Games That Aged Horribly

[sextus the crazy]

pretty much everything from the NES era, excluding a few platformers and action games, but especially RPGs and Strategy games. Ditto for 3D PS1, N64, and Saturn games. They are ugly as hell 99% of the time and Controls didn't always work for the best.

Saying this in front of Gen 1ers is pretty much sacrilege, but pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow have aged horrible. They're all a glitchy, unbalanced, ugly mess.

Really every series that started in the first major era of a new dimension in video games(Atari to NES for 2D, PS1 & N64 era fro 3D). The developers didn't really know how to make the games work at the time, so the original versions of long running series are pretty bad by today's standards, given the amount of polishing they've done.

 

[realist1990]

the first Halo, while it was amazing at the time no it is actually just painful to play (unless you are split-screening shit up, huge shame more games don't have that option)

 

[FilipJPhry]

Goldeneye and any shooter in PS1. The graphics are so butt-ugly. Oh, and the WWE Smackdown series. Last good one was Here Comes the Pain.

 

[Korten12]

the first Halo, while it was amazing at the time no it is actually just painful to play (unless you are split-screening shit up, huge shame more games don't have that option)

Really? I played Anniversary (and had played the original ver) and it felt actually smoother and more fluid then most recent shooters.

 

[Wayneguard]

Oblivion started showing its age almost immediately after it was released. Also, the original fallouts just feel so goddamn clunky. They haven't aged well at all imo.

 

[Strain42]

Shin Megami Tensei I and II. I tried playing the English patch of them and just...ugh...I mean they look kinda decent for games at that time, but they just don't play well. Automatically talking to invisible NPCs if you bump into them on the map, countless first person identical corridors, etc. etc.

They evolved into something great, but I just can't go back and try to maneuver with those. I just don't have the patience.

 

[TheGreatAndPowerfulZOG]

Tried replaying Max Payne in anticipation for MP3...

Shooters sure have come a long way.

Not enough walls to cover behind or autoaim for you? The graphics are a bit outdated, but the gameplay is still good, fun and fast and the John Woo in the time when he wasn't shit type of plot is still awesome.


Final Fantasy VII didn't age well... It was superstimated when as first released, but it was a good in it's own right, but now I almost unplayable.

Third-person shooters without precision aiming are just painful. I'm pretty sure Max payne 1 did have auto-aim, and that was about the only way it was playable on consoles. I know cover is a dirty word these days, but a shooter without that dynamic is basically a shooting gallery. The story is still good.

 

[HarryScull]

call of duty (the infinity ward games)
a good example of this is the kill streaks
cod4: perfect
mw2: you got a 7 killstreak congrats you win the game with a nuke!
mw3: useless. no dont mention the abomination that is support! i still have flash backs! I never want to here the letters E,M or P again

or the maps
cod4: brilliance
mw2: average
mw3: cluster fuck

or the campaign
cod4:good
mw2:average
mw3: i want to gouge my eyes out with forks

 

[sextus the crazy]

Tried replaying Max Payne in anticipation for MP3...

Shooters sure have come a long way.

Not enough walls to cover behind or autoaim for you? The graphics are a bit outdated, but the gameplay is still good, fun and fast and the John Woo in the time when he wasn't shit type of plot is still awesome.


Final Fantasy VII didn't age well... It was superstimated when as first released, but it was a good in it's own right, but now I almost unplayable.

Third-person shooters without precision aiming are just painful. I'm pretty sure Max payne 1 did have auto-aim, and that was about the only way it was playable on consoles. I know cover is a dirty word these days, but a shooter without that dynamic is basically a shooting gallery. The story is still good.

I'd didn't think that Max Payne had clunky controls when I first played it a year ago. The Bullet time counter balanced whatever aiming difficulties I had.

 

[Dirty Apple]

Wolfenstein 3D will always hold a special place in my heart. That being said, it's nigh unplayable nowadays. Everything from the control scheme to the graphics to the level design is severely, but understandably, outdated.

 

[Easton Dark]

Conker's Bad Fur Day isn't... it isn't good anymore.

Also, Deus Ex is awful.

 

[Chunga the Great]

I'm probably going to get some flack for this but.....

I can't stand playing Morrowind. It always starts out pretty good but ends when I can't get immersed in the game due to the downright hilarious animations.

Guard: Follow me prisoner, we will release you into Morrowind.
Me: Alright, lets do this.
*Guard proceeds to walk like he just shit himself.*

Half-Life 1 has aged pretty well in terms of visuals and gunplay, but the level design is TERRIBLE compared to Half-Life 2.

Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 are just not very engaging, or at least they haven't been since Fallout 3 and F:NV.

Fortunately, most RTS games like Empire Earth have aged pretty well.

Captcha: it will pass
Kind of makes sense in this context.

 

[Tanis]

FO3...dated, REALLY? REALLY?!

Damn do I feel old now.

Um...IDK...

Maybe FF7/8?

FF7 was never terribly good, but it's aged even worse.
-The extended verse isn't helping.

FF8 is still a favorite of mine, but I've been having a hard time playing it as of late.
Maybe I've replayed it too much, or maybe my tastes have changed, but the game just feels like a chore to play anymore.

In-fact, MOST PS1 games don't seem to age very well for me.

 

[pure.Wasted]

FO3...dated, REALLY? REALLY?!

Damn do I feel old now.

Age isn't really a factor. Fallout 3 and Oblivion just happen to feel more like "a product of their time" than older but not as dated games do.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I'm sorry JC, but you didn't age gracefully...

That game was hideous by the standards of when it first came out.
But it's aged quite well for me; not because of the graphics but because of the writing and especially the level design.

All of these hyper-linear games with breadcrumbs and idiot-lights on the trail only makes me pine more for a return to the sprawling inter-connected rooms and secret passages. It makes me appreciate more the effort that goes into the interaction between the player and the environment.

If Human Revolution got anything right about Deus Ex, it was that.

 

[Tanis]

FO3...dated, REALLY? REALLY?! Damn do I feel old now.

Age isn't really a factor. Fallout 3 and Oblivion just happen to feel more like "a product of their time" than older but not as dated games do.

Fair enough.

Most games that go for 'realistic' seem to age worse than those that go for a 'style'.

 

[Guilherme Zoldan]

I seem to have a mutant imunity to disliking a game over outdated graphics. Unless the graphics actualy make it hard to tell whats going on, I can tolerate any ridiculous blocky animations.
In fact Ive been playing Duke Nukem 3D as of late...god that game is good. Shooters why cant you be like that again?

 

[thejackyl]

Personally? Most N64/PS1 games have aged pretty bad. NES/SNES(and any other sprite based) games will always be more appealing(to me) than the attempts at 3D that those games did.

Yes it was gaming's first true attempt at 3D, but it made controls really awkward, especially for someone used to 2D controls. Though this was fixed towards the end on the PS1's life cycle since when the PS2 came out, most games of a similar type had a pretty similar control scheme.

Graphics wise, I think the PS2-era games have aged horribly, simply due to the fact that digital artists have gotten the hang on 3d models, but graphics technology has advanced so fast that early PS2 games by comparison look like garbage. PS1 games have the charm of "baby's first 3D model", but last gen is just... bad.

Of course there are some games that didn't age badly due to graphics because they used an art style instead of going for "realism". This is one of the reasons that I think Modern Warfare had aged worse than TF2, or perhaps that's just because I still enjoy TF2...