Games not as good as you remember?

Games not as good as you remember?

Started replaying Return To Castle Wolfenstien, while it's still better than most shooters today and will gladly play it over The New Order, the enemies are huge bullet sponges and don't react to hits until they death animation, most of your arsenal on the higher difficult feels like a pea shooter.

The only one I haven't come to terms with is Goldeneye 007. You have to remember that this game was considered the best game of all time. Period. But time 5-10 years and forward, did something horrible to how you view the graphics.

The only answer is a revamp, and then it will be restored to its former glory. Maybe.

Soul Blade (PlayStation)

Tekken 1 and 2 (PlayStation/Arcade)

Civilization 1 (PC)

Star Fox Original (SNES)

Metroid (NES)

Goldeneye - As a kid I never noticed the terrible framerate, now I can barely play it with all the hiccups/slowdowns.

I hate to say it since most of my best childhood gaming memories feature Lucas Arts adventures, but when I recently revisited Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango, I was really disappointed - felt like a story you just click through. Compared to today's adventures (Tell Tales for example) it just felt way too linear.

Street Fighter II
Tekken
Tekken 2
Twisted Metal 4

Goldeneye flat out does not hold up. It's bad. It really is.

The visuals are just one part of that - the controls are bad too.

I also think early Infinity Engine games like Planescape do not hold up as well as we'd like to think. THANKFULLY the artistry is superb and the most important factors - the story and rpg mechancs - hold up great and carry the games forward as the classics that they are. But the cumbersome menu interfaces and uninspiring mouse-click combat don't hold up so well. Combat in Planescape feels chorelike, even in comparison to descendants like Pillars of Eternity.

Apparently the controls for Goldeneye can be made a lot better by using a gamecube controller (via an adapter for N64) with a custom key mapping, basically gives it dual-stick control. Takes 10 minutes to setup once you have the adapter. My life in gaming covered it in one of their recent-ish videos.

As far as the topic goes...sonic adventures 1&2. Remembered playing them for hours, now I can't really get into them. The floaty controls and certain character levels just take away what makes sonic fun for me.

Mario 64 aged extremely poorly as did the Donkey Kong Country games.

@movingtarget500: I feel the same about Day of the Tentacle, but I didn't feel that way during a recent play-through of Maniac Mansion. I've always felt as if Maniac Mansion is the better game, and I think it holds up rather well. Not linear at all, for one thing, and it has such good characters and the story is so interesting.

Oh goodness yes... I don't know why I used to like it, but Merchant Colony for DOS used to consume my soul and I LOVED it... tried to play it the other day and wanted to stab my eyes out... lol... for some games, I just don't get why I liked them!

Duke Nukem: Time to Kill

The controls are just god awful. Everything else holds up decently: visuals, level design, overall mechanics. But man those tank controls, I just felt like I was fighting against them the whole time just to get Duke to do what I wanted.

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Sonic Adventure. I used to love playing it but I guess I overlooked the glitches back then or just didn't know any better. God..daaaaamn that game is buggy as ****!! Alot of the fast level segments make Sonic run all over the place unless you follow the path exactly as it goes. It was Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 bad! Hell I think 06 played a little better in most aspects!

I can relate to that. I was re-playing my launch Goldeneye 007 N64 last month and boy, I don't remember this game looking bad as it is. The A.I is stupid, the enemies movements is slow then I remember, the graphics have aged horribly, and yeah, Goldeneye came out in 1997, so I can't fault it aged badly but I still love the game to this day and it made me discover Goldeneye movie.

Perfect Dark on the other hand.

A more recent example is dues ex human revolution, my first experience with the game was amazing and it was one my favorite games ever.

Attempts to replay end with me getting bored almost immediately.

There was a ps1 game called lucky Luke which was about a cowboy and it was so awesome when I was younger...after replaying it I was so disappointed! Man oh man, the graphics are odd, the controls are slow and jumpy and nothing is like I remembered!

Another one is Bushido blade on ps1! I loved it when I was a kid and even though it's aged terribly I thought it still gotta be fun to play......hell no, I was bored after 5 mins

@davillain-: it really is regrettable. It was the best game of all time for a while, until oot took the reigns of that title. And oot aged better (for instance, the 3DS revamp).

