Games You Forgot You Loved

[Elvis Starburst]

Recently I did a search for a game to play after clearing a previous one. I scoured Ebay like crazy, until I found this old DS title from 2008... Bangai-O Spirits. I remember loving the hell out of this little game (Go ahead and look it up, there's a few gameplay videos hovering around) and immediately bought it. I couldn't believe I forgot how fun it was, and it made me wonder how many other great games I've enjoyed that I somehow managed to forget.

So, how bout you guys? Anything come to mind about a game you forgot you loved, or just recently remembered and loved or hated once more?

 

[Dalek Caan]

Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories. For me it was the best game I ever played on my PS1. It lasted about 2 years with me before I either lost it or other things that I can't recall happened. I loved the music in it, it had cool animation battles you could use and it's the only Yu-Gi-Oh game I've played that doesn't include that Draw Phase/Combat Phase thing that a lot of the other games have now.

I've tried emulating it before but for whatever reason the save files only last a month before they seem to disapear.

 

[Artina89]

Digimon for the PSOne. I found it recently and started playing it. It was hard as hell, but my god I had a lot of fun with it when I was a kid, and found that my glee upon seeing that title screen had not diminished over the intervening years.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I recently got a chance to re-play Super Mario Strikers on the Gamecube. It was one of my favorite games on Gamecube but still overshadowed by games like Smash Bros. Melee, Super Mario Sunshine, and Star Fox Assault. Anyways, replaying it reminded me how much fun the game could get and how chaotic matches could become. I even managed to get back to playing against (and sometimes dominating) Legendary opponents. Overall, it's a fun game that I think really just got forgotten amidst all the other great games on Gamecube.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Chaos Gate, Hexen 64(which I think its just called Hexen: Beyond Heretic these days) and honestly Myst. The day I beat that game without a walkthrough was pretty freaking amazing. Fuck beating God of War on Elite or 100% completing Halo 4! Beat Myst just once without help! Then you're a badass!

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Dust: an elysian tale keeps taunting me on sale on psn. I love that game, but already own it on 360 completed. It really is the first game I have ever considered buying twice. That made me realise how much that game meant to me. If only there was some more of it planned.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Sadly, all the games I loved and forgotten about are still forgotten. There's probably quite a few of them, same with many bands/songs/albums and movies.

 

[Ultress]

I don't know if It counts but Paper Mario the 1000 year door,every so often I'll remember how great a game that was and play it. SO much fun and creativity, the original is fine but this blows it out of the water.

 

[Recusant]

The Worms series. I was so bitterly disappointed by Reloaded (Remember the wonderfulness of World Party? Here's half of it! With bits and pieces missing and the whole game scaled down so that absolutely nothing has been improved save for compatibility with modern operating systems!) that I consigned the series to the trash heap of my mind- until, packing for a move, I found my old Armageddon CD, popped it in, and discovered that with nothing more than a compatibility check, it works perfectly- and oh, how I'd missed it.

 

[FPLOON]

Aw jeez... This is actually a hard question because all the video games I could try to think about, let alone look through my current collection, can't really count as I game I've forgotten because, well, they haven't been forgoten yet... So, I'm going to cheat a bit and choose Heli Attack 3 because that shit was fun to play when I had nothing better to do on the computer in middle school...

Other than that, I got nothing...

 

[King of Asgaard]

I recently replayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time because it was on one of GOG's numerous sales, and I'd completely forgotten how beautifully crafted it is in most aspects. It completely holds up today, and puts the more recent PoP titles to shame.
Also, Beyond Good and Evil. Same thing. Just glorious.

 

[Maximum Bert]

If I end up loving a game I dont forget it. Ones I forget are ones that dont leave an impression on me as either good or bad tbh so I probably had enough fun to play them but it was very transient.

There was one game on the C64 though which I cant remember the name of and may not even recognise now if someone showed me as I only managed to get the damn thing to run once but it had large characters which was really rare at the time, destructible scenery and lots of different guns. It was a side scroller shooter and at the time I really liked it. However as I said I only managed to get it to run once so my experience with the game is very little i.e a few hours.

 

[Euryalus]

I recently replayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time because it was on one of GOG's numerous sales, and I'd completely forgotten how beautifully crafted it is in most aspects. It completely holds up today, and puts the more recent PoP titles to shame.
Also, Beyond Good and Evil. Same thing. Just glorious.

I remember picking up sands of time because it seemed cool and slowly and surely falling in love with it. It was one of those games I kind of just played whenever and didn't give it much thought outside of actually playing it, but by the end of it like 5 months later I was emotionally hooked.

Definitely not one of those love at first sight games for me.

OT: I don't really forget games that I've loved. Unless I've really actually forgotten about them at which point I won't remember even if you told me about them... But I do go back to games quite often when I get the urge to play them.

I just recently picked up Spyro and Crash Bandicoot 2. Never owned a playstation as a kid so I only ever played them at friend's houses, but I definitely loved them then and still do now.

 

[King of Asgaard]

I recently replayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time because it was on one of GOG's numerous sales, and I'd completely forgotten how beautifully crafted it is in most aspects. It completely holds up today, and puts the more recent PoP titles to shame.
Also, Beyond Good and Evil. Same thing. Just glorious.

One might think it holds up. Then you play the tutorial for Warrior Within and remember how atrocious the combat is..

Speaking of PoP. I go back every few years to play the 08 title. I loved the Sands Of Time Trilogy (even 2010's The Forgotten Sands was fun). But there's something about the artstyle, scope and characters in that game. It's just beautiful. Not to mention while the ending game definitely make you question even playing the game again, it was such a fantastic ending. Still pissed we never got a sequel.

I'll be honest, I never thought Sands of Time's combat was bad. At the very worst, it was merely adequate. Warrior Within may have improved on it, but Warrior Within lost all the charm of its predecessor and became angstier God of War. If I wanted to play a God of War style game, I'd play God of War. Prince of Persia is about the parkour and the time manipulation. Besides, the combat still looks good, if nothing else, seamlessly merging with the parkour to bound over sand zombies, jump off the walls, parry and counter and dodge.

Agree to disagree, of course, but the combat wasn't the main focus of Sands of Time.

 

[Xeros]

Sadly, all the games I loved and forgotten about are still forgotten. There's probably quite a few of them, same with many bands/songs/albums and movies.

Gotta go with this. If I forgot about it, it's gonna stay that way for some time, until something comes along and digs it up for me. As of right now, though, nothing comes to mind.

 

[3asytarg3t]

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