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.

  • MechanismaticEnglish
    59•3 months ago

    I tried, but I just can’t go back and play Oblivion after playing Skyrim with all the quality of life mods. I’m waiting on the Skyblivion release to revisit it.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•3 months ago

      I’d say TES as well, but with Oblivion > Morrowind. I had trouble getting used to it being more toward the RPG side than Action. But it’s rewarding if you see it through.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•3 months ago

          And I’m from the other end where I came from Morrowind and couldn’t get into Oblivion because it was so generic compared to the earlier game. Monsters leveling to the character made it so safe.

          I remember when the monster that was spawning everywhere changed type I knew I had leveled up.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•3 months ago

      I could and i did. It was great. Sorry you couldn’t find a similar feeling.

      Ps: nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh

    • @[email protected]English
      28•3 months ago

      The loading screens omg

      I put hundreds of hours into that game and loved all 15 of them I spent actually playing

    • @[email protected]English
      5•3 months ago

      I actually did. After waiting 10 years for a new TES game after Skyrim, I got bored and installed Morrowblivion. Played that all the way through. Then I played Oblivion with some visual mods. It was still quite fun, though I didn’t do a full play through. If I hadn’t already done a full play through, then Oblivion would still be an awesome game after playing Skyrim.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•3 months ago

      I managed to play and enjoy Oblivion after Skyrim, but found a brick wall when trying Morrowind.

    • CethinEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      I agree, but going back to Morrowind is incredibly easy oddly. Oblivion was on the path to Skyrim, but Morrowind is in a totally different position.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•3 months ago

      Oblivion’s graphics did not age well, but just about everything else about it was better than Skyrim.

      Better quest lines, better setting, better plot (probably, I never really get super far into the main quest of these games)…