>replay game from childhood >it's nowhere near as

Literally every single game you played as a kid.

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Mystical Ninja staring Goemon

I forgot what it felt like to have analog speed but only be able to move in 8 directions. Music is great tho.

For me it was Breath of Fire II. It's still good, just not great.

>awful soundtrack
>annoyingly frequent random encounter rate
>goofy translations

Still gonna keep playing it though

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>>379181097
>replay game from your childhood
>remember it as being insanely difficult
>beat everything on your first try

Banjo Kazooie

Not from childhood but Dark Souls 1 hasn't aged very well. I forgot how much I hate the beginning of the game until you get to the depths

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>replay game from childhood
>it's as good as you remember

F-Zero kinda sucks.

>>379181387
>remembering the wrong game
>that one was actually easy already finished it
Brain is hard

Final Fantasy. All of them.

>>379181097
For me it was destroy all humans!

Metroid

Mgs

>>379182141
Chill

>>379181097
runescape

>>379181097
Super Mario Bros, I don't remember it handling the way it does.

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>Driver 2

>>379181387
>replay game from your childhood
>remember it as being insanely difficult
>Get your ass beat
>remember beating the game as a kid
>Fuckin' A, 6-year-old me had tenacity

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>>379181097

>>379181387
>still have all your muscle memory
Damn, brain. Chill the fuck out.

>>379183174
The flaws became aparent after replaying it. I'm a Morrowindfag now, it has the same retarded leveling system but you aren't pressured to minmax it since there's no level scaling.

>>379183174
This, along with Morrowind.

>>379181097
Skyrim.

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>>379183739
>childhood
>skyrim

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>>379181387
>replay game from childhood
>remember it as being insanely difficult
>old enough to see its only difficult because it has bad controls
>stop playing

>>379183820
well skyrim is a 6 years old game, so he could be 12 by the time it came out

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Bomberman on NES

>>379181097
Probably San Andreas.

exploration is still fun, I still like the story/soundtrack and all but most if not all the gameplay mechanics aged like milk.

>>379181097
actually, almost non, at least not what I know

>>379181097
Jazz Jackrabbit

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This was kind of a frustrating game and seemed very difficult as a kid, but fucking around as all the monsters you could turn into was fun.

hell just using them in the different levels was fun

>>379181154
No, I still enjoy old Pokemon, Crash and Spyro as much as I used to.

Tried Clone wars on Gamecube this weekend.
I remenbered it as an overlooked gem but the controls are a little bit floaty, combat is not that satisfying and the few on foot section are pure garbage.
Still decent and I guess multiplayer can be fun, but nowhere near as good as I thought.

Jak and Daxter
It's so fucking boring, the only fun parts are the vehicles and the bosses.

Sonic Riders, I used to play the first game all day everyday, and after replaying it I could only last a few hours. Every race basically boils down to getting the 100 rings capsule and hoping some fucker doesn't cut in front of you, throwing you into a pit with his air trail. The mission mode is painful as fuck too, i couldn't even finish it as a kidm

Doesn't happen to me. Every game I try to replay fills me with joy and fullfillment.

>>379181097
Kingdom Hearts 2.

My best childhood vidya memories are playing Fusion Frenzy on the Xbox. I don't know if I could get enough people to replay with me to find out if it holds up.

WC3

Holy shit was the camera always that zoomed in? I cant fucking see anything and selecting units is a pain in the ass

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fucking Lego Racers 1

this game felt huge as a child, mostly because I fucking sucked, but now I'm older and learned how to cheese warp boosts. but even if you actively avoid using warp boosts, the game is actually still short as fuck

damn

Tomb raider

>>379181097
final fantasy tactics, not that it's bad or anything but when i was a kid i lloooovvvvveedddd it, now i only love it.

>>379181097

Not really childhood, but I LOVED Resident Evil 4 back in the Gamecube days and when I played it recently it was boring me out of my mind. So sad.

>>379186387
>Holy shit was the camera always that zoomed in?
Yes
>selecting units is a pain in the ass
How so? You can select all units on screen or unit by type, and tab-cycle between unit types. I really liked innovations in unit control compared to WC2 and StarCraft.

>>379183965
I was 13, got it for Christmas 2011 along with a fucking Geforce Gt 545. Good times.

>>379186815
I dont know man you can select like 12 at the time and they keep bumping into each other when moving. Also with the way camera is so low you can only see one group at a time. Not saying its unplayable or anything just very clunky

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Donkey Kong 64

Army Men: Toys in Space

Diablo 2
Every JRPG

Grinds very boring repetitive and unengaging being the problem with both.

>>379186387
I was gonna post this as well. I still love the game, but recently I was playing a custom map and realized this.

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>>379181559
Technically my teenage years, but this is still one of my favorite games.

