Which game have you been the most patient for (as in, delaying purchase)?
For me, it would have to be GTA V. I stopped playing games for years, then built a new rig in 2018. Since then I’ve played through GTA IV (well, I beat the story, and it was amazing), but I never played GTA V.
My plan is to purchase it and start playing it the day GTA VI is released, as I have enough other games to get through in the meantime.
I’ve been meaning to try Factorio for years. But I’m worried that as soon as I do, I’m never going to get round to playing all the other games in my backlog…
Usually when I pick it up it’s only for about two weeks. Then I get back to my job and leave the house again.
One of the nice things about Factorio is that you can finish a level and put it down and come back later. That’s harder to do with an RPG like Expedition 33 or Dragon Age.
Not a ton of plot. It’s mostly just a building sim.
How does one ‘finish a level’ in Factorio? I thought it was pretty open ended (until you launch a rocket)?
But I do get what you mean - it’s definitely harder to drop and return to a story based game.
Finish a run, excuse me
My last run was over 300 hours… But you are right. I haven’t really picked it up again since.
The Devs have stated the game will not be on sale. The price is what they felt a fair price is for their game. Its in a blog post somewhere
Ah I know, I’m not waiting for a sale. Just need more spare time lol
I did this with Rimworld. Started a few months ago, approaching 400 hours, and I was totally correct.
Missing out on one of the best video games ever made out of fear of the backlog is ridiculous. Play it.
I mean I say it kinda tongue-in-cheek! I’ll play it eventually, it’s not going anywhere :)
Skyrim. I’ll play it one day I swear.
Honestly it’s worth it if you’re down for mods. It felt like an insult when it came out, it was like call of duty wearing morrowind’s skin, but since then it’s become a pretty robust modding community and Legacy of the Dragonborn is miles above anything in the base game.
Modded skyrim is one of my favorite games, vanilla skyrim is just… meh.
Modding Skyrim is one of my favorite games.
Load game. Load mods. Break game. Repeat until pretty. Finish 10 hours later. Play for 2 hours and drop game.
10 hours? I’ve been at this for over a week (of total time spread across 6 weeks).
Starting 3 years ago, it only took me about 3 years to mod it to perfection — which was another exercise in patience I guess.
I nuked mine when I made the switch to Linux 😂
I know the Wabbajack scene is pretty big for Skyrim, is there any big mod pack you would recommend? Skyrim is also an embarrassing blind spot for me (played enough of Morrowind and Oblivion back in the day so never got around to it) but after all the hundreds of hours I’ve spent modding Fallout: NV, Cyberpunk and STALKER Anomaly I am not sure I want to dive headfirst into another multi month mod project.
I could not for the life of me get wabbajack to work, but I did get steam tinker launcher to work out of the box and used nexus to put together asking related to LotDB
I’ve been enjoying Nordic Souls as a Wabbajack pack. It’s got gameplay adjustments that do change the difficulty curve but is closer to the base game in difficulty than many of the other prominent mod packs. It also has a smaller footprint (~100GB maybe?) as compared to some others. Skyrim feels more modern and fresh, for sure.
I downloaded it on a whim after I used Wabbajack/Nexus Premium for some Fallout New Vegas modding (went with Viva NV). I wanted to get full value from that premium sub lol.
Edit: I will say that I don’t think Nordic Souls includes Legacy of the Dragonborn, so I’d look into that and choose another pack if desired.
Thank you, Nordic Souls does look pretty great. I’ll jot that down for the future!
Yep, same.
Not worth it
I completely agree, if you need to heavily mod Skyrim for it to be good, is it even Skyrim any more? Grossly overrated on release in my opinion
Terraria, waiting to play it with friends when i make some
I still recommend it solo. I started w friends but most of my time in game has been alone
I’m gonna play Super Mario Sunshine one of these days, I swear.
I played it on Dolphin emulator with a 60fps patch and some HD textures. It aged really well.
EDIT: Also a widescreen patch!
Is it better than Galaxy 1 and 2? I 100%ed these two and i feel like sunshine would give me less of the same, am I wrong?
Funny you should ask, I am actually playing Galaxy for the first time right now!
All I can say is that I really enjoyed Sunshine and will probably finish 100%ing it one day. With the patches I mentioned it feels about as modern as Galaxy (I suppose they are only five years apart). But better or worse? I can’t yet say. I love the “Fludd” mechanic and find it really satisfying in 60fps.
CupHead is coming up on ten years old and I don’t think it has ever dipped below $10 on Steam.
Its worth ten bucks for sure, as long as you like brutally hard retro platformers. I wish I did, because that game is gorgeous
Still haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3
I have several unfinished RPGs and really don’t want this one to get added to the list.
