Bucket List Games

[Howard_Casto]

So I think most of you know my home situation right now.  As a result of it I do a lot of sitting around so I've been working on the dreaded backlog of games.  I just finished the Shadow of Colossus and earlier last year I finished the remakes of Metroid II and Link's Awakening.  It got me thinking that maybe I should compile a list of games I want to play before I die.  I game a lot so most of the early stuff I've already played a hundred times, but 32 bit era and onward things really started to branch off as I've been team Nintendo/Microsoft most of my life. 

Here's what I've got so far:

Resident Evil Trilogy (I've started them but I never finished)
Ico
Nathan Drake Games
God of War Games
Kid Icarus on Gameboy
The Mario Land games
The Wario games
F-Zero GX
TMNT Hyperstone Heist
The Genesis Castlevania
Symphony of the Night (Started Several times)
All those great light gun games on the sega and PlayStation consoles. 
*edit 3/3/2020*
Galaxian Theatre games on the original hardware.
*edit 3/4/2020*
Panzer Dragoon Series
*edit 3/12/2020*
Alice Series

And that's about it so far.  Anything that I missed?  What about your bucket list?

[wp34]

The Drake games are on my list as well. 

Windwaker is another one.  I've taken three runs at it without finishing. 

[Howard_Casto]

It's worth finishing.... some great boss fights in that game.  I think it'd be a better game if they removed the 45 minute tutorial at the beginning.  That's one of the things Breath of the Wild got right.... let's just get to playing the game already. 

[wp34]

I intend to take a run at it again at some point.  My problem has been I get bogged down in the boat.  It is really bad when I leave the game and come back after a period of time.  At that point I have no clue where to go or what to do next.

[pbj]

That's where I'm at with the 3DS Zelda game.  Apparently I need to wander the map over and over until I find the exact right crack in a wall of rocks.  At this point it'd take me at least an hour to get situated so I'll never finish that game.

[Howard_Casto]

I don't even bother with the modern 3ds Zelda games since they are essentially "sidequels" to whatever Zelda game came out around that time.  That and the whole portable thing.... when we get the equivalent of a Gameboy player for the DS/3DS I'm sure I'll want to re-visit some of them. 

[wp34]

That's where I'm at with the 3DS Zelda game.  Apparently I need to wander the map over and over until I find the exact right crack in a wall of rocks.  At this point it'd take me at least an hour to get situated so I'll never finish that game.

I'm taking a break from Breath of the Wild to play Link's Awakening.  It is giving me that same feeling and I don't have the time nowadays to go around bombing every rock and digging up every plant.  That was fine when I was single with no kids.

[jdbailey1206]

That's where I'm at with the 3DS Zelda game.  Apparently I need to wander the map over and over until I find the exact right crack in a wall of rocks.  At this point it'd take me at least an hour to get situated so I'll never finish that game.

I'm taking a break from Breath of the Wild to play Link's Awakening.  It is giving me that same feeling and I don't have the time nowadays to go around bombing every rock and digging up every plant.  That was fine when I was single with no kids.

Links Awakening is one game, as of right now, that is on my bucket list.  My plan is to start playing it on the plane on my way to Zapcon in April if they don't ground everything due to the Coronavirus.

[wp34]

That's where I'm at with the 3DS Zelda game.  Apparently I need to wander the map over and over until I find the exact right crack in a wall of rocks.  At this point it'd take me at least an hour to get situated so I'll never finish that game.

I'm taking a break from Breath of the Wild to play Link's Awakening.  It is giving me that same feeling and I don't have the time nowadays to go around bombing every rock and digging up every plant.  That was fine when I was single with no kids.

Links Awakening is one game, as of right now, that is on my bucket list.  My plan is to start playing it on the plane on my way to Zapcon in April if they don't ground everything due to the Coronavirus.

I'm enjoying it but it is reminding me how far they have come with the Zelda franchise.  TBH if I'm going to play a top-down Zelda game I'd prefer to replay A Link to the Past again.

It would be a great game for you to play on the plane.  It is very mobile friendly. 

[leapinlew]

Anyone play Faster Than Light? It’s Roguelike, but one of my favorites.

I’ve been on more of a bucket system kick lately. Getting through the Wii and Wii-u catalog now. Currently playing twilight princess. Loved Mario Galaxy and Donkey Kong countries.

