Biggest gaming disapointments, (Rose tinted glasses)

[Ravens Nest]

What games did you think to yourselves, i have not played that for ages let's load it up and have a go.

And then realise the game is not quite as good as you remembered?

My Votes would be for.

Thief
Graphics look awful now, used to get immersed in the atmosphere and hide in the dark corners, now i run about hitting people with the sword.

Myth 1 & 2
Used to play them for hours sending my dwarfs out with there molitov cocktails in hand blowing stuff up and the graphics were stunning

Now it seems too hard to control and the graphics whats happened there all blurry.

Now what games do you wish you'd left in the past and never resurrected??

[Raz316]

Big Red Racing, loved it when it first came out, played it 3 years later and it was just plain dull :/

[directhex]

none, cos every game i label as a classic REALLY IS one of the best games ever

i much just rock

--jo

[Bindibadgi]

Resident Evil 2

Used to play it on my voodoo 1 and 4meg Diamond PCI cards and it used to be the best game since.. ever. However now i tryed to play it and it doesnt save in XP, doesnt play right cause you dont use the mouse at all and the graphics are... well, voodoo 1/PSX age: 640x480x16bit software mode is the max itll do.

[directhex]

it is? i played it at 1024x768, tho all the textures are a much lower res so it doesn't help much

[Bindibadgi]

Well my (legal) copy doesnt do it. The textures are resized from 320x240x16bit as well.

[Kilrov]

Theme Hospital - spent days on it when I was younger, recently loaded it up and was not too impressed

Red Alert - Good game but its just about gettin tons of unts and then steamrolling the other teams

[Maffu]

Getaway. Please, getaway.

Lotus Racing. Originally bought it for £39.99. It went back within the day. Bought it a few months later for £9.99. More of a result.

[liquid-fix]

Quake 1, loved it but just couldnt hack the no mouse look when i went back to it.
Fix

[directhex]

erm

load up the console, type "+mlook"

don't think i could have played it the first time without the mouse...

--jo

[fondie]

Originally posted by liquid-fix
Quake 1, loved it but just couldnt hack the no mouse look when i went back to it.
Fix

hehe. as directhex said.

QW is still awesome, mad speed, and with FuhQuake it looks respectable as well. even now i can't think of many better multiplayer games.

Zelda : Ocarina of Time, i'm never going to say it isn't one of the greatest games ever made, but playing it next to the Wind Waker i was shocked at how poor the graphics looked, not as i remembered when i first played it, but then the graphics are just a means to an end and the story remains a classic.

[Raz316]

Originally posted by fondie
Zelda : Ocarina of Time, i'm never going to say it isn't one of the greatest games ever made, but playing it next to the Wind Waker i was shocked at how poor the graphics looked, not as i remembered when i first played it, but then the graphics are just a means to an end and the story remains a classic.

Haha yeah, i totally agree with this one!

[Trash Man]

Wings on the Amiga. I used to play that games for hours and hours, over and over again. I bought an Amiga about 2 years ago just to play the game again and I was shocked to thing I has wasted all my time playing it. It killed all the quality memories I had of the game.

I see it's out on GBA next month, dunno what it is gonna be like on that, but I might just have to invest £18 into to find out, can't be any worse than the Amiga version.

[Ravens Nest]

Dont buy it again trashman, just get an emulator for the amiga and find wings somewhere on the internet

That reminds me when i went back and had a go at supercars i found that that was a major disapointment to no adrenaline rush anymore

And also Stunt car racer, but i wouldnt mind buying a PC 3d accelerated new version

[Trickle]

Stunt car racer is as good as it ever was!
Ok, maybe not quite

Wings was a 2 disk game? I can never get 2 diskers running on my Amiga emulator properly
Need an expert guide on them I think.

[Ravens Nest]

Originally posted by Trickle
Stunt car racer is as good as it ever was!
Ok, maybe not quite

Wings was a 2 disk game? I can never get 2 diskers running on my Amiga emulator properly
Need an expert guide on them I think.

I use WINUAE and run the first disk as normal and when it asks for disk 2 i press F12 on the keyboard and change the floppy to Disk 2 then press o.k. and it goes back into the game then loads the second disk.