Name one game you wish you'd played when it just came out.

[Undomesticated Equine]

Portal 2 i could only buy 1 game during the month that it came out so i postponed Portal 2 to winter sale. That was a mistake cause 9 months after release all my steam friends have already played the coop and i could not play it with someone who was new to it as i was.

 

[WhyWasThat]

Banjo Kazooie.

I grew up with PlayStation, never even owned a Nintendo console (aside from Gameboy Colour and Advance, but I only had less than a handful of weird and pretty crappy third-party titles for those), and so I never had a chance to experience Mario or Zelda during my childhood.
But I don't particularly regret missing out on those games.

About a year ago JonTron's Banjo Kazooie videos convinced me to give the first one a try, and so I bought the HD re-release from Xbox Marketplace.

Holy. Crap.

I never expected such an amazingly polished, fun and charming platformer. And it held up so well! Granted, I was playing the 360 version with its spit and polish, but there's no doubt that the core game was what I was loving.

If I had got my hands on Banjo Kazooie during my Spyro and Crash PSone days, I honestly think it would have gone on to be my favourite game of all time.

 

[Evonisia]

I would have actually liked to play Bayonetta when it came out, simply because of how re-playable it is. Same with Dead Rising 2, because besides it and Bayonetta, Call of Duty: Black Ops is the only 2010 release I've liked to replay and I got it at Christmas.

 

[Padwolf]

One of my favourite games of all time: Fallout 3. I wish I had gotten to experience it when it first came out. But hey, by playing it a few years later I got to pick up the game of the year edition for cheap.

I also wish I got to experience Portal when it first came out. When I first played it I had no one to really talk to about it. The same with Portal 2.

 

[sextus the crazy]

A bunch of games.

I wish I played through Tales of Symphonia. I wish I could have played Valkyria Chronicles. I wish I could have played No More Heroes 1 & 2 on launch. Shadow Hearts 1 & 2 seem like they would have been fun to play. So, Does Persona 4.

Man, regrets amirite?

 

[Rob Robson]

Planescape: Torment, probably. Tried to go back and play it, but it's just too ugly. I missed it at release because I was young and naive, and to my knowledge there wasn't a Mac version, which flew in the face of the fact the Mac was the dominant gaming OS of the time. Missed Baldur's Gate too, but thankfully it's not my style. Sword & Sorcery is the weakest setting of all. Unfortunately, that's where most good RPGs are. But I can afford to miss 1.

Though I am not regretful or anything, i was playing Warcraft, Warcraft II, Diablo, Myth, Marathon, Prime Target, Abuse, Escape Velocity and many many super sexy games at the time, some of which most if not 99.9% of Windows gamers have never seen, so all in all I got the better deal.

 

[Robert Marrs]

The first uncharted. I just got it along with the other 2 games in the series and was expecting to be blown away. At this point im just forcing myself to finish it so I can move on to the second one. Seems like one of those games that was praised for its technical feats more than its actual game play. Same goes for the first F.E.A.R. I thought that game was really boring and not scary at all. As someone put it on metacritic should have been called W.A.R.E.H.O.U.S.E.

 

[Collegeboy21]

Baldur's Gate 2. It was out when I was younger, but for some reason I didn't hear much about it from friends, so never bothered to pick it up. I bought it not long ago on gog.com because so many people praise it as the greatest RPG of all time, but it's a little too aged for me now. I don't have that nostalgia factor that could get me to play through it. I got lost in the first dungeon and just never picked it back up. I really need to give it another shot, but perhaps I'm too spoiled on the awesome games of this generation.

 

[DaWaffledude]

*reads thread*. No one's mentioned KoTOR yet?

Holy crap, this game. I only just picked it up a year or two ago (mostly just to prepare myself for SWTOR) and it was amazing. I already knew what the plot twist was (which I won't spoil just on the off-chance you don't know yet) and I still crapped a brick. That's how freaking well it was done. I can only imagine what it would have been like not knowing.

The combat system (which I've heard people complain about) was completely different from anything I'd played before and stayed fresh throughout the game.

