10 modern PS4 games that have already aged poorly

10 Killzone Shadow Fall May Still Look Good But Its Story Belongs In The Past Some games, however, can look dated even after a couple of years. If a game has aged poorly, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a bad game, just that technology or some aspect of game design has noticeably progressed between the time of its release and now.

Graphically, Killzone Shadow Fall still holds up. It’s a beautiful-looking game with great art direction. But graphics are not the only way a game can age, and besides, nobody wants to just look around in a game the whole time. RELATED: Playstation: 5 Reasons To Reboot Jak And Daxter Next (& 5 To Reboot Sly Cooper)

It’s not surprising that a game that was in development for nine years already felt a bit outdated upon release. It was arguably outdated when it released in 2016. It’s only five years old at the time of writing, but besides seeming older than it actually is, The Last Guardian had a number of issues; frame rate problems and poor camera controls chief among them. Although filled with charm and the atmosphere of the developer’s previous games— Ico and Shadow of the Colossus— The Last Guardian was held back by its long development which caused it to age faster than it should have.

9 The Last Guardian’s Long Development Ensured It Would Feel Dated On Day 1 The story is borderline incomprehensible and full of plot holes; the AI is incompetent and impacts on the shooting; and there are countless strange design choices. The game wasn’t exactly well-received when it was released in 2013, but in the years since the game’s inadequacies have become all the more stark.

Mass Effect: Andromeda had a lot of problems, among them freezes, severe frame rate drops, and glitches such as NPCs duplicating or floating in some weird position. Its graphics were mediocre and the facial animations were so bizarre that no amount of patching could fix them. 8 Mass Effect: Andromeda Gets Worse As Time Advances

A port of a game that began as a mod for PC game ARMA 2 in 2012— though its final version wasn’t released until 2018 following a five-year period where the game was in Alpha— DayZ for the PS4 has not aged well. 7 DayZ Is A Port Of A Game Originally Released In 2013 & It Shows A victim of the series’ success, it becomes increasingly apparent as time goes on that Andromeda was a big step back for the franchise. For a time, it was the only way to play Mass Effect on a platform newer than PS3 and that caused some people to be kinder towards its issues, but the release of the Legendary Edition of the original trilogy has only further cemented Andromeda’s irrelevance.

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