How can you NOT have played that?!

[Woodsey]

I have never played Deus Ex, Halo, The Elder Scrolls, Dungeon Master, Golden Eye, Gears of War or Ultima. Also I hadn't played Mass Effect until October 2009, didn't even try Dragon Age: Origins until July 2009 and didn't play Fallout 3 until November 2010. Damn I suck!

Dragon Age was released in November 2009 (I take it you mean 2010) xD

OT: I haven't played Halo or Ocarina of Time.

Personally I think you should be shot if you haven't played Mafia (most people it seems, strangely - despite selling very well) or The Sands of Time.

If you haven't even heard of Deus Ex, then you may aswell give up on life.

 

[Grey_Focks]

Eh....really, no games come to mind, with the exception of maybe tetris. Seriously, there are plenty of games some of you guys are saying "everyone" should play that I just have no interest in, and I know that everyone isn't going to like all of my "must play" games, either. I won't make you play Halo, Half-Life or Warcraft 3, if you don't make me play Chrono anything or Final Fantasy XXIV.

Really, same thing for movies and books, too, and really I think there is no universally liked anything. People have different tastes, and somewhere out there, there are people who prefer the Matrix sequels to the original.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Reading Dune. I mean REALLY.

And playing any of the Elder Scrolls games. If you've never played any of them, you're missing out.

I totally agree, lots of people I know have heard of Dune. I don't know anyone else who has actually read it though. Two of them said they have, but they later admitted that they haven't. I think people claim to have read/watched/played things that they haven't. It was seriously awesome, and not at all as boring as all those other 'classics; out there that are utterly boring to read and everyone who reads them are pretentious old jerks.

I tried reading it, but in spite of how good the story is, and dear god is it, it's not written particularly well.

 

[Hinro]

I have never watched any of the Indiana Jones movies though not from lack of trying:

1st attempt) tried to watch it at my friends house, get called into work for an hour

2nd attempt) a marathon of them was on tv and right as it's about to start the power goes out

3rd attempt) Same as 2nd but a couple months later

4th attempt) Borrow my friends dvd's and try and watch it on my dvd player. Dvd player explodes yet disk is surprisingly still perfectly okay

5th attempt) A couple days after the 4th attempt I try and watch them on my 360. Get the RRoD

6th attempt) Fell asleep on the bus coming home from archery where they had put Indiana Jones on right as I fell asleep. Woke up right as the credits were starting.

I have determined that I am not allowed to watch these movies for whatever reason.

 

[krazykidd]

Ive never played counter strike ( to be fair i completly missed that boat due to being 22 years today and not having a proper computer when i was young or not being old enough when it came out) also , any1 who hasn`t played Shadow of the colossus cannot be friends with me .

 

[DarksideFlame]

When I found out that SW: KOTOR was awesome I told a mate of mine that he should play it but it backfired cuz hed had played it and he spoiled the biggest secret of the game for me

which I won't do here

 

[StBishop]

Have you ever met someone, or known someone, that has not played a game that you consider to be one of the most important games of your life? Or a game that you've played so many times, know so many people that play it, and/or is so popular and well known?

For example:
Imagine meeting someone that has not played Halo (first one), Ocarina of Time, or Pacman.
I consider all of those games to be extremely well known games, and meeting someone who has not played them is unheard of.
Meeting someone who has not even heard of those games, is even more insane (I work with a guy who never heard of Ocarina...)

Now, I try not to get into "How have you not seen that movie?!/played that game?!/read that book?!" discussions, because everyone has their own list; but seeing as how I had to explain what a Reaver was, who Tassadar is, and why Adun is a cool guy to the protoss, to someone playing Starcraft 2, I'm going to bend my rule for a bit.

Also, if you want to add:
How have you NOT seen that movie?!
How have you NOT read that book?!

Met someone that has not seen the Star Wars movies, and met another person that has never read any Dr. Seuss book...

I am this guy.

I'm 21 this year.

I haven't seen a Star Trek movie, and I've only seen one episode of the series (I know you said star wars but it's still uncommon).
I've only seen 2 episodes of Dr. Who and I didn't watch the whole thing.
I haven't seen Pulp Fiction
I haven't seen A Clockwork Orange

I've never played any Star Craft.
I've never played pac-man.
I've never played Mario. (Played Mario Kart twice at a mates place)
I've never played Megaman.
I've never played Metroid.
" " " Half Life series.
I've only played the Gameboy Zelda Game and I didn't like it.

