What famous old games have you not played?

[ZedClampet]

I haven't played most older games so my list would be too long. I'll just hit the highlights (note, I've played at least a few minutes of all of these, but that's all)

System Shock
Bioshock
Deus Ex
all GTA
Thief
original Doom
Dishonored

I have a hard to describe standard as to whether I've played a game or not. If I reach a certain point in the game, I usually feel I've played it, as opposed to just going in for 30 minutes and never coming back. I've never, for instance, finished Half Life 2, but I got to Ravenholm and feel like I played the game

 

[Colif]

i was going to say there is no way you never played the original Doom... its been on almost every console/computer format. But I let you live as you may have played a little of it.

Stacks of what are classified as "classic" games that I have never played.

Never played Half Life (probably why I don't care if they never make 3)
I think I played System Shock long ago... but the rest you mentioned are on my list too. Outside of Doom but I never finished it.

 

[DXCHASE]

That is a shocking list to me lol. Honestly dont think id be into the games im into these days w/o playing any of them outside of System Shock.

For me itd be..

The Sims
World of Warcraft
All Final Fantasy games
Metal Gear Solid
Everquest
Pokemon
Starcraft
Any sports game
Any TBC game outside of Dragon Age.

I have put a couple of minutes into some of these and im absolutely leaving a bunch off that i have only barely touched, but i think this is a good start.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Thought of a few then went through some top 100 lists to get a few more ideas so its definitely not exhaustive.

Fable
Grim Fandango
System Shock
Thief
World of Warcraft
Monkey Island
original Xcoms
Team Fortress
Counter Strike
No One Lives Forever
DOTA
LOL
Left For Dead
Dead Island.

Theres a lot of big franchises I havent really played much or many of, Assassins Creed, Final Fantasy or Yakuza for example. Usually because I played one and was too excited by it. Lot of MMOs and point and click games because I just wasnt all that into them ever.

 

[Alm]

A lot of the older ones.
Planescape: Torment
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Deus Ex
The Witcher 3
Dragon Age: Origins
Diablo 1 & 2
Warcraft 1 & 2
Fallout series
System Shock
Thief series
and I barely got anywhere with Elden Ring

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Early Fallouts are another one I missed at the time. Played Fallout 3 and some New Vegas but didnt gel with them really.

 

[ZedClampet]

That is a shocking list to me lol.

I very rarely played video games until the mid-2000teens because I mostly just worked constantly until the kids were born. I can probably list almost everything I played up until that point on PC (I played a lot of console when I was young):

Wizardry
Bards Tale II
Papyrus Racing 2003
Need for Speed Carbon
Neverwinter Nights 2
Resident Evil 4
Duke Nukem 3D
Doom 3
One of the early MS Flight Simulators
Various American football games
Temple of Elemental Evil
Various Might and Magic games (not heroes)

I come close to playing that many different games in a week now.

That was basically it for the first 45 years of my life, other than some Atari, Colecovision and half-a-dozen N64 games and a couple of card games. Oh, and I finished Super Mario Brothers one time during my college Christmas break. My brother had a Nintendo.

That's why I suck at most dexterity-based games. I didn't really get into them until I was old and my children got into them.

 

[BeardyHat]

Planescape: Torment
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2

These ones for me, as well. Although, I guess maybe you can kind of count. I have played a couple hours of Planescape, but as soon as I got out of the first area and into a huge city where I needed to talk to everyone, I noped out.

I put maybe 15 hours or so into BG1 and enjoyed my time. Always meant to go back, but feel like I can't play BG2 until I finish the first, even though I'm aware it's not true.

As for myself, I believe I've at least tried most classic PC games via demo's and whatnot, but I guess:

Fallout 2
BG 2
BG 3 (Does that count yet?)
Hexen 2
Civilization 1-4
Simcity (any of them)

But also many, many console games:

Final Fantasy 7 (guess I've technically tried it, decades ago)
Goldeneye (same)
Pretty much any console 3d Platformer

There must be more of each category, but I'll have to think on it.

 

[Pifanjr]

I've played a lot of different games over the years, but there are still quite a few classic games I've missed.

DOOM
KOTOR
Diablo series (except one hour in Diablo IV)
Planescape Torment
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
System Shock
Deus Ex
Day of the Tentacle
Grim Fandango
Thief
Resident Evil series
Final Fantasy 7
Metal Gear Solid series

Thought of a few then went through some top 100 lists to get a few more ideas

I also went through some of those lists, but man are most of them garbage. Though I suppose it is hard to quantify exactly what makes a game a classic.

A lot of the older ones.
[...]
The Witcher 3

The Witcher 3 isn't that old. It's one of those games from the last few years that I just haven't gotten around to yet.

*checks release date*

Okay, so maybe it's almost 10 years old, but that's not that old.

and I barely got anywhere with Elden Ring

Elden Ring is not even 3 years old, that one definitely doesn't count.

 

[Zloth]

There are tons of console games I haven't played. I played a little Mario cart racing at work as part of a team builder event but, other than that, the last Mario game I played was Donkey Kong.

I don't think many people played System Shock 1 when it came out. It's SS2 that really took off and became a classic.

Stuff I haven't played...

• Call of Duty (except CoD 1)
• MOBA games, including League of Legends
• The Sims games
• The only Grand Theft Auto I played was #3, and I didn't play for long
• Sim City (I did play Sim World many decades ago)
• X-Wing and TIE-fighter games
• Freelancer
• Stardew Valley
• Any Ultima game past #4.
• Syndicate
• The whole Resident Evil series

 

[Colif]

Diablo series (except one hour in Diablo IV)

one hour of Diablo 4 hardly counts as playing the series.
There are more games I didn't play than ones I did.

Almost all of the shooting game series - easier to list the ones I have played.

I didn't have a PC until 1999 so probably missed a few in that time, played Nintendo consoles up until this point. So I know I missed a lot of Xbox series... no Master Chief for me.

 

[Inspireless Llama]

- Original AC games (started with Origins)
- Except a few minutes of NV, haven't played any fallout games until Fallout 4 (only a few hours)
- Doom
- Diablo
- Any COD game newer than COD4.
- Terraria

EDIT: To add:

- Dark Souls
- Half-Life
- Resident Evil

 

[Pifanjr]

one hour of Diablo 4 hardly counts as playing the series.

Agreed, which is why I included it in a list of games I have not played.

I didn't have a PC until 1999 so probably missed a few in that time, played Nintendo consoles up until this point. So I know I missed a lot of Xbox series... no Master Chief for me.

Halo has been available for Windows for pretty long. I've only played a bit of deathmatch on LAN parties, but I have played it.

 

[Johnway]

There are plenty of games i haven't played which were classics. For now we'll restrict to pc as consoles wise there are a lot.

pretty much every sports game. Or spreadsheet based sports management game.
pretty much every racing game.
Every MMORPG besides guild wars 2.
Diablo and diablo 4 (played diablo 2 and 3)
Overwatch
besides battlefield bad company and BF4, the entire BF franchise
Any COD game after blackops i've missed.
Counter strike
total annihilation (i do have it on gog so i can probably remedy that one day)
Civilization series. i have it free on steam but never touched it.
Rollercoaster tycoon series. Hopefully i'll find time for RC3.
Quake 3 and team arena - ok technically a cheat, i did play the demo but the main game? nope. Again i have a free copy on steam to play.
starlancer
final fantasy 7
realms of haunting
Space hulk
no Mobas
Age of empires 1 and 4
x wing - tiefighter
none of the sims games
baldurs gate 1
riven


there could be more if i can remember them...

 

[Frindis]

• HELL
• Harvester
• Bloodnet
• Ecstatica
• Wing Commander IV
• Frontier: Elite II
• The Lion King
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

 

[Zloth]

Halo has been available for Windows for pretty long. I've only played a bit of deathmatch on LAN parties, but I have played it.

The first Halo came out on PC back in 2003, which is how I played it.