The Shrine

Bov mentioned he never played a bomberman game for quite a while and im in the same boat. Thought it would be interesting to see what games people have never played.

I've also never played Ratchet and Clank, any Dragon Quest, and any Call of Duty.

Flip wrote:Bov mentioned he never played a bomberman game for quite a while and im in the same boat. Thought it would be interesting to see what games people have never played.

I've also never played Ratchet and Clank, any Dragon Quest, and any Call of Duty.

Rachet and Clank, MLB2K series, Dragon Quest, Medal of Honor, Siekuden, Mass Effect, and many more

The Modern Warfare games are by far the best of the CoDs. I played the original Ratchet and it was neat and all but nothing special. MLB series is pretty good if you like a baseball simulation game. I only ever played the NES DQs (first two) and am not sure what the others have been like but I keep hearing how kick-ass DQ8 is as a old-school RPG. It's one of the main reasons people have been looking forward to White Knight Chronicles. Suikoden 1 was pretty solid. Bomberman is a ton of fun if you have a bunch of people. It's chaos

Flip wrote:Bov mentioned he never played a bomberman game for quite a while and im in the same boat. Thought it would be interesting to see what games people have never played.

I've also never played Ratchet and Clank, any Dragon Quest, and any Call of Duty.

That was rent.

Halo. Call of Duty.

Also, Gears of War. I have BOUGHT the first one used, but never played it.

Counterstike, I guess I have technically played, but I hate the game with a passion because it single-handed destroyed Tekworld's (computer gameroom we hung out at) variety of Duke Nukem 3D, Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft 2, Quake, and replaced it with mindless drones that played Counterstrike over and over again. I hate realistic weapons in FPSs. Hell, I came back two years later, and the fuckers were STILL playing Counterstrike 24/7!

As far as the games listed above, highly highly highly recommend Mass Effect. Everybody is playing ME2 right now. Also, I've only played one Racket and Crank, but it was a damn fun game. I wish that the newest one wasn't PS3 only.

Popular game franchises I have never played based on this list of sales over 20 million

Lineage
Command & Conquer
Nintendogs
Yu-Gi-Oh
Harry Potter
Spongeboy Squarepants
Singstar
Pixar
Nickelodeon

Nothing I am interested in.

Dragon Quest 5 is the best in the series in my opinion. DQ8 (while great) suffers a bit from 3Ditis; that is the game is too big for its content (though not NEARLY as bad as some others like FF8). The story in DQ5 seems much more dense than 8, and contains a much more accessible side-dialogue system with much more commentary.

You never played Lineage? Lucky bastard. I'm just glad I got into the open beta of the sequel so I knew not to buy it. Played several hours of the first one though. Can't remember why... It must have been free.

Joining the never played a Dragon Quest game bandwagon. I gave one a try once when I was a kid but it was too... mature for my tastes at the time, I guess. I kind of hesitate because I was playing Fallout 2 at 11ish (7th grade? 11? I guess) and Civilization when I was even younger. Games like Dragon Quest were still above my head at the time, though.

Problem with Lineage and Aion is the ridiculous grind.

I played Aion a fair amount and a lot of it wasn't grinding it was just standard MMO fare. I do hear horrible things about maxing out your level, but that's always shitty in just about every MMORPG. Lord of the Rings Online got closest to doing it right but I found myself grinding quite a bit here and there. The expansion fixed a lot of that though.

This is a hard question for me, I've tried to play at least one entry from ever series.

I never played NiGHTS, Bionic Commando, Dragon Quest (The American one, not the JRPG), or any of the licensed shlock that Seek pointed out. Besides that, no sports franchise (Madden, NHL 2K2, etc.) and none of the flying games, most prominently Ace Combat. Never played SOCOM, the original Rainbow Six games (though i have played Rainbow Six: Vegas 2).

None of the Megaman 0 games, and no old-school Megaman game except the first one and Megaman and Bass.

None of the Quest for Glory Games, none of the Escape from Monkey Island games, Bejeweled, Kid Icarus, Ice Climbers, or River City Ransom.

Shrinweck wrote:I played Aion a fair amount and a lot of it wasn't grinding it was just standard MMO fare. I do hear horrible things about maxing out your level, but that's always shitty in just about every MMORPG. Lord of the Rings Online got closest to doing it right but I found myself grinding quite a bit here and there. The expansion fixed a lot of that though.

Aion starts off really easy, the first 20 or so levels are easy, then the next 20 is when the game starts to get moderately grindy, if the level grind stopped at 40 I wouldn't complain. But 41->50 is ridiculous, the quests stop being worthwhile doing vs plain grinding. When I tell you the time it takes you to level 1 toon from 41->50 in Aion you could probably level 6-8 toons from 70->80 in WoW or 50->60 in LotR, I don't exaggerate.


