What game had you like this?
(midwest.social)
GamingSo many games but Hades lately. It’s so good!
Dragon's Dogma. I tried any number of times to get into it over the span of years, I'd put 8-10 hours in, but I just couldn't manage it, it felt like I always hit some kind of unreasonably gruesome difficulty spike and I could never overcome that, and I'd drop it. But then one time I played it and I just... Never hit that spike, for whatever reason. Played it all the way through to completion. Great game, knew I'd like it, I just couldn't find a foothold!
Fallout 3. When I first played it, it bothered me that there was no weather. Stopped playing it for like 2 years. Started a new game finished it, all the side quests, and the DLCs because suddenly I was just into it.
Disco Elysium.
First go was after finally playing Planescape : Torment and I just wasn't in the mood for another text heavy game, even though it came highly recommended and had some voiceacting from some podcasters I knew about.
Then the Final Cut came out with all the professional voice acting and it was absolutely excellent.
Dark Souls
Eventually went back to it after beating Bloodborne.
Hollow Knight.
At first, I was a bit put off by what I felt were stiff mechanics (I played the Ori games first), then I tried it again after a while and realized the mechanics were really just precise.
And now I'm absolutely hooked on Silksong and nothing else compares.
Red Dead Redemption 1. 2 I unfortunately was never able to get into.
I had this exact same experience. The idea if RDR didn't dry much for me b so I ignored it. One day I saw "gold edition", or whatever the one with all the DLC and expansions included, for like $15. Thought "why not".
Took a while to play it, but when I did I was hooked. Even the, at first, seemingly ham fisted undead expansion was really fun.
RDR2 I got at launch, played it almost immediately, but never really got more than half a dozen hours in before realising I was just going through the motions
Factorio. I really didnt understand it when It was first released. Got to my first steam generator and quit.
Freaking love this game now, so many hours. Conveyor belts are the same as happiness.
witcher 3
first time playing, i got to the bloody baron and for whatever reason i can't explain, felt like it wasn't resonating with me. went back some time later and was hooked enough to finish the main game and all DLCs.
fucking fantastic game
FTL the space dogfight roguelike. Took me 10 years to revisit and I've gotten more than a hundred hours in it since then
Oh it's a distant memory now, but I remember the first time I played RimWorld I bailed out again in less than an hour and didn't touch it again for at least a year
Fast forward to now and I think it's claimed 1500h of my time
Destiny. I picked it up at launch, played the campaign, then thought "that's it?" I didn't exactly realize what Bungie was doing. I picked it back up when The Taken King launched and have been playing ever since. Still play D2 even though many people have dropped it.
Bloodborne, and then Sekiro
GTA V. Also didn't help that I was running it on integrated graphics.
I've been playing regularly for 8 years now.
Skyrim.
I couldn't stand the ultra hype. I didn't see anything special about the game. To me it just looked like a dumbed down fantasy Fallout without guns.
Then like a decade later I picked it again.
Ended up first playing hundreds of hours on normal, then hundreds more on VR.
Dark Souls. Bounced off it a bunch of times on PS3 and PC, then got the remaster on Switch and it got its hooks into me and never really let go.
Hollow Knight
Bought it not long after it came out because I was so in awe with the visual style. Played it for some hours and thought it was fun, but it was not clicking with me as much as I thought it would. It got even worse when I got stuck in the progression. I put the game down and did not play it for a while. Fast forward 3 months and I decide to pick it up again. For some reason this time I found out where to go next and from that moment I could not stop playing it. I could not believe how vast the exploration felt. To this day it is still my favourite game of all time.
Hades & BotW were like that for me.
Dark Souls, kinda. Got DS2 when it was pretty new, and couldn't get into it at all. Then I tried DS1 years later and absolutely loved it. So I tried 2 again, and it still didn't click. Then 3 released, loved it to bits, played through 1 again, tried 2 again, SotFS this time, and I still hate that game. The way everything moves in 2 is just awful, and I will die on the hill that it's a poorly made mess, from the ground up.
The other souls