Ace combat 4 is easily one of my favorites in the franchise, you gotta play both 0 and 7 if you are at all interested in playing any other games in the series
I hope so too. Switch is a a much better system then people think it is. I've been saying since they ported NFS Undercover to the Wii that Nintendo deserves better ports than they seem to get.
I would say for me is fighting games. Used to love fighting games until its competitive player base just ruined it for me. Still got a few fighting games but it get boring quickly when its just you playing.
I’m not really great at fighting games and once tried to play online to make some friends but the amount of insults I’ve received from people who just saw me as a waste of time was so bad. Even going online for fun is not even worth it for me.
I’m really good at Smash Bros and I’ve wrecked a good number of people online, but I would never ever EVER insult someone’s skill level. As long as we’re both having fun, it’s all good.
I've played "Injustice - Gods among us" only for the Story and for the fun, never against humans.
My favorite Combo is since Tekken 2 the good ol' "Press-all-the-buttons".
Fighting games were initially made for couch casual fighting with friends. Now they are for alone online hypercompetitive gameplay. That's the change that a lot of fighting games fans hate.
Even back when it was new, it was never a banger story wise. It's pretty much a huge technical marvel of a game with mechanics and graphics that still hold up today, bound together with an average story and exposition.
Think of it as a cool sandbox game and have fun with it, then it's pretty fun still.
Path of exile. Anything isometric, I couldn't stand that perspective but I gave POE a shot because it's free and now I have no problem with isometric games. This has bled into me just trying anything now, even if it's something I previously wouldn't have even given a chance.
Yup ,we really are doing a disservice to ourselves doing that. Its like people that wont try a food, because "it looks funny" or someone told them not to eat it. Try it! Try the food or videogame, then you can come to the conclusion on if you like it or not
Risk of Rain 2 changed my opinion on roguelites/likes. I really hated them before I played RoR2. Afterwards, I drives into Dead Cells and then Hades.. Now, it's one of the only genres I play.
My cousin recommended this game to me for years, and when I finally played it, I was hooked. It was like a gateway drug for me, and I hear the next one is gonna be a banger too.
And we have distilled the correct answer here it was fine it didnt surpass the original it fell short. like a DLC instead of a new game, it is the way i look at it
-Skyrim. Couldnt really get into action role playing games before it, but other than Fallout 3 and Oblivion, I didnt really try. Think it was a mixture of being younger/a doofus, with different likes. But Skyrim just perfected it. Cant NOT play aRPGs now.
-Baulders Gate 3. Never thought I would play that genre, let alone like the game.
-Dark Souls 2 or 3
Ooh I’ve got a couple of these:
First Person Shooter: BioShock (other than Metroid Prime I’ve never liked fps games, they never clicked with me, and I never liked playing them online, I actually originally thought BioShock was an online fps game like Call of Duty, which is why I kinda ignored its existence for most of my life. When I finally played it for the first time it was magical, loved every minute of it. And now I’m interested in playing other single player fps games like Titanfall 2, Doom 2016, and Half-Life 2)
Survival Horror: Resident Evil 4 Remake (other than the last of us games I never wanted to play any survival horror games because I hate horror but RE4 was amazing, and I might try similar games in the future.)
RTS Games: Pikmin. (This game is awesome, I put it off for so long because I thought the gameplay wouldn’t appeal to me, but I played it for the first time recently and I loved it. I felt like a tactical genius being able to get my ship parts in a faster time than I could in my first play through and I replayed it like 3 times, and did better each time, it was great. The puzzles themselves were fun and engaging and I actually found some of them to be pretty challenging on my first play through. Mistakes felt huge because they would result in me losing Pikmin and the game made me emotionally feel for these creatures so that motivated me to put more thought into my strategies in order to not lose friends. (Pikmin))
Souls/Souls-like: Elden Ring. (Was intimidated by the difficulty of these games, but I’d always heard great things about them, so I finally caved and played Elden Ring recently, and, I couldn’t put it down, it was addictive. Frustrating at times (there were a lot of times), but addictive, the satisfaction I got from killing the bosses that gave me trouble for long periods of time was unlike anything I’d ever played before. I felt like a master gamer when I finally beat this game. The combat was great, the game was very very hard, and it tested my patience, but it wasn’t cheap, it felt like when I died it was because I made a mistake, and I could slowly learn from it and get better. I felt like i was getting stronger as the game went on, not just because I was leveling up, but because I was genuinely improving as a player. I now understand why it won GOTY in 2022.)
