Games That Aged Horribly
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Compared to the other posters I seem to have a really good tolerance for old games that don't "age well." I still enjoy Deus Ex despite the outdated graphics. It's usually the gameplay that ruins it for me. I still can't stand the micro-managing style of games like Baulder's Gate.
Reminds me when a friend and I saw an old Atari (I think it was a 2600) unit for $15. We got really exited, bought it along with eight games. When we got to his house we played it for 5 minutes until we realized "Wait, this is really, really out of date." So I guess that's my cut off point.
Reminds me when a friend and I saw an old Atari (I think it was a 2600) unit for $15. We got really exited, bought it along with eight games. When we got to his house we played it for 5 minutes until we realized "Wait, this is really, really out of date." So I guess that's my cut off point.
Actually, I've recently played through all the big games from my childhood (Jak and Sly collections) and they've both held up awesomely. Actually, I was going through a weird cynical phase while playing Sly 3, and I enjoyed it quite a bit more now then I did when I was a kid.
Wait a second, Fallout 3 came out four goddamn years ago. It hasn't aged, PERIOD.
Ya damn whippersnappers.
Wait a second, Fallout 3 came out four goddamn years ago. It hasn't aged, PERIOD.
Ya damn whippersnappers.
Pretty much the entire PlayStation catalog. A few exceptions like... um... Parappa the Rapper and ah... anyway, it's aged terribly.
Yeah, bit of a tangent on part, but here goes. We all know why people keep retro homages to various old NES, SNES and Atari style graphics right? Partially the nostalgia factor, but also because until the early to mid 00s, you couldn't play most 3d games for a good hour or so without your eyeballs screaming O DEAR GOD, STOP. on that note, mario party, both in the fact that the old game hasn't aged anywhere near gracefully. and the fact that the games have only gotten worse with time
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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.
Fallout 3 dated.. lol?
Umm Silent Hill 2 hasn't aged too well but the creep factor is still there.
Umm Silent Hill 2 hasn't aged too well but the creep factor is still there.
I'm prepared to forgive Deus Ex because I never played it for the graphics to begin with, it has a great story and the missions can be completed using a number of different solutions. I replayed it only a year ago or so and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Racing games, sports games, FPS that don't have a story, these are the kind that to me age poorly. Other games have done exactly what they did, but with shinier stuff.
Racing games, sports games, FPS that don't have a story, these are the kind that to me age poorly. Other games have done exactly what they did, but with shinier stuff.
Not so much a game, but ever tried using older consoles on 40" + lcd screens? Dear lord is it bad... For that matter most games.
Though I suspect it has less to do with the game and more to do with us, the gamers expecting every new game to have more and more content and better graphics.
Though I suspect it has less to do with the game and more to do with us, the gamers expecting every new game to have more and more content and better graphics.
The original Persona game. I want to like you, but why do you have to be so fucking boring?
Mario 64 is a game I'm not sure if it has aged poorly or if I just never liked it at the time because I never played it much even when it was new and taking the gaming world by storm, Spyro's aged way better these days.
And basically any NES-era JRPG sans MOTHER 1 and Sweet Home, they've all aged really badly.
Mario 64 is a game I'm not sure if it has aged poorly or if I just never liked it at the time because I never played it much even when it was new and taking the gaming world by storm, Spyro's aged way better these days.
And basically any NES-era JRPG sans MOTHER 1 and Sweet Home, they've all aged really badly.
Definitely Deus Ex, even at the time of release it was a butt ugly game, a good one nonetheless though
but more sadly for me, majoras mask for N64. Was wowed by the sheer brillance of it when i was young lad, but now... everybodys so...so...pointy.
makes me hate to think what Ocarina of time looks like now on N64
but more sadly for me, majoras mask for N64. Was wowed by the sheer brillance of it when i was young lad, but now... everybodys so...so...pointy.
makes me hate to think what Ocarina of time looks like now on N64
Most of the games made for the PS1, N64 and Dreamcast have aged so badly visually that almost none of them deserve any spots on any informative list of the best games of all time, Ditto for the vast majority of Atari 2600 games and most early NES titles. Up until the debut of the 360 and PS3, there were almost no great looking fully 3d games. Some exceptions (Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey, Spyro 2 Ripto's Rage, Half Life 2, Halo: Combat Evolved) but mostly bad visuals.
Halo 1 still controls and plays like a dream, but Halo 2 dropped the ball there.
If anything, The original Medal Of Honor is the biggest victim of nostalgia. It needs a remaster with better visuals and controls to be worthy of one of the greatest soundtracks ever made.
Halo 1 still controls and plays like a dream, but Halo 2 dropped the ball there.
If anything, The original Medal Of Honor is the biggest victim of nostalgia. It needs a remaster with better visuals and controls to be worthy of one of the greatest soundtracks ever made.
Wait, nostalgia? For Fallout 3? The game came out 4 years ago. Sure there was a game in the series after it, but that's like playing Black Ops for nostalgia purposes. A game isn't old just because it's not the latest installment.
Aaaand if you'd read my comments since the OP, you'd know that a game feeling "dated" has much less to do with how much time has passed since its release than it does with how deliberate and coherent its style is.Jitters Caffeine said:
A game that's made to look realistic will age faster than a game released at exactly the same time, but made to look cartoony instead, simply because the standards for realism will have improved drastically within 6 months, but there is (in large part) no such thing as standards for something very stylized.
It's why WoW is beautiful despite being playable on pre-internet computers and having low-polygon models, while EQ2 and LOTRO and all them "realistic" looking things that came out later just look brown and gray and boring.
edit: I never used the word nostalgia to refer to Fallout 3. I just assumed that most of the examples people would list would fall into the rose-tinted-glasses category. And... it looks like I was right.
Heh. Fallout 3 was always ugly and brown and this was commented on everywhere immediately upon release. The OP's complaints are not so much a product of age, but how it always was.pure.Wasted said:
Arguably the scenery is the least bad visual aspect of FO3 too, if you don't mind muted colors.
Likewise for Oblivion, the heads and animations have always been very bad. Only the scenery looked good at the time. The rest was already started out very poor compared to games released years earlier, such as Half-life 2.
Clumsy controls are maybe an excuse for 8-bit generation games, but not for any first person game released post Quake.
Seems like the TS is seeing for the first time what the game realy is.