cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/57413346
I played Nine Sols recently and it had a transformative effect on my gaming experience. I’ve found myself no longer getting mad at fairly structured games and deeply enjoying the personal refinement of my skill set in pursuit of a goal. Suddenly this shift in perspective has allowed me to see difficulty in a new light and truly savor the victory that comes after significant effort. With this new perspective, I decided to try the game that had made me hesitate the most with its reputation for difficulty: Sekiro
Its been truly eye opening to realize that my nervousness has only kept me from a good time. Or maybe I just wasn’t ready for it…
Following that trend, I started Celeste for the first time even though I never play pure platformers, and it has blown my socks off. Do I suck? You bet your ass I do. But I know it’s from a lack of detailed platforming, and developing that skill has been very fun and satisfying.
Now, I’d love to hear from others. What games made you regret waiting so long to try them?
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undertale and deltarune. i kinda always dismissed those games as youtuber fandom shit, if that makes sense… stuff made to appeal to fandoms who love to pull nonsense out of their asses to make the games deeper than they really are. game theory bait. and i’ve heard so many horrors about the utdr fandom, it made me want to steer clear of the games. and i figured, since i already got spoiled a ton of stuff from undertale through cultural osmosis, what would be the point of playing it?
but they still interested me somewhat, since i heard from more people that they were actually really good… and i got spoiled one more thing i didn’t know, and i figured if i want to play these games someday, i have to do it now so my enjoyment of them isn’t ruined more by just existing on the internet
so i did! i played undertale twice in a row (i didn’t do everything needed to get the pacifist ending the first time), and the first 2 chapters of deltarune right after that (only those were released then). and oh my, i’m glad i did because these are some of my favourite games now. tho i still think I would’ve enjoyed undertale so much more if i hadn’t been spoiled a bunch about it…
don’t judge games by their fandoms. things are often popular for a reason, and fans of something often lack the creative capabilities of the original creators (which is not to say that there isn’t good utdr fan content, there is, a ton! but there’s also a lot of crap)
i still dislike the gaster theorists tho
Kingdom come: Deliverance.
I’m pretty far into my first playthrough. I had barely even heard of this game, but once I got past the initial frustration of realizing that I’m just a blacksmith’s son, I’m having a blast!
I wasn’t sure how a lack of fantasy (monsters/magic) would turn out, but I don’t miss it at all.
I’m not gonna say I slept on it, but I’ve had Alan Wake in my library for over 5 years. Picked it up on sale around the time I got Control which I really wanted to play but never got around to. Decided since that whole universe seems more interconnected and with more games than it did when I bought them (Alan Wake 2, the upcoming sequel to Control, etc.), I should just do a playthrough of Alan Wake before I finally get around to getting Control off my backlog.
Played through Alan Wake (the original, not the remake) this past weekend, and while it certainly shows its age in some areas, I had a lot more fun than I expected to. If you’re into narrative third person “shooter” games like Uncharted, Tomb Raider, or similar, Alan Wake is worth checking out.
I’m looking forward to finally getting to Control this weekend.
Mass Effect Andromeda. It’s fun as hell and I’m so glad I didn’t listen to those who had nothing but bad things to say about it.
its unpolished, sure. but unpolished diamonds are still diamonds. the characters are wonderful, the planets are amazing, the combattttt oh my goodness. and some of the choices are quite interesting.
currently on my… 6th? 7th playthrough? and I love it so much I’m planning personal challenge runs for future plays. it’s my favorite mass effect to reach for now when I have the mass effect itch.
Goddamn man, who’s going through and downvoting almost literally every comment?
That’s exactly what I made this post for – to inject more life into my game queue
I don’t really play a lot of new games anymore, so I guess the last time I slept on a game for too long was The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. This was many years ago, I’ve got 1,200 hours in the game now and 100%'d it multiple times. Butt I can’t stand potty humor, so seeing literal giant piles of crap all over the map and dozens of fart related items always immediately turned me away from the game any time I looked at it, despite knowing I’d love playing it. Eventually I gave in and bought it, and surprisingly, the poop didn’t bother me much because they don’t really make it look especially gross (except for tainted blue baby… fuck you, tainted blue baby). The farts were still bad, but most of those items suck so I can gladly ignore them.
For a while I was desensitized to the potty humor, but then they released the Repentance DLC with the character tainted blue baby, and… ugh. If you don’t know what he looks or plays like, feast your eyes on this wonderful wiki page and see how many results show up when you Ctrl+F “poop”. He’s a character based around the released bowels of a corpse who attacks by defecating. As much as I love the game, the potty humor remains my least favorite part of it by far, and I wish Edmund McMillen wasn’t such a freak sometimes.
I just made it to Act 2 of Baldurs Gate 3. I’m obsessed.
I’ve just made it to the city! I’m at about 250 hours so far, but TBF I am a very slow gamer. Yeah, it just keeps getting better and better as you go.
I actually feel like I might be missing out on a lot, because I pretty much stick with the same party. I could see myself finishing and wanting to start a completely new playthrough with different companions and making different choices.
i have a couple playthroughs and they have all been different. i have hundreds of hours and I still keep finding new things that I had no idea were there.
its kind of nice to know there’s other things I might find out in more playthroughs to come.
Several years ago now I played witcher 3. It was released in 2015. I enjoyed this game way more than I thought I would and couldn’t believe I slept on it for 7 years or so before finally playing it
A friend tried to talk me to into playing this one for years before I finally went for it. I should have listened sooner!
