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 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
The books are great.
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.
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.
balatro
Same, but be careful. While it’s engaging, it’s pretty empty
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
Baldur’s Gate 2.
It was the game that took my CRPG virginity. However, I finished the escape from the dungeon (basically the intro) and stopped playing it for a couple of years.
Then I randomly tried it again one weekend in university while drunk and marathoned it.
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.
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.
It bloody is. Give cp2077 a shot and ignore the haters. 😊
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
Me neither. Never encountered a bug. But still waited for a long while to play.
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.
Arma is soo good. Some of my fondest gaming memories come from Arma 3.
Fallout 3. When I first played it, it bothered me that there was no weather. Stopped playing it for like 2 years. Started a new game finished it, all the side quests, and the DLCs because suddenly I was just into it.
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.
Death Stranding is on my backlog.
It’s such a vibe. I loved it. I don’t know how they made just walking fun
Dragon Age Origins. My third try it finally clicked, but a year after I bought it!
Get Wynne!!!
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.
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.
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.
This happened to me with three games:
- Hollow Knight
- Steamworld Heist
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
In each case the game just didn’t gel with me on the initial play, even if I could objectively tell it was a quality game.
Currently playing through Stranger of Paradise again now. I think I expected a more traditionally “Final Fantasy” game my first time through and dropped it at 10 hours. Started fresh recently and am tearing past where I was and playing it enthusiastically now, it’s a lot of fun.
I’ve played some souls-like games in the interim which helped with the general gameplay loop and control scheme. Also have upgraded hardware since my first run, which makes a big difference as the game was previously a shimmery mess full of slowdowns.
Hollow Knight for me too. It all started to click after getting a movement ability or two.
Guild Wars 2. Didn’t click with it at launch, tried it again a few months ago and oh my god so much has changed in over 13 years. I’m still playing plenty of other games but it’s nice to have an MMO (without monthly fees or any kind of FOMO) to come back to every couple of weeks.
I’m the exact oposite. I loved it at launch and played it extensively. But after Heart of Thorns I fell off. Ever since then it grabs me once in a while but I usually just fall off once the story content is over. Sometimes I play around a little longer but it just doesn’t stick anymore.