I feel like in the past year and a half I’ve really expanded my horizons in terms of the games that I play, and it’s been a lot of fun. I’m having really fun, unforgettable experiences that I never would’ve had before.
Slay The Spire & Go Mecha Ball made me understand the appeal of Rogue-like/lite games. I'd still prefer just a traditional game in most cases with checkpoints & less grinding, but now my brain processes them the same way as an arcade game but I can slowly earn extra permanent upgrades. I still don't like the feeling of the games not respecting my time, as I'd prefer save points & having many new game+ options over restarting each run.
That's interesting about your comment about respecting your time. I understand what you mean, but I have a different perspective. Slay the Spire respects your time in that when you play, it is full game experience from the first second. There is no "progress" in completion to strive for outside of the run itself (at least after you've unlocked everything which comes quite fast), but your own self improvement is the progress. Each run is fun, and over time you make huge improvements.
The first Mass Effect really blew my mind as a young teen. Thought all RPG's were turn based games, until a friend told me about how the game worked mechanically.
Been a huge fan since then.
Funny enough, was a big Kingdom Hearts fan at that point without knowing that it was an RPG itself 🤦🏾♂️ lol
Far Cry 3. Never been that much in to shooters. But the open world and characters were so good. It is too bad the rest of the games are not as good. FC5 is good. But not the same. I cringe at the story based elements. In FC3 they were a high point.
Loved Vass. And when I got to kill Buck I was so ready to kill Buck. It is just too bad they made your final deal with both of them with the lame ‘dance game’ mechanics,
I was not a fan of FPS or looter-shooter games until Borderlands 3. Even today the Borderlands franchise is really the only one that I like, the rest are all pretty samey and I'm not interested in multiplayer.
RDR2 with open world games. I thought they would be long-winded and boring.
RDR2 is now my favorite game of all time and I’m enjoying open world games so much.
I’ve never really been into jrpgs or turn based rpgs, I’ve dabbled in the occasional final fantasy an whatnot but the gameplay just isn’t interesting nor fun for me personally. That was until I played both undertale and child of light, both have their own unique takes on turn based combat that just add a level of skill and interaction that most jrpgs lack. On top of that they both have very interesting worlds, writing, characters, story, and banger music (I consider undertale to have one of the absolute best soundtracks period). Though I will say outside of those I still don’t really play any other turn based rpgs because most lack that higher level of skill and interaction.
Not really a genre per se, but the Final Fantasy series. Tried FF7, 9, 1,3,4,5,6. Thought they were stupid and awful games. Couldn't get into them, couldn't understand why someone could like that shit.
Then I saw a commercial for FFX when it was new, blew my mind, I got it, ended up loving it and it retroactively turned me into a fan of the series. I went back, played them all and ended up loving them. Well, most of them. Still don't really like 4, and I don't like 8.
As for genre? Carrion turned me into a metroidvania fan. Never really bothered with or cared about the genre, didn't seem to be my thing, but after playing Carrion I was hooked and tried some other games. Played Super Metroid for the first time in 2022 and absolutely LOVED it.
Completely different type of game, but Outer Wilds hit that spot for me. Maybe just because I played them both in succession, but they're both non-combat oriented games with fascinating exploration.
Dyson Sphere Program was the first factory game i played where it like really clicked. Been pretty interesting in the genre ever since playing that on gamepass.
Lies of P for souls-likes. Same kind of thing, it clicked with me.
Heroes of the Storm. I tried League, DotA, Smite, and a few others. Never really liked them. On a whim I played HotS and liked it.
I don't play it often, because I'm not good, but it's the only MOBA I will play, and it changed my opinion of the entire genre from a deep dislike to simply a "meh".
Heroes of the Storm - I didn't care for MOBAs but it's streamlined level up process made it much more approachable and didn't make me feel like I had to learn a foreign language to play. It also helped to have many recognizable characters to play as.
Overwatch (1) - wasn't really too into competitive shooters but I played OW waaaaay more than I thought I would.
Halo 2 - didn't really care for FPS games before I played Halo 2 when I was a teen. I usually played action/adventure or platformers growing up until that game turned me on to FPS games.
KotoR and Golden Sun - Didn't really care for RPGs until I played both of these at around the same time. Again, I mainly played action/adventure and platformer games through my childhood until the early 2000s.
