Games that have aged horribly

[sketch_zeppelin]

FF7, Don't freak out! I still like the game, it has a long intresting campaign, i still think the materia system is the best battle system the series has ever come up with and the world its set in is actually pretty cool. That being said the dialog has not aged well and after an amazing first act the second disc goes down hill (especially golden saucer) and doesn't pick up again until late in the second act.

Also Resident Evil (1-code veronica). I used to love the old Resident Evil games but ever since i played Resident Evil 4 i can't go back to the old ones

 

[General_Potatoes]

I take it everyone is used to the games from this generation?

 

[Gincairn]

The 7th guest takes my vote, actually a remake with a bit more control would be nice.

 

[matthudson]

COD4. All the clones have completely killed it for me. It's now really boring and mundane.

 

[moggetstorm]

Mario Kart 64. Compared to the DS version (pretty close to the same game, graphics pretty comparable) the handling on the karts is just awful.

Anything on the gameboys before backlight, purely because I can't see the damn things (I know this isn't really about consoles that have aged badly, but seriously, how did we live before backlight?). I've gone back to my GBC and played games I remember loving, only to decide I want my eyes to live.

 

[Wutaiflea]

I actually find it really hard to think of games I don't think have aged well. I generally find that if I liked it at the time, I still like it now- its possibly because there are few games I actively stop playing (ie. I got FF7 when it came out, and have subsequently finished it a good 20+ times)and also because when I play an older game, I get in the mindset of the time.

I mean, I still play really old stuff like Legend of Kyrandia, with all its billions of flaws, retro cliches and chunky graphics and enjoy it. Old classics don't deserve to be held up against today's offerings; just enjoyed for what they were, and still are.

 

[ZeroDotZero]

As science has shown us, Sequels kill franchises.

The only sequels that I have enjoyed are
Halo 2 and 3
Gears of War 2
Half Life 2, ep1, and ep2
Portal 2
L4D2
TF2
[hey, is it too obvious i'm a valve fanboy?]


all other sequels blew ass IMO, and have ruined their franchises

ALL other sequels? That is quite a lot of games.

Anyway, Age of Empires. I just cannot play it anymore.

 

[direkiller]

Homeworld

Homeworld 2 still manages to look good but the original game looks like it was done in MS paint
+ the controls are so clunky when compared to outer HW games

also the original Starcraft i can see every pixel in the game

 

[RadiusXd]

Deus Ex.

Good god, Deus Ex.

what the grapefruit are you talking about sir?!

 

[drunken_munki]

I'm ashamed to say it but I couldn't play Torment because of the graphics. I really wanted to, but the pixels were hurting my eyes.

You can try the Gibberlings 3 Widescreen mod (for all infinity engine games). Just run the file, enter the res you want and let it work its voodoo magic.

Spoiler

Link:
[link]http://www.shsforums.net/topic/44178-g3-widescreen-mod-v231-update/[/link]

 

[The Zero]

Super Mario 64's still a good game, but it just looks horrible, a bit bland, the water stages are really difficult to navigate and its camera controls aren't very good.

Also, never had a problem with Goldeneye and Perfect Darks controls.

 

[dex-dex]

A majority of games on the N64 have not aged well. just visually. not in actual game play.

 

[snave]

Im surprised Deus Ex made the list so prominently to tell the truth. The graphics settings in that game go up incredibly high for a game of its age, far further than the sequel. Bump them to the max and its as good as the polygons allow. Definitely no poorer than other 3d modelled games of that time although I wonder if perhaps seeing low polycount at higher res rather than stretching lower res alters the overall impact.

To me FF7 is the quintessential "shit that aged bad" game. I'd rather look at FF6.

 

[run_forrest_run]

The first Zelda game just plain sucks. I don't know how anyone had the patience to play that shit. The combat is horrible: Link has such a tiny sword and he just stabs things with it, never swings it. It's way to cryptic as well. Metroid's a much better adventure game than that piece of crap.

 

[Trolldor]

Deus Ex beyond a doubt.
It plays like a paraplegic walks.

 

[Shilkanni]

On that note: Fallout 1 and 2. The stories are great, the ideas are cool, but turn-based isometric RPGs make me contemplate death.

Totally agree - I have played Fallout 1 just recently and it felt like I had to fight to control it. Mouse to move everywhere, hard to see the doors, getting blocked by NPCs at every turn. Also it seems very difficult to get NPCs to recognise you had completed quests for them (it seemed like I did things in the wrong order). Then I entered the Hub with my weapon out, which makes all the guards in the city attack you for the rest of the game. Oh, and I love how I got critted for all my health and I get to watch the little dials with my health on it scroll all the way from 70 to -5 before I can reload.

It was still some fun and I did finish it, but interface/controls was a struggle.

 

[Netrigan]

You know... I doubt i could ever say that 8-bit games have not aged well. They have their own charm that just looks good. Even if 8-Bit I will always love:

8-bit or no. Megaman will always be good by me.
Except in Battle network. Fuck that franchise.

Hell even 16-bit are good by me.

Just games that entered the world of 3D graphics can age bad.

A game from that era (or earlier) with a good visual design holds up even with the pixelization. I've often noted that you can't really make Pac-Man look any better, apart from smoothing out the pixels. It's a good, simple design that works no matter what year it is.

The original Super Mario Bros. looks a bit ass, something I noticed back in the day after spending far too many hours playing Super Mario Bros. 3 and trying to extend the fun by back-tracking to the first game. It's not bad exactly, but the colors don't pop as well as they could.

But early 3D... man, those were some rough years. I was big into FPS back then and I used to seek out the 2.5D shooters like (Duke, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Redneck Rampage) to supplement the eye-assaulting games that were pushing the industry forward. A game like Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (a favorite of mine) is one of the ugliest games ever made and I remember resisting the game for a long time simply because it looked so horrible.

Spoiler

Which is why I have absolutely zero problem with HD remakes of a lot of these games, so long as they don't touch the core game mechanics. If they could update that game to look like its sequel, I'd be a happy man.

 

[Netrigan]

Crysis 2.

The multiplayer is already a fucking ghost-town >.>

This is why a new up-and-coming FPS franchise should always, always, always focus on making the Single Player campaign as good as possible. The MP gods only smile on a limited number of franchises and few are admitted into their ranks. Only way you're going to crack that club is by creating a game so good that they want to check out the MP.

 

[Wayneguard]

Deus Ex.

Good god, Deus Ex.

/thread

Also, broodwar hasn't aged well at all, a fact that has become clear since the release of wings of liberty. I can't hardly play broodwar anymore