I've never read, -The Saga of Seven Suns
-The Wheel of Time
-Anything by Terry Pratchett.
-Anything by Raymond E. Feist.

You name it, I probably didn't experience it. My childhood was Pokemon, Action Man, Harry Potter, Biker Mice From Mars, Transformers and my cousin's X-Men Comics. That's pretty much it.

I think the only "Classic" I played as a kid was Pokemon Red and Blue and Crash Bandicoot.

EDIT:
Just gonna edit in some that people have mentioned or that I've been reminded of:
Never Experienced the following
-Dune (Book, Game, Movie?)
-Deus Ex
-Dungeon Master (Duh, game came out 3 years before I was born)
-All Mafia movies/shows (Goodfellas, Sopranos, Scarface, Godfather etc.)
-Mafia (Game)
-Resident Evil Series
-Evil Dead (Movie and Game)
-Metal Gear Series
-Okami (Apparently I should have played this? I thought it was a cult classic)
-Chrono Trigger
-Kill Bill
-Resivour Dogs
-Citizen Kane
-Shindler's List

 

[Netrigan]

Imagine meeting someone that has not played Halo (first one), Ocarina of Time, or Pacman.

Never finished Halo (found it boring), never played Ocarina Of Time, and was never a particular fan of Pac-Man (Ms. Pac-Man was much better).

Video games aren't like movies or books. The vast majority have a sell-by date. Dated graphics, dated gameplay (GTA III is *really* hard to play thanks to the crap controls), outdated consoles & OSs, and the lack of stories attached to older games. I remember having a hard time playing Super Mario Bros. 1 after playing Super Mario Bros. 3. I could see why I had enjoyed the hell out of it a few years earlier in the arcades, but the sequel was just so much better graphically and gameplay-wise that the first no longer held my interest.

I love Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight to death. I think it's one of the best games of its time... but unless you played it back then, you'd likely approach it thinking the graphics are shit (and they were pretty crappy at release), the live-action story isn't well integrated with the gameplay, and the gameplay offers nothing you haven't seen a million times in other games. The puzzles would likely annoy, too, as they're actually a bit tough to figure out and sometimes level progression involves you pulling off some amazing Jedi crap that you'd probably not think to do... like hope down that pit and land on that little platform without falling to your death.

Or Doom. The game is legendary. It's easily more important than Halo in FPS history, but there's no mouse-look (no looking up or down either), no jump, and hitting moving targets far off in the distance can be really irritating thanks to the auto-z-axis aiming. It would be a tough sell to an audience that came up on more advanced games with better control schemes.

 

[CheckD3]

I've never played Halo 2, not a single moment of it. I've played the shit out of Halo 1, Halo 3 and Halo Reach (and started ODST, no Wars though, fuck RTS games [sorry to those who enjoy them]) yet never touched Halo 2...I'll get to it eventually

 

[StBishop]

That's just ridiculous, I've been playing games for years and I've never heard of that game, not having played one particular game does not make you "not a gamer".

It's not my fault if other people have been slack when it comes to telling you about the landmark games of the past.

I'm going to go right ahead and hope/assume that you're being facetious.
On the off chance that you're not.

Dude, assuming that I somehow heard about a game that came out before I was born.

Considering the fact that most people won't begin to look for games rather than play what they get as gifts is probably about school age (Varies but was 5 for me) and by then the game was almost a decade old! I'm about the average age of the escapists population (Early 20s) but really only veterans would have heard of this game.

I don't tell my 13 year old cousin that he's not a real gamer because he didn't play Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale.

It's not my nephew's fault that their first console was a Wii followed by my brother's old 360 from when he upgraded to a 360s.

I can understand a little more with books because they generally get put on school reading lists (The Hobbit, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Lord of the Flies etc.) or films because they're on TV late a night but games are a little different.

 

[Zergadooful]

I've never played any Metroid or Zelda games. And I technically never played any Elder Scrolls games because Morrowind never got past the loading screen.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I'm glad you started with Mass Effect, seeing as how I believe it to be better in almost every way than the sequel.