Are you guys playing it on a modern HDTV or an older CRT TV? Because that makes a huge difference to the graphics. Classic games look horrible when they get upscaled on a modern HDTV, which makes it look sharp and pixelated. Classic games look much better on an older CRT TV, which displays the games at native 240p resolution, with much smoother image quality and without pixelation.

I'd say mostly N64 classics like Rogue Squadron, Mario Kart 64, Perfect Dark, Super Smash Brothers, and F-Zero X. A lot of those series have much better and improved entries on the GameCube that still fun today.

Golden Eye (slow so slow now)

Mario Kart 64 (I Just don't like this at all compared to snes mario kart it just doesn't hold up at all)

Shadows of the Empire (just awful now)

Turok (game was like a boss when i was kid looks like shit now)

Diablo 1 (doesn't feel good at all compared to diablo 2)

Warcraft 1 (same just completely sucked compared to warcraft 2)

Star Fox SNES (I can't ever go back to this after the n64 star fox which i still think holds up well!)

Also I agree with Metroid (NES) I actually never liked metroid on NES only like super metroid!

And Bushido blade sucked even when it first came out but yeah its awful now.

I actually think a lot of games in that first 3D generation (Saturn, PlayStation, N64) have held up the worst of any generation. I can still play NES and Super NES games on a modern TV (the former look awesome on the RetroUSB AVS console) and they look and feel great. They've survived fairly well.

But going back and playing the early 3D stuff can be painful. I mean, recently, I was playing NiGHTS on Saturn...and as much as I loved that game, it just looks like a blurry mess. There are things I can do to improve the picture, I know, but these will only provide incremental/minor improvements.

Doom 2016 on my AMD FX-8350/4GB GTX 770 ran and moved much better than the original Doom 1993 on my AMD 80386DX-40/Paradise SVGA card.

id nailed it when it came to recapturing that classic feel. I'm finally happy to leave the older Dooms behind. Got a new squeeze. ;)

I have to agree with all of these except F-Zero X. That one has gotten better with age for me. Controls are nearly perfect and the rudimentary graphics running at 60 fps looks neat.

GX is better, but X is still great.

Those are true, the controls and frame rate are good but I was spoiled by playing GX first so I don't have that nostalgia factor and it wasn't as feature packed. GX is one of the five games I'd rate a 10/10 so I had pretty high standards for X.

@bowserjr123: Fair enough. To be clear, GX is my favorite game of all time.

Awesome, you have a great choice in games. GX, Mario 64, Xenoblade Chronicles, Metroid Prime, and Melee are all tied for my favorite. It's too hard to choose one since they are all top tier in their own genres.

Goldeneye 007 for N64. I can't believe that was ever considered playable.

Anything with a frame rate lower than 20.

Games I play after I rent or buy a new game for ps3 or 4 and am disappointed.

Lemmings 1991 Sega

Wipeout 1995 PS

Formula1 1996 PS

Legend of Dragoon 1999 PS This was a huge game for it's time

Final Fantasy 10 10-2 12 PS 12 was the best because of the equipment grid and it was also a very large world to play in. But FF10 was the hardest.

Suikoden 5 PS

All of the Myst games, some were on PC You have to like puzzles to do these games.

Tiger woods 08 PS

All of Tomb Raider for PS1 and PS2 Me and my wife.

Chrono Cross

Wild Arms 3

Star Ocean

Of course I like the turned based RPG's rather than the hack and slash combat system. It lets me get up and get something to drink or eat during a battle.

I would like to see a second game for Legends of Dragoon.

Mine would have to be Pac-Man World 2 for the original Xbox. I played it over at a friends house many years ago and thought it was a pretty good game. Played my copy recently and the platforming is pretty unbearable sometimes. The overall game sadly just didn't age well.

Driver wins this. Probably spent more time on it than any other PS1 game, but it's an absolute mess :D

Recently played Perfect Dark and F Zero X for the first time. Both are brilliant even today.