A term is acceptable as long as people know what it means. The phrase "break a leg" to imply somebody should hurry up, but what idiot's going to go and break their leg just because they hear this? The meaning is brought through, that's all that matters. It's the beauty of the English language.
Now, let's quit derailing. I'll leave that to tinyE.

Butthurt ? No I simply replied to your nonsensical bullshit. ;)

Of course games age, or do they update the engine or every texture on a daily basis ?
The technology ages and so does the game that uses that old technology.

Mass Effect AGED? HOW OLD AM I? HOW. OLD. AM. I.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Im sorry, its just that I cant get into the game the same way I did when I first played it. :)
Its still an awesome game though. ^^

No worries! It's just that by the title of the thread I was expecting mentions of 4 color to 256 color games. Someone describing Mass Effect as "aged" makes me feel ANCIENT.

I never really think "this didn't age well" when encountering something in an old title that I don't like, because it's usually stuff that I wouldn't have cared about even when the game was new.

The closest I've come to thinking it, however, would probably be Baldur's Gate.


I do really like Wolfenstein 3D, though. There's a nice simplicity about it and the weapons feel very impactful. It's major downside is extreme repetition and excessively labyrinthean level design, but in short bursts, it's a blast. Even the controls are fine to me, it's not like you actually need circle-strafing in that game.
Maybe you should give Rise of the Triad: Dark War or Blake Stone a shot, as those have some of the features you would want in Wolfenstein 3D.

"Shake a leg". Break a leg is a term for good luck, used in an ironic sense.

And yeah, as long as we get it - which even the Complainer In Chief of this thread clearly does - then a "misused" term works just fine.

Oh no, don´t feel old because of me. :`)
It came to mind, because I played it a couple days ago. :)
Now after thinking about it, I guess I´d say Mortal Kombat.

The only reason that game hasn't aged well is because I'm no longer any good at it. :P

Why would you feel old? Just because Mass Effect is close to ten years old now? Come on!

Though, on a serious note, this sort of thing often seems to have more to do with trends, rather than actual age. Maybe, in roughly a decade, people will look back at the games released in recent years and wonder, "Why the hell did these idiots put crafting systems in every damn game? That's so outdated!"

Close enough. They sound the same. If you say it quick enough, nobody'll notice the difference.

Yeah, someone saying Mass Effect as ancient sounds crazy to me as well. I mean, it is a cover based shooter with space magic and a dialog wheel that doesn't seem "aged" at all to me.

Gameplay I was thinking more along the lines of old adventure games which had dead ends or JRPGS with tons of necessary grinding when it comes to stuff that hasn't aged well...

Or graphically something like the old PSX games that look to me aged a lot graphically because how bad early 3d actually was. But I think like SNES games haven't aged at all, and still look great because 2d doesn't age in the way 3d graphics do.

I would say games that rely more on gameplay mechanics than on presentation age better than the other way around.

Tetris is probably the perfect example for a "timeless" game.
And I wouldn't count Railroad Tycoon among the "badly aged" games. Once you can look past the clunky graphics the game still has a lot of charm.

For me games that didn't age well would be ie. the old flight sims like F-117A Nighthawk. While I loved them to death back in the day, those games (for me!) have always been about immersion, and I'm having a hard time recreating that feeling with crude HUD, clunky cockpit and pyramid hills nowadays. IL-2 Sturmovik is about the lowest I can handle in this genre. But I can see that other people might see this different and can still enjoy the cat-and-mouse with the radar, looking past the featureless landscape and the blocky HUD.
If Mass Effect is old... *damn*

Sounds like this whippersnapper never played games on floppy disks. Those things do not age well.