Best and worst aged games

[Julianking93]

Simple question; what games in your opinion have stood the test of time or aged terribly?

Games from previous generations that are still enjoyable today.

1 rule to this, it has to be a game from at least one generation ago. So PS2 and before.

My choice for best aged; Any Zelda game. You can go back and play any of them and they'll still be enjoyable

Worst aged; Final Fantasy 7. While it was great when it first came out, the graphics just look awful and almost make it unplayable by todays standards. Plus, I never really liked it to begin with.

So, what's yours, Escapist?

 

[delet]

Well aged: Mario. Still just as fun jumping around now as it was before.

Poorly aged: ... I'll get back to you on that. I don't remember the exact name but there was once this Digimon fighting game I had a while back for the Playstation. I tried playing it a good few years back and found my eyes promptly assaulted by the most horribly aged graphics I have ever seen. My eyes were in literal danger of bleeding profusely after trying to play just a single match. Ugh, just thinking about it makes my eyes hurt...

 

[Souplex]

Worst aged: Half Life 2, Ocarina of Time.
Best aged: Metroid anything.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Fallout 1 & 2
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Diablo 1 & 2
Arcanum
Morrowind
Castlevania symphony of the night
Castlevania symphony of the night
Castlevania symphony of the night
And all metroid games.

All of those games ahve ages perfectly.


Anyway, worst aged are.. None afaik

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Worst Aged: Goldeneye

Best Aged: Legend of Mana

 

[FactualSquirrel]

My choice for best aged; Any Zelda game. You can go back and play any of them and they'll still be enjoyable

Funnily enough, I'm replaying The minish cap right now, so I'll have to agree with you on that one.

Worst aged: I don't really know, I'll think about it.

 

[De Ronneman]

Best aged: Anything Zelda, Terranigma and probably Mario games.
Worst aged: Uhm, yeah, well, most Pokemon games look retarded right now, with their non-moving sprites and stuff...
Another contender would be the Duke Nukem games. I recently booted up 3D, and everything looked better in my memory...

 

[Arkvoodle]

Best Aged: Super Mario World probably.


Worst Aging: Pokemon; old ones just don't cut it next to the new entries.

 

[Sajuuk-khar]

I think it's sort of genre based. I find that old platformers and turn based RPGs are usually still very nice to play.

Old FPS games however... sometime ago I tried playing Unreal. It looked and played a lot better in my memories.

 

[God's Clown]

Chrono Trigger has aged absolutely perfectly. Game never gets old.

 

[Ultrazerglings]

best aged Starcraft

worst aged rainbow six
ick!!!

 

[Ian Caronia]

Aged the Best: SMT: Nocturne. Yeah it's a supreme dungeon crawler and, yeah, I have yet to beat it without an online manual, but its cell-shaded graphics and extremely dark overtones make it the best looking (and best written) MegaTen title of the last console generation. It has YET to be beaten out of its title.

Aged the Worst: I have to agree with the thread creator and go with FF7. The story was great for its time (and genre at the time). The characters were memorable to me (except for the one that got stabbed, what was her name?), and I don't care what anybody says, Yuffie is cute/sexy.
HOWEVER, the graphics (like Silent Hill 1) are awful to the point of being an eyesore. Sephiroth, once a brutal villain with a sick mind, now seems like a wacked-out albino. Oh, and the ending sucks. Yeah. If you haven't seen the actual ending to the game, go do so now. It fucking sucks.

 

[Kryzantine]

Speaking of Silent Hill 1...

Worst Aged: Silent Hill 1. Good lord, my eyes were bleeding from playing that. Just doesn't go well...

Best Aged: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Consider that this game is 6 and a half years old and it STILL looks better than some games today. Not to mention no other game since then has combined stealth and shooter better, in first or third person. Except for Dark Athena, but I'm biased towards that game if only for the motherfucking Ulaks.

 

[Axeli]

Best:

Chrono Trigger (the premise is just too great and fun to let it die. And the graphics design holds pretty well to this day)

Super Metroid

Terranigma (surprisingly given the translation and sort of sloppy combat system. Must be the premise again... The plot might actually be simply too good for little things like writing to ruin it, although the fact that it was a plot that didn't require that much writing in the first place probably helps a lot)

Link to the Past


Worst:

Final Fantasy VII (Writing/translation is just too bad to be forgivable now days, even if you keep in mind that it's an old game. The graphics are also bad-bad. Many backgrounds images are still quite pretty though)

 

[Axolotl]

Worst aged: Half Life 2,

Why do you think that? I'm replaying it at the moment and it's holding up really well in my mind.

 

[Hobo Joe]

I don't think many games age badly that weren't poor games in the first place - if a game is fun it will remain fun; unless the only reason you played it originally was because it had good graphics for the time then you're playing for the wrong reasons.

 

[Prized Cup]

Worst aged: Half Life 2,

Why do you think that? I'm replaying it at the moment and it's holding up really well in my mind.

I can answer that question. Because the loading points are literally every square block away. And the landscape. Landscape grows old very quickly in game-time. Remember when Ocarina's landscape was amazing to look at? Not anymore! now its twenty miles of European coastline punctuated by roadblocks and roadblocks

Worst aged game for me would be Project G 3. mainly because it looked terrible when it came out

Best aged game is Goldeneye. Seriously. I had a crack at it last night after rewatching the film and its still not awful! and the weird thing is it looks better than Perfect Dark

 

[super_mumbles]

Best:
Super Mario World - Still easy to pick up and play, even to this day.
Sonic 2 - Pretty much the same as Mario World

Worst:
Metroid and metroid 2 - They're all about exploration, but it's a bit annoying when you get lost and haven't got a clue where to go. The others in the series are all good though.

 

[Baneat]

Best: Pacman, mario, sonic, tetris, megaman

worst. Goldeneye, Goldeneye, it's horrible.