Pretty much the entire PlayStation catalog. A few exceptions like... um... Parappa the Rapper and ah... anyway, it's aged terribly.
Games That Aged Horribly
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Yeah, bit of a tangent on part, but here goes. We all know why people keep retro homages to various old NES, SNES and Atari style graphics right? Partially the nostalgia factor, but also because until the early to mid 00s, you couldn't play most 3d games for a good hour or so without your eyeballs screaming O DEAR GOD, STOP. on that note, mario party, both in the fact that the old game hasn't aged anywhere near gracefully. and the fact that the games have only gotten worse with time
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Goldeneye. How the hell did people play console shooters before twin stick controllers? I just don't even understand how the aiming works in this game anymore, and I used to play it all the time back in the day.
Fallout 3 dated.. lol?
Umm Silent Hill 2 hasn't aged too well but the creep factor is still there.
Umm Silent Hill 2 hasn't aged too well but the creep factor is still there.
I'm prepared to forgive Deus Ex because I never played it for the graphics to begin with, it has a great story and the missions can be completed using a number of different solutions. I replayed it only a year ago or so and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Racing games, sports games, FPS that don't have a story, these are the kind that to me age poorly. Other games have done exactly what they did, but with shinier stuff.
Racing games, sports games, FPS that don't have a story, these are the kind that to me age poorly. Other games have done exactly what they did, but with shinier stuff.
Not so much a game, but ever tried using older consoles on 40" + lcd screens? Dear lord is it bad... For that matter most games.
Though I suspect it has less to do with the game and more to do with us, the gamers expecting every new game to have more and more content and better graphics.
Though I suspect it has less to do with the game and more to do with us, the gamers expecting every new game to have more and more content and better graphics.
The original Persona game. I want to like you, but why do you have to be so fucking boring?
Mario 64 is a game I'm not sure if it has aged poorly or if I just never liked it at the time because I never played it much even when it was new and taking the gaming world by storm, Spyro's aged way better these days.
And basically any NES-era JRPG sans MOTHER 1 and Sweet Home, they've all aged really badly.
Mario 64 is a game I'm not sure if it has aged poorly or if I just never liked it at the time because I never played it much even when it was new and taking the gaming world by storm, Spyro's aged way better these days.
And basically any NES-era JRPG sans MOTHER 1 and Sweet Home, they've all aged really badly.
Definitely Deus Ex, even at the time of release it was a butt ugly game, a good one nonetheless though
but more sadly for me, majoras mask for N64. Was wowed by the sheer brillance of it when i was young lad, but now... everybodys so...so...pointy.
makes me hate to think what Ocarina of time looks like now on N64
but more sadly for me, majoras mask for N64. Was wowed by the sheer brillance of it when i was young lad, but now... everybodys so...so...pointy.
makes me hate to think what Ocarina of time looks like now on N64
Most of the games made for the PS1, N64 and Dreamcast have aged so badly visually that almost none of them deserve any spots on any informative list of the best games of all time, Ditto for the vast majority of Atari 2600 games and most early NES titles. Up until the debut of the 360 and PS3, there were almost no great looking fully 3d games. Some exceptions (Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey, Spyro 2 Ripto's Rage, Half Life 2, Halo: Combat Evolved) but mostly bad visuals.
Halo 1 still controls and plays like a dream, but Halo 2 dropped the ball there.
If anything, The original Medal Of Honor is the biggest victim of nostalgia. It needs a remaster with better visuals and controls to be worthy of one of the greatest soundtracks ever made.
Halo 1 still controls and plays like a dream, but Halo 2 dropped the ball there.
If anything, The original Medal Of Honor is the biggest victim of nostalgia. It needs a remaster with better visuals and controls to be worthy of one of the greatest soundtracks ever made.
Wait, nostalgia? For Fallout 3? The game came out 4 years ago. Sure there was a game in the series after it, but that's like playing Black Ops for nostalgia purposes. A game isn't old just because it's not the latest installment.
