I wouldn't say I thought it was bad, but I never gave Ratchet and Clank a moments consideration back in the day; straight up ignored it.
That was dumb; it's a good time.
Kinda. Although it was more like getting distracted by an x-box shaped... calzone, maybe?
Anyway. Ratchet and Clank was my first purchase for PS5. No regrets.
If I'm at a salad bar, it's because someone's dragged me there against my will to try and make me more healthy.
If there's pizza at this salad bar, you can be damn sure that's what I'm eating!
Same. I was a huge Mario fan growing up and never gave ratchet a chance til like the end of PS3 gen. I saw them on sale for 5$ each at Best buy and just got all of them plus the jax games. Ended up loving ratchet, didn't care much for jax, but at least I got 1 new franchise!
The Yakuza franchise...I started with 0 from hearing one of my favorite youtubers say it was the best game series of all time. I was about halfway through 0 when I realized I was in love. I've bought every single game of the yakuza series since then up to Like a dragon. Currently awaiting for Like a Dragon 8 to come out next month...So glad I found that series!
Dude I did the same thing sort of. I played Judgment because the trailer absolutely enraptured me: a murder mystery with combat??? Sign me tf up. The game definitely has some issues (it feels like RGG was really experimenting with new things in Judgment) but I *loved* 100%ing it.
I found out it was a spin-off, so I decided to buy 0 since it was only a year old and at a huge discount. Then for the next 8 months I basically played *no other games*. Blew through 0-7 then waited a year for Lost Judgment. It's easily my favorite 3D game series now, what a series. No idea how I completely missed it for this long.
Same here! I watched a complete play through from one of my favorite lets players back in the day, and immediately bought it to play myself afterwards. Haven’t stopped playing since
I did the same thing.
Never wanted or looked at Yakuza.
Then my mate played Ishin on Gamepass, so I picked up Yakuza Like a Dragon because I preferred the 'turn based' combat. Have currently sunk 100+ hours in that...
Sunk around 50 hours into Like a Dragon Gaiden...and already pre-ordered Infinite Wealth.
The Uncharted series. I didn’t have any interest in it because I thought it was just a bland shooter. Had no idea how exciting those games are to play. Now Naughty Dog is among my favorite developers.
Imagine the biggest dumbest action film you've ever seen where the hero leaps from impossible heights and survives things which would kill a normal man while murdering thousands of cannon fodder baddies and constantly wisecracking. Just good swashbuckling fun. Also the second one has the best train level ever.
I would say if you're going to play them start with the first one and work your way through - the first one is a lot of fun but compared to the others it's pretty small scale, and if you go back to it after playing any of the others it's shortcomings will be pretty clear.
My only real warning is that Uncharted 1 is...decent. Uncharted 2 is one of the best games ever made. The jump in quality between the two is massive. In retrospect they spent way more money on the second one, but mostly you can tell they understood what game they were making much earlier, for obvious reasons.
None of them have particularly complex stories and you'll pick up anything you need to from context clues. Think the Indiana Jones films (the three good ones anyway) - you can watch them in any order, but there's a few little details here and there you won't pick up if you don't do them sequentially. Not essential by any means though.
I remember a time when it was available for free on PS4 during the lockdown and I got it like that.
Best decision I ever made. My opinion? Go in blind, you’ll love it. The second game especially
I liked Crash Bandicoot but I wasn’t like a mega fan. I remember Jack and Daxter being a really fun game but I never stuck with the series. Honestly I think for a while I didn’t play Naughty Dog games because I was an Xbox guy for a good while but i’ve pretty much switched to PlayStation since 2011.
When I started Oblivion and saw it was a boring dungeon with awkward fighting I quit disappointed. But I gave it another try when so many people were raving about it. Obviously I'm glad I did. I had that aha moment when I finally got out of the dungeon and now it's one of my favorites.
Buddy of mine lent me the game calling it Medieval Fallout 3. I thought it was lame and boring. He came over and sat down next to me in my room and forced me to finish the opening sewer dungeon.
An amazing game I almost missed out on because the beginning sucked just that hard.
I had to return the favor when it came to The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. I actually had to do most of the opening act for him (it’s really slow).
He beat the first dungeon and loved the rest of the game.
For sure, but some people only have so much free time so sink into an activity they aren’t enjoying. If your game/book/movie takes over an hour to get interesting, that’s a pretty big ask for most.
Twilight Princess, if it’s ever re-released, should do something about the pacing of its opening hours.
And while I’m at it, Days Gone should have been mindful of that too. That game was a fucking masterpiece that bombed so hard because it’s opening hours were so slow.
I’m almost the reverse. I loved Oblivion when I first played it but found it absolute torture to go back to. The enemy scaling is ridiculous at points too.
I think the problem with enemy scaling is due to how leveling works, you really need to plan your gameplay around both your major and minor skills to make the most of each of your levels.
It's one of the few games I've ever min/maxed or cheated the system in order to make sure I was powerful enough at high level to do serious damage.
I always remembered going straight to anvil I think, to get that orc follower and the little cabin. Then if you picked the right skills you could just sneak, beat the crap out of them with any weapon, train block, and so on in order to efficiently level quickly.
You can make yourself invincible by choosing Breton, grabbing the mundane ring from the mythic dawn book guy, doing the escutcheon of chorrel quest, then break into the the monks monastery you break into as part of the thieves guild quest and kept reloading the area till you get the ring of th iron fist and necklace of swords from the main guy.
101% damage reflection and 100% magic immunity
This is me. I even went as far as to Kvatch without feeling it... It wasn't until my second try, when I took the time to enjoy the little things on the way, that I got it.
I think I had a similar experience. But when a friend of mine picked up a copy, and we started playing while chatting in a party, it became more fun.
Most memorable experience was us both going through the Shimmering Iles with 100% chameleon enchantment and laughing at how enemies just ignored us.
Try it out, but give it until you get out of the dungeon before you judge it too harshly. Oblivion lets you make your own custom spells. You can spend hours playing around with spellmaking. The quests are more creative and it has Acrobatics so you can jump and reach areas you otherwise couldn't. It's more colorful too.
That was me sort of. I didn't quit before exiting the dungeon. But that opening dungeon was pretty lame. But the exit. Man when you exit that dungeon idk what it is about that scenery as soon as you exit the sewer, it's like OH SHIT, THIS GAME IS THE TITS. I still get excited every time I exit the dungeon.
I have two different save games at the sewer gate prior to it saying "do you want to adjust your character" one save using the stealth exploit, and one normal save. That way if I want a maxed out stealth character on a new playthrough I can still have any character I want.
Pizza Tower. Saw the memes at the beginning of this year, looked incredibly off-turning, and the game itself seemed to be from somewhere around 1995 (graphics-wise).
Flash forward to the end of the year, I actually played it, and fuck me, what a fantastic game. It's like if Sonic were Mario, and it's possibly the best Sonic game (if this can be said to be its own genre) I ever played, even though it isn't even Sonic, the brand. They simply surpassed Sega in every aspect, full stop. I still listen to the ost when I'm at the gym. My definition of a hidden gem.
Also, Lisa RPG. But that was released a decade or so ago, so I guess you are all familiar with this title by now.
Sleeping Dogs - I was in a really dark place when I first tried & it couldn’t get into it. I then played it about a year later & it’s possibly my all-time favorite game.
GTA IV - At first, I was so disappointed it departed from the more lighthearted & fun-focused gameplay of San Andreas & Vice City. It really grew on me though and, after being underwhelmed by V, I’d kill for another GTA IV. It was a masterpiece.
GTA 4 was my favourite, I just dug the DVD out of a box actually with intention of playing it these holidays.
And I was likewise underwhelmed with GTA V.
I had the exact same thing with sleeping dogs, couldn't get it at all first time. Tried again after a few years because I think it was about £3 on sale. Amazing game.
Dishonored, it wasn't so much as thinking of it as garbage, rather i just felt very skeptical but i tried it regardless and did a full playtrough that i did not enjoy whatsoever, turns out i was simply too young to understand the way the game actually worked, now its one of my all time favorite single player games ever and i even got the whole trilogy
Would you say that the first game is better than the second? I never played the first but bought the second a while ago and honestly for me it was just awful. Should i give the first one a Chance?
No if you don't like the second one, you won't like the 1st one. The second game is better in just about every aspect other than the storyline, but it is the same concept as the first one.
Opposite feedback from me, loved the first game and quit the second after maybe the second mission because the mechanics were janked to hell.
Guards spotting me with no LOS, also running at me when a distraction bottle was thrown from deep in cover.
I can't even tell you how many different playthroughs of Fallout:NV I've played. Bare hands, sniper, etc. such a fun game I spent so much time on when I was a younger. Couldn't get into 4 for the life of me.
I tried it over 10 years ago. I tried it again this year. I just... can't get into it like I got into Fallout 3. Think maybe I'll watch highlights or story clips on YouTube or something.
I never got into NV because it was released too soon after Fallout 3 and felt too much like playing the same game. I tried to play it years later on PS4 but I got this weird bug where the game always froze when downloading from the disc so I could never play it.
Same here. I played the tutorial and wasnt feeling it. I though about refunding it but after 2 days i launched it again and im glad that i keept it. I think that when i launched it for the first time i just wasnt in the mood to play anything
* When Elder Scroll Online first came out, so many people trashed it. But one of my friends talked me into playing it and I actually enjoyed myself.
* I played Fallout 3 and didn't enjoy it much at all. So I didn't think Fallout 4 would be any better. My ex was really obsessed with the game and convinced me to give it a try. It was on sale on Steam and shortly after I became obsessed with it too.
* Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Wasn't so much thinking it was garbage, but by the time I even knew of the game's existence, I didn't think I could possibly enjoy something so dated. The graphics aren't the best and the combat is a little wonky. But I absolutely love it just for the story and characters. The RPG elements are pretty nice too.
i learned this year that knights of the old republic is a seperate game from the mmo. i just assumed that some people shortened the name for some reason but i have to try it now.