It aint the best of the best, but it is good and people can argue (legitimately) it is one of the best of the best.
Do you play any irl DnD or tabletop rpgs? Cause the dice system in video games i think is terrible, and it turned me off of bg3 immediately. And im a tabletop rpg player.
Now months later, im enjoying it, i dont finish most rpgs. Do with that what you will, but at the least wait for a decent sale price
I’ve played some tabletop in the past (10+ years ago) as a noob, never quite got super deep - it was mostly an activity to enjoy with friends.
With the way my life is structured these days, I’d be a key contributor to “schedules & conflicts” and don’t want to burden a party with my inability to fully commit to a campaign.
CRPGs give me the advantage of being able to start and stop whenever, short or long sessions.
O absolutely. I understand the problem with schedules and what not. Crpgs def have some serious advantages. I mostly brought up tabletop cause I wondered if op was familiar with dice mechanics.
I’m holding off to this too. I still want to finish the two Divinity: Original Sins first, yet haven’t been able to do so. Also there are several unfinished Pillars of Eternity saves, haven’t been able to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance, too. There is simply not enough time.😭
Oh, so you missed the time when Epic gave GTA V away for free? Bummer.
Though with all the launcher-hassle I actually prefer the pirated version.
I did, yep. I mean, my PC is fairly old so I don’t think I’ll play the current “enhanced” version on Steam even when I do eventually get round to trying it.
My answer is probably Cyberpunk2077, I bought it on accident since it was in my cart on the day Silksong released. Luckily it was on sale at that time. Tried playing it on my ps4 pro and it was struggling so I put it aside and plan on playing it whenever I get a new console. So I started silksong instead which is ironically the first new game I bought in over 5 years.
Cyberpunk is an awesome game now, years after its release.
It was rough and buggy at release, but now it’s everything it should have been from the beginning. (I prefer to play on PC so I can have the mod that turns some people into furries, though!)
The modding scene in general is really good. The only shame is that so many old classic mods got broken by the 2.0 update.
Half-Life 3.
I’m still waiting, Gabe. No pressure. You do your thing.
I waited years for the FF7 Remake and then even more years for the FF7 Remake to come to PC and then even more years for the sequel to the FF7 Remake to come to PC and now I’m waiting for the three-quel to release, at which point I will begin waiting for it to come to PC.
If you take away the grunts, you lose half of Barrett’s dialogue! /s
I’ll have to keep an eye out for this in FF7R-3. But I’ll be honest, I barely noticed. Might be cause I’m a bit of a grunter myself, though…
Ha! It’s a bit poorly named, but what the mod actually does is edit out most of the anime reaction sounds in the cutscenes. It’s surprisingly subtle - there are still plenty, but they’re placed where it makes sense instead of characters exclaiming with every slight movement they make.
The mod page has a comparison video with the base game that shows what I mean, but if the noises didn’t bother you then more power to you. Just be careful - I hear they can be contagious.
I’m still waiting for the right sale price to buy Cyberpunk 2077
I waited a LONG time to pick up Gran Turismo 7, and boy do I feel like that was a waste. I had fond memories of playing a previous GT title on ps3 with my dad before he passed away, but GT7 is just awful. I HATE how the chat bubble heads “explain” the gameplay. I HATE pretty much every menu outside of the standard gameplay pause menu. I HATE new car showroom/marketplace/museum whatever the fuck it is.
Idk if I missed more than a few entries in the series but this shit is the most infantile, disrespectful talk down I’ve ever recieved from a video game.
GT7 is still crap this many years later. I’ll never pre-order another game because of it.
Looking at my Steam wishlist, Dead Cells is the game that’s been on there the longest. It looks like a fun game, but it also being a roguelike always has me hesitant to pull the trigger on it.
One of my absolute favourites! Pull it! :)
I played that game so much in Early Access and then they redesigned the gameplay a fair bit towards the end and I didn’t enjoy the release as much. I wish they had some rolled back versions to revert to.
Still waiting for Microsoft Flightsimulator 2020 to fall to a price that’s worth it for the amount of time I would be playing with it.
And I’m still salty for the time they accidentally discounted it by 85 % and removed it from my shopping cart just as I was about to pay.
I personally would never buy the game out of spite if they did that to me.
I’m not holding out on any game at the moment. I nuked my wishlist and told myself I’m not even going to look at the Steam store page until I can get some of my backlog down.
If I had to choose a game that I’m holding out on currently, it’s probably HD2 for a combo of the above and price
What is HD2?
hell divers 2, my friend group is pressing me hard to buy it
Gotcha, ty
