The Witcher 2. I died so many goddamn times in the intro scene, rage quit, came back years later and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I started and quickly lost interest. I think I forgot the role mechanic while going through the first real dungeon. Bosses are hard without rolling
Dragon Age
I started with Dragon Age inquisition and I dropped it within the first half an hour. Years later, I started with DAO and now it’s my favourite serie; I replay dao way too much btw
Etrian Odyssey
I tried the demo for the fourth one and just didn’t really like or get it. A couple years later Atlus announced Persona Q (which has mostly the same gameplay as Etrian Odyssey) so, I decided to give the demo another try and it just clicked this time. I have no idea why I didn’t like it the first time around.
Witcher 3 Crusader Kings II
So many games in here, that I started and apparently need to go back and try again.
Not that I didn’t like them, but with limited time, I just couldn’t get into them properly.
I bounced off the first Deus Ex a few times… the first mission is just kind of dull.
The game is so funny if you know all of the Y2K era stuff that it’s a satire of.
Yeah for sure! It’s not surprising that it’s a cult classic at all. But ugh, after figuring out key bindings and going through the tutorial I would always lose interest by the time I started liberty island. Deus Ex just feels clunky at first.
fallout 3. first time i ever played a game like it. stopped playing because the subways scared me and i was out of ammo
World of Warcraft.
I bought it because a classmate told me about it and we planned to play together, but he had a level 60 character and didn’t want to start a new one to level with me. So I played alone for the first 25 levels or so, and quit out of boredom. Then I told my brother about the game and we started again together. That lasted until about halfway through Legion (at least 10 years, with a few breaks ofc), when we both stopped playing. I’ve been trying to get back into it a few times since then, but it never really clicked again.
I wish I could get into WoW again but I don’t have the time required and the game is not really built to play solo. Now I watch videos and read everything I can just to be a part of that universe.
Monster Hunter (I tink it was 4U).
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.
Monster hunter would benefit so much from a decent tutorial in most their games. I think that really helped world, to at least explain some things.
DDR, use to talk mad shit about that game. Can’t remember what happened but I think my uncle bought it for me and then it just clicked. Ended up hanging at the arcade for hours all sweaty getting food court food.
Baldur’s Gate. I’ve never played DnD so there was a bit of a learning curve. I rage quit after two hours, almost returned it. Three days later I fired it up again and haven’t really stopped playing since.
And now I’m 158 hours in and can’t bear the thought of finishing it now that combat has become sooooo monotonous.
Baldur’s Gate was a special game. It’s the only game my wife liked to play, and we couch-coopted it. We played the rest in the series together, full play through all of them, a couple of times. Never found that magic combo again, sadly, and to this day she laments that there are so few 3d isometric couch coop games.
Well, there’s Baldur’s Gate 3 now… should keep you entertained for the next 5 years 😃
I’m excited to try that. No couch co-op :-( Nobody makes those anymore.
Maybe not on console but you can couch co-op on PC.
The BG3 website doesn’t mention couch coop; only online multiplayer. The Steam page for it says it’s a single player game, with online/LAN coop. Where do you see that it has couch coop? It’s frustrating that you have to buy it to find out it has that.
Speaking from experience is all. Plug in another controller and the screen splits and you can make a new character or choose a premade.
That’s great! Thanks for letting me know; it’s crazy that it’s not easily discoverable.
Hey mate, both PC and PS5 have couch-coop (I own it on both). For the former, you need to plug in two controllers, and it’ll just kinda work, and the latter has it in the “session settings”.
Pretty sure it isn’t out on Xbox yet because they are struggling with couch co-op on series s
It’s a phenomenal game, probably the best I’ve played since Red Dead 2
If you liked the first two, have you tried Planescape Torment? Basically the same engine
I didn’t know about that one - it looks great! no couch co-op, sadly, so my wife won’t be interested, but I think it looks great!
Thanks for the recommendation.
It has a great story, you’re in for a ride!
I also realised that the Shadowrun games (Returns, Dragonfall, and Hong Kong) might scratch that itch - the setting is a cyberpunk/fantasy mashup, and the game play is similar isometric point and click until you get into combat when it becomes isometric turn based tactical. I was recommended to start with Dragonfall
I’ve been playing bg1 on Android lately, anything you would go back and tell yourself if you could? I’ve basically been flying blind and struggling a bit lol
Sekiro. Tried getting into it twice, but couldn’t - I always got mentally stuck at Lady Butterfly.
Third time, someone told me that I shouldn’t fight her until later, and HOT DAMN is this a good game. I’m still working on the final fight of the normal route, but can’t wait to go back and do the other endings!
Against the Storm. Been on steam for 15 years and it’s my third most played game now. Rimworld and CK3 are the only ones above.
Slay the Spire.
Gave up because I couldn’t beat jaw worm or act 1 boss. Then I had an absolutely OP deadbranch +corruption deck. Been hooked ever since.
You fool, Jaw Worm is the act 1 boss!
Hotline Miami
I wouldn’t say it didn’t click for me the first time, but definitely its gameplay wasn’t what I was expecting, I thought it would be purely fast paced just as if it was a Metal Slug with a different view, it turned out to be a fantastic game where you need to think before shooting lol.