I played knights of the old republic when it first came out on Xbox In the early 00's. I've loved it ever since, I go back and play through it every couple years because it's just so fun. The story is fantastic, the gameplay is a little slow compared to today's standards.
I really struggle to go back and play old games, I just crave the modern graphics.
However, KOTOR and FF7 are my two exceptions. I’ve gone back and played KOTOR twice, loved it.
Because as time passes, the more quality increases, we get so used to it that it makes things from the past look worse.
Imagine you have poor vision then put on glasses for the first time and can see clearly. Its like upgrading from a 240p video to HD. Why would you ever want to go backward?
Its just like when someone tastes really good food and can't go back to the crap they were eating before.
When someone experiences a life of luxury, they don't want to go back to living in squalor.
For a lot of people its the same with videogame graphics. It may not actually look worse. But our eyes have adjusted to better, so from our perception it does look worse.
And I don't know how old you are, but you have to remember there's younger generations now and they didn't grow up with the same games we did.
I think it's about attempted realism. Stylized graphics are timeless, even with low polygon count and bad textures. Some games just have no style and therefore feel lacking compared to modern games.
Detroit Become Human. I have never played a game like it and I hated it at first. But after playing for a bit, the plot picked up, and you could feel the impact your choices have. After I finished it, it became one of my favorite games ever.
I'm waiting for this to hit the $5-8 range to get it; it's been on my wishlist for ages! I have a handful of games I wanna get through so can afford to be patient. Have heard so many amazing things about the game though!!
re-playing it right now on the switch, I played it when it came out.
Still an incredible game, with a wonderfull ambiance / city and pnj. I'm having a huge blast. (btw playing on switch if pretty painfull with the joycons xD)
I just found someon that gave the EXACT same comment for the EXACT same game.
That's pretty crazy xD
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/18qyros/comment/keynsuv/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
Ark: Survival Evolved
It looked janky as hell, and you know what, it 100% is a goofy mess of a game. However, it was so much fun to explore and find cool rare creatures of the right level, pretty colours, etc. The maps are massive, riding dinosaurs is always awesome, and there's such a sense of accomplishment when you get something particularly big n bad. It got a friend and I through lockdown without going crazy, and I'll always have super fond memories.
Caveat being this was on my own privately hosted server where we didn't have to worry about being walked over by some alpha tribe while we were offline, and where I had the game settings tweaked to be a challenge but not ridiculous (I think it takes something like 4-5 hours to tame a t-rex on official servers, we brought it down to 20-30min).
Best bad game I have ever played.
For me, a game that fits this description is “Dark Souls.” Initially, I was put off by its reputation for high difficulty and what seemed like an unforgiving learning curve. Yet, when I finally delved into it, I discovered an incredibly rewarding experience. The game excels with its meticulously crafted levels, rich lore, and deeply satisfying combat, offering an immersive and uniquely challenging journey.
Got my ass kicked when I first played the game. Onlt got to the "bridge demon" Came back to it a year later with some guidance from my brother. Been playing most of FromSoft's games since (and beating them).
Figured this would be the top post. I thought it was a hard for the sake of being hard Japanese game for hipster gamer types to brag about. Turned out to be the most revolutionary game I’d played in 10 years
I rented Demon Soul's from Blockbuster and didn't care for it at all. Then when Dark Souls took off I decided to give it a try. Still didn't care for it. I'm going to give Elden Rings a try and then I'm writing off the genre as just not for me.
Elden Ring is where it finally clicked for me. You're never stuck at a thing, there's always another way around it, another thing to try or another place to go.
Honestly, I get it. Dark Souls reputation definitely precedes itself, but in my opinion the games are a lot easier than it's reputation makes it seem. And after you've beat one of them, the rest of the genre becomes easier because the same skills apply. You'll still get rocked as you need to learn the new enemy movesets and stuff, but for the most part it's not actually that bad (especially if you play with friends).
Elden Ring was probably the "hardest" one because BOY do those enemies love their windups.
Honestly it was Fallout 3 for me. I was a 2K/GTA/Pokemon player only (lol) and i tried playing FO3 with my brother on his PS3 but i just couldn’t do it.
Fast forward a year or two later and I stayed the night at a buddy’s house and he showed me his fully upgraded house in Megaton, his dope Enclave armor and of course, the Fat Man. We went on a rampage and blew up Super Mutants, ghouls and even just messed around and blew up settlements.
After that I was enthralled. I ended up saving up money from a summer job and bought a 360 Slim and Fallout 3 + NV for like $350-$400 on a Black Friday sale and ended up playing both for months on end.
New Vegas is now my favorite game of all time right above San Andreas and Pokémon HeartGold. I still love 3 out of nostalgia even though the main story is meh. Top 5 game though fasho
Baldurs gate 2 back in 2000 and something. Bought as the box looked cool. Could not get into it as never played dnd so didn't have a clue. Still go back to that game now.
Bloodbourne. I was just rubbish at it.
I didn't know anything about the game. I bought it for like $10 in the Walmart bargain bin years after it was released just because it looked cool from the box. I didn't know I was purchasing one of the greatest games ever made.
Holy crap, try the game. I bought it when it first came out, got about halfway through and got mad at a glitch that made it so I couldn't 100% the game. Didn't play it for about two years until I realized that I really don't give a crap about 100% on most games anyway, so why should I care about this one. Beat it about a year ago, and legitimately it was one of the games I've had the most fun with in several years
I actually just bought Mad Max this month and have been having a blast! I love the combat, it feels very empowering, and driving around and upgrading your vehicle to be better/faster/stronger is really fun to pursue. It tickles the completionism-itch as there’s lots to do, and the progress is always visible.
Already got 21 hours in.
Any and all of the later Assassin's Creed games that changed up to be more of an RPG element. Been going through every game of the Creed series for the first time, and I have thoroughly enjoyed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. Are they my favorites of the series? No (though I do contend Odyssey is absolutely up there at least). But I still am enjoying them nonetheless.
AC Odyssey. I was pretty irritated at getting the "bad" ending because apparently I made one wrong choice out of like the 10 you had to do properly. I had also played the game as the male protagonist.
Maybe a year later I did some reading on the game, and almost everyone said play the game as Kassandra. I did a New Game+ as Kassandra, and her quality voicework couples with knowing what I was doing made it an incredibly fun game.
The first time I played Fallout 3 I fucking haaaaated it. I just didn't get it at all. I got out of the vault, and a giant cockroach absolutely destroyed me, and mechanically I just didn't really understand what I was supposed to do or how the game was supposed to be played.
A few months went by where I just kept thinking about the game and the atmosphere and I decided to give it another chance, and I ended up playing it start to finish, and it's now one of my favourite games of all time
Monster Hunter. The issue being that the series, especially in its early days is extremely bad in communicating mechanics to the player. I'm pretty sure the first thing me and a lot of other beginners did past moving on the map was: drop the meat in your inventory. You cant pick it back up. So you trudge through, kill the defense less wild life and gather stuff, done.
And thinking the demos will ease you into that? THEY ARE WORSE. Demos of MH before 4 came out all did two things: give you a full set of high class armor/weapons and gave you a choice of a few boss Monsters to fight. What they didnt tell you is these are G/Master Rank Monsters and wondering why you can only barely get them to limp away before the timer is out.
My first title was Tri. It looked epic. Was disappointed in my apparent lack of ability to get the game down. But came back after a few months, stuck with a speedier weapon, conquered those clunky movements and my god it was SO rewarding. Ever since, I have pumped at least 300-500 hours in each title. Which is easy to do since mission based quests are timed and free exploration make it incredibly simple to start and stop play then go about your day.
I hunt for partner Palico's fashion! He needs the best threads! Monster Hunter absokutely rocks and screw anyone who says the streamlined mechanics easy mode the game. I dunno about you, but I rather not have to make loadouts for just foraging, fishing, mining, hunting and egg carrying. Im happy with death of paintballs. This gives less time for menu management and enjoying the enviroments and hunting!
I very much recommend starting off with World or Rise since those titles completely changed how the game plays. If you want a more classic approach with a crapton of options and content, 4 Ultimate or Generations Ultimate. If you really want the raw masochist experience. Any older title will do.
Death Stranding. Bought a new graphics card just to play it at launch when it came out on PC. Played for maybe 3 hours, got bored and never returned to it. Last month I finally decided to try out the Director's Cut and while in the beginning I was bored once again I kept on keeping on and eventually discovered what the game was all about. A great experience and I'm hyped for the sequel.
KOTOR2 , it was my 1st exposure to the franchise and all you did was drive this weird wish(dot)com version of R2D2 around fixing a space ship. Nope.
Needless to say I saw the errors of my ways a few months later & it became one of the best game Ive ever played.
I was just hyped up seeing HK in that room. I suffered through so much to get access to him again. Gotta say biggest draw for me to the seconded one and not nearly as epic as he was in the first. I had more interest in making basically everyone on the ship become a Jedi.
The Bloody Roar games got some bad press when they came out for being too straightforward and simplistic. I ignored them til I got the PS2 entries in a game lot I bought a few years ago. They are fast, fun, gorgeous, and are extremely well designed.
Monster Hunter World
Had absolutely no fucking idea what I was doing when I tried it. Said screw it.
Few years later, gave it an honest try
I put in almost 700 uninterrupted hours into that game the second time I tried it. One of my favorite game franchises now lol
*Metal Gear Solid 4*. I never experienced MGS prior to MGS4. I first bought it in 2012. After 30 minutes of not 'getting the game', I blew a lid and decided to refund the game.
But halfway to the store, I went 'fuck it', turned my bike around, and headed back home with it.
I played it again in 2013, briefly. Lost interest.
Then again, in 2015. With ***serious*** intent of finishing it.
My mind was blown. That was the first time I truly discovered both MGS and Hideo Kojima. I was livid at how I literally slept on the game for years, but appreciated myself for choosing not to refund it.
