Johnny Novgorod said:
Everything from the N64/PS1 era.
Might I add "almost everything on the NES" to that? Much as the ideas from the N64/PS1 were refined into excellent games on the PS2 and its compatriots, the early "wild west" development on the NES led to an awful lot of utter garbage, whereas by the SNES we had a much better idea of how to make a good game, and better tech to do it with.
I'm going to be lynched by some for this, but a game I'm replaying right now that doesn't hold up well is Mario 64. The controls suck, the camera sucks, Mario handles like a greased-up hog, levels are tiny (and obnoxiously surrounded by The Void), there's more backtracking than a Metroid game, the music is repetitive and not very good, and did I mention that the controls SUCK? There's barely any enemies in the levels and I think that's because they knew the player would be having a hard enough time getting used to 3D platforming. I've suffered death-by-controls far too many times in this replay.
Before the Nintendo Defenders come to kill me, I know it was an
important game. That doesn't make it a
good game.
Also, while I'm stabbing sacred cows, Ico is fucking shit. Ico has always been fucking shit. "Oooh, it's artsy" doesn't get around the problem that it's fucking shit. Camera-relative controls with a camera you don't control means that some jumps are rendered far too difficult, the controls are stiffer than a teenager at Hooters, the single-button combat is complete arse, the attempt to over-compensate for its PS1 graphics by slapping bloom on everything scarred my eyeballs, and Yorda is the worst female character in any video game ever. Utterly dreadful game lauded by people who want to look clever.
For that matter, Beyond Good and Evil is also crap, though it's not quite as insufferable as Ico. It was just boring to me. When the camera wasn't trying desperately to hurt me, the dull and predictable story, the irritating side characters and the monotonous combat were piss-weak.
Edit - oh, apparently I skipped a page and missed the Mario 64 discussion. It's still shit though. The N64 was generally a big bag of wank, TBH. It was my experience owning the let-down that was the N64 that made me later buy a PS2. And yes, before you all scream it at me, the Zelda games were good. Well done. The console was still garbage.