You must log in or # to comment.
Arma 3 was a big reason why I built my first PC. Purchased it in alpha and fucking hated every second of it. Tried it again here and here but it just never clicked, everything was so confusing and it got worse as more dlc and mods were released…I just figured full simulations weren’t my thing but was still happy to support the game. In 2022 some friends had me join them for some KotH and I finally learned the basics. Then I joined an Antistasi group, told them I was new and they taught me everything. Now I own the entire series and routinely play A2, A3, and Reforger…I literally have a 2tb ssd just for Arma because I have so many mods, like I am full blown addicted to this shit now.
Arma is soo good. Some of my fondest gaming memories come from Arma 3.
Mass Effect. I didn’t get far in the original. Played the Legendary Edition trilogy all the way through. Went back to the original. It’s the tank (Mako). It dies in like 2-3 hits and you get less XP for kills in it. It’s just not fun and they never fixed it in the original. Legendary fixes it. At the very least, it’s balanced to the game’s difficulty setting. Where in the original it’s stuck on the hardest setting, but only for the Mako missions.
Original came out in like 2007, Legendary came out in like 2016. Might be off by a year or two with one or both.
Tbh I never really had an issue with the Mako sections besides them just being boring. Also the scanning mini game in 2 got extremely tedious very quickly.
Witcher 3. It had me for a bit then lost interest again. But, I’m planning on trying again.
This is me and every Witcher game. I would probably just rather read the books from the sounds of it
The books are essentially a prequel of the games plot. But they are good.
I would still give Witcher 2 and 3 a chance. Only the first one is pretty bad
Same! I love the idea of the game, I’ve tried to play it like three times, and every time I just lose the motivation to play for some reason. I want to like it because I love the world that it’s in, but something about it just keeps losing me.
Disco Elysium for me! Didn’t understand it and thought it was weird. On the third try, it was amazing. I finally understood what it was trying to do. It was an art piece and I don’t think I’ll ever have that same journey again for a long while.
Check out Esoteric Ebb… I’ve only played a few hours so far, but it’s got a few things I actually prefer over DE
Disco Elysium.
First go was after finally playing Planescape : Torment and I just wasn’t in the mood for another text heavy game, even though it came highly recommended and had some voiceacting from some podcasters I knew about.
Then the Final Cut came out with all the professional voice acting and it was absolutely excellent.
The voice acting (and writing) is some of the best in all of gaming
balatro
Not a game, but as a Fallout fan I hated the show at first. The acting is bad and everything looks too shiny and new to be 200 years old (plus I don’t like how the show is inspired more by Fallout 4 than any other game in the series). But I gave it another chance a year later, and it’s growing on me. Binged the first season in a a few days. Sure beats a lot of the other crap on TV these days.
Hmmmmm I’m at the first part of this comment, confused how so many people seem to like it
Well for me I just had to suck it up and accept the camp, and the fact that Bethesda doesn’t give a shit about lore consistency. It probably doesn’t help that I’m starved for new Fallout content as we wait a decade or so for the next game to finally get announced. Helps me look past the flaws.
Dwarf Fortress back in the day (I think it’s more user friendly now). I just couldn’t figure out how to do most things.
Then I just decided to like job it: watched some videos, took some notes – basically did my homework, then was able to build a base and last long enough to starve. And again. Then the next time ran out of booze. Then was doing great but eventually had too many dwarfs and starved again. Then goblins. Then a big monster. And it goes on like that and that’s the fun!
The Witcher 3. First couple of times it didn’t click. Now it remains one of my favorites.
Monster Hunter.
There’s a community saying: everyone loves Monster Hunter, they just haven’t played it enough yet. It’s an incredibly common experience for new Monhun players to hate it on their first or even second go around, but then eventually fall in love! It happened for me twice in fact. I played Tri on the Wii back when I was a kid, and then World on release in college, but did not get far either time. Then I tried it again a few years later and now I have played at least one monster hunter game from every generation as well as most of the spinoffs and it is my favourite series ever!
Same. Didn’t click with me at first, but one day I put in some real effort and now I’m a capable Master Ranker of the New World
Oh it’s a distant memory now, but I remember the first time I played RimWorld I bailed out again in less than an hour and didn’t touch it again for at least a year
Fast forward to now and I think it’s claimed 1500h of my time
Kenshi. I got it in 2013. It seemed interesing but ran so badly on my machine at the time that I gave up on it. Played it again when I got a better PC and some religious people came around to preach and hand out bibles, I put them in a skin peeler.
Guild Wars 2. Didn’t click with it at launch, tried it again a few months ago and oh my god so much has changed in over 13 years. I’m still playing plenty of other games but it’s nice to have an MMO (without monthly fees or any kind of FOMO) to come back to every couple of weeks.
BOTW. First time played handheld and screen was too small to appreciate it. Picked up again years later on a tv and finally loved it.
TF2
Team Fortress 2 or Transport Fever 2
Team Fortress 2
Thank you for not saying Titanfall 2. Team Fortress 2 came out first, so few things annoy me more than when the playerbase for that game calls it TF2 instead of “TiFa 2” or something like that.
tbh I don’t even know what Titanfall 2 is 😅 maybe I’m getting old 🫠