[jdbailey1206]

I'm enjoying it but it is reminding me how far they have come with the Zelda franchise.  TBH if I'm going to play a top-down Zelda game I'd prefer to replay A Link to the Past again.

I have to start with the original wp.  By the time it came out in '93 I was transitioning to the SNES and I went to subsequent home consoles and never looked back.  I picked up a GPi case at the middle of last year and ported all my old cartridges along with Links Awakening after I picked it up on ebay.  It's been nice to replay old games like Batman The Animated Series along with Sword of Hope and others that I had missed.

[Mike A]

I came out in '93 I was transitioning

I hope that went well.

[wp34]

I have to start with the original wp.  By the time it came out in '93 I was transitioning to the SNES and I went to subsequent home consoles and never looked back.  I picked up a GPi case at the middle of last year and ported all my old cartridges along with Links Awakening after I picked it up on ebay.  It's been nice to replay old games like Batman The Animated Series along with Sword of Hope and others that I had missed.

Yeah I like the original as well but have more of a soft-spot for the SNES.   I never played Batman The Animated Series but I attempted to play Batman: The Video Game which was based on the 1989 movie.  Good gosh was that game hard.  There were a few years of NES games where I swear the developers still thought they were writing games to eat quarters.

[jdbailey1206]

I came out in '93 I was transitioning

I hope that went well.

Bro.  This is 2020.  People are gender fluid.  I have a feeling your 1950s rational is going to get you far.

[opt2not]

Here are a list of games I've had on the pile that I've wanted to finish.

older:
Chrono Cross
Shenmue
Heretic
Panzer Dragoon Saga

newer:
Hollow Knight
Shadowrun Returns
Witcher III
The Outer Worlds

[Howard_Casto]

Dangit… forgot about Panzer Dragoon.  Used to play a lot of Heretic back in the day... well worth finishing.

[leapinlew]

Dangit… forgot about Panzer Dragoon.  Used to play a lot of Heretic back in the day... well worth finishing.

Heretic the FPS? Disagree - not worth finishing. Blood is good. Shadow Warrior is great. Heretic wasn't good. It had potential.

[Hoopz]

Dangit… forgot about Panzer Dragoon.  Used to play a lot of Heretic back in the day... well worth finishing.

Heretic the FPS? Disagree - not worth finishing. Blood is good. Shadow Warrior is great. Heretic wasn't good. It had potential.

Its been awhile but I think Hexen was better than Heretic.

I never did finish Daikatana.  Maybe I should do that just to say I finally finished it.

[yotsuya]

Dangit… forgot about Panzer Dragoon.  Used to play a lot of Heretic back in the day... well worth finishing.

Heretic the FPS? Disagree - not worth finishing. Blood is good. Shadow Warrior is great. Heretic wasn't good. It had potential.

Its been awhile but I think Hexen was better than Heretic.

I never did finish Daikatana.  Maybe I should do that just to say I finally finished it.

I finished Daikatana multiple times. Yeah, I know....

[Hoopz]

I meant the first level. It's so bad, I gave up.

Is it really worth playing?

[opt2not]

Its been awhile but I think Hexen was better than Heretic.

I played and really enjoyed Hexen, which is why Heretic is on my bucket list.

Heretic the FPS? Disagree - not worth finishing. Blood is good. Shadow Warrior is great. Heretic wasn't good. It had potential.

Well this doesn't mean much coming from a guy who prefers using a spinner for Time Pilot and Gyruss.

No but seriously, someone's Bucket List doesn't have to be about finishing good games. 

[Howard_Casto]

If you want me to say it's as good as Doom or better I won't, because it isn't.  Probably isn't even better than Hexen, but it's a fun and more importantly interesting game. 

[opt2not]

Cool. Interesting is good enough for me for a Bucket List game!

[yotsuya]

I meant the first level. It's so bad, I gave up.

Is it really worth playing?

Once you time hop, it gets fun. The Ancient Greece level and the weapons there are fun. The Norse level has cool dragon bosses. Once you get the Daikatana, it’s pretty cool. Yes, there are bugs, and yes, the game came out two years too late. But I enjoyed it for what it is.

The game is a solid C-. I’ve played worse.

[leapinlew]

Well this doesn't mean much coming from a guy who prefers using a spinner for Time Pilot and Gyruss.

so.much.better.

Anyone here play MDK? I played the demo a lot back in the day. Wondering if the rest of the game was just as good.

I also missed out on all the Wing Commander games. Not enough "expanded" memory...

