Kevlar Eater said:
American McGee's Alice. It was awesome in its heyday, but zoom from 2000 to today, and oh dear god, it looks horrible. Still better than Daikatana; then again, that game looked and played terribly in its era as well.
I had a pretty jaundiced eye toward it back when it came out, because it really isn't as colorful as it should have been. The new game looks exactly like it should.
hermes200 said:
Star Wars The Dark Forces... It just doesn't live up to my childhood memories.
In hindsight, the first one is a mess. Not only pixelated, but ugly, too. And the controls are awful on the PS1 and PC. I find the game virtually unplayable.
Ubermetalhed said:
I'm rather confused by all these posts.
I have no problem playing any game, I could say a game has aged badly graphically but it wouldn't ever put me off playing it again. Plus no game is unplayable, if you say it is then you have little patience. It usually takes a little while to adjust to the mechanics once more.
Also is everyone here so superficial? I personally love the painted environments in FFVII and the blocky characters are as charming as ever. Gameplay wise it is perfect.
Furthermore, I don't understand all the Deus Ex comments, the graphics are dated but its nothing game breaking and the gameplay is still great.
The thing is with all these old games, graphically they're poor by todays standards but in terms of gameplay, story and level design they are better than alot of the stuff at the moment. I think alot of people have gotten to used to the all style, little substance nature of most of the new generation of games.
Personally I've been recently replaying System Shock 2, Tombraider, Starwars Jedi Knight: Dark forces 2, FFVII etc. and had a great time with them all again.
Aging badly seems to mean one of two things. First is that the gameplay isn't nearly as good as you remember because subsequent games have vastly improved it. What was once innovative is now counter-intuitive. Or it's about graphics. The memory lies like a son of a ***** when it comes to graphics. Older games so often look much worse than you remember.
At one point, this was the most amazing looking game that had ever hit the shelves. Every review dripped of praise for just how beautiful it looked. It looked so good, they put in-game images on the cover.
A handful of years later, they totally topped themselves with these jaw-droppingly amazing graphics.
And years later, we load up those games and realize that they didn't look anywhere as good as we thought they did at the time. In the case of shooters, anything from about Duke Nukem on tends to play pretty well. Game controls were standardized fairly quickly and basic game play hasn't really changed. Wolfenstein 3D can be pretty annoying with its lack of strafing keys, which is at odds with today's WASD movement controls and games like Heretic and the original Dark Forces don't have mouselook, so there's an extra layer of annoyance when playing them... but mostly shooters have aged pretty well in terms of game play.
Graphics... most of our old favorites are probably seriously ugly in hindsight.