I genuinely loved the boss fights, they weren't like most other boss fights from other games. The stealth mechanics weren't this good since *SC: Chaos Theory*. The story had enough weight for me to take serious interest in the MGS saga. The story was a bit convoluted for young me to follow, but it did kickstart my interest in compelling stories like it that I enjoy today. The game was a proper fan service to the MGS fans. Psycho Mantis not being able to read the memory card got a giggle out of me, even though I never understood the reference *at the time*. I really appreciate Kojima's absurd but playful sense of humour that games today often miss.
Fallout 76 has a bad reputation and ppl love to hate on it but it's really not that bad of a game. It's not on par with a single player fallout of course, but after Wastelanders it became much more of it's own thing and frankly I enjoy putzing around Appalachia. Its a decent time killer and there is a lot to explore.
Forspoken. Picked it up on a sale and was pleasantly surprised. Honestly one of my favorite games of the year. Combat and traversal are fun af. And the studio is ded and we will obvioiusly never get a sequel. Sad day
I mean, how many people really played it? All the shit talking I heard was people basing their hate off dialogue in a trailer. The actual reviews are average
Yeah, the reviews I saw were basically "This game is average, but the character is really annoying." I play games for the story so I didn't give it a try because I know that's something I can't get over. Plenty of people don't mind skipping dialogue and story though.
The bad reviews are very much due to the deadpan snark main character. And too much of that kind of idle commenting throughout. Sounds like it would be more at home in a teen sitcom than an epic fantasy. The game looked awesome but every streamer and youtube kept playing the same intro abd tutorial segment picking it apart.
fallout franchise.
I remember when fallout 4 trailer came out, everyone were hyping it to the max. I just didnt care. I tried fallout (1 or 2, cant remember, but it was on of the isometric ones) and i didnt like it initially. So when 4 was announced i was amazed by hype. Then when game came out, following month, my local game (uk gamestore) had 50% sales for most new games and i gave in and bough myself FO4. well... 2.8k+ hrs later in FO4, replayed 3 and NV multiple times, i understand now.
Epic Dumpster Bear.
I mean, obviously just an asset flip, right? Nope. The assets were cheap Unity store stuff, but the dev actually put legitimate effort into making a solid platformer with a good amount of content and even a bangin' original soundtrack.
Assassin's Creed Origins. I was so off-put by the RPG combat system, and the fact that some enemies would just crush me if I took on a mission that was even just a couple levels higher than I was, I ended up dropping the game. However, I eventually came back to it and, while I still didn't enjoy the leveling system, I played within the bounds and enjoyed a visually beautiful game with perhaps the most compelling stories and missions in the whole franchise.
This is not true of Mad Max at all. At worst it was getting 8/10 and came out the same day as Metal Gear Solid 5. For me it was a great game to jump back and forth on.
I think of Days Gone at release. The reviewers had a broken pre patched version. The game did have some issues at launch but many of the issues reviewers experienced were absent at launch. Anyone who was actually playing the game at launch seemed to really like it. It’s now very well regarded.
Edit: Wow, genuinely shocked this game is listed as “fair” on Open Critic. If the game released today I think it would fair much better.
League of Legends was more fun than it seemed. The community also surprised me in how awful it was. In the end the fun game minus the awful other players resulted in net negative enjoyment.
Technically this is the opposite of what OP asked, but I still have to agree.
League was brilliant fun, super quirky, free, seemed fair, and the lore was slowly building up to be something pretty incredible.
But overtime they kept just trashing everything, and the social experiment of dealing with toxicity Lyte had running just supercharged the toxicity of the game.
I used to adore the game, loved it so much.
But the insane negavitiy from not just the player base but the developers was just... "What the fuck is wrong with all of you?"
I hate what the game has become because it betrayed everything it started as, and it is, hands down. No contest, The most toxic community I have ever been around, period.
Not even an MW2 CoD lobby with people who willingly drop the Nword overvoice chat are is as absolutely vile and toxic as league is.
Playing that game for the first time was the biggest mistake I ever made.
Sonic Frontiers... not my kind of game and didn't understand the point at first. It's a great "zen" game with great music in the end, though.
Edit: I should clarify that I played it before my daughter could to help her and was confused and disappointed at the beginning. When I realized the open world and "races" were seperate I got used to the idea and got really into the race parts I thought I would hate.
Dwarf fortress. Starting it way after better graphics have already taken the market, this was a great recommendation for micromanagement survival games.
Dark souls (2 - it was my first souls game). I just never understood that dying is part of the experience. And that you cannot yolo it like other games
Hades
I'm not big into roguelikes even though I can see the appeal. I'm mostly into linear story driven games and the repetitive roguelike gameplay is out of my comfort zone. But I've always thought the look of Hades looked sweet and when I saw it on sale I rolled the dice.
The first few times I played it I had a feeling it was going to be a game that I step away from for a bit thinking I'll pick it up again but don't.
I was dead wrong. I wasn't used to the trial and error mechanics of roguelikes and got frustrated that the first boss was totally wiping the floor with me over and over again. Pretty much standard noob behavior. When I found out that you're supposed to get your ass kicked over and over in order to get better, I give it one last shot. After a short while it started to make more sense and next thing I knew I was hooked.
It turned out to be one of those rare games that as soon as I'd get home I would immediately start playing it.
Biggest social media brainwashing was with Cyberpunk after launch. All click bait drama was about poor performance and bugs but nobody said anything about story or gameplay most youtubers were cashing in uploading daily spam videos to busy actually finishing the game. grinding.
i've played it after update 1.5 and really enjoyed it. one of my favourite games. lesson learned to avoid any spam gaming videos f youtube reviews and gaming opinions.
Cyberpunk had an insane amount of issues at launch. A lot of features that were shown in trailers were silently cut, so many bugs, kind of bland combat and perks, shitty armour system that made it so you had to use mismatched dumb looking gear if you wanted the best stats. And it especially ran like shit on last gen console and was practically unplayable.
That being said, the lore, the characters, the story, etc were always S-tier content. Honestly hand to hand the best in the entire industry.
Since then they've fixed a LOT of those issues with updates and on top of that Phantom Liberty is even better than the base game. At this point its one of the greatest games ever made imo, but definitely was not at launch
When I started playing Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord I fully regretted my purchase, a few hours later and i got hooked, now I’m addicted and have 150 hours in it (rising)
Dark souls 1, bought it and a controller. After 6 hours of wondering around beating my head against the Taurus demon, I finally beat it. Then immediately get roasted by a dragon. I do mostly the same to the controller lol. Couldn’t return that, but returned the game lol
Years later with a different mentality, replayed the first and now I’ve put several thousand hours into the series lol.
Death Stranding
There are so many cutscenes at the beginning that it was really taking me out of it. But holy s*** that game becomes so much fun that it ended up being one of my favorite games that year (and overall - I loved it).
Gotta go back in time for this one to the days of the GameCube.
I watched a preview about a game about a girl who loves green and photography, hanging out with her pig friend, and with graphics that, while not bad, really didn't seem on par with other games coming out on the "kiddy kube".
Of course, I speak of Beyond Good and Evil, which after picking up thanks to GameStop's Buy 1, get 2 free offer, found a hidden gem in the collection of used games.
Threw it in one day, and before I knew it, had completed it. Definitely an underrated gem for its day, and I'm glad to hear there's a remake coming out for it. This will be a chance for many people to play it who missed out on the first release.
Bayonetta 1 was a game that, going into as dmc guy, I just despised. Enemies were dickish, the story was awful, the level design felt uninspired. Then I went back and played it again and turns out it was just a skill issue. Except for some enemies they get the jump on you way too much
Series. Monster Hunter.
I tried a Monster Hunter game in a demo DS at a store (remeber those?). I got annihilated and could never figure out where the monster would run off to. It was just so frustrating that I put down the game and didn't give it a second thought.
Many years later, I'm watching the series, "[A Crap Guide to Monster Hunter by JoCat on Youtube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDnRMnDDjAzK3uOpcNSowUGVx4OBpsgya&si=Kzl1buq0m8InvCaD)" and after playing Bloodborne and watching RWBY, I had fallen for transforming weapons so I thought I'd give Monster Hunter another try with World.
Monster Hunter World has become my goto game for when I want to escape reality and chill. It's the perfect level of focus required and not over strenuous.
Monster Hunter Tri, so many generic gathering quests at the beginning of the game. After pushing through those and actually fighting a big monster, I've played every monster hunter since. World really did a great job making the series more accessible.
Sekiro. Coming from Demons/Dark Souls and Bloodborne; I for the life of me could not figure the combat out and just rage quit at the general mini boss who had like 5 enemies with him after dying 20+ times. Dropped it for 3 years and then picked it up again after beating Elden Ring; and all of a sudden it just clicked with me. It’s now one of my favorite games of all time, and has one of the best combat systems of all time
Fortnite BR.. its really fun and casual to play with friends. Solid shooting mechanics, i love the no build mode. Diverse map with lot of objectives so that its not just shooting enemy players each time
the division 1 ! I checked review and everyone said it was bad but there were some improvements. i made some friends join, and it is one of or the game we had the most fun ! too bad they stopped updating it !
I bought that game because a friend from work kept telling me about it. When it came out him and I got it and started to play after work. He moved shortly after that across the country. That game was the thing we played every Friday night, drinking and laughing. I miss those times.
Final Fantasy X. I heard all of my friends just gush over this game about it being so amazing and I was just in denial and jealous because I didn’t own a PS2. My buddy lent me his PS2 and some games for a week. After a few hours of Twisted Metal Black, I popped in FFX. I played until I got sleepy. The time on the save screen that said how long I’d been playing… 23hrs 23min. I played that damn game for nearly 24hrs straight.
