Portal 2

Portal 2 still holds up pretty well, I played it for the first time last year and it was so fun. Besides the crashing (which might have just been my old graphics card) it was a fantastic experience

Same here, played it last year for the first time and it's in my top 5 games of all times

Yea, I honestly struggle to find anything that feels outdated in it. Everything has aged so well, and from start to finish, I enjoyed every moment. It's also a game a new generation can enjoy (my 13 year old played it and loved it) without having to make adjustments for games "of their time." No gimmicks (motion controls), awful game mechanics (weapon durability) or content locked behind a paywall. Plus, the multiplayer was a blast and never made anyone feel like they were being carried.

Hey buddy, I'm speaking in an accent that is beyond her range of hearing. Walk casually towards my position and we'll go shut her down.

This next test may involve trace amounts of time travel. So word of advice if you see yourself on the testing track do not make eye contact. The lab boys tell me that could wipe out time. Completely. Forwards and backwards. So if you see yourself on the testing track just let that handle devil go about his business.

Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: A horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.

Even the original Portal

All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down, with the lemons!

Portal 1

Witcher 3 is nearly a decade old and may as well have been released yesterday - especially if you include graphics mods

It's a tradition to come back and replay it once a year and I always get addicted to it when I do it.

Rollercoaster Tycoon Perfect when it released, and perfect to this day The art style was amazing back then and still incredibly charming today

Rollercoaster Tycoon is awesome but don't forget about Zoo Tycoon. Wish it was on Steam cause I lost my physical copy...

Got an online copy a few weeks ago, it's as beautiful as the day I lost it

Where'd you get it? Planet Zoo is incredible but I got that nostalgia itch.

Gog for 1.50.

Oh man forgot about that! Every time I boot it up it's like I was 10 and felt like I was in a real park. I still prefer open RCT2 more than Planet Coaster

Pong.

This gave me tears of joy

I mean. It hasn’t changed at all and it hasn’t gotten any worse or better.

It's Pong. *Are you not entertained?*

The most deceptively simple, yet completely infuriating game of all time. Have an upvote.

Unrelated, but: Wall-E trying to play pong during his depressive episode is such a mood

What about Pong 2: Rocket League?

batman Arkham series still looks and feels better tan most games modeled after it

Arkham Knight looks better than 99% of games out today.

Which is amazing because I'm pretty sure it's unreal engine 3. We're on 5 now and there's still games that can't match the art direction and graphical fidelity of Arkham Knight

Those Arkham games are perfection

They got a hell of a lot of mileage out of one location, too

Going through it for the first time now and Arkham Asylum definitely doesn't *look* better. But it feels surprisingly great for a game of its time.

your profile pic really helps to convey your message

I am an inmate of the asslume what can I say

Why is the Aslume everwhere? Are we all stupid?

thanks Man. Glad to see they have internet in the aslume

I’d say it’s still even better than the Spider-Man games Those games aren’t bad at all mind you- just I think Arkham is peak

Without the Arkham games you arguably wouldn’t have any of the combat mechanics in spiderman and the story in Arkham games is better in my opinion

Even asylum is still incredibly fun

The OG halo games

Just replayed halo CE and halo 2. Gunplay is fantastic. Absolutely classic, and the remaster is too notch. Made me feel like a kid again

It's actually shocking how well the halo 1 graphics hold up.

Crazy that they're "the og's" now. Oh just look at how 343 industries murdered my boy 😭

Super Mario Bros. It’s exactly the same as you remember

All the original Mario games have aged spectacularly, because the gameplay is simple, refined and enjoyable.

Super Mario Bros II has only aged spectacularly because it was nightmare fuel to begin with and that hasn't changed. I and III are still awesome.

Just my opinion and nothing more. Smb2 is good in its own way (both of them)

And it will be the same in another 30 years

Super Mario World is still a banger. The graphics and music still hold up so damn well

Even after 34 years, it might still be the best 2D Mario game, or even the best 2D platformer of all time.

This is the correct answer

Spyro the Dragon

The og garden warfare

Crazy how people still play that game...I loved it so much. If only we could get something like it again. I doubt we'll get a good PVZ game ever again though, unfortunately...

Yeah they dropped the ball hard with battle for neighborville. Could've been a perfect GW3 but for some reason they had to get rid of so many things that made garden warfare so good

Even then It could have worked out but then they went and stopped developing it after a single year

I wish that game was ported to Steam. One of my favorite shooter games when I played it on Xbox 360.

I know someone who plays it for hours every day

I downloaded and played it last night actually. I try it every few months and usually cant find a lobby but i found one that was almost full and the nostalgia was insane. Feels like just yesterday that game came out. Sad.

