What are some badly-aged games I should stay away from?

[Incarnate]

My rig is painfully average and I kind of hate new games anyway so I've been playing retro games lately. The thing I noticed is that some of the gems from yesterday are still quite playable, and others don't hold up at all.

Case in point: GTA San Andreas. Around the time this game came out in late 2004 you had HL 2, Thief 3, Doom 3, F.E.A.R., and Far Cry come out and they all pushed the medium forward in interesting ways either by introducing dynamic lighting, ragdoll physics, drastically improved water/enviromental/particle effects, or advanced AI. Even on vanilla they still look fairly decent today.

And then you had San Andreas, which ran on an ancient engine, has lousy canned death animations, horrendous physics (you can push semis around by jogging into them), and just generally looks ugly and pixelated. All it has to offer is a big, empty map. I know it's blashpemous to say this, but that game was outdated a month after it came out.

[Conejo]

Автор сообщения: Conflictions Ⓐ

All those things are true for Gta San Andreas. But no one cared about that stuff back then. Plus, the story and characters are great. I've never played a Grand Theft Auto game that didn't have a good story.

it did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6g0mPo-uJM

[Incarnate]

Автор сообщения: brandon

Автор сообщения: Incarnate

Not looking for shi**y games (per se) just wondering if there's any games I should stay away from that have dated poorly from a tech perspective. I wanted to play System Shock 2, but the horrible graphics and animations seem a bit much to tolerate. The first two Thief games have the same problem, amazing gameplay but in a lot of long, featureless corridors with laughable animations.

Off the top of my head i'd only have to say Half Life and Counter Strike 1.6.

Maybe it's the nostalgia talking but the combat and interactivity still seem fresh. 20 years later games are still ripping it off.

[Factorio]

anything made past last week

[Incarnate]

Автор сообщения: Factorio

anything made past last week

That's only really true for Steam greenlight games.

[yesskillch]

Автор сообщения: Conflictions Ⓐ

All those things are true for Gta San Andreas. But no one cared about that stuff back then. Plus, the story and characters are great. I've never played a Grand Theft Auto game that didn't have a good story.

Very true.

GTA SA was just fun to ♥♥♥♥ around in, I spent tons of hours doing it. Messing around with cheats, just driving/flying around the city listening to the radio. Hell I never even completed the main story because I spent too much time messing around in the game.

then again, my taste wasn't exactly "linear story with super cool graphics, AI, and physics" at the time.

[Violeta]

Red alert 2

It runs awful if you aren't using an old version of windows.

[Dewa]

The older cods, they have horrendous support / compatibility for win 8 and 10

[rept]

Автор сообщения: O du schöner Westerwald

The older cods, they have horrendous support / compatibility for win 8 and 10

The newer ones aren't very good PC ports either.

[iza]

Arx Fatalis, Summoner, i love those games but they aged horribly.

[Propiniukas]

NFS U2

[iza]

Автор сообщения: Mazda RX7 (EA)

NFS U2

Oh yeah, also a good game.. same with Underground 1, i touched it and jesus i had a different game in mind :D

[Incarnate]

Автор сообщения: O du schöner Westerwald

The older cods, they have horrendous support / compatibility for win 8 and 10

It's one thing to have blocky, copy & paste character models (which the first CoD had in spades), but most old games are nearly impossible to run without tweaking files. I wouldn't hold it against it.

[100% lob juice]

While I would still highly recommend both of them, and they still have a special place in my heart, Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 are janky as ♥♥♥♥