games to other games released +/- 5 years or so…

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      • YUART@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hi, that’s actually a great suggestion, thank you

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