Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?
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likeliked the look of Subnautica but because of my thalassophobia I can't play it. Now I wouldn't play it anyway after the bullshit that was reported last year.I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.
I didn't think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.
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Honestly, I kinda want to play Stellar Blade to see if the gooner bait makes up for what I've heard about the gameplay, but I'm not gonna shell out actual money for it, especially since it's got Denuvo.
Also, I know it hasn't even been announced yet, because Metroid Prime 4 only just came out a couple months ago, but Metroid Prime 5. At this point, it would have to be a Switch 2 game, and I refuse to get one because fuck that game key card shit.
Shaun has a video essay on Stellar Blade. According to him, its very much "can I copy your homework" of Nier Automata, and some sekiro gameplay.
I have only played the the later 2. Nier Automata is something I will never forget, and (IMO) Sekiro is the best Fromsoft+Combat game. Highly recomend both of them
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Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago.
And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they've made that online-only as well. Like, I know I'm always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can't afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can't do that with online-only games because it's like being gated away from something you bought.
So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.
Rdr2. I'm not making a damn account just to play the game offline.
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BeamNG, but it’s Windoze only and I only have relatively older Macs.
I should get steam deck or cube maybe if it’s affordable.
BRO. PLAY BEAM ANYWAY. IT'S AMAZING!
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Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago.
And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they've made that online-only as well. Like, I know I'm always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can't afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can't do that with online-only games because it's like being gated away from something you bought.
So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.
Clair obscur.
It looks so good, and the music is great, and story is apparently fantastic, but I just can not get the hang of the counter/block mechanic in combats, and without it the battles are pretty much impossible.
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Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago.
And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they've made that online-only as well. Like, I know I'm always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can't afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can't do that with online-only games because it's like being gated away from something you bought.
So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.
Minecraft. I love building things, and I especially love the idea of building things you can walk through in first person. I also loved the little of it I did play. Sadly, it makes me incredibly nauseous and gives me a headache after about half an hour of playing.
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Minecraft. I love building things, and I especially love the idea of building things you can walk through in first person. I also loved the little of it I did play. Sadly, it makes me incredibly nauseous and gives me a headache after about half an hour of playing.
Have you messed with the settings? Turning off view bobbing might be the trick!
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Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago.
And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they've made that online-only as well. Like, I know I'm always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can't afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can't do that with online-only games because it's like being gated away from something you bought.
So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.
Deadlock. As a parent and full time worker I don't have time to commit to a new live service multiplayer. It would be amazing to be a teenager or student again and just grind that game as nolife.
Wow is kinda similar. Housing update seems like fun thing that they finally added but no way I have time to play wow.
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Outer Wilds.
I very much want to play this game. It's everything I want from a detective puzzle game, but actually playing it gives me motion sickness.
I've heard supposedly that sitting back further away from the monitor helps with motion sickness, so if you have some sort of TV screen that you could hook up the game to, that might work?
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Have you messed with the settings? Turning off view bobbing might be the trick!
Did you have view bobbing in 2012? That’s probably about the last time I tried playing.
I figured it were just the 2D/3D environments. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom make me nauseous as well.
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Clair obscur.
It looks so good, and the music is great, and story is apparently fantastic, but I just can not get the hang of the counter/block mechanic in combats, and without it the battles are pretty much impossible.
I ended up using the auto-parry/block mod, but it means you're practically invulnerable, you only need to do the jump and radiant attack counters
https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/478
There's also a mod to increase the block/parry "period"
https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/28
I still hope there will be a mod to have the dodge/parry based on your stats (agility/luck), to feel like it's a RPG and not a souls-like game
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Clair obscur.
It looks so good, and the music is great, and story is apparently fantastic, but I just can not get the hang of the counter/block mechanic in combats, and without it the battles are pretty much impossible.
I came to depend less on the visual cues which are often deceptive and more on the audio ones or counting in my head for dodges/parries. Also invest heavily (basically all your points) into defense/vitality which makes Dodge/Parry misses much more forgiving.
