Games you don't remember anything about

[BisMarckie]

I was bored, looking for bargain bin deals,so I bought Far Cry 4 used for three bucks. When I wanted to put it onto my shelf I realized that I not only own that game, but according to my trophies, I must have invested a couple of hours into it. I don't remember anything about the game. Which are some games you played relatively recently but remember nothing about?

Good thing is that I can play it again and act like it's a new game. That won't happen until 2028 or so when I have the time for it. 

[Bebpo]

I can get behind this.

Pretty much 95% of videogames fall into this category with me. Like RE3 Remake is like wtf is this, I don't remember anything!

[Great Rumbler]

I can't remember.

[Tasty]

Pretty rare for me.... Maybe something like LostWinds which was a WiiWare exclusive/launch title.

[team filler]

  there was a text adventure I joined some years back and forgot about 

[Let's Cyber]

Pretty rare for me.... Maybe something like LostWinds which was a WiiWare exclusive/launch title.

lmao you just reminded me this game existed. 

Pretty sure I own the sequel too but I never played it.

[CatsCatsCats]

What a weird question to ask: what don’t you remember?

[BisMarckie]

What a weird question to ask: what don’t you remember?

How can I ban someone from.a thread? 

Anything really, from the plot to even ever having played it.

My son is keeping me up all night and I am bored out of my mind and sleep deprived.

[Tasty]

Billy Hatcher
Devil Summoner
Pokémon X
Voodoo Vince
Custom Robo
Megaman Battle Network

Not actual spoilers, but will get people mad

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The first case of all the Phoenix Wright games, which I played all on hacked  carts and can’t remember anything besides you’re in an airport for a bit and there’s a psychic in one of them

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Oh yeah X/Y were bland as hell. I remember goofy shit like AZ (due to the meme), but not like, anything else... and I think that's one of the two games I've completed the Natonal Dex in (the other being SoulSilver.)

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Ayyy

[CatsCatsCats]

I support you starting topics to cure your boredom, friend, I simply don’t know how to tell you what I forgot

[thetylerrob]

I rented and played through the majority of PS2 and Gamecube games, but my memory of each game basically boils down to a general feel or quality with a few exceptions.

One time on a Christmas break I played all the way through Arcania: Gothic 4 because it was so shitty and I had already paid for it on a steam sale. I remember nothing other than hating it.

[BisMarckie]

The only things I remember from FF7- FFXIII despite playing most of them are the beginnng of FF7, chocobos and blitzball. 

[Let's Cyber]

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams- I know I beat this game but I don't remember anything about the mechanics or story
Chaos Legion- You had weird ghost soldiers who you could control. It was basically a proto-Astral Chain/off brand DMC with a super boring story -Nevermind, I did remember a little bit.
A few of the Pokemon games are just a blur. I remember fuck all about Pearl off the top of my head, other than some of the music.

“WiiWare” reminds me I don’t remember anything about My Life as King

oooohhh, this is another good one. I know I played a ton of this game but can't recall much about it.

[tiesto]

FF9, Wild Arms 3, Atelier Iris, Avalon Code

[recursivelyenumerable]

I can't remember.

the paradox!!! ppl don't realize how much stuff they don't remember, because they don't remember it. a little like dunning-kruger for remembering things.

[bluemax]

Tales of Vesperia. I beat it and got most of the achievements and I don't remember anything that couldn't be gleaned from the box art.

[team filler]

What a weird question to ask: what don’t you remember?

[Tasty]

“WiiWare” reminds me I don’t remember anything about My Life as King, SoulCalibur Wii, and that one WiiWare series based of the guy with the red wrestler head that talked weird

The spinoff Wii games could probably be 50% of this thread. Does anyone remember Castlevania Judgment? With SoulCal they took a fighting series and made an adventure spinoff, with CV they took an adventure series and made a fighting spinoff.

And they went through the trouble of contracting the Death Note artist to make all-new CV character designs, which were promptly forgotten and never used again, and IIRC Judgment was just left as a Wii exclusive... Unless you were looking stuff up on Castlevania's wikipedia page you'd probably never hear about or encounter it normally in a gaming community.

