Gaming gems you almost didn't play

[ChupathingyX]

Dawn of War

I always looked at them and thought they would be extremely boring and crap. Then my friend played it and told me about it and I fell in love with it, and the 40K universe (Fire Warrior also helped with that).

 

[bluemew1234]

Portal.
Same basic story as everyone else. Heard it was good. Put it off till recently. Kicked myself for waiting.

 

[Frozengale]

Mass Effect... oh wait I still haven't played it because it won't even start on my laptop and there is no sound for it when I use a PC. So I will probably not be able to play it until I get a new PC or a new laptop, which will be several years from now, and even then it probably won't work. Yay technology and games with known problems that never got fixed.

 

[Waddles]

Lost Odyssey. I played this for longer than any game ever except perhaps Oblivion. Found it through Unskippable actually!

 

[colourblind]

Oh yeah Persona 4 made me feel that there is still hope for japanese RPG's and I bought it before I got a ps2

 

[Vault101]

Saints row 2

I wasnt sure about it,The whole setting didnt really interest me, but I needed somthing to hold me over untill Fallout NV came out, so I got it as an early birthday present to myself, and Im glad to say it was awsome

chrachter customization was the best part

 

[Vault101]

Mass Effect... oh wait I still haven't played it because it won't even start on my laptop and there is no sound for it when I use a PC. So I will probably not be able to play it until I get a new PC or a new laptop, which will be several years from now, and even then it probably won't work. Yay technology and games with known problems that never got fixed.

Yeah I had technical issues with the first ME too, which unfortunatley distracted me from how awsome the game really was. I think it had somthing to do with windows 7 it just wouldnt launch at all, but the patch fixed that, but there seems to be off witht he textures

you wouldnt belive how shocked I was first time playing....I chose a dialogue option and shepard opened her mouth and spoke!!

anyway its a shame because it really is a good game and it dosnt feel right playing the second without the first

 

[northeast rower]

Picked up KOTOR on a whim, never went back.

 

[Aethren]

Morrowind.

A friend of mine was explaining it to me when we were kids, and my response was, "You need to repair your stuff? Sounds stupid." But, I finally gave in and borrowed his copy, ended up playing the game even more than he did. Between Xbox and PC variants, I ended up buying that same game 3 times, and I never regretted any of the purchases.

 

[VanQ]

Oh yeah Persona 4 made me feel that there is still hope for japanese RPG's and I bought it before I got a ps2

I have high hopes for Catherine, assuming we get it.

 

[Viewtiful Dan]

Metal Arms: Glitch in the System and Custom Robo. That was back during a time where I could buy a game while knowing nothing about it. I was not disappointed. Those games were amazing.

 

[AroLombardi]

Shadow of the Colossus. My brother rented it years back and it looked stupid to me. I almost missed a beautiful game.

Oh, and TWEWY. I haven't stopped playing, two years after I've gotten it.