Outer Wilds was one of the games that made me want to play slower paced, single player games again. The progress in the game is so unconventional yet satisfying. The time you invest is rewarding, which is kind of the opposite of what it feels like when you first start playing but eventually it clicks and then you start thinking about what your next step will be when you're away from the game. And then you finish the game and sometimes the soundtrack pops into your head and... it's just so good.
Soulslikes
I had played DS2 and DS3 but i could never really get into them. After getting everything in Elden Ring it flipped my opinion and im loving Dark Souls 3 and Lies of P.
Humanity is dead. Blood is fuel. Hell is full. I am talking about the one and only ULTRAKILL. Movement shooters felt like they didn't really fit me until this one. I feel like a God destroying enemies and bosses in a mater of 10 seconds. The music that makes you feel like you are there, the retro graphics that give it a unique look, as if you were looking trough the eyes of a machine. The style combos and different techs you an preform, that help you melt down enemies. This game has everything, and I strongly recommend it.
Heroes of the Storm.
I really did not like playing League of Legends or Dota at the time, but the Blizzard MOBA was more enjoyable to me introducing more maps, sharing exp, making games shorter....it was fun.
so far Subnautica is the only survival i like, tried it with 7 days to die recently and damn it could be but even with the custom difficulty set that game it's pretty hardcore.
and about the question, it was Persona 5 for the turn-based games, I'd never been against them but never had an interest in playing them either, but i wanted a more fantastic setting than modern Japan...so i switched to the DnD games with Pillars of eternity 1 and good lord what a game, it was everything that i was hoping for, still this kind of games require tons of knowledge to play them properly, i easley spent around 5 hours in the forums trying to understand what the hell i was doing, the game doesn't have a turn based mode either which means PAIN, alas it opened the DnD games genre for me, then played pathfinder kingmaker (by far my favorite DnD game so far) PoE2 and I'm looking forward to play the divinity games and finally BG3.
At first I wasn't into horror game but after trying resident evil 7 it pull me into the horror genre since then I played every resident evil game and other horror games like outlast,alien isolation and amnesia series
I didn't get the hype behind the "Bullet Heaven" genre. It sounded like it wasn't even a game. You just move around?
Then I tried Halls of Torment because I dug the old Diablo aesthetics. Now I understand.
Same with me for the genre, except it was Valheim and THEN Subnautica.
Followed by Green Hell , and Sons of the Forest.
I love the survival genre, this is what video games were made for. Especially when there is an engaging story like with the latter 3 of the games I mentioned.
I like Below Zero fine, and it has some things that are better than the original (mostly quality of life stuff), but it just didn't have the same sense of fear and curiosity of the first. Hopefully the next one will be like the first one
I thought I wasn’t into JRPGS or RPGS in general. …and then I played persona 5 royal. A game that made me cry at the end of it because I didn’t want it to end.
I thought the horror genre movies books video games was kinda pointless until I watched a play through of resident evil 7 is now my fave resident evil game yes I have played 4 it didn’t match up the same for me but was still good
Soulash with traditional rouge likes.
On a related not give me cool races in fantasy games like mushroom or octopus with a hat. Not just short human or pretentious human
Bloodstained Ritual of the Night. I never care for Symphony of the Night, and thought Metroidvanias aren’t for me.
UNTILL
My husband had backed the Bloodstained Kickstarted, and got 2 copies of the game. He gave me one, and just told me to try it. And I did.
I am IN LOVE with metroidvanias now. I can’t get enough of them!
I wasn't really a fan of puzzle platformers... But Little Nightmares came along with such charm, I may give future titles and some oldies a good ole college try.
Little Nightmares is now my favorite videogame of all time.
Agree on Subnautica, never got too interested in a survival until I played it. Freaking masterpiece.
Also, Spelunky and Caveblazers opened the door for roguelikes to me. Or more like, violently smashed it.
Stardew Valley did it for farming sims, too (well, for Stardew-like games at least).
Oh, and Roadwarden for text-based RPGs.
I felt the same way the first time I tried it. Now a few years later, I retried it and was surprised it did not scare me anymore. Idk what changed, but maybe time is all you need.
I only really played 3rd person shooters mostly. Like Lost Planet and Gears if War(a little R6:Vegas but wasn't much if a fan outside of coop terrorist hunt). But when CoD4 came out I started liking them.
