Path of Exile for me. I went in blind towards the end of Synthesis league (Q2 2019) and played completely SSF with a homebrew zoo witch. Managed to eventually fight and kill shaper but it was so draining I didn’t even want to look at the game again… Til the end of the year when I hopped into the end of Blight league and I’ve sunk almost 2k hours since
Aye, that first experience when a friend convinced me that part of the game was trading for better items blew my mind. My only previous experience with that sort of game was diablo, where you could definitely get through the whole game with just found items.
I miss the old way they had though, where it was worth having a single target attack and an aoe attack on swapped weapons, and dominus, try 3, was a hard fight.
Nothing’s stopping you from weapon swapping! I did exactly that on a homebrew bow build beginning of this league. Was kind of a bitch to craft essentially 2 of the same bow, but it worked well enough to take down uber bosses
I never got to experience Dominus being the big bad, but I’ve heard they were good time indeed
Same. Spent 3 hours on Gundyr in ds3 just to watch my non gamer wife beat him second try. Hated the game then came back to it with a friend who had finished it and voila, my new never ending addiction.
Same here, played a bit of DS2, but never really got into it. Started on DS3, but got tired of that pretty quick as well. But when Elden Ring came out, I got really hooked on the games. I finished Elden Ring, then I played through DS 1, 2 and 3. And then a few more playthroughs of Elden Ring with different builds. I’ve started a bit on Sekiro, but jumped over to Lies of P when it came out. The plan is to play the new Lords of the Fallen, when I’m finished with Lies of P. It’s really satisfying to beat a boss after a few hours of learning the patterns.
Oh no this is probably going to be me. I never made it out of the “tutorial” area and literally just learned about it a few days ago in a different thread. I thought it was boring because the map seemed small and uninstalled it. Turns out I never really started the game.
Knights Field series. I never could get into them back in the day, but I’ve been on a retro kick with my Anbernic and got sucked into them. Ended up putting 20 hours so far into the English translation of the first Japanese KF.
Also, Vagrant Story. Pretty much same scenario where I rented it back in the day and bounced off the combat for not making any sense to me. Tried it recently and really dig it. The combat system is really quite clever once you understand it.
I had always avoided the Kings Field series because it looked like the gameplay didn’t age well, but honestly after playing through Lunacid I think I have to seriously give them a try.
I’m also watching a retrospective on the development of Vagrant Story right now and as a jrpg fan it’s wild to me that I never knew it existed back in the day. What they were able to accomplish in a PSX game is crazy. It makes me want to give it a try also
The first few hours on felt dull. Lots of reviews were praising it and I just didn’t get why. Dirtmouth and the Forgotten Crossroads weren’t really exhilarating, so I stopped after ~5h.
A couple months later I created a new game slot. My POV shifted by following Cornifer’s passion for exploring for exploring’s sake, instead of grinding the Geo economy. The soundtrack really enhances the experience and environment of each section. I’m now ~120h in and still unsure if I’m halfway there!
That was pretty much my experience with it. It rocked me so hard that I finally went back to the OG aka Super Metroid, and give that an honest shake. And man, I had an amazing time.
That would of been great. I just hated being torn out of V’s story and having to do the Johnny stuff. I’m usually pretty busy and have started disliking games with long unskipable cut scenes because I just want to zone out and play something for a minute. That’s all the silver hand parts felt like to me was a cutscene.
That game was the total opposite for me. Played it at launch and sunk in like 40h in a week. Absolutely loved it. Put it aside for a while and I have never been able to spend more than 30m on it since…
The first time I just didn’t Get It™ and kept dying to uuuuh I think some scaly raptor doggos. But the damn good music and the monster designs lured me again and I gave it a try and among other things, I learned that the first time I tried I had been wandering into the Hard Mode section of the game, into which you can head at T=0 without warning. I guess that’s why I kept dying. Oh well.
That defo taught me to READ THE TEXT of the NPC dialogues and the item and quest descriptions and such. And the game is much better with that.
Same. I gave up the first time due to tedious details and weird control. I played it again with some control tweak (can’t remember what I changed) and tried to embrace the slow details, and completely loved the story.
Oroginally I dismissed it as just being a TF2 clone, and being a very loyal TF2 player at the time I didn’t want to play it as I consodered it a blatant ripoff. However, I started going to a LAN party group at work in 2017 and Overwatch was the only FPS they played so I got it. It still does feel similar to TF2 but the variety of characters got me hooked and it became my most played game for many years until OW2 came out and ruined everything. Getting back into it now though and they’ve toned down some of the bad decisions of OW2 since launch. Now I’m dating a girl who plays Overwatch as well and we’ve been playing constantly so I’m back into it completely now.
WD1 was alright (I really liked the dark atmosphere and Aiden himself, but a generic revenge story in a world where Blume could have been the big bad (and hacking was, for me, underwhelming) felt like a missed opportunity), WD2 was the best (a focus on hacking, and on the true enemy, Blume, in exchange for a tonal shift, which worked well, but I still wanted WD2 with the darker feel of WD1), and Legion feels a bit empty (from a character perspective). I could go into a deep analysis of why I don’t like the character system or I could just point you to Whitelight’s video on Legion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaMnCHleDs
Death Stranding. As a Metal Gear fanatic, the disappointment I felt on my first attempt at playing it was immense. Only got a few hours in before writing off as just not for me. Tried again in a different frame of mind, different time in my life, and it clicked. One of my fav games of all time.
I just played it through for the first time. What an experience it was! I’ve never played a game like it before. It’s a story that will stick with me for years.
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