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What arcade titles do you think are actually better in their console ports? (lemmy.world)
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I've been playing a lot of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy lately and it seems like it has a number of improvements over the arcade release. I'm curious what other ports people find particularly good.

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[โ€“] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I totally get that. Every other game has A for jump, B for shoot, with some subtle variations on top of that. That muscle-memory runs deep. Then this game comes along like "I'm going to destroy this man's whole career" by changing out jump for "do wildly different stuff depending on which way the d-pad is leaning."

[โ€“] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I really wanted to like that game too, I could tell it was a good game. It just wasn't meant to be.