Games that haven't aged well

Malice

I played the original Wing Commander recently for the first time in years and I came away quite disappointed. Time has certainly not been kind to the rotated/scaled bitmap graphics and the controls were far more sluggish that I remember. I guess the bar for space-based gaming wasn't quite as high in 1990 (no X-Wing, no TIE Fighter, no Freespace) .

yoyo

FEAR. I remember when it came out and the graphics were quite good (although repetitive ), well looking at FEAR now or even the expansions and Condemned 2 show this engine really doesnt cut it too much these days in the graphics dept.

Nick

Sarky

I loved FEAR when it first came out, scared the pants off me. I played through a second time recently and hated it, all the surprises are gone and what's left is just a fairly decent shooter with sometimes cunning AI.

Goodshape

chin_grin wrote: »

The original DooM series. Fantastic games, but now dated compared to the moist-trouser inducing Doom 3

Blasphemy. I'd sooner play Doom 1/2 today than I would Doom3.

And Quake2 multiplayer is still a fine game.

Pablo Sanchez

Streets of Rage

Maximilian

Connect 2.

Sequels were a bit better, I'll admit.

TinCool

Way of the Exploding Fist on the Commodore 64.

MooseJam

carmageddon really looks crap now, don't know how i ever played it at all

GhostInTheRuins

Because it's a great game maybe?

Epic Tissue

Destruction Derby

MooseJam

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Because it's a great game maybe?

yea it's a great game alright, just a bit surprised by how it looks, I remember it being good graphically though i suppose it was in it's day, will have to dig it out and give it a go, probably won't work on vista though

Fnz

The Twisted Metal games on the PSone. Not as much fun as I remember.

Sephiroth_dude

grandia on the ps1 has'nt aged very well :-/,pity too,tis such a great game .

Retr0gamer

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

grandia on the ps1 has'nt aged very well :-/,pity too,tis such a great game .

Still looks gorgeous on the saturn, all the textures and 2D sprites are much higher res.

Glydeside white

The age of empire games, on the p.c, they look awful now, compared to when i used to play them for hours on end!! the new ones are ****e, give me rise of nations anyday!

Zillah

IceHawk wrote: »

Half Life. After playing HL2 I went back for a replay, but my god, it looks crap. Can't wait for Black Mesa: Source
People are going to kill me for this, but Final Fantasy 7 and 8 look terrible after playing 10 and 12

I strongly disagree, I think Half Life has aged extremely well.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yeah, original half life still looks and plays excellent.

well it plays excellent anyway, excellent might be a bit much after having played crysis or cod4

iPoker

not really into games, but would love to play "rockstar ate my hamster"...anyone remember?

Fnz

iPoker wrote: »

not really into games, but would love to play "rockstar ate my hamster"...anyone remember?

... but you are into visting forums dedicated to to stuff you're not into.... that makes my feet happy!

Retr0gamer

Still think Half-Life 1 looks quite nice. Yes the engine has dated incredibly badly but it really did create a fantastic world around it that looked lived in. It also did it in a unique setting unlike most other FPS games that are still using the old sci-fi/WW2/rmodern cliche settings.

rferguson

Pablo Sanchez wrote: »

Streets of Rage

I was just thinking the same thing!!!

oh and "golden axe "for the megadrive

Crowman

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Still looks gorgeous on the saturn, all the textures and 2D sprites are much higher res.

Yeah it does, but Grandia on the Saturn is all Japanese text!
(Thank God for Gamefaq.com)

ballybay_eh

rferguson wrote: »

oh and "golden axe "for the megadrive

Yeah, definitely. Played it a while back. Awful. I still think Streets of Rage isn't too bad though. Excellent music.

Like the intro: http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sega/genesis/sor1.mid

Baldur's Gate 1 has aged very poorly I think. Went to play it recently. Not a great experience. Although its more a case of a sequel improving on the original in almost every aspect. That makes it look very dated.

Also, its suffers from an early case of San Andreas Syndrome - Lots of open space but not a whole lot of content.

Spunge

Neverwinter nights.
I remember seeing vids of it when i was playing baldurs gate etc and thought wow BG in actual 3D, but now BG looks better.

jesus_thats_gre

Double Dragon..

Jack Sheehan

House of the Dead series, even worse now that they have been released for the Wii.

chris d

I wonder how many hours i spent waiting for spectrum games to load when i was younger... www.zxspectrum.net Most of those have wilted a bit.

it's weird having one button for 'fire'.

S.I.R

hmmm tokyo extreme racer serise on dreamcast was and still is the bees-knees, as is the later versions on ps2 ( kiado racer )


gta III never actually got old for me and since my new graphics card the entire hl/ counter striek serise is Re-born.

silvine

The original Doom has aged badly. It's a a blurry blood mess now and you can't look up or down! Also Crysis is looking a little rough around the edges

Retr0gamer

silvine wrote: »

The original Doom has aged badly. It's a a blurry blood mess now and you can't look up or down!

It might look crap but it's still an excellent game to play especially if you use the mods that allow you to look up and down and use mouse look controls.