Board 8 > Is there a game you always wanted to play, but never could?

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Or did you have to wait several years to finally experience it?

For me, there's been a lot, but as far as must-plays go, I'd say Castlevania: Symphony of the Night takes the cake since I've been wanting to play it for 13 years now, but an original PS1 copy is just too expensive.

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after playing Super Mario World at a family member's house I dreamed about playing Super Mario World for several years after that until I had my own SNES.

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Do games that never got localized count?

I'd have hopped on Dragon Quest X in a heartbeat, but sadly we just never got it. =(

Planet Harriers. The original Space Harrier was my absolute favorite game growing up and I was incredibly hyped for the idea of a new game... but none of the arcades I've been to had the machine and the game was never ported to any home system, so I've been out of luck.
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SotN is on like 5 different modern systems now, you should get it done.

For me its Suikoden V

I just never got around to it, and now its so expensive

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I had waited several years to play a lot of the more obscure parts of the PS2 survival horror library, due to their high value and being unable to emulate PS2 at the time. This hasn't really been a problem for any game in a long time now though.

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Fatal Frame 1-3

i own them on PS2 and the PS3 ports

but I'm too much of a pansy

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skyward sword. i didnt have wii motion plus at the time and didnt feel getting it. Think i made the right call

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Still waiting on Panzer Dragoon Saga. REALLY curious how that adapts to an RPG and I've heard nothing but good.

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Dels posted...

Do games that never got localized count?

I'd have hopped on Dragon Quest X in a heartbeat, but sadly we just never got it. =(

its a super bummer to me that there are a bunch of Mystical Ninja games out there ill never play because I dont understand Japanese

I was messing around with the second SNES game and it was still cool but I was obviously losing so much of the experience by not understanding the text
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Ive debated getting SotN and Albert's Oddesy for the Saturn multiple times.

But those 2 games and console and action replay would cost near 500 bucks

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mother 1

Mother 3, Gyakuten Kenji 2, Chibi-Robo and Eternal Darkness are all currently on that list

There's quite a few that took me awhile to play though. Here's some of the interesting ones

Final Fantasy VII - Wanted to play this since I got hooked on Kingdom Hearts back in like 2007, I didn't really have a PS1 and that was back when my parents didn't trust putting their credit cards on game consoles so no PS3 version either. I actually remember going to Blockbuster and renting Dirge of Cerberus thinking it was FF7, you can imagine my disappointment when I got home! Thankfully in 2014 I got a job and it was one of my first purchases. I binged it in like a week.

EarthBound - I was a huge fan of Ness thanks to Smash Bros. and had desperately wanted to play his game since like the early 2000's. If I was having issues getting FF7, then there was no way I was playing this one. I was definitely following the rumors of its eventual VC release, when I finally did get it in 2013, I actually kinda hated it and didn't get around to beating it until last year. Hoping that 10 years from now if we see Mother 3 I'll like it more!

Conker's Bad Fur Day - This one's fun. So I loved playing Diddy Kong Racing as a kid and one day I was reading a gaming magazine. It had some pages devoted to CBFD and I recognized Conker and begged my Dad to buy it for me when it came out. He read the rating on it and said hell no, you're not old enough. I even went as far as to suggest buying it and keeping it locked up until I was old enough to play it, he didn't budge. I'm actually pretty proud of my business sense back then, because I think the game is worth at least 100 bucks now. Eventually I did get to play it in high school because a friend let me borrow it. It's a great game that I still go back to every now and again thanks to Rare Replay, I'd still like to find a physical copy at some point

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

its a super bummer to me that there are a bunch of Mystical Ninja games out there ill never play because I dont understand Japanese

I was messing around with the second SNES game and it was still cool but I was obviously losing so much of the experience by not understanding the text

All but one of the NES and SNES Goemon games have fan translations now

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Not really - if I really want to play it, I generally will end up getting it

I guess I wouldn't have minded properly playing through Halos 2+3 rather than playing them at friends' houses in bits and pieces.

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Symphony of the Night is the biggest one

I've never been able to justify buying a console just for that and the two or three other games on it that I'd probably want to play though

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

For me its Suikoden V

ironically suikoden v was the most accessible suikoden game for me since there used to be multiple copies at my local video stores

really got a healthy exposure to ps2 jrpgs as a kid since there were like 50 there

You guys realize that SotN can be played on several consoles, right? Even on your phone.