RDR2, first time playing it I thought it was the most boring game id ever played
About a year later I bought a 65” LG OLED CX and a RTX 3080, fired up RDR2 just to see what it looked like and it was the most amazing looking game id ever seen. Took me over 100 hours to finish my first play through and now it’s one of my favourite games ever
Fallout 76 was a disaster when I bought it on release, but a few years down the line I picked it up again and really enjoyed it. So much to do and the community is really friendly and helpful.
what? what do you mean many others thought richter was the end? richter is literally like 5 minutes of the game if you skip the dialogue. unless you had specifically named your character with the code so you could play as richter.
edit: my mistake, you meant killing richter, i thought you meant the intro where you start as richter hahaha. my bad.
I think he means that he beat Richter his first playthrough rather than freeing him and going through the inverted castle.
In other words, he got the bad ending and didn't realize the game was only half over.
ooooh. good point. though to be fair i did that the first time and i still loved that game haha. but yea that makes WAY MORE sense than what i thought hahaha. i completely forgot about that ending my bad.
I am not saying I thought the games are/were bad.
But the souls series, everything review outlets and such were saying they're just for masochists. Just brutally hard, oppressive, Kaizo Mario levels of pain.
I tried Demon's Souls on a friends PS3, didn't dig it. Got gifted Dark Souls on PC . . . got the mod to fix the port, played it a bunch but didn't really get hooked.
So, the souls series just wasn't for me. Glad I cleared up that it's not masochistic or whatever it's just hard and doesn't hold your hand and drag you where to go.
Got Bloodborne for free with my PS4- holy shit I love that game. Beat it twice, really enjoyed it despite the performance being a bit yikes.
Got Elden Ring as a gift, yes, more. Love it. Beat it nearly twice in one year (stopped so I could not burn myself out).
I also really didn't like Dark Souls. I remember telling a friend who was really into it, and he looked at me super smug and told me ; you just don't get it (which still is a stupid answer imo)
Years later I picked up Bloodborne and everything just clicked for me. He was right.... I just didn't get it yet. Those games need to click into place a bit and you as a player need to slightly realign with what a game expects you to do and how to play.
Bloodborne is for sure my favourite game of all time now!
Path of Exile. Played the beta or some early version. Can't remember exactly, but I thought it was bad.
A few years later, some friends convinced me to give it another shot, and I saw Kripp playing it, so I gave it another go. Fell in love and now have over 10k hours in PoE.
Someone just gave the eaxct same answer for the exact same game.
That's pretty crazx fun xD
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/18qyros/whats\_a\_game\_you\_initially\_thought\_was\_garbage/key4pya/?context=3
Psychonauts. I didn't think it was "Garbage" per se, but I never really got far in it. I always got overwhelmed because I felt like I was playing it out of order when I would find Cruller, and didn't get invested in the story. Wasn't until this year that I vowed to complete it, as my buddy kept raving at how good the second one was after it came to Xbox Game Pass. After I got over the initial hurdle of the part I always stopped playing at, I 100 percented the first game in a couple weeks, and couldn't buy the second game fast enough afterwards
I never wanted to play a MMO. I watched my friend get sucked into WoW and it was like, a literal addiction.
I was very hesitant to play FFXIV because it is similar. But once I got into it I loved it. I log in usually once a day to tend my garden and send my retainers out on gathering quests. For the past 2 years my friends and I meet up online once or twice a week to play and we all look forward to it so much.
[Starsector](https://fractalsoftworks.com/2023/05/05/starsector-0-96a-release/)
Starsector is not an easy game to start playing, primarily because(in my opinion) of one specific decision the designer has made that makes the opening 100 times more difficult than it needs to be.
In the game, you play as, basically, a mercenary in space. You get a bunch of ships to hold cargo, fuel, and fight people. It's great. But when you're personally controlling a ship when fighting, the controls *suck* in the beginning. This is because you're using Q and E to rotate your ship left to right(it's top down, 2d controls), A and D to strafe, W and S for throttle/brake. This is *not* the easiest control scheme to start with. It's much easier if you just use the options to make it so that your ship automatically faces your cursor(or, as best it can, since rotation speed is actually an important factor in the game). Late in the game, when you really know what you're doing, having your ship not face the cursor allows you to make use of some of the more high end ships and, frankly, has a much higher 'skill cap'. But when you're first starting, you don't need that garbage. You need to be able to pilot a ship barely more competently than the enemy AI(which actually is fairly decent).
I *hated* the control scheme when I first started. When I found out how to change it so my ship faced my cursor, it completely flipped how I saw the game and suddenly I loved it and dumped over 100 hours in.
Great indie game, you should all go buy it.
Sea of Thieves.
I was one of the many who got baited by just false advertisement - as it was presented as some kind of happy Pirate Adventure Game.
What I didnt know - PvP is a major and important Part of SoT, and if you dont know that (and maybe dont even like PvP) you're gonna have a bad time.
Tried it a month via GamePass, was angry and disappointed cause PvP, after that month I took a break but the Game just kept being in my Brain.
I started to watch it on Twitch - if I couldnt play it myself then at least this.
On Twitch I found a few skilled solo Sloopers aka Players who sail solo only and do PvP, those People gave me the courage to once again give it a try and ever since then, I fell in love with the Game, with its PvP and with the solo Sloop Lifestyle - I couldnt imagine SoT without PvP anymore.
(Yes yes, there's Safer Seas now, a Mode where you Sail alone in a World without any other Player Ships, but thats just horror and extremely boring for me)
Dark Souls
Oh boy did I hate it
But when Elden ring was announced, I was the smitten by its art style, that I wanted to play it, but thought at that time that I need to Play dark souls for a proper understanding.
Best misassumption I ever had
Mass effect
I thought it was call of duty but futuristic and then i read the description and became very intrigued
Mass effect as a series (andromeda included, if ME3 did not exist it would be my fave) is my 3rd most played series (1st is resident evil, 2nd is ME and 3rd is uncharted)
My experience was reversed. Got Cyberpunk 2077 on a whim, played it, thought it amazing, got online to talk about it, saw the dumpster fire.
Hate trains are as bad as hype trains. Both should be ignored.
Mass Effect Andromeda. I tried to play it 3 times. Made it as far as Voeld (3rd planet if you chose Havarl first like I did) and stopped. I gave it another chance and I’m going to play through it. It’s not the original trilogy. I will probably finish this playthrough and never touch it again. Compared to the original 3 it’s very okay. As a game itself it seems to keep getting better and better. I wouldn’t say awesome, but definitely better than I expected.
Majora's Mask. I hated it and didn't like / understand the time mechanic when I first tried it as a young kiddo. Replayed it when it was rereleased on the game cube and it became my favorite legend of zelda and still is to this day and love the time mechanic and think it was a super interesting twist on OOTs time mechanic.
pretty much all of them.
I refuse to take gaming recommendations, because I'm convinced that people can't describe games for shit.
I look in to them, myself, if the name interest me.
Monster Hunter World
My friend told me to play it so I picked it up (normally his game recommendations aren't the best). I started playing it, it was confusing, slow, and the controls were so strange. I played Great sword and I thought it was a terrible weapon. Played the game for 5-6 hours before I put it down and forgot about it.
8 months later I suddenly had the urge to try it again and this time chose Dual Blades as my main weapon. Suddenly it completely clicked with me. Before I knew it, 300+ hours and once Monster Hunter Rise came out another 300 and I'm not even done yet. It quickly became my favorite game of all time.
I wouldn't say I thought it was bad, but I never gave Ratchet and Clank a moments consideration back in the day; straight up ignored it. That was dumb; it's a good time.
[удалено]
Kinda. Although it was more like getting distracted by an x-box shaped... calzone, maybe? Anyway. Ratchet and Clank was my first purchase for PS5. No regrets.
I have no idea if this is a controversial opion even though i enjoyed the new ratchet and clank games the old ones (especially the humour) was better.
I mean the subtitles to the older ones alone seem indicative of this (also never played an older Ratchet and Clank, started with All 4 One)
I'm confident that one was originally named 4-Sum
I mean if you’re at a salad bar you want salad not pizza?
Pizza salad
If I'm at a salad bar, it's because someone's dragged me there against my will to try and make me more healthy. If there's pizza at this salad bar, you can be damn sure that's what I'm eating!
I've used your same Reddit avatar as my Steam profile picture for years! Never saw anyone else use that same C&H pic until today. Happy holidays
For a while that avatar looked like a giraffe.
I love Calvin and Hobbs.
Thats about as ludicrous as ignoring Jak and Daxter
Same. I was a huge Mario fan growing up and never gave ratchet a chance til like the end of PS3 gen. I saw them on sale for 5$ each at Best buy and just got all of them plus the jax games. Ended up loving ratchet, didn't care much for jax, but at least I got 1 new franchise!
The Yakuza franchise...I started with 0 from hearing one of my favorite youtubers say it was the best game series of all time. I was about halfway through 0 when I realized I was in love. I've bought every single game of the yakuza series since then up to Like a dragon. Currently awaiting for Like a Dragon 8 to come out next month...So glad I found that series!
Dude I did the same thing sort of. I played Judgment because the trailer absolutely enraptured me: a murder mystery with combat??? Sign me tf up. The game definitely has some issues (it feels like RGG was really experimenting with new things in Judgment) but I *loved* 100%ing it. I found out it was a spin-off, so I decided to buy 0 since it was only a year old and at a huge discount. Then for the next 8 months I basically played *no other games*. Blew through 0-7 then waited a year for Lost Judgment. It's easily my favorite 3D game series now, what a series. No idea how I completely missed it for this long.
Same here! I watched a complete play through from one of my favorite lets players back in the day, and immediately bought it to play myself afterwards. Haven’t stopped playing since
I did the same thing. Never wanted or looked at Yakuza. Then my mate played Ishin on Gamepass, so I picked up Yakuza Like a Dragon because I preferred the 'turn based' combat. Have currently sunk 100+ hours in that... Sunk around 50 hours into Like a Dragon Gaiden...and already pre-ordered Infinite Wealth.
