Older games that aged well. (strictly talking about graphics)

[Dangernick42]

Battlefront II still stands up for me, except for the Jedi, but I never use them anyway.

 

[EvilPicnic]

I think any game with a strong enough art style has the potential to still look good, graphically, but 2D games from the time when 3D graphics were just being introduced stand up best imo.

I'm playing through Baldur's Gate (again) at the moment. It's modded to hell (BGTutu and resolution increase from 640x480 to 1920x1200) and it looks absolutely beautiful. The combination of 2D sprites and matte painted backgrounds has aged incredibly well, and I would imagine the other Infinity engine games (PS:T and IWD) would look similarly great.

 

[KnightOfHearts]

There are quite a few ps2 games that have aged very well in my opinion.

Snake eater
Resident Evil 4
Devil May cry 3
Final fantasy 12
Kingdom hearts
Valkyrie Profile 2

For me; castlevania: symphony of the night and Valkyrie profile 1 still look very nice to me.

 

[CommanderKirov]

Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2...

And yep that's about it.

 

[AlexKasper]

Legend of Zelda Wind Waker's graphics aged pretty well.

 

[Tharwen]

I spent about 4 hours playing Dark Cloud yesterday, and it still looks fairly pretty. I keep finding new things that I just wouldn't expect in a 10-year-old game (simple dynamic shadows, water reflections, procedural generation), and the polygon count is quite high too.

 

[Restoshamankk]

Ninja Gaiden

 

[kiwi_poo]

I'm seriously the first one to mention Freelancer?

 

[Crazy]

Doom is still pretty sweet, along with Pong and Pac Man.

 

[Sylveria]

Most sprite based games age well. 3D, not so much.

 

[Xaio30]

Age of Wonders. Released in 1999 with an interface supporting resolutions of 1920×1080 and greater.
And the layer based graphics keeps on looking wonderful!

Spoiler: Screenshot

[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/826/ageofwonderspage4colony.png/]

 

[Sargonza]

Curse of Monkey Island

Well... it's a little fuzzy on today's bigger screens, but it still looks very very good

 

[Slash Dementia]

I wish more games could have aged as good as The Legend of Mana.

 

[wooty]

Legend of Zelda: Windwaker.

The basic cell shaded style will make it look good for years to come.

 

[redisforever]

Halo. Even by today's standards it looks pretty good. Its not fantastic, but its certainly not bad.

The game of the year edition looks better, because they addedsome new effects. I agree.

OT: Timesplitters 3. Good animations, the textures still look good, very nice environments...

 

[TitanAtlas]

Half Life 2... still is my favourite game... some time has passed, but the graphics, controls, story and sound is still considered better then the constant crap that gets released every year....

 

[Alexander Cunningham]

Populous the begining, The characters are 2d sprites but the world is 3D.
Or maybe its because I loved the game so much when I was 3?

 

[Vhite]

Cultures series always looked gorgeous.

Spoiler

Cultures 2 (2002)

 

[mirasiel]

It depends what you mean by aged well I suppose because I'd say Homeworld/HW2 and a lot of SNES/Megadrive games but only if you are able to jack up the resolution for modern monitors .

Also games like Planescape/Baldurs gate, but they have the same resolution problems.

Seriously try playing a game on a 28 inch monitor at a res of 800*600 or less....it burnssssss

 

[Giant Space Hamster]

Baldur's Gate, definitely and its one of those games you actually have to SPEND TIME ON rather than modern "done in a weekend" games.