Age Won't Slow Me Down! Games Who Aged Gracefully

My husband plays Starcraft. Probably a little too much. LOL

Originally Posted by sugarpoultry

My husband plays Starcraft. Probably a little too much. LOL

Is that game still playable online?

Also, I think I would still enjoy playing Diablo today. Wonder if that's still online playable?

Other games that I think are timeless are:

Mario 64
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Final Fantasy VIII (Play it every summer. Will begin a new game soon)

And for GC, I think that the REmake has aged and will continue to age gracefully. Can't think of any PS2 games at the moment...

I would say zelda OoT and MM and super mario 64. Every now nand then I dust off my n64 to play these timeless masterpieces.

Goldeneye is ropey, these platformers are not.

Super Mario Bros.

It kickstarted gaming as we know it today, and it's still played by gamers all over. Age hasn't caught up to this one just yet.

MM. That game has aged well.

Originally Posted by Dread

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But yeah, most of my choices have been said, mainly most Castlevania games especially the 2-d ones. Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance are perhaps a bit weitd for today's market. Simon's Quest, though, is very, very weird and wouldn't fare well on today's market at all.

The 2-d Mario games are also pretty ageless, especially 2 (Western version), 3, World and Yoshi's Island.

In a general sense I feel Majora's Mask keeps up better than Ocarina, Ocarina's much more for us weird people in between and sheep who have no will of their own.

But one type of games I feel stands the test of time somewhat the worst is the primitive exploration type, games such as the first two Zelda and Metroid games, as well as Simon's Quest, as I said earlier. It's like they never really got the hang of it until the SNES, which the advent of actual maps and real directions/apparent solutions really helped a lot. Super Metroid and A Link to the Past are really great examples of this.

Also, Actraiser. The city parts of this game are mayhaps a tad simplistic for today's sheep, but the action parts are absolutely top-notch to this day.

The Pokémon games also stand to this day as excellent and fairly deep rpgs.

my friend says Chrono Trigger and Super C, but I've played neither, so I'm just riding on his word

Settlers II.

Plus:

Originally Posted by Forte

You can't even walk diagonally. Do you honestly think that game has aged well?

Originally Posted by KeeSomething

You can't even walk diagonally. Do you honestly think that game has aged well?

Considering that I grew up in the SNES/N64 era and I can still pick it up today and beat it and have tons of fun; yes.

Metal Gear Solid and Paper Mario are the first games that come to my mind.

Originally Posted by Forte

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The exploration in that game is very flawed. You have no idea where you should be going, no general direction, all the levels seem the same, you can't walk diagonally and you only stab, not swing your sword, there's no real map other than just the gray thing with a dot, you have no indication of any bombable walls in the overworld, leaving only guesswork and guides for that stuff, and the list goes on.

It has barely any general direction and is extremely primitive in every way thinkable. The game was amazing at the time for its large overworld and heavy emphasis on exploration, but exploration has gone such a long way, and Zelda 1 really shows its age when put up against by far most of its current-day competitors.

That's not to say it's bad, I very much prefer it to, say, the Oracle games, Twilight Princess and Phantom Hourglass, but in a general sense LoZ really lacks in very numerous ways.

Originally Posted by Captain TMS

Metal Gear Solid and Paper Mario are the first games that come to my mind.

Paper Mario for the N64 looks like it belonged on the Gamecube.

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What about Age of Empires..

Originally Posted by Phazon goron 2!

Goldeneye is ropey, these platformers are not.

I was totally thinking of Yoshi's Island I love that game.



Kirby superstar I feel has aged really well because I do like it so much better then a lot of the kirby games that came after it. I feel the fact that the transformations having more then one move in there move sets really set it apart from other kirby games. I hated that I could only really do one thing with an ability in other kirby games. I love what nintendo did with it's remake. They crammed so much more content into an already really big game.

I also feel alttp has age quite gracefully. It's not my favourite zelda game but it really does hold it's own with a lot of the new zelda games; especially the handheld ones.



I also feel that final fantasy tactics is a game that aged really well. I like this game so much better then ffta, it even has essentials that ffta lacks (ie. auto equip in shops). Now I may have put the psp box art port up but let me get one thing clear. The people who did this port did a ****ed up job. I love the MUCH improved translation/localization of the story and the really well voice acted cg cut scenes but the original 4:3 aspect ratio of the game is obviously stretched to 16:9 which is extremely lazy. There are also horrible frame rate issues in the game too. I would love nothing more then to smack who ever felt this was acceptable in the back of the head (along with the people who released last remnant with it's horrid frame rate, loading and texture popping issues).

rant over... I'll be back with more games to add to this list.

I think so.

Originally Posted by SheikahSage

^I agree WW is still fun. However, I think we are talking about games more than just 5 or 6 years old.

Oh well. Though, you can't really say that the majority of games from 5-6 years ago have aged as well as WW.

Anyway, something more in tune with the rest of the thread:


The true Swan Song for the great 16-bit age. Infant polygon models, a kicking soundtrack, and Mallow and Geno. This one still has its charm.

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer.

A spectacle in graphics, gameplay and awesome.