I'm sure many of us hardened gamers often view the games of yesteryear through rose-tinted spectacles, nostalgically praising them on internet forums such as this. Sometimes we revisit them and find the game just as we remembered it...
...and sometimes not.
So then, what games do you feel have NOT stood the test of time? I don't mean "what games did you used to like but now think aren't much cop?", I'm looking for games that you were convinced in your head looked a lot better than they actually do, so when you revisit them you are shocked and think something must be wrong with the settings or whatever.
For me, the standout candidate is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. I remember playing the demo and being really impressed by the scenery and the way flames could burn on crashed cars etc. But a few years ago I tried it again and was shocked at how blocky and dated the graphics looked, a million miles behind that of NFS: Porsche 2000. There's plenty of other old games that look pretty much as I remember them, including games of similar era like Carmageddon etc, but NFS:HP just looks WAY worse.
...and sometimes not.
So then, what games do you feel have NOT stood the test of time? I don't mean "what games did you used to like but now think aren't much cop?", I'm looking for games that you were convinced in your head looked a lot better than they actually do, so when you revisit them you are shocked and think something must be wrong with the settings or whatever.
For me, the standout candidate is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. I remember playing the demo and being really impressed by the scenery and the way flames could burn on crashed cars etc. But a few years ago I tried it again and was shocked at how blocky and dated the graphics looked, a million miles behind that of NFS: Porsche 2000. There's plenty of other old games that look pretty much as I remember them, including games of similar era like Carmageddon etc, but NFS:HP just looks WAY worse.