Well I don't see why I'd start a series at number 2. From the amount of backstory the game has given me so far I'd guess I'd be lost if I didn't play the first one first. Also it was cheap.

 

[Night_S1ash]

I've never played Ocarina of Time, i don't play any zelda's, i have however played the other 2

 

[Electrogecko]

not played resident evil 4 played 5 crap so not geting 4 prefer ones whith zombies

Yea 5 is crap but 4 is the best of the series bar none. The type of enemy you shoot at hardly defines any game, and the enemies in RE4 are much freakier and more varied than any of the earlier games imo. Plus the camera isn't retarded.

 

[Caligulove]

Never played any of the Super Mario Brothers between the original NES and Super Mario 64- have some friends that think this negates any opinion I have about gaming, or that it doesn't make me a gamer. Which is cool, since I have never considered myself a gamer.

Neither of them have played Super Metroid, a classic game in my opinion- so it's all relative.

 

[mariofan1000]

I never watched starwars and I played little of Deus Ex. I didn't like it.

 

[BVBFanatic]

I've never seen Star Wars and have no desire to.

Something I do regret is never having played any of the Diablo games.

 

[Electrogecko]

I'm seeing so many "I've never played any Mario/Metroid/Zelda game" that it's making me want to cry. Those may be my 3 favorite series. Stuff like "Don't care enough to play Ocarina of Time" seriously gets under my skin. Obviously you're not going to care if you never played it!

I know that's the point of this thread and these feelings are something we all share when our beloved games are neglected or pushed aside, but even still, I can't help but think "what kind of person could be attached to Halo: Combat Evolved but not care that they've never played Ocarina of Time, Link to the Past, Windwaker, Super Mario World, Mario 64, Mario Galaxy, Super Metroid, or Metroid Prime?"

Not including this generation, (I don't own a PS3 and so, no matter how much I would like to, have not played Uncharted, Infamous, etc) I would say my most heinous acts would be never playing any Metal Gear game, Deus Ex, GTA3, or any Blizzard game besides WoW.

 

[Rockchimp69]

Have you ever met someone, or known someone, that has not played a game that you consider to be one of the most important games of your life? Or a game that you've played so many times, know so many people that play it, and/or is so popular and well known?

For example:
Imagine meeting someone that has not played Halo (first one), Ocarina of Time, or Pacman.
I consider all of those games to be extremely well known games, and meeting someone who has not played them is unheard of.
Meeting someone who has not even heard of those games, is even more insane (I work with a guy who never heard of Ocarina...)

Now, I try not to get into "How have you not seen that movie?!/played that game?!/read that book?!" discussions, because everyone has their own list; but seeing as how I had to explain what a Reaver was, who Tassadar is, and why Adun is a cool guy to the protoss, to someone playing Starcraft 2, I'm going to bend my rule for a bit.

Also, if you want to add:
How have you NOT seen that movie?!
How have you NOT read that book?!

Met someone that has not seen the Star Wars movies, and met another person that has never read any Dr. Seuss book...

Just because something is important to a scene or genre, or even just you as a person doesn't mean it's unheard of. I mean I love the Halo franchise but I have barely played and Combat evolved or Halo 2 and never owned either. And I'm not big on Nintendo so I haven't owned any Zelda games.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I'm going to go right ahead and hope/assume that you're being facetious.
On the off chance that you're not.

Dude, assuming that I somehow heard about a game that came out before I was born.

Considering the fact that most people won't begin to look for games rather than play what they get as gifts is probably about school age (Varies but was 5 for me) and by then the game was almost a decade old! I'm about the average age of the escapists population (Early 20s) but really only veterans would have heard of this game.

I don't tell my 13 year old cousin that he's not a real gamer because he didn't play Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale.

It's not my nephew's fault that their first console was a Wii followed by my brother's old 360 from when he upgraded to a 360s.

I can understand a little more with books because they generally get put on school reading lists (The Hobbit, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Lord of the Flies etc.) or films because they're on TV late a night but games are a little different.

I don't know why you are lecturing me about how hard it is to find out about classic games when you could be trying some of the titles mentioned in this thread.