[Positive Touch]

i wonder how bad that game bombed. I've never even heard of anyone playing it except for series diehards that picked it up cheap just to write up message board impressions. it had to be like metroid federation force levels of bomb.

[Tasty]

i wonder how bad that game bombed. I've never even heard of anyone playing it except for series diehards that picked it up cheap just to write up message board impressions. it had to be like metroid federation force levels of bomb.

The fact it was never ported says it all IMO. The game even supported GameCube and Classic Controllers so any kind of "Wii controls prevent porting a la Skyward Sword" theory goes out the window.

The game had a decent amount of content IIRC and looked quite good for a Wii game, and yeah the art style/lead artist pedigree alone would make it an attractive I dunno, 3DS/Vita/mobile port or some shit (if they couldn't be asked to really HDify it.)

Talking pre "peace out videogames" Konami. Was there ever a Castlevania collection put out?

[Positive Touch]

there are a few recent collections out there, and they include nearly all of the CV releases from SoTN and earlier. one of the ps2 games got a rerelase on ps3, but that's it for everything released after 1997. damn shame.

[Pissy F Benny]

i can't remember anything about xenoblade 2 other than the tiddies, the battles being shit, the same lines being shouted over and over and it being really fucking annoying

[Rufus]

I rented and played through the majority of PS2 and Gamecube games, but my memory of each game basically boils down to a general feel or quality with a few exceptions.

One time on a Christmas break I played all the way through Arcania: Gothic 4 because it was so shitty and I had already paid for it on a steam sale. I remember nothing other than hating it.

Gothic 3 killed the series, Arcania spat on its grave.

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And then Piranha Bytes continued making Gothic games, but called the new series Risen.

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[paprikastaude]

Some F2P shit I played in the mid 2000s. Other than that, I can weirdly remember specific things for pretty much everything I've played. Shit, even with random shovelware from my childhood it's more that I forgot the names, not the actual games. On the other hand, I couldn't tell you shit about a couple of movies I saw a month ago on Netflix. 

[HardcoreRetro]

I rented and played through the majority of PS2 and Gamecube games, but my memory of each game basically boils down to a general feel or quality with a few exceptions.

One time on a Christmas break I played all the way through Arcania: Gothic 4 because it was so shitty and I had already paid for it on a steam sale. I remember nothing other than hating it.

Gothic 3 killed the series, Arcania spat on its grave.

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And then Piranha Bytes continued making Gothic games, but called the new series Risen.

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Elex was actually pretty cool.

[chronovore]

Malice was a game that was so utterly mediocre that I can barely remember anything from it. Originally a big title with Gwen Stefani doing VO for the main character, it ended up being complete crap. There was one boss which had a ring-track around the outside, and it was a timing puzzle to navigate correctly in order to damage the boss in the center. That's the only thing I can remember, other than many levels were just greybox designer geo that had textures applied. Ugly as hell. I think it was an xbox exclusive that MS later dumped, so they made sure it could run on PS2 as well. That was probably disruptive.

Dark Void, I can somewhat remember a cover-based assault while jetpack climbing the outer wall of a citadel. If that sounds cool: it was. It was the only cool part of the entire, game, the rest of which was wholly uninspired trek through lame ass mountains. Again, a game with promise: interesting 1930s gasoline-flight inspired jetpack Indy Jones stuff. Neat. And then, just utter crap cookie-cutter gameplay.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

One of the Monsterboy remakes, I think there’s more than one. I was bored shitless with the game. As I was going through my stack of Switch games, I saw it and forgot I even had it. You could probably lump in most indie platformers and any game where the only hook is nostalgia.

[Trent Dole]

"The Gang Goes Senile"

[Rufus]

Dark Void, I can somewhat remember a cover-based assault while jetpack climbing the outer wall of a citadel. If that sounds cool: it was. It was the only cool part of the entire, game, the rest of which was wholly uninspired trek through lame ass mountains. Again, a game with promise: interesting 1930s gasoline-flight inspired jetpack Indy Jones stuff. Neat. And then, just utter crap cookie-cutter gameplay.

Having played it recently, I can say that you have a decent recollection of it.

[bluemax]

i wonder how bad that game bombed. I've never even heard of anyone playing it except for series diehards that picked it up cheap just to write up message board impressions. it had to be like metroid federation force levels of bomb.

