10 Classic Video Games That DON'T Hold Up

9. Might & Magic: World of Xeen

If you’re an enormous GoldenEye fan and I just hurt your feelings, here’s me coming for my own childhood game so we can all feel attacked together.

Might & Magic: World of Xeen is a combination game that includes Might & Magic 4 and 5. I still go back and play Might & Magic VIII pretty regularly and even that I would wildly struggle to recommend to even the most diehard CRPG fan in 2022, so sadly 4 and 5 are pretty much right out.

These New World Computing classics came out in a golden age of RPGs. Unfortunately that golden age being the early 90s, they haven’t quite kept up with the times. These were some of the earliest games to utilise animated cutscenes and pulse-code modulation, sound-based speech which is all very impressive. But not so impressive nowadays.

The interface is nigh-on impenetrable now and the graphics are what you’d expect from a game that came out in 1993.

It’s less of an issue with the later Might & Magic games as the interface evolved quite a bit and graphically they started using sprites for character models instead of ugly 3D models, but that change only happened after World of Xeen released. Might & Magic, we thank you very much for your service to party-based, turn-based combat RPGs but I begrudge no one for picking up Divinity Original Sin 2 instead.