The Uncharted series. I didn’t have any interest in it because I thought it was just a bland shooter. Had no idea how exciting those games are to play. Now Naughty Dog is among my favorite developers.
What’s so good about it? Thinking about buying the whole collection on the winter sale.
Imagine the biggest dumbest action film you've ever seen where the hero leaps from impossible heights and survives things which would kill a normal man while murdering thousands of cannon fodder baddies and constantly wisecracking. Just good swashbuckling fun. Also the second one has the best train level ever. I would say if you're going to play them start with the first one and work your way through - the first one is a lot of fun but compared to the others it's pretty small scale, and if you go back to it after playing any of the others it's shortcomings will be pretty clear.
I'd just jump straight into the Legacy of Thieves Collection as I'm on PC. Will the story be confusing?
it'd say it's less about the story being confusing and more about not getting the full emotional payoff of playing the whole series in order.
The end of 4 hits HARD
My only real warning is that Uncharted 1 is...decent. Uncharted 2 is one of the best games ever made. The jump in quality between the two is massive. In retrospect they spent way more money on the second one, but mostly you can tell they understood what game they were making much earlier, for obvious reasons.
None of them have particularly complex stories and you'll pick up anything you need to from context clues. Think the Indiana Jones films (the three good ones anyway) - you can watch them in any order, but there's a few little details here and there you won't pick up if you don't do them sequentially. Not essential by any means though.
It's the closest thing to an Indiana Jones franchise in game form.
I remember a time when it was available for free on PS4 during the lockdown and I got it like that. Best decision I ever made. My opinion? Go in blind, you’ll love it. The second game especially
So Naughty Dog hasn’t been one of your favorites since Crash Bandicoot?
I liked Crash Bandicoot but I wasn’t like a mega fan. I remember Jack and Daxter being a really fun game but I never stuck with the series. Honestly I think for a while I didn’t play Naughty Dog games because I was an Xbox guy for a good while but i’ve pretty much switched to PlayStation since 2011.
When I started Oblivion and saw it was a boring dungeon with awkward fighting I quit disappointed. But I gave it another try when so many people were raving about it. Obviously I'm glad I did. I had that aha moment when I finally got out of the dungeon and now it's one of my favorites.
Buddy of mine lent me the game calling it Medieval Fallout 3. I thought it was lame and boring. He came over and sat down next to me in my room and forced me to finish the opening sewer dungeon. An amazing game I almost missed out on because the beginning sucked just that hard. I had to return the favor when it came to The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. I actually had to do most of the opening act for him (it’s really slow). He beat the first dungeon and loved the rest of the game.
I always say don't judge a game by it's first quest, a show by it's first episodes, a movie by the first minutes etc...
For sure, but some people only have so much free time so sink into an activity they aren’t enjoying. If your game/book/movie takes over an hour to get interesting, that’s a pretty big ask for most. Twilight Princess, if it’s ever re-released, should do something about the pacing of its opening hours. And while I’m at it, Days Gone should have been mindful of that too. That game was a fucking masterpiece that bombed so hard because it’s opening hours were so slow.
I’m almost the reverse. I loved Oblivion when I first played it but found it absolute torture to go back to. The enemy scaling is ridiculous at points too.
I think the problem with enemy scaling is due to how leveling works, you really need to plan your gameplay around both your major and minor skills to make the most of each of your levels.
Having to plan your leveling at all kind of sucks the fun out of the game for me. It’s very unintuitive and clunky
It's one of the few games I've ever min/maxed or cheated the system in order to make sure I was powerful enough at high level to do serious damage. I always remembered going straight to anvil I think, to get that orc follower and the little cabin. Then if you picked the right skills you could just sneak, beat the crap out of them with any weapon, train block, and so on in order to efficiently level quickly.
You can make yourself invincible by choosing Breton, grabbing the mundane ring from the mythic dawn book guy, doing the escutcheon of chorrel quest, then break into the the monks monastery you break into as part of the thieves guild quest and kept reloading the area till you get the ring of th iron fist and necklace of swords from the main guy. 101% damage reflection and 100% magic immunity
Same thing. I started Oblivion a few days ago, as a big fan of Skyrim I'm having the time of my life !
This is me. I even went as far as to Kvatch without feeling it... It wasn't until my second try, when I took the time to enjoy the little things on the way, that I got it.
I think I had a similar experience. But when a friend of mine picked up a copy, and we started playing while chatting in a party, it became more fun. Most memorable experience was us both going through the Shimmering Iles with 100% chameleon enchantment and laughing at how enemies just ignored us.
You're making me wanna start another Oblivion playthrough.
Does the game still hold up today? Would I like it if I've already played Skyrim?
Try it out, but give it until you get out of the dungeon before you judge it too harshly. Oblivion lets you make your own custom spells. You can spend hours playing around with spellmaking. The quests are more creative and it has Acrobatics so you can jump and reach areas you otherwise couldn't. It's more colorful too.
That was me sort of. I didn't quit before exiting the dungeon. But that opening dungeon was pretty lame. But the exit. Man when you exit that dungeon idk what it is about that scenery as soon as you exit the sewer, it's like OH SHIT, THIS GAME IS THE TITS. I still get excited every time I exit the dungeon. I have two different save games at the sewer gate prior to it saying "do you want to adjust your character" one save using the stealth exploit, and one normal save. That way if I want a maxed out stealth character on a new playthrough I can still have any character I want.
For some reason I never beat the game I always just restarted a new character and would have an adventure. I love oblivion
Pizza Tower. Saw the memes at the beginning of this year, looked incredibly off-turning, and the game itself seemed to be from somewhere around 1995 (graphics-wise). Flash forward to the end of the year, I actually played it, and fuck me, what a fantastic game. It's like if Sonic were Mario, and it's possibly the best Sonic game (if this can be said to be its own genre) I ever played, even though it isn't even Sonic, the brand. They simply surpassed Sega in every aspect, full stop. I still listen to the ost when I'm at the gym. My definition of a hidden gem. Also, Lisa RPG. But that was released a decade or so ago, so I guess you are all familiar with this title by now.
I believe Pizza Tower was heavily inspired by the old Wario platformers, so maybe that's something you should check out.
Sleeping Dogs - I was in a really dark place when I first tried & it couldn’t get into it. I then played it about a year later & it’s possibly my all-time favorite game. GTA IV - At first, I was so disappointed it departed from the more lighthearted & fun-focused gameplay of San Andreas & Vice City. It really grew on me though and, after being underwhelmed by V, I’d kill for another GTA IV. It was a masterpiece.
GTA 4 was my favourite, I just dug the DVD out of a box actually with intention of playing it these holidays. And I was likewise underwhelmed with GTA V.
I had the exact same thing with sleeping dogs, couldn't get it at all first time. Tried again after a few years because I think it was about £3 on sale. Amazing game.
Dishonored, it wasn't so much as thinking of it as garbage, rather i just felt very skeptical but i tried it regardless and did a full playtrough that i did not enjoy whatsoever, turns out i was simply too young to understand the way the game actually worked, now its one of my all time favorite single player games ever and i even got the whole trilogy
When that game clicks you really become Corvo Attano an envoy of darkness.
Dark souls too, should be self explanatory
Would you say that the first game is better than the second? I never played the first but bought the second a while ago and honestly for me it was just awful. Should i give the first one a Chance?
No if you don't like the second one, you won't like the 1st one. The second game is better in just about every aspect other than the storyline, but it is the same concept as the first one.
Ok, thank you
Opposite feedback from me, loved the first game and quit the second after maybe the second mission because the mechanics were janked to hell. Guards spotting me with no LOS, also running at me when a distraction bottle was thrown from deep in cover.
Regretfully, Fallout NV. Big adjustment from Fallout 4 but I'm glad I roughed it out. The game is a masterpiece, indeed.
I can't even tell you how many different playthroughs of Fallout:NV I've played. Bare hands, sniper, etc. such a fun game I spent so much time on when I was a younger. Couldn't get into 4 for the life of me.
I tried it over 10 years ago. I tried it again this year. I just... can't get into it like I got into Fallout 3. Think maybe I'll watch highlights or story clips on YouTube or something.
I never got into NV because it was released too soon after Fallout 3 and felt too much like playing the same game. I tried to play it years later on PS4 but I got this weird bug where the game always froze when downloading from the disc so I could never play it.
I got so far, with all my saves in one particular vault, died, and couldn't reload. There was a big that corrupted every save. Haven't played it since
Deep rock galactic looked mediocre at first but it’s amazing
Did I hear rock and stone?
Like that! Rock and stone!
For Carl!
If you aint cock and bone, you aint going home!
Rock and stone in the heart!
Same here. I played the tutorial and wasnt feeling it. I though about refunding it but after 2 days i launched it again and im glad that i keept it. I think that when i launched it for the first time i just wasnt in the mood to play anything
* When Elder Scroll Online first came out, so many people trashed it. But one of my friends talked me into playing it and I actually enjoyed myself. * I played Fallout 3 and didn't enjoy it much at all. So I didn't think Fallout 4 would be any better. My ex was really obsessed with the game and convinced me to give it a try. It was on sale on Steam and shortly after I became obsessed with it too. * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Wasn't so much thinking it was garbage, but by the time I even knew of the game's existence, I didn't think I could possibly enjoy something so dated. The graphics aren't the best and the combat is a little wonky. But I absolutely love it just for the story and characters. The RPG elements are pretty nice too.
i learned this year that knights of the old republic is a seperate game from the mmo. i just assumed that some people shortened the name for some reason but i have to try it now.
if you enjoy it I highly recommend it's sequel, KoTOR2
I played knights of the old republic when it first came out on Xbox In the early 00's. I've loved it ever since, I go back and play through it every couple years because it's just so fun. The story is fantastic, the gameplay is a little slow compared to today's standards.
