Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?
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I've bought the Witcher 3 for two different platforms, and I have neither the time or the patience to play it to completion.
I was there for a while. I finally got around to it and played semi regularly for a year and a bit, took a year or two off, and then finished off what was apparently the last quest of the base game lol
it's a decent game. you don't need to a ton of time to make it worthwhile but you do need to play it in slightly longer individual chunks (playing 30 min at a time isn't very viable).
if you can, give it a try. but yeah it does require some time, it's not like popping into minecraft for a bit or mini metro for a round. but it's also not like civ's 'just one more turn'
I liked the story, environments, and gameplay. I found I enjoyed it best when I actually relaxed into it instead of trying to rush through and complete stuff, so again yeah maybe won't be possible for your available time. but it's not necessary to complete it to get enjoyment out of it. around a third of the way through to halfway through is probably where I enjoyed it the most. maybe even earlier?
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I'm sure there's a cheat engine invulnerability hack or something I could use, but it would kinda take the fun out of it.
Have you considered the Xbox Adaptive Controller? I know Microsoft designed this controller with different extensions an such to assist people with disabilities while gaming.
Here’s hoping for a healthy recovery chief!
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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.
MGO2! Spent some effort trying to get it to work and now the game won't update to the latest version
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I know a number of people who have motion-sickness issues with games like this, it's almost entirely first-person games that cause this.
Some things to consider from my years of assisting managing it:
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You get motion sick because your eyes tell your brain that you're moving, but your inner-ear gyroscopes say you're not, so your brain assumes you must be infected with something so it starts measures to evacuate your stomach of potential poison.
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View bobbing, screen-shaking, depth-of-field, motion-blur and frame-rates have a huge impact on your sense of balance and visual processing of motion, so try to always turn those off. (Minecraft has had view bobbing since early on, it's always "step one" to turn it off for everyone.)
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Framerates also can make you sick. If you're playing an first-person game and the field of view isn't moving smoothly it will be more likely to make you start to feel nauseous. Turn graphics settings down until your frame-rates are at least 40 or so. (You would have to look up the game and/or platform to figure out how to turn on FPS display on your screen to see where you're at.)
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The brain is highly elastic for learning new things, but also learns negative associations. This means sometimes you have to train it like a toddler or puppy. Patiently and with persistence. This can take the form of only playing for 15 minutes instead of waiting until you start to get nauseous. You need to train your brain that the viewing experience isn't actually harmful by disconnecting the association with feeling sick, by getting used to the game without triggering the motion sickness. So frequent, short sessions, not letting yourself get sick. (This is the most effective method anyone I know has tried.)
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Medication. Seriously, anti-histamines work pretty effectively. Motion-sickness pills are literally just anti-allergy medication. It will make you very quite groggy though so don't plan on staying up late playing. Chewable nausea tablets also help a lot. Again, you're just trying to let your brain adapt to a new perspective/activity without getting fully sick, so think of medications as a temporary measure to get to that adaptation point.
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Field of view is also a huge factor. Try turning it up or down, most 3D games give you the option. Additionally, playing on a smaller screen can help a lot too. Play in windowed mode and gradually work on making the screen larger and larger until you've adapted.
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Engagement in the game also helps. Once you start having fun you will often forget about the negative sensations and give your brain more time to adapt. If you're not enjoying a game, don't force it. Try a different one until you find some mechanic you enjoy that hooks you.
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After adaptation, you would likely also need to periodically "refresh" it and play a 3D game for a little while every day or you will slip back into motion-sickness triggers again easily.
Getting motion sick from games sucks so much. I just wanna run around, not feel like vomitting cause my body is a silly goose.
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Just play at a low level and have fun
yeah being casual in comp games can still be fun! I never got past silver 2 in CSGO and I had a great time. I was dogshit by all metrics but I way more fun than when I was Diamond in LoL(that was miserable).
People were more friendly, there were dudes ripping bongs and rapping mid round. I could play with any of my friends, I could play tired, drunk no worries, no ruining the game etc.
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Counterpoint: Someone can play up through Stormblood without having to buy anything.
But, yeah, I agree. I don't really want to think about how much I've spent on this one game over the last 12 years. But roughly spitballing:
- ARR, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail...I'll say that's 6 x $40 (not accurate since I bought special editions for some and moved from PS3 to Pc so that's an extra cost there, too): $240
- $13/m for 11 years (I've played ARR since launch but there have been some times where I turned off my sub for a little bit so I'll just knock off 12 months): 13 x 12 x 11 = $1,716
- Various Mogstation purchases, roughly $40?
