Can you belive I've never played.......

Metal Gear Solid is a really enjoyable game, like RE4-enjoyable. You start playing it and can't stop because the story is narrated in such an unusual way that it doesn't seem like work for not a single second. I am very picky about these games and of all those story-based games I've played, I'd only pronounce maybe 5 to be like this.

BTW:
Are there entire genres you ignore(d)?

For me it's definitely RPG's. I ignored 2D fighters a long time, too, but that was mainly because I thought they were boring to play alone and I had nobody around who liked to play fighters. This situation changed somewhat about 2 years ago and since then I've started to play Street Fighter (MSH vs SF, SFZ3, SSFIV) with friends, also recently a bit of Garou (really just a little bit) and it's a really amazing genre. If you told me that five years ago, I'd probably never believed you.

That kind of mindwash can't happen with RPGs though, heheh. Arcade games are sort of its own subgenre, wouldn't trade that for these slowpaced storytelling things

 

I've never played a Megaman game.

 

Never played any Final Fantasy

 

Short of Doom and wolfenstein and all the other Dos FPS's I hadn't really played an FPS all the way through until Call of Duty 4 in 2010

 

Outside of the first Halo I largely ignore the FPS genre too I did pick up Bullet Strom and I love that game Because it's not the same generic Call of Duty crap everyone else loves

 

Can't think of any "classics" I've missed by name except any castlevania, but since becoming a dad in 2000 I have kept away from RPGs mainly due to having no time to play them.

 

I don't even have kids and I don't have time for RPGS I keep buying them and never finish them I dont even think blue dragon has graced my 360 yet

 

Forgot about Halo. That strikes out my last post.

 

I'm not a huge fan of Halo 2 or 3 or Reach but the First Halo I sat at my XBOX for hours everyday for a month until I finally beat it. Or maybe it was 2 weeks.

I AM SO getting the 360 Remake Halo 4 has my interest too

 

never played a call of duty game and I never touched a nes/famicom :drool:

 

To someone from my generation the never touching a nes/famicom quote seems almost inconceivable,then I realise I am nearly 30 and most ppl on here are in there teens lol.

Awaits the old fart comments rofl.

 

I´m an older model, too

 

In that case....WTF!! You never played a nes? *gets torture implements ready* we have ways of making you play nes :lol:

 

and it seems like I never will play one :dance:

 

I was brought up on old school gaming. The only time we got a Playstation was when my cousins got one and couldnt work out how to use it so my aunt gave us one. Brought up on NES and Mega drive. (Mega Drive is now the only console I have. and even then its my brothers.

 

Old school gaming to me is atari 2600, Sinclair spectrum (which I loved btw till it spontaneously combusted) nes to me was like your nes/megadrive to psx jump lol...btw I'm drunkn so yeah xD

 

I think the majority on this board is well in their twenties, we also have a big amount of 30+ which is nice for a game forum. Most popular boards are infested with teenagers who want to talk about nothing but new releases or piracy, like emulators.

 

FYI: We got our first playstation in 2000. We pretty much had mega drive since my birth (1995) and my brother being young. (Maybe 3). Our mum thought the same as us. The older games were A. Cheaper and B. more fun.

 

You wanna be adopted? Cos I'll trade your mum my oldest son for you rofl (did I mention I'm drunkn? Srry lol) he's a cod fanboy + he cheats......fucking quick scoping little shit :lol:

 

The PC term is historical preservation, not piracy. Get with 2011.
It always trows me off when someone refers to N64 as old school.

And gosh darn it, the DC was not popular back in the day and people did not have good things to say about it. I remember launch day in the states, and none of the stores I went into sold out. None.

And I've never played Skies of Arcadia. See how I brought my comment back on topic? ;-)