When does a game become too dated to play?
>>321765231
One week after release /thread
When it either hurts your eyes or makes you nauseous when you go back and play it
>>321765231
When you can't support a modern resolution comfortably. See, diablo2.
See wc3 on a game that's aged like wine, 1080p resolutions and all.
Only when you've 100% done everything
When you brain rots and fills with /v/ ideas
>>321765231
When it's inherently flawed mechanics are exposed due to genre having been refined by the dozens of games that came after.
See: OoT
When you stop getting enjoyment out of it.
>>321765231
never. i sitll play old games all the time
>>321765231
when they make the pc port
>>321765354
>Diablo 2
>Can't support a modern resolution comfortably
You what? I play Diablo 2 at 5760x1080 just fine
>>321766192
>5760x1080
screenshot pls
When no modern machine can run it.
>>321765231
When you drop it 20 minutes in. Fuck SMRPG.
If it has a stylised art direction and was good in the first place then never
Realistic graphics do look like shit to a distracting degree after 2 or 3 gens
Compare morrowind and okami
>>321765231
They dont
You just become older
>>321765231
When you're an underage
>>321765231
It doesn't. Games aging is a meme spread by underage retards trying to justify their shit taste in games.
>>321765231
when it has memes. looking at you portal, borderlands, and watchdog.
I mean who doesn't cringe when they hear "the cake is a lie". it's like if i were to brought up PWN on /v/ or an hero on /b/
>>321765231
>game made before 1986
>30 years
>game made between 1987-2000
>25 years
>game made between 2000-2007
>7 years
>game made between 2007-2010
>2 years
>game made between 2011-2013
>1 year
>game made after 2013
>1 month
>>321766192
It's not designed that way. Monsters don't respond outside of 800. You essentially "cheat" raising the game to a modern resolution.
>>321765231
Never. People just got more impatient and now drop a game if they can't start smashing face within the first 2 minutes of play and/or if the game doesn't play the exact same modern games do.
>>321766192
That's not native support you mong. Keep bone spearing shit "off screen".
>>321765231
Almost every Atari 2600 and related games are nigh unplayable nowadays.
>>321765231
When your console or PC is no longer physically able to play it.
>>321767045
This actually has logic too it. so many games these days are so multiplayer/online based once the community passes on or the servers are shut down, they become empty husks. A lot of new games wont be played in 2-5 years just because you can;t.
>>321767045
>game made in 2015
>does not even reach the release stage thanks to early access
>>321765231
Never. Fun games are fun.
>>321769393
Truth
If a game can,become too dated to play then it was never good in the first place
>>321769615
This, outdated games are the memegames of their day. Most aren't even remembered anymore.
People who complain about games aging are casuals who can't do without their awesome buttons
Depends on the game, Mario Bros holds up a lot better than Goldeneye
Goldeneye feels primitive and shitty now because we have much better things to compare it to. Even the most mediocre FPS plays infinitely better than Goldeneye.
>>321770050
>Goldeneye feels primitive and shitty now
Not really. Most FPS games today don't even bother with objectives or limb based damage/animations.
>>321770170
Those don't make it a good game because it still feels like shit to play.
>>321770170
>don't bother with objectives
Most games do though. Team death match arena games aren't even popular anon. Even cod is primarily objective game modes
>>321765231
For truly good games never, for modern AAA games, as soon as the next one's pre-orders open.
When it stops being fun
>>321770170
>this n64 kid damage control
>>321765231
When it's an old game that you like.
Conversely, when it's an old game that I don't like.
>>321765231
Depends entirely on the game. Galaga and Pac Man nowadays are still more playable than something like Goldeneye despite being much older.
When you're acasual.
But no seriously I don't think there's such a thing as "too dated to play" if the game is good. That's not to say that elements of games can't feel dated - stiff controls, especially common in early 3D stuff, are a killer for me, as are the ridiculously clunky/awkward old UIs you see in a lot of the more complex older games, especially on PC. But I think if the game is really good enough to be worth playing in the first place, it will still be worth playing even if bits of it are dated. They can drag it down a bit, but they can't ruin what was good about it in the first place.
Me personally, I can't play a lot of early 3D games because of how badly they've aged.
Not the graphics mind you, but the camera controls. Donkey Kong 64 is a recent example for me, as I tried to play it when it was released on the eShop and HOLY SHIT do the dated controls put a damper on the experience.
>>321770170
m8. I played Goldeneye almost every single day for 3 years back in the late 90s/early 2000s. It aged like fucking milk.
>>321773956
Skimmed milk is worst milk
never.
>>321765231
When the controls or game mechanics are shit compared to today's standards.
>>321775331
It did poison the well real well, instead
>>321767045
>>game made before 1986
>30 years
literally like 3 games from before 86 are even still playable today, this is stupid.
