I’ve got an Xbox HDD full of games I keep meaning to start but then other games happen: Night in the Woods, Oxenfree, Life Is Strange, Thimbleweed Park… Pretty sure there’s more too. Oh, and my ENTIRE Steam catalogue, pretty much. Like, all of it. At least 20 games on there. Seriously.
Oh yeah, and I STILL haven’t got the family to play Betrayal at the House on the Hill.
Fighting games in general. If I could just get to a point where I had an even W-L ratio in Tekken 7 or any KoF game I’d be a happy camper, but I’d really love to be able to walk in to an arcade and step up to any challenger. I could do that when Tekken 3 was new, but not since. I just can’t get myself to dedicate the time to just playing fighting games, which seems like a requirement.
A relatively more recent ‘someday’ series that I finally took the plunge in to this weekend is Yakuza. I have loved them from afar since before they started getting proper English releases, but even with the release momentum they have now, I’ve been hesitant to jump in because of HOW MUCH Yakuza there is. I decided at 2am on Saturday night while eating ramen after a concert that I just needed to do it, so I started up Yakuza Kiwami. Now I’m definitely not going to have time to practice fighting games, unless I can play them at CLUB SEGA.
I’d also love to be able to play dwarf fortress or rimworld or the like, and feel like I have any idea what I’m doing.
Rob, I have The Rise and Decline of the Third Reich on my shelf too. It was given to me by another grognard online about 10 years ago, and I still haven’t finished a game of it yet. I have a shelf full of board wargames, mostly from the company “The Gamers” out of Illinois (now owned by MMP), like Hube’s Pocket, Ardennes, GD '40, etc.
I tend to play computer wargames now, when I have the itch, but I also play RPGs which seem to get their hooks in me more often. That said though, the Gary Grigsby games are at the top of the list of “Someday Games” for me, with some others from other genres:
Saga is extremely cool (I have a copy because I have a partner who loves me way too much who found a reasonably priced copy without the booklet for me several years ago) but unless you’re a Panzer Dragoon fanatic like myself or love anachronistic JRPGs, it’s going to underwhelm just because the hype and the rarity has surpassed what that game actually is.
The original Nier (and Drakengard 3, which was my first introduction to Yoko Taro’s ouvre) also does some extremely interesting stuff, but if your first introduction to that series was Automata… prepare for jank. Platinum did a lot of good for the gameplay of those games, and while I sincerely love everything from the first Drakengard on, it might be weird to work backwards to them after the refinements made in Automata.
In terms of not having the money and resources, I have a whole bunch of weird old 3rd person rail shooters I’d love to own, but that for various reasons I’ll probably never get.
Vanark (US release is too expensive/don’t have a way to play imports)
Gamera 2000 (Japan-only)
After Burner: Climax (delisted on digital, now only in arcade cabinets)
Planet Harriers (only in arcade cabinets)
Every Ass Creed, I’ve always wanted to take a great historical tourism tour thing through all those games.
I have Final Fantasy VII-IX on my Vita, I’ll get around to them someday.
In terms of games where the complexity is off-putting or the learning curve is too steep, basically any fighting game and something like Dwarf Fortress.
Also EVE Online, whenever I look at it now I’m overwhelmed by the numbers and if I had the time I’d love to learn how it all works.
SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS. Is that bad? Is it even worst that when the newly remastered one on the PS4 came out, I bought and played THE LAST GUARDIAN instead?
For me it’s a game that I hear from people all the time telling me" you need to play it." As we’ve seen before with titles like UNDERTALE , this makes what could actually great game feel like homework and messes with the players expectations.
With that said this is still a “someday” game. Everything about it looks like it would totally be my jam! I love the look and the scale of the colossus. And the balance of epic boss fights to tranquil moments seems refreshing. So someday, I will shut up, sit down , and play the damn game.
Wargames definitely. I like strategy games, but I almost never continue playing them once I figure them out. This is worked the best for Paradox strategy games, where it takes significantly longer to figure out. Since most Capital W Wargames are pretty dense, I just know it would take a while.I think I would enjoy one of those John Tiller games I bought, or whatever the hell Command" Modern Air/ Naval Operations is, but the amount of time and effort is juuust steep enough.
