I actually though about mentioning Planescape as aging badly, but the fact is that I just hate the game full stop. If you liked the game when it came out, every reason to like it is still valid. The story's still well-written, the graphics still do a decent enough job, and the voice actors are still top notch. The gameplay is also as broken, the UI as inappropriate (there are mods, so this has actually improved a bit), and the story as ham-fisted and religious (it's on the subject of religion, regardless of what religion it's discussing or espousing) as ever. So no, it's probably improved a bit with age if anything. Still hated it.stoprequesting said:
Games that have aged horribly
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I don't find Planescape: Torment hard on the eyes, especially not with the widescreen mod. In general I tend to find 2D visuals age fairly well so long as they're capable of supporting higher resolutions. It's why I have little trouble playing a game like Baldur's Gate and even comparing it shamelessly to Dragon Age in terms of visuals:
Solid art direction is timeless.
What even I, an ardent 'classic' gamer who loves to dig into ye olden annals of ancient video gamey history find hard to bear however is early 3D or 2D games like Wolfenstein which pretend at being 3D when really they aren't. It's just really, really hard to bear especially when you're stuck at a low resolution because a higher one will cause the poor pixels to explode or somesuch. And claymation... why oh why did so many games in the mid to late 90's go with that claymation look? Eug.
Myth: The Fallen Lords was for the longest time one of my favourite games. Now... It's still fun to play actually, the gameplay mechanics are as solid as ever. But my god does it look miserable.
I still love the old series, but it certainly doesn't make it easy for me visually. I also have to agree with others mentioned games like Deus Ex and the like. Much as I love Thief, System Shock 2, Deus Ex and the like frankly they look like ass. Just doesn't age well. There are a rare few games which still look... tolerable. But for the most part? Terrible.
Makes me wonder what I'll think of Crysis and the like ten years from now? Hmmm....
Solid art direction is timeless.
What even I, an ardent 'classic' gamer who loves to dig into ye olden annals of ancient video gamey history find hard to bear however is early 3D or 2D games like Wolfenstein which pretend at being 3D when really they aren't. It's just really, really hard to bear especially when you're stuck at a low resolution because a higher one will cause the poor pixels to explode or somesuch. And claymation... why oh why did so many games in the mid to late 90's go with that claymation look? Eug.
Myth: The Fallen Lords was for the longest time one of my favourite games. Now... It's still fun to play actually, the gameplay mechanics are as solid as ever. But my god does it look miserable.
I still love the old series, but it certainly doesn't make it easy for me visually. I also have to agree with others mentioned games like Deus Ex and the like. Much as I love Thief, System Shock 2, Deus Ex and the like frankly they look like ass. Just doesn't age well. There are a rare few games which still look... tolerable. But for the most part? Terrible.
Makes me wonder what I'll think of Crysis and the like ten years from now? Hmmm....
Super Mario Bros. Try and play, the controls are sticky and unresponsive, the jumping mechanics are unbelievably hard to work with, and 90% of the gameplay is just spamming tries until you can pull of bizarre timing tricks.
Fallout, I still have fun playing it when I get the chance, but holy crap it takes me a while to tell where I am and what I'm supposed to get.
Yes. I hadn't played Deus Ex until someone introduced it to me 2 months ago.Zechnophobe said:
I love the feeling of choice. Simple as that. Every level has multiple ways to progress. Each skill makes a difference.
The Resident Evil series untill RE4. I love 4 but everything that came before is too clunky to be enjoyed. I'd rather play the original Alone in the Dark.
Agreed. I played Oblivion first and went to Morrowind and loved Morrowind so much more.Fawcks said:
I'd have to say that GoldenEye and Perfect Dark have both aged exceptionally poorly. Not only are the maps muddy and hard to read visually, they also suffer from vastly inferior control schemes to any modern shooter. In general I think that N64 games age poorly because of the horrible controller design, but those two stick out to me because of how obsolete the dual joystick controller has made them.
A ton of games, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Max Payne. Because I have been playing it lately. I kind of want to say X-com because I feel like it could be improved miles, but every game similar to it has ended up worse in almost every conceivable way and I still enjoy playing the first two X-com games now and then.
I find it hilarious to say Diablo 2 aged badly. Diablo 2 has still yet to be topped after 11 years. Even control wise it's still the best, and the graphics are simply amazing (only limited by the low resolution). And Half-Life 2 will never compare to Half-Life 1. HL2 was a shitty game that I only played through because I was hoping they would at least make the story interesting since obviously the gameplay wasn't going to magically go from shit to good. They didn't. But late episode one and episode two were actually pretty amazing story wise.
I find it hilarious to say Diablo 2 aged badly. Diablo 2 has still yet to be topped after 11 years. Even control wise it's still the best, and the graphics are simply amazing (only limited by the low resolution). And Half-Life 2 will never compare to Half-Life 1. HL2 was a shitty game that I only played through because I was hoping they would at least make the story interesting since obviously the gameplay wasn't going to magically go from shit to good. They didn't. But late episode one and episode two were actually pretty amazing story wise.
Haha, i opened the thread to say GTA 3 cause i tried playing it a little while ago, along with vice city and san andreas. I loved the games but i just can't get back into them, the way you have to look around, the graphics themselves, its just shocking loldt61 said:
I would say Star Craft. I installed it a few months before SC2 release, my god... still playable, but it looked like shit...
I remember the fun I had with vice city. Tried to replay it recently. The aiming is so bad....Ixnay1111 said:
Final Fantasy VII and VIII. Always a problem with the dawn of real 3D & polygons in games. Age very poorly while the sprite-based games of the SNES like FFVI remain endearing and playable.
That and this might just be me but I look back at video and screens of Doom 3 and realize how much I've been spoiled by the advances of the Unreal engine since then. It looks good, sure, but the art style and incredibly plastic-feel to everything looks even more awkward now, along with the pitiful sound effects of all the weapons. I still like the game- I just can't pinpoint how the game wowed me in the first place.
That and this might just be me but I look back at video and screens of Doom 3 and realize how much I've been spoiled by the advances of the Unreal engine since then. It looks good, sure, but the art style and incredibly plastic-feel to everything looks even more awkward now, along with the pitiful sound effects of all the weapons. I still like the game- I just can't pinpoint how the game wowed me in the first place.
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your mistake was playing duke nukem and not duke 3ddt61 said:
pretty much everything for the playstation 1 with a few exceptions for 2d games like castlevania and a few square games that looked surprisingly good on that system, like chrono cross and ff9