World of Warcraft

Love the world and history and characters. Gameplay is now pretty shit.

Outer Wilds. Wish I could forget it, as the progression is based entirely on player knowledge it has 0 replayability(I mean this as an endorsement).

7th Saga. It's a turn based top down RPG (similar to Final Fantasy 1 or Dragon Warrior 1). The games AI sometimes just kills you (and takes great delight in it). Easily the most frustrating RPG I've played.

Blaster Master for the Nintendo (NES) as well. Instead of evil AI you get evil level design that wants to kill you.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to have a sandwich and play some Leisure Suit Larry 3.

Morrowind. Every once in a while I reinstall it, but I can't get over the "it looks like an action game but it's a stats game" thing anymore. And I never liked Oblivion or Skyrim. But when I was a kid, Morrowind was so full of wonder and stuff to discover. I also wasn't playing with a guide, so discovering stuff like "You can enchant an item to have 1-100 strength, duration permanent. It picks the bonus when you put the item on, and it stays that until you take it off. So put it on and off until you get a big number. Much cheaper than trying to enchant it to +100 straight out" felt more personal.

Warframe. I spent 2 years around 2020 farming up every frame, every item, every pet, every everything -- without spending a dime. I was so grateful for the experience I spent nearly $300 in cosmetics when I finished the game.

They're always adding more stuff, but I consider Warframe "beat". It was a killer experience, I had a lot of fun with all the different builds and overpowered shit you could pull off if you were smart. Along with Path of Exile, Warframe stands a pinnacle of how to do Free to Play correctly.

I also did a "No Engram" run on ARK: Survival Ascended -- You're not allowed to learn any of the things you can build; you HAVE to find the items naturally in the world. That was a nightmare, but I managed it -- and will NEVER do it again. It gave me new appreciation for specific aspects of the game.

Toe Jam & Earl. As a kid, it seemed just endlessly creative, you could just explore & explore forever. And the shit humor - I was the exact right age where every joke was a banger. Although the game itself would be badly dated today, I bet the music holds up well, albeit in short bursts. I still get snippets stuck in my head.

NES TMNT

For me it would probably be most old DOS era games like Dune 2, Ultima Underworld, Warcraft 1, Civilization 1, etc. All of them were great, but it's really difficult to get used to those old control schemes nowadays. Pixelated graphics wouldn't bother me, but those like 15 FPS at max is also hard to get over these days.

Other than that it would be some newer games that lacks a bit of convenience stuff. Like e.g. Diablo 1, where you can't run yet. Or some of the first 3D accelerated shooters that can't remap controls to WASD.

I don't think I could ever play Jet Force Gemini, but I recall it fondly.

Parasite Eve.

When I first played it the setting and such seemed so cool...but the story and dialogue are actually quite cringe and cliche.

Ragnarok Online. My favorite game ever and it’s all MTX now and will never be like the old days. I wish it was. They made RO classic and shut it down. There’s private servers, but they’re not very populated.

Gen 1 pokemon. It was awesome to experience, but the formula is just better in later versions.

GoldenEye, I did try it years ago, but going back to one stick for a shooter is really awkward.

Wow, I don't have the time for an MMO anymore and they are a lot less fun after your first experience.

Oblivion and Morrowind, the changes in Skyrim are almost all improvements, and the mod support is better. You can smoothe out the edges of the older games, but it's a long process I'm not interested in. I'll stick with find memories.

Pretty much any jrpg for Gameboy, DS, PSP and PS2 (haven't tried many newer). I loved them a lot as a kid/teen but now when I try to play them do I get bored very quickly... I think the audience is supposed to be kids and teens so I am not surprised I don't enjoy them anymore

N64

Emulated maybe some games, but I just can't with most games with the original controller. I grew up with it too, it's just insane.

Diablo 2 - I've played all classes, some in higher difficulties, again and again and it didn't get old for a very long time. Today I'm not enjoying these kind of games anymore but I'm not sure why. Are they so different or has my taste changed so much?

I don't think there's anything I wouldn't revisit that still exists.

So things like Diablo 3 vanilla. man, fuck whoever thought of balance patching single player games.

or WoW BC, it's the people and excess free time of youth that made it good so it will never exist again.

Maybe Shenmue 2 import. I finished that game without knowing a word of Japanese, that's a lot of time investment I'm glade I made but wouldn't want to repeat ...

Space Empires V

It's very old, unfinished and jank as fuck. The ai was never very good and could be steamrolled easily with the right tech tree. But those first few turns while exploring and setting up colonies without knowing exactly which tech your nearest rivals would have or if they were planning an invasion was always very fun. Then it would turn into a tedious logistics game of trying to move your fleets or decommission ships that took you the majority of the game to build.

Also, Space Rangers 2.

It's like an amalgum arcady space shooter but somehow turnbased and space RPG text adventure. It was always very buggy with a UI that is ugly as hell.

Fallout: New Vegas, specifically my Permadeath run. I still replay it, just not that same way.

Most games I played from the PS1/N64 era. It was a time period of figuring things out and that makes it rough to go back to, but some of those experiences were magic. There's still the rare game that I can enjoy to this day (Metal Gear Solid 1, Mario 64), but games like Syphon Filter are best left to my memories.

Persona 3. It was my first persona game, I loved the characters and the story and it introduced me to the VN medium. I played the port to switch which had quality of life changes, but I do not want to Tartarus again.

I loved and hated Ultima VIII. It had a good story, was entertaining, had really good music, but it also had the most horrible jumping-on-moving-platforms torture of any game I have ever played. It also sent me on a quest they never implemented, a fact they forgot to tell the player.

Flashback was also a fantastic game, but I also do not ever want to play that again. I remember destroying a keyboard as a teen because I was so frustrated after missing the same stupid jump for the umpteenth time.

Starcraft, Starcraft 2 has ruined me with multi-building-selection, the clunkiness, no smart casting, selecting more than a handful of units at a time.