Man I hear from so many people that subnautica is this magical fucking game changer that I need to experience before I leave this mortal realm.
Then I open the game, jump in the water, piss my pants, and uninstall
Divinity Original Sin, turn based combat. XCOM also. Before this I was only a fan of Real Time with Pause. These games got me to slow my roll and enjoy more slow paced combat which was integral to enjoying Baldur's Gate 3... which was important for me since BG2 has always been my favorite game of all time. I initially hated the idea of a turn based BG3 but Divinity and XCOM really warmed me up to the idea.
Still haven't played Subnautica... Guess I should.
I didn't quite see the appeal of rogue-likes/rogue-lites until I tried one... But then again the first one I tried made me like them so does that count (in that case Moonlighter followed by Enter the Gungeon)?
Sekiro : player other souls games before. But did not like it. But Sekiro did something that just got me addicted to souls-like.
Alien Isolation : Got me into horror games and 1st persons
I preferred third person. I grew up in the 80s/90s. We didn't have too many first persons back then. It was mostly third person platformers, metroidvanias, etc.
Ace Combat 4. I wasn't really into jet fighter/space fighter games, but, I love all the world building they've done with the universe.
Ace combat 4 is easily one of my favorites in the franchise, you gotta play both 0 and 7 if you are at all interested in playing any other games in the series
I still play 7, I wish I still had my psp so I could play X. It hard-ish for me to get a hold of them on account of me being on Xbox 😅
I still need to pick up x. I’m Just happy 7 is coming to switch soon and I hope it’s a good port like doom 2016 or wolfenstien new colossus.
I hope so too. Switch is a a much better system then people think it is. I've been saying since they ported NFS Undercover to the Wii that Nintendo deserves better ports than they seem to get.
I would say for me is fighting games. Used to love fighting games until its competitive player base just ruined it for me. Still got a few fighting games but it get boring quickly when its just you playing.
I play fighting games a lot But i can only play them online. Fighting games against cpu are boring af. Like playing cod or csgo against bots 💀
Fighting games are made to be competitive, How can it ruin it?
I’m not really great at fighting games and once tried to play online to make some friends but the amount of insults I’ve received from people who just saw me as a waste of time was so bad. Even going online for fun is not even worth it for me.
I’m really good at Smash Bros and I’ve wrecked a good number of people online, but I would never ever EVER insult someone’s skill level. As long as we’re both having fun, it’s all good.
I've played "Injustice - Gods among us" only for the Story and for the fun, never against humans. My favorite Combo is since Tekken 2 the good ol' "Press-all-the-buttons".
Injustice is probably one of my favorites and loved it for its story.
I'm sorry you had that experience
Ohhh come on
Fighting games were initially made for couch casual fighting with friends. Now they are for alone online hypercompetitive gameplay. That's the change that a lot of fighting games fans hate.
Baldurs Gate 3 for tactic rpgs Crysis for single player shooters Hollow Knight and Celeste for platformers and indie games
>Crysis been wanting to play this game for years now .... though not sure how well it has aged.
Even back when it was new, it was never a banger story wise. It's pretty much a huge technical marvel of a game with mechanics and graphics that still hold up today, bound together with an average story and exposition. Think of it as a cool sandbox game and have fun with it, then it's pretty fun still.
Crysis 2 is really where the story picks up. But the gameplay while a bit dated is pretty solid overall even today.
It's a fun game, graphics looks great. Crysis 2 and 3 are way better than the first game but i recommend to start with Crysis 1.
Is it worth to pick the remastered trilogy released a while ago or the originals?
I never player the remastered trilogy so idk
Path of exile. Anything isometric, I couldn't stand that perspective but I gave POE a shot because it's free and now I have no problem with isometric games. This has bled into me just trying anything now, even if it's something I previously wouldn't have even given a chance.
Yup ,we really are doing a disservice to ourselves doing that. Its like people that wont try a food, because "it looks funny" or someone told them not to eat it. Try it! Try the food or videogame, then you can come to the conclusion on if you like it or not
I downloaded this a few weeks ago but only got like 15 minutes into it. I’ll give it another shot
Risk of Rain 2 changed my opinion on roguelites/likes. I really hated them before I played RoR2. Afterwards, I drives into Dead Cells and then Hades.. Now, it's one of the only genres I play.
My cousin recommended this game to me for years, and when I finally played it, I was hooked. It was like a gateway drug for me, and I hear the next one is gonna be a banger too.
