Games that didn't age well.

Sweet, let's revive this topic from it's grave, yarrr. Now 2009, anyone have any new games that didn't age too well? The topic of PS2, Gamecube, Xbox can now kinda be talked about and I believe there are a good number of games for those systems that didn't age too well even though it hasn't been that long. One games to mind and that's Fable. I loved it for the original Xbox, it was one of my most played games but after playing Fable 2, I decided to go relive Fable 1. By technical standards it's still breath taking and it runs well on the older Xbox, at the time it blew me away but now I find that the textures of some characters, mostly the kids and some normal town folks are ..just..insanely ugly. Well some textures for heros and mainly your character are awesome and still hold up well today, including the Demon Gates/Doors and some lands look pretty good.

Another one that is pretty dated is Super Smash Bros Melee, don't get me wrong it's awesome but I just popped it in not too long ago and I strangely don't remember the graphics being so...not really bad, just simple. There is no detail in anything, or perhaps the correct way to word it, is that there is detail lacking compared to Brawl. Of course, these two games are still loads fun to play.

Command and Conquer: Renagade

haha oh wow, now that is a game I forgot.

doom 3 ages fairly bad imo

Battlefield 2.

I remember when we benchmarked our new DX9 cards with that game. Now the game looks like crap. Didn't age well at all.

Command and Conquer: Renagade

Gavin2232

All games age well to me. I don't care if the gameplay is "dated" or simplistic. I always judge the game based on the release year and what was out back then. I don't mind old graphics, I actually prefer them. Heck I still play some text adventures from the 80's. :oops: CGA, EGA, VGA... PC speaker, C64 SID, MIDI - whatever, I just love them all.

Yeah I don't mind graphics either, like I have said in my posts before, the game play can be the best thing ever but, if you enjoy old graphics or not, they do date after some point. Enjoying them or not in personal opinion. I'm glad though that people still enjoy old games like me. Doom 3 has dated fairly bad, I played it again not too long ago thanks to a Steam sale, I got the expansion, and I just don't remember the game having such boring textures. Battlefield 2 in my opinion never looked good art wise, but that's just opinion.

battlefield seriesArtosa

The frightening thing is that some games will cause you to stay up all night, or just suck you in and cause you to spend massive amounts of time playing them - but then a decade later you'll look at the game and will hardly be able to believe how insanely repetitive it is and how primitive the graphics are. It's shocking to you that years earlier you spent so much time and energy playing the stupid thing.

When I was in university I spent so much time playing Wayne Gretzky hockey that I almost failed a few courses because of it. I installed that game a couple of years ago on an older PC, and when I re-played it, just once, all I could do was wince. What a god awful game. And I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours playing it!

It makes me wonder about the present - am I doing the same thing now? And yet there's nothing I can do about it if I am, because gaming is the greatest hobby on the face of the planet. I suppose that it doesn't matter, really, whether or not a game ages well - the most important things is that it must fascinate you now, in the present. And based on that logic, Wayne Gretzky hockey, I suppose, is as relevant, for me, as GTA 4.

Quake 2 and Myth

I usually desperately try to find hi-res patches for games that ran on 640x480 or below. I don't mind playing older, dialogue-intensive games as long as the story is truely compelling. Strategy games hold up well, as well as 8 and 16 bit games. There was this awkward time in gaming, though, where games were transistioning from 16 bit to 32 bit. The technology boom made games outdated so fast, it was ridiculous. So games like Final Fantasy 7, Duke Nukem 3d, the Descent series, Wing Commander 3, Interstate 76, etc. didn't age gracefully. Heroes of Might and Magic, Planescape, Diablo, and some Lucas Arts point and clicks still have their appeal to me.

I'm surprised there are a lot of gamers who truly understand the difference between not aging well, and still being fun but looking like vomit. I agree with the posts about how you can play a game for hours and days and then a decade later, it's like a slap to the face. Sims 1, that one strikes to mind, along with countless others that I forget the names of now. Then you have those weird games that don't try to push graphical power on you, that actually as funny as it is, age very well. Like Evil Genius, I find that game was never truly WOW in your face but it oddly holds its own pretty good now.

Half life one, I could not play.robmonga2

Battlefield 2.

I remember when we benchmarked our new DX9 cards with that game. Now the game looks like crap. Didn't age well at all.

Wasdie

Command and Conquer: Renagade

Gavin2232

Medal of Honor.dunamistheou

The old medal of honor games are actually pretty good.

I was actually going to say the orignal WarCraft didn't age well. I played it for the first time in years about 6 months ago, and I absoutly had to struggle to get the controls down. You could only select 4 units at one time, and you can't do the click and drag, to select those units. I think you had to shift+click all of them, to get them into a group. Plus the resolution that the game is at, is almost unbearable.

And I know ill catch **** from some people, but I don't think that Doom I/II held up too well. The mouse-look mods you can get for the game help alot, but it just doesn't seem as exciting and fun as it was when I first played it.

ProudLarry

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The only time that i have ever thought "oh man these graphics are bad" is when i just recently decided to buy fallout and play through it for the first time. It was a bit jarring at first but i never played them back in day and i was expecting something more like bauldur's gate (whichhas hand drawn backgrounds and looks beautiful imo). Same thing happened when i first played Arcanum. The animations are not smooth and the characters run really fast. Also the maps are made from a tile set and are not very interesting. But I got used to both of them and now they look fine.

If i played the game when it came out I know what to expect andits still just as fun for me and looks fine.

On a side note i just beat quake 4 last night and i think that has the best graphics i have ever seen, better than oblivion ect. The large outdoor areas are not too flash but some of the indoor areas, especially later in the game, look amazing. I am yet to play Doom 3 but if it looks anything like this then i cant beleive that one of the eariler posters would say it looks bad. Shame on you A-S_FM :?

Hahaha, your master has returned, forgotten thread. Like last time, no point in starting a new thread for the same topic, so RISE..rise as time goes, things change. The games that didn't age well today, are not the same as yesterday.

One of the games that just hasn't ages well for me right now, is GTA4. Now, I don't know if this is souly because I just bought the PC version, and tried my friends PS3 version again but wow. I first played GTA4 on the ps3 and was simply blown away, going back to try it now..wow..harsh. I also tried the xbox 360 version..yikes. Though for the PC version that is still breath taking. I guess you can't say that the game it self didn't age well, but rather just the platforms it was on.

I'm going to be a renegade and say Half-Life 2. At the time it was amazing, but even the episodes feel dated. There's something about it that's just ... archaic. I think the pacing though is fantastic.

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FEAR - when that came out it was visually cutting edge. Looking at it now the environments are just lifeless. biggest_loser

Oh I agree with this too.

Pretty much anything from the N64 - PS1 era has aged poorly. Anyone who claim that they can plug in those consoles and play the games like they used to, is probably suffering from the bad side of nostalgia. I find that the Snes - Genesis games are the ones who has stood the tests of time the best.

Just noticed someone bumped an ancient thread.

EDIT BY AMNESIAC23: This thread was created in 2007...raised from the dead in 2009...and killed for good in 2011. The moral of this tragedy: please don't bump old topics.