Games that have aged horribly

[Yeager942]

I don't get why people are saying Deus Ex or Torment. I've played both games recently and both are truly fantastic. Granted, their graphics haven't aged well, but with their killer stories, excellent writing and solid gameplay (less with Torment, more with Deus Ex) they are excellent games. And I'm not even speaking with nostalgia googles.

 

[awesomeness0407]

just about every PSone era 3D game. First Tomb Raider in particular

 

[GamerFromJump]

FF7 (other than the mechanics) and Pokemon prior to DPPt.

Games that are the complete opposite of this: Super Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Chrono Trigger, 2D Sonic, 16-bit era Final Fantasy.

 

[Lagslayer]

Sonic adventure 1+2 were, I believe, the pinnacle of the sonic franchise. The controls were good, the game was engaging, and being able to move in 3 dimensions solved a lot of the problems with the 2d sonic games. The thing about the pinnacle, though, is that there is nowhere else to go but down...

I agree about a lot of the old FPSs though. I went back to play Goldeneye a few weeks ago; I could barely make anything out through the poor graphics, and aiming felt stiff (and to think I used to snipe everything out with a pistol).

 

[Buccura]

WarCraft. The very first one.

Though I think as a joke, as a Tournament Blizzard should pull it out as a surprise game.

 

[Aureliano]

I'd have to disagree with Planescape - I played it a couple of years ago, and think it aged fine. It's mostly a text adventure in an RPG costume anyway, and the writing holds up well. Halo, on the other hand...

I actually though about mentioning Planescape as aging badly, but the fact is that I just hate the game full stop. If you liked the game when it came out, every reason to like it is still valid. The story's still well-written, the graphics still do a decent enough job, and the voice actors are still top notch. The gameplay is also as broken, the UI as inappropriate (there are mods, so this has actually improved a bit), and the story as ham-fisted and religious (it's on the subject of religion, regardless of what religion it's discussing or espousing) as ever. So no, it's probably improved a bit with age if anything. Still hated it.

Haha, yeah, those are definitely valid concerns. I will never understand the decision to put tiny text boxes in a text-based game. It never really struck me as religious, though - is it the whole (spoilers) hell thing?

Um, there's (spoilers) an afterlife. Like, a pretty much guaranteed one. Which is not exactly a non-partisan choice in a story about the merits of suicide. That and I think you could debatably describe the entire game as 'the last temptation of Christ' DnD style.

 

[FuzzyRaccoon]

And any pre-DS pokemon game, when weighed up against the newer ones. The seemingly small changes to the user interface etc... have made a huge difference

This. Oh god, this. I couldn't agree more. Seriously, go play Black/White for a few hours, then play Red/Blue for a few hours.

It's like switching from a Jetsons car to the Flintstones.

Eh, I have to say that the Heonn region ones were nice though. I actually like them better than the new DS ones because they're not trying to force me to dress up stuff and search out my gyms in a haunted house or rollercoaster or some poop.

 

[Yopaz]

All 3D games from the Nintendo 64/PS1 era that tried to have realistic graphics. Banjo Kazzooie and Mario 64 look great. Golden Eye and GTA 3 look horrible.
Fantasy games got the benefit of using colours that don't exist and thus we will never compare it to real life. What we thought was awesome graphics because it was the most realistic ever now looks bad since we got graphics where things look better than in life (exaggerating there).

 

[bulldogftw]

Someone mentioned Deus Ex.

Someone is going to reinstall it now. It's the circle of life.

Spoiler

Yep

OT:Yeah GTA3 and Vice City but i still think San Andreas is the best

 

[blankedboy]

As science has shown us, Sequels kill franchises.

The only sequels that I have enjoyed are
Halo 2 and 3
Gears of War 2
Half Life 2, ep1, and ep2
Portal 2
L4D2
TF2
[hey, is it too obvious i'm a valve fanboy?]


all other sequels blew ass IMO, and have ruined their franchises

EDIT: OIAECTNH6UI2 2H3K
Sorry, misread the post. Ignore me.

 

[WolfEdge]

As science has shown us, Sequels kill franchises.

The only sequels that I have enjoyed are
Halo 2 and 3
Gears of War 2
Half Life 2, ep1, and ep2
Portal 2
L4D2
TF2
[hey, is it too obvious i'm a valve fanboy?]


all other sequels blew ass IMO, and have ruined their franchises

Y no luv 4 AC2?

Seriously, you want a textbook example of a game sequel fixing just about EVERY problem its predecessor had, just look at Assassin's Creed 2.

OT: The original Star Fox. It's like trying to play a slide-show.

 

[MercurySteam]

Half-Life 2.

It's just been done so many times and so much better.

 

[AyaReiko]

Doom.

Not any of the source ports, mind you. The original Dos Doom. A lot of features we take for granted now, like mouselook and strafing, were not present back then.

 

[Fai57]

God, I tried playing Deus Ex, with the new game coming out, and I just couldn't do it. All the little advances that FPS's have made since then, are gone. The interface conventions, design, ...and other things I can't even name, but know are missing. It was just too much. I can handle bad graphics, and have enjoyed games that have aged terribly, graphics-wise, but Deus Ex just didn't work for me.

Also, I laughed when it warned me about its "cutting edge" graphics.

 

[floppylobster]

Everything on PS1 except Parappa the Rapper.

 

[Snotnarok]

Tomb Raider and Resident Evil.

Gameplay wise RE is still fun and what not but any horror has long since gone.

You the master of unlocking should take this.

 

[badgersprite]

On that note: Fallout 1 and 2. The stories are great, the ideas are cool, but turn-based isometric RPGs make me contemplate death.

At the risk of being flamed, I'd have to agree. There's so much good in there, but actually playing the damn things was an exercise in self-flagellation.

Although, honestly, I probably wouldn't have had the issue I had with these games if I had played them at the time they came out. I've never been bothered by "aging" in any game I liked at the time, no matter how many years have passed. If I think something is broken in a game, I thought that way back when I first played it too.

 

[Exocet]

Diablo 1
Not only the graphics,obviously,but the control scheme.It feels so clunky and poorly designed when compared to newer Hack and Slash games.I tried getting into it,I really did,but after the Butcher destroyed me and I realised I had to "farm",I said no.No Diablo,you were a great game in your time,but I do not want to put up with the clunkiness.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Goldeneye 007.

You try playing it without contorting your hand like your busy pleasuring all three of a triple cunted hookers vaginas at once.

 

[MPXenon]

Final Fantasy 7

I loved this game when I had my PS1 as much as anyone, but my recent attempts to play it i've just found depressing. Its not the graphics or the sound, they have a retro charm which I'll always appreciate, but the dialogue is just terrible most of the time, to the point that its often quite funny (particuarly the retardedly emotionally distant cloud early on). Obviously the story is cliche as hell, but thats FF games for you, and part of the charm....what can't be overlooked is a 2 hour flashback sequence which only has one save point, makes very little sense, and gets made totally irrelevant by later plot....i'm looking at you Kalm.

Also, how seriously boneheadedly dense was I when I was 13.....I mean seriously *that thing that happens* (you know, the one spoiler that everyone actually knows by now, but I'm still going to be coy about on the off chance that someone doesn't) is telegraphed for like 3 hours before it happens!