I got the DS one but something about it just didn't feel the same.

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>replay Pokemon emerald thinking it'd be shit
>still God tier

Don't know how they fucked up oras so much

>>379181387
>replay game from your childhood
>remember it being insanely easy pulling top records and getting 1st place
>barely get 5th in every race

>>379181097
None, really. However, I do find that I've gotten worse at them.

>>379181097

no OP

you're not as good as you remember.

>>379181154
A lot of the games I played as a kid are actually better now than then since I'm less bewilderingly shit at them or understand the mechanics and direction better. Admittedly many are SHORTER than back then, owing to actually making reliable progress.

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i can't believe i found this game challenging when i was a kid

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>yfw you realize that's why things tend to get updated or re-imagined every 5 or 10 years, in the sense that what was amazing for you as 10 year old would be laughable to a 10 year old now

It's why I love Sonic Generations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtTwwMzHhk

This version of City Escape approximates what it was like for a 10 year old in 2001 playing it, although objectively it is way better, to account for modern 10 year olds having way higher standards due to technological progression.

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>>379186674
I came in to this thread to post this
As a kid I 100%ed RE4 and loved everything about it, but when I replayed it like 4 months ago, I couldn't even get past the village I was so bored
Maybe it was one of those weeks

>>379181097
Pokemon Red/Blue.

Gex games.

>>379181097
Bought Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge the other day because it was just a fucking quid thinking "oi this game was mint as a kid so why not?" and good god did I make a mistake.

>>379181154
not at all

>>379181097
>game
>good

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>>379189982
You were trying to replicate the sense of awe you had when you first played RE4.. but ya can't because you already played it. It has nothing to do with RE4 really. You're a tired old man thinking he's gonna get a thrill out of going back to a prostitute that he remembered having a good time with once.

Alex Kidd, the one you play rock paper scissors for the genesis

Super Thunder Blade

Paper Mario 64.

The more I play it, the more I realize that Nintendo started giving up a little halfway through the game.

Koopa Bros chapter is great.
Tutankoopa chapter is great.
Tubba Blubba chapter is good.
General Guy chapter is great.

Then you have to go to the jungle/volcano and it's obvious they started caring less about level design.

Then you have to go to the worst chapter of the whole game, flower fields, which looks ugly, sounds ugly, has bad dialogue, and it has forced backtracking that isn't enjoyable at all whatsoever. The only good part of flower fields is the boss, he's fun to fight.

Then you gotta go to the completely forgettable, boring, and linear Crystal Palace.

Years ago I used to think Paper Mario 64 was a near perfect video game.

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>>379181097
>crash bandicoot
>actually just a shitty temple run with collectables and bosses
oh

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It is also more difficult than I remember.

>>379182113
Fuck you...unless you're talking about Super Metroid in which case you're correct, the midgame is tedious

>>379185613

On Jak II the aiming fucking sucks so you have to waste a fuckload of ammo doing spamming the spin shoot thing. The respawn points are also merciless.

>>379191920
That's bullshit and you know it.

>>379192495

Crash has never been good, ever.

>>379191920

Not him, but someone with a similar RE4 experience. I don't feel that way with other games I replay, though. That would only be true if every game I replayed I felt that way.

Phantasy Star Online

>>379193118
I know that now

>>379193136
If that's true then why does everyone love RE4? It actually seems to be a pattern with the series. Everyone loves them but then you go back and play them and you're shocked by how clunky, lame and boring they are. But I still don't think they are bad games.. Very weird.

>>379181097
Blake Stone. Only game I finished as a kid. Tried playing it again some time ago and by God I could barely tolerate it for more than a few minutes.

Jokes on you I've always had patrician taste.

>>379193884

I don't know why I felt bored by it. I loved it back in the day, replayed it many, many times in the Gamecube days and Inlove all the other RE games as well, except for 5 and 6, though 5 is still a fun co-op game.

I can replay RE1 or RE2 just fine, RE3 I don't replay cause it scares me too much, but RE4 I simply can't replay anymore.

>>379181553
>The best part of the game is the worst
I love this meme

Infinity Engine RPG's. I mean the visual charm is still there, they are beautiful and some of them have great atmosphere and interesting stories, but my god is the actual gameplay in most of them awful. Dn'D is not the best system even in it's raw form, and it's translation into videogames was awkward as fuck.

Also... I guess Shogo: Mobile Armor Division? I still love the game, but my god is it awful, gameplaywise.
Oh yeah, and I used to love the Aladdin and Lion King platformers as a kid. My god - I can't even begin comprehending how could have I even PLAY those fucking things. They are beautiful, but my god are they frustratingly hard.

I think that is all though. Most of the games I loved as a kid, I still love today. I mean I can see a lot more flaws than I used to (like the realization of just how AWFUL the enemy design and general encounter design was in System Shock 2 was) but none of those flaws are particularly important, and most of those games still hold up.

