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Originally Posted by Roast Beef
Ah yes. The ever dreaded 3 pixel penis. 
Aside from that. Hack&Lube Your comment really is quite wrong from my standpoint. Games *can* age badly. There are some classics that stand the test of time. But in the end most games are eclipsed by newer games and the older games are just that. Old and outdated. |
I don't judge any games aside from the context of their original qualities and technology. You cannot put a 240 pixel resolution game on an HD monitor and claim it hasn't aged well. The same goes for the Starcraft argument put forth above. Sure it sucks that the resolution of old 2D games like SC and Baldur's Gate is so low (there are mods that fix this though if you are so inclined) but maybe you just need to be playing in the context of 1998 when they looked great on a 17" CRT monitor. You need to play old games on the proper hardware or have decent emulation that simulates that hardware. You also can't judge games compared to modern day iterations of the same themes. You can't play Techmo Bowl and claim that it sucks compared to Madden 11 because they are completely different things even though they are both football games. It makes no sense to me.
I'm in the middle of playing Zelda II, Link's Adventure for the very first time and yeah it's very primitive and there are tons of things I don't like about it - but those are things I would have not liked about it just as much in 1988 as I do now. Just pretend you are in the 80s and everything is good.
I cannot think of a single example of a game that was "great" but now sucks because it's old. There is absolutely no such thing in my mind and I'd like to hear why you guys think that might be. You simply are not playing a game in the proper context of mind or with the proper hardware/emulation setup.
I've got one of the most powerful single-GPU videocards right now and I can run all of the best games on my PC at many times greater graphics levels than PS3/Xbox but I still will boot up MAME and play 1981's Gorf and enjoy that much more than Crap of Duty or Metal of Yawner.
I cannot imagine playing a game out of context of their times and being disappointed because it somehow doesn't compare well to a modern game because it's apples and oranges.