Only the Saturn version is special and stupid expensive to play.

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I never owned a PS1 but my brother did. Sometimes he would bring it down when he visits orr I would play it when I would visit him

I owned FFVII and he owned Tactics, so I used to not be able to play them when I wanted to. Which sucked because they are legit my fav games, even to this day. That sorta counts I think. I eventually got a PS2 in 02 though, some years later. I somehow adopted my bro's copy of FFT and I still have both to this day, even the PS2

I always wanted to try Buck Bumble, They used to advertise it alot in WCW and I saw it in magazines all of the time, but I don't know why I never did. I don't think the rental store had it. I know I finally can on an emulator if I really wanted to

I got my hands on Suikoden 1 back in the day and it SUCKED when I found out part 2 was a grail. Second time mentioning this in a week but thats why I tried buying Icon's copy off of him. I tried to for like a decade. One day he unceremoniously mentioned he randomly sold it off on ebay. After our history it didn't cross his mind to give me first pickings :(.

thanks to PSN I can now, I own it there. I just haven't gotten around to Replaying Suikoden 1


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There's a few Dreamcast games that I thought looked pretty cool, but I never owned a Dreamcast or had an opportunity to play them. I couldn't name the games now but if I really wanted to look up a list and some screenshots I could figure out what they were.

Were the games actually good and are they playable now? Who knows. I'm usually occupied enough doing other things that it's never seriously crossed my mind to look into the Dreamcast library.


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ah thats a good one, a dreamcast. I always wanted one but obviously my parents couldn't do that. by the time I could get a job, the PS2 was the hotness and I went for that.

The Dreamcast was the fighter's dream, man. Nearly arcade perfect fighters.

AH thats another one! Marvel Vs Capcom blew my MIND back then. Even with my limited access to a PS1, MvC1 sucked on there. And there was no machine of that game in my home town. Hell, I remember saving 50 bucks and JUST wanting to buy MvC1 on dreamcast just to look at it lol. I figure maybe it would motivate me to save up for the whole system. I had to settle for MvC2 on PS2 down the line. MvC1 still holds a dear place in my heart

Soul Calibur 2 on GCN was one, I didn't have one, just PS2. God fucking Heihachi. I did get a GCN further down the line and SC2 was on of my first purchases on it

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Kamekguy posted...

Still waiting on Panzer Dragoon Saga. REALLY curious how that adapts to an RPG and I've heard nothing but good.

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I had to wait several years to play Resident Evil Remake and 0 as I did not have a Gamecube and couldn't justify the expenditure at the time.

But I finally got one and was glad I did. One of my favourite games of all time!

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Seconding the others saying SotN is pretty accessible these days, it's on PS4/Xbox One BC/Mobile.

I missed out on Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door at the time and Gamecube games are way too expensive these days so never got around to that one. Chrono Trigger was one I wanted to play throughout my childhood and finally got it when the DS version came to Europe, and it absolutely lived up to my expectations!

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Snrkiko posted...

Fatal Frame 1-3

i own them on PS2 and the PS3 ports

but I'm too much of a pansy

weaku play fatal frame

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Operation Shadow

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I'd love to find a working F-Zero AX cabinet one of these days. Many years ago, I saw one in... of all places, a McDonald's in Orlando. But we were just passing through and I didn't get the chance to play it.

EDIT: Hey, I found some witnesses regarding that F-Zero cabinet! For context, this Orlando McDonald's is unusually large and has an arcade, expanded menu, etc. I wouldn't normally link to Reddit, but here ya go.

https://reddit.app.link/1gO0Qf1kr8

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Ryokles posted...

weaku play fatal frame

you don't understand

i have no balls

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I'd had Shenmue II preordered for Dreamcast. Didn't play the Xbox version until 5 years later.

Every good Sony exclusive I guess
God of War, Spider Man, Last of Us, Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid

Thanksfully Horizon Zero Dawn coming to PC next month!

Also Great Ace Attorney 2 but translation is going well the last I heard. Might be a 2021 release or something

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Wouldn't mind playing Fatal Frame 4 and 5.

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Horizon zero dawn was very disappointing imo

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Cubivore for the GCN.

That game was like $100 basically as soon as it came out and has only gone up in price since.

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Suikoden series, never played any of them. Wish they were rereleased on PS4, Switch, or PC.