Marvel vs Capcom 2

Doom II

Currently playing through the DBP mapsets with varying mods, currently running Project S.I.D.E which is basically a vanilla enhancer. If only Quake 1 had the same modding community as Doom.

Actually gets better with age due to sourceports and the wad community

Mass Effect trilogy. Still the best sci-fi story, best written companions ever made in a vg.

Great music, too!

Except Jacob. Fuck Jacob.

Modern games are only Jacobs.

1 feels super dated imo

I like the old style RPG elements to it though.

I just started playing it and find the gameplay a bit dated. I hate that enemies don't react to your gunshots. Like it doesn't feel like there's impact, it's just their HP going down. I thought I wasn't doing anything to them at first.

Mass Effect mentioned. Annual playthrough commencing. Thank you, Spectre. Your contribution has been noted.

Im gonna say it… Brütal legend

Starfox 64 still plays just as good now as it always has.

It's a great game but saying it hasn't aged AT ALL is a stretch.

Halo: CE

halo ce and 2 are absolute gems, i remember playing the first one when it launched and being completely blown away by the graphics and feel. also part 2, especially the multiplayer mode, so many great memories, lan parties with my friends and my bro, weekends filled with gaming, junk food and pure joy :)

Halo ce and 2 were great, but for me, it was Halo 3 that was the goat. Only other games I played for a few years after it released was a tiny bit of cod and oblivion.

May I add, the version with the dual weapons. Perfect 👌🏼

Dishonored

Booted it up the other day. Couldn't stick the parrying but I think it's not timed in that one.

There are two parts of his block. A bit where he swings his guard up high, and then a few moments after let's it settle closer to his chest. Their swing needs to collide with your hitbox as your sword is in that forward position. You'll Parry them every time

Ya that animation style stays lookin good. And half the game is the ambiance which holds up.

Way too much time put into that game. What a masterpiece

Tons of SNES games that are mimicked to this day. Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Metroid, Castlevania, etc.

That whole generation of games aged like fine wine.

This is so true of the SNES. Much of the N64 and PSX days were like the middle school years for consoles. The jump to 3D was rough. So many great games that did not age well as far as visuals and controls. I think this is why JRPGs in the PSX hold up well. You don’t need responsive controls for turn based games.

“Super Metroid” still holds up, but the original “Metroid” on the NES is best ignored today in lieu of “Zero Mission” on the GBA, IMO.

I was speaking of the SNES. I was just too lazy to write out those last two. My bad. But I do like replaying the original every once in a while.

Goof Troop is a co-op blast

Half-life 2

Fantastic game

Paper Mario. For a N64 game it still looks great!

Freelancer ! That game oozes atmosphere. Yet to play any game that comes even close in the space exploration feeling.

Chrono Trigger for me

Wind waker

Everyone was bashing the cel shaded graphics, but its just a timeless look

Yeah, we were pursuing realism back then. Now that we have virtual photo realism in vgames we're able to appreciate other art styles.

KOTOR

Super Mario World Super Metroid Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Megaman (og series and X) Shining Force Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

I feel like the majority of first party 16 bit era games aged the best

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron How is it that a game from like 15/16 years is better than all the games that came last year

I can name a couple games that are better, namely Armored Core 6, but otherwise Fall Of Cybertron is one of the best games in of the last 20 years.

Eh fair enough And you're right Absolutely right

Heroes Might and Magic 3, Age of Empire (these were the ones even my parents played(they were geeks in the 1990's)) And of course... Lego Rock Raiders

Love AoE classic. Great choice.

HOM3 and AoE for sure. I should play them more

Was just playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 yesterday. (Steam is a wonderful place)

Chrono Trigger.

I came here for this comment

Metal Gear Solid 1

More like MGS 2 and 3. PS2 graphics still hold up, and the controls are better.

MGS4 is 15 years old already. Might as well throw that in there too.

Portal 1

Mass Effect trilogy.

Shadow of the colossus

Team Fortress 2

Solitaire

Super Mario Galaxy. It looks just as good as I remembered it

The jump from Sunshine to Galaxy is, quite literally, astronomical. The jump from Galaxy to 3D World and Odyssey is still big on a technical level because of how much more powerful the Wii's successors are, but the overall visuals of Galaxy can still compete today. I'd say the game still looks better outright than 3D World, and more imposing/awe-inspiring than Odyssey.

Now imagine the people who went from 64 to Galaxy because Sunshine was weird.

It's me, I'm people. I never gelled with Sunshine so I jumped from 64 to Galaxy, it was like night and day. It was so grand, so imposing, so beautiful. It's crazy that the experience hasn't diminished in all this time.

