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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Dragon Age Origins. My third try it finally clicked, but a year after I bought it!
Get Wynne!!!
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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
The Witcher 3. First couple of times it didn’t click. Now it remains one of my favorites.
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
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.
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.
The voice acting (and writing) is some of the best in all of gaming
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.