I tried to replay Ultima: Quest of the Avatar and Bards Tail. It's brutally slow. I don't have the patience for it anymore.

[yotsuya]

Well this doesn't mean much coming from a guy who prefers using a spinner for Time Pilot and Gyruss.

so.much.better.

Anyone here play MDK? I played the demo a lot back in the day. Wondering if the rest of the game was just as good.

Ha! I played the demo too, but never the actual game!

[pbj]

MDK was always full price when I saw it and seemed like it was difficult to pirate, or maybe my computer wouldn’t run it.

[opt2not]

Well this doesn't mean much coming from a guy who prefers using a spinner for Time Pilot and Gyruss.

so.much.better.

completely. breaks. game. design.

Anyone here play MDK? I played the demo a lot back in the day. Wondering if the rest of the game was just as good.

I also missed out on all the Wing Commander games. Not enough "expanded" memory...

I tried to replay Ultima: Quest of the Avatar and Bards Tail. It's brutally slow. I don't have the patience for it anymore.

MDK was cool back in the day. Third person shooting, sci-fi theme, I remembered the shooting and movement feeling really good.  Tried playing it on my DC a few months ago, something felt wrong with the camera FOV. Like, it's too wide making camera movements feel like it's skewing the perspective.

You bringing up Wing Commander made me remember that I should re-play the DOS X-wing games. But I need a flight stick for that, do it up right. Playing with a mouse is fine, but it would be such a better experience with a flight stick.

[Hoopz]

Well this doesn't mean much coming from a guy who prefers using a spinner for Time Pilot and Gyruss.

so.much.better.

completely. breaks. game. design.

Anyone here play MDK? I played the demo a lot back in the day. Wondering if the rest of the game was just as good.

I also missed out on all the Wing Commander games. Not enough "expanded" memory...

I tried to replay Ultima: Quest of the Avatar and Bards Tail. It's brutally slow. I don't have the patience for it anymore.

MDK was cool back in the day. Third person shooting, sci-fi theme, I remembered the shooting and movement feeling really good.  Tried playing it on my DC a few months ago, something felt wrong with the camera FOV. Like, it's too wide making camera movements feel like it's skewing the perspective.

You bringing up Wing Commander made me remember that I should re-play the DOS X-wing games. But I need a flight stick for that, do it up right. Playing with a mouse is fine, but it would be such a better experience with a flight stick.

So many great DOS games from that era. I still have a joystick that I used on Descent and Descent 2. 

StarCraft is on my list to play someday.

Speaking of MDK, about the same time it came out, someone was working on Prey. And it was intended to be significantly different than what was shipped.  The pie in the sky version sounded absolutely stellar. PC Gamer had a cover piece on it I'm pretty sure.

[LoraMoser]

Try Bro Force or Miami Hotline - awesome games, you should enjoy it

[Howard_Casto]

I've beaten Bro Force.  I tried hotline but I don't think I liked it very much. 

I've given up on the DOS/PC end of things.... there are just too many games.  I'll throw one out there I really liked back in the day.  Crusader:  No remorse.  It's an interesting puzzle game.... kind of reminds me of LoLo, though obviously updated in terms of graphics and tactics. 

[pbj]

Bro Force and Hotline Miami did nothing for me.  Sega Saturn version of Crusader No Remorse had a weird hidden level where the developers left messages to the players.  (maybe also in the PC version?)

I was already having sex by the time Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior came out, so they did nothing for me.

The one DOS game I'd like to revisit is Castles.  I could never figure out how to beat the levels as a kid, and it's probably fairly easy.  Reviews say it was a crummy game and too easy but I liked it and was stumped by it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castles_(video_game)

[leapinlew]

I just remembered Dark Castle on the Mac. I’m gonna go back and finish it.

There are no more arcade games from my youth to go back and play. I’ve played everything I ever wanted to.

[shponglefan]

Is it shameful that I have never beaten a Zelda game? I've played a handful of them, but I don't think I managed to finish any of them.

At the very least, I think I should finish A Link to the Past.

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah man, with the walkthroughs available now you can beat the average 2d Zelda in a weekend. 

[jennifer]

Mine isn't a game but rather a machine...A Jukebox, Wurlitzer 412 in particular, I pick away at it over the years, but most the parts I find, are Nos, from the family of some unfortunate builder who passed and never got to finish his build...That machine is a "36" which could explain older builders that may have an affection for such a machine, But still Jennifer worries it may be my last.