Might and Magic 8
Heroes of Might and Magic 2

I used to love these games obsessively. Look back at them, particularly Might and Magic 8... wow. That was some shallow ass awful gameplay right there.

Shadow of the Beast, I was too young to even know the concept, but even by the standards of its time it was considered style over substance.
Psygnosis was the kino dev of the age.

The theme tune still holds together though, like pretty much every piece of Amiga music does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLrRv_qWlp8

>>379194350
Careful, you're going to trigger all the "true RPG fans" around here

>>379181097
KOTOR
but it's still better than what bioware's putting out these days

>>379195681
I don't really care. I'm not saying those were bad games. At their time, they were great, and there was so much work put into them. I don't think I'm committing any kind of heresy here. And anyone who is a TRUE actual RPG fan has to be able to admit that I'm not wrong on this.
The games were gorgeously made with a lot of passion and they were worth playing through, but the system was not good.

>>379189320
>Diablo 3
>kid

>>379181387
>replay game from your childhood
>remember it as being insanely difficult
>it really is

>>379181097
every sonic the hedgehog game

megaman holds up though

>>379181097
Lots of old RPGs.

Lufia 2.
Robotrek.
Evo
Illusion of Gaia

But, hands down, the worst was Alundra.
It's simply endless dungeon after endless dungeon, with 2 minute story departures.

Donkey Kong 64

Who enjoys this shit?!

how did I enjoy it as a kid?!

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>>379186979

>>379181097
>replay a game from childhood
>it's fucking comfy as fuck

Am I the only one?

>>379196204
Robotrek always sucked

>>379196382

Nah, I replayed Megaman Legends 2 for the first time in years back in December. Shit's still fantastic.

>>379181337
Literally any JRPG at this point

I can't get into random battles as an adult anymore, it just feels like work rather than fun

>>379181097
Lego Racers.
I replayed it because it is often praised here and I had fond memories about it.
Then I replayed it and, boy, what a mess. At least building your own car is cool.

>>379196493
It didn't as a kid, when you had a really limited pool of money and time to put into a game.

I thought the customization was really cool at the time, until I emulated it and realized that the combo moves were just random bankrupt/jackpot concoctions that could either make the game incredibly easy or completely impossible.

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The controls mainly ruin the experience.

>>379181468

I unfortunately agree. I mean, it's still a solidly made fucking game, but it's barely as challenging or even as charming as most of the knockoff wannabe platformers of the early 2000s.

Mario Kart 64, and I say this as someone who can still play Goldeneye. 64 feels like the worst MK to actually play to me now, barring battle mode which is still a series best.

Only Spyro 1 for me, 2 is still god tier and 3 is still "i'll probably finish it one day".
Honorable mention goes to every FF game.

>>379192652

I've come to find most Metroidvanias as pretty terrible. There's just so much "me get item, me do stuff me couldn't do with objects on screen me couldn't have cleared". And it barely feels like gameplay, it's just like entering a gate but glorified. Only when there's actual customization for the path you take is it worth anything. And those games rarely attempt it.

>>379197317
>Only when there's actual customization for the path you take is it worth anything.
You're in the wrong genre then.
Don't blame Metroid for that.

Banjo Kazooie

As a kid I found it incredible and also really hard. Now I think its pretty easy and just a boring collection simulator. Its so boring

>>379181337
BoFII had neat ideas but terrible balance and execution, BoFIII and BoFIV are so much better.

>>379195681
>>379196000
You have terrible taste. What you are saying is equivalent to hailing dumb and dumber as the greatest movie franchise of all time.

>>379199134
>What you are saying is equivalent to hailing dumb and dumber as the greatest movie franchise of all time.
What the fuck? How? I did not even mention which RPG's I do like for their gameplay. What the fuck are you on about?

>>379199134
Infinity engine games are unsurpassed across the board.

>>379199463
Unsurpassed in what regard exactly?

>>379200264
Storytelling, atmosphere, companions, worldbuilding (Torment and Baldurs gate) complex and satisfying combat, if a little imbalanced but you can opt not to cheese (BG and IWD). Anything that makes an rpg good really. Only thing a little lacking is actual roleplaying (though it's pretty good in torment).

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>>379181154
>play thousand year door as a kid
>it's great
>just finished replaying it two days ago
>it was fun the entire time

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>>379183957
>still remember powering through it as a kid to completion
>tfw you dont have that kind of patience or determination anymore
>life is suffering

>>379188353
i remember playing that game as a teen and busting a nut to liv

lol

>>379189320
>this game came out 5 years ago

I keep thinking Diablo III and Starcraft II are relatively new releases. Fuck man. I remember playing the shit out of Diablo II and then getting fucking hyped and cumming from excitement at Diablo II lord of destruction. Same with Starcraft Brood War. God Diablo III fucking sucked. Starcraft II was alright.

