Classic games you are ashamed you never played

Mcjmetroid

I'm going to have to go with Final Fantasy VII here.. I have to admit though, I seriously doubt I'd like it. I'm very picky on RPG titles.

Haven't played metroid other M either being a self-proclaimed metroid fan... but from what I hear its far from being a classic.

Retr0gamer

Probably the Bioware RPGs and Planescape Torment. Also started but never finished Beyond Good and Evil, Psychonauts and Deus Ex. Dragon Quest pre-DQ 8 I really need to play as well. Also Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne needs more love from me.

James Howlett

I wouldn't say I'm ashamed that I never played a particular game. Growing up I didn't have access to all platforms, the biggest being the SNES. I occassionally got to rent the console from videoshops and the like and so only got to play a handful of games. What I have never played at all would be Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger and most of the Castlevania & MegaMan games.

Shame however could apply to my playtrough of Zelda: Link to the Past. I played that game when I borrowed a SNES console from a friend but I stopped for whatever reason in Turtle Rock and left Link there since 1998. So close...

FearDark

Mario world 2.

Which is strange as mario world on the SNES is my fav game of all time...

katharinewheel

Any of the Zelda games. Not for any particular reason, I just never managed to get around to them.

Jimmy Bottlehead

Never played a Zelda or Metroid game beyond 10 minutes, and didn't enjoy what i did play. But in retrospect, I didn't give either a chance. Never played Chrono Trigger, nor any Final Fantasy but VII.
Never played Megaman, or Kirby, or Goldeneye... that's all I can think of for now!

pdbhp

Shame on me but Shenmue:( I didn't have a Dreamcast so I missed out

Azure_sky

Super Castlevania, Secret of Mana 2 fan translation, Earth bound and Super Mario RPG. I really should try it out on virtual console.

CiDeRmAn

Portal, I had The Orange Box for ages and played lots and lots of Half Life but never even booted up the menu of Portal...
And now, the sequel is out and I feel all cold and isolated

And Mr Bottlehead, go and get Metroid Prime Trilogy for the Wii and Super Metroid for the Snes or VC on the Wii and let the fun begin!

o1s1n

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Never played a Zelda or Metroid game beyond 10 minutes, and didn't enjoy what i did play. But in retrospect, I didn't give either a chance. Never played Chrono Trigger, nor any Final Fantasy but VII.
Never played Megaman, or Kirby, or Goldeneye... that's all I can think of for now!

Make sure you play through Zelda:LTTP, Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger. They're by far some of the best games ever made and you owe it to yourself to finish them Plus they're all on the Snes! What a machine that was.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Portal, I had The Orange Box for ages and played lots and lots of Half Life but never even booted up the menu of Portal...
And now, the sequel is out and I feel all cold and isolated

Same!

Optimus Prime

Never played Chrono Trigger or Metroid myself. there on my list though! Zelda LTTP is a must play in fairness. even now its a great game to play through.

James Howlett

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Portal, I had The Orange Box for ages and played lots and lots of Half Life but never even booted up the menu of Portal...
And now, the sequel is out and I feel all cold and isolated

The first one is quite short, an evening or two and you'll be on the other end of it... eating cake...

Retr0gamer

Oh god, I forgot Shenmue! There's a few DC ones I've not played like Jet Set Radio.

Dr Bob

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Probably the Bioware RPGs and Planescape Torment. Also started but never finished Beyond Good and Evil, Psychonauts and Deus Ex. Dragon Quest pre-DQ 8 I really need to play as well. Also Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne needs more love from me.

Planescape Torment is up on GOG.com , well worth a play through.
I've always regretted not playing the Buck Rogers RPG's especially "countdown to doomsday" on the Meg .My mates raved about it back in the day , I never wanted to give it a shot as I associated it with the ropey 80's TV show...

CiDeRmAn

James Howlett wrote: »

The first one is quite short, an evening or two and you'll be on the other end of it... eating cake...

Thats amazing, I love cake, gluten free cake, but cake none the less!

Retr0gamer

luas_dublin wrote: »

Planescape Torment is up on GOG.com , well worth a play through.

I own all the RPGs from GoG. However I've only about 2 hours a night to devote to games and these RPGs require big time investments so can't play them until I get the time.

johnny_ultimate

Any major PC RPG - there's a strong likelihood I haven't played it! Planescape, Fallout etc... They're on GoG, but I'm one of those lame Mac users. Curses!