The graphics, although clearly outdated by today's standsards still hold up decently enough. They're not ugly by any stretch of the word. If I'd played it back in 03 I'd probably have been blown away.

 

[Clowndoe]

Planescape: Torment, probably. Tried to go back and play it, but it's just too ugly.

Ugly? Apart from the low-res I find the graphics on it to be timeless, if a little confusing. The seemingly hand-crafted environments still inspire the same awe in me they alway have. Although I'll give you that they're not for everybody, "different strokes" and all that.

For me it would be either Il-2: Sturmovik or Red Orchestra. I got the first one at the tail-end of a 11-years-so-far life and yet multiplayer is still going strong-ish, and there was a patch only a few months ago. Red Orchestra isn't as extreme a case, but I still wish could have been there "back in the day."

 

[the_great_cessation]

I'd say most great 5th or 6th generation games I missed out on. The biggest one is probably Okami. I know the game is fantastic but every attempt I've made to play it has left me liking and respecting it but never fully embracing it. I'm sure if I played it when it released this would of been a different story though and I'd likely love it...

Another big one is Rogue Galaxy for the PS2. I feel like it would of been a game I would of completely lost myself in if I played it at release but now, it's likely I'll never play it due to the amount of free time I have now and the fact that it is an older title. Alundra is a big one as well. I tried playing it recently and it's weirdly nostalgic for a game I had never played before. I think this is because it reminds me of a style of game I loved so much growing up and I'm sure if I played Alundra upon it's original release it would make me nostalgic for completely different reasons.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

About a year ago JonTron's Banjo Kazooie videos

Ugh. I watched his "review" of Nuts and Bolts and it was just straight hatin'. (Although, to be fair, it was pretty funny as well.) When people think about N&B, the first they jump on is the bad platforming. Something the game was NOT concentrating on. If you took out everything else except the core, the vehicle building, the game is actually pretty freaking good. But all anybody wants to talk about is how 'OMG, MICROSOFT KILLED RARE WAAHHHH!!' or 'WAHH!! THE PLATFORMING SUXXORS THEREFORE THIS GAME SUX Y U ABANDON US RARE?!'

No. Seriously, if you have copy or can get one, try it out. The vehicle building I mean. Give it an honest chance. You might be surprised to find that you like it.

OP: Jedi Academy online. Very deep lightsaber combat system and multiplayer hi-jinks up to 11. Sign me up.

Also, Unreal Tournament.

 

[AD-Stu]

Planescape: Torment. Because back then I would've actually had the time to play it! I'm still on my first playthrough of it now and it's great, but I've got so little time for gaming these days and my sessions are so few and far between that I find myself struggling to remember who's who and what's going on Plus it just would've been good to be in at the ground floor on that one!

 

[Fijiman]

Borderlands. I only just got it this September and love it. However, almost all of my friends are either still playing Borderlands 2 or don't want to play Borderlands at all and I don't feel like going into matches with randoms.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Chrono Trigger and Psychonauts. I was there for Earthbound, and I was there for Okami and Shadow of the Colossus, but somehow, those two titles went completely unspoken. And the Mass Effect games, if only to be timely with my Shepard jokes and romances, instead of waiting for the PS3 trilogy, since I don't have an Xbox

 

[Olas]

I can't really think of any. The only one that I sorta missed out on is ME3, because by the time I'd gotten to it the shitstorm had already blown over and everybody was sick of talking about it. Every thread about it was filled with people going "Oh god this thread again, why can't we move on".

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Zork and all the text adventures which followed. Well, I was a baby when Zork came out but the time they were the "thing" (mid-late 80s) I wasn't able to afford games (primary school) and you can fit about 20 of them on one diskette which means hours and hours of fun. I loved reading but liked games better, and would have been young enough to learn from them endlessly while old enough to engage me. Instead I had to resort to scabbing crappy action and fighting games off friends so I was playing them when I could have been adventuring, simply because they were games and I had nothing better. Wolf 3D vs Stationfall... I know which one I'd rather be playing!