Just bought Resistance 2 as I thought I'd give it a go due to low price and high critical praise when it was released but my God do I regret that now - it looks hideous, feels clunky, has boneheaded AI, cheap deaths by the dozen, linear, dull corridor crawl gameplay (with poor scripting and no sense of scale - a clearly painted, static background vista does not impress any more) and a totally unimaginative world with cardboard characters. And all this from Insomniac. Did not see that coming at all. 

Anyone else go back to some good games of yesteryear and find themselves shocked?

How old are we talking about exactly?

I played Psi-Ops this summer and though of it as a poor man's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.  The ending didn't help either since it actually didn't "end."

GTAIV

I played the original Spyro the Dragon yesterday. And it's still f'in awesome.

"@toast_burner: Plenty of games age poorly very quickly.  Go play Prototype and you'll know what I mean.  When somebody makes an innovation, something that becomes standard in that genre, the games before it feel dated and clunky.  I've never played any of the Resistance games, but I've seen it else where. "

Sonic Adventure.
 
Legend of Zelda (NES).
 
Command and Conquer.

"I played Psi-Ops this summer and though of it as a poor man's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.  The ending didn't help either since it actually didn't "end." "

" GTAIV "

Halo

I'm wondering, not really repying to the topic but whatever. How's the first Uncharted compared to the second one? Did it age well because I plan on playing it before getting U2.

For me the first generation 3D games for the likes of the PS1 and N64. I have no problem playing 16 bit games but early 3d games are just almost too much. I adore Syphon Filter 2 and tried going back and playing some multiplayer games with my friend but just couldn't.

As a rule 3D games age wore than most titles. But Resistance 2's poor performance for you is surprising considering it's only a year old.

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Just bought Resistance 2 as I thought I'd give it a go due to low price and high critical praise when it was released but my God do I regret that now - it looks hideous, feels clunky, has boneheaded AI, cheap deaths by the dozen, linear, dull corridor crawl gameplay (with poor scripting and no sense of scale - a clearly painted, static background vista does not impress any more) and a totally unimaginative world with cardboard characters. And all this from Insomniac. Did not see that coming at all. 

Anyone else go back to some good games of yesteryear and find themselves shocked?

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I really liked Resistance 2, and I think I'd still like it if I jumped into it today. I certainly don't think it looks hideous either. There are some great setpieces. I guess some of the bits inbetween are dull though. And the story's dumb.
 
I'd definitely pick GTAIV. I went back into that the other day and it was almost unplayable.

Besides halo which I only started to play last year where I can't figure out exactly why it's so good if your a pc gamer. Also half life and also tomb raider anniversary. Also hitman silent assassins. 

Plenty of people(myself included) felt that GTAIV was badly dated when it came out...

" I'm wondering, not really repying to the topic but whatever. How's the first Uncharted compared to the second one? Did it age well because I plan on playing it before getting U2. "  

Resistance 2 isn't that bad, I agree with the cheap deaths but I still think it's a great game. 
I would say Uncharted 1 has aged quite a bit, but it's still an awesome game like flickr said.

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Just bought Resistance 2 as I thought I'd give it a go due to low price and high critical praise when it was released but my God do I regret that now - it looks hideous, feels clunky, has boneheaded AI, cheap deaths by the dozen, linear, dull corridor crawl gameplay (with poor scripting and no sense of scale - a clearly painted, static background vista does not impress any more) and a totally unimaginative world with cardboard characters. And all this from Insomniac. Did not see that coming at all. 

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How does one know a game has aged badly when one has not played it before?

GTA IV, probably. all the texture issues and pop in is just annoying now, and the combat isn't that great either. 
 
I can't say the same about Saint's Row 2, though (even though that game had meh graphics, but great lighting) as that game is still fun as hell. 

yo man that call of duty mw2 ages like shit...

