Games you discovered on accident/should have found sooner

[koenigmj94]

I saw someone post recently they discovered the GBA port of clocktower recently and it reminded me of my own recent reactions to something similar. I didn't know Nightmare Creatures had a sequel until I was doomscrolling the repository here, despite the fact I dumped HOURS into the first game on N64 when I was a kid; and I didn't know Blinx the Timesweeper had a sequel until I saw NitroRad cover it.

So I figured other people probably had fun stories about shit they found when they felt like they should've known for years. I wanna hear that.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

As for me I I was searching for the english patched rom of SRW 3 for the SNES when I stumbled upon ᏟDᏒ way back when I discovered that there’s also an english patched for SRW J for the GBA and since then this is my premiere source of roms and isos.

 

[bjork]

I've found so many by just opening sets of roms and scrolling through to fire stuff up. Tons specifically on the Commodore 64, but a lot of weird but cool licensed stuff on Game Boy Color and GBA as well.

 

[Theriise]

Holy Heck, I found Contact DS game in the reject shop. (Discount variety store) Picked it up because it was cheap and played it. I did not expect to find a game with potential hidden among the space invader alikes.

 

[TauriBasilisk]

The Gallop Racer line of games, I was playing Ridge Racer one day with Bluegrass on the background and one of my friends said man you could replace the cars with horses, and another friend popped in, said "I mean there is one" and the next 2 months it was us just breeding horses to compete against each other, also Prey(2006) because Bethesda did their best to scrub it off the face of the Earth

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I saw someone post recently they discovered the GBA port of clocktower recently and it reminded me of my own recent reactions to something similar. I didn't know Nightmare Creatures had a sequel until I was doomscrolling the repository here, despite the fact I dumped HOURS into the first game on N64 when I was a kid; and I didn't know Blinx the Timesweeper had a sequel until I saw NitroRad cover it.

So I figured other people probably had fun stories about shit they found when they felt like they should've known for years. I wanna hear that.

Gladly. Star Cruiser on the Sega Genesis. I've always been obsessed with games that push their systems so far, you could swear you could smell smoke coming from them. This game is the epitome of that. It was made in 1990 which was pretty early in the Genesis's life span. It's a fully 3D polygonal space flight sim that plays similar to Wing Commander in an open world solar system. When exploring planets, it becomes a first person shooter, still using polygons for just about everything except for the UI. All of this and WITHOUT the help of the CD or 32X. I just love wandering around the towns and admiring the geometry of the park benches, trees, and fountains with triangle droplets spouting from them. The fact that this never got a release outside of Japan is an absolute crime. And I can only imagine how good a CD or 32X port would've been.

-Star Cruiser

 

[χKai]

I'm still discovering things about Mario 3, Megaman 7, Link to the Past, and other games I've been playing for decades. I simply could not list them all, but I'm trying to master a few in particular: one of them is the Link to the Past Sword Skip. I wanted to try doing a swordless run like I did in the original Zelda, a couple times.
Another Link to the Past one is the great fairy (dark world) warp, where you can get to the great fairy early. This, in tandem with the early blacksmith glitch could get me the Lv. 4 sword and Silver Arrows as early as before the palace at Death Mountain.
One other thing is I want to have the White Mushroom houses in SMB3 memorized.

There are so many things I've been learning about games that I've played for decades and didn't know about. I just last month discovered going to the Stats menu in FF6 and going to Gogo let you set different abilities. I'd heard about it before but never had the time to discover it and always thought his moveset was just broken and janky.

Oh, the early airship glitch and bringing back General Leo is on my to-do list. You can also switch Relm and Strago with Ghosts!

 

[qw90700]

Mine is a funny story.

One day I went to me favorite pirate video game shop and bought Metal Gear Solid 3's new version. Good thing about this shop was the game they sold was "seemed like" legit games, but I only cared about they having decent covers for disc preservation.

Anyway, I bought the game and took it me home. I opened the case to play the game and WTF is this shit?:

"Who is this motherfucker?"

I showed this BS to my friend, "who the fuck is this?". He laughed and said "it's Sam Fisher yo" and I was like "Sam who?". Then he bought me his pirated Splinter Cell Double Agent PS2 game and said "he is the guy from this game". And I was like "so it's a stealth game? Then why I never knew this before!!!". Since I love stealth games I borrowed the game from him and honestly the game is amazing. Sadly other versions of the game is different and therefore bad but PS2 version is just right lol. Thanks for the pirate shop's mistake for introducing me to a great series lolol.

