Yeah, I get this - obviously it's game-dependent (and there are exceptional examples that have aged well, as pointed out by others), but I generally find this

Yeah, I get this - obviously it's game-dependent (and there are exceptional examples that have aged well, as pointed out by others), but I generally find this game-breakingly noticeable when I've tried to play older 3D games. I was at a games exhibition recently which had a huge collection of playable historic games, and the one that really stood out was Tomb Raider, which was almost almost impossible to play, the graphics are just horrific. But more recently, I tried to play Fallout on the PS3, and gave up, mainly because of the graphics. I felt the same about Skyrim. Compared to something like LA Noire on the PS3, the gulf in graphics was huge. The more I think about it, it's not as much the graphics per se that age things terribly, it's how populated the world is, and how reactive it is to player actions. GTA2, for example, is still quite a lot of fun, and I found it much more playable than GTA3