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[Cyberpunkd]

Monkey Island 1 with trial-and-error sword fighting
ES III: Morrowind and with no objective markers
etc.


Anything that you played successfully in the past but you wouldn't want to play again right now due to getting lazy with all the QoL features in the modern games?

 

[TintoConCasera]

No, not yet at least.

QoL features can be nice but imo they also fuck up games in some ways. For example, in the re-release of SMT V you are allowed to save anywhere, which kills the tension of being low on life and having to survive until the next save point.

 

[jmiller180]

WoW back in the day when Add-Ons were nowhere near what they are now / when WoW Classic released

 

[cireza]

Yes, a ton of games that were tedious/repetitive but I still managed to make to the end because the story/gameplay was okay.

These games are absolutely impossible to play again. A lot of JRPGs are like this. Just good enough for one run, but fall apart in the second run.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Gran Turismo license tests with gamepad. Wheel has spoiled me so much.

 

[HRK69]

Everything under 144fps is a no go

 

[Exede]

Ikaruga on Dreamcast....

 

[RomanceDawn]

Hmmm I don't think so. However I found the reverse true recently. Years ago on the Wii I 100%'d Donkey Kong Country Returns. A good time was had by all. I think I tried 2 stages for the time attack in an attempt to get those gold medals. I found it so incredibly difficult I didn't even bother. Plus there is a hard mode with only DK and after one or two bosses I completely gave up.

However with Returns HD, I found myself so compelled by the game I dropped 75 hours into it. Every stage hard mode, 1 hit only, DK only and mirrored stages completed. On top of that I got a gold medal in Time Trials on every single stage. I dare not go for all shiny golds.

200% never felt so rewarding.

 

[Fbh]

Not in terms of skill. But my patience for repetitiveness and annoyance is way lower than before.
I'd struggle going through tons of older JRPGs in their original form, with their slow battles, grindy design and annoying random encounters. Even classics like FFIX are borderline unplayable unless you are playing the remaster that lets you speed things up and disable random encounters.
It's one of the reasons Chrono Trigger is a true all time classic. You can play it exactly as it was released and it's still great.

My tolerance for anime cringe is also lower. I don't know how I made it through stuff like Star Ocean 4 and Infinite Undiscovery

 

[Schmendrick]

Everything that takes a while to get going.
I don`t have time for "wait till hour 5+, it gets good then" - games anymore. If something doesn`t grab me in hour 1 I toss it.
So I´d probably drop most adventure games and RPGs I loved in my youth today.