Mass effect series I think and I still haven't play any one of it yet. I thoroughly enjoyed all the games from Bioware and I would think I should have play any of the Mass Effect when I have the chance
I pretty much played a lot of the biggest games when they were new but i guess i could say street fighter 2 or maybe TES arena/daggerfall. I've played daggerfall since (and it's awsome) but still never got round to the other two.
I never had a NES so a lot of good NES titles flew over my head. I played them on an emulator not too long ago but it was way too soon for me to fully enjoy them.
There are some Mods out there that make the enemies and such look better. Find a buddy. And play it co-op. I know a lot of people will recommend playing it 1 player the first time through but I had a ton of fun playing with a buddy of mine.
Possibly the entire NES generation. I was born in 1987 so I kind of missed that party I made up for it though with my Super Nintendo I absolutly blitzed that console until I got the first playstation.
" Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is another game that comes to mind. Playing it after Circle of the Moon, Dawn of Sorrow and Aria of Sorrow doesn't have the same appeal. "
I played SotN for the "first time" (acctually I had tried a friends copy on playstation for about half an hour or so years prior) on my PsP as part of Dracula X Chronicles after playing all the GBA and DS titles (though never properly finishing any of the gba titles) and I thought it was a really awesome game, if not the best out of all of them.
It's funny since back when I played it on the Playstation, a wasn't nearly as into Castlevania as I am now, I just sort of played it, died a couple of times and turned it off. So for someone like me saying: "Imagine what it would have been like back in the day" becomes kinda ridiculous and a little bit ironic.
" Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is another game that comes to mind. Playing it after Circle of the Moon, Dawn of Sorrow and Aria of Sorrow doesn't have the same appeal. "
I played SotN for the "first time" (acctually I had tried a friends copy on playstation for about half an hour or so years prior) on my PsP as part of Dracula X Chronicles after playing all the GBA and DS titles (though never properly finishing any of the gba titles) and I thought it was a really awesome game, if not the best out of all of them. It's funny since back when I played it on the Playstation, a wasn't nearly as into Castlevania as I am now, I just sort of played it, died a couple of times and turned it off. So for someone like me saying: "Imagine what it would have been like back in the day" becomes kinda ridiculous and a little bit ironic. "
But for me was different. I finished Castlevania IV, and X, also Circle of the Moon, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin before ever playing Symphony of Night. And i was blown away for how much the franchises had improved from Dracula X to Circle of the Moon. So much that i only changed the game i played on my launch GBA when i finished it. To that Symphony of the Night was a letdown. As although smaller in scale, I felt significant improvements in the games since Circle of the Moon.
And it is ironic and ridiculous even as i wasn't all that into games at the period Symphony of the Night was released.
Deus Ex mainly. edit: wow Deus Ex is a popular choice.
Shenmue also.
Anything exclusive on PS2 (never had one and won't buy one now that I own a PS3) such as Shadow of the Colossus.
Surprised there isn't more Quake 1 in this thread. That game was way more incredible than Doom or Wolf3D were upon release. You people also need to mention more Fallout 1/2 and Troika games.
Most of the dreamcast titles that I've overlooked. If only I could go back in time and slap my prepubescent self into shape. Sonic Adventure 1/2 were not the best games that platform offered!
For a more recent game that fits this criteria, Killzone 2. Just got it a few days ago, and god damn it has to be the best FPS I've ever played. I didn't care about it at the time because I thought the original Killzone was kinda terrible, but I wish I had since the online is almost dead.
Eh I was playing pc games already when Doom came out, as far as I'm concerned video games didn't start getting interesting until the 90s so I feel I haven't missed anything.
A lot of the old great CRPGs, wish I could have played them when the graphics weren't considered crappy. In more recent games, I played Oblivion 3 years after it released and discovered how fun it was. Same with Mass Effect.
I would have liked to been more into video games when I was much younger. I missed the whole NES and SNES. Wish I could have experienced them when they came out.
Definitely Ocarina...hell, most of the Nintendo back catalog. I didn't start playing games in any major capacity until about four years ago and now everyone gives me strange looks when I say "No, no I haven't played Metroid."
" Half-Life 1 and Baldur's Gate II. I played Baldur's Gate II into the ground. And still do play it, but that was at least five years after it had come out. I can't imagine how awesome that game would have felt, were I to play it from day 1. "
This. Also I have never played any of the games in the MGS series. I would have liked to have played the first game when it came out (my only memories of it are from my brother playing it, which applies to a LOT of games).
There's a lot of other games I play that I wish I could have experienced the year they came out. I'm trying to get over it; it's impossible to have nostalgia for every game under the sun.
Marathon. Space marine shooting by Bungie with network play and dual wielding all the way back in 1994. What's not to like. Going back to it now it lacks substance.
Deus Ex. I like the idea, concept, and I should like the game. But I don't. It's probably a mixture of clunky controls and bad graphics. But I have enjoyed games with far worse graphics recently (even ASCII-graphic games), so I guess Deus Ex in particular, just didn't age well for me.
I got my hands on it about a year ago and try playing it every now and then. I can only get through that first level before I turn it off. Knowing me I would have played the hell out of it back when.
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