Old games that look worse than you remembered

[shaggyd]

Janes F15 flight sim - it was so brilliantly realistic that I upgraded to a P600 and Voodoo Banshee for smooth AA gameplay. I also played Falcon 4 by Microprose at the same time, but that has improved over time with mods.
Janes Longbow was my mates favourite game, I remember standing behind him watching him tank plinking with mavericks across a vast landscape. But now, they look like square blobs.

 

[Borsch]

The original Deus Ex. Had great memories of it- the graphics, the explosions that shook buildings... But cant even look at it without smiling nowadays- looks shocking

On the other hand, another game from 2001 still looks good to my eyes - Pro Evo Soccer 1 (I play it on the PS2 emulator). Killer Instinct 1 from arcades looked eye poppingly cool back in 1996 and still does to this day imo. Il2 sturmovik is also a 2001 game and still looks good.
So not all games age badly

 

[Efour]

Homeworld. - its just 5 pixels of texture per ship

Half life by a long way .. lol

Unreal tournament too - i got the collection from a steam offer a while back, and fired it up ... laughed and turned it off.

 

[Kamwah]

Metal gear solid 123.

 

[spankingtexan]

Sega rally looks awful, thought it was the best thing ever at the time.

 

[bitslice]

Flight Simulator on a ZX81

I used to play this all day.



64 x 48 pixels

 

[arc@css]

Far Cry.

+1

 

[Crixus00]

Doom 2!

 

[PiKe]

Flight Simulator on a ZX81

I used to play this all day.



64 x 48 pixels

What the heck is that? Is that supposed to be a horizon?

 

[blasphemyweb]

Morrowind.

Although it takes me less than 5 minutes to get over that and start enjoying my favourite game of all time.

 

[robmol]

San Andreas

 

[bledd]

Still looks lush imo

I still play it, a lot. But it could do with a quick texture pack

San Andreas

http://gtaivsa.com/

 

[Archy]

Diablo 2, reinstalled it a few weeks ago but after playing some of Beta for 3 have decided just to wai for 3!

 

[Devrij]

San Andreas

Agreed. It looked rubbish when I went back to it.

 

[Kobi]

Looking through the hi res screenshots the other day. someone posted up a final fantasy(7?) pic. Ouch, that looked a lot worse than i remember.

 

[HangTime]

Yeah I never played FF7 when it came out and tried it I dunno probably about 8 years ago, looked complete pony with a naff control system so I dropped it after about 30mins.

Bit surprised to see Unreal mentioned as I think it has aged reasonably well.

 

[Alz_D]

Commander Keen 4 or the original prince of persia - I remember playing it on an old pc way back when with an orange monitor thinking it looked amazing. Saw a a picture the other day and it makes you realise how far we have come!!

I know this isn't exactly where u were going with the thread but.... I was given Sega classics for the PS3 and fired it up for the kids recently (they 8 and 9). Had been telling them how amazing Sonic the Hodgepig was.........

 

[PGdude]

Pretty much every game I've ever played looks a bit more naff than I thought it did... It's kinda weird and upsetting. Kinda wish I could look at them now and feel like I did back then!

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

Pretty much everything.

This.

I can cope with **** graphics, but what does irritate me is a game running at 640x480. I know a lot of PC games can be modded/patched to allow 1080p/1200p gaming though.

I personally think the PS1 had everything as it had an epic catalogue of games, but they just look so awful when played on a PS1 or PS2 on an HD tele. The PS3 does upscale them but that is all it does, it doesn't actually render them at 1080p.

I remember a few years ago a person on here played FF7 on PC and because he modded it so it ran at 1920x1200 it actually looked perfectly fine.

 

[valkynaz]

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2.

I remember playing this game as a little kid and then later on buying The First Decade and playing it straight away. Let's just say I wasn't very happy at how good it looked compared to what I remember it looking like.