Games that haven't aged well.

[barackopala]

fallout 1-2 feel a bit clunky sadly, a LOT of information is hidden from you, wished it wasn't that way :c

[Witchblade77]

unpopular opinion - prince of persia trilogy. those controls, dear god the controls, and that camera that you can NOT control... and why do I have to climb the ladder, flip back to the column and only then flip back to the ledge that the ladder was leaned against? this makes no sense!!!

another unpopular opinion. despite it graphically not aging well.. I still enjoy early gauntlet games, still have my copy for ps2 and play it every once in a while. far more so than the more recent Gauntlet reboot.

[Deleted]

Goldeneye and Uncharted 1-3 comes to mind.

Oh god the cover animations, A.I. and shooting feels so horrible in Uncharted 1-3.

Although many people love the old Uncharted games I felt like Uncharted 4 was much more to my taste. Much more mature. The pacing may have felt off compared to previous action-packed Uncharted games, but I really liked it.

[RampageBW1]

I would say that Morrowind with its graphical capability is heavily dated, other than that its a great game mechanically.

Stopped reading at "mechanically."

The ability to hit something shouldn't just be based on on a random number generator. There was no good reason for that, like at all. Thank Talos for mods that actually fix that atrocious mechanic.

Otherwise, I'd agree. Though, I never was able to beat it. Not because I hated the plot, but rather, I just lost interest. I should give the Morrowind Graphics Overhaul a shot now that I have better computer than a potato.

[Monkeymoo]

Final Fantasy X; the voice acting was revolutionary at the time!

I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you on this. the voice acting was a train wreck even back then and it always drove me crazy how laughably bad it all was. Porn has higher caliber actors :P

[Tech614]

I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you on this. the voice acting was a train wreck even back then and it always drove me crazy how laughably bad it all was. Porn has higher caliber actors :P

It was just pretty huge to have a game fully voice acted at the time. It and Shenmue both have laughably bad voice acting but it was at a time when every other rpg was just text based still.

Kind of like how anime dub back then was God Awful and has come a long way even if it's still bad some times. There are serious actors now actually willing to do games, back then you took what you got.

[Drakainen]

Ugh, I couldn't even play Goldeneye when it was new. Even for its time the game was awful compared to Doom2 or Quake which had both been out for quite a while. I can only imagine the appeal of Goldeneye was for people who didn't do PC gaming.

Thank you for saying it before me. Goldeneye was nothing revolutionary, it was trash compared to games like Quake/Quake 2, Unreal Tournament. While you people were playing your 4 player split screen tiny ass boxes real FPS players were easily playing 16+ people.

[Socialhealer]

Final Fantasy 7
Mario 64
Diablo 2

at least diablo 2 aged better than diablo 3 aayyy lmao.

diablo 3 looks like a game then huh rift rift rift rift rift rift rift rift rift rift rift rift, well fuck this im bored.

[KrazyK923]

Eh, I keep coming back to Diablo 3 even years after it's come out.

I've repeatedly tried to do the same with Diablo 2 (And I played it for hundreds upon hundreds, and probably even thousands, of hours when I was a tween), and I just can't. There are so many bad design decisions after having played games for a decade after its release. No actual currency, being just stuck with whatever you chose beyond 3-4 resets in the game (And no indication what is viable or not), ect.

It was great for its time but, as the thread says, it has aged horribly.

Regardless of how bad Diablo 3 was (Or, imo, how many magnitudes better Reaper of Souls improved upon it), at least its easy to come back to.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you on this. the voice acting was a train wreck even back then and it always drove me crazy how laughably bad it all was. Porn has higher caliber actors :P

Uh? That was my point. "But listening to it today..."

Back then, the very fact that we had voice acting altogether blinded many of us to the fact that it was terrible. We thought it was "okay" as opposed to horrible. It wasn't until the leaps in video game VA today that we look back and realize how terrible it was.

[MonsieuRoberts]

The PS2 era Need for Speed games haven't aged graciously in the looks department. Too bad, too; The newer ones just don't compare when it comes to customization.

