Games that have aged terribly.

[Space Spoons]

Final Fight. I realized this when giving Final Fight: Double Impact a try over at a friend's house. The side-scrolling beat-em-up is a product of the late 80's/early 90's, and it shows. It's an archaic, frustrating system designed with arcade play in mind, built from the ground up to suck quarters from players who hadn't taken the time to memorize, quite literally, every screen in the game.

This isn't to say the genre can't be well done on occasion (Castle Crashers comes to mind), but the one that started it all, Final Fight, is the absolute worst.

 

[The Madman]

The internet shoved Deus Ex down my throat when I got Steam. DEAR GOD, the concepts are awesome. Sadly, the execution hasn't aged well. But it's aged better than Perfect Dark. I can't see why you play THAT...THAT...abomination...every day.

I have to agree. Deus Ex did many things right, hell, I can't think of a single game released since that allows the player to manipulate the story and events within the game to such a degree Deus Ex lets you. I remember chatting with a friend about it awhile back and he asked what I did at a certain scene, I told my story then asked what he did, he told me, and my response was 'Wait, you can do that? Holy shit!' even though I've played through the game twice before.

Pretty damn incredible. Unfortunately the tech surrounding those ideas is pretty sketchy and the voice acting... so bad... probably some of the worst voice acting I've ever heard in a game. Ever!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

my favorite numbered FF is 5.

You need say no more. EVER. You are officially on the "Awesome People" list.

I adore that job system...And any game with something remotely similar.

 

[GreatVladmir]

Halo: Combat Evolved, it has aged terribly for me, the AI is laughtable by todays standards, it lacks variety in weapons (you only need that bloody pistol), the graphics are so badly showing there age, they are driving around at 15mph in a 30 zone and most of all, it feels slow, clunky, sticky and it doesn't help the vehicles control like riding the creature from the black lagoon after letting him drink 5 bottles of Famous Grouse.

 

[nick n stuff]

Rayman. the back of the box actually boasts about having 6000 colours.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

my favorite numbered FF is 5.

You need say no more. EVER. You are officially on the "Awesome People" list.

I adore that job system...And any game with something remotely similar.

I love that the Tactics series is basically Fire Emblem (my favorite series) with a Job System.

STOP BEING SO AWESOME. Seriously. STOP THIS.

God damn it, what's next? You gonna give FF X-2 the credit it deserves for it's job system, too?

 

[rayskyrift]

Tony Hawk 1 and 2 have not aged well for me. But that may be in large part because I keep trying to do reverts and crazy flatground tricks.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

my favorite numbered FF is 5.

You need say no more. EVER. You are officially on the "Awesome People" list.

I adore that job system...And any game with something remotely similar.

I love that the Tactics series is basically Fire Emblem (my favorite series) with a Job System.

STOP BEING SO AWESOME. Seriously. STOP THIS.

God damn it, what's next? You gonna give FF X-2 the credit it deserves for it's job system, too?

I haven't played X or X-2. I'm told that X-2 is just TITS TITS JOB SYSTEM TERRIBLE STORY. Given what I've actually read of the story and mechanics, I'm willing to believe that.

You aren't far off. It actually has a nearly perfectly tuned battle system. A terrible story. Not that big on tits, though.

 

[Xaryn Mar]

Final Fantasy VII.

From a merely graphical perspective, it looks awful by today's standards. However, the soundtrack, like Gun's, is quite nice.

Don't forget the translation, I think that's the worst part.

I'd have to say Outcast, because it won't actually run properly on modern computers. That's the problem with running on an engine that relies only on the processing power of computers of the late nineties. It's a shame, because that game is fucking awesome.

Also the first two Elder Scrolls games.

You can always run it in DOSbox unless it requires win 95 or newer.

 

[Mr. In-between]

Final Fantasy VII. None of that Advent Children shit was necessary at all and only helped the game age worse than if they had just left it alone.

 

[Klarinette]

All of my favourite games are awful by today's standards, even when you consider that they're mostly old school platform adventure games.

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

CNC:Tiberian Sun.Now damn this game aged horribly for me even with the graphics mods.Most of the missions seem slow and annoying...I just ruined the wonderful memories by playing it recently.The movies are still enjoyable and worth playing just for that.The controls are shit tho most deffinately although I could just be spoiled with other more recent cncs.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Deus Ex has aged terribly.

 

[dommyuk]

Don't forget the translation, I think that's the worst part.

I'd have to say Outcast, because it won't actually run properly on modern computers. That's the problem with running on an engine that relies only on the processing power of computers of the late nineties. It's a shame, because that game is fucking awesome.

Also the first two Elder Scrolls games.

Outcast was just released on GoG, works perfectly on new computers.

Thanks for telling me that, though I'm still sceptical about it. I'll do a bit of research into that.

CNC:Tiberian Sun.Now damn this game aged horribly for me even with the graphics mods.Most of the missions seem slow and annoying...I just ruined the wonderful memories by playing it recently.The movies are still enjoyable and worth playing just for that.The controls are shit tho most deffinately although I could just be spoiled with other more recent cncs.

Are they? I played through it recently and found it fine. Did you turn the speed up?

You can always run it in DOSbox unless it requires win 95 or newer.

Yes, but I meant aged in that they're quite buggy and have very awkward interfaces. I can't Arena to run at the proper speed either.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

Almost any game from the polygon 3D era (~PS1) era. Horrible to look at at the time, and even worse now that we're no longer impressed by the fact they're using 3D graphics.

Such as driver 1, or medal of honor underground.

Medal of honor in general.

 

[Battenbergcake]

Halo and Halo 2.
They look hideous.

Personally i have somewhat of an affinity for old style pc games, mainly the sprite based ones and thing like Unreal tournament, it looks like arse but it's a lumpy nostalgic arse rought with fond memories.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Weirdly enough, I still play Perfect Dark every single day. Perhaps it's just nostalgia, but fuck it, it's still fun! Timesplitters 2 is better though.

However, Deus Ex, that which so astounded me back in 2000, has aged about as well as cream does if you leave it in the sun. The AI is jaw droppingly terrible. They're all freaking myopic! The graphics, inconsequential as they may be, have not aged well, the gunplay is horrible, the acting has only got worse with age. It's just bad now, which is depressing, because back when it came out, it was revolutionary. I suppose everyone just copied its great ideas, and did it better. Such is life.

If only there was a good emulator of the original Perfect Dark...I do agree with you on Timesplitters though. Those games are just Goldeneye/Perfect Dark on crack. And I love 'em.

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

CNC:Tiberian Sun.Now damn this game aged horribly for me even with the graphics mods.Most of the missions seem slow and annoying...I just ruined the wonderful memories by playing it recently.The movies are still enjoyable and worth playing just for that.The controls are shit tho most deffinately although I could just be spoiled with other more recent cncs.

Are they? I played through it recently and found it fine. Did you turn the speed up?

I did of course...But the missions bottle down to frequent saving and grinding away your opponent with the same units.I dunno I just had that warm fuzzy feeling of an epic game and it's not there now because I'm spoiled with modern CNCs.

 

[daftpunk95]

Megaman Legends...


yeah...

 

[jubosu]

First off, I still to this day enjoy gun.

Anyway, The original tomb raider and that game with david bowie in it whos name escapes me at this moment in time.