I regularly play old games, so hard to say if I am biased. For example, I played Shenmue (1999) for the first time with the beasts from the east and loooved it.
That said, I have a blankspot with 90s FPS games, so I am trying to rectify that right now. These are cases where maybe I had touched or seen these games played, but never dove deep myself.
So, recently, I have played the following for the first time:
Of these four, generally I find that Wolf, Doom & Deus EX hold up quite well. The first two because they are so simple and arcadey, and the last, which, after some re-keybinding, is very playable in a modern setting. Yes, much less forgiving than most FPS today, but mechanically similar to what you'd expect to play today.
Dark Forces I bet would be awesome for people who played a ton of similar FPS back in the day, but for me it is such a weird blend of mechanically simple & complex levels with some really hard to use controls (page up / down for look up / down) and a map that is so, so hilariously hard to read at first you think the devs are playing with you.
//> I will say that, in general, I don't really believe that games "hold up" or not as far as the experience of people who generally play games goes. Your skills & history with games just affect that concept too much, as will the stance you're bringing in with you, such as looking for a good time, historical curiosity, or something else.
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