Old games that didn't age well.

[Hookman]

Plenty of N64 games haven't aged well but thats probably because I'm not used to the terrible controller design. I recently replayed OoT and it just seemed much more primitive when compared to other recent games that have managed to improve on the control scheme.

 

[imagremlin]

Going by the following rules:

1) The game was considered good when it came first
2) Graphics are not accounted for

Then Sonic Adventure (the first one for DC) comes to mind. I still have it and remember how good it seemed back then; except for Big the Cat, that was crap even back in the day.

I've tried to replay it recently, and found that the mechanics just don't hold up, to the point its nearly unplayable.

Another good example is The Longest Journey -along with the entire point and click adventure genre I guess. Whilst I didn not play it in its time, I heard so many great things about it. Got it recently through GOG and found the snail pace and tons of exposition unbearable. I can see how I would have liked it back in the day, but today, it just doesn't work for me.

 

[Gindil]

Earthbound. Dare anyone to say that it was good enough to force Nintendo to bring the sequels and original here in the US...

Wow, is this just a sad attempt at being a troll? Earthbound ages just as well as any SNES RPG, and in most facets, it ages even better because it created systems that sucked a lot of the once acceptable grind out of RPGs. (Like the instant death for weaker/surprised mobs)

???

No. You read the history of Mother 1 and Mother 3, and Nintendo didn't bring those over. It had the scratch and sniff campaign for Mother 2(Earthbound) and I'm still bitter that I can't legally own a copy of Mother 3.

I know the history of the games, I've played all three as well. What I don't get is how they didn't age well, because financially Earthbound didn't do as well as hoped? That is the sole reason Mother 3 never came over here, as well as Mother Zero(the 1+2 combo game on GBA). It had everything to do with money, and nothing to do with being bad games.

Yeah, I probably should have said Mother 1. I can't play that one because of the random fighting system that is DAMN hard on you for taking more than two steps. The story may be great but I can't play past the first section because of it.

Mother 2 (Earthbound) was great along with Mother 3. The problem just comes that less people can play the game without understanding the cult [http://starmen.net/] around the games.

I kinda let my bitterness at the lack of financial success cloud my original intent on this topic... My bad on that one.