Back when the Grim Fandango remake was released I remember a streamer I follow being very dissapointed. For a very long time she had called it her favourite game of all time and now that she was playing it again she couldn't help but realize how flawed it really was. There were pixel-hunts and a bunch of bad puzzles and the game flow was very rough, as were the controls.
This is somewhat common, actually. I don't subscribe to the idea that people only play old games because they are nostalgic, but I do think that often our understanding of the games is impaired by, well, not having played them in ages.
I fear most of my examples are very controversial so I think I'll refrain. Has this happened to you?
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There's many games like this but the one that always comes to mind when i saw a question like this asked is Mass Effect 2.
I'm not going to say that it doesn't have any good point's but i'm not a teenager anymore and this is really a game for them (macho bullshit)
Plus when i was playing this game again for the second time few years back i realised how dead the cities feel. Few visits to a town and you are hearing NPC's having same exact converstations. Really immersive guys.
And it's not like there's much to see in those said towns.
Definitely Grim Fandango! As soon as I saw the title of this thread, it was the first game that popped into my head.
I have the PC original version and loved it when it came out. I was so excited for the remaster, but when it finally came out and I bought it, I deleted it within days. The game is garbage.
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played grim fandango after the release and I disagree, but we all have our opionions. Don't see how you couldn't enjoy the characters and overall story. There is only one puzzle I find to be arbitrary and poorly designed to the point of head banging.
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There was another thread about this same topic recently too, I just can't find it atm.
They're definitely really close, but I do think there can be a distinction. Games that haven't aged well were usually cutting edge at the time but have archaic mechanics by today's standards. In contrast, there are games that, through hype or license popularity or just changing tastes or whatever, were amazing at the time but feel lackluster today even if the mechanics are fine.
Here's my first contribution here - Beast Wars: Transformers for PC and Playstation. I LOVED this game on PC when I was a kid because I was a huge fucking Beast Wars fan. The fan blinders were real, though, because playing it again now when I'm only a fan in the sense of nostalgia isn't nearly is rewarding. Even by mid to late 90s standards, the controls and mechanics are just okay. It's not a horrible game, but it's absurdly mediocre, and the change in that opinion is because my own tastes had changed, not because the game hasn't aged well; it wasn't that great when it was new, and had I not been a huge fan of the license, I'd have seen that.
True, I guess a game can still be considered "good" for its time, yet not age well. Whereas another can be thought of as "good" at some point, and then you realize it was just complete shit to begin with.
It's weird to think that when it first came out I played some of it and thought it was great
I'm playing it again now and everything about it is awful
Level design is cheap
Boss fights suck
Physics feel all wrong, which just kills it as a platform game
Some levels are too long
Sonic's jumps are slow and unresponsive, and I swear the little blue guy on the Sega Genesis could jump higher than this, fat, out of shape fuck that is so called "classic" Sonic in Generations
Too many stupid gimmicks that don't belong in a Sonic game
The challenge levels are stupid
I do still love that hilarious Shia Lebeouf commercial though
Mass Effect I'm playing through the trilogy on PS3 and I have to say it feels pretty meh . Could just be a bad port though sound effects seem a little off, controls feel a little stiff, and graphics are pretty horrible unless you really love the massive amount of film grain they used to cover up the so so textures and lack of AA.
Really I remember this being a pretty solid game on par with Kotor but it just isn't really grabbing me this time around. Going to push my self through it and hope that Mass Effect 2 & 3 are a little more polished.
Was planning to go through it again on PC and then move into 2 & 3, but it didn't seem to like my graphics card was running at a good frame rate maxed out but there was screen tearing even with vysnc on . So I decided I would go the PS3 route since I've been wanting to grab the trilogy boxset anyways.
. Could just be a bad port though sound effects seem a little off, controls feel a little stiff, and graphics are pretty horrible unless you really love the massive amount of film grain they used to cover up the so so textures and lack of AA.
