Games that have aged horribly
- Thread starter unicron44
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Yes. I hadn't played Deus Ex until someone introduced it to me 2 months ago.Zechnophobe said:
I love the feeling of choice. Simple as that. Every level has multiple ways to progress. Each skill makes a difference.
The Resident Evil series untill RE4. I love 4 but everything that came before is too clunky to be enjoyed. I'd rather play the original Alone in the Dark.
Agreed. I played Oblivion first and went to Morrowind and loved Morrowind so much more.Fawcks said:
I'd have to say that GoldenEye and Perfect Dark have both aged exceptionally poorly. Not only are the maps muddy and hard to read visually, they also suffer from vastly inferior control schemes to any modern shooter. In general I think that N64 games age poorly because of the horrible controller design, but those two stick out to me because of how obsolete the dual joystick controller has made them.
A ton of games, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Max Payne. Because I have been playing it lately. I kind of want to say X-com because I feel like it could be improved miles, but every game similar to it has ended up worse in almost every conceivable way and I still enjoy playing the first two X-com games now and then.
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). And Half-Life 2 will never compare to Half-Life 1. HL2 was a shitty game that I only played through because I was hoping they would at least make the story interesting since obviously the gameplay wasn't going to magically go from shit to good. They didn't. But late episode one and episode two were actually pretty amazing story wise.
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). And Half-Life 2 will never compare to Half-Life 1. HL2 was a shitty game that I only played through because I was hoping they would at least make the story interesting since obviously the gameplay wasn't going to magically go from shit to good. They didn't. But late episode one and episode two were actually pretty amazing story wise.
Haha, i opened the thread to say GTA 3 cause i tried playing it a little while ago, along with vice city and san andreas. I loved the games but i just can't get back into them, the way you have to look around, the graphics themselves, its just shocking loldt61 said:
I would say Star Craft. I installed it a few months before SC2 release, my god... still playable, but it looked like shit...
I remember the fun I had with vice city. Tried to replay it recently. The aiming is so bad....Ixnay1111 said:
Final Fantasy VII and VIII. Always a problem with the dawn of real 3D & polygons in games. Age very poorly while the sprite-based games of the SNES like FFVI remain endearing and playable.
That and this might just be me but I look back at video and screens of Doom 3 and realize how much I've been spoiled by the advances of the Unreal engine since then. It looks good, sure, but the art style and incredibly plastic-feel to everything looks even more awkward now, along with the pitiful sound effects of all the weapons. I still like the game- I just can't pinpoint how the game wowed me in the first place.
That and this might just be me but I look back at video and screens of Doom 3 and realize how much I've been spoiled by the advances of the Unreal engine since then. It looks good, sure, but the art style and incredibly plastic-feel to everything looks even more awkward now, along with the pitiful sound effects of all the weapons. I still like the game- I just can't pinpoint how the game wowed me in the first place.
- Apr 1, 2009
- 16,551
- 5,133
- 118
- Gender
- Whatever, just wash your hands.
your mistake was playing duke nukem and not duke 3ddt61 said:
pretty much everything for the playstation 1 with a few exceptions for 2d games like castlevania and a few square games that looked surprisingly good on that system, like chrono cross and ff9
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.LordCastle said:
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.
The MediEvil series. I played the crap out of those games back in the day, it's unplayable today.
