Games That Aged Horribly

[Dragoon]

The original Persona game. I want to like you, but why do you have to be so fucking boring?

Oh god that first person view is so disorientating and bad and the combat just hasn't aged well.

 

[Gatx]

Goldeneye. How the hell did people play console shooters before twin stick controllers? I just don't even understand how the aiming works in this game anymore, and I used to play it all the time back in the day.

I agree, which is why I'm always perplexed by people who say they would rather play Goldeneye than Call of Duty or Halo, I know they're just trying to seem cool and "hardcore" but still. I mean it's like, for PC shooters, having had mouse and keyboard controls, would you go back to playing shooters that had JUST arrow keys?

 

[LookingGlass]

Any PC FPS made before the advent of mouse-look. I can't stand to play a keyboard-only FPS for more than about 30 minutes.

Also, I don't care too much about visuals usually (I spend more time playing old games than new ones), but pretty much every 3D game from the N64/PS1 era looks like total crap today. To the point where it can be hard on your eyes on a big TV.

 

[Snotnarok]

Deus Ex, I can see why people liked it when it was out, however the mechanics are very very clunky and slow and I just couldn't get around that. Sitting there for like a full minute waiting for my crosshair to tighten.
Couldn't even stunrod a guy in the back, he just turned around ignoring he shocks I put into his damned spine then shot me to death. Despite this working on the last 2 guys. The game just randomly decides to if it'll work.

 

[LilithSlave]

Mortal Kombat games.

I never liked aesthetic when they first came out. An aesthetic that's sadly become the norm of the modern gaming.

They were doing the whole "realistic" thing back in the 16-Bit era. It looked ugly then, but it looks incredibly campy right now. At least a game like Cho Aniki is ironic and trying to be campy. Heck, even Micheal Jordan: Chaos in Windy City is less campy than Mortal Kombat.

Now that's sad. Because as far as I'm aware, Mortal Kombat actually somehow took itself more seriously than Cho Aniki.

You've got to give Mortal Kombat credit for one thing, though. They had one of the most awesome electronic tracks to ever grace the video gaming industry.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Anachronox :'(
It's a marvellous, wonderful game but it's graphics...
http://www.gram.pl/upl/artykul/20080926175249.jpg
Nooooooo. :\

 

[hazabaza1]

I'm gonna jump on the Deus Ex train, here. Played it for the first time a couple years ago, just thinking "How did people like this?!"
Thankfully Human Revolution was good.

 

[spacemutant IV]

Lots of uncalled for whining in this thread. I do not understand how one can dislike a game for using the Quake 3 engine, but whatever.

I recently tried playing the first Turok on the PC again. It's a FPS and IT DOESN'T HAVE A STRAFE. Now this is something that makes the game unplayable by todays standards.

 

[Shameless]

Ocarina of Time, sorry Ninty fans but this game was surpassed by many games that came before it .

 

[Silver Patriot]

Going to have to go with Goldeneye 007. The graphics don't bother me but that control system would be considered broken now. If not for the frankly ridiculous auto aim in that game I would have never hit anything.

Still, it is one of my favorite games. Even with the controls being what they are I still play it now and again.

 

[Arcadian Legend]

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.

VII has definite;y not aged well (still playable but that's probably due to nostalgia acting as a support to keep playing) though I think VIII and IX have aged surprisingly well.

Going to have to go with Goldeneye 007. The graphics don't bother me but that control system would be considered broken now. If not for the frankly ridiculous auto aim in that game I would have never hit anything.

Still, it is one of my favorite games. Even with the controls being what they are I still play it now and again.

Yeah the GoldenEye 64 control system feels really dodgy now. What about Perfect Dark? It got a remake of sorts on XBLA so that definitely helped it.

 

[splayfoot1]

In my opinion, there's a vast difference between bad graphics, and old graphics.

I still play and love FF7 and diablo 2, the graphics work, sure they are old, but they work.
A game I recently retried for nostalgia, and couldn't stand, is classic world of warcraft, so many changes I never noticed when they were implemented, but makes it near unplayable after playing cata.

Arcanum is another one, loved it back in the day, but just couldn't get into it when I tried it a few months ago, trying to figure out combat and casting was horrible, kept getting killed at the start

 

[White_Lama]

For me it has to be SimCity 3000. Loved it alot when I was a kid, got my hands on it a few days ago, and epic "meh"'s were had.

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)

I must say that in my opinion it is still the best in the series, and I still play the original game on the original disc at least once a year.

 

[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.

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.

To be fair, I played it on Xbox, which was never a good platform for that game in the first place. I imagine on PC it's quite a bit more playable.

 

[Hemlet]

A lot of games from the N64 era haven't aged very well at ALL. I mean, I remember back when I was in the first grade and I had gotten an N64 for my birthday. Super Mario 64 was fucking MIND BLOWING back then, having started with the NES and skipped the SNES. It was beautiful and the controls were nice and tight and everything was wonderful. Now...well...

Spoiler: what the pic does not show is how long it took to angle the camera properly and make that supposedly simple jump onto the penguin's head

Jet Force Gemini actually has aged pretty well in the graphics department, in that it's still actually not too bad to look at considering it was also on the N64. The controls however...well...let's just say they were considered awkward when the game first came out.

Spoiler: control stick to move unless you're holding R to aim, then you use the C buttons to move, but if you do not hold R then the C buttons strafe, jump, and crouch or go prone. If you try to strafe while crouched or prone then you do a dodging roll. A and B cycle weapons. Double tap Up C to jump and then hover if you are the dog. Double tap Up C to jump and activate your jetpack and then hold DOwn C to maintain a steady hover with your jetpack once you obtain jetpacks. These controls are altered depending on the situation you find yourself in, be that piloting Floyd through one of his missions or driving a hover racer or swimming. It is worth noting that Floyd controls like a drunken, oil slicked whale.

Okay one more and I'm done, I promise. Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire, once again on the N64. Back when this came out it looked amazing, had a great variety of levels, and controlled reasonably well in each level. It also caused a serious amount of pants-wetting terror for any kid who happened to be persistent enough to make it to the sewer level of the game. Seriously, that was one hard, scary ass boss at the time. To say that this has not aged well would be a gross understatement. Credit where credit is due though, it's largely thanks to this game that most Star Wars games now have a Hoth level where you can wrap a tow cable around an AT-AT's legs.

Spoiler: One control stick to aim and move, and a main character who controls about as fluidly as a Wampa doped out on morphine. Fuck yeah.

 

[Darknacht]

Tennis for Two has aged very poorly also Senet, yeah its not bad for a game that is over 5000 years old but it still does not hold up against modern games.

Basically every 3d game made in the 90s, 3d was sooooo bad in the 90s.

 

[Lectori Salutem]

Dune II and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
They're both still a lot of fun, but the controls are abysmal compared to today's standards.

 

[mental_looney]

Orginal the sims compared to the additions in 2/3 that add more interactions and progression/aging options it's just boring living on forever and kids never growing up.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The Jak & Daxter trilogy.

The graphics and all that is still fine, but the controls are fucking ghastly to point of unplayable.