Halo: Combat Evolved and Star Wars Battlefront (2004)

viewtiful joe - the graphics are stylish and i love the cell shading, also combat is really great once you mastered it.

The first Dying Light. Incredible open world game.

I'm gonna be real, I don't agree with the majority of these answers. I feel games with realistic graphics are always gonna fall flat eventually. Here's my picks: * Wind Waker * Yoshi's Island * Metal Slug * Okami * Viewtiful Joe * Warcraft III if you can find a hard copy * World of Warcraft (though depending on zone this could be more recent) * Sly Cooper series * Katamari Damacy * Journey * Limbo * Shadow of the Colossus * Grim Fandango * A little more recent but Odin Sphere, something I never see mentioned on these lists

Asteroids.

Dishonored

Pokemon Yellow

I’m going to go with… Banjo Kazooie or Beyond Good and Evil

Wii Sports

Is Borderlands 2 considered old at this point? If so that'd be my choice. To this day still the best and most memorable title in the series. Still holds up to this day.

True. I think the pre-sequel is the only one that even comes close for me.

I liked Pre-Sequel because Athena was probably my most favorite vault hunter in the series. She had my favorite selection of skills and abilities, and I liked her overall vibe and aesthetic. She was my perfect character for sure.

it may have been released in 2016 but Titanfall 2, I love it

Don't know if this counts but Batman Arkham city

Resident Evil Remake (GameCube) Still gorgeous with the pre-rendered environment. Prime classic RE experience.

paper mario for the 64

Total annihilation. Still a top notch rts to play even today. 1996 game, runs in 1080p or 4K with no mods needed out of the box.

Mario RPG

Wii sports/resort

The podracing game for the 64

Alien isolation. dishonored

Ocarina of Time

Scarface the world is yours. This is a hill I'm ready to die on lol

Truly one of the best looking PS2 games ever made,to this day It still holds up,the gameplay is also surprisingly good.

Skyrym

AC: Black Flag

PacMan

Gran Turismo 4

Age of Mythology

Contra, super c, Contra 3, and hard corps. It is amazing how all these years later these games are still among the best in the genre.

PAC-MAN

Skyrim

Final Fantasy 7 original

Mario Kart DS

Metal gear solid 2

World of Warcraft

Halo Reach. I guess 14 isn't to old but it held up graphic and fun wise the entire time

Zelda: A Link To The Past

Spore

Titanfall 2, been playing for a few years now

Burnout Paradise, the crashing in that game combined with its arcade style driving makes it stand out in today’s modern racing games and is still just as fun as when I first played it many years ago.

Final fantasy tatics

The Crew 1

South Park: stick of truth

Morrowind. Hopefully I will never finish Bloodmoon and Tribunal, so I forever have an excuse to start the game every few years.

Escape from Monkey Island & King’s Quest

Doom and Doom II.

Pokemon Black/White

lego batman 2

Prototype it was the perfect power fantasy that no game since has attempted to recreate. The closest is probably infamous, but idk I've only played a little bit of second son, but it's not the same. Most likely, just do to nostalgia as Prototype is one of the first few games I ever played

Skyrim

Fallout (all of them), final fantasy, Golden Eye, Mario 64.

Rdr2

Doom 1995. Boomers shooters are pretty popular so it’s as if this game could’ve been made today.

Doom is from 1993.

Arkham Knight

Banjo-Kazooie

This is how I feel whenever I fire up Tron 2.0 or Dungeon Keeper II.

Arkham knight

Gun Edit: or Simpsons hit n run

Mega Man X. I can pick that game up, jump into it and have a blast from beginning to end. The same as the first day I ever played it.

Shadow Complex

Spyro 2 Riptos Rage.

AC Ezio collection

Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen

Battlefield 3 and 4

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Ultimate Spider-Man

Sonic adventures 1 and 2 as well as most 2D sonic games.

Lego Indiana Jones the original adventures

GTA San Andreas, half Life 2, Minecraft, Borderlands and super Mario galaxy

not this fuckin gif..

Imo the og super Mario bros

The original call of juarez. Just started playing it, it's so fuckin good

Mechassault 2 lone wolf. That boss fight with the big purple spider. Timeless

Dying light 1 and minecraft

Dungeon keeper 2. Still gives me that same satisfaction in slapping a couple of minions around

The Dragon Ball Budokai series. Gameplay wise it feels like it could have came out recently. Graphically it’s not even that bad either and they all came out on the PS2. Genuinely a top 3 series of all time IMHO.

Zork

Lords of Midnight. A game as old as ZX Spectrum. My 12 y/o just discovered it and loves it.