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Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 01:20
by SanadaUjiosan
Title could mean a lot of things, but what I mean is like you get around to playing a game a long time after it's released. For example, I've just
now gotten around to playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Looking at the date on the menu screen, I remembered that I wasn't even out of high school when the game came out... and here I am, finally seeing what all of the commotion is about in my own place
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So, anyone got anything interesting to go along with this?
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 01:43
by Gnomre
is it really considered late when the console the game was released on is still part of the active generation?
I played HL1 about two years after finishing HL2, and I didn't play HL2 for about a year after its release. you do the math
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 01:50
by SanadaUjiosan
I'd consider it late, but if others don't, that's up to them. It's subjective.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 02:02
by Otherside
I usually go back to playing very old console games that I never had a chance to play when I was young because I didn't own the particular console or the game wasn't released here.
Mainly Jap snes games with english patches
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 02:10
by FLOZi
Gnomre wrote:is it really considered late when the console the game was released on is still part of the active generation?
I played HL1 about two years after finishing HL2, and I didn't play HL2 for about a year after its release. you do the math
Twilight Princess was originally released for GameCube...
Anyway, I (finally) recently completed Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Once I've finished Super Mario Galaxy I'll probably go for Metroid Prime or DK64.
(I also plan on picking up Ocarina of Time on ebay...)
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 02:30
by Johannes
Doesn't really matter when a games been released does it? If it's good it's good, a lot of new games are crap.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 02:31
by 1v0ry_k1ng
its better to play them late because your rig can usually handle them on max graphics
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 03:00
by maackey
Pretty much every single game I've ever played was "late". I don't really pay any attention to new games because publishers like to hype stuff a lot. (Hello, Spore) so I wait until other people get cut on the bleeding edge of things and cherry pick the good stuff after its been vetted.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 03:55
by clumsy_culhane
I do it a fair bit. E.g. I started playing through hl2 a week ago, finished today. Fantastic game. After Ep1 and 2, I'll probably move on to Oblivion and Fallout 3 :D
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 04:19
by smoth
Probably the game that I have played the latest(as in way behind others) would be gundam battle assault 2.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 06:29
by SanadaUjiosan
smoth wrote:Probably the game that I have played the latest(as in way behind others) would be gundam battle assault 2.
My first gundam game, and what a fun one it was.
It seems a lot of people have discovered HL2 late. I went through it about a year ago, I think. I guess what it really says is just how hardy the game is, able to stand up so long after it was "new."
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 10:15
by SwiftSpear
HL2 was amazing when it was new. So many games have physics and crazy graphics now. At it's time I remember playing through that game I was utterly stunned just how amazing it looked.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 11:17
by Cheesecan
Star Control II/The Ur-Quan Masters port.
I was only four when that game came out.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 13:00
by Machete234
I dont think I played any games late, I played them when they came out with 10 or 100fps I didnt care.
Ok I maybe played doom 1&2 late, just because I was in elementary school when they came out.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 16 Dec 2010, 00:29
by Wombat
not so old as mentioned above but
dragon age and uncharted 2
FUKKKKKKK
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 16 Dec 2010, 00:40
by PicassoCT
SwiftSpear wrote:HL2 was amazing when it was new. So many games have physics and crazy graphics now. At it's time I remember playing through that game I was utterly stunned just how amazing it looked.
Hl2 is still amazing
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 16 Dec 2010, 00:47
by Pxtl
I actually gave up on HL2 when I first got it since I was so bored with load-times and painful choppy speech.
I should probably pick it up again.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 16 Dec 2010, 00:48
by Neddie
I just played Red Faction a month or so back.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 16 Dec 2010, 00:56
by TradeMark
I tried M.A.X. again after 13 years break... wasnt so good as it was before
somehow its just too slow paced game, gets boring to click every small thing you could just automate instead
I also played Duke Nukem 3d, and that game is still damn good. Wish it had more maps tho.
What else... Heroes of Might and Magic 3, also still a good game.
Re: Playing Games Late
Posted: 16 Dec 2010, 06:54
by CarRepairer
I finally decided I'll head over to the Sears (now SearsKMart) to pick up one of those "Pong" TV games that was so popular. I've been putting it off long enough.