Topic: Nintendo games you're ashamed to admit you've never played

Lots, to be totally honest. Never played any of the Zelda titles before A Link Between Worlds, never played any of the original Castlevania or Metroid titles.

@Retrodouche that is the only one that peaked my interest. I heard good things about it. But also heard the complaints about baby Mario. Wouldn’t stop me from trying it out. I can just mute it lol

@anynamereally playing too many games lol

Haven’t played a single Metroid, Kirby game at all, and I’ve only played the latest instalment in Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, Dragon Quest.

Even Zelda games, which I adore to pieces, I’ve not touched any handheld games (bar Spirit Tracks) or any of the early 90s games.

Why would anybody be ashamed to not have played a game?

@skywake I've definitely had strong feelings towards Other M, as a result of having played it back in its controversial hey-day... and while it's certainly unusual there are also many praiseworthy elements that sing like a true Metroid game. Of course the impact of some of its peculiarities may vary from person to person: such as a not-stellar cast of characters, and a rather poor characterization of Samus (at least initially).

@Mountain_Man

I know for myself personally I would consider it shameful for someone to have not experienced a Mario or Zelda game, as it would simply be an odd omission for a Nintendo fan of any stripe. That being said I think many of the holy grail titles (like Ocarina of Time) are slipping into the odd category where a person could have grown into an adult without the experience of that older hardware.
Still I shudder to think of it but at least we older folk have to have a reasonable expectation upon the up and coming whipper snappers.

The Metroid Prime trilogy. Not because I wasn't interested or thought they were bad games (I'd grown up with Metroid and Super Metroid)... in fact I KNEW they were great games... it just never happened for me.

What made it even weirder was I had a GameCube in its hey-day, and later a Wii. It just never happened.

I'll get to it one day - most likely if they port them to Switch.

Aside from a bit of Super Metroid, I've never played a Metroid game. I'm more interested now that I've played other "Metroidvania" games and watched a friend play Dread.

...Does Mother 3 count? I liked Earthbound Beginnings/Mother 1 and love Earthbound, but I still feel like I need to play the remaining game.

I'd have to say much of the GameCube library that everyone sings praises about. Much like the N64, I've had to rely on ports/remakes/remasters to experience any of the games. Outside of Luigi's Mansion on 3DS, Metroid Prime 1&2 (via MPT on my Wii U), and The Wind Waker HD on Wii U, I haven't experienced any other titles that originated on the system. Though I do now have access to Super Mario Sunshine via SM3DAS but haven't played it yet. Top of the play list for me would include Paper Mario and The Thousand Year Door (why this still has no port is beyond me), Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Pokémon Colosseum/Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, TLoZ: Four Swords Adventures (the only Zelda I haven't touched), and (if this one counts) Eternal Darkness.

I can back this statement up. Metroid: Other M is by no means a perfect game and does have a few problems, but I quite enjoyed it and would've happily paid much more than the bargain $6 (for a new copy) and still been satisfied. Not at the launch price though. XD It does feel like a Metroid game at its core, though I do admit the story elements are pretty meh.

I mean in these cases, I'd be ashamed of Nintendo more than anything, since they don't want you to play most of these games apparently :V

I've never played Super Mario Odyssey.

Bravely Default and its sequels. I love RPGs, but for some reason I couldn’t get into them.

@Ramen756 That sounds like you played at least one of them. And I'm not sure BD counts as a Nintendo game particularly.

There's not a series that I haven't played at least one entry of, that I can think of, but there are a fair few later entries not touched yet because I generally make myself play (and beat) in release order.

Metroid prime and super Mario Galaxy 2. And I am out

You're certainly not wrong.

Super Mario RPG, Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker, Kirby Super Star Ultra, Elite Beat Agents, Kirby: Planet Robobot, Chibi-Robo: Clean Sweep and Kirby: Canvas Curse, if I had to name any. I don't feel ashamed that haven't played these games, but I feel they are all games I should have played by now. Some of these can be corrected tonight as I own all but the Kirby games and the 3rd Chibi-Robo game.

Games released exclusively in Japanese barely feature on my radar, let alone feel like I should have played them.

I am not really ashamed, but I have never played much of Mario Galaxy 1 and 2.
I own both, but I'ver probably only played about 1 hour of each.

I have not played a single Zelda game except for the 4 Swords Anniversary game.

I never got into the 3D Zeldas. I've played a bit of OOT and WW and... I dunno they're just not really for me. I played BOTW first and it's just so different from all the other games, it's just hard for me to go so far back in mechanics and game design. Not saying they're bad games by any means, though.