If you’ve been consistently reading my blog, you’ve probably figured out that I’m quite passionate about the medium of video games. Across my lifespan it’s entirely possible that I’ve played close to 1000 video games across numerous platforms. However, even having played so many games, there are still plenty of important video games that I’ve yet to play. Taking that into account, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at a few examples, what’s prevented me from playing them and whether I believe I’ll get the opportunity to play them in the near future.
Despite owning a Nintendo 64, a GameCube, a Wii, a Game Boy, a Game Boy Advance and a Nintendo DS, I’ve actually played very little from Nintendo’s gaming catalogue with the only examples of Nintendo franchises that I remember actively playing and seeking out being Pokémon and Fire Emblem. Later in my life, I grew interested in platformers and, of course, I started to think about the many Nintendo platformers such as Super Mario 64, Metroid, the Donkey Kong games etc. I’ve also thought on occasion about the Zelda games and how, while I do have a copy of The Wind Waker, I’ve never completed one. Since my move to PC, my options for playing Nintendo games have become quite limited and while I could emulate Wind Waker on PC using my own personal copy, I’ve decided to focus on my many other games to play instead. It also seems quite unlikely that we’ll see Nintendo release their games on PC in the near future so, possibly excluding Wind Waker, I think my chances of being able to play these important games are quite low.
Another game series that I would really like to play would be the Metal Gear games. Known for being some of the best stealth games of all time, I actually do have Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Rising Revengeance on Steam but I feel less enthused to play them without having played previous games in the series. GOG does have the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid available on their platform but since most of the games are still missing from modern PC gaming stores, I feel less inclined to play the few games that are already available. With regards to whether I will be able to play them in the near future, I don’t know. Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 were available on GOG but they got removed due to licensing issues. Besides that, It surprises me already that we haven’t seen more ports of the Metal Gear games and have no idea why Konami haven’t rereleased these games.
Of course, as a fan of the Souls series, I would love to be able to play Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne someday. Demon’s Souls recently saw a PS5 remake and, besides the strange PC announcement that Sony claimed was a mistake, I think Demon’s Souls actually has a pretty decent chance of being released on PC in the near future given Sony’s new interest in PC gaming. Bloodborne should, by all accounts, be one of Sony’s top priorities when it comes to PlayStation games coming to PC but we’ve still yet to learn if Sony has any interest in doing so. Regardless, I’ll be pretty excited to play them if/when they come to PC.
As a huge JRPG fan, you’d think that I’d have already played some of the most important JRPGs of all time. However, I’ve yet to play the game that popularised many aspects that have come to define JRPGs, Dragon Quest. I’ve played through later entries in the series such as Dragon Quest IV, V, VIII, IX and XI but have yet to be able to play the original. What makes this absence all the more frustrating is that series creator Yuji Horii stated that if Dragon Quest XI sold well on PC, they would bring some of the older games to the platform. Instead, we’ve seen spinoffs such as Dragon Quest Builders 2, Dragon Quest Heroes 2 and a rerelease of Dragon Quest XI released instead of any of the older main games. I hope that this’ll be rectified in the near future but, given how bizarre and seemingly stupid Square Enix’s strategies have been, I honestly have no idea if this’ll happen.
So those were some important video games that I have yet to play. Let me know your thoughts, have you played any of these games, if you did, what did you think about them, what are some important video games that you have yet to play and if you have any additional information on the topic.
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