A game you wanted to play, but never got to play.

[OrdinaryUsername]

Everyone has had games in which they had an above-average interest, but have never been able to play. This is because you may not have had the console in the house, or you may have had to make choices where the budget goes, the game was not localized etc.

Below are a few examples of mine:
I used to have a very big interest in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, around the time of its release. I didn't have a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, so I didn't buy it. In the next few years I've had several consoles that could play Assassin's Creed games, but I only played my first game (Origins) in the series at the beginning of 2019, after a big discount.
I was also interested in Odama, a millitary pinball game that works with voice commands. It was a very unique concept. There used to be rumours that in addition to a GameCube version, there was also a Nintendo DS version in the making. This one never came. Although I had a GameCube, I never bought that game.

 

[@TheFriendlyBro]

Never got a chance to play P.T.

A bit sad about that one.

 

[OrionStarri]

For me this is currently arcade exclusive H2Overdrive, spiritual sequel to one of my favourite racing games of all time (and well games in general for me); Hydro Thunder, i've never had the luck of finding it in any arcades on the few times i've gone out and about and it pains me that it'll probably never get a console/PC release, yes emulators may exist but it wont be the same experience as being in the arcade cabinet itself. I do hope one day i'll be able to play it in some form though.

Honourable mention: Battle Garegga Rev 2016, still not available in the EU PSN store and hasnt been for years now, only in Japan and I think maaaaybe US PSN store? I might be incorrect here though.

 

[Ushay]

Pillars of Eternity 2, don't have a PC :( (I ain't playing it on Xbox, with sub standard controls and visuals).

 

[Ultimadrago]

When I was in middle school, I used to read guides of Maxima on PS2 all the time in the library (mostly for the hot girls). I purchased a PS2 years later but never ended up playing the game(s).

I don't think about it much now honestly.

 

[Deleted member 6056]

I always wanted to play 1000 land or Heavy Metal Thunder way back in the day but neither got localized.

 

[Morphis]

For me it's Bushido Blade. I love fighting games and I've always been really curious, but despite having owned a PS1, never got to play it. Would love a remaster of some sorts.

 

[Fat4all]

beavis and butthead in virtual stupidity

 

[catvonpee]

I always wanted to play Aliens vs Predator on Atari Jaguar. But I never did. I think it is playable in other ways now but I never got around to it.

There were some PS2 games I wanted to play like Tekken 5 and Gradius V that I downloaded an emulator and played them way later.

 

[WickedWins]

Tomb Raider 3 The Lost Artifact. The expansion levels look so good and SE refuses to put them on Steam.

Also, The Great Ace Attorney. But yeah sometimes asking a localization for this saga is like asking for gold to fall down from the clouds.

 

[oni-link]

The Last Story

Back in 2011 I picked up Xenoblade on Wii for £32 on Amazon but left The Last Story for later, while it was £29, since then it's skyrocketed in price or been hard to find, so I never got around to it

I was hoping it would get a Wii U eShop release, or a remaster, but so far it's still just on Wii and I can't see myself finding a copy now

 

[Deleted member 53692]

The Gameboy Advance Island with Animal Crossing on Gamecube, and the e-reader thing.

I didn't have (and still don't have) a GBA, the link, and even a Gamecube those days. Even my Wii got replaced by a WiiU.

 

[EliR]

ICO

 

[MrT-Tar]

For me, it's the various Saturn games that are either unported (Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force III, etc), or received a Japan only port (Dragon Force).

In terms of consoles that I actually own, the first one that comes to mind is Baten Kaitos Origins. I want to play it, but it was never released here in the UK, and I've never got round to importing it and bypassing the region lock.

 

[dunkzilla]

Never got a chance to play P.T.

A bit sad about that one.

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I have it on my PS4 but never played it. I should fix that, really.

 

[joffocakes]

EA's weird ARG Majestic sounded so cool to me at the time; I'd have loved to try it.

Majestic (video game) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Bard]

Vertexer is an arcade game that has never been ported and it's difficult to even find a video of the goddamn thing.

Apparently some guy got a board of it and was able to get a rom out of it but he hasn't made it available to anybody else which is super frustrating.

 

[Redcrayon]

For me it was Sky Blazer on SNES. I always wanted to play it but just couldn't afford it at the time, and I haven't seen it since on the various Virtual Consoles either.

