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

[justdaveisfine@piefed.social]

Most anything PvP.

I just can't do anything with games that don't allow me to pause (or go idle) as I just have constant interruptions.

It doesn't help that many PvP games also have sweaty tryhard metas that put you on a different level if you're not reading up on forums or discussions.

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

D2R even dropped LAN play and backwards compatibility with classic D2. Those had both been promised during development.

And I would also like to play D4. The atmosphere in the beginning is great, really felt like Diablo 1. But apparently the rest of the game is more like D3 again so I'm not that salty that I can't play.

There are a lot of games I simply don't have the brainpower or energy for because of !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone. I have started Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Mass Effect. But they're too wordy for me. And I can't bring myself to play them in a way where I don't fully exhaust every conversation.

I hope I will be able to stomach the Gothic Remake. The original is one of my favourite games ever.

[theminions@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Cyberpunk 77.

I don’t have a big enough SSD or SD card to put it on my Steam Deck haha.

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

Diablo III and IV don't have a monopoly on the genre. There's Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and the Borderlands games, all playable offline, even in multiplayer. They're not exactly Diablo, but you'll hardly get closer than Grim Dawn, and there's no reason you need to be married to the Diablo IP anyway. That kind of brand stickiness is how you get taken advantage of.

Personally, when something like that doesn't respect my values, I'm not even finding myself tempted by them these days. Oh, it's always online? It's dead to me. There's a deluge of other stuff to play, including games that are similar but respect my values.

[adeptus_obsoletus@piefed.social]

A lot of soulslike games. I'm terrible with a controller for anything that is not in 2D. I tried Dark Souls 1. Managed to kill Gargoyles, ventured into Darkroot Basin and got filtered. Ents taking 80% of my HP on hit was pretty frustrating too.

[jpreston2005@lemmy.world]

I'm addicted to DOTA 2, but I sometimes will play other single player games. I bought and downloaded Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and RDR2, but I can't get into them. If I'm not playing with other people, it just seems kinda... lonely? I like games where I can log on and chat/communicate with other players. I'm alone enough in my real life, so anytime I can spend with even just virtual friends is something I value.

I dunno, I started the cyberpunk game, was going the street kid route, and the guy it puts you with... The guy put a gun to you, and all of a sudden we're friends? No. I'm from a shitty family and that shit gave me mad anxiety. I got into the tutorial level, stopped to do something else, came back, and every time i try to load the game back up to play, it crashes.

So yeah, back to DOTA 2

[broadfern@lemmy.world]

Ori and the Blind Forest, and other metroidvania/pseudo-soulslikes with pretty art and stories.

I just don’t have the patience to “git gud” anymore.

[fecundpossum@lemmy.world]

I have a beefy gaming PC and spend way more time on retro handhelds. Nintendo 3ds, DS, GBA. Gives me a nerd hobby to collect games, and you can enjoy keeping them nice, picking them up when you want and putting them down when you’re done. Soooo many good titles too.

[deestan@lemmy.world]

Silksong.

Love the game, but playing a few times a week isn't enough investment for me to build up the necessary skill to complete it. Got to a point now where I literally spend the entire gaming session refreshing my fingers from last week, and decided to take a break until I can commit enough time to it. Maybe if I lose my kids or legs or go to prison or something.

[godort@lemmy.ca]

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.

[godort@lemmy.ca]

Silksong was great, but it really has an issue with approachability.

Most of the quality of life upgrades come after challenges that prove you don't need them. I didn't really feel at home with what the game was asking of me until I fought the cogwork dancers. I totally understand why people bounce off the game when they encounter Last Judge.

[davel23@fedia.io]

As a long-time Diablo player (my name is even in the credits of Diablo 1) I can say Diablo IV is thoroughly meh. You're not missing much.

[whostosay@sh.itjust.works]

Have you been playing PoE/PoE 2?

[b0nk3rs@lemmy.world]

I like liked 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.

[fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org]

I've played a lot of ARPGs and every one of them has their different flavors. But, I'm a type that wants a specific flavor and trying other flavors just makes me feel like it's not good enough. It's kind of like it's a discount version of that flavor I like. I'm playing a game that's inspired by the game that defined the genre. Just to expand a little, I am not trying to say that the games mentioned are terrible. I've touched upon Grim Dawn and Titan a few times.

But a lot of the time, my mood and feeling always darts for Diablo.

[mushroommunk@lemmy.today]

Split fiction. It looks solid and my friend and I need more games to play together that isn't competitive pvp, but we both vote with our dollar and refuse to give EA any more money.

[plzgivhugs@sh.itjust.works]

RPGs in general, but esspecially Fallout. I want to like them. I love games with a heavy emphasis on detailed worlds and environmental storytelling. I love detailed character customization and building. I especially love varied and non-linear games. Despite all of that, I just can't enjoy RPGs, because the primary loops are always so shallow. Melee is almost always either a matter of spam clicking or timing paries, firearms tend to be just holding left click on mindless enemies as they walk into a choke point, and stealth is either buggy and unreliable or completely overpowered. So much of the game is spent on these weak points, rather than the genre's strengths, to the point where I just can't enjoy them.

[abumarkey@szmer.info]

Multiplayer games. I tried Counter Strike a few times, but I just can't bring myself to like the tempo. I want to play in my pace.

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

Yeah, I don't know exactly what it is but I always feel like I don't have enough overview in those. Like I can't really make out the enemies. Apart from that I don't really like the gem system. I think PoE 2 had something new but PoE2 is too hard on my brain unfortunately.

D2 exactly hits that sweet spot of simplicity and new mechanics for me. Although nothing beats the atmosphere of D1.

[thev2@programming.dev]

I want to avoid time-consuming games like Dota 2 or Crusader Kings 3...