Level 2: 650
Level 3: 1,917
Level 4: 4,230
Level 5: 8,693
Level 6: 14,583
Level 7: 22,885
Level 8: 34,936
Level 9: 52,435
Level 10: 73,125 (**Ascension Quest**)
Level 11: 94,104
Level 12: 130,995
Level 13: 169,608
Level 14: 217,175
Level 15: 266,649
Level 16: 326,185
Level 17: 392,297
Level 18: 522,080
Level 19: 669,712
Level 20: 817,822
Level 21: 1,000,147
Level 22: 1,235,084
Level 23: 1,609,877
Level 24: 2,001,924
Level 25: 2,348,658
Level 26: 2,686,741
Level 27: 3,117,416
Level 28: 3,602,261
Level 29: 4,012,536
Level 30: 4,676,472
Level 31: 5,828,232
Level 32: 6,808,242
Level 33: 8,091,124
Level 34: 9,689,407
Level 35: 12,669,129
Level 36: 16,124,465
Level 37: 19,742,022
Level 38: 26,012,841
Level 39: 29,936,163
Level 40: 36,147,970
Level 41: 42,173,920
Level 42: 49,355,480
Level 43: 57,959,880
Level 44: 64,372,369
Level 45: 70,382,402
Level 46: 73,867,010
Level 47: 84,528,173
Level 48: 97,508,511
Level 49: 112,426,441
Level 50: 128,909,893

Rent, if you get the chance, try Bionic Commando: Re-Armed co-op with someone. It's an excellent remake and a ton of fun co-op

Oh man, Monkey Island is all sorts of fun and cool. If there is one genre i find myself never getting sick of, its the adventure point and click. Thats old school right there.

Zeus wrote:Rent, if you get the chance, try Bionic Commando: Re-Armed co-op with someone. It's an excellent remake and a ton of fun co-op

Or try it without somebody. It's an excellent single player game.

SineSwiper wrote:

Zeus wrote:Rent, if you get the chance, try Bionic Commando: Re-Armed co-op with someone. It's an excellent remake and a ton of fun co-op

Or try it without somebody. It's an excellent single player game.

Yes it is but it's even more fun co-op. And that way, he can try it without having to buy it or be limited by a demo

Zeus wrote:Yes it is but it's even more fun co-op. And that way, he can try it without having to buy it or be limited by a demo

The demo was horribly short, though.

SineSwiper wrote:

Zeus wrote:Yes it is but it's even more fun co-op. And that way, he can try it without having to buy it or be limited by a demo

The demo was horribly short, though.

Very short. Hence my comment about being limited by it and trying to get him to play a full version with someone

Eric wrote:

Shrinweck wrote:I played Aion a fair amount and a lot of it wasn't grinding it was just standard MMO fare. I do hear horrible things about maxing out your level, but that's always shitty in just about every MMORPG. Lord of the Rings Online got closest to doing it right but I found myself grinding quite a bit here and there. The expansion fixed a lot of that though.

Aion starts off really easy, the first 20 or so levels are easy, then the next 20 is when the game starts to get moderately grindy, if the level grind stopped at 40 I wouldn't complain. But 41->50 is ridiculous, the quests stop being worthwhile doing vs plain grinding. When I tell you the time it takes you to level 1 toon from 41->50 in Aion you could probably level 6-8 toons from 70->80 in WoW or 50->60 in LotR, I don't exaggerate.


Level 2: 650
Level 3: 1,917
Level 4: 4,230
Level 5: 8,693
Level 6: 14,583
Level 7: 22,885
Level 8: 34,936
Level 9: 52,435
Level 10: 73,125 (**Ascension Quest**)
Level 11: 94,104
Level 12: 130,995
Level 13: 169,608
Level 14: 217,175
Level 15: 266,649
Level 16: 326,185
Level 17: 392,297
Level 18: 522,080
Level 19: 669,712
Level 20: 817,822
Level 21: 1,000,147
Level 22: 1,235,084
Level 23: 1,609,877
Level 24: 2,001,924
Level 25: 2,348,658
Level 26: 2,686,741
Level 27: 3,117,416
Level 28: 3,602,261
Level 29: 4,012,536
Level 30: 4,676,472
Level 31: 5,828,232
Level 32: 6,808,242
Level 33: 8,091,124
Level 34: 9,689,407
Level 35: 12,669,129
Level 36: 16,124,465
Level 37: 19,742,022
Level 38: 26,012,841
Level 39: 29,936,163
Level 40: 36,147,970
Level 41: 42,173,920
Level 42: 49,355,480
Level 43: 57,959,880
Level 44: 64,372,369
Level 45: 70,382,402
Level 46: 73,867,010
Level 47: 84,528,173
Level 48: 97,508,511
Level 49: 112,426,441
Level 50: 128,909,893

Well those games are entirely too easy to max out your level in. I hate when they focus on end game content when it's so much more fun to be working towards leveling then to run an instance 5-10 times for one fucking pair of gloves. Grinding is terrible and I'm glad I got out of Aion when I got fed up with certain things in the upper level twenties, but still I wish there'd be more MMOs where end game content isn't the focus.