What game did you hold in super high regard as the pinnacle of gaming and an example of all that was good in video games before it all went to crap only to play it again through modern eyes and realize it wasn't that great?
For me it was probably Morrowind. I recently decided to give it another go because I was pretty young when I first played it and I had never actually completed the main story through to the end. I quickly learned why I never managed to. The quest journal was absolutely AWFUL! Granted I am not a fan of Skyrim's "just go to the stupid arrow mindless gamer" style but still in Morrowind I could never keep any of my quests straight because they all went into the same pool of text. I remembered in my youth never even starting the main quest until a couple builds in because the lead to the beginning got buried below the first town quests. One of the rare cases of Oblivion doing something best in TES. Also spell casting classes were near impossible because 1 they died like instantly and 2 Even your most basic spells didn't work half the time but still drained your magicka or mana or whatever. My biggest complaint about the latest entries into TES was how they threw out all the really cool and fun spell and enchantment types(Boots of Blinding Speed anyone?) but now even I have to admit the magic system was seriously flawed.
So anyway what games shattered their own nostalgia for you?
For me it was probably Morrowind. I recently decided to give it another go because I was pretty young when I first played it and I had never actually completed the main story through to the end. I quickly learned why I never managed to. The quest journal was absolutely AWFUL! Granted I am not a fan of Skyrim's "just go to the stupid arrow mindless gamer" style but still in Morrowind I could never keep any of my quests straight because they all went into the same pool of text. I remembered in my youth never even starting the main quest until a couple builds in because the lead to the beginning got buried below the first town quests. One of the rare cases of Oblivion doing something best in TES. Also spell casting classes were near impossible because 1 they died like instantly and 2 Even your most basic spells didn't work half the time but still drained your magicka or mana or whatever. My biggest complaint about the latest entries into TES was how they threw out all the really cool and fun spell and enchantment types(Boots of Blinding Speed anyone?) but now even I have to admit the magic system was seriously flawed.
So anyway what games shattered their own nostalgia for you?