Eventually, even if you only do a smattering of side quests/areas, you'll get powerful enough to basically ignore the timing mechanics altogether.
Also set it on story mode + auto QTEs. I did that on my first playthrough and had absolutely no regrets. The mechanics of the game are definitely secondary to the experience of the story.
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I was going to say diablo4 as well. Diablo1 and 2 were some of my favorite games in my youth, but I just don't want to give blizzard any more money. Path of exile 1 and 2 are good for the same itch.
Also any console exclusives. Bloodborne? Would love to play. Not buying a console. New Zelda and Mario? Same.
You can play Bloodborne via an emulator.
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Would you mind listing some of the ones you've tried? Describing melee as spam clicking sounds like you've either only played real-time RPGs or didn't understand the tactics that come with the trade-offs on your character sheet. Fallout itself comes in a ton of different flavors across the series.
I've tried a bunch of the big ones. Fallout 1&3, Skyrim, Final Fantasy 3 and 7, Pokemon, Borderlands, a couple of different MMORPGs, and a bunch of random others. My description was a bit oversimplified, but my point was more about the general lack of care towards the primary loops that you spend 99% of the game engaging with. For example, Fallout 3 has terrible gunplay which is further limitted by the need to focus on one weapon type, and uninteresting AI which doesn't leave room for deeper tactics. Pokemon, along with a lot of other JRPGs, often boil down to finding one or two decent buffs/debuffs to use, then spamming whatever does highest damage. MMOs obviously tend to require a lot of grinding repetitive, often easy enemies.
That said, I have found some of the RPG-adjacent games better. Roguelikes are one of my favorite genres, since they tend to center around a strong gameplay loop, while still featuring the non-linearity and character builds. Same with tactics games. Honestly Dark Souls seems like it may be a good option, but I bounced off of it due to technical issues the first time and just haven't gotten around to trying it again.
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Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago.
And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they've made that online-only as well. Like, I know I'm always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can't afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can't do that with online-only games because it's like being gated away from something you bought.
So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.
Lots, as you said too. Blizzard lost its way a while ago, not giving them money.
Neither epic, ubi, ea. F all of them.
On the bright side there's so much games coming out and so much backlog too, I don't miss them.
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Deadlock. As a parent and full time worker I don't have time to commit to a new live service multiplayer. It would be amazing to be a teenager or student again and just grind that game as nolife.
Wow is kinda similar. Housing update seems like fun thing that they finally added but no way I have time to play wow.
Deadlock is no joke, the best game i have ever played. But i never played a maba before, so that part was completely new. Someone said that Deadlock might be the hardest game to learn, and they might be right.
Deadlock is the only game that has ever made me nervous when i start playing. I'm glad i got into the game early, but even if you don't want to learn, i think it's worth downloading and walk around in the cursed apple or play some bot matches. The design and the feel of the game is one of a kind and it plays so smooth. -
Deadlock is no joke, the best game i have ever played. But i never played a maba before, so that part was completely new. Someone said that Deadlock might be the hardest game to learn, and they might be right.
Deadlock is the only game that has ever made me nervous when i start playing. I'm glad i got into the game early, but even if you don't want to learn, i think it's worth downloading and walk around in the cursed apple or play some bot matches. The design and the feel of the game is one of a kind and it plays so smooth.I played it when it was in closed beta. And as a fan of Overwatch and previous LoL player, Deadlock was super fun to play. But combination of high mechanical requirement and knowledge requirement it is hard to enjoy the game as casual peopler. Thank god now there is light version of Deadlock as Overwatch Stadium.
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I would create ten different accounts to play a game that's the quality of rdr2.
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Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I'm not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.
For a different direction on this -- I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I'm not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder
StarCraft 2 is the bomb, just download it and play the campaigns, it's worth it. Probably the best RTS campaign IMO.
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Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck... Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that's the way it's supposed to be... Refunded it in less than an hour.
I could get info that game either. It looks amazing. I'm sure the experience is great, but it never really grabbed me.