 

[Rocket2049]

Phantom crash on XBOX, stupidly hidden gem of a game if you like building robots and destroying other robots in large arenas, it was my favorite game for a LONG time and still in top list for me now.
the sequel is on PS2, steel lancer arena international, strange and annoying it wasn't on xbox also

Bahamut lagoon on SNES, just like strategy RPG with dragons, it's pretty cool and why do all the cool games never leave JAPAN!? (english translated versions are available)

 

[Langoblian]

Chaos Legion for the PS2, plenty of people here will probably know what it is as it was mildly popular at the time for being one of those hack and slashes that came out after DMC. Totally missed it at the time but I played it for the first time a couple years back by... discovering it inside my friend's couch cushions when I came over to his house. He said he had no idea how it got there and doesn't remember owning it or playing it at all, we had a pretty fun night playing it.

 

[DjQuick2008]

Serious sam literally only been playing for 2 months or so plenty of madness in these games and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

 

[underhandwriter]

During the PS1 era, my grandfather bought me NASCAR 98 from a yard sale because he was into racing and knew I liked video games. What he didn't realize was the disc in the case was actually Metal Gear Solid. I was amazed by Metal Gear, and now it's one of my favorite games of all time. Once I got to the end of the first disc, I had to ask around at school to see if anyone could lone me the second one.

A few years ago I saw a copy of Koudelka for PS1 at a game shop and the strange name caught my eye. I couldn't afford what they were asking for it, so I emulated it and I couldn't believe I had never heard of it before. It's a cross between survival horror and RPG, and while it has its flaws, it's truly a hidden gem in my opinion.

 

[CG4R12I4N]

Samurai Spirits/Samurai Shodown. I played and loved SNK games since my childhood growing up with Fatal Fury, KOF and Metal Slug, but weirdly enough I never heard of SamSho until well in my highschool years, which at that point it was slowly dying post VI/Tenkaichi Kenkakuden.

Monolith Soft's Xeno series as well. Only found out about Xenogears and Xenosaga trilogy after playing Xenoblade 1, and I ended up loving those way more than the Xenoblade trilogy.

 

[Netra]

Mischief makers for 64, I never buy it because the cover don't look like a good game, years before I play it in a emulator and what a surprise, it's a good game with great mechanics for the time.
Pokemon UltraSun (I don't remember if this is the title in English), I buy one from a second hand shop and it was the last good pokemon game, I lost my hope with XY and then I saw the ones for the switch (you can't launch shit like this with all the money your company make), if you can buy a copy of ultrasun or ultra moon buy it, even if you don't like pokemon, it's a good monster catching game.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

I'd only heard about the Disaster Report games for ages until a friend gifted me "City Shrouded In Shadow", a Japan-only release in the franchise, for PS4. It was Disaster Report, but with licensed characters as the threat you were navigating around. Godzilla, Ultraman, Evangelion etc.
Since then, I've been fascinated by the premise of the franchise and have checked out most of the other games.

Generally speaking, I wish I got into Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy as a kid. I really like them nowadays, but I grew up loving RPGs and feel weird that I never really got into them until 2016 for FF and like 2018 for DQ.

 

[PrismRed]

10000 Bullets for PS2, I don't remember why I picked it up, saw the cover and I went "oh, this looks cool" I fire it up back home only to be greeted by Japanese Max Payne and Bruce Lee as Neo, it was one of the best blind buy experience.

 

[Zergling666]

Neptunia and Atalier series. They were on sale, sure why not moments. I didn't even check reviews, just felt like trying something new. Now I have played most games in both series.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Mmmm... I would say Final fantasy XI.

I thought it was really similar to XIV but with technology of the 2000s and my God, it is great.

 

[Snorlaxbelly]

Psychic Detective Series Vol. 4: Orgel

It's a adventure/visual novel game, only in Japanese, but I understand enough to enjoy it, The Japanese in this game isn't too difficult.
Great story, and lovely music, love the main character, he's really cool. I eventually played the other games in the series as well on PC, a hidden gem for sure. Unfortunately not very known, but if you understand some basic Japanese, and can read a handful of kanji, and of course hiragana, and katakana, you'll be fine.

I have all the soundtracks to these games in my music library, god tier stuff.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

Somebody on here was telling me to play Shadow Hearts so I did. It was definitely a game middle school Zach would have been obsessed with. It was excellent.

I got Death Road to Canada on a Steam sale years ago and my friends and I will play that magical game lol