Sujet : Re: Aging Well
De : ant (at) *nospam* zimage.comANT (Ant)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.actionDate : 04. Mar 2025, 21:15:05
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I still want to play the whole BioShock game. I only played its demo. I
remember the cliffhanger was the glass tunnels cracked and ocean water
flooded.
Spalls Hurgenson <
spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Time to piggy-back off somebody else's work again. This time, it's in
relation to an article talking about "Games that have aged insanely
well".* Once again, I'll save you the effort of clicking and reading
and just list the games they picked for you:
BioShock (2007)
Chrono Trigger (1995)
Super Mario Sunshine (2002)
Dragon Age Origins (2009)
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
Gears of War (2006)
Mirror?s Edge (2010)
Okami (2006)
Sleeping Dogs (2012)
Super Meat Boy (2010)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)
[And yeah, this is pretty much a rehash of an earlier article
("8 Classic Games You Haven't Played (but should)" but it's
an excuse for us to talk about different games, so what's the
harm? ;-)]
So the first thing that crossed my mind while reading that list was,
"Aged? These games just came out a little while ago!" but that
probably says more about me than the games. I mean, the youngest is 13
years old and while that was practically yesterday for me, for
youngsters I guess it seems a lot longer. But some of those games just
don't feel old at all; they're still relevant to a lot of players who
still actively engage with the game. Of course they haven't aged;
they're... well, not new obviously, but still in their prime.
The second thing is that, aside from any that fit into that first
group (and really, it's just "Skyrim" and "Super Meat Boy" that
qualify), I wouldn't say they've aged 'insanely well'. Most of them
don't seem very old, but I think that --were I go back to play them
right now-- I wouldn't be shouting to the heavens about how they still
feel so modern.
[And some of them I think don't deserve to be on the list at
all, because I don't think they were that good even when they
were new. Yes, "Gears of War", I'm looking right at you!]
It's not that I don't think most of those games aren't worth playing
but a lot of them either have mechanics that feels a bit dated, or
lack quality-of-life features that we've come to expect, or just have
underlying assumptions that no longer feel quite as apt anymore.
But none of the listed games are examples of titles that I would hold
up as having aged 'insanely well'; as games that could be sold today
(maybe with a slight visual upgrade) and still be as playable and fun
as the day they were released. There are games like that (from our
last article, I suggested "Day of the Tentacle" from 1993 as one such
example) but none of the games named above seem to fit.
What do you think? Are these eleven games good examples of having
'aged insanely well'? Do you have a better selection? Or are you sort
of like me, and think most of these games just came out yesterday? ;-)
* here's the original article
https://www.xda-developers.com/games-that-have-aged-insanely-well/
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