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

[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...

[hperrin@lemmy.ca]

I’d love to play games like Fortnight, PUBG, and League of Legends (I know, don’t judge me), but they don’t work on Linux, so they’re just a no-go for me. I used to play GTA V Online, but they added kernel anticheat to that too, and now I don’t play that anymore.

I have Windows, but I’m not booting into another partition just to play a game. I use it for compiling my software for Windows users, and that’s already too much of a pain in the ass. I cannot stand Windows. It’s a bloated mess, and I don’t understand how anyone gets any actual work done on it. Just navigating it feels like a chore.

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

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.

[rtxn@lemmy.world]

Dead Space 1 remaster. I categorically refuse to give any money to EA (even before the Saudi buyout), and that's their only game I'm even remotely interested in that isn't available through alternative channels.

[emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just get it from an alternative source and play it locally. That's more fun anyway and far too few games still have split screen coop.

[justsquigglez@leminal.space]

There's so many Nintendo games I wish I could play but I haven't had a Nintendo console since the Wii U and I can't really convince myself to buy a switch (1 or 2) especially now that the Steam Deck exists.

I'll probably emulate at some point. But there's so many games out there that I'm kinda just fine never touching Nintendo again. Especially with how they are as a company.

[msokiovt@lemmy.today]

Silksong is designed for those who are good at Hollow Knight, I think.

[msokiovt@lemmy.today]

I can't even play Apex anymore because EA decided Linux players cheat, and therefore, must be categorically banned from playing. All they did was turn off that switch for Proton/WINE support.

The real reason is because they can't spy on people who use Linux too easily, like they can with Windows used.