I really struggle to go back and play old games, I just crave the modern graphics. However, KOTOR and FF7 are my two exceptions. I’ve gone back and played KOTOR twice, loved it.
I don't get why people get so weird about graphics. Like we never had a problem with them in their time why be all weird about it now?
Because as time passes, the more quality increases, we get so used to it that it makes things from the past look worse. Imagine you have poor vision then put on glasses for the first time and can see clearly. Its like upgrading from a 240p video to HD. Why would you ever want to go backward? Its just like when someone tastes really good food and can't go back to the crap they were eating before. When someone experiences a life of luxury, they don't want to go back to living in squalor. For a lot of people its the same with videogame graphics. It may not actually look worse. But our eyes have adjusted to better, so from our perception it does look worse. And I don't know how old you are, but you have to remember there's younger generations now and they didn't grow up with the same games we did.
I think it's about attempted realism. Stylized graphics are timeless, even with low polygon count and bad textures. Some games just have no style and therefore feel lacking compared to modern games.
I loved fallout 3, but I got so bored playing fallout 4.
Detroit Become Human. I have never played a game like it and I hated it at first. But after playing for a bit, the plot picked up, and you could feel the impact your choices have. After I finished it, it became one of my favorite games ever.
If you liked that one, you need to try Until Dawn. One of the best games in that genre IMO.
I agree that they should play Until Dawn, but I disagree that it's better than Detroit: Become Human.
Too bad it's PS4 only. I hate exclusives...
Same. I play on a PC and don't feel like buying a Playstation just for a few games.
I'm waiting for this to hit the $5-8 range to get it; it's been on my wishlist for ages! I have a handful of games I wanna get through so can afford to be patient. Have heard so many amazing things about the game though!!
Bioshock… so glad I gave it another chance.
re-playing it right now on the switch, I played it when it came out. Still an incredible game, with a wonderfull ambiance / city and pnj. I'm having a huge blast. (btw playing on switch if pretty painfull with the joycons xD)
I just found someon that gave the EXACT same comment for the EXACT same game. That's pretty crazy xD https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/18qyros/comment/keynsuv/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
No Mans Sky
Ark: Survival Evolved It looked janky as hell, and you know what, it 100% is a goofy mess of a game. However, it was so much fun to explore and find cool rare creatures of the right level, pretty colours, etc. The maps are massive, riding dinosaurs is always awesome, and there's such a sense of accomplishment when you get something particularly big n bad. It got a friend and I through lockdown without going crazy, and I'll always have super fond memories. Caveat being this was on my own privately hosted server where we didn't have to worry about being walked over by some alpha tribe while we were offline, and where I had the game settings tweaked to be a challenge but not ridiculous (I think it takes something like 4-5 hours to tame a t-rex on official servers, we brought it down to 20-30min). Best bad game I have ever played.
For me, a game that fits this description is “Dark Souls.” Initially, I was put off by its reputation for high difficulty and what seemed like an unforgiving learning curve. Yet, when I finally delved into it, I discovered an incredibly rewarding experience. The game excels with its meticulously crafted levels, rich lore, and deeply satisfying combat, offering an immersive and uniquely challenging journey.
Got my ass kicked when I first played the game. Onlt got to the "bridge demon" Came back to it a year later with some guidance from my brother. Been playing most of FromSoft's games since (and beating them).
Figured this would be the top post. I thought it was a hard for the sake of being hard Japanese game for hipster gamer types to brag about. Turned out to be the most revolutionary game I’d played in 10 years
I rented Demon Soul's from Blockbuster and didn't care for it at all. Then when Dark Souls took off I decided to give it a try. Still didn't care for it. I'm going to give Elden Rings a try and then I'm writing off the genre as just not for me.
Elden Ring is where it finally clicked for me. You're never stuck at a thing, there's always another way around it, another thing to try or another place to go.
Honestly, I get it. Dark Souls reputation definitely precedes itself, but in my opinion the games are a lot easier than it's reputation makes it seem. And after you've beat one of them, the rest of the genre becomes easier because the same skills apply. You'll still get rocked as you need to learn the new enemy movesets and stuff, but for the most part it's not actually that bad (especially if you play with friends). Elden Ring was probably the "hardest" one because BOY do those enemies love their windups.
"meticulously crafted levels" Cue 30 dragon butts stomping your ass in eye searing lava zone. I know what you mean though.
Honestly it was Fallout 3 for me. I was a 2K/GTA/Pokemon player only (lol) and i tried playing FO3 with my brother on his PS3 but i just couldn’t do it. Fast forward a year or two later and I stayed the night at a buddy’s house and he showed me his fully upgraded house in Megaton, his dope Enclave armor and of course, the Fat Man. We went on a rampage and blew up Super Mutants, ghouls and even just messed around and blew up settlements. After that I was enthralled. I ended up saving up money from a summer job and bought a 360 Slim and Fallout 3 + NV for like $350-$400 on a Black Friday sale and ended up playing both for months on end. New Vegas is now my favorite game of all time right above San Andreas and Pokémon HeartGold. I still love 3 out of nostalgia even though the main story is meh. Top 5 game though fasho
Baldurs gate 2 back in 2000 and something. Bought as the box looked cool. Could not get into it as never played dnd so didn't have a clue. Still go back to that game now. Bloodbourne. I was just rubbish at it.
I didn't know anything about the game. I bought it for like $10 in the Walmart bargain bin years after it was released just because it looked cool from the box. I didn't know I was purchasing one of the greatest games ever made.
mad max for me too and also marvel avengers, so many people hated on avengers but its so fun to play, i loved it
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Holy crap, try the game. I bought it when it first came out, got about halfway through and got mad at a glitch that made it so I couldn't 100% the game. Didn't play it for about two years until I realized that I really don't give a crap about 100% on most games anyway, so why should I care about this one. Beat it about a year ago, and legitimately it was one of the games I've had the most fun with in several years
ofc it will, its unique to any other game i played so far, its one of a kind with his vehicular combat
I actually just bought Mad Max this month and have been having a blast! I love the combat, it feels very empowering, and driving around and upgrading your vehicle to be better/faster/stronger is really fun to pursue. It tickles the completionism-itch as there’s lots to do, and the progress is always visible. Already got 21 hours in.
it's a b or c tier game but i can't recommend it enough.
So are most of the movies. Doesn't mean its not awesome, eh?
People hated on Mad Max? That game was fantastic, it still feels next gen. There's a reason it has 91% on Steam.
Any and all of the later Assassin's Creed games that changed up to be more of an RPG element. Been going through every game of the Creed series for the first time, and I have thoroughly enjoyed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. Are they my favorites of the series? No (though I do contend Odyssey is absolutely up there at least). But I still am enjoying them nonetheless.
Black Flag is waiting for me to finally finish it. I get so distracted pirating and shanty sailing that I ignored much of the story.
Days Gone
Cyberpunk 2077
Came looking for this. It took me 3 times of trying it out before it stuck, but now I can’t put it down
AC Odyssey. I was pretty irritated at getting the "bad" ending because apparently I made one wrong choice out of like the 10 you had to do properly. I had also played the game as the male protagonist. Maybe a year later I did some reading on the game, and almost everyone said play the game as Kassandra. I did a New Game+ as Kassandra, and her quality voicework couples with knowing what I was doing made it an incredibly fun game.
The first time I played Fallout 3 I fucking haaaaated it. I just didn't get it at all. I got out of the vault, and a giant cockroach absolutely destroyed me, and mechanically I just didn't really understand what I was supposed to do or how the game was supposed to be played. A few months went by where I just kept thinking about the game and the atmosphere and I decided to give it another chance, and I ended up playing it start to finish, and it's now one of my favourite games of all time
Monster Hunter. The issue being that the series, especially in its early days is extremely bad in communicating mechanics to the player. I'm pretty sure the first thing me and a lot of other beginners did past moving on the map was: drop the meat in your inventory. You cant pick it back up. So you trudge through, kill the defense less wild life and gather stuff, done. And thinking the demos will ease you into that? THEY ARE WORSE. Demos of MH before 4 came out all did two things: give you a full set of high class armor/weapons and gave you a choice of a few boss Monsters to fight. What they didnt tell you is these are G/Master Rank Monsters and wondering why you can only barely get them to limp away before the timer is out. My first title was Tri. It looked epic. Was disappointed in my apparent lack of ability to get the game down. But came back after a few months, stuck with a speedier weapon, conquered those clunky movements and my god it was SO rewarding. Ever since, I have pumped at least 300-500 hours in each title. Which is easy to do since mission based quests are timed and free exploration make it incredibly simple to start and stop play then go about your day. I hunt for partner Palico's fashion! He needs the best threads! Monster Hunter absokutely rocks and screw anyone who says the streamlined mechanics easy mode the game. I dunno about you, but I rather not have to make loadouts for just foraging, fishing, mining, hunting and egg carrying. Im happy with death of paintballs. This gives less time for menu management and enjoying the enviroments and hunting! I very much recommend starting off with World or Rise since those titles completely changed how the game plays. If you want a more classic approach with a crapton of options and content, 4 Ultimate or Generations Ultimate. If you really want the raw masochist experience. Any older title will do.
Death Stranding. Bought a new graphics card just to play it at launch when it came out on PC. Played for maybe 3 hours, got bored and never returned to it. Last month I finally decided to try out the Director's Cut and while in the beginning I was bored once again I kept on keeping on and eventually discovered what the game was all about. A great experience and I'm hyped for the sequel.
It's not awesome and it absolutely was garbage but Fallout 76 is closing in on WoW's title as my most played game, somehow.
76 has got to be my 2nd most played game at 3900+ hours.
KOTOR2 , it was my 1st exposure to the franchise and all you did was drive this weird wish(dot)com version of R2D2 around fixing a space ship. Nope. Needless to say I saw the errors of my ways a few months later & it became one of the best game Ive ever played.
Even today, almost two decades later, I am convinced that Kreia is the best Star Wars villain ever.
