Favorite late-discovered game

[Gado911]

Morrowind

 

[achilleas.k]

I can only reply to this thread with one comment:

"So many games, so little time!!!"

During the last year or two I rarely played games on release... then there's the bunch of games I've been meaning to play since forever. It makes me sad.

If I must contribute a title however, I played Portal about 12 months after its release when I started wondering how a physics puzzle game could win so many awards and get so many good scores. I found out the good way!

EDIT: I also remembered that it took me ages to finally play Warcraft III + Frozen Throne

 

[dantheman931]

I'm in the same boat as the OP with Psychonauts.

See, told ya so. How far have you gotten?

I beat it... but I'm sad that it didn't let me go back and try for 100 percent completion after the final boss, so I'll likely do it again sometime soon.

I just beat Napoleon. Now I'm doing the part with the cards. (Incidentally, everyone needs to play Psychonauts just for that bit; I love the black-velvet-and-blacklight graphics!)

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Morrowind.

I got it years after it came out.

 

[tomtom94]

As most of my games come from 3 for 2 pre-owned deals there are quite a lot that fall into this category:
Dragon Quest VIII
Beyond Good and Evil
Championship Manager 03-04 (just play it, then it will make sense)
Pro Evolution Soccer 5/08
Fable

I love cheap games and all of these provide(d) me with good entertainment even if BG&E has a completely duff soundtrack that glitches every 5 seconds.

 

[Teachingaddict]

Grim Fandango
Psychonauts
Beyond Good and Evil
Baldurs Gate 1 and 2
Planescape Torrment
Resident Evil 4
Broken Sword 1 and 2
DoW series
Company of Heroes
Warcraft 3

Jeez, dude, you've fallen behind! Shape up, slacker!

This is over the course of 5 years or so lol.

 

[iggyus]

System Shock 2 and KOTOR. Played them years after they came out and beat the crap out of the games that were big hits then

 

[Are.Oh.Why]

The Orange Box

 

[SimuLord]

Considering I bought Morrowind in 2008 (after playing Oblivion to death), I think that's my winner right there.

I've had to retroactively revise my Game of the Year awards more than once due to something like that.

 

[samsprinkle]

Red orchestra, Combat Arms, I was very late to the Total War series but I love it. I'm sure there are others out there.