Games that aged well

[Matcam89]

I do occasionally play Arma 3 but have never played online I guess intimidated by the role playing they used even though I served in real life lol

[Matcam89]

America’s Army was ok on the PC but what an awful game on Xbox 360 - The only reason I paid it attention was because I was in the Army at the time

[aileron]

It's an expression of speech. You liked it as a kid. You grew up. You played it again recently and still liked it. It aged well. At least in your opinion. Got anything like that to share with us?

The only game I've experienced like that is Doom. When I tried it again recently it was still fun. I didn't go crazy playing 100s of hours again, but I appreciated it for an hour or two.

[pirate]

I guess if you want to take it in literal terms and not want to contribute to the conversation.

I can tell you games I loved as a kid such as the Army Men series - going back and playing them today the nostalgia is not enough to save it for me. They are best kept as the memories that I fond

Game we like as kids are a different matter.
Kids may think some game is good only because they follow some trend or simply because they don't know better so it is actually good according to their experiences and circunstances.

[Matcam89]

I guess if you want to take it in literal terms and not want to contribute to the conversation.

I can tell you games I loved as a kid such as the Army Men series - going back and playing them today the nostalgia is not enough to save it for me. They are best kept as the memories that I fond

[pirate]

Like films and books, games don't age, that's dumb. Ideas don't degrade over time.
Only some concepts are so good that they're copied and expanded upon by other developers tens of times, so after a while it may seem that the pioneer title became inferior somehow.

[Celevin]

Definitely Fort Apocalypse on the Commodore 64. Its graphics are surprisingly tolerable for such an old title.

[aileron]

...my original comment was compete crap...

Sorry I mixed up ARMA with America's Army.

[HisEvilness]

The Arma series also know as Operation Flashpoint.

[Broken Mirror]

I think that depends on what you mean by “aged well”.

For someone who has played most of the classics, almost all of them probably aged well because that person is accustomed to how these games look, feel and sound.

I believe an outsiders perspective is needed to judge this objectively (if it can be judged objectively at all). Everyone else probably looks through the lens of nostalgia.

That being said: I think 2D games tend to age better than early (and to some extend later) 3D titles. While I think that there is more than just graphics when it comes to this topic, I find it difficult to judge things like gameplay mechanics and sound.

I could go on but I don't want to make another novel out of this. So just a few examples of well aged games (IMO)

• Super Metroid
• Super Mario World
• FF VI
• Metal Slug
• SamSho

Time wasn't too kind to those (IMO)

• HL
• FFVII / VIII
• Tomb Raider
• FarCry
• Doom³

[Protoblob]

Pretty much everything that is not 3D in general.

As a 3D game example, however, Project: Nomad (GameTek 1993) still is highly playable (but not to be confused with the 1999 Project: Nomads). Of course, the graphics only look good because of the great 2D art, not of the actual 3D space scenes which looked kinda ugly but stylish even back then.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/nomad

[Gray]

Super Mario RPG

Turtles in Time

Super Mario World. Actually almost every Mario game. Even Mario 64.

Symphony of the Night

And many more.

[Animusisters]

Pretty much everything that is not 3D in general.

[Kevin192291]

very very few people know about a game called Metal Knights, I LOVED this game when I was little, sadly it never really went anywhere.
Here is their site: http://metalknights.com/
I still play this game today when I am flying or on the train

[Sorain]

If that's the WarHawk from the PS1, the sci-fi VTOL shooter, that's a definite recommend from me. I still remember it fondly.