I’ve not got to it yet, but ppl here have told me it’s still great in spite of its age. Just gotta finish baldur’s gate and control, then it’s next on my list.
I got it shortly after it came out because everyone was saying how great it was, and I immediately bounced off of it. Every few years, I’ll go back and try again hoping I can find what people loved about it, but it’s just not my taste. I forced myself as far as Skellige one time, but only because I kept reminding myself, “If you get to a new area, you might get to play more Gwent.”
Nobody told me about Gwent when I started playing. I wish the standalone game was just that 🤣. I enjoyed the hell out of that game.
Too bad the games not your taste. The graphics, environments, the story, all really drew me in. The one DLC was in particular really good on the plot.
Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. It was on my wishlist for awhile, but some of the negative reviews had me thinking it wasn’t something I would enjoy. Then I kept seeing comments that it was a good game to play if you like Skyrim. I disagree with that, it’s not so much Skyrim vibes than as if Oblivion and Elden Ring had a baby that was into weird creepy shit and obsessed with the Knights of the Round table.
It’s cool AF and I was absolutely obsessed from the very beginning. I am glad I waited a bit to play it because there’s 3rd person mode now and I don’t think it initially shipped with 3rd person mode. I get insanely sick playing a lot of 1st person games. Some games I’m fine with and other games I’m puking my guts out and going to bed within 15 minutes of booting up the game, so having 3rd person mode (even if it’s officially unsupported and a little glitchy) means I can play for hours and actually enjoy the game.
Neon White.
I kept watching it several times on the store and though it looked interesting but also not quite my style of games, due to its focus on speedrunning, and I definitely didn’t want to tryhard a new game. 2-3 years later decided to give it a shot and I’m so glad I did. It is now one of my favorite games of all time.
Breath of the wild actually.
I had been massively burned by empty and dull mission based open world games. Also I’m not the biggest Zelda fan, it’s very hit or miss for me.
So I got in (very) late, at the switch release (owned wii-u too) and was massively enjoying the game. Everything there was something to see and to do.
I also hesitated on tears of the kingdom and yeah… It’s not for me.
Tears is tragic in that it perfectly addresses criticisms of weapon durability with fusion. It allows you to combine dropped monster horns with your weapon to increase your damage and since those horns scale with the enemies it means combat is never regression in your weapon damage. The horns you get back make up for the weapons you burn through. Only, fusion also brings in the construction mechanic which completely mucks up the game loop. Fuse goes far beyond gluing some logs together to form a bridge, it completely dominates all aspects of the game.
There are other criticisms such as the underground area being way too big, being same size as the world map with only one biome instead of multiple sub-areas, but none of them are as cursed and double-edged as the fuse ability.
Yeah, there was this one video which perfectly explained what I think about it in around an hour. But anyhow, the ass building interface and underworld mainly, yes. Both for multiple reasons. It isn’t a bad game, but lacks in contrast to botw.
Stellar Blade. Only just played it a few months ago.
I thought it was just a gooner slop imitation game but a friend recommended it and let me use his steam family share to play it. It’s actually a legitimate action game that’s pretty damn fun with a good story too. I’m actually excited for the sequel.
I also had a blast playing this game. Combat was really fun for me and I just generally enjoyed the mood and vibe of the game.
RPGs.
I had my first encounters during the nineties (still the old 2D/2.5D ones), got confused and overwhelmed, so didn’t consider them to be my thing.
Briefly trying out Gothic during the mid 00s, and instantly getting killed by some big wolf or bird without having the slightest idea what was going on or what I was supposed to do didn’t help.
Fast forward 20 years to the early 2020s when I started gaming again after a 15 year pause, see everyone praising Elder Scrolls, grab Oblivion as it was on sale at GOG: Completely blown away and probably hooked for life.
Currently playing Morrowind, which will last me a while still, but I am excited to revisit tons of old and newer RPG games that turned out to be exactly my thing after gaining some experience and finally understanding how to play them.
If you want even more Morrowind by the time you feel like you’re winding down, get the Tamriel Rebuilt mod. It’s like twice as much Morrowind per Morrowind; there’s almost the entire rest of the province to explore (in the base game you only explore the giant island of Vvardenfell) including all the cities and towns scattered across the land, way more quests and even a new faction or two, new enemies and creatures, new weapons and armor… It’s basically a Morrowind Fan’s wet dream.
I already know of it and had it installed when getting into the game in the first place. Turned out, that even the base game with the expansions is so huge, I haven’t even finished the main quest yet :-)
But I am looking forward to setting up the latest release of TR when I am finished with the main game and start over again on the mainland!
I read that it is designed to be best played from the ground up with a new character, my by now completely overskilled mage might be a bit to powerful ;-)
Baldurs Gate 3. Seemed expensive, complicated, and not my type of game at the time.
Oh, how wrong I was.
It’s sitting in my library collecting dust. Someone had bought it for me as a birthday gift… I should get to it!
it’s possibly my favorite game of all time. i wasn’t expecting that. I’m an elder scrolls girlie at heart.
Doki Doki Literature Club
I didn’t know it was free to play, so I ended up spoiling myself on the plot before finally playing it.
Still got caught off guard.To me it’s a case study in good presentation value and cinematic timing. I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen, and still when it did it was deeply affecting.
Harkens back to old Shakespeare methods; where you would have the core story of the play told to you ahead of time and it was still a thrill to watch.
