Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
somnuz@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I am a simple man… Some Stardew Valley — I try to visit my farm every so often, a little THPS1+2 action when it’s raining lately and I am waiting for a perfect / slow morning to tackle Gorogoa.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 months ago
If you had told me decades ago that I would still be playing THPS1 and 2 a quarter of a century later…I would have probably nodded and said “yeah. Makes sense.” I guess we knew it was a classic, back then, too.
But still. What a game!
somnuz@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah… as remasters/remakes go, this would be one of my favorites just right next to Crash Bandicoot series and New ‘n’ Tasty Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. Oh! Tetris Effect kinda sorta fits in this group too.
All of those titles deserved some new generation graphics and polish, none of them lost their fun value, vibe or overall quality in the process. Plus there is no need to emulate anything, no crack-mod-tango, so bonus points for making some of the best games ever created widely accessible.
If one day, any studio would put the same amount of effort into Driver series or Remedy would go full nostalgia and re-do the Max Payne series — oops… I think, I ventured too deep into fantasy lands here.