I actually have a pretty awful track record when it comes to games - although I've been gaming since a wee lad, a lot of my childhood is populated with Disney titles (many of which are fantastic, though). Gameboy introduced me to Zelda, and only when it came to Gamecube did I start tracking down ye olde classics and "serious" gaming. Have worked my way through a lot of the classics over the years, but many a gap that needs filling! Primary titles on the list to play include Earthbound, early DQ and FF games (which are unfortunately often plagued by excess grinding!) and a handful of others.

Retr0gamer

DQ games aren't too grindy, I think from 4 onwards there should be none involved and all the side quests mean you do it passively.

As for Final Fantasy from FF4 onwards if you end up doing any grinding you should probably give up on videogames because you're ****.

Earthbound as well doesn't involve any sort of grinding.

So no excuses!

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Earthbound as well doesn't involve any sort of grinding.

Sorry, wasn't lumping Earthbound in there. But even FF6 was too chock full of random battles for me at times!

So no excuses!

Time? :pac:

martineatworld

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Oh god, I forgot Shenmue! There's a few DC ones I've not played like Jet Set Radio.

Probably my 2 favourite DC games...!

The soundtrack to JSR is forever in my mp3, its my favourite game music easily...!

On my to-do list is Doom, Secret of Mana, and most Mega Drive and Saturn games....

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Sorry, wasn't lumping Earthbound in there. But even FF6 was too chock full of random battles for me at times!

I don't class grinding as random battles myself. Grinding is walking back and forth through the same area getting into random battles.

Come to think of it DQ games are a bit grindy towards the end. However the easy way to grind is to find metal slimes. It's an adventure in itself though to find the ****ers and then to do the side quests to get the equipment needed to actually do damage to them so it doesn't really feel like grinding

unky chop chop

I've never played any of the Metal Gear Solid series,World of Warcraft or come to think of it most of the exclusive PS1 top hits.
They all passed me by as I went the Dreamcast/xbox route at the time

Pyongyang

Super Metroid, every Castlevania game, Streets Of Rage series. Could name a few more but I'm super tired...

Bottom line is, while everyone else was playing the mainstream titles during my post-C64 SNES era, I was busy hunting down bizarre Japanese bingo and horse racing simulators with a few obscure anime tie-in 's (as well as main stream stuff; Doreamon, Ranma 1/2, Bastard!!!, Sonic Blastman etc).

Wonderful days!

Dr Bob

unky chop chop wrote: »

I've never played any of the Metal Gear Solid series,World of Warcraft or come to think of it most of the exclusive PS1 top hits.
They all passed me by as I went the Dreamcast/xbox route at the time

World of Warcraft is fun , bit a huuuuuuge timesink that kills most of your other gaming..
(I play a fair bit myself but I've cut down a lot in the last few months)

o1s1n

luas_dublin wrote: »

World of Warcraft is fun , bit a huuuuuuge timesink that kills most of your other gaming..
(I play a fair bit myself but I've cut down a lot in the last few months)

I have never played any MMORPG ever for fear of what might happen.

Optimus Prime

I was hooked on an online based game called ogame twice for about a year each time. It was a killer, it was realtime and still played when you where offline. dunno if anyone every heard of it but it was really really addictive. it was such a relief when i finally quit out of it.

CiDeRmAn

Pyongyang wrote: »

Streets Of Rage series

You lucky fecker!
You never played them... your gaming consciousness isn't scarred by the gameplay free wasteland that is the SoR series.

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You lucky fecker!

Yep, never appealed to me. I preferred to play bizarre Japanese oddities on the SNES.

Heck if there was a 'watch a Japanese businessman filling in hours of tedious paperwork' simulator set in a capsule hotel while a piece of toast plays the saxophone in the background, you'd find me playing it.

Retr0gamer

Pyongyang wrote: »

Heck if there was a 'watch a Japanese businessman filling in hours of tedious paperwork' simulator set in a capsule hotel while a piece of toast plays the saxophone in the background, you'd find me playing it.

I think I played that game, and if I didn't I really want to

Welease

Joust.. I even have the arcade machine marquee hanging on my wall

Pyongyang

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I think I played that game, and if I didn't I really want to

Alas I made that game up. Although there is a cool game called Karoshi Suicide 2... which is fun.

http://www.addictinggames.com/karoshisuicide2.html

CiDeRmAn

Joust, just one of the brilliant output from Williams back in the day.
Joust, Defender, Robotron, Stargate, even a bit of Sinistar, fantastic stuff still.