10 Video Games That Aged Badly For Surprising Reasons

The Budokai series of Dragon Ball Z games were solid fighting games that were fun, interesting, and had great cel-shaded visuals. Sure the games had terrible balance, but said lack of balance was canonical. So what could possibly ruin such a great game's reputation nowadays?

The great music.

How does great music make a game age poorly? Because Yamamoto Kenji, one of the long-time composers for the Dragonball franchise, was accused of plagiarizing other songs in 2010.

We're not talking about sampling some classics, we're talking about lifting whole bars from already great songs. If not for the fact that some of the songs are pretty obscure things, we can't believe it took as long as it did for the plagiarism to be found out.

Toei ultimately sacked the famous composer and replaced much of his music from the Budokai series in later releases. But playing the old originals now and hearing that banging soundtrack just makes you think about the end of a man's career.

The fact that the tracks are bangin' don't help matters - just listen to the originals he ripped-off when you get the chance.