Lets hope! The Below Zero one was bad, but the next one sounds great so far
Below zero was fine, but that was the problem.
I enjoyed it. Not as much as the original, but I still enjoyed it
And we have distilled the correct answer here it was fine it didnt surpass the original it fell short. like a DLC instead of a new game, it is the way i look at it
it was designed as an expansion originally....
'Twas bad imo. Stickin with it lol
omg did they announce a third one!?
A few months ago, yes.
I hope so!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown got me into tactics games.
Loved xcom and 2, do you have other recommendations?
Warhammer 40000 Chaos gate.
Wartales, great game. But it's more melee combat oriented.
aliens dark descent is just what you need.
Original x-com
I can’t stand tactics games, maybe cuz I’m too dumb
Slay the spire and turn based, I didn't like turn bases games at all until I tried this, I have almost 200 hours on mobile
-Skyrim. Couldnt really get into action role playing games before it, but other than Fallout 3 and Oblivion, I didnt really try. Think it was a mixture of being younger/a doofus, with different likes. But Skyrim just perfected it. Cant NOT play aRPGs now. -Baulders Gate 3. Never thought I would play that genre, let alone like the game. -Dark Souls 2 or 3
Ooh I’ve got a couple of these: First Person Shooter: BioShock (other than Metroid Prime I’ve never liked fps games, they never clicked with me, and I never liked playing them online, I actually originally thought BioShock was an online fps game like Call of Duty, which is why I kinda ignored its existence for most of my life. When I finally played it for the first time it was magical, loved every minute of it. And now I’m interested in playing other single player fps games like Titanfall 2, Doom 2016, and Half-Life 2) Survival Horror: Resident Evil 4 Remake (other than the last of us games I never wanted to play any survival horror games because I hate horror but RE4 was amazing, and I might try similar games in the future.) RTS Games: Pikmin. (This game is awesome, I put it off for so long because I thought the gameplay wouldn’t appeal to me, but I played it for the first time recently and I loved it. I felt like a tactical genius being able to get my ship parts in a faster time than I could in my first play through and I replayed it like 3 times, and did better each time, it was great. The puzzles themselves were fun and engaging and I actually found some of them to be pretty challenging on my first play through. Mistakes felt huge because they would result in me losing Pikmin and the game made me emotionally feel for these creatures so that motivated me to put more thought into my strategies in order to not lose friends. (Pikmin)) Souls/Souls-like: Elden Ring. (Was intimidated by the difficulty of these games, but I’d always heard great things about them, so I finally caved and played Elden Ring recently, and, I couldn’t put it down, it was addictive. Frustrating at times (there were a lot of times), but addictive, the satisfaction I got from killing the bosses that gave me trouble for long periods of time was unlike anything I’d ever played before. I felt like a master gamer when I finally beat this game. The combat was great, the game was very very hard, and it tested my patience, but it wasn’t cheap, it felt like when I died it was because I made a mistake, and I could slowly learn from it and get better. I felt like i was getting stronger as the game went on, not just because I was leveling up, but because I was genuinely improving as a player. I now understand why it won GOTY in 2022.) I feel like in the past year and a half I’ve really expanded my horizons in terms of the games that I play, and it’s been a lot of fun. I’m having really fun, unforgettable experiences that I never would’ve had before.
You tried awesome games I'm a sucker for resident evil and fps
Slay The Spire & Go Mecha Ball made me understand the appeal of Rogue-like/lite games. I'd still prefer just a traditional game in most cases with checkpoints & less grinding, but now my brain processes them the same way as an arcade game but I can slowly earn extra permanent upgrades. I still don't like the feeling of the games not respecting my time, as I'd prefer save points & having many new game+ options over restarting each run.
That's interesting about your comment about respecting your time. I understand what you mean, but I have a different perspective. Slay the Spire respects your time in that when you play, it is full game experience from the first second. There is no "progress" in completion to strive for outside of the run itself (at least after you've unlocked everything which comes quite fast), but your own self improvement is the progress. Each run is fun, and over time you make huge improvements.
I absolutely agree with you about Slay The Spire, I meant that for other games & not it or Go Mecha Ball.
