Games that have aged horribly

[Redem]

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).

Well I think its feel just that Diablo 2 didn't exactly have a lot of competition , Hack&Slash don't have a lot of represent nowaday so now it would mostly feel like a less advance RPG and I would say that Diablo 2 just kinda feel like its a kitchen sink in term of depth and immersion (there's little to no story or character outside what happen in the custcene, which is fine but hardly enough). Plus Diablo II had some frustrating part (especially in Act 3) that I think would feel worst nowaday.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

halo 1. i went to play it again thinking of having an epic nostalgia trip and all i did was find myself having a laughably easy time on legendary(apparently they must have secretly crept the difficulty of halo forward with each one) with only a few moments where i felt genuinely challenged and missing the features of the later games.

 

[teh_spartan]

duke nukem just i hate the 2d "3d" grapics.

 

[DirgeNovak]

The MediEvil series. I played the crap out of those games back in the day, it's unplayable today.

 

[anonymity88]

Recently grabbed the demo of Perfect Dark off of XBLA to relive my youth.







- Mistake.

 

[kzeelio]

Morrowind's non-combat mechanics are pretty awful, too. You walk like you're crippled (takes too long to get anywhere). The dialogue system is TERRIBLE.

This isn't just it not aging well, it was annoying when it came out. It was actually used as a way to make the world seem larger than it really was. Mods are my best friend.

A lot of the time, imo, the problem with older games is the UI. I love Baldur's Gate, but oh god the massive UI.

 

[Redem]

Recently grabbed the demo of Perfect Dark off of XBLA to relive my youth.







- Mistake.

I know the feeling

 

[Tanfastic]

Duke Nukem, Ahahahahaha!

No, seriously, Duke Nukem. I don't understand the hype. I played it 18 years ago and wouldn't touch it now. All these young adolescents are going crazy over nostalgia for a game they've never played. It may just be the best marketing dupe ever.

Now with poop!

Couldn't agree more. I never played it back when it was released but ended up playing it a few years ago. Other people saying something makes them nostalgia can, for some reason, cause younger generations that have never played the game/watched the movie/read the book to lie about it...

OT: Morrowind, I loved it so long ago but after trying Oblivion and going back I just couldn't get into it something about me running into the exact same person 30+ times in the same town, only difference was one was labeled "dark elf" and another "high elf" but the still looked almost identical... Kinda like Oblivion.

 

[Mosesj]

Super mario 2 for me. I played and thought 'how could this be a good game?' I played the first and liked it more

 

[Zenn3k]

Well, the only one that comes to mind is Half Life 1. I played Half Life 2 first, loved it, then went back to the one that started it all to know how the story began. I was expecting something awesome, because everyone always says it is, but when I actually played it I found it very underwhelming. "This is it?" I thought to myself. "This is the game that is supposedly one of the greatest of all time? How did this get sequel? Not that I am complaining of course...".

First shooter game to have a developed plot and story, plain and simple.

I recently played HL1 again, I enjoyed it, although make a lot of Valve games, once you know what you're suppose to do and where you're suppose to go, it turns into a speed run.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Well planescape didn't age well cause RPG now balance gameplay and story a lot better now

Diablo 2 aged pretty terribly IMO

Deus Ex only aged badly graphic wise, its still one of my favourite re-install ever

Personally I think the one thing that killed Diablo 2 was all the bots trying to get you to buy gold by clogging up the screen with advertisements. Why hath Blizzard forsaken the Diablo 2 battle net? Oh yeah WoW actually makes them money.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Age of Empires one, good lord it has not aged well

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Graphics wise, I'd have to say:

FF7 - christ. Makes me sick to my stomach just trying to move around.

Also Morrowind, and the original Sims. Sims badly. Aged very badly. It's bad. lol

 

[oppp7]

I played Black for a few days, went back to Soulsilver, and everything felt... awkward.

Also Mario 64's fingers look like white bricks.

 

[lacktheknack]

Wanna hear something contradictory? I can't play Oblivion anymore without overhauling the graphics - ALL of them - but can play Daggerfall without blinking.

 

[snark]

Compared to Starcraft 2, the original is painful. I know it had much more micro potential, but dear god the 12 unit per control group limit. And the terrible worker AI, and the god awful pathing.

I remembered Diddy Kong Racing as awesome, but when I played it again last year it was painfully bad.

Oh! And the original Jedi Knight game looks a lot worse than I remembered. Ahh false memories of childhood.

 

[Mosesj]

Super mario 2 for me. I played and thought 'how could this be a good game?' I played the first and liked it more

Same... But then I'm more savvy about looking for ways to skip worlds and that doesn't help much.

I found it humorous that when I visited my brother in march. I made a little bet with my brother that I could beat super mario on his nes before the game glitched (which was usually twenty minutes) so I was dedicated to finding those skip world pipes

 

[shintakie10]

Graphics wise, I'd have to say:

FF7 - christ. Makes me sick to my stomach just trying to move around.

Also Morrowind, and the original Sims. Sims badly. Aged very badly. It's bad. lol

Oh god the original Sims is practically unplayable if you've even touched 2, let alone 3. Its not even the graphics that are the turn off, its the fact that there are so many different types of interaction that are just...gone. I tried playin 1 the other day and the entire time I was like "Can I just...like...go someplace? I think my sim is tired of starin intently at the door just hopin a new person walks by."