Games I've Never Played

I got the idea for this entry from JimmyCanuck. We were discussing Gears of War and I happened to mention TimeSplitters, and he said he had never played it and claimed to be the worst gamer ever. I think I can claim to be a worse gamer than him.

Now we both mean that the breadth of our play experience isn't what it should be, and that there are a lot of games that we haven't tried, those seminal moments in gaming so to speak, much like saying you are well-read and having never read Shakespeare or many of the other masters of the medium you claim expertise in. Of course, lack of ownership of a system excuses some of these oversights, as platform exclusivity is sometimes a tough thing to overcome on a limited budget.

I've never owned, rented or traded with someone for a survival horror game. That means aside from about 2 minutes trying out Resident Evil 2 on an N64 some years ago, I've never played any game from that entire genre of gaming. That means I have no background with Resident Evil, Fatal Frame, Alone in the Dark, Silent Hill, or in short, a large library of games that represent artistic leaps in the medium.

I haven't played a Metal Gear game since the original NES title Snake's Revenge... and now that isn't even considered part of the canon for that series. No good reason for that oversight either.

I've never played an MMORPG... or played a game of the resource gathering Real-Time Strategy sort since the original Warcraft.

And I think the winner here is: I've never played Quake. Ever. Not once.

So now that I've owned up to a few of the blank patches in my gaming experience, what are some of your regrettable blindspots in gaming?

Tags: quake, resident evil, metal gear, alone in the dark, fatal frame, silent hill, warcraft, mmorpg, rts, snake's revenge, timesplitters, jimmycanuck, gears of war, nintendo, nes