Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

[blackmist@feddit.uk]

I found it rough near the start, but it gets a lot easier as you go on, once you get more of a feel for when attacks are coming. Eventually you'll be dodging things you've never seen before just on instinct.

Dodges are a lot easier than parries, even if you don't get the extra AP from it. Fights last a bit longer, but you can definitely plough through most of it even with bad timing. Explore thoroughly in act 1, otherwise you'll probably be underlevelled for the last boss there. Not really any need to grind mindlessly, but you can if you really need the extra levels.

[innermachine@lemmy.world]

I played before phantom liberty and thought it was a neat enough game. Maybe I should give it another shot.

[it3agle@feddit.uk]

Alan Wake 2, I loved the 1st but I'm not using Epic's shitty store. Especially with Epic's general anti-linux stance.

[katana314@lemmy.world]

Not quite the same dillema, but I have a similar issue. I have many singleplayer games I know I want to finish, but when I start my vegout state, it often defaults to a few known multiplayer games, even knowing I've had many sessions that leave me infuriated.

[katana314@lemmy.world]

I love the story of Final Fantasy XIV, but it can easily categorize as "One of the most expensive singleplayer games of all time". On top of buying the expansions, you'll need to pay for each month you play; and unless someone's really speedrunning, that will start to add up. Worse, for a first timer setting up their account, their website and payment system is really stuck in 1998, making giving them money an obtuse task. And, while the story has its great moments and excellent side content, a depressing amount of it is extensive polite dialog with just simple quests where you move to a location and right-click on someone. I've finished Dawntrail, and am glad I experienced it, but I can't blame anyone who sees it all as beyond them.

[asmoranomar@lemmy.world]

I haven't played since I beat it. But I did look into this after I did...

In general, every time the screen zooms in, you need to act. What type is something you learn, but that cuts down on the timing aspect There are also audio queues, like a sort of woosh effect. I don't play a lot of fast response games like this, so I never noticed until it was pointed out.

[katana314@lemmy.world]

My issue was, I did not feel the expected experience of "Each loop, you learn something new." It was more like, every 7 loops, I might get into the thing I was repeatedly trying to enter; and then it might just be a bunch of random ancient messages that don't teach me anything. On top of that, I really hated the ship controls, especially when they veer AWAY from the autopilot path to pull me directly into the sun. If the game had been remade without any physics system, and simple direct puzzle mechanics, I might've enjoyed it more.

[katana314@lemmy.world]

I stopped Nier Automata midway because it felt completely awful. Then I was sternly motivated by someone to give it a full go and finish it all the way, and it got EVEN WORSE.

Stellar Blade, though, made the gameplay very enjoyable; and its writing, while following a very similar theme, didn't feel nearly so excessively ultra-grimdark. It kept some core reveals for close to the end (I guess unless you were paying attention to what few audio logs amounted to more than just "They're coming...! Agh! We're all dead.") but I liked the dilemma it posed.

[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

I've heard this but I haven't taken the time to find a rom and emulator and get it working (on Linux)

[Guest]

Breath of the wild
God of war (ps4)
God of war (ps5)
Resident evil village
Super Mario whatever the switch one is

I'm midway through all of these except the god of war sequel but life has taken over. I miss gaming.

[redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com]

It's still a buggy mess, but it's usually very pretty and occasionally fun.

[locahosr443@lemmy.world]

I wish I could go back and never experience it before PL. It's what it should have been at release, took me ages to get around to trying it after the broken and underwhelming early versions because the main story was long and linear. I'm glad I did though, it's an entirely different experience

[dustydata@lemmy.world]

They didn't sneak anything and they never will. Looked into it deeply. They used AI assets as placeholders during development. But everything in the shipped game is human-made. No further use of generative AI is expected, since the game awards controversy the company's management published a statement of banning AI use entirely in their company.

The whole controversy around indie game awards was also blown beyond proportions. A company used a new technology at a time when the tech was new and the debate around it's use was still inmature. Then dismissed it for it was not good enough. They failed at quality assurance and a couple of textures weren't deleted. They replaced them as soon at they found out. By all intents and purposes, this controversy does not qualify sandfall as an AI using company, and to affirm so is ignorant of the context of all that went down in reality.

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

Ya maybe one day. I also morally don't want to support that behaviour.

Elden ring is the gold standard for me in multiplayer. It's optional. It just requires you to be online. No account creation bullshit. And it's a quality game also.

[ameancow@lemmy.world]

I'd love to play Baldur's Gate 3 with a diverse group of real people and share an adventure together, but have no friends who enjoy games that aren't mindless slop.

Same with other slow-burn games like Project Zomboid and other survival/crafting games.

I learned to do slop to hang out with others, I even got good at slop like Rivals just to keep social contact alive. But I can't drag anyone into a game that doesn't have 2-minute matches filled with flashing lights and colors and gambling mini-games.

[johnnixon@lemmy.world]

I watched a friend beat TOTK so I just ran around and tried to 100% the game rather than beating it. Slower times too.

[ameancow@lemmy.world]

I'm also waiting for it to hit a low-enough price to justify the amount of time I will lose just trying to mod the thing into a playable, enjoyable state.

[jiri@mendeddrum.org]

@cyberpunk007 @Abundance114 that is if you play on PC. other platforms might require subscriptions of some kind in order to enable multiplayer feature(s).

[ameancow@lemmy.world]

I keep trying Civ VI and keep uninstalling it before finishing a single game.

I can't put my finger on exactly what's changed since earlier games, but it's lost a lot of the addicting charm and intuitive flow that made me play prior versions for days. Also, the goofy-ass style and overly dramatic narrative starts to irk me.

If that's the trend of the franchise I sure won't be touching any of the later ones.

[atropos@lemmy.world]

I couldn't find conclusive information for Wolfenstein 3D or Doom, but it seems to point toward bobbing being present for those as well.

If it really seems like a game that might be otherwise fun, I'd recommend giving it a shot with bobbing/sway (however it is
called) turned of.

This also affects my wife, she has to have it off in order to enjoy any 3d, first person game.