The fact it was never ported says it all IMO. The game even supported GameCube and Classic Controllers so any kind of "Wii controls prevent porting a la Skyward Sword" theory goes out the window.

The game had a decent amount of content IIRC and looked quite good for a Wii game, and yeah the art style/lead artist pedigree alone would make it an attractive I dunno, 3DS/Vita/mobile port or some shit (if they couldn't be asked to really HDify it.)

Talking pre "peace out videogames" Konami. Was there ever a Castlevania collection put out?

There are two different CV collections on sale on PSN for $5 each right now.

[ToxicAdam]

There are so many c-64 games that fall in this category for me. Interchangeable RPGs that had nondescript plot lines. Times of Lore, Tangled Tales, most of the SSI Gold Box series. My only memories are the UI or some box or manual art.

[naff]

i went and looked through my achievement history on my old 360 to help u out here. apparently i played through the zone of the enders remake and played a lot of akai katana as some of the last games i ever played on the system. i had to look up what the latter even was. looks pretty sick. must've been on the benzos

[Uncle]

the games I tend not to remember are ones I didn't finish, which probably means they weren't very memorable/good games 

Tales of Phantasia on GBA, a remake of one of the early Tales games that I think was on the SNES?  what I remember: the big remake feature was that the characters were all voiced and would not shut up during battle, which was like a side scrolling fighter (similar to how modern Tales is a 3D fighter), I know nothing about the plot

the third Golden Sun game, which I don't remember its subtitle if it had one, I can't even say for sure if it was on DS or 3DS.  what I remember: the game was brown and rocky cliffs and came out past the point where I could put up with the endless trite dialogue style of the first 2, and from what people say of the game the entire plot is about repairing a hang glider which you get derailed on and never quite get around to doing

[Nintex]

the games I tend not to remember are ones I didn't finish, which probably means they weren't very memorable/good games 

Tales of Phantasia on GBA, a remake of one of the early Tales games that I think was on the SNES?  what I remember: the big remake feature was that the characters were all voiced and would not shut up during battle, which was like a side scrolling fighter (similar to how modern Tales is a 3D fighter), I know nothing about the plot

the third Golden Sun game, which I don't remember its subtitle if it had one, I can't even say for sure if it was on DS or 3DS.  what I remember: the game was brown and rocky cliffs and came out past the point where I could put up with the endless trite dialogue style of the first 2, and from what people say of the game the entire plot is about repairing a hang glider which you get derailed on and never quite get around to doing

I don't think they could've made Golden Sun 3 any less challenging and generic so I'm not surprised you don't remember it.

[tiesto]

the games I tend not to remember are ones I didn't finish, which probably means they weren't very memorable/good games 

Tales of Phantasia on GBA, a remake of one of the early Tales games that I think was on the SNES?  what I remember: the big remake feature was that the characters were all voiced and would not shut up during battle, which was like a side scrolling fighter (similar to how modern Tales is a 3D fighter), I know nothing about the plot

the third Golden Sun game, which I don't remember its subtitle if it had one, I can't even say for sure if it was on DS or 3DS.  what I remember: the game was brown and rocky cliffs and came out past the point where I could put up with the endless trite dialogue style of the first 2, and from what people say of the game the entire plot is about repairing a hang glider which you get derailed on and never quite get around to doing

Tales of Phantasia's plot was basically every big 16-bit Square game combined:

Time travel (going back into the past to defeat Dhaos)
Your party's ancestors sealing off the big bad evil
A giant magical tree
Magic disappearing from the world

It was an extremely impressive technological feat (so many original environments and tilesets, amazing quality music, a vocal theme song, tons of voice samples), and fun to play, but plot originality it did not have. The GBA version sucked ass, the fast and zippy battle systems of the SNES (and the slightly slower PS1) versions were so much better than the sluggish, slowdown-filled battle system of this one. And the translation sucked too, I'd rather deal with Dejap's super silly translation of the SNES one over the official GBA one.

[demi]

The Last of Us 2

[BIONIC]

The Last of Us 2

[tiesto]

Ys 5 I barely have any memory about. The weakest point in the franchise, maybe Ys 3 is a bit shittier as a 'game' but at least it had memorable music and vivid graphics.