How long have you waited to get it? Was it worth it?

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    1 year ago

    People missed the point of this, its games that you waited for after release, not games you waited to release.

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    Death Stranding. Completely forgot about the game until I got it in humble monthly, and… Damn it was worth playing. In retrospective, I’d have been happy dropping 60 on it. I thought going in it’d be boring gameplay for a weird story, but the gameplay was actually REALLY FUN and the story was weord.

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      +1. It’s one of those games that got better overtime. When it came out in 2019 there were people like, “Really? A hiking / Amazon Prime simulator?”

      But after the Pandemic, the isolation and theme of yearning connections really hit home, and the entire design and philosophy just clicked and worked for me. I started appreciate everything about the game. I think Hideo Kojima even said he’s going to try and not predict the future in Death Stranding 2 😄

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    By the time I finally said “fuck it, I need to see what the fuss about this game is” for Dark Souls, 3 was about to be released. All I ever heard about the game up to that point was how hard it was; but that the difficulty wasn’t bullshit. I figured it was just pattern recognition, and was right; but there’s so much more nuance to that. The difficulty brought me in; but the game feel and the lore got me hooked and I now own every single one of the Souls/Borne/Ring/Sekiro games. And even a few knock-offs, like The Surge and Mortal Shell.

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      I bought the Chinese version of demons souls before it released here in the UK because of the reviews it was getting.

      I then loved Bloodborne.

      I still haven’t played one bit of a dark souls game. It’s on the list, it’s just not time yet.

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    I waited four years for breath of the wild, and when I finally played it, it was like I was playing an entire new genre. Like I was playing ocarina of time for the first time and the world seemed endlessly exciting. Except this time I could climb mountains and paraglide.

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        Oh awesome. Yeah I’m so glad I waited, because the game seemed, in addition to everything I mentioned just so smooth when I finally played it. I would just run in a direction for easily like 15 minutes and then just climb a mountain for another 15 minutes. After 30 minutes of that" game time," I was as satisfied with the experiences I was with almost any other game haha, even though I had done basically nothing. It’s just pretty and fun and engaging.

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    1 year ago

    I finally completed fallout 1/2/tactics at the end of last year.

    I’m looking forward to playing baldurs gate, planetscape and arcanum soon.

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    The Outer Worlds. Would have been the last game to date that I’d had pre-ordered, but they went Epic exclusive, so I decided to be patient and wait for the Steam release. Year goes by and it releases for Steam, but at original launch price. Decide I’m not willing to pay full price for a game I had to wait extra for.

    Now it’s turned into a game of seeing it go on sale and remarking, “Come on guys, you can do better than that.”

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    The Witcher 3. I’d been following its development since the Witcher 2, and I loved the games and the books. After 5 years of waiting I knew that it wasn’t likely to live up to my expectations, so I prepared myself for disappointment.

    Then it came out, and it was the best RPG I’d played. Some of the Novigrad story lines went on for too long, but that was my only issue with it. I’ve 100% it three times. Best €30 I ever spent. The DLC was somehow even better than the base game. I have no idea how CDPR managed it.

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    Sonic adventure for the Dreamcast. It was released in 1998 and I played it for the first time in 2019… and it blew my mind. It’s such a solid game, a really cool environment with amazing camera angles, diverse levels, and a difficulty that’s just right.

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    Yakuza 0. Had a PS4, but wanted to play it on the PC instead so kept waiting hoping it would be ported to the PC. It later then did and I waited longer for a price drop and it ended up showing up on a Humble Bundle so finally snatched it years later.

    It was worth the wait. Very enjoyable and I did all the side quests. Cabaret club was an amazing part of the game.

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    Starbound. Waited years while it was in development, and my buddies and I just let the hype build and build. When it finally came out, it wasn’t even close to worth it. At the time, it still seemed like something that would eventually get to where we hoped (or at least for the most part), but picking it up every few months/years showed us the dev team’s ideas were great on paper, but they just weren’t capable of implementing any of it well.

    More recently, I’ve seen YouTube docs that have gone into the awful development and bad treatment of young developers who weren’t paid, and fired after they caught on that they never would be.

    On the bright side, it gave my friends and I a new appreciation for how great Terraria is, and why it’s similar features work so well when Starbound’s didn’t

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      Is there evidence to suggest that Sony was responsible for Persona 5 being exclusive for so long, and not Atlus’s usual confusing nonsense? Honest question.

      I know that when Xbox decided to consider PC as part of the “Xbox ecosystem” it lit the fire under Sony’s butt to start porting some of their banger titles onto Steam, which is much appreciated. Days Gone, God of War, Uncharted 4, Spiderman, and Returnal were all fantastic on day one. Horizon needed some time to fix the issues but the PC version now does it justice way better than the original 30fps version.

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        Obviously I don’t have first-hand information, but from I’d guess Sony is responsible for a lot of (japanese) games not coming to PC or Xbox, as Atlus isn’t the only studio doing this that isn’t owned by Sony.

        Another thing that shows, that Sony has no interest in connecting gamers between systems is cross-play, which it blocks in various titles iirc.

        I know it’s the smart move to drive out competition when you’re in charge of the biggest market share, but preventing gamers to play on any platform they choose is bad for them. I play exclusively on PC since the Gamecube (with the exception of the switch) so I’m very happy to see the PlayStation gulag crumbling with increasing Steam releases. We all profit from open platforms.

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    Almost every game. I just can’t afford most games for the full price so patience isn’t a virtue but a necessity. Currently I’m waiting to play FarCry 6. My old GPU couldn’t handle it, then I got a new one and another game sale happened. But as soon as I’m through with AC Valhalla I might give it a try.

    The only full price PC game I played from release that I can recall was No Man’s Sky (my hot take: it was great from the start). And I got that one gifted.

    The next waiting will be done for Starfield, I think. But that’s more for stability (“ripeness”) and mod situation.

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    Dark Souls trilogy, waited a long long time to try it out due to the memes of the brutal difficulty.

    When DS remastered came out, I finally took the plunge and am now a through enjoyer of souls games. They are difficult, but fair (as long as you’re not doing pvp lol)

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    I turned 40 this year. I pledged for Star Citizen when I was 20-something 🙃

    It’s still my dream-game, so I’m still patiently waiting.

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        I remember the original announcement and worried it was a ponzie scheme. 20 years later and here we are.

        Alternatively, a friend of mine has sunk 10k into it.

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      1 year ago

      I want to love this game but every time I try to play it I run into a plethora of game-breaking bugs within an hour. Maybe my grandkids will enjoy it.

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    I only buy games on steam or very rarely GOG. I refuse to buy a games that are exclusive to a single platform. I don’t want to pay people to remove my choices. So there’s been a few games I’ve waited to leave their exclusive deals with epic or whatever. Satisfactory is one. They had an epic store exclusive I think for 2 years and then they went to steam. I very much enjoyed the game. I’m still waiting for escape from tarkov to join us on steam.

    Unless I have friends doing multiplayer at this moment, I just waitlist games until they hit $5. And when that happens I buy them. So I have a large game backlog. I don’t anticipate or wait for games. I just wait list and forget and then I have happy surprises during the steam sales.

    I think I had lost seas on my waitlist for 2 years 3 years.

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      What if something is $6 and it’s never been this cheap for 7 years now? You wait more?

      • jet@hackertalks.com
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        I’m only human! It’s a rule of thumb! Depends on my emotional state when I see the sale. So yeah I’ve snagged a $6 game sure.