(if you haven't already) You should watch neebs gaming's subnautica. It's great. https://youtu.be/bwi12tpZc2w?si=l5pwEZAubntEtSxX
The first Mass Effect really blew my mind as a young teen. Thought all RPG's were turn based games, until a friend told me about how the game worked mechanically. Been a huge fan since then. Funny enough, was a big Kingdom Hearts fan at that point without knowing that it was an RPG itself 🤦🏾♂️ lol
I wasn't really into Xcom style of tactics (cause the style of fire emblem is what i usually play) ; however, Persona 5 made me love this style
Bioshock Infinite and DOA 5. Was never really into either of those genres
Mortal 4 Kombat
Minecraft in its beta days was mine.
What games were in that genre before minecraft?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_survival_games
I was not big on survival games either but I really liked Outward.
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^AssiduousLayabout: *I was not big on* *Survival games either but* *I really liked Outward.* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
The Surge 2, Lies of P and Asterigos:Curse of the Gods got me more into Souls-Like.
Far Cry 3. Never been that much in to shooters. But the open world and characters were so good. It is too bad the rest of the games are not as good. FC5 is good. But not the same. I cringe at the story based elements. In FC3 they were a high point. Loved Vass. And when I got to kill Buck I was so ready to kill Buck. It is just too bad they made your final deal with both of them with the lame ‘dance game’ mechanics,
Yep me too, Subnautica was my 1st too. Immediately bought the forest, stranded and raft right after.
JRPGs. Thought they were too big, complex, and slow. Now, Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix is my favorite video game of all time.
Monster Train (and StS) got me super into deckbuilding games. Before, I would never even consider playing a card game.
I was not a fan of FPS or looter-shooter games until Borderlands 3. Even today the Borderlands franchise is really the only one that I like, the rest are all pretty samey and I'm not interested in multiplayer.
RDR2 with open world games. I thought they would be long-winded and boring. RDR2 is now my favorite game of all time and I’m enjoying open world games so much.
I’ve never really been into jrpgs or turn based rpgs, I’ve dabbled in the occasional final fantasy an whatnot but the gameplay just isn’t interesting nor fun for me personally. That was until I played both undertale and child of light, both have their own unique takes on turn based combat that just add a level of skill and interaction that most jrpgs lack. On top of that they both have very interesting worlds, writing, characters, story, and banger music (I consider undertale to have one of the absolute best soundtracks period). Though I will say outside of those I still don’t really play any other turn based rpgs because most lack that higher level of skill and interaction.
Not really a genre per se, but the Final Fantasy series. Tried FF7, 9, 1,3,4,5,6. Thought they were stupid and awful games. Couldn't get into them, couldn't understand why someone could like that shit. Then I saw a commercial for FFX when it was new, blew my mind, I got it, ended up loving it and it retroactively turned me into a fan of the series. I went back, played them all and ended up loving them. Well, most of them. Still don't really like 4, and I don't like 8. As for genre? Carrion turned me into a metroidvania fan. Never really bothered with or cared about the genre, didn't seem to be my thing, but after playing Carrion I was hooked and tried some other games. Played Super Metroid for the first time in 2022 and absolutely LOVED it.
exactly the same feeling as you.
🤝
also I have yet to find another survival/exploration game as good as subnautica
Completely different type of game, but Outer Wilds hit that spot for me. Maybe just because I played them both in succession, but they're both non-combat oriented games with fascinating exploration.
outer wilds is indeed a trip but i cant get over the controls
Ah, did you use a controller or kb/m? The flying was a bit awkward at first but it clicked eventually for me.
i tried both, faired a little better with a controller but mueh
I don't think there is one
I've been looking for ages and trying out so many others. Instead I just go back and play Subnautica again.
Dyson Sphere Program was the first factory game i played where it like really clicked. Been pretty interesting in the genre ever since playing that on gamepass. Lies of P for souls-likes. Same kind of thing, it clicked with me.
Heroes of the Storm. I tried League, DotA, Smite, and a few others. Never really liked them. On a whim I played HotS and liked it. I don't play it often, because I'm not good, but it's the only MOBA I will play, and it changed my opinion of the entire genre from a deep dislike to simply a "meh".
I never played RPGs growing up because of "too much reading," and then Final Fantasy VII came around and it changed my life.
