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luvcraft · buy my game buy my game me me me Joined: 05 Dec 2006

games you own but have never played is the theme of this thread!

So, list games here that you own but have never played. Not even just a little bit. If this thread inspires you to play some of them, then come back here and cross them out when you play them! As a completely arbitrary rule, I will say that you can only list games that you have bought; free games that you've downloaded and not gotten around to playing, ROMs, and games you've pirated don't count. You can, however, list games that you've bought used, and games that you've paid to download via Steam or GOG or XBLA or whatever.

I'll kick it off with my own list:

Left 4 Dead (played the demo, liked it enough to buy the full game, never played the full game)
Prey (played the demo, liked it enough to buy the full game, never played the full game)
~~The Suffering~~
Grim Grimoire
Operation Darkness
~~Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2007~~
Clive Barker's Undying
American McGee's Alice
DreamWeb
Machinarium
New Prince of Persia
Senko no Ronde
Resident Evil 4 Wii

OK, that's all I can think of for now, but there are probably more.

You're also welcome to post "you own game X but haven't played it yet? WTF is wrong with you??" and "don't bother with game Y" replies here in response to peoples's lists.

gooktime · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: no

Probably tons but off the top of my head:

Braid (Steam sale)
LOST (£3, l o l)
Morrowind
Resident Evil 4: Wii edition

luvcraft · buy my game buy my game me me me Joined: 05 Dec 2006

play Braid.

I have heard that you can never STOP playing Morrowind, so I've been afraid to start.
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colour_thief · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Just one for me:

Resident Evil 5

Haven't been able to find someone to play it with... All my likely candidates played through it with someone else.

Mikey · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Location: selectbutton.net, duh

Mount & Blade because my decent computer died :(
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astralon · Joined: 21 Mar 2009

Unplayed games on my shelf right now:

Civilization IV+expansions
The Dig
The Curse Of Monkey Island *
Sam & Max Hit The Road *
Icewind Dale 2
Arcanum *
Fallout Tactics
Spore
MGS: Portable Ops
Chrono Trigger DS *

* = games I actually plan to play some day

edit: + Valkyrie Profile PSP (thanks sniper)

Sniper Honeyviper · Joined: 30 Aug 2009 Location: Newtrogic High Zone

I bought Valkyrie Profile 2 at the US launch date, took off the shrink wrap, and never bothered to play it.

Apparently I'm not missing much, though. And I've never gotten around to trying the original, because I don't have a PSP, and PS1 copies of it fetch ridiculous prices nowadays.
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tacotaskforce · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Logical, Practical

8128 · Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Location: a very very very fine house

Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
Devil May Cry 4
Gunvalkyrie
Xbox version of Butcher Bay
Stranglehold
Hitman Trilogy
Rogue Galaxy
Lost & Damned
dumb Mass Effect expansion

list is longer than I thought

ps good thread title
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OGC · Joined: 23 Oct 2007

Twilight Princess
Scribblenauts
Left 4 Dead

Legal Step · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:37 am

Persona 4
Devil Summoner 2
Yakuza 2 - finally playing it

Rya.Reisender · banned Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Location: Weekend Web

Why would someone buy a game and then not play it? I at least try each one out for 5 minutes.
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Faithless · Wendy's Hole Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: World 1-1

RE5
Lost in Blue 2
All the Fallout expansions

These are games I've gotten from the developers and kept ... but haven't played yet.
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Sketch · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

About half my PS2 collection? I've got about 20 unplayed games. The problem is the games are like £2 each with free delivery, but can take up to 10 hours each. Persona 4 could be 40 or 60. I'm saving that for when I get ill and am bed-bound for a couple of days.

I've got a ton of PS3 games too, including:
Aquanauts Holiday (ok, I spent 15 minutes on this)
Railfan Taiwan
Folklore
Disgaea 3

I'm afraid to start Disg 3, since I started the first, played for over 10 hours, and realised I'd not gone anywhere. It's a temporal black hole which eats time. If I start Disg 3 I might put 100 hours in and still not be anywhere. I mean, it could be worse than Morrowind. But I want to finish it before they do another in the series.

Didn't Tim Rogers make a post in a similar topic in a galazy far away a long time ago, saying something like: they'll always be on my shelf so I'll play them when I feel like it?

When I was a kid I'd clock most games 2 or 3 times, since I couldn't afford many. Post-Dreamcast era, with real-life jobs and cheap internet buys, I've got more games but I'm playing them all less.
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Rya.Reisender · banned Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Location: Weekend Web

Do you all get the games this cheap? I'd generally go with 30-60€ per game with a few exceptions.
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belthegor · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Console games:
D2
Mega Man Network Transmission
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Genji: Dawn of the Samurai
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
Raw Danger
Persona 3 FES
Persona 4
Space Channel 5 Special Edition
Wild Arms 5
Valkyria Chronicles
MadWorld
Bionic Commando (360)
Blue Dragon
Earth Defense Force 2017
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection
Stranglehold

Steam games:
Blueberry Garden
Everyday Shooter
Gish
Mr. Robot
Oddworld collection
The Path
Unreal collection
World of Goo
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RyogAkari · Joined: 22 Dec 2006

Oh man, I'm kinda scared to actually find this out. I'm a sucker for clearance games and hype games usually and they have been stacking up over the years.