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Goldeneye on N64 and Final Fantasy Tactics

I do own SOTN on PSN, but I keep getting stuck at this one broken bridge you have to cross early in the game (though I do now know that you have to buy an ability from the merchant to pass it). Also the PAL version runs more slowly which is dumb.

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TheCodeisBosco posted...

I'd love to find a working F-Zero AX cabinet one of these days. Many years ago, I saw one in... of all places, a McDonald's in Orlando. But we were just passing through and I didn't get the chance to play it.

EDIT: Hey, I found some witnesses regarding that F-Zero cabinet! For context, this Orlando McDonald's is unusually large and has an arcade, expanded menu, etc. I wouldn't normally link to Reddit, but here ya go.

https://reddit.app.link/1gO0Qf1kr8

Oh, hey!

We have a cinema brand called Cinpolis, and there's a huge and famous mall where I live in which they have arcade machines. Anyway, I remember back in 2014, there always was this F-Zero AX cabinet always turned on but it was also always not accessible, so I was like "fhkkejzkialksd!!!" at the time because I thought: Why would they have a cabinet always on if we can never play it?! And I used to play a ton of F-Zero X at the time, so I was always hoping that whenever I visited the cinema I could get my hands on the universally praised GX/AX.

They ultimately removed it, but they kept a lot of other arcade machines, like a Daytona USA one among other ones.

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Advokaiser posted...

Oh, hey!

We have a cinema brand called Cinpolis, and there's a huge and famous mall where I live in which they have arcade machines. Anyway, I remember back in 2014, there always was this F-Zero AX cabinet always turned on but it was also always not accessible, so I was like "fhkkejzkialksd!!!" at the time because I thought: Why would they have a cabinet always on if we can never play it?! And I used to play a ton of F-Zero X at the time, so I was always hoping that whenever I visited the cinema I could get my hands on the universally praised GX/AX.

They ultimately removed it, but they kept a lot of other arcade machines, like a Daytona USA one among other ones.

That's bizarre (and a cruel blue-ball)! I have no idea why they'd do that. Even if the steering wheel was a lemon or something, it'd just make sense to turn the cabinet off entirely.

Daytona USA is the gold standard for racing games though, IMO, so at least they had the decency to keep that one going.

Some folks compiled a map of remaining F-Zero AX locations. Apparently a place in Indianapolis has a Japanese cabinet that's still operating. Indy isn't exactly my backyard, but it's certainly in weekend-trip territory and I'm going to seek AX out next time I'm there.

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Pokmon HGSS

Gen 2 was always my favorite, but I gave my DS to my little brother shortly before the remakes were released.

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masterplum posted...

Horizon zero dawn was very disappointing imo

:(
I have high hopes

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Suikoden 2 - The ROM always crashed at th exact same boss early on for me, no matter what I did with it :(

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Peace___Frog posted...

Suikoden 2 - The ROM always crashed at th exact same boss early on for me, no matter what I did with it :(

no PS3/PSP/Vita?

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The only nintendo console I've ever owned was the N64, so yeah, lots of stuff.

My first thought, however, was that I'd really like to try Beat Saber. I don't have VR equipment though, and I don't think buying it for one game makes sense.

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Wanted to play a lot of SNES and N64 games when I was a kid. Didn't get to until the Wii came out.

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azuarc posted...

I don't have VR equipment though

Oh yeah
I'll add Half Life Alyx to my list

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Nanis23 posted...

:(
I have high hopes

Its possible some of my qualms could be it wasnt too far from when I played Witcher 3

It made me feel like I was playing a series of really bad W3 quests.

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Kenri posted...

Cubivore for the GCN.

That game was like $100 basically as soon as it came out and has only gone up in price since.

I paid $10 for it new like a year or two after it came out
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Operation Darkness on Xbox 360. Apparently it's not very good, but the setting (World War II with classic horror/Lovecraft characters) sounds fun enough that I'd love to try it anyway. Unfortunately, while it got an English release in the US, it never made it to Europe.
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BlackMageJawa posted...

Operation Darkness on Xbox 360. Apparently it's not very good, but the setting (World War II with classic horror/Lovecraft characters) sounds fun enough that I'd love to try it anyway. Unfortunately, while it got an English release in the US, it never made it to Europe.

I own it! Its...meh. I can't remember anything in it lol.

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Ryokles posted...

weaku play fatal frame

*gulp*

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