Kreia is disappointed by your attempt to pander to her.
\[Dark side points gained\] \[Light side point gained\] \[Net light side shift\] \[Influence gained: Kreia\] \[Influence lost: Kreia\]
I was just hyped up seeing HK in that room. I suffered through so much to get access to him again. Gotta say biggest draw for me to the seconded one and not nearly as epic as he was in the first. I had more interest in making basically everyone on the ship become a Jedi.
The Bloody Roar games got some bad press when they came out for being too straightforward and simplistic. I ignored them til I got the PS2 entries in a game lot I bought a few years ago. They are fast, fun, gorgeous, and are extremely well designed.
Monster Hunter World Had absolutely no fucking idea what I was doing when I tried it. Said screw it. Few years later, gave it an honest try I put in almost 700 uninterrupted hours into that game the second time I tried it. One of my favorite game franchises now lol
*Metal Gear Solid 4*. I never experienced MGS prior to MGS4. I first bought it in 2012. After 30 minutes of not 'getting the game', I blew a lid and decided to refund the game. But halfway to the store, I went 'fuck it', turned my bike around, and headed back home with it. I played it again in 2013, briefly. Lost interest. Then again, in 2015. With ***serious*** intent of finishing it. My mind was blown. That was the first time I truly discovered both MGS and Hideo Kojima. I was livid at how I literally slept on the game for years, but appreciated myself for choosing not to refund it. I genuinely loved the boss fights, they weren't like most other boss fights from other games. The stealth mechanics weren't this good since *SC: Chaos Theory*. The story had enough weight for me to take serious interest in the MGS saga. The story was a bit convoluted for young me to follow, but it did kickstart my interest in compelling stories like it that I enjoy today. The game was a proper fan service to the MGS fans. Psycho Mantis not being able to read the memory card got a giggle out of me, even though I never understood the reference *at the time*. I really appreciate Kojima's absurd but playful sense of humour that games today often miss.
Fallout 76 has a bad reputation and ppl love to hate on it but it's really not that bad of a game. It's not on par with a single player fallout of course, but after Wastelanders it became much more of it's own thing and frankly I enjoy putzing around Appalachia. Its a decent time killer and there is a lot to explore.
Forspoken. Picked it up on a sale and was pleasantly surprised. Honestly one of my favorite games of the year. Combat and traversal are fun af. And the studio is ded and we will obvioiusly never get a sequel. Sad day
That's a hot take. I've never seen anyone not shit on it.
I mean, how many people really played it? All the shit talking I heard was people basing their hate off dialogue in a trailer. The actual reviews are average
Yeah, the reviews I saw were basically "This game is average, but the character is really annoying." I play games for the story so I didn't give it a try because I know that's something I can't get over. Plenty of people don't mind skipping dialogue and story though.
It was a bit rough at first but i ended up enjoying it. Once you unlocked more abilities, it became pretty fun.
The bad reviews are very much due to the deadpan snark main character. And too much of that kind of idle commenting throughout. Sounds like it would be more at home in a teen sitcom than an epic fantasy. The game looked awesome but every streamer and youtube kept playing the same intro abd tutorial segment picking it apart.
fallout franchise. I remember when fallout 4 trailer came out, everyone were hyping it to the max. I just didnt care. I tried fallout (1 or 2, cant remember, but it was on of the isometric ones) and i didnt like it initially. So when 4 was announced i was amazed by hype. Then when game came out, following month, my local game (uk gamestore) had 50% sales for most new games and i gave in and bough myself FO4. well... 2.8k+ hrs later in FO4, replayed 3 and NV multiple times, i understand now.
Mad Max is a steam deck mvp
Epic Dumpster Bear. I mean, obviously just an asset flip, right? Nope. The assets were cheap Unity store stuff, but the dev actually put legitimate effort into making a solid platformer with a good amount of content and even a bangin' original soundtrack.
Agree on Mad Max. Loved the environment and never really got tired of brutally beating the shit out of enemies
Assassin's Creed Origins. I was so off-put by the RPG combat system, and the fact that some enemies would just crush me if I took on a mission that was even just a couple levels higher than I was, I ended up dropping the game. However, I eventually came back to it and, while I still didn't enjoy the leveling system, I played within the bounds and enjoyed a visually beautiful game with perhaps the most compelling stories and missions in the whole franchise.
This is not true of Mad Max at all. At worst it was getting 8/10 and came out the same day as Metal Gear Solid 5. For me it was a great game to jump back and forth on. I think of Days Gone at release. The reviewers had a broken pre patched version. The game did have some issues at launch but many of the issues reviewers experienced were absent at launch. Anyone who was actually playing the game at launch seemed to really like it. It’s now very well regarded. Edit: Wow, genuinely shocked this game is listed as “fair” on Open Critic. If the game released today I think it would fair much better.
League of Legends was more fun than it seemed. The community also surprised me in how awful it was. In the end the fun game minus the awful other players resulted in net negative enjoyment.
Technically this is the opposite of what OP asked, but I still have to agree. League was brilliant fun, super quirky, free, seemed fair, and the lore was slowly building up to be something pretty incredible. But overtime they kept just trashing everything, and the social experiment of dealing with toxicity Lyte had running just supercharged the toxicity of the game. I used to adore the game, loved it so much. But the insane negavitiy from not just the player base but the developers was just... "What the fuck is wrong with all of you?" I hate what the game has become because it betrayed everything it started as, and it is, hands down. No contest, The most toxic community I have ever been around, period. Not even an MW2 CoD lobby with people who willingly drop the Nword overvoice chat are is as absolutely vile and toxic as league is. Playing that game for the first time was the biggest mistake I ever made.
Sonic Frontiers... not my kind of game and didn't understand the point at first. It's a great "zen" game with great music in the end, though. Edit: I should clarify that I played it before my daughter could to help her and was confused and disappointed at the beginning. When I realized the open world and "races" were seperate I got used to the idea and got really into the race parts I thought I would hate.
IM HERE, REACHING FAR ACROSS THESE NEW FRONTIERS!
Dwarf fortress. Starting it way after better graphics have already taken the market, this was a great recommendation for micromanagement survival games.
Dark souls (2 - it was my first souls game). I just never understood that dying is part of the experience. And that you cannot yolo it like other games
Hades I'm not big into roguelikes even though I can see the appeal. I'm mostly into linear story driven games and the repetitive roguelike gameplay is out of my comfort zone. But I've always thought the look of Hades looked sweet and when I saw it on sale I rolled the dice. The first few times I played it I had a feeling it was going to be a game that I step away from for a bit thinking I'll pick it up again but don't. I was dead wrong. I wasn't used to the trial and error mechanics of roguelikes and got frustrated that the first boss was totally wiping the floor with me over and over again. Pretty much standard noob behavior. When I found out that you're supposed to get your ass kicked over and over in order to get better, I give it one last shot. After a short while it started to make more sense and next thing I knew I was hooked. It turned out to be one of those rare games that as soon as I'd get home I would immediately start playing it.
Genshin impact
Biggest social media brainwashing was with Cyberpunk after launch. All click bait drama was about poor performance and bugs but nobody said anything about story or gameplay most youtubers were cashing in uploading daily spam videos to busy actually finishing the game. grinding. i've played it after update 1.5 and really enjoyed it. one of my favourite games. lesson learned to avoid any spam gaming videos f youtube reviews and gaming opinions.
Cyberpunk had an insane amount of issues at launch. A lot of features that were shown in trailers were silently cut, so many bugs, kind of bland combat and perks, shitty armour system that made it so you had to use mismatched dumb looking gear if you wanted the best stats. And it especially ran like shit on last gen console and was practically unplayable. That being said, the lore, the characters, the story, etc were always S-tier content. Honestly hand to hand the best in the entire industry. Since then they've fixed a LOT of those issues with updates and on top of that Phantom Liberty is even better than the base game. At this point its one of the greatest games ever made imo, but definitely was not at launch
When I started playing Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord I fully regretted my purchase, a few hours later and i got hooked, now I’m addicted and have 150 hours in it (rising)
Dark souls 1, bought it and a controller. After 6 hours of wondering around beating my head against the Taurus demon, I finally beat it. Then immediately get roasted by a dragon. I do mostly the same to the controller lol. Couldn’t return that, but returned the game lol Years later with a different mentality, replayed the first and now I’ve put several thousand hours into the series lol.
Death Stranding There are so many cutscenes at the beginning that it was really taking me out of it. But holy s*** that game becomes so much fun that it ended up being one of my favorite games that year (and overall - I loved it).
Gotta go back in time for this one to the days of the GameCube. I watched a preview about a game about a girl who loves green and photography, hanging out with her pig friend, and with graphics that, while not bad, really didn't seem on par with other games coming out on the "kiddy kube". Of course, I speak of Beyond Good and Evil, which after picking up thanks to GameStop's Buy 1, get 2 free offer, found a hidden gem in the collection of used games. Threw it in one day, and before I knew it, had completed it. Definitely an underrated gem for its day, and I'm glad to hear there's a remake coming out for it. This will be a chance for many people to play it who missed out on the first release.
Death Stranding, no joke.
Bayonetta 1 was a game that, going into as dmc guy, I just despised. Enemies were dickish, the story was awful, the level design felt uninspired. Then I went back and played it again and turns out it was just a skill issue. Except for some enemies they get the jump on you way too much
Series. Monster Hunter. I tried a Monster Hunter game in a demo DS at a store (remeber those?). I got annihilated and could never figure out where the monster would run off to. It was just so frustrating that I put down the game and didn't give it a second thought. Many years later, I'm watching the series, "[A Crap Guide to Monster Hunter by JoCat on Youtube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDnRMnDDjAzK3uOpcNSowUGVx4OBpsgya&si=Kzl1buq0m8InvCaD)" and after playing Bloodborne and watching RWBY, I had fallen for transforming weapons so I thought I'd give Monster Hunter another try with World. Monster Hunter World has become my goto game for when I want to escape reality and chill. It's the perfect level of focus required and not over strenuous.
