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Doobie_wop said:

Some games are so well built they can stand the test of time, some aren't. Most of the N64 and Gamecube games I have are still very enjoyable, but outside of a handful of games (God of War, MGS3, Yu Gi Oh: Dual of the Roses etc) the PS1 and PS2 games don't stand up as well as they did all those years ago.

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The whole 5th generation, really.



 

 

 

 

 

Age of Empires

Final Fantasy VII

Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3



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Road Rash 64 graphics are pretty terrible now. They weren't even all that great back then. But the gameplay has still held up wonderfully and it's still a blast to play.

A lot of PS1 games look like crap today. As a comparison, a lot of 2D Saturn games look awesome just because they are sprite based.



Well I've had this problem with a few.  Original Super Smash Bros did not age well in my opinion.  Plays very slow compared to Melee and Brawl and just with a lack of options the other 2 has, it is hard to go back and play it.

Also a lot of 2005/2006 360 titles did not age well at all.  Gears 1, Dead Rising, Call of Duty 2, Lost Planet, and GR: AW to name a few.  Give or take, all 3 I wasn't too impressed with anyways, all of them have had more competent sequels or similar games released after them that really make them obsolete to me.

I'd say all the early RE games really aged terribly.  They weren't really amazing to begin with, but when you start getting into modern controls and modern camera controls they come off as somewhat of a B title nowadays.  Although the remake on the GC really helped it out, it is really hard to go back and play them without the advances we have had in the 3rd person action genre.

 

That's about all off the top of my head I can think of.  I mean some games age better than others usually based on simplicity.  I mean things like the Mario games are so simple that they really don't show age because of it.  While the games of old that try to be graphical powerhouses or make "innovations" then don't seem to age well because it is always been improved on.  But no need to improve on Mario because it is fine the way it is.  Then there are somethings like Ocarina of Time or even the first Halo game where it is done so well then and so far ahead of its time, that we are still waiting for everyone else to catch up.



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Super Mario Kart. It has horrible controls



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Many gave have aged badly, but to me The Wind Waker never gets old, I played the game this year and its cell shading style still looks incredible beautiful today. 



I guess I haven't found a game that I think aged badly yet. 

I still love to play PC games from the 80s, or fire up a Commodore 64 or ZX spectrum emulator every now and then to play some of the classics. A good game is a good game no matter when I play it, no matter what visuals they had at the time. 



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Kantor said:
Doobie_wop said:

Some games are so well built they can stand the test of time, some aren't. Most of the N64 and Gamecube games I have are still very enjoyable, but outside of a handful of games (God of War, MGS3, Yu Gi Oh: Dual of the Roses etc) the PS1 and PS2 games don't stand up as well as they did all those years ago.

Somebody else who likes Duelists of the Roses!

Friend request sent.

I lost my original copy and I've been searching for another one for like a year... I could never beat the white rose boss.

Thanks for the request.



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