Are there games that you tried but just couldn’t get into because they feel outdated? Games that, in theory, you would enjoy, but don’t because the controls, graphics, writing, or mechanics just don’t feel good anymore. Games that, compared to today, just don’t hold up to your standards.
I recently tried playing Heroes of Might and Magic III, and I realized that a lot of the invisible language used through game design from that era, I do not understand. There are many things that the game didn’t explain, and I assume they were just understood by players. Not only that, but I imagine there was a lot of crossover between video games and board games back then, so maybe that language was used as well. I ended up downloading a manual and putting it on my second screen and I get it and played it, but it just wasn’t for me.
I also dropped Mirror’s Edge, but this time it was because of the graphics. It looks and feels great, but the graphics give me a headache. There is way too much bloom, and for some reason, there are some parts that look like the imaginary lens has been covered in Vaseline. This didn’t bother me before, but my eyes are not used to it anymore.
There are also games like the first two Tony Hawk Pro Skater games that I can’t fully get into because they’re missing mechanics from the later games. The levels and controls feel great, but they don’t feel complete without those mechanics. It keeps me from enjoying the games as much as the others.
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I tried to play fallout 3 and new vegas after falling in love with fallout 4 but I just could not stomach it. The games looked ugly and controlled strangely. I had more fun and enjoyment playing the original fallout from the 90s.
Man are those a good ride on PC though. A handful of mods and the graphics are solid enough. Unofficial fixes and other key mods for QOL update many mechanics and make the game more playable. Nowadays modding has largely evolved so folders and sub-folders are properly constructed with Mod Organizer 2 doing a lot of the footwork for you.
The aiming on guns in those Fallout games always felt odd, even on my first playthroughs when the game first came out and it makes gameplay a chore sometimes, relying more on VATS than actually aiming like you would a FPS.
Even by comparison of using bow and arrow in Oblivion which came out a year or two before Fallout 3, it’s just…off.
Did you play on PC? Aside from the graphics I thought it handled pretty much like any typical fps game, so the gameplay didn’t feel aged to me. But then again I used so many mods in my play through that I don’t really know what the vanilla game is like.
I was on pc yes