To be honest, I had to look through other people's lists to find things that I haven't at least tried. I will at least make an effort to borrow a system or play at a friend's house anything for a system I don't have that gets enough hype.
Never Played:
1. Gears of War - never got a chance to play it, mainly because I never knew anyone who had one of the games. Heard the first one was good?
2. Forza - My friend has a few of these, but his wheel broke before I got a chance to try it! Never bothered though, because any time I'm at his house and the 360 is hooked up, I'm playing import tuner challenge, haahah.
3. World of Warcraft - Doubt my PC could run it, and I'm not big into pay-to-play
4. F-Zero - I have no idea, it just escaped me at every possible turn. I wasn't into 'futuristic' games as a kid, so that was part of it.
5. Demon's Souls - Don't know anybody who has it, though I want to try it pretty bad.
6. Any number of PC 'sci-fi' games (Riddick, Deus Ex, Bioshock, System Shock, etc.) - I would go out of my way to avoid these as a kid. Now some of them are just too old and I skip over them when they're on sale at GOG. Some day I might try them out..
7. Ico - A bit rare by the time I found out it was supposed to be good, plus everyone described it as 'puzzles!!" which does not interest me in the slightest. Though after playing SotC I'm mildly interested.
8. Dragon Age - Wasn't too interested in 'KOTOR and Jade Empire meet Tolkien', but a recent review made me want to try it. Computer can't run it though.
9. Command and Conquer - I have seen people play this, but I'm not sure I've ever played it myself.
10. Wild Arms - Someone who I have massive respect for (our taste in gaming is pretty similar) loves this series. It's his favorite, I believe. Yet I haven't tried a single one! Shame on me!
11. Many platformers (Spiro, Jak and Daxter, Rayman, etc.) - I honestly don't know. Never seemed like my type of thing, even when they were recommended to me. I don't feel like I'm missing anything either, though if someone forced me to play I wouldn't be like, "NOOOO!!!"
And now more to FAST's original intent (I think?), when I do try a 'legendary' series, I keep an open mind and try to push on to the end, even if I don't like the game. Most games deserve a fair shake, as much tolerance as time will allow... but then there are those I cannot appreciate, even on a basic level. And this isn't, "trash crap that people love!" day, either. I absolutely can't stand the Zelda games, but I at least understand why a lot of people love them. Not so much for these games...
And please, I don't want anyone to be offended. My favorite game series is a car racing RPG that would bore most people to tears (in fact, it HAS bored some people to tears...), I don't expect anyone else to share the same tastes.
1. Half-Life - ughh, seeing as I have friends who love this game to death, I've tried countless times to get into it. No can do. Every 'puzzle' is the same tired crap I've suffered through 20 other FPS games, and no I don't care if HL was the first to do it.
2. God of War - Struck me as a really boring DMC clone. Upon clearing the second level (somehow without falling asleep?) all of my friends agreed. I can understand wanting to slaughter giant monsters in cool QTE scenes, but not so much mashing buttons for an hour before-hand just to get to that point. At least not when I can just play DMC, which has well-crafted gameplay (well, the 3rd and 4th at least).
3. SaGa Frontier - I freaking love SaGa 1-3, some of my favorite games of all time (for nostalgic reasons and otherwise), but the Frontier series could not grab me - which is a dang shame, because it has a fanbase that seems really cool! I've tried both a few times, but always got turned off after an hour or two.
4. Star Ocean - Struck me as generic even though I liked the semi-sci-fi settings, and as with any other JRPG, if I feel it's generic after a solid 5 hours, I drop it before it steals any more of my life.
5. Luminous Arc - Horrendous gameplay, awful story, characters so generic that it hurts. And people keep eating these up! If even one of those three elements were the slightest bit passable, I wouldn't even think twice to put this on the list.
6. Dragon Quest - I have friends that love the series, and the best thing they can say about them is that they are really long and take over your life. Pass!
This also makes me think about other possible lists, like, what games do you play for a while and love, but then get bored to death of (every Pokemon, every GTA), and what legendary series did you finally try out and end up enjoying (Duke Nukem, lol), and which did you try but not get blown away by (Viewtiful Joe, anything that people built up as 'OMG SO HARD!!!').
