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Are there games that you tried but just couldn't get into because they feel outdated? Games that, in theory, you would enjoy, but don't because the controls, graphics, writing, or mechanics just don't feel good anymore. Games that, compared to today, just don't hold up to your standards.

I recently tried playing Heroes of Might and Magic III, and I realized that a lot of the invisible language used through game design from that era, I do not understand. There are many things that the game didn't explain, and I assume they were just understood by players. Not only that, but I imagine there was a lot of crossover between video games and board games back then, so maybe that language was used as well. I ended up downloading a manual and putting it on my second screen and I get it and played it, but it just wasn't for me.

I also dropped Mirror's Edge, but this time it was because of the graphics. It looks and feels great, but the graphics give me a headache. There is way too much bloom, and for some reason, there are some parts that look like the imaginary lens has been covered in Vaseline. This didn't bother me before, but my eyes are not used to it anymore.

There are also games like the first two Tony Hawk Pro Skater games that I can't fully get into because they're missing mechanics from the later games. The levels and controls feel great, but they don't feel complete without those mechanics. It keeps me from enjoying the games as much as the others.

Please share yours!

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Pretty much all of the iconic games from my early teens. (I was a teen in the late 80s and 90s). The games that I grew up with, that I fell in love with, are unplayable now.

Dragonstrike, a flight sim where you fly a dragon in the D&D Dragonlance world was mind blowing when I first played it. Now, it's so bad that replaying it spoiled my memory of the original experience!

[–] limeaide@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I get that. Sometimes I wish I didn't revisit games and instead kept the nostalgia glasses on haha

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

Exactly! I'm much more inclined to not revisit things these days. The original Fallout games fall in this category for me

[–] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Damn, that game sounds amazing as a concept though. I've been really looking for something that's a decent dragon-based game which doesn't involve the dragons being relentlessly shat on by the story/all being dead or super rare.

How bad are we talking, exactly..?

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

It's a flight combat sim. You're on the back of a dragon instead of in a cockpit. You can either blast enemies with your breath, or get close and rake them with your claws. I was on PC at the time, and this runs on DOS, so don't expect any marvel of technology.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like a scientifically accurate dragon MMO?

[–] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm listening. What've you got?

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

It's a meme. A glorious one.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

There are a couple of dragon flight games out there, but the ones I've played take too many pages from flight sims, and not enough from riding horses. You can't get a horse to try to jump the Grand Canyon, but in the sims I played, the dragons would let you fly them into a mountainside.

Someday, though.