That’s one of my all time favorite games now. Same thing, didn’t like it at first, but once I started playing more of the game, they had some of the most interesting side quests.
Same. I wasn’t even an hour in. I was fucking around on some rocks and died from a ten foot drop. Early gameplay before getting some skills was kinda meh too. I didn’t come back for almost a year.
I bounced off Dwarf Fortress a lot over the years, even with the packs to help. Eventually I got the hang of Adventurer Mode and quite enjoyed it! Now I’m just waiting for that mode on the steam version!
When the Steam version was announced, I decided to dive in to the game blind. In the months before the release, I ended up seeing some interviews of Tarn and fell in love with their vision and quiet dedication.
Steam version came out and I dumped easily 200+ hours into the game. I’m waiting for adventure mode to dive back in. Can’t wait.
The game is definitely not for everyone. But it is very special.
Same. I still suck. I haven’t finished a single one of them games. It took me months of playing on and off to get past Vordt in DS3. But once I beat him and reached the undead settlement, that was it. I was hooked. I also just rarely finish RPGs in general lol. The art direction and general ambiance, the combat hitboxes, the music, the learning curve, the variety of builds… Fromsoft just knows something about games that most other companies don’t.
Demons souls through Dark Souls 3 I bought, tried, and quickly ended up on my shelf.
Knew they were amazing games, but I just couldn’t figure it out. Always played with a shield, was slow and methodical, and just didn’t get anywhere.
Then I read a post about someone who was having trouble so summoned another player. The summon showed up “Naked with a katana and charged in like a Jedi”.
So I said screw it, and tried a light no shield build. Didnt care how far I got, I just started grinding the early enemies and leveling up. Then it all just sort of clicked.
Got my girlfriend into the games, and we’ve played through them all together, just now finishing on bloodborne.
I got Rhythm Heaven Fever for the Wii when it first came out and just couldn’t get it. I mean, I understood what I was supposed to be doing, but I could barely pass any of the songs. I figured I just didn’t have any rhythm and put it on the shelf.
Fast-forward to 2020 when I was rearranging some stuff and came across Rhythm Heaven Fever again. I hooked my Wii back up for shits and giggles and started playing and was doing great. Either I had magically gained a sense of rhythm or (most likely) the TV I had been playing on when I first got the game had some sort of latency issue.
Now I’ve gone through all the Rhythm Heaven games, but Fever is still my hands-down favorite. I put a copy on my Steam Deck and sometimes I just load it up and play through some songs when I have a few minutes to kill.
That’s how I feel about Guitar Hero. It was cool when I was in early middle school, but I was bad at it. A while ago I’ve discovered Clone Hero (it’s free!) and started playing it. I now play only expert and I’ve gotten pretty good by my standards. I use a Wii guitar via Bluetooth and it’s very good.
The fact that Fever is your favorite tells me you are a person with good taste. That was the one that really had the best balance of difficulty and novelty. Plus, Remix 9 in that game is probably the best song across the series
Baldur’s Gate. I’ve never played DnD so there was a bit of a learning curve. I rage quit after two hours, almost returned it. Three days later I fired it up again and haven’t really stopped playing since.
Baldur’s Gate was a special game. It’s the only game my wife liked to play, and we couch-coopted it. We played the rest in the series together, full play through all of them, a couple of times. Never found that magic combo again, sadly, and to this day she laments that there are so few 3d isometric couch coop games.
I also realised that the Shadowrun games (Returns, Dragonfall, and Hong Kong) might scratch that itch - the setting is a cyberpunk/fantasy mashup, and the game play is similar isometric point and click until you get into combat when it becomes isometric turn based tactical. I was recommended to start with Dragonfall
I’ve been playing bg1 on Android lately, anything you would go back and tell yourself if you could? I’ve basically been flying blind and struggling a bit lol
I wouldn’t say it didn’t click for me the first time, but definitely its gameplay wasn’t what I was expecting, I thought it would be purely fast paced just as if it was a Metal Slug with a different view, it turned out to be a fantastic game where you need to think before shooting lol.
It didn’t click at first, I was used to (less janky) games that treated you nicely. Came back years later, installed a bunch of mods to improve graphics and immersion… And wow, I remember that first play through so well.
