Which Classic Games Have Aged Well?

thesp writes "We're all waiting for the releases of the next great games (naming no names) which have been mentioned over and over again here on Slashdot. No doubt they will look gorgeous and even be playable on not-too-unreasonable hardware. But there are some games that have an inherent capability to expand to take advantage of higher resolutions and improved rendering as the technology progressed. Would Slashdot like to suggest other titles that, although consigned to multipacks and bargain bins, have aged well and are even more beautiful in their old age, on modern systems, than they ever could be at the time of their release?" This may be subtly different to titles with "Olympian system requirements" at time of release, a category that definitely includes Ultima IX.

Comments

Quake 3 Arena

[Ayanami Rei]

5 years proudly benchmarking 3D accelerators and CPUs. I'd say it's had a pretty good run.

Age of Empires 2

[omibus]

Still one of the best, I still play it. Often.

Actually, this was the first game I was able to get my wife to play.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

[PeteyG]

Great game! Better than Civ3 in a few ways. Light hardware requirements, still looks good, incredibly good game.

Plus there's a Linux version floating around.

All of the games that id released the source for

[foidulus]

People are still doing some interesting things with Doom/Doom II and Quake. Since they are open source they can adapt when new technologies come out. Plus the whole map/mod community has done a lot of interesting things with them.

'Craft all the way

[xanderwilson]

Maybe it's because they're about the only computer games I still have (or maybe they're the only ones I still have because I enjoy them over and over), but I can keep going back to Starcraft and Warcraft II when I need a gaming fix.

Even the campaign games are fun again after a year or so away from the game.

Alex.

Ultima 7 / 7.5

[Randolpho]

I just finished replaying both Ultima 7 and Ultima 7.5 on my much more modern machine, thanks to Exult.

I'd say the Ultima series has aged very well. I had a blast replaying the game, and I was more immersed than I've been in a long time.

As for immersion... I'd have to give kudos to the Civ series... I still replay Civ II all the time, but Civ III has me so hooked my wife is ready to divorce me.