the first Halo, while it was amazing at the time no it is actually just painful to play (unless you are split-screening shit up, huge shame more games don't have that option)
Games That Aged Horribly
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Goldeneye and any shooter in PS1. The graphics are so butt-ugly. Oh, and the WWE Smackdown series. Last good one was Here Comes the Pain.
Oblivion started showing its age almost immediately after it was released. Also, the original fallouts just feel so goddamn clunky. They haven't aged well at all imo.
Shin Megami Tensei I and II. I tried playing the English patch of them and just...ugh...I mean they look kinda decent for games at that time, but they just don't play well. Automatically talking to invisible NPCs if you bump into them on the map, countless first person identical corridors, etc. etc.
They evolved into something great, but I just can't go back and try to maneuver with those. I just don't have the patience.
They evolved into something great, but I just can't go back and try to maneuver with those. I just don't have the patience.
Third-person shooters without precision aiming are just painful. I'm pretty sure Max payne 1 did have auto-aim, and that was about the only way it was playable on consoles. I know cover is a dirty word these days, but a shooter without that dynamic is basically a shooting gallery. The story is still good.Diablo2000 said:
call of duty (the infinity ward games)
a good example of this is the kill streaks
cod4: perfect
mw2: you got a 7 killstreak congrats you win the game with a nuke!
mw3: useless. no dont mention the abomination that is support! i still have flash backs! I never want to here the letters E,M or P again
or the maps
cod4: brilliance
mw2: average
mw3: cluster fuck
or the campaign
cod4:good
mw2:average
mw3: i want to gouge my eyes out with forks
a good example of this is the kill streaks
cod4: perfect
mw2: you got a 7 killstreak congrats you win the game with a nuke!
mw3: useless. no dont mention the abomination that is support! i still have flash backs! I never want to here the letters E,M or P again
or the maps
cod4: brilliance
mw2: average
mw3: cluster fuck
or the campaign
cod4:good
mw2:average
mw3: i want to gouge my eyes out with forks
I'd didn't think that Max Payne had clunky controls when I first played it a year ago. The Bullet time counter balanced whatever aiming difficulties I had.majora13 said:
Wolfenstein 3D will always hold a special place in my heart. That being said, it's nigh unplayable nowadays. Everything from the control scheme to the graphics to the level design is severely, but understandably, outdated.
I'm probably going to get some flack for this but.....
I can't stand playing Morrowind. It always starts out pretty good but ends when I can't get immersed in the game due to the downright hilarious animations.
Guard: Follow me prisoner, we will release you into Morrowind.
Me: Alright, lets do this.
*Guard proceeds to walk like he just shit himself.*
Half-Life 1 has aged pretty well in terms of visuals and gunplay, but the level design is TERRIBLE compared to Half-Life 2.
Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 are just not very engaging, or at least they haven't been since Fallout 3 and F:NV.
Fortunately, most RTS games like Empire Earth have aged pretty well.
Captcha: it will pass
Kind of makes sense in this context.
I can't stand playing Morrowind. It always starts out pretty good but ends when I can't get immersed in the game due to the downright hilarious animations.
Guard: Follow me prisoner, we will release you into Morrowind.
Me: Alright, lets do this.
*Guard proceeds to walk like he just shit himself.*
Half-Life 1 has aged pretty well in terms of visuals and gunplay, but the level design is TERRIBLE compared to Half-Life 2.
Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 are just not very engaging, or at least they haven't been since Fallout 3 and F:NV.
Fortunately, most RTS games like Empire Earth have aged pretty well.
Captcha: it will pass
Kind of makes sense in this context.
FO3...dated, REALLY? REALLY?!
Damn do I feel old now.
Um...IDK...
Maybe FF7/8?
FF7 was never terribly good, but it's aged even worse.
-The extended verse isn't helping.
FF8 is still a favorite of mine, but I've been having a hard time playing it as of late.
Maybe I've replayed it too much, or maybe my tastes have changed, but the game just feels like a chore to play anymore.
In-fact, MOST PS1 games don't seem to age very well for me.
Damn do I feel old now.
Um...IDK...
Maybe FF7/8?
FF7 was never terribly good, but it's aged even worse.
-The extended verse isn't helping.
FF8 is still a favorite of mine, but I've been having a hard time playing it as of late.
Maybe I've replayed it too much, or maybe my tastes have changed, but the game just feels like a chore to play anymore.
In-fact, MOST PS1 games don't seem to age very well for me.
Age isn't really a factor. Fallout 3 and Oblivion just happen to feel more like "a product of their time" than older but not as dated games do.Tanis said:
That game was hideous by the standards of when it first came out.Saviordd1 said:
I'm sorry JC, but you didn't age gracefully...
But it's aged quite well for me; not because of the graphics but because of the writing and especially the level design.
All of these hyper-linear games with breadcrumbs and idiot-lights on the trail only makes me pine more for a return to the sprawling inter-connected rooms and secret passages. It makes me appreciate more the effort that goes into the interaction between the player and the environment.
If Human Revolution got anything right about Deus Ex, it was that.
I seem to have a mutant imunity to disliking a game over outdated graphics. Unless the graphics actualy make it hard to tell whats going on, I can tolerate any ridiculous blocky animations.
In fact Ive been playing Duke Nukem 3D as of late...god that game is good. Shooters why cant you be like that again?
In fact Ive been playing Duke Nukem 3D as of late...god that game is good. Shooters why cant you be like that again?
Personally? Most N64/PS1 games have aged pretty bad. NES/SNES(and any other sprite based) games will always be more appealing(to me) than the attempts at 3D that those games did.
Yes it was gaming's first true attempt at 3D, but it made controls really awkward, especially for someone used to 2D controls. Though this was fixed towards the end on the PS1's life cycle since when the PS2 came out, most games of a similar type had a pretty similar control scheme.
Graphics wise, I think the PS2-era games have aged horribly, simply due to the fact that digital artists have gotten the hang on 3d models, but graphics technology has advanced so fast that early PS2 games by comparison look like garbage. PS1 games have the charm of "baby's first 3D model", but last gen is just... bad.
Of course there are some games that didn't age badly due to graphics because they used an art style instead of going for "realism". This is one of the reasons that I think Modern Warfare had aged worse than TF2, or perhaps that's just because I still enjoy TF2...
Yes it was gaming's first true attempt at 3D, but it made controls really awkward, especially for someone used to 2D controls. Though this was fixed towards the end on the PS1's life cycle since when the PS2 came out, most games of a similar type had a pretty similar control scheme.
Graphics wise, I think the PS2-era games have aged horribly, simply due to the fact that digital artists have gotten the hang on 3d models, but graphics technology has advanced so fast that early PS2 games by comparison look like garbage. PS1 games have the charm of "baby's first 3D model", but last gen is just... bad.
Of course there are some games that didn't age badly due to graphics because they used an art style instead of going for "realism". This is one of the reasons that I think Modern Warfare had aged worse than TF2, or perhaps that's just because I still enjoy TF2...
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.