Nothing deserves to be left to Nostalgia IMO

Let people play whatever kind of game they want, be it THAC0 or Random Encounters and other "inconviniances" like Playing with only a keyboard.

Ground Control.It was good when it first came out..but nowdays its just..ughh
I think it was one of the first 3D RTS games out there

I couldn't help but begin to think as I read all the posts so far in this thread that maybe my backlog isn't nearly so big as I thought it was after all.

Perhaps I might wind up considering a good deal of it a collection rather than games I would actually want to play given what else is now available and quite time consuming as it is.

Maybe I should view a lot of old games like museum pieces and have a little tour sometime where i install them, view their introductions, fool around briefly taking note of the visuals, mechanics, music, sound, etc. and then quitting out to move on to the next historical curiosity in my collection.

I'm only half kidding here. I'm only going to live so long and I will soon be 54 years old. Every day is a gift. Each one could be your last. What is it that would have me grinding in a wireframe dungeon (Ultima 1) when I could be exploring the likes of Skyrim or perhaps playing Dragon Age Ultimate?

You guys are actually right. Once you take off the nostalgia glasses and get real the fact is very often modern games trump very many of the old ones (with some exceptions of course) and so maybe it is true that you just can't go back after a point.

I'm still short of making a judgement for myself here but this thread has made me think.

Wolfenstein 3D


Little Big Adventure due to the controls, though I haven't played it in the olden days so there's no nostalgia for me.

Believe it or not, I liked Chex Quest when I was a kid. Needless to say, it has definitely not aged well unless you are really into product placement.

Which I am, but it still wasn't anywhere near the masterpiece of game design I thought it was in grade school.

Same deal with Hover, that game they packaged in with Windows Something-Old that was pretty much a basic 3D capture the flag that went on indefinitely. Once I caught on that the difficulty just plateaued and you were stuck playing it forever until you got bored, it pretty much lost all its charm.

I tried to play Arena recently. It was successful enough to spawn Daggerfall as a sequel, so I suppose it must have seemed to have something going for it at the time, but man, I can't see it.

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Well Either way yeah I felt that way too, like to me Kingdom Hearts was that game better left to Nostalgia. Fuck that series is so infintile its insane I cannot even look at the series anymore.

Well, you have to remember that those games were made in the Eighties, when most people were rocking CGA/EGA monitors. I remember being pretty young, watching Space Quest 1 & 2 and thinking: "OH MAN, IT CAN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS!" Now, of course, it's blockalicious artwork you could recreate in MS Paint. >.>

Theme Park, the original game with that nane from Bullfrog. Was a thrill to play when it was new and I remember spending countless hours building up my amusement parks..

Then trying to go back to it just recently it was a very "ugh, this is really not so good anymore, graphics or gameplay/interface etc"-experience. And so, good old Theme Park is probably better left to Nostalgia.

Nostalia makes things better. That's why I play source ports for old games. Descent for example was great in the day. Now it looks awful and buggy. However, download D2X-XL and slap it on D1 and D2 and then it's even better than I remember.

Go back and play Quake. Eek it looks bad. However, load it up with the Darkplaces engine in 1080p and some hi-res texture packs and HQ audio packs and playing it beats most games made today.

Any JRPG you remember for the story. Trust me, when you go back you'll most often find it was written like this:

"Maraka has been seen on the edge of the village!"
"..."
"..."
"Finally, we will see who has more STRENGTH!"
"..."
"No, don't fight!"
"I have to fight!"
"..."
"Why fight?"
"..."
"Because strength is for the strong!"
"..."
"..."
"I understand."

I'm serious, too. With very few exceptions: while the overall stories may be good, the writing style really isn't, and I wish I'd left some games in my head as literary masterpieces rather than playing them again and realizing they weren't.

I think the complaints regarding early Sierra games have little to do with graphical limitations.

Definitely GTA 1.

Really? I'd definitely like for you to expand on it, because it'd be an interesting conversation. :D