I had a very discerning taste even as a kid. All the games I played were gems and would hold up today. Alas, I lack the time or interest to revisit them. I take comfort in basking in their undisputed greatness.
Maybe I'll have a better answer later, but the first thing that comes to mind is Lylat Wars (or Star Fox 64). It was my favourite game in 1998. I replayed it on the 3DS in 2015 or so and I was pretty underwhelmed. Might have to try the N64 emulator on the Switch and see how that version compares.
By Miu Watanabe.
And since 20 years is a good cut off for old ass games, that now makes the PlayStation 2 library eligible. So I would also put Dark Cloud 2 in this category. This would definitely be one of the more recent shocks to me, because I absolutely thought this was one of the greatest games of all time when it came out.
Quite a bit of it still remains good I suppose, but the controls, encounter rate, and some of the game features like the photography mode reek of old age now. Probably doesn't hurt that level 5 was very prolific around that time and they improved their games at a very rapid pace so features that were a bit unique in that game were much better in other games just a few years later.
Ravenprose said:I find it odd that I have far more nostalgia for the PS1 than I do for the N64 or Saturn. But during that gen, the PS1 was my least favorite and least played system by far.
Im the same in that I have the most nostalgia about games you perhaps fleetingly play. At a friends for instance. Sometimes it's the experience you have with your friends rather than the game being really good.
TMNT NES is one for me.
gamingeek said:Im the same in that I have the most nostalgia about games you perhaps fleetingly play. At a friends for instance. Sometimes it's the experience you have with your friends rather than the game being really good.
TMNT NES is one for me.
Are you talking about the original TMNT NES game? Dear god, that game was never good. The list of games that frustrated me more than that is really really short.
That said, I just watched a guy speed run it maybe a month ago and it was sickening. I don't think I ever made it past the fourth boss, and this guy took him down like it was nothing. That said even he was having some problems with it
OG TMNT ahhhhhh.
Not that old but replaying Sonic Colors, not as fun as I remembered it lol. Hell almost all of 3D sonic has some element of wtf how did I play this.I still love the blue blur.
robio said:
Are you talking about the original TMNT NES game? Dear god, that game was never good. The list of games that frustrated me more than that is really really short.
That said, I just watched a guy speed run it maybe a month ago and it was sickening. I don't think I ever made it past the fourth boss, and this guy took him down like it was nothing. That said even he was having some problems with it
I must have been like 6 years old and was a TMNT fan.
DOING a 64 hit combo on my friend who just had this look on his face, like "what the hell?"
I'm playing MERCS now, sekai no whatever on the Capcom Arcade and it's okaaaay. But I used to love the hell out of it.
Playing with unlimited credits, it's eh... Not as good as I remember.
MERCS is funny, I used to prefer single stick shooters. Playing MERCS in this day and age, I'm hankering for dual stick and a dodge roll.
I can say that Commodore 64 games really have not held up for me at all, with a few exceptions like Wizard of Wor, International Soccer and River Raid.
Other than that, the only thing I cringe about going back to some of my old favourites is the requirement to write down a password to load a save for all the games that were too cheap to pay for an on-cartridge battery.
MGS1 is not as good as I remember. Those boss fights are all legitimately awful outside of Vulcan Raven, Rex, and the non gimmick part of the Psycho Mantis fight. The game really nose dives into a lot of linear bombastic action, and most of it isn't particularly good. The VR missions do carry the day for that game, but that was sold as a separate game entirely. MGS2 and 3 have stronger gameplay, ditto Metal Gear 2 btw. Still dig the game, but it used to be my favorite mgs game, but it has definitely fallen down to the just good games category.
As well as some I did. When I've bought and played them, I've realised in some circumstances, going back and trying to complete them, they can have terrible quality control.
One game I'm bitter about is Strider Arcade.
On reflection I only played the first level repeatedly on arcades. As even the level 1 boss is a cheap POS.
Level 2 plain sucks.
There are a few others but I wanted to know what old ass game you used to fond of, in reality sucks.