Aaaand if you'd read my comments since the OP, you'd know that a game feeling "dated" has much less to do with how much time has passed since its release than it does with how deliberate and coherent its style is.Jitters Caffeine said:
A game that's made to look realistic will age faster than a game released at exactly the same time, but made to look cartoony instead, simply because the standards for realism will have improved drastically within 6 months, but there is (in large part) no such thing as standards for something very stylized.
It's why WoW is beautiful despite being playable on pre-internet computers and having low-polygon models, while EQ2 and LOTRO and all them "realistic" looking things that came out later just look brown and gray and boring.
edit: I never used the word nostalgia to refer to Fallout 3. I just assumed that most of the examples people would list would fall into the rose-tinted-glasses category. And... it looks like I was right.
Heh. Fallout 3 was always ugly and brown and this was commented on everywhere immediately upon release. The OP's complaints are not so much a product of age, but how it always was.pure.Wasted said:
Arguably the scenery is the least bad visual aspect of FO3 too, if you don't mind muted colors.
Likewise for Oblivion, the heads and animations have always been very bad. Only the scenery looked good at the time. The rest was already started out very poor compared to games released years earlier, such as Half-life 2.
Clumsy controls are maybe an excuse for 8-bit generation games, but not for any first person game released post Quake.
Seems like the TS is seeing for the first time what the game realy is.
I agree, which is why I'm always perplexed by people who say they would rather play Goldeneye than Call of Duty or Halo, I know they're just trying to seem cool and "hardcore" but still. I mean it's like, for PC shooters, having had mouse and keyboard controls, would you go back to playing shooters that had JUST arrow keys?Dirty Hipsters said:
Any PC FPS made before the advent of mouse-look. I can't stand to play a keyboard-only FPS for more than about 30 minutes.
Also, I don't care too much about visuals usually (I spend more time playing old games than new ones), but pretty much every 3D game from the N64/PS1 era looks like total crap today. To the point where it can be hard on your eyes on a big TV.
Also, I don't care too much about visuals usually (I spend more time playing old games than new ones), but pretty much every 3D game from the N64/PS1 era looks like total crap today. To the point where it can be hard on your eyes on a big TV.
Deus Ex, I can see why people liked it when it was out, however the mechanics are very very clunky and slow and I just couldn't get around that. Sitting there for like a full minute waiting for my crosshair to tighten.
Couldn't even stunrod a guy in the back, he just turned around ignoring he shocks I put into his damned spine then shot me to death. Despite this working on the last 2 guys. The game just randomly decides to if it'll work.
Couldn't even stunrod a guy in the back, he just turned around ignoring he shocks I put into his damned spine then shot me to death. Despite this working on the last 2 guys. The game just randomly decides to if it'll work.
Mortal Kombat games.
I never liked aesthetic when they first came out. An aesthetic that's sadly become the norm of the modern gaming.
They were doing the whole "realistic" thing back in the 16-Bit era. It looked ugly then, but it looks incredibly campy right now. At least a game like Cho Aniki is ironic and trying to be campy. Heck, even Micheal Jordan: Chaos in Windy City is less campy than Mortal Kombat.
Now that's sad. Because as far as I'm aware, Mortal Kombat actually somehow took itself more seriously than Cho Aniki.
You've got to give Mortal Kombat credit for one thing, though. They had one of the most awesome electronic tracks to ever grace the video gaming industry.
I never liked aesthetic when they first came out. An aesthetic that's sadly become the norm of the modern gaming.
They were doing the whole "realistic" thing back in the 16-Bit era. It looked ugly then, but it looks incredibly campy right now. At least a game like Cho Aniki is ironic and trying to be campy. Heck, even Micheal Jordan: Chaos in Windy City is less campy than Mortal Kombat.
Now that's sad. Because as far as I'm aware, Mortal Kombat actually somehow took itself more seriously than Cho Aniki.
You've got to give Mortal Kombat credit for one thing, though. They had one of the most awesome electronic tracks to ever grace the video gaming industry.
Anachronox :'(
It's a marvellous, wonderful game but it's graphics...
http://www.gram.pl/upl/artykul/20080926175249.jpg
Nooooooo. :\
It's a marvellous, wonderful game but it's graphics...
http://www.gram.pl/upl/artykul/20080926175249.jpg
Nooooooo. :\