Major Game Series or Genre You Haven't Played

GasBandit · May 26, 2015

ThatNickGuy said:
What does Bubble Bobble have to do with anything?

Okay so bubbles, murder, bubbles, murder, cocktail, water slide
Bubbles, murder, murder, peach, banana what a frickin' ride
So many patterns, murder, patterns, bubbles, jeez, it never ends
Now I don’t remember much about my life and work and friends

Bubble Bobble!
Why did I try?!
There's Bub and Bob,
BUT WHO AM I?!

GasBandit · May 26, 2015

@ThatNickGuy

Gruebeard · May 27, 2015

Tinwhistler said:
I've got you all beat. I've never played a Zelda game, at all.

We are tied in this regard, sir.

Siska · Jul 6, 2015

I don't buy rpgs without a female protagonist. Steam is full of games that I have gone ooh that looks nice over the screenshots and then I found out there was no female option it got crossed off my list of things to get. Too many to remember, I think Gothic was one. Until recently Witcher was one of these. But my hubby bough Witcher 3 for our PS4 so I tried it for about 2 hours. It was pretty but besides from not being able to play as a female I didn't like the controls very much, so I'm not sure I'll ever play it again.

Bubble181 · Jul 6, 2015

Siska said:
I don't buy rpgs without a female protagonist. Steam is full of games that I have gone ooh that looks nice over the screenshots and then I found out there was no female option it got crossed off my list of things to get. Too many to remember, I think Gothic was one. Until recently Witcher was one of these. But my hubby bough Witcher 3 for our PS4 so I tried it for about 2 hours. It was pretty but besides from not being able to play as a female I didn't like the controls very much, so I'm not sure I'll ever play it again.

I understand for games where the main character is "blank slate" or a complete player-insert - for example, it wouldn't make a lot of sense not to be able to be female in Skyrim. Frankly, the same an be said of most shooters - even though people love Gordon Freeman, there's no reason whatsoever not to have her be Jordan Freeman or something. Leaving out the choice is, in many cases, quite indefensible.
For games like the Witcher, where you're playing an established character, I tend to be far more forgiving - while it's a fictional character , in this case, it's much like playing, say, general Grant in a Civil War game. You wouldn't expect to suddenly play a genderbent version (not that I don't think this would be acceptable too in some types of games).
I'm not criticizing the choice itself, nor would I try to make you play something you didn't like, for the record; I'm just giving my opinion.

AshburnerX · Jul 6, 2015

Considering that The Witcher is a licensed game about an established property, I'm okay with the male only option. But that's really only because we have a bunch of books and other stuff building on Geralt as a character. This was his story long before it became a game.

Null · Jul 7, 2015

Halo, Gears of War, basically anything that was XBox exclusive. I generally don't play FPS (as any of you who've had the misfortune to play TF2 or L4D with me can tell). I generally don't like RTS games like Warcraft, Starcraft, etc, but I *have* played them. (I don't own them, though) And yet I'm addicted to Civilization. I guess I haven't played any MOBA, though I suppose GUNZ: The Duel was kind of that sort of thing before the term was really coined? Or I guess that was just online PVP? I got about 5 minutes into Kingdom Hearts and went "NOPE". And while I readily make fun of JRPGs, I've played more than a few of them.

Null · Jul 8, 2015

Just realized one:

Elder Scrolls. Never played a single one of them.

TommiR · Jul 8, 2015

I think the only games so far mentioned in this thread that I have played are Warcraft (I & III), StarCraft (original & Brood War), Civilization (I think I, II, IV), and Bubble Bobble. Yeah, I'm not much of a gamer. Pretty much the only games I've played in the past five years or so are Hearts of Iron II and Rome: Total War (and the Barbarian Invasion expansion. Never really got into Alexander).

fade · Jul 16, 2015

I don't like RTSs either. I don't like any game that feels like work. I have to problem solve like this everyday for 8 hours, so why the hell would I want to play a version of the same thing with pretty pictures on it?