[May90]

I can't think of a game which I wouldn't be able to play because it is too old: I don't care about graphics much, and if I were able to play a game 20 years ago, then I will be able to play it now too.

That said, Quake 1 hurts my eyes. But then, it hurt my eyes back in 90-s too. Never understood people's fascination with that game; I've always found it clunky, ugly and overly gritty, and vastly preferred Doom, Hexen and Heretic games at the time.

[minkage]

Ugh, I couldn't even play Goldeneye when it was new. Even for its time the game was awful compared to Doom2 or Quake which had both been out for quite a while. I can only imagine the appeal of Goldeneye was for people who didn't do PC gaming.

Goldeneye revolutionised FPS's

Up till that release everything was a heavy scifi/demonic themed clone and the FPS genre though popular was stagnating badly.

Goldeneye introduced
- Realistic weapons
- Sniper Rifle zoom (this is a huge one)
- Headshots and specific parts of the body that took more damage (so is this!)
- Penetrating rounds that shot through doors
- Stealth gameplay

Goldneye was a huge breath of fresh air at the time and helped invent alot of the FPS features that are now standard.

Goldeneye has however aged awfully!

[Vargulf the Happy Husky]

Goldeneye was revolutionary at the time, basically making multiplayer FPS games a thing. Play it now. It's choppy, the multiplayer is boring, and the single player game is glitchy as hell.

yep. i first noticed this when the game was current, i had the cheats so i was rolling through the level where you escape on an airplane except i had the rp 90 or whatever it was already...so id let like 15 russians pile up in the last hallway and just gun them all down...i look back now and wonder if i had issues, and i did. choppy as fuck, even with the n64 graphics booster pack thin. that was a huge issue.

[May90]

What? As much as I love Morrowind it was not a very solid game mechanically. It had so many bugs and a broken combat system.

I think the combat system was okay, aside from all the Cliff Racers. Bugs though, yup... Falling through the floor randomly, crashes, disappearing NPCs, leveling glitches and exploits - one of the buggiest RPGs I've ever played.

Still, the game plays very well even today, with graphical overhaul and community patches. Can't say the same about Oblivion, I think its combat system was absolutely atrocious.

[Dispraise]

aside from all the Cliff Racers

*shudders*


I made a mod where you help Jiub drive them all to extinction, and then he takes all the credit for it.

[Vineri]

Most of the N64 library aged badly, partly due to how new'ish 3D games were, without owning an expensive computer. The N64 controller feels clunky now, after using the GameCube one.

Mario 64 aged pretty good though, IMO. It never attempted for realistic graphics, which helps to slow aging.

[Super Kami Dende]

I think the combat system was okay, aside from all the Cliff Racers. Bugs though, yup... Falling through the floor randomly, crashes, disappearing NPCs, leveling glitches and exploits - one of the buggiest RPGs I've ever played.

Still, the game plays very well even today, with graphical overhaul and community patches. Can't say the same about Oblivion, I think its combat system was absolutely atrocious.

Something about standing face to face with someone and swinging my sword through them 100 times before landing a hit made me dislike the combat.

I would love a remake of Morrowind though with the Skyrim remaster engine.

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Mario 64 aged pretty good though, IMO. It never attempted for realistic graphics, which helps to slow aging.

I find this to be a large art of poor aging, aiming for high graphics on a low graphical system and disregarding gameplay.

An ugly game with good gameplay will still age well, a slightly less ugly game with bad gameplay will age horribly.

[XDurionX]

I couldn't play anything in 4:3 or with a resolution of 1024*768 or lower these days. And anything older than ~15 years probably has a terrible interface that will keep me from playing.

My expectations have grown with my age i guess.

[Tenjen]

I so want to play the Baldur's Gate games again. The plot, story and characterization are so GOOD but the UI and interface...The graphics are easy to get over but eesh ive been spoilt by all the convenient ui's games have these days

Playing some of the ps1 age syphon filter 1, etc games. Urgh. still smooth movement though.

The Breath of Fire games have aged gracefully. Though finding a safe emulator is an issue..