 

[RossC]

WinBack.

Always remember seeing it in magazines and thinking it looked great, but never managed to get to play it.

 

[Ravelle]

Ape Escape and Vagrant Story.

 

[ara]

The Super Mario Galaxy games, I guess. Didn't enjoy playing games on the Wii, so I'm hoping they'll get ported to Switch sooner or later. Also Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time to an extent, I've tried the 3DS versions but hate playing any kind of action-y 3D games on that device so I dropped them pretty fast. Also hoping they'll get ported to Switch.

 

[Wise]

Mario strikers. It looked like shovel ware to me back when I was a kid going to gamestop. I would like a switch portn

 

[Nquoid]

Castlevania Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia.

Played Dawn of Sorrow and absolutely loved it but skipped over those two games because they didn't have the same soul system. Now I'm staring and ebay and trying to figure out if it's worth the investment or if I just keep my fingers crossed that Konami do the right thing and re-release all those GBA and DS Castlevania games...

 

[Deleted member 543]

Alan Wake.

I had a 360 when it was announced but had traded it against a PS3 by the time it was released. I'm a huge Stephen King fan and would still love to play it someday - gutted those (admittedly tenuous) rumours of a remaster never came to fruition.

 

[Scruffy8642]

Okamiden comes to mind. Bought it years ago after playing Okami and it became one of my favs, but I've just never got around to it. Had it sitting in my 3DS for quite a long time now since I finished my backlog for it a year ago otherwise.

 

[PocketchangeTTV]

Kessen i was a kid so excited for it around the time I got a ps2 at launch but parents never got it for me and I forgot about it till this thread.

 

[denseWorm]

Hmmmmmm!! This is hard, because Steam and gog have jointly made a huge chunk of all games available to me. Let's seeeeeee.

Okay, Portal 2 would probably have been fun after Portal... But as great as Portal 1 was, I'm unable to convince myself that Portal 2 could possibly be anything more than an annoying puzzle game with light comedic payoff. Maybe the fact that they never resolved Half Life plays a part in this.

Hmmmmmm!

I had a good idea, I checked my Steam wish list.

That includes Death Stranding, and Dark Souls 1, remastered. My gog wish list includes... Nothing atm. Kingdom Come: Deliverance maybe. I'm intrigued in seeing Crytek in a different setting.

Okay, I just spent 20 minutes looking through digital stores looking for titles that jump out at me and none of them do. I will want Cyberpunk 2077 if my laptop can't handle it, albiet at 1080p, on release. That would probably be enough to make me get a PS5.

Pillars of Eternity 2, don't have a PC :( (I ain't playing it on Xbox, with sub standard controls and visuals).

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Figure out a way to play it, it's magical, a great elaboration on the first~

 

[onion]

Power Stone 1 & 2, they look great.

 

[Chibs]

Metroid Prime... Bring on that Switch collection so I can fix this!

 

[Yasai]

That Berserk game where you needed a japanese PS2

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Half Life Alyx

 

[CosmicGP]

I wanted to play Trico The last guardian but never got to play it because I never bought it.

I was thinking it would annoy me very much if it (most probably) has a bad ending like the first two.

If only PSN did big discounts for old games like Steam does.

 

[TeHi & BuSp]

Steel Battalion on original Xbox.
What a shame that it's never re-release or other modern game using this beauty

 

[Deleted member 51248]

Metal Arms Glitch In The System, I saw it once in a shops gaming section, looked like a cool robot action platformer, but i didn't have the pocket money saved at that point, next time i had the notion of looking for it, the shop had closed it electronics and games floor, and the nearest shops I would have went to a with a gaming section at the time didn't seem to have it and then I couldn't add it to any Christmas lists as by that point as i couldn't recall the name of it, think the next time i saw the game it was a prize in some machine but my history with those things put me off, I would probably end up wasting whatever change I had.
Even if a came across a pre-owned copy today, I dont have the platforms that would play it.

Shame the game never got a sequel or ported to PC or any newer platforms, would definitely give it a go. Though last i read the I.P.'s apparently in lmibo?

 

[Ushay]

Power Stone 1 & 2, they look great.

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They were the equivalent of smash bros when the Dreamcast was around. Amazing games, how it never got any more games is just a sad state of affaits. Who has the IP, Capcom?