[opt2not]

I think I wanna replay through the Command & Conquer series again. I had so much fun with the original, and Red Alert back in the day. The music, the cheezy story cutscenes, the whole premise was so rediculous that it was just fun. Aside from the actual gameplay, the game didn't fully take itself seriously, which I wish more games would do these days.

Edit:  i just looked up the N64 version of C&C, I didn't know it was ported to 3D!  It's not bad looking either (something I rarely say about N64 games).



Edit again:  Doing some more searching I came across a trailer of EA doing a remaster of the series!

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah it was pretty good.  There was also one with a similar art style... it was about clearing the way for a tnt truck or something... can't remember the name but I remember screwing around with all the vehicles was more fun than actually completing the objective. 

[bobbyb13]

I could be way off base here (and I've read the not keen on DOS/PC comment too) but for the time (early 2000s) I remember American McGee's Alice was fun in a rather creepy kind of way.  I moved (far far away) got married and bore progeny before I got to finish it.
Then discovered a few years ago there was a sequel to it- with a port to PS3 it was maybe.

3rd person shooter(ish) with numerous puzzle elements.  A fun twist on a favorite story for me anyway.
Maybe I should figure out how to have another go at that one and see if it was as fun as I remember.

[pbj]

Yeah it was pretty good.  There was also one with a similar art style... it was about clearing the way for a tnt truck or something... can't remember the name but I remember screwing around with all the vehicles was more fun than actually completing the objective.

Total Annihilation.

[Howard_Casto]

I looked it up... it's Blast Corps. 

I added Alice to my list... been meaning to try that one. 

[pbj]

Ah... don't think I played Blast Corps.  Total Annihilation was the one you always heard about as being better than Command and Conquer but nobody played it.  I recall the story was that some competitor bought them out and shut it down, but wikipedia doesn't bear that out.


This thread inspired me to go back and play that 3DS Zelda game.  After an hour, I managed to find a compass in the dungeon I'm still stuck in. 

[Laythe]

Ah... don't think I played Blast Corps.  Total Annihilation was the one you always heard about as being better than Command and Conquer but nobody played it.  I recall the story was that some competitor bought them out and shut it down, but wikipedia doesn't bear that out.

Total Annihilation was superb, but hard to swallow now - early software 3d rendering did not age well.  The best successor is Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.  Amazing sense of scale, and the ability to give orders once like "this factory should make 2 fighters and then 1 bomber, repeating, forever, which fly this patrol pattern and refuel whenever they need to" without any more endless clicks of micromanagement.  It's a revelation.

(SupCom2 is a POS though, skip it.)

[pbj]

I’ve been thinking about this thread a lot.  This virus has me stuck at home.  What game, even in these circumstances, am I never going to finish?  Skyrim on PSVR.  The graphics are rough but it’s probably the most immersive experience I’ve ever had in a video game.  And it kills 3 hours of my life every time I boot it up.  And I accomplish nothing.

 

[bobbyb13]

I’ve been thinking about this thread a lot.  This virus has me stuck at home.  What game, even in these circumstances, am I never going to finish?  Skyrim on PSVR.  The graphics are rough but it’s probably the most immersive experience I’ve ever had in a video game.  And it kills 3 hours of my life every time I boot it up.  And I accomplish nothing.

 

Kinda sounds like an accolade...?
Sorta?
The Elder Scrolls series looked fun to me but (in some ways sadly) I have had too many other things going on for most of the last 25 years even for much gaming.
Would love to start on them though-

[opt2not]

Here are a list of games I've had on the pile that I've wanted to finish.

older:
Chrono Cross
Shenmue
Heretic
Panzer Dragoon Saga

newer:
Hollow Knight
Shadowrun Returns
Witcher III
The Outer Worlds

Few more games I'm adding to my bucket list:

Snatcher
Policenauts

I've played these, but never finished them. Now that they're fully translated on multiple systems (Saturn, PSX, PCE) I should probably play them through again.

Doom Eternal

I really like the rebirth of Doom, and Eternal looks a lot more fun than the previous modern release. They even did platforming well for an FPS. Been watching some streams of this lately, and they convinced me to get it.

[pbj]

I’m just cheating my way through old games to say I did it.  The mindless hour has been a nice reprieve.

This one already came invincibility patched in CoinOps... so here’s one that’s been on my list for 30 years done.