Never Played:
1. Gears of War - never got a chance to play it, mainly because I never knew anyone who had one of the games. Heard the first one was good?
2. Forza - My friend has a few of these, but his wheel broke before I got a chance to try it! Never bothered though, because any time I'm at his house and the 360 is hooked up, I'm playing import tuner challenge, haahah.
3. World of Warcraft - Doubt my PC could run it, and I'm not big into pay-to-play
4. F-Zero - I have no idea, it just escaped me at every possible turn. I wasn't into 'futuristic' games as a kid, so that was part of it.
5. Demon's Souls - Don't know anybody who has it, though I want to try it pretty bad.
6. Any number of PC 'sci-fi' games (Riddick, Deus Ex, Bioshock, System Shock, etc.) - I would go out of my way to avoid these as a kid. Now some of them are just too old and I skip over them when they're on sale at GOG. Some day I might try them out..
7. Ico - A bit rare by the time I found out it was supposed to be good, plus everyone described it as 'puzzles!!" which does not interest me in the slightest. Though after playing SotC I'm mildly interested.
8. Dragon Age - Wasn't too interested in 'KOTOR and Jade Empire meet Tolkien', but a recent review made me want to try it. Computer can't run it though.
9. Command and Conquer - I have seen people play this, but I'm not sure I've ever played it myself.
10. Wild Arms - Someone who I have massive respect for (our taste in gaming is pretty similar) loves this series. It's his favorite, I believe. Yet I haven't tried a single one! Shame on me!
11. Many platformers (Spiro, Jak and Daxter, Rayman, etc.) - I honestly don't know. Never seemed like my type of thing, even when they were recommended to me. I don't feel like I'm missing anything either, though if someone forced me to play I wouldn't be like, "NOOOO!!!"
And now more to FAST's original intent (I think?), when I do try a 'legendary' series, I keep an open mind and try to push on to the end, even if I don't like the game. Most games deserve a fair shake, as much tolerance as time will allow... but then there are those I cannot appreciate, even on a basic level. And this isn't, "trash crap that people love!" day, either. I absolutely can't stand the Zelda games, but I at least understand why a lot of people love them. Not so much for these games...
And please, I don't want anyone to be offended. My favorite game series is a car racing RPG that would bore most people to tears (in fact, it HAS bored some people to tears...), I don't expect anyone else to share the same tastes.
1. Half-Life - ughh, seeing as I have friends who love this game to death, I've tried countless times to get into it. No can do. Every 'puzzle' is the same tired crap I've suffered through 20 other FPS games, and no I don't care if HL was the first to do it.
2. God of War - Struck me as a really boring DMC clone. Upon clearing the second level (somehow without falling asleep?) all of my friends agreed. I can understand wanting to slaughter giant monsters in cool QTE scenes, but not so much mashing buttons for an hour before-hand just to get to that point. At least not when I can just play DMC, which has well-crafted gameplay (well, the 3rd and 4th at least).
3. SaGa Frontier - I freaking love SaGa 1-3, some of my favorite games of all time (for nostalgic reasons and otherwise), but the Frontier series could not grab me - which is a dang shame, because it has a fanbase that seems really cool! I've tried both a few times, but always got turned off after an hour or two.
4. Star Ocean - Struck me as generic even though I liked the semi-sci-fi settings, and as with any other JRPG, if I feel it's generic after a solid 5 hours, I drop it before it steals any more of my life.
5. Luminous Arc - Horrendous gameplay, awful story, characters so generic that it hurts. And people keep eating these up! If even one of those three elements were the slightest bit passable, I wouldn't even think twice to put this on the list.
6. Dragon Quest - I have friends that love the series, and the best thing they can say about them is that they are really long and take over your life. Pass!
This also makes me think about other possible lists, like, what games do you play for a while and love, but then get bored to death of (every Pokemon, every GTA), and what legendary series did you finally try out and end up enjoying (Duke Nukem, lol), and which did you try but not get blown away by (Viewtiful Joe, anything that people built up as 'OMG SO HARD!!!').