I haven’t played many games that do immersion quite so well. Morrowind actually, is the closest.
It’s because of the ‘expedition’ aspect. You don’t just leave town and fumble your way through the world- you can’t.. You need to prepare, know where you are going, have ammo and food and health supplies. And working guns.
Every expedition is an adventure. Death is seconds away at every moment, and it’s your skill and knowledge that keeps you alive, not game mechanics or leveled enemies. It feels real.
I remember one time, I had a nice mp5 and I was going through Lab X16. A snork jumped out at me and in fright I emptied the whole mag. It was dead in 3 bullets, most of the mag went in to the ceiling. Ammo conservation is a real thing, and it’s not about being accurate or efficient. It’s about keeping your wits and trying not to panic-fire.
I’ve never had that experience in any other game ever.
Super accurate and relatable. Playing misery mod and building up a decent kit and venturing further into the zone than I’d ever been is one of the most memorable gaming moments of my life.
You can’t get it wrong, because half the fun of the game IMO is trying to play with awful characters that screw up all your plans.
If you’re looking for a “paint the map one colour” strategy game, there are better options, but if you want to play game of thrones with heresies, inheritance wars, inbreeding and all of the other fun stuff, this is the game :)
Ha ha no you're underestimating my incompetence. I meant I literally can't figure out how to operate it.
I'm the kind of person that spends hours making untouched wild lion protection areas in Age of Empires, I would be thrilled to have an inbred dynasty who sends a horse as an ambassador. I just can't seem to get it going!
Same here. I first played it in 2019 and was immediately terrified of the enemy machines. Since I’m the kind of person who doesn’t enjoy being stressed out for fun in any context, I pretty quickly bounced off of it. I also eventually realized that I saw death/game over in video games as irredeemable failure, and I’m working on being more accepting of trial and error (in video games and elsewhere in my life). I returned to it in early 2022, tried different strategies when I died, and realized that I loved the game. Zero Dawn, Forbidden West, and their DLCs are now among the very few games I have 100 percented.
Monster Hunter. When I was a kid with a PSP I bought Freedom Unite since the box art was cool. Had not a fucking clue what was happening or how to even understand the weapons.
Years later I bought a 3DS, 3 Ultimate, and even a circle pad pro for it. Nope, still just didn't even crack an hour of playtime because everything was just so strange. Finally, in probably 2019 or so I decided that there was too much cool word of mouth about the series for me to not try and figure out how it worked.
I got Generations Ultimate, and decided that if I could figure out how to play Monster Hunter that I wouldnt be a complete failure in life. I just played, found that nothing made sense, but just... kept going anyway. I started researching what the different weapons were for, realized that they're basically just different fighting game character-type movesets, and from there I slowly explored the game until id ended up burning 240 hours or so on MHGU.
I discovered Monster Hunter World after that, and it was all over for me. I never get to g rank, but I've put probably a combined over 1k hours into the series, which is much more than I usually would for other games. Just fucking fantastic games in almost every way, except for tutorialization.
That’s because Rise and World are WAY better than the old games. Less clunky inventory, better movement, better everything. Trying to play MH3 or earlier is like pulling teeth now after Rise. It’s so much better in every way
I got the monster hunter on 3ds (MH 3 Ultimate), and I liked playing it, got pretty good at it, but man…the graphics on that system just isn’t right for that game. They tried making it look to non pixilated on a system that was too pixilated for it.
I’ve planned for quite a while to get it as a rom for my PC or steam deck and use some filters to smooth the jaggedness out of it and see how it does, but still haven’t gotten around to it yet. Really need to get on that. I played like 30 hours worth and stopped.
it’s originally a wii game (MH 3), for the Wii it looked impressive IMO. considering it a full port to the 3ds impressed me too. but yeah, it’s a console game on a too small handheld for most part.
I didn’t have issue with the size, really. I just didn’t like how the graphics looked on the 3ds.
So I did some digging around a bit, and while I can get the 3ds one to work on my steam deck with online play and much better graphics, it’s a pain in the ass. But I can get the wii version on there and looking great quite easily but no on line play. I never played online anyhow, so I plan on going that route and saving myself a bunch of setup time.
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