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Witcher 3. It had me for a bit then lost interest again. But, I’m planning on trying again.
This is me and every Witcher game. I would probably just rather read the books from the sounds of it
The books are great.
The books are essentially a prequel of the games plot. But they are good.
I would still give Witcher 2 and 3 a chance. Only the first one is pretty bad
Same! I love the idea of the game, I’ve tried to play it like three times, and every time I just lose the motivation to play for some reason. I want to like it because I love the world that it’s in, but something about it just keeps losing me.
I had like four false starts where I barely left White Orchard, but then I was in just the right headspace and spent the next few months completing every single quest and DLC in the game. It just suddenly ‘clicked’ for me. It may do so for you at some point.
Disco Elysium for me! Didn’t understand it and thought it was weird. On the third try, it was amazing. I finally understood what it was trying to do. It was an art piece and I don’t think I’ll ever have that same journey again for a long while.
Check out Esoteric Ebb… I’ve only played a few hours so far, but it’s got a few things I actually prefer over DE
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.
Kenshi. I got it in 2013. It seemed interesing but ran so badly on my machine at the time that I gave up on it. Played it again when I got a better PC and some religious people came around to preach and hand out bibles, I put them in a skin peeler.
FTL the space dogfight roguelike. Took me 10 years to revisit and I’ve gotten more than a hundred hours in it since then
FTL for me as well. Fantastic game. Took me a while to get into it.
Baldur’s Gate 3. I tried it when it was in early access and thought it was too clunky. Tried it again a few months ago, absolutely love it.
100% same answer. For me, the big change was playing it in multiplayer. It’s worth all the trouble wrangling friends and their schedules together for this. I’m even comfortable playing solo since then, because of all the memories of good times and shared struggles
I tried playing it after release and just didn’t really get into it, but I feel like at some point, I will and will appreciate it more.
Oh it’s a distant memory now, but I remember the first time I played RimWorld I bailed out again in less than an hour and didn’t touch it again for at least a year
Fast forward to now and I think it’s claimed 1500h of my time
witcher 3
first time playing, i got to the bloody baron and for whatever reason i can’t explain, felt like it wasn’t resonating with me. went back some time later and was hooked enough to finish the main game and all DLCs.
fucking fantastic game
similar, though for me it was less that it wasn’t resonating and more that even getting to that point is a decent amount of play time if you’re exploring
I think I finished the game in three distinct chunks each a year apart - up to the bloody baron, to the final quest, and then literally just the last two or three hours of the final quest because I didn’t realize how close to the end I was. and I had like a 1.5 or 2 year break between chunks 2 and 3 lmao
For me, it was Witcher 2. The combat system felt very weird and unintuitive, so I barely got past the tutorial before giving up on it. Later decided to pick up the first game, and after that, the Witcher 2 system made so much more sense.
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pretty sure i bought that one on release day. i never felt the ragehate that a lot of people seemed to have at the beginning
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This reminds me that Death Stranding has no day/night cycle. There’s some Kojima-esque explanation involving
nanomachineschiral crystals, but it seemed like complete BS and never made any sense to me.Regardless the game is great, and I really need to get the second one.
Edit: Also upside down rainbows. I can suspend disbelief for a lot of things, but I guess my line is rotation of solar systems and physics of light.
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It’s such a vibe. I loved it. I don’t know how they made just walking fun
Disco Elysium.
First go was after finally playing Planescape : Torment and I just wasn’t in the mood for another text heavy game, even though it came highly recommended and had some voiceacting from some podcasters I knew about.
Then the Final Cut came out with all the professional voice acting and it was absolutely excellent.
The voice acting (and writing) is some of the best in all of gaming
This one is mine too. I think for me is that I’m always trying to minmax if not builds on rpgs then outcomes so i can see the most/best content on a single play through. But that is not a good way to experience DE; you really gotta let go and literally let the dice fall as they may.
Slay The Spire. You never seemed to get powerful enough and the fights always whittled away my health. Much later I played Balatro and this sonehow inspired me to give it another go.
I do think some of the boss design is anti-fun though, or at least punishing you for not following the build the developers want you to. The sequel already seems to be better for letting you play it your way.
While I enjoy building a shiv deck without needing to worry about Time Eater, I currently find StS2 very unbalanced on high ascensions. Act 1 feels harder than Act 3 in most runs and some hallway fights are tougher than some elites. Hopefully that gets addressed during the course of the Early Access period.
Act 1 is the hardest hands down. I lose most of my runs there, almost never lose a run after act 1.
My first run on slay the spire was mindbrokenly overpowered, and after that I spent so many hours chasing that high. Nothing seems cool enough compared to what I had
The best run I ever had was an exhaust + wound/status deck. Every run all I want is that build again but it never lines up :(
That’s kind of the point. Adaptation > max potential.
Factorio. I really didnt understand it when It was first released. Got to my first steam generator and quit.
Freaking love this game now, so many hours. Conveyor belts are the same as happiness.
I checked the comments to make sure this had been mentioned. It was absolutely this game for me, got 2000+ hours now (I’m still shit at it, haha)
Don’t have to be good at a game to enjoy it.
Dragon Age Origins. My third try it finally clicked, but a year after I bought it!
Get Wynne!!!
Dark Souls
Eventually went back to it after beating Bloodborne.
I was stuck on Fatty&Beanpole for a while, dropped the game, came back and now I’ve got 800+h in it
Slay the Spire. I hated it when it first came out on the Switch, then got the itch to try it again after watching some challenge run videos. I got it on Steam during a sale, and now I’ve put over a thousand hours in the game ;_;
Hollow Knight
Bought it not long after it came out because I was so in awe with the visual style. Played it for some hours and thought it was fun, but it was not clicking with me as much as I thought it would. It got even worse when I got stuck in the progression. I put the game down and did not play it for a while. Fast forward 3 months and I decide to pick it up again. For some reason this time I found out where to go next and from that moment I could not stop playing it. I could not believe how vast the exploration felt. To this day it is still my favourite game of all time.
