• Monster96@lemmy.world
    English
    22·
    3 months ago

    Witcher 3. It had me for a bit then lost interest again. But, I’m planning on trying again.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      This is me and every Witcher game. I would probably just rather read the books from the sounds of it

      • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        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

    • dimjim@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • Instigate@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • redwattlebird@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    FTL the space dogfight roguelike. Took me 10 years to revisit and I’ve gotten more than a hundred hours in it since then

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzaEnglish
    151·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      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

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    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

    • coolie4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      This reminds me that Death Stranding has no day/night cycle. There’s some Kojima-esque explanation involving nanomachines chiral 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.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Redacted@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • Minnels@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Act 1 is the hardest hands down. I lose most of my runs there, almost never lose a run after act 1.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      English
      2·
      3 months ago

      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

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • PoopingCough@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • sleet01@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    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 ;_;

  • DillDough@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Arma 3 was a big reason why I built my first PC. Purchased it in alpha and fucking hated every second of it. Tried it again here and here but it just never clicked, everything was so confusing and it got worse as more dlc and mods were released…I just figured full simulations weren’t my thing but was still happy to support the game. In 2022 some friends had me join them for some KotH and I finally learned the basics. Then I joined an Antistasi group, told them I was new and they taught me everything. Now I own the entire series and routinely play A2, A3, and Reforger…I literally have a 2tb ssd just for Arma because I have so many mods, like I am full blown addicted to this shit now.