Also to anyone interested in giving a Dwarf Fort a legit shot, I recommend looking up the “Lazy Newb Pack” and PeridexisErrant’s text tutorial. The pack comes with a bunch of tools and graphics sets that make the game more palatable for humans. Watching a good let’s play also helps.
I tell this to all my friends, DF isn’t that hard. DF is logical and in a Sims meets Simcity way. Its just the UI which is actually a nightmare.
The Witcher 3 for obvious reasons. Besides that JRPGs like the Persona series that require investment times of 100s of hours.
I just bought that game the other day! I love it but scheduling has been a hurdle. We wold all feel bad if we left out one of the 4 players in our campaign.
Obligatory "Massive RPG with 50+ hour campaigns. I’m sure i would love most of them, but the fact that i could play 2-10 games in that same time frame just makes me not want to start. Persona, Divinity, Final Fantasy, Planescape. All games i know i would like, but i would much rather play more than just those.
Funny enough I did actually finish Witcher 3. It slipped in there during my senior year of college in that couple month timeframe where everything is figured was figured out and the only responsibility i had was to get above a D in my last few classes. So i did actually manage to finish it, and even then i barely touched any of the DLC side content, and just sped through the main stories. So even then, with close to zero responsibilities, it took me a long time and i didn’t even complete all i wanted to. So yeah, i’m unfortunatly gonna pass on those long ass games.
Witcher 3 was one of those for a long time, but I have been playing it for the last few months. So the current one is Ori and the Blind Forest. I usually love Metroidvania platformer games, but for that one…everytime I start thinking about booting it up, another game comes along and takes its spot.
Not exactly answering your question here, but I’ve been waiting for that disappeared space horror game Routine since it surfaced in 2013(!). Someday…
As for actual, existing games, I want to start another playthrough of KOTOR2 with the complete mod installed. It’s been tugging on my brain off and on for years, and it’s just sitting there on Steam, waiting for me to click on it.
I bounced off of Final Fantasy 15 after about 5 hours. It now keeps getting buried under Austin’s “Year of the Mech”. Into the Breach and Battletech are probably going to keep me occupied indefinitely.
On a depressing note, any other boardgame or pen and paper RPG is something I no longer think I have access to play. I don’t have the time or the friends to sustain something like that any more. Someday…maybe someday…
I would definitely recommend giving Warframe a try. It is a time investment, but a lot of it is about sidegrades, so you nearly always make progress with each game session so it rarely feels wasted. It also has fairly granular difficulty so you can progress at your own pace to a large extent.
Also the community is generally very accommodating and happy to help out with mods etc (although that may not appeal to you as Austin mentioned, its fine to want to get everything yourself), there are fairly active PS4 and PC clans on this forum
My growing Table Top RPG .pdf collection that sits on my hard drive accruing digital dust
all of those are some day games.
Like Rob, I’m the kind of person that thrills over spending a day or two just wrapping my head around super granular rules. At least once a year, I’ll commit to at least refreshing some of my knowledge around how to play Fortress mode in Dwarf Fortress. On my phone, I have a long-running Nethack save file I chip away at when I have time, and even though I’ve played that game in various incarnations for nearly twenty years, I still figure out something new at least once a year.
For me, though, the games I would play if I could make the time and find someone willing to join me on my quest are pretty much the types of war games Rob was talking about on Waypoint Radio yesterday. One that’s high on my list is Labyrinth: The War on Terror after reading Jeremy Antley’s fantastic essays on how players of that game have tried to update it to reflect changing political conditions (“Remodeling the Labyrinth” and “Taking Turns”).
In the meantime, I guess I’ll have to make do with games like Victoria II and the PC version of Twilight Struggle.
One day I will have more than one person who is interested & to play Fiasco & World Wide Wrestling World. One of these days it will definitely happen.
I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 hours (125 full days) of games that I want to play. It’s so bad that I’ve made a spreadsheet to track them all.
Things high on my list right now are to play through/beat the entire Dark Souls, Elder Scrolls, and Zelda series. Now to find the free time to do so…