" @Vitor said:

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Just bought Resistance 2 as I thought I'd give it a go due to low price and high critical praise when it was released but my God do I regret that now - it looks hideous, feels clunky, has boneheaded AI, cheap deaths by the dozen, linear, dull corridor crawl gameplay (with poor scripting and no sense of scale - a clearly painted, static background vista does not impress any more) and a totally unimaginative world with cardboard characters. And all this from Insomniac. Did not see that coming at all. 

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Whats weird is that the original Resistance aged great. "

I actually remember playing it at a friend's house when he had a PS3 before I did and thinking that it was generic and merely OK, not great. That being said, I still think I enjoyed it more then than I'm enjoying playing R2 right now....

It doesn't look truly terrible but there's a HUGE discrepancy between the cutscenes and gameplay despite both being in engines that really throws me - the fact that they marketed R2 using screens from the cutscenes doesn't help either as I went into the game expecting it to have all the crazy post-processing effects that the cinemas did and so was disappointed when I actually got to the real thing.

And I really meant recent games - mainly as I was so surprised at how old R2 feels despite being relatively new. 

And Uncharted 1 still looks incredible - a little clunkier than 2 but the story more than makes up for it as its really charming and fun.

" I played through Resistance 2 very early in the year and have to say that It was pretty boring. and I can fully understand why someone would say it looks bad... It doesn't look bad but when putting it side by side with a game like Killzone 2 it  doesn't have anything going for it... The enemy designs arent great either and there is a strange stiffness to the way people move.  It has some awesome guns... it's just a shame theyre in a pretty mediocre game. "

" I played through Resistance 2 very early in the year and have to say that It was pretty boring. and I can fully understand why someone would say it looks bad... It doesn't look bad but when putting it side by side with a game like Killzone 2 it  doesn't have anything going for it... The enemy designs arent great either and there is a strange stiffness to the way people move.  It has some awesome guns... it's just a shame theyre in a pretty mediocre game. "

Game that have aged poorly
 
Everything because I my imagination has come up with it includes dragon.  Real creative, huh?

GTAIV. The only thing that kept me with that game was the story and the fact that I could terrorize people in a helicopter.

Resistance 2 is the Halo killer, you don't know what you're talking about. Also, I couldn't get into Dead Rising in December 09.

GTA IV.

Yeah, GTA IV kinda stands out in my mind, just in terms of kinda clunky controls and cover mechanics.  
And Prototype, even though it didn't look that great when it came out 6 months ago, it just doesn't feel as good as it used to.

System Shock 2
Great at the time, but when I replayed it recently I realized just how bad the shooting was. Still very eerie but the gameplay was so poor compared to more recent games that I just stopped.

World of Warcraft. They've been destroying it ever since the first expansion.

I have to go with the majority and say GTA IV, the game just feels really clunky and not a lot of fun. 

NES Legend of Zelda for sure

"I played the original Spyro the Dragon yesterday. And it's still f'in awesome. "

" For me the first generation 3D games for the likes of the PS1 and N64. I have no problem playing 16 bit games but early 3d games are just almost too much. I adore Syphon Filter 2 and tried going back and playing some multiplayer games with my friend but just couldn't. "

" How does one know a game has aged badly when one has not played it before? "

" World of Warcraft. They've been destroying it ever since the first expansion. "

" @Vinchenzo said:

" World of Warcraft. They've been destroying it ever since the first expansion. "

Funny you mention that.  I just claimed my 7 days of WoW and man, I just can't play it anymore.  It's like they made it cater entirely to noobs.  The interface, oh man.  I mean if they had done this years ago, maybe I'd be playing it, but just knowing there was a time where I had to find out about things on my own, it's gone now.  Might as well be World of Noobcraft.  Wow. "

This thread just made me /facepalm to the extreme. Complaining about new games that have "aged badly". Hilarious.

Umm Resistance2 is hardly old. I said that game looked and played like crap when it cam out!
 
Tomb Raider and most PSone games haven't aged well, at all. That games was the shit when it came out!

fuck outta here. resistance 2 isnt a game about minute details, its unbelievably large scale epic. it looks kick ass.