Hey folks! Here’s an interesting thing that happened with me: I love action RPGs, I love western RPGs, I was addicted to Skyrim. So when The Witcher 3 launched, one of the most well received open world action RPGs I loved it, right? Well… No. In fact, for some reason I can’t really understand I could never play more than 2 hours before dropping it.
I restarted that game about 5 times before, never liked it, wished I could refund it.
Until about two weeks ago I randomly decided to try it again and… oh boy, let’s just say I’m a child considering if I should sleep for work tomorrow or continue playing all through the night.
Does anybody else have a game that they couldn’t like but it suddenly clicked and now they enjoy it?
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It kinda happened for me with Fallout New Vegas. I was maybe 11 and never played anything from the series. I spent my time killer hobo-ing my way through but I always felt like I was missing something, then I started reading negative opinions about it online and got influence by that, so I dropped it. After some time I played Fallout 3, liked and thought it was much better than New Vegas and decided to give NV another shot (I was at 12 or 13 by then). I loved it to the point where it is probably on the top of my emotional top 10. It got me into 50s/60s music, got me interested in politics and ethics, made me become a fan of science fiction and old school RPGs focused on story and a variety of approaches. Really a fantastic game
That’s what’s up 🤙
NV is by far my fav Fallout game. I think I’ve replayed it more than any other game. And I still find new stuff every playthrough.
Same here, even if tbf I almost never finish new playthroughs. I usually get lost in some side quest I never encountered, or ones I never approached that way (think about the cannibals in the strip)
I was on like the 5th playthrough and somehow realized I never encountered the Boomers. No idea how I didn’t make it to that part of the map before.
The first Dark Souls. At the time I had played Demon’s Souls, but didn’t really play games for the challenge so I was very much not used to those types of games. Was also a diehard FPS player.
But a good friend, the same one that introduced me to Demon’s Souls, gifted me Dark Souls. It was a game a genuinely enjoyed, but couldn’t quite find my groove. I’d create a character, get to a certain point, then feel lost or too frustrated to proceed. So I’d stop playing for a few months, then pick it up again and roll a new character.
This trend repeated for a while, and I DID progress farther every time. Eventually, I hit a wall with one of the bosses and raged quit. So fast forward to my inevitable return to the game, instead of starting over I just went right back to that boss and tried again, and again, and again… and actually won?! That was the moment I feel like my gaming potential was awakened.
From Software fanboy, but also truly invested in a good challenge.
Unrelated, but I’m polishing of Nioh 2 now with NG+ and the DLC
I have DS3 sitting on my shelf and will probably play it some time. For me the reason I haven’t even booted it up is the reputation… I’m a pretty good twitch gamer, but I play games to relax, not to feel stressed. I often turn the difficulty a layer or two down from what I can handle, because I’m not really playing to be seriously challenged most of the time. I get plenty of that in real life.
Haha you and me both commented about dark souls literally minutes apart, what a world.
Stardew Valley. I pirated it because I really didn’t think I would like it, but was curious about all the positive buzz that was going on around it. Played for maybe 45 minutes and decided that it wasn’t for me. I think it was two weeks later that I picked it back up again because some article wouldn’t stop singing it’s praises. Start playing, look up, 4 hours had passed.
So I bought the game and proceeded to put over 200 hours into it.
Then I bought it on Switch and put like 160 hours into it.
Then I bought it on Mobile and put like 60 hours into it.
Never thought I’d click so well with some silly farming game.
I have heard so many good things… might need to add a new game to my Switch
Deus Ex. The first one. I would always get kinda lost on the second to third level and lose interest, but once I got into it, I was INTO IT! It was all I played for a long long time, although eventually I stopped at Hong Kong because it was too dark to see and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it before I lost my momentum
I’m going way back here, but I recently grabbed the original Doom, mostly to show my kids for historical value. I did play the shit out of the shareware version of the game, but I never got into the full game particularly… by the time I was old enough to survive the harder levels, there were fancier games out.
Now, I find myself surprisingly addicted to a 30 year old shooter. I had forgotten why this game is such a classic, it’s just… it’s just friggin’ good. In terms of fun and depth of play, it holds up just fine compared to far more advanced modern games.
Two games for me:
Trials Fusion: I expected/wanted a fairly easy going full-speed flow type of ordeal but only the first few tracks are like that. Only when I booted it up years later to have another look did it click as a ‘skill-based momentum puzzle game’. Finished the game, loved it, got Trials Rising, Evolution and 2 SE.
Death Stranding: got to somewhere early mid game, got bored running standard deliveries. One of my first open world games like this, I didn’t know when to move on with the story. When after a while I returned to the game and got back on track with the story it became one of my favourite games of all time.
The first time I played Jedi Fallen Order, I got through the tutorial mission, went ‘Eh’ and put the game down. Went back a year later and had an amazing time. Can’t tell you what it was that changed.
Same happened for me with Deus Ex Human revolution. Back in 2012, I just didn’t understand the plot and the atmosphere of the game, and wasn’t a fan of the decision-making system. Last year, I plugged in my dusty PS3, started the game and I just had all the keys to a better understanding. Adam Jensen is a charismatic character and the scenario makes you want to go through the whole game in a row
Mankind Divided is really good as well. I’ve played every single main Deus Ex game ever made and they are all amazing, even Invisible War - it wasn’t as good as Deus Ex 1 but compared to most games it was still incredible. I really, really hope we get some more games.
Cyberpunk 2077 felt a bit like an open-world Deus Ex game too.
Red dead redemption 2. Picked it up at launch, and wasn’t in the right mindset. Once I got a steamdeck, I tried it again, one of the best games ever made.
I was the same with The Witcher 3. Tried it a couple of times, but only a year after the purchase did it click. Love that game now.
The Witcher 3 wasn’t fun at all until I reached level 10 or so, took me over a month to get to that level because I played in very short intervals. Some others I can think of are Dishonored, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and The Outer Worlds. Got Dishonored at release, played an hour and put it away, finished it five years later. For Assassin’s Creed Syndicate it was a year and The Outer Worlds around half a year. Ended up having a lot of fun with all those games.
When I first played Dwarf Fortress, I thought it was the dumbest shit ever because it was taking so long during world gen, I thought that was the game and it was like an ASCII Progress Quest.
Then it took some time to get used to the terrible interface it had pre-Steam version.
Now I acknowledge it as one of the greatest games ever made.
I got Detroit: Become Human as agiftx, but have only played about 20 minutes of it. Gonna give it another try when the summer is over.
Mass Effect the very first time. Got bored on the Citadel, quit for two weeks. Went back, started over, and now it’s my favorite game of all time and I’ve beaten it 23 times.
Actually yes! Days Gone took me 3 reinstalls to get into it. I think I just pushed through the start. I ended up enjoying it I dont know why it got all the bad press.