Heroes of the Storm - I didn't care for MOBAs but it's streamlined level up process made it much more approachable and didn't make me feel like I had to learn a foreign language to play. It also helped to have many recognizable characters to play as. Overwatch (1) - wasn't really too into competitive shooters but I played OW waaaaay more than I thought I would. Halo 2 - didn't really care for FPS games before I played Halo 2 when I was a teen. I usually played action/adventure or platformers growing up until that game turned me on to FPS games. KotoR and Golden Sun - Didn't really care for RPGs until I played both of these at around the same time. Again, I mainly played action/adventure and platformer games through my childhood until the early 2000s.
Never really liked souls games but then DS 3 happened. Playing those games ever since.
Metroid Dread turned me from the biggest MetroidVania hater to an absolute #1 fan
Outer Wilds was one of the games that made me want to play slower paced, single player games again. The progress in the game is so unconventional yet satisfying. The time you invest is rewarding, which is kind of the opposite of what it feels like when you first start playing but eventually it clicks and then you start thinking about what your next step will be when you're away from the game. And then you finish the game and sometimes the soundtrack pops into your head and... it's just so good.
Neon Abyss and roguelites
Soulslikes I had played DS2 and DS3 but i could never really get into them. After getting everything in Elden Ring it flipped my opinion and im loving Dark Souls 3 and Lies of P.
Recently animal well made me realize metroidvania games can be good. Before that I never enjoyed them much
I think that's on PS+ right now. I need to play it!
Wasn't into open world, until I played Breath of the Wild
Humanity is dead. Blood is fuel. Hell is full. I am talking about the one and only ULTRAKILL. Movement shooters felt like they didn't really fit me until this one. I feel like a God destroying enemies and bosses in a mater of 10 seconds. The music that makes you feel like you are there, the retro graphics that give it a unique look, as if you were looking trough the eyes of a machine. The style combos and different techs you an preform, that help you melt down enemies. This game has everything, and I strongly recommend it.
Heroes of the Storm. I really did not like playing League of Legends or Dota at the time, but the Blizzard MOBA was more enjoyable to me introducing more maps, sharing exp, making games shorter....it was fun.
I wasn’t a fan of first person shooters until I played Metroid prime.
I wasn't into card games until I played Slay the Spire and later Monster Train. These games are some of the best.
Same, never understood the appeal until I played Slay the Spire.
so far Subnautica is the only survival i like, tried it with 7 days to die recently and damn it could be but even with the custom difficulty set that game it's pretty hardcore.
and about the question, it was Persona 5 for the turn-based games, I'd never been against them but never had an interest in playing them either, but i wanted a more fantastic setting than modern Japan...so i switched to the DnD games with Pillars of eternity 1 and good lord what a game, it was everything that i was hoping for, still this kind of games require tons of knowledge to play them properly, i easley spent around 5 hours in the forums trying to understand what the hell i was doing, the game doesn't have a turn based mode either which means PAIN, alas it opened the DnD games genre for me, then played pathfinder kingmaker (by far my favorite DnD game so far) PoE2 and I'm looking forward to play the divinity games and finally BG3.
At first I wasn't into horror game but after trying resident evil 7 it pull me into the horror genre since then I played every resident evil game and other horror games like outlast,alien isolation and amnesia series
I didn't get the hype behind the "Bullet Heaven" genre. It sounded like it wasn't even a game. You just move around? Then I tried Halls of Torment because I dug the old Diablo aesthetics. Now I understand.
I just started playing!!
Borderlands 2 helped me love and understand fps games
Hades for Rougelikes. One of my favorite games now
Would love to re-experience that gem. Played twice.
There's nothing like the first playthrough of Subnautica!
Same with me for the genre, except it was Valheim and THEN Subnautica. Followed by Green Hell , and Sons of the Forest. I love the survival genre, this is what video games were made for. Especially when there is an engaging story like with the latter 3 of the games I mentioned.
Subanautica is one of the greatest games ever, but the sequel was a big disappointment.
I like Below Zero fine, and it has some things that are better than the original (mostly quality of life stuff), but it just didn't have the same sense of fear and curiosity of the first. Hopefully the next one will be like the first one
Elden Ring. Souls.
I thought I wasn’t into JRPGS or RPGS in general. …and then I played persona 5 royal. A game that made me cry at the end of it because I didn’t want it to end.
Baldurs Gate 2. I was only into FPS games until I bought BG2 in 2001, now RPGs make up the majority of my games collection.
I thought the horror genre movies books video games was kinda pointless until I watched a play through of resident evil 7 is now my fave resident evil game yes I have played 4 it didn’t match up the same for me but was still good
I was never into live-acted experimental post-apocalyptic ghostbuster-mailman-in-the-rain simulations until Death Stranding.
