Thought I'd raise this after something I've experienced this week.
Are there any games you've wanted to play for a really long time, but then after getting them and trying them, you realise that there's just no way you're going to play them? Maybe they're archaic, or perhaps any contemporarily ground-breaking ideas feel old-fashioned now. Perhaps it was a retro title you've been watching for on eBay for ages, only to find it's just not what you always thought it might be. What games have you given up on after wanting them for ages?
This week, I finally finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and that meant I got to sit down and play something that has been sat on my shelf for a number of years - Xenosaga Episode 1.
XE1 is a bit of a weird title for UK gamers. The first game was never released here; additionally, its spiritual forbear, Xenogears, was also not released here. However, Xenosaga Episode II and III were released in the UK, for reasons that made sense to Namco I guess, but probably no-one else.
Well, I had Episode II back in the mid-2000s after getting it cheaply, because it came with a DVD which you were meant to watch on your PS2 that would recap all the events of the first game. Upon watching it, I found out that this was was just all of the game's cutscenes cut together, with very little context between them, and didn't really hang together. I stopped watching it and decided that at some point, I would import and play the original. There was even a remake on the DS which also never got released here (I think that was Japan-only).
Consequently, for years, I've seen this mysterious KOS-MOS character in different places and always thought I'd get around to playing it. People have told me, in the way that everyone has a friend who always goes on about Babylon 5, that it was a real underrated gem, and one of the best RPGs ever made.
And I've gotta say, while the game might've appealed back at the time, I don't think time has been kind to it. Coming from XC2 doesn't help, of course, but it looks really crude, and the gameplay doesn't seem like much to write home about. I don't know what I was expecting really, but I think this is going to have to go on the eBay pile.
Anyone else?
Are there any games you've wanted to play for a really long time, but then after getting them and trying them, you realise that there's just no way you're going to play them? Maybe they're archaic, or perhaps any contemporarily ground-breaking ideas feel old-fashioned now. Perhaps it was a retro title you've been watching for on eBay for ages, only to find it's just not what you always thought it might be. What games have you given up on after wanting them for ages?
This week, I finally finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and that meant I got to sit down and play something that has been sat on my shelf for a number of years - Xenosaga Episode 1.
XE1 is a bit of a weird title for UK gamers. The first game was never released here; additionally, its spiritual forbear, Xenogears, was also not released here. However, Xenosaga Episode II and III were released in the UK, for reasons that made sense to Namco I guess, but probably no-one else.
Well, I had Episode II back in the mid-2000s after getting it cheaply, because it came with a DVD which you were meant to watch on your PS2 that would recap all the events of the first game. Upon watching it, I found out that this was was just all of the game's cutscenes cut together, with very little context between them, and didn't really hang together. I stopped watching it and decided that at some point, I would import and play the original. There was even a remake on the DS which also never got released here (I think that was Japan-only).
Consequently, for years, I've seen this mysterious KOS-MOS character in different places and always thought I'd get around to playing it. People have told me, in the way that everyone has a friend who always goes on about Babylon 5, that it was a real underrated gem, and one of the best RPGs ever made.
And I've gotta say, while the game might've appealed back at the time, I don't think time has been kind to it. Coming from XC2 doesn't help, of course, but it looks really crude, and the gameplay doesn't seem like much to write home about. I don't know what I was expecting really, but I think this is going to have to go on the eBay pile.
Anyone else?
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