Spiderman 2 for the PS2. I used to watch the updates, disseminating every screenshot. When the game came out, I thought it was okay. It was only months later when I realised that I was still playing it that I realised how perfect it was.
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A couple of games I've been looking at for a while like The End is Nigh and 20XX ended up being free on Epic, they were great games and definitely worth playing if you picked them up for free. Glad I didn't have to buy them.
I'm still waiting for Silk Song, if that counts.
Secret of Mana 2, when I was a kid in the 90'. I knew back then it was released in Japan, and I was waiting for it in Europe. … and it never happened. 😂 I think I've seen they finally translated it recently, as a retrogame, but hey, my tastes and priorities changed a bit in 30 years.
That's actually the third in the series (Seiken Densetsu 3) and also known as Trials of Mana, released in Japan in 1995. A fan translation was actually completed in 1999 and kinda big news so you could have played it way back then if you were able to run a ROM patch. But the official translation to English wasn't released until 2019.
Oh yeah, indeed, there was Mystic Quest (the european name for the first game) before. Although, it was such a different beast it's only with Wikipedia later that I discovered the two games were related.
A fan translation was actually completed in 1999 and kinda big news so you could have played it way back then if you were able to run a ROM patch
Oh really? Nice, I missed that. But well, I didn't speak English either back then, so it probably wouldn't have helped. :)
Uru. I spent hours wandering the halls of D'ni waiting for something to happen.
By the time I finally said "fuck it, I need to see what the fuss about this game is" for Dark Souls, 3 was about to be released. All I ever heard about the game up to that point was how hard it was; but that the difficulty wasn't bullshit. I figured it was just pattern recognition, and was right; but there's so much more nuance to that. The difficulty brought me in; but the game feel and the lore got me hooked and I now own every single one of the Souls/Borne/Ring/Sekiro games. And even a few knock-offs, like The Surge and Mortal Shell.
I bought the Chinese version of demons souls before it released here in the UK because of the reviews it was getting.
I then loved Bloodborne.
I still haven't played one bit of a dark souls game. It's on the list, it's just not time yet.
Mound and Blade 2...and nope.
Persona 5 on PC. Fuck Sony and their exclusive policy.
Is there evidence to suggest that Sony was responsible for Persona 5 being exclusive for so long, and not Atlus's usual confusing nonsense? Honest question.
I know that when Xbox decided to consider PC as part of the "Xbox ecosystem" it lit the fire under Sony's butt to start porting some of their banger titles onto Steam, which is much appreciated. Days Gone, God of War, Uncharted 4, Spiderman, and Returnal were all fantastic on day one. Horizon needed some time to fix the issues but the PC version now does it justice way better than the original 30fps version.
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My dad commented that One Man And His Droid was supposed to be good, when we were in a shop (Woolworths?) looking at games. Mid-late 1980s. I finally played it a couple of years ago.
And, was it good?
I think it was, yes!
Mega drive version of Theme Park.
I saw it getting closer in the release section of gaming magazines, closer.. then delayed.. closer.. delayed.. then I finally got it and the cartridge casing was deformed and wouldn't fit in the console.
My mum had to brute force it because I was losing my shit.
Duke Nukem Forever. And no it wasn’t.
Same. What a dumpster fire of a release.
I finally completed fallout 1/2/tactics at the end of last year.
I'm looking forward to playing baldurs gate, planetscape and arcanum soon.
Metroid prime 4.. it’s been far too long
As an oldschool GM for the Cyberpunk 2022 P&P Roleplaying game I was immediately hooked when CD Projekt Red announced the video game of Cyberpunk 2077. Despite the initial bugs, I enjoyed it. A lot. Probably the only game so far for which I got all achievements. Now patiently waiting for the Phantom Liberty DLC.
Hellooooo Night City!
For shit thats coming out:
- Baldur's Gate 3. Waoweee 22 years
For shit that isnt out:
- Star Citizen... one of these days man :| yes i have an unrelated copium subscription @_
- Command & Conquer 4. C&C3 was/is great, so it makes sense to get C&C4 eventually.