- Total for me with this napkin math: $1,996
Woof. But, I do love the game and spent all weekend playing it just now. So there's worse things to spend money on.
This expac broke me. Played for a decade. Decent ranked tank. The new raids are more of the same and PF has no healers. Tried to play Sage to balance it out and no one could make it work.
The game lost touch with what made it great. It's no longer innovative. The story is ass. It's just a whale hunter.
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Cyberpunk 2077 - it still doesn't go on steep enough sales to justify buying when I have hundreds of unplayed games on Steam. But I'm keeping an eye on its downward progress. Maybe when it reaches £10-13...
I bought it this winter for 25. Solid beginning. Haven't finished it. But it's there. I hop on when I want to veg out and the story is pretty damn good.
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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.
Hollow Knight. I watched someone on YouTube play it and I just don't want to spend that much time playing that kind of game. I'm someone who grew up playing Mario 64, Mario sunshine, Mario Galaxy and I just recall spending so much time playing those games as a kid. So much time wasted. Cannot bring myself to do that again. I'm pretty stubborn and so I know because I wasted so much time on those Nintendo games that I would pull ridiculous amounts of time on another game like that. Not worth it anymore for me.
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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.
Civ V is the sweet spot.
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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.
Any game at the moment would be nice
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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.
I honestly want to play skyrim on the Switch 2, but I won't because the input controls function so poorly and the framerate is subpar. I was excited for when we got the boost in power on the Switch 2 but Bethesda fumbled it. Hopefully they do fix Skyrim and that they launch Fallout 4 in a good state with a gold framerate.
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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.
Even if you don't mind the online only part, ignore this abomination. They botched the D4 campaign. It's too easy and almost impossible to die during the regular campaign. It takes roughly two minutes to beat a world boss on the first play through.
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I honestly want to play skyrim on the Switch 2, but I won't because the input controls function so poorly and the framerate is subpar. I was excited for when we got the boost in power on the Switch 2 but Bethesda fumbled it. Hopefully they do fix Skyrim and that they launch Fallout 4 in a good state with a gold framerate.
Don't you worry. With every new console release, you can accommodate guarantee that Skyrim will be on it at some point. It's like Bethesda NEEDS to release it on every single platform.... Sometimes multiple times.
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I'm sure there's a cheat engine invulnerability hack or something I could use, but it would kinda take the fun out of it.
I agree. I was imagining maybe a time dilation mod that you could toggle on/off to make your inputs less physically demanding, but I don't know if that exists. That's how I'd do accessibility in this game personally. I don't know anything about your condition though, so really I'm just spitballing and daydreaming simultaneously.
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Don't you worry. With every new console release, you can accommodate guarantee that Skyrim will be on it at some point. It's like Bethesda NEEDS to release it on every single platform.... Sometimes multiple times.
Oh Skyrim is on the Switch 2. But it runs so poorly and it's so unoptimized that it makes it not worth the Switch 2 version upgrade. I'm just going to wait and see if they re-release it again haha.
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Just play at a low level and have fun
The problem with low level Deadlock is that you end up in games with people who have never played before. The game got way better when I reached high ranks. Now i'm at a cataclysmic losing streak and i'm back to low ranks. It can be brutal.
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Cyberpunk 2077 - it still doesn't go on steep enough sales to justify buying when I have hundreds of unplayed games on Steam. But I'm keeping an eye on its downward progress. Maybe when it reaches £10-13...
That's my strategy as well. Whenever Witcher 3 is on sale i think to myself "Can't wait for Cyberpunk to get that low". Same thing for Elden Ring +DLC, except there i would be willing to pay about 30-40 bucks.
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Elite Dangerous. Extremely beautiful, especially impressive in VR - but way too time-consuming for me.
why did they skip VR compatibility for the on foot sections of the game? seems insane
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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.
AC Shadows
I want to play it but fuck Ubisoft
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Oh Skyrim is on the Switch 2. But it runs so poorly and it's so unoptimized that it makes it not worth the Switch 2 version upgrade. I'm just going to wait and see if they re-release it again haha.
Skyrim Remastered: Definitive Special Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Version