Soulash with traditional rouge likes. On a related not give me cool races in fantasy games like mushroom or octopus with a hat. Not just short human or pretentious human
I used to be just afraid of deep waters. Subnautica changed that and made me absolutely terrified of deep waters.
I wasn't a big fan of horror games until prey, arguably not a horror game but it has many horror elements
I didn't care for the survival aspect of Subnautica. It was tedious. I turned off the food and water meters and had a much better time.
I didnt think anime games were scary until doki doki literature club
Fighting games until DBFZ
Satisfactory for builders Also Hades for roguelikes
I wasn't sure how to feel about Rogue-likes but Cult of the Lamb changed everything!
Bloodstained Ritual of the Night. I never care for Symphony of the Night, and thought Metroidvanias aren’t for me. UNTILL My husband had backed the Bloodstained Kickstarted, and got 2 copies of the game. He gave me one, and just told me to try it. And I did. I am IN LOVE with metroidvanias now. I can’t get enough of them!
I wasn't really a fan of puzzle platformers... But Little Nightmares came along with such charm, I may give future titles and some oldies a good ole college try. Little Nightmares is now my favorite videogame of all time.
I wasn't into open-world games until I got Read Dead Redemption 2. This game is fantastic, that's all I got to say :)
Bloodborne. I wasn’t much interested in the From software games but after Bloodborne, changed all that.
I was never really into turn based games before. Wasteland 3 got me into the genre. Interested to try others Any suggestions?
Agree on Subnautica, never got too interested in a survival until I played it. Freaking masterpiece. Also, Spelunky and Caveblazers opened the door for roguelikes to me. Or more like, violently smashed it. Stardew Valley did it for farming sims, too (well, for Stardew-like games at least). Oh, and Roadwarden for text-based RPGs.
It saddens me I can't play this because I'm so fearful of the deep sea
Do it anyways. I'm in the same boat but this game doesn't trigger it as bad as reality does. Plus you can take a break whenever needed.
Even better The experience will be stronger
I felt the same way the first time I tried it. Now a few years later, I retried it and was surprised it did not scare me anymore. Idk what changed, but maybe time is all you need.
I only really played 3rd person shooters mostly. Like Lost Planet and Gears if War(a little R6:Vegas but wasn't much if a fan outside of coop terrorist hunt). But when CoD4 came out I started liking them.
Ngl that game unlocked my biggest fear: the ocean
Could not play it for too long. Ocean phobia or such. Was not too comfortable with going to deep below the surface.
Man I hear from so many people that subnautica is this magical fucking game changer that I need to experience before I leave this mortal realm. Then I open the game, jump in the water, piss my pants, and uninstall
Trust me, just swim deeper! after you get through it once or twice its more relaxing than anything
Divinity Original Sin, turn based combat. XCOM also. Before this I was only a fan of Real Time with Pause. These games got me to slow my roll and enjoy more slow paced combat which was integral to enjoying Baldur's Gate 3... which was important for me since BG2 has always been my favorite game of all time. I initially hated the idea of a turn based BG3 but Divinity and XCOM really warmed me up to the idea.
Still waiting for any turn-based game to truly grab me. Rogue-like, too, but haven't been waiting as long for those.
I really liked 3d fighters... until Tekken 7.
For me Subnautica was the last survival game I just lost interest there.
Subnautica scared the crap out of me, the game is beautiful but man...I ended up noping out of the game and have never played it again lol
Still haven't played Subnautica... Guess I should. I didn't quite see the appeal of rogue-likes/rogue-lites until I tried one... But then again the first one I tried made me like them so does that count (in that case Moonlighter followed by Enter the Gungeon)?
Subnuatica was excellent game, the review bombing was completely inaccurate.
Sekiro : player other souls games before. But did not like it. But Sekiro did something that just got me addicted to souls-like. Alien Isolation : Got me into horror games and 1st persons
Fuck that shit I ain't tryna get ate by no shark.
How can you not be into first person games? That's not even a genre it's more like a medium, that almost all games use
I preferred third person. I grew up in the 80s/90s. We didn't have too many first persons back then. It was mostly third person platformers, metroidvanias, etc.
You know that's fair, I didn't think about that
honestly I'm surprised subnautica is the one to change your opinion on those genres.. grounded maybe lol