>>379201824
>Storytelling,
Actually, the infinity RPG's did not have amazing stories or storytelling with the obvious exception of Planescape. Icewind Dale and Baldurs Gate had as generic boring fantasy plots conveyed by the same dull text-dumps through dialogues as it gets.

>atmosphere
Morrowind, Gothic, The Witcher

>companions
Arguably Fallout and Arcanum? I don't know. I might give you this one point. Planescape did have some amazing companions.

>worldbuilding
NOPE. Again, Planescape has an interesting world, but it's not actually a very good world-building. Which in this case is not a bad thing, because world-building is not necessarily a positive aspect. BG and IW have atrocious worldbuilding, since they are set in Forgotten realms. Morrowind did incomparably better job at this, and Fallout got very close behind.

>complex and satisfying combat
What? OK, I'm was going to seriously disagree with you but then I realized that I can't really name an RPG with considerably more satisfying combat, since combat being shit in RPG's is pretty much a given. So... fine, I'll give you this point too.

>. Only thing a little lacking is actual roleplaying (
Doesn't that count a big deal in RPG? I don't know I'd just assume that given the nature of the genre, the defining feature of the genre should have SOME relevance...

Planescape has good writing and story and good companions, I'll give you that without batting my eye. But the combat and the actual character-building is ATROCIOUS.
BG and IW has passable combat by RPG standards, but the story, writing and world-building is pretty much garbage. Charming in it's own way, but not good. There are plenty of RPG's that surpass it.

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>>379181154
nay

>>379192405
i just replayed this game on virtual console recently, i actually enjoyed those chapters. getting the ultra hammer and ultra boots feels rewarding as hell, and then entering shiver city and crystal palace area when you finally have all your end game equipment is exciting as shit, plus the shiver city area has amazing music.

bowser's castle was an amazing chapter too; i love that all the party members are useful

Spider-Man 2

>>379202425
The actual writing in baldurs gate is great. I like the style of prose, characters have alot of charm and there is a good amount of humor. The story isn't great but the writing elevates it, especially the wordy dialogue. You're right about the worldbuilding being bad though, on reflection.

The only true answer to OPs question is Maplestory and all the memories you have of it as a kid playing with your friends, whether it was your IRL friends or friends you met online playing the game. I have never felt such a sense of community or feeling of working together to accomplish something in a game since then. Meeting people in online games, specifically maplestory, NEVER happens anymore, but back then it was rampant. I remember actually paying the ingame currency to expand my buddy list because people were so friendly. Those times will never come back ever again, and that is a horrible feeling. I keep trying to play old private servers but it's not the same. The community isn't there, there aren't as many players, and I just get bored because I have nobody to talk to while grinding or questing. Nobody works together in these games anymore and it's really sad. Those are some of my fondest memories from ages 12 - 15 for me.

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Five Nights at Freddy's

>>379202807
I honestly can barely even remember the plot of Baldur's Gate games. I remember Irenicus, who I'll admit was a charismatic antagonist, and a few characters (Minsc and Boo, vaguely remember that Imoen and Jaheira were there doing... something) but everything else blends together into a generic mess of standard fantasy contrivances. It was not horrible - outside of the actual world, which I just... I just really don't like it - just weirdly unmemorable. I remember enjoying every line of Fallout 1 and 2 (though admitedly, the writing on Fallout 1 was hugely inconsistent and some of it was horrible, while some was amazing), it all stuck with me for ages. Can't say the same about Baldur's Gate.

I did spend a LOT of time playing those games too. I grew up with infinity RPG: first Icewind Dale 1, then Baldurs Gate 1 and 2, then the dissapointment that was Icewind Dale 2 and finally Planescape. And I'm fucking glad I did play them. But I can't come back to them. They bore me. Maybe Planescape is something I could get back into if I found the patience and time, but not any of the others. Fallout 1/2, Arcanum, Morrowind, Gothic, all of those I actually reboot every couple of years and my joy with them does not diminish in the slightest.

I had similar experience with Dragon Age Origins too. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit when it came out, but I tried booting it up again recently and... oh my god. There is nothing PARTICULARLY wrong with it, but it just kinda feels like a waste of time. And I can't shake off the feeling that BG and IW are very much the same category to me.

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>>379181097
capcom vs snk2

>>379187669
Would say this but the backtracking drove me nuts as a kid and having to do that for most of the game really overpowers any positive memories I had playing DK64.

I didn't really play that many RPGs as a kid, but I would imagine those types of games aging the worst. At least a good, albeit short, platforming game is still good 15+ years later due to being fundamentally competent.

>>379181097
MegaMan Legends 1/2.

Misadventures is still good.