I'm away on business at the moment so there is no way I could compile a full list from memory, however the ones of recent that I do remember are:

Turok (PS3)
Uncarted: Drakes Fortune (PS3)
Harry Potter HBP (PS3)

Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Bionic Commando (360)
Tenchu Z (360)
Lots of XBLA games on various retail discs
The Outfit (360)

Spore (PC)

And thats just from the top of my head. = ( There are craploads of NES/SNES/64/Xbox/etc games that I've either gotten in bundles or simply accumulated over the years that I havent bothered to dust off and insert into their respective console.

I'll update the list once I get home. This will be a good "come to Jesus" moment for me. = P

Loki Laufeyson · fps fragmaster Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Asgard

i tend to do this with movies rather than games
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Loki Laufeyson · fps fragmaster Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Asgard

yeah, if there's a movie i want to see on dvd for cheap, i'll buy it, but i get bored watching movies alone, so i usually never get round to it.
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Rya.Reisender · banned Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Location: Weekend Web

Well, actually:

drobe · Joined: 25 Jul 2008

Surprisingly, only the Lego Indiana Jones/Kung Fu Panda double pack thing that came with my Xbox.
Oh, GTA 3 and some need for speed game, but I never really bought those.
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shnozlak · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:20 pm

jack klugman · Joined: 04 Nov 2007

my list is longer than i would like

call of cthulu
chulip
drakengard 2
gradius v
getting up
monster kingdom
shadow hearts 1-3
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Flackon · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Spain

The Oddworld pack on Steam
Deus Ex 2

Toptube · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:34 pm

Army of Two PS3 (owned since release. May never play)
Valkyria Chronicles (owned since April 2009. fully intend to play, high on backlog list)
Yakuza 2 (Owned since early this year, fully intend to play, medium on backlog list)
Stranglehold PC (Owned since holiday 2008, Max Payne-alike sounds cool, probably will never play)

Endless · Joined: 31 Jan 2007

My list is probably 50+ games at this point. I just stockpiled $5 crap whenever it was on sale figuring I'd play it eventually.

Examples of this...
Steambot Chronicles
Samurai Champloo
Mark Echo's Getting Up
Final Fantasy XII
Tales of Vesperia
Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner 1 & 2
Shadow Hearts 2 & 3
Xenosaga II & III
Ar Tornelico
etc
etc

As a result I've pretty much stopped buying games entirely. Last game I think I bought was Gears of War II cause I found it at Goodwill for $5. Next game I will buy will be Modern Warfare 2 and then I'm set for another year.

boojiboy7 · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:37 pm

There are only tow games I own that I've never played. The first Siren and Advent Rising.

Now, the ones I haven't finished...

dark steve · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:38 pm

what is this a raid
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P1d40n3 · Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Location: A nice desert

Mount and Blade. Got it off steam, and I'm just scared to start it.
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Texican Rude · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:42 pm

the RE5 owners, is it the PS3 version? Because I mean to borrow it from a friend >:3
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colour_thief · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I can't speak for Faithless but mine's X360, sorry.

username · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: parts unknown

Other than a few games I bought in the past month or so that I just haven't gotten to due to playing something else at the moment.

Flashback
Dracula
Final Fantasy Tactics
Kingdom Hearts
Ratchet & Clank 2 & 3
Pikmin 2
The World Ends With You
Arkanoid DS
Bangaioh DS
Fallout & Fallout 2 double pack
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boogalooper · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Location: boogin around

man marc ecko's getting up is on a lot of these lists.

I wonder if more people own it and haven't played it than played it.
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zombieman000 · Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Location: A.D. 2219

PSP games bought off of PSN. Waiting for a CFW update.
Strikers 1945 Plus
Badman
Patapon 2

Callmesteam · Joined: 12 Oct 2009 Location: Albuquerque, NM

i'll add my lengthy list soon, but in the meantime PLAY BRAID! and you can all probably live without playing Getting Up. Its not BAD, but yeah... nothing special.

Laurel Soup · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Hitsville, USA

This is pretty shameful. Like Rab Florence says, having unplayed games on a shelf hurts.

Persona 4
SMT 3
~~Shiren DS~~ (Just started it up, got to the first village, and beat the first ten challenges)
Raw Danger
Ridge Racer (procured at a thrift store last week, it hasn't been sitting unplayed for a decade)
Tales of Phantasia GBA
Spyro: Eternal Night
The Sims 2
PN 03
Lunar Knights
Devil May Cry 1
Odin Sphere
XIII
Iron Storm (for the Saturn, although I'm shocked I don't have the PC FPS of the same title sitting unplayed)
Fatal Fury Collection Vol. 2

I've been at the last couple weeks of P3 forever, awaiting a good block of time to tackle Monad. But most of my gaming time as of late has gone to Left 4 Dead (the vast majority here), Castlevania OoE, retro game compilations, The Club, and whatever 2-player ROMs my friend wants to play.

PS2 and GBA games are both endangered and discount bin-bound right now, so I fear this list will only get longer.

Callmesteam · Joined: 12 Oct 2009 Location: Albuquerque, NM

wolf roboblitzer · Joined: 21 Jun 2009

Siren
Undying
Metroid Prime 1&2
Deception 3
Space Channel 5 parts 1 and 2 for PS2
FFVI and Chrono Trigger
and dozens more I can't remember

Kabbage · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Location: Allston, MA

Mafia and Independence War 2 have been just, fucking, sitting there for years. I don't imagine I'm ever going to want to play them, really.

Texican Rude · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:23 pm