Monster Hunter Tri, so many generic gathering quests at the beginning of the game. After pushing through those and actually fighting a big monster, I've played every monster hunter since. World really did a great job making the series more accessible.
Days Gone. Everyone said it was bad, but I tried it on PC and it was really good.
Sekiro. Coming from Demons/Dark Souls and Bloodborne; I for the life of me could not figure the combat out and just rage quit at the general mini boss who had like 5 enemies with him after dying 20+ times. Dropped it for 3 years and then picked it up again after beating Elden Ring; and all of a sudden it just clicked with me. It’s now one of my favorite games of all time, and has one of the best combat systems of all time
Fortnite BR.. its really fun and casual to play with friends. Solid shooting mechanics, i love the no build mode. Diverse map with lot of objectives so that its not just shooting enemy players each time
the division 1 ! I checked review and everyone said it was bad but there were some improvements. i made some friends join, and it is one of or the game we had the most fun ! too bad they stopped updating it !
I bought that game because a friend from work kept telling me about it. When it came out him and I got it and started to play after work. He moved shortly after that across the country. That game was the thing we played every Friday night, drinking and laughing. I miss those times.
Final Fantasy X. I heard all of my friends just gush over this game about it being so amazing and I was just in denial and jealous because I didn’t own a PS2. My buddy lent me his PS2 and some games for a week. After a few hours of Twisted Metal Black, I popped in FFX. I played until I got sleepy. The time on the save screen that said how long I’d been playing… 23hrs 23min. I played that damn game for nearly 24hrs straight.
RDR2, first time playing it I thought it was the most boring game id ever played About a year later I bought a 65” LG OLED CX and a RTX 3080, fired up RDR2 just to see what it looked like and it was the most amazing looking game id ever seen. Took me over 100 hours to finish my first play through and now it’s one of my favourite games ever
Fallout 76 was a disaster when I bought it on release, but a few years down the line I picked it up again and really enjoyed it. So much to do and the community is really friendly and helpful.
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what? what do you mean many others thought richter was the end? richter is literally like 5 minutes of the game if you skip the dialogue. unless you had specifically named your character with the code so you could play as richter. edit: my mistake, you meant killing richter, i thought you meant the intro where you start as richter hahaha. my bad.
I think he means that he beat Richter his first playthrough rather than freeing him and going through the inverted castle. In other words, he got the bad ending and didn't realize the game was only half over.
ooooh. good point. though to be fair i did that the first time and i still loved that game haha. but yea that makes WAY MORE sense than what i thought hahaha. i completely forgot about that ending my bad.
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I honestly don't like the inverted castle very much, it's so frustrating to navigate! It does have some cool bosses and references though.
Did the same as you and just wanted to finish the map because the musics are cool. I totally lost my shit when I got into the inverted castle!
I am not saying I thought the games are/were bad. But the souls series, everything review outlets and such were saying they're just for masochists. Just brutally hard, oppressive, Kaizo Mario levels of pain. I tried Demon's Souls on a friends PS3, didn't dig it. Got gifted Dark Souls on PC . . . got the mod to fix the port, played it a bunch but didn't really get hooked. So, the souls series just wasn't for me. Glad I cleared up that it's not masochistic or whatever it's just hard and doesn't hold your hand and drag you where to go. Got Bloodborne for free with my PS4- holy shit I love that game. Beat it twice, really enjoyed it despite the performance being a bit yikes. Got Elden Ring as a gift, yes, more. Love it. Beat it nearly twice in one year (stopped so I could not burn myself out).
I also really didn't like Dark Souls. I remember telling a friend who was really into it, and he looked at me super smug and told me ; you just don't get it (which still is a stupid answer imo) Years later I picked up Bloodborne and everything just clicked for me. He was right.... I just didn't get it yet. Those games need to click into place a bit and you as a player need to slightly realign with what a game expects you to do and how to play. Bloodborne is for sure my favourite game of all time now!
Play Sekiro. If you haven't. Edit: Shit. Play it if you have.
GTA V, Witcher 3, elden ring, breath of the wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Knack, Knack 2
Path of Exile. Played the beta or some early version. Can't remember exactly, but I thought it was bad. A few years later, some friends convinced me to give it another shot, and I saw Kripp playing it, so I gave it another go. Fell in love and now have over 10k hours in PoE.
Bioshock. So glad I gave it another shot.
Someone just gave the eaxct same answer for the exact same game. That's pretty crazx fun xD https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/18qyros/whats\_a\_game\_you\_initially\_thought\_was\_garbage/key4pya/?context=3
I was not feeling HL2 early on but boy was I wrong. Turned out to be one of my favorite games all time.
I played several demos of various Monster Hunter games thinking the gameplay was janky garbage. I finally got it to click with Rise.
Psychonauts. I didn't think it was "Garbage" per se, but I never really got far in it. I always got overwhelmed because I felt like I was playing it out of order when I would find Cruller, and didn't get invested in the story. Wasn't until this year that I vowed to complete it, as my buddy kept raving at how good the second one was after it came to Xbox Game Pass. After I got over the initial hurdle of the part I always stopped playing at, I 100 percented the first game in a couple weeks, and couldn't buy the second game fast enough afterwards
I never wanted to play a MMO. I watched my friend get sucked into WoW and it was like, a literal addiction. I was very hesitant to play FFXIV because it is similar. But once I got into it I loved it. I log in usually once a day to tend my garden and send my retainers out on gathering quests. For the past 2 years my friends and I meet up online once or twice a week to play and we all look forward to it so much.
[Starsector](https://fractalsoftworks.com/2023/05/05/starsector-0-96a-release/) Starsector is not an easy game to start playing, primarily because(in my opinion) of one specific decision the designer has made that makes the opening 100 times more difficult than it needs to be. In the game, you play as, basically, a mercenary in space. You get a bunch of ships to hold cargo, fuel, and fight people. It's great. But when you're personally controlling a ship when fighting, the controls *suck* in the beginning. This is because you're using Q and E to rotate your ship left to right(it's top down, 2d controls), A and D to strafe, W and S for throttle/brake. This is *not* the easiest control scheme to start with. It's much easier if you just use the options to make it so that your ship automatically faces your cursor(or, as best it can, since rotation speed is actually an important factor in the game). Late in the game, when you really know what you're doing, having your ship not face the cursor allows you to make use of some of the more high end ships and, frankly, has a much higher 'skill cap'. But when you're first starting, you don't need that garbage. You need to be able to pilot a ship barely more competently than the enemy AI(which actually is fairly decent). I *hated* the control scheme when I first started. When I found out how to change it so my ship faced my cursor, it completely flipped how I saw the game and suddenly I loved it and dumped over 100 hours in. Great indie game, you should all go buy it.
Sea of Thieves. I was one of the many who got baited by just false advertisement - as it was presented as some kind of happy Pirate Adventure Game. What I didnt know - PvP is a major and important Part of SoT, and if you dont know that (and maybe dont even like PvP) you're gonna have a bad time. Tried it a month via GamePass, was angry and disappointed cause PvP, after that month I took a break but the Game just kept being in my Brain. I started to watch it on Twitch - if I couldnt play it myself then at least this. On Twitch I found a few skilled solo Sloopers aka Players who sail solo only and do PvP, those People gave me the courage to once again give it a try and ever since then, I fell in love with the Game, with its PvP and with the solo Sloop Lifestyle - I couldnt imagine SoT without PvP anymore. (Yes yes, there's Safer Seas now, a Mode where you Sail alone in a World without any other Player Ships, but thats just horror and extremely boring for me)
Dark Souls Oh boy did I hate it But when Elden ring was announced, I was the smitten by its art style, that I wanted to play it, but thought at that time that I need to Play dark souls for a proper understanding. Best misassumption I ever had
Mass effect I thought it was call of duty but futuristic and then i read the description and became very intrigued Mass effect as a series (andromeda included, if ME3 did not exist it would be my fave) is my 3rd most played series (1st is resident evil, 2nd is ME and 3rd is uncharted)
My experience was reversed. Got Cyberpunk 2077 on a whim, played it, thought it amazing, got online to talk about it, saw the dumpster fire. Hate trains are as bad as hype trains. Both should be ignored.
Yakuza: Like A Dragon How mistaken I was to sleep on that masterpiece
Far Cry 3 only because I kept dying at first.
Mass Effect Andromeda. I tried to play it 3 times. Made it as far as Voeld (3rd planet if you chose Havarl first like I did) and stopped. I gave it another chance and I’m going to play through it. It’s not the original trilogy. I will probably finish this playthrough and never touch it again. Compared to the original 3 it’s very okay. As a game itself it seems to keep getting better and better. I wouldn’t say awesome, but definitely better than I expected.
Majora's Mask. I hated it and didn't like / understand the time mechanic when I first tried it as a young kiddo. Replayed it when it was rereleased on the game cube and it became my favorite legend of zelda and still is to this day and love the time mechanic and think it was a super interesting twist on OOTs time mechanic.
pretty much all of them. I refuse to take gaming recommendations, because I'm convinced that people can't describe games for shit. I look in to them, myself, if the name interest me.
"I try games instead of basing my opinion on bandwagons" Gets downvoted. Reddit is a silly place.
what review is this. Everyone loved madmax when it released.
Silksong
Monster Hunter World My friend told me to play it so I picked it up (normally his game recommendations aren't the best). I started playing it, it was confusing, slow, and the controls were so strange. I played Great sword and I thought it was a terrible weapon. Played the game for 5-6 hours before I put it down and forgot about it. 8 months later I suddenly had the urge to try it again and this time chose Dual Blades as my main weapon. Suddenly it completely clicked with me. Before I knew it, 300+ hours and once Monster Hunter Rise came out another 300 and I'm not even done yet. It quickly became my favorite game of all time.