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Well yeah. This is a topic on how a lot of classic games just haven't aged well at all. For instance, I just tried playing Nethack. Now, I know it's supposedly one of the greatest games ever made due to it's sheer size, scope and inovative gameplay for the time, but I just quit after 5 minutes.
I know it came out in 1985, still couldn't play, even the graphical version.
And I know lots of PS1 games are now considered "ugly as shit", though they may still be loads of fun.
In addition to the above, what older/classic games would you like to see remade?
And if you say Custer's Revenge.... :x
I know it came out in 1985, still couldn't play, even the graphical version.
And I know lots of PS1 games are now considered "ugly as shit", though they may still be loads of fun.
In addition to the above, what older/classic games would you like to see remade?
And if you say Custer's Revenge.... :x
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Final fantasy 7.
8 & 9 I can stand but 7....I'm sad I know. I came late to the series though.
That's all I got. I don't play many old games.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Funny, I played that around a year or two ago, and I still loved it.
I think I'm immune to the age of games, since I still enjoy the old-school stuff. If I liked it then, odds are, I'll still like it now.
The games on the Genesis Collection sure seem to have aged well, so I don't think a few pixelated PS1 titles would bother me at all.
Holy crap. I was trying to remember this old flight sim a couple days ago I used to play and couldn't remember the name of it. Lo and behold, it's Corncob 3D. Yeah, that's old school, man. :P But there are better flight sims.
But Starfox 64 is still > everything.
I've been meaning to go back and replay Crash Bandicoot, speaking of old graphics.
that bit there, pretty much excludes 1st/2nd party stuff for me.
My main issue is the appallingly pixellated backdrops. I can handle low-res, low-polygon-count models, but the pixellated backdrops get me every time. They tried to cram too much detail in there, so it looks like an impressionist painting on a newer TV.
Doesn't look so hot on the pc either. There's no option to go higher than 800 x 600.
Steam | Live
But the graphics. Argh.
Also, I wouldn't mind seeing new versions of the Freespace games.
See, I don't get this. I thought PS1 graphics were shit back then too.
The Oddworld games looked pretty cool though.
I still go back and play Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill now and then. The appearance of PS1 graphics doesn't bother so much as Silent Hill's lack of 60hz mode. Maybe I should try grabbing an NTSC version, then I could finally see those knife-wielding children the PAL version cut out...
In alot of ways this game still looks hot.
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Corncob! Man, that game rocked.
Edit: Here is one from the first Tomb Raider.
Tomb Raider Chronicles:
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/ps/tr5/trchronicles_1103_screen001.jpg
It's not really the graphics. It's the camera that doesn't allow you to see for shit and the controls that base themselves on said camera.
In terms of the actual visuals, Bushido Blade (either of them) is a game I would hate to try and go back to. They were so fun, but even then, those pixellated textures and the camera's tendency to zoom and pan could get painful.
They are probably close to actual resolution, so just blow them up to see a bigger image.
The MGS one is the actual resolution. I think they had to do that to make up for some other technical aspects that they were pushing. The lighting looks pretty good there...I honestly don't remember if the game actually had any dynamic lighting, or if the lighting was just a series of tricks by painting light to the textures.
MGS's resolution was 320x240 because 240p was pretty much all that the Playstation could push out.
Really, I'm starting to think Sega was right in thinking that 3D could have waited another generation.
Glad to see someone mentioned Chrono Trigger though, because I was going to use it as an example of how old a game can get yet still look good. Then again, I find a lot of Nintendo games of that generation aged pretty well.
Even when they did try 3D though, they did it pretty well. I haven't played the first Starfox that recently, but I bet it doesn't look that bad. Same goes with that...other game. You know, the one where you could drive a 18-wheeler, a motorcycle, a small coupe car and other stuff? It was 3D...I forget the bloody name. But I bet it's still aged better than a lot of other "3D" games out from that era.
Edit: Stunt Race FX was the game.
Corncob was my first 3d game ever, and it ran beautifully on my 1MB ram, 17Mhz computer. Guns, cannons, rockets, bombs, remote controlled plane, and planting charges on foot FTW.
They did add lots of eyecandy to FS2.
and I think that there's a TC for playing FS1 with the enhanced FS2 engine.
I still think MGS looks good. Its the envirenments that really keep it in shape. The clever fake lighting done with textures etc. I seem to remember the actual game world looking really hot, at the expense of any characters in the game having eyes. Or faces.
Tomb Raider though. Oh man. Woah.