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Re: Games that didn't age well for other than technical reasons by laudablepuss 06/01/2026, 11:51am PDT
Nick Spaz wrote:

Mostly from reading Rafiki's writeup on The Stanley Parable and watching a retrospec on Frog Fractions.

Are there any well regarded games that you look back on and realize suck now for something other than technical aging? Maybe it was a novel idea at the time but the whole package sucks after the march of time makes it not so novel any more? Games that were only good in a tiny window of time, released at exactly the right moment?


I dunno but I really liked 2400 AD back in the day, and I ran into it a few years later and thought it was still pretty ok. I gather that a lot of people thought it was dumb (as in easy, bad plot). Maybe I'll get it off here and see if I can get it to work. It doesn't seem any dumber than Take No Prisoners and that was another game I played a lot. :/
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Games that didn't age well for other than technical reasons by Nick Spaz 06/01/2026, 7:29am PDT NEW
    How did Frog Fractions not age well? by Michael Che 06/01/2026, 11:26am PDT NEW
        I played it seriously for the first time in October by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/01/2026, 7:10pm PDT NEW
    Re: Games that didn't age well for other than technical reasons by laudablepuss 06/01/2026, 11:51am PDT NEW
    Probably Wasteland by Rafiki 06/01/2026, 9:04pm PDT NEW
        None of the "what the fuck do I do now?" games aged that well by age of the hintbook 06/02/2026, 7:58pm PDT NEW
        I wish we had been able to give you a different relationship with WL by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2026, 11:03pm PDT NEW
            Appreciate the offer, sir, but there's no need to send me games. NT by Rafiki 06/04/2026, 9:53pm PDT NEW
    Crazy Taxi. Not so great once you realized it was just a minor side-game in NT by GTA3 06/02/2026, 8:50am PDT NEW
        That's a good one! NT by Confused Matthew 06/02/2026, 10:10am PDT NEW
    My hottest take: Quake wasn't that great by blackwater 06/05/2026, 12:14pm PDT NEW
        Re: My hottest take: Quake wasn't that great by laudablepuss 06/05/2026, 12:26pm PDT NEW
 
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