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Level1Death on 17 August 2011
Xxain said:
Level1Death said:
Wind Waker aged well.

None of the PSX Final Fantasies have aged well.


That's a lie Final Fantasy IX still looks great today.. 7&8 is a definite yes though

Comparing FF9 to 7 and 8 yes, it looks great. Otherwise no.



 

 

 

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Xxain on 17 August 2011
Level1Death said:
Xxain said:
Level1Death said:
Wind Waker aged well.

None of the PSX Final Fantasies have aged well.


That's a lie Final Fantasy IX still looks great today.. 7&8 is a definite yes though

Comparing FF9 to 7 and 8 yes, it looks great. Otherwise no.



No... your still wrong FF9 looks great for a PS1 in general .. Charater modeling, Detail, Animation, Sound, Art direction, CGI pretty much on aspect FF9 looks great.

Xxain on 17 August 2011
Carl2291 said:

Aged well - Suikoden 2

Best looking game of the PlayStation generation. Perfect 2D art style, can still be played today. Gameplay is great and the soundtrack's awesome too.

 

Looks fantastic on both big and small screens.

Aged bad...

Final Fantasy VII. Looks terrible on my TV and the characters are blocky as hell. Music is awesome, but it's just an eyesore now. Needs the Remake!



uuuh no.. when it comes to 2D art Valkryie Profile is stunning.. the best 2D art on Playstation. Suikoden 2 kinda looks like a SNES game



Boutros on 17 August 2011
Xxain said:
Boutros said:
Paper Mario aged amazingly.

FFVII is unplayable.


What the!? FF7 looks terrible now, but the mechanics are still great

The graphics are just that bad.



Carl on 17 August 2011
Xxain said:

uuuh no.. when it comes to 2D art Valkryie Profile is stunning.. the best 2D art on Playstation. Suikoden 2 kinda looks like a SNES game


Well, I disagree.



                            

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freebs2 on 17 August 2011
RolStoppable said:
Scoobes said:
OoT: agreed; Goldeneye; disagree. In multiplayer the pure gameplay still stands the test of time.

Tetris: aged well (bit of a cop out, I know) as the gameplay is timeless.

Final Fantasy VII: Aged badly; most games on PS1 have aged poorly but the sprites combined with poor translation and some dated/odd conventions (e.g. you should never set the default of overwrite saved game to "yes") mean this has dated very badly and is why many fans ask for a remake.

Agreed on both.

Super Mario Bros. 3: Aged well. Levels feel really short nowadays, but it's amazing how much variety and content was packed into this NES game.

Mario Kart 64: Aged terribly. It wasn't even that good to begin with, but nowadays it's flat out bad. Horribly unbalanced GP mode and multiplayer at a barely tolerable framerate with no music.

AAARGH blasphemy!! MK64 aged perfectly! Yes what you say it's true, on the tecnical side there were a few (maybe a bit more) problems and single player is horrible, but since when you played MK for single player. If you can get over the framerate, that game is the great in multiplayer, it had a longer lerning curve compared to the others (if you like it or not it's subjective), it is the most tactical one regarding weapons, it had the best battle mode (even tough even there it had a few problems). Most of all it is the only game I've (we) never got tired to play with, from 96 to 2011 it's still one of the game I play the most in multiplayer, and we had a lot of good alternatives. If that's aging badly... :D (sorry for the overreaction but I almost had an heart attack!)

-Unreal Tournament aged very well, many online FPS players were too busy playing Halo when the real deal was already out in 99.

-Killer Instinct has not aged very well, I remeber I liked it a lot when used to play it on Snes, but recently I had the chance to play it again but It wasn't so much appealing anymore, after games so well defined and balanced like Tekken, Virtua Fighter or Soulcalibur it almost felt trivial.

 



Chrizum on 17 August 2011

Heroes of Might and Magic III aged incredibly well. Still the best turn-based strategy game around.

All 3D Grand Theft Auto's didn't age well at all.



homer on 17 August 2011

Chrono Trigger has aged amazingly. So has any of the 2d mario games.
I don't think DKC has aged as well, but they are still great. I thiunk MGS, Goldeneye, Mariokart 64, and Prince of Persia sands of time. has aged awefully though.
Makes me think I used to like the graphics and not the game itself at the time...



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MARCUSDJACKSON on 17 August 2011

ff 10 has aged perfectly. Killer Instinct gold has aged well.



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Rath on 17 August 2011

Aged well: Wolfenstein 3D

Pretty much the start of the first person shooters, still very fun to play partially because of the now clunky controls. Who needs to be able to look up or down? Plus - Mecha-Hitler is awesome.

 

Didn't age well:

Black and White

 

Time has really magnified the flaws in this game. Was fun when it came out (partially because it was very innovative) but some parts of it are borderline broken.