What is the BEST game that has no playable version on modern game platforms?

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Blue_Target posted...
Mother 3

It's on Switch Online, but only in Japan.
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DipDipDiver posted...
First one that comes to mind is Mark of Kri. I really liked that game, but I don't think it ever got rereleased or made backwards compatible. Same with the sequel.

The old Tenchu games too. No one ever talks about the second one, but I thought it was incredible. The scope was so much bigger than the first, which was also a great game
Mark of Kri and its sequel were released as PS2 classics on PS4/5.
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I don't actually know if it's good because I never got to play it because it was X360 exclusive but I really wanted to play Ace Combat 6 back then.
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Also, some of the non-canon or reconned Metal Gear games were supposed to be good and most of those aren't available on anything that's still supported.

And quite a number of Mega Man games.
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Definitely the Quintet trilogy (Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma). They're still stuck on the SNES

iirc, I think some random insurance company owns the rights to them due to some merger bullshit a long time ago, but obviously they have zero interest in doing anything with those properties

EDIT: I was mistaken. I was thinking of the System Shock devs lol. Apparently the president of Quintet literally just disappeared one day and caused the studio to go defunct. So no one has been able to secure the rights to the games because of it lol. That's equally weird.
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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1/2

I really want to play them again without futzing around with emulators.

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xMythic posted...
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1/2

I really want to play them again without futzing around with emulators.

Was gonna gibe over TA2, since the 3DS can play it.. .... but it's not modern anymore :<

It's still my most used console (non-PC)
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LOTR the third age

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KFHEWUI posted...
Panzer Dragoon Saga
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viewmaster_pi posted...
the godfather

There was a port to PC but I bet it doesn't have controller support because that was the custom at the time. The best version was the Don's Edition on ps3, there was a lot more content like different family base layouts. Really miss that game, it was so fun wandering around shaking down barbers and bartenders by throwing them into traffic or smashing up their shop.
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Mechu posted...
xbox

Can you play it on current Xbox series thingies?
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mario galaxy 2 is up there
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sfcalimari posted...
Can you play it on current Xbox series thingies?
Yea.

I thought you could give saints row 2 the framerate boost thingy but I guess not. (on the series x).
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MrMolinaro posted...
Secret of Evermore

Just give me a straight port. One of my favorite RPGs
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HighSeraph posted...
This one sucks. I wonder who owns the rights to it now. Iirc Natsume was the publisher
I follow this one closely. Neverland made those. Along with Lodoss war and the shining force arpgs for ps2. They shut down and were merged into Marvelous AQL. I would assume thats the rights holder. I would love those to play all those games again.
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Skies of Arcadia
Xenogears
Legend of Legaia
Breath of Fire III
Ratchet and Clank PS3 games (while streaming is okay, it will eventually die; how hard is it to make a fucking PS3 emulator for the current gen?)
Gitaroo Man
Onimusha 2 and 3
Lufia II
.Hack series
Mega Man Legends 1 and 2
SSX 3
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and 3 (remake is okay, but lost a lot of features the originals had)
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tri-sapphire posted...
Legend of Legaia
Completely forgot about Legend of Legaia, I loved that game. Always thought it had a very interesting battle system that should've been used again.
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Not sure if you'd count it, but good luck getting Ultima 7 and Serpent isle to run on a modern computer. Without using some sort of emulator software, good luck with the first one especially. Game speed had no frame limiter because more than 8mb of RAM is not something a home computer has. Double clicking on NPC's to talk becomes nigh impossible.
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Probably some arcade games with no official/modern home versions.

Planet Harriers, Night Striker, STUN Runner, Night Stocker, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Star Wars Trilogy to name of few of my favorites


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rexcrk posted...
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This really isnt BC?
Oh my fucking god, when do I get to play Metal Gear Solid 4???
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BloodyBenten posted...
This really isnt BC?
Last I was aware, it wasnt. But I still play it on my OG Xbox. I think it doesnt work on 360, but I dont have any later Xboxes to try it on lol
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Hayame_Zero posted...
Came in to say this. The PC port is good, but there's no console port for some reason.
Yeah, it is good that it's on Steam. But it's baffling how uninterested Square Enix has been over the years in making Chrono Trigger available. Some ports exist so it can't be a rights issue. Seemingly it's not on Switch or PS4 despite how popular those consoles are because SE just doesn't want to do it for some reason.

On topic:
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
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Wario World
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Asherlee10 posted...
Starship Titanic, but I think it got ported.

One of my favorite games from the late 90s created by Douglas Adams. I loved it so much that I wrote him an email and he actually wrote me back!


When I was young I managed to impersonate A. Parrot. I still can -- meaning I can technically impersonate Terry Jones provided I impersonate someone else he impersonated.

It was ported, as I do have it in my Steam library, but last time I played I had frequent crashes when talking to the bots. It didn't seem to crash in any progress-important conversations, but in the just-fucking-around conversations or the lore-conversations, which kinda killed a huge part of the game for me since randomly disturbing the bellbot to ask about inane things is too difficult a habit to drop.

I guess that means it technically qualifies since it can't play properly on modern systems. At least not my system.

I'll contribute and say Star Wars: Droid Works . It was Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts before Banjo was even nutting and bolting with Welder. It's Tears of the Kingdom machine building before Zelda was given a lightsaber. It was teaching physics when I was playing games to get away from school.
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CRON posted...
Saints Row 2
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Eternal Darkness
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tripleh213 posted...
Eternal Darkness
Overrated IMO.
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TyVulpine posted...
Overrated IMO.
A remaster would fix a lot of things
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tripleh213 posted...
A remaster would fix a lot of things
Still overrated. Found the story boring, and grinding through three times for the "bonus" ending wasn't worth it.
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BlueAnnihilator posted...
Skies of Arcadia


This-- such an awesome game, definitely needs a re-release.
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sLaIn_f0x posted...
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Isnt it on steam?

Anyway my pick is Mechwarrior 4 Mercs
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