Hmmmmmm!! This is hard, because Steam and gog have jointly made a huge chunk of all games available to me. Let's seeeeeee.

Okay, Portal 2 would probably have been fun after Portal... But as great as Portal 1 was, I'm unable to convince myself that Portal 2 could possibly be anything more than an annoying puzzle game with light comedic payoff. Maybe the fact that they never resolved Half Life plays a part in this.

Hmmmmmm!

I had a good idea, I checked my Steam wish list.

That includes Death Stranding, and Dark Souls 1, remastered. My gog wish list includes... Nothing atm. Kingdom Come: Deliverance maybe. I'm intrigued in seeing Crytek in a different setting.

Okay, I just spent 20 minutes looking through digital stores looking for titles that jump out at me and none of them do. I will want Cyberpunk 2077 if my laptop can't handle it, albiet at 1080p, on release. That would probably be enough to make me get a PS5.


Figure out a way to play it, it's magical, a great elaboration on the first~

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Absolutely, I'm eyeing up a gaming laptop eventually. What specs would be recommended at 1440p, high settings?

 

[CliveLH]

Final Fantasy XIV 1.0

Yeah I know it looks terrible, but I want to experience the story nonetheless and I don't want to watch 60 hours of cutscenes on YouTube.

 

[J_ToSaveTheDay]

Project Justice. Just never got around to picking it up. Oddly enough, none of my friends grabbed it either, and we all liked Rival Schools. I keep hoping Rival Schools/Project Justice characters end up in Street Fighter with updated fighting styles.

 

[GeekyDad]

Always wanted to get into Baten Kaitos. It looked interesting as a game and story, but never did get around to it.

And...

Castlevania Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia.

Played Dawn of Sorrow and absolutely loved it but skipped over those two games because they didn't have the same soul system. Now I'm staring and ebay and trying to figure out if it's worth the investment or if I just keep my fingers crossed that Konami do the right thing and re-release all those GBA and DS Castlevania games...

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Holy shit! Get on that, especially OoE! :D Great games you don't need to miss.

 

[StarPhlox]

Mother 3 and all of the Mega Man RPGs

 

[Deleted member 36708]

Too many to name.

 

[SenseiX]

Metal Gear Online...

 

[newmoneytrash]

Dragon Quest X

 

[Mupod]

Steel Battalion and I'm not sure I ever will. I wasn't in any financial position to get it at the time, then I couldn't justify the space for the controller, now it's ballooned in price...

I can't think of any games I couldn't play if I wanted to make it happen, except for the ones with specific hardware requirements like that.

 

[kirby_fox]

Half Life Alyx. It feels like the essential VR game and I don't see myself having VR anytime soon.

Alien Hominid, the Klonoa games, Billy Hatcher, No More Heroes series, and the old The Simpsons Game are a handful that I never got around to. And that's just games still on my list of "maybe one day" that are way on the back burner.

 

[StiLteD]

Ringfit Adventure.

Finding a copy is like finding affordable housing or a competent politician. You hear about them online sometimes, but it's always somewhere else far away and you're not actually convinced they even exist anymore within this time line.

 

[Mentok]

Prime Trilogy and PSO2 top my list

 

[Nostremitus]

Metal Arms Glitch In The System, I saw it once in a shops gaming section, looked like a cool robot action platformer, but i didn't have the pocket money saved at that point, next time i had the notion of looking for it, the shop had closed it electronics and games floor, and the nearest shops I would have went to a with a gaming section at the time didn't seem to have it and then I couldn't add it to any Christmas lists as by that point as i couldn't recall the name of it, think the next time i saw the game it was a prize in some machine but my history with those things put me off, I would probably end up wasting whatever change I had.
Even if a came across a pre-owned copy today, I dont have the platforms that would play it.

Shame the game never got a sequel or ported to PC or any newer platforms, would definitely give it a go. Though last i read the I.P.'s apparently in lmibo?

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This was a really good game. It really is a shame it never went anywhere as a franchise.

 

[TitlePending]

Sakura Wars series prior to the latest PS4 entry.

Yakuza Ishin.

 

[Torpedo Vegas]

Jaws. I did play Maneater though last month and loved it.

 

[Ruruja]

Hey You, Pikachu!