Imagine a universe without proprietary systems, OR...

...what games have you always wanted to play, but were denied because you didn't own that console?

I ask, because the shitty Star wars Games retrospective on Gametrailers nevertheless reminds me that I always wanted to play the Rogue Squadron games, only I never had a Gamecube... Or the Jedi Knight games, only I never had a powerful enough PC, or a Gamecube, or Xbox... Or KOTOR, for, well, exactly the same reasons.

What games have you always wanted to try, but never had the opportunity to?

Soul Calibur 1, Shenmue

For a while, The Fool's Errand, but I figured out how to use a Mac emulator a few years ago.

alien vs predator on atari jaguar

a bunch of bullshit that's coming out now for xbox 360/live/virtual arcade

Oh, and the Bonk's Adventure games. I remember the ads where they looked a lot more impressive than NES games... now I don't care enough to even emulate them.

+ Rondo of Blood (Wii VC please), Snatcher

alien vs predator on atari jaguar

YES

are the rogue squadron games good? i remember seeing my roommate play once. it seemed like wing commander via star wars, all these missions that seem really appealing in concept but fucking frustrating in practice.

amen to snatcher.

aliens v predator on jaguar was actually fun!
nothing else on jaguar was tho'.

I'd imagine there are good Jaguar emulators out there

This is going to happen to me soon when Little Big Planet comes out.

so fly
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kate moross for little big planet

Rogue Squadron (part II for GameCube at least, the one I played) was great. I think it's way more arcade-style than something like Wing Commander - it's the kind of game where you'd crawl to beat the levels at first, then replay them again and again to better rankings/medals. Definitely in the upper tier of Star Wars games, but a totally different tack than WC and the PC sims. Then again if you're not an arcade masochist it might not be as appealing, but man, damn if those John Williams musical cues and gorgeous skies didn't help make it so work. Most Wii games still don't look as good as that first-gen GC title...

Those Jedi Knight games were fantastic for the time. Probably kind of dated now, sadly. KOTOR was good stuff too.

I never owned a PS2, so there's... tons of games on that system. Godhand.

currently Dead Rising, XBox360.

if the next gtaiv online stuff is okay though, i may get one anyway

Dead Rising isn't that great.

just the stuff on XBLA is enough to make me want one, really, but as I think I've said elsewhere, I'm waiting for the valhalla chipset/price cut, and fingers crossed for them to come out with an enclosure that isn't so goddamn stupid looking.

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would smash (if i owned anything nintendo)

Eternal Darkness for the GameCube.

The Resistance games on PS3 look interesting, but I figure with The Orange Box, Gears of War & Halo 3, I've had similar experiences.

Better experiences

would smash Fable 2 ;_;

the only games i've ever felt like i've 'missed out' on were multiplayer games where the window of popularity dictated your ability to get in on the action at the same time as everyone else - a lot of these games retain fan bases long after their hayday, but it's not the same as getting in on the ground floor and riding it out until the next big thing comes along. with any single player games, if you're patient enough you'll have your shot at playing them, and it'll feel just as new to you at that point as if you'd played it when it came out - i mean, it wouldn't cost you shit to put together a PC today that can play the jedi knight games. a gamecube + a billion games will run you, like, 7 bucks now. and so on and so on

I wish I had played SWG pre-NGE patch. Now I guess I'll never have the chance.

idk what NGE is but I played SWG when it came out in 03 - genuinely one of the worst, most punishing gaming experiences of my life, and this is coming from a dude who played State of Emergency to completion. so in a way i guess that's the hidden upside of missing out on multiplayer games, namely when they blow chunks~

Definitely right about the online thing - there's a pretty limited window of opportunity to get the most out of those, it's way worse than revisiting, say, PS1 games 10-15 years after release. The technology is dated, but at least you don't have to rely on the random masses. To use a ridiculous comparison, I probably have about a year or two to get into the Orange Box from this point (I'm guessing a little over a year after the final class update comes, though I'd guess by 2010 there would be more serious competition in that gamespace), but I think anyone could play Parappa the Rapper right now and still get what made it fun when it was released.

Eternal Darkness, though - as much I liked that when it came out, it was visually dated even on release due to its N64 origins. The various tricks and overall story structure are great though - besides, say, Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit, I haven't seen many good multi-character POV adventures that worked as well. Resident Evil 4 advanced so much that it killed virtually every horror game in the past, though if someone wants to defend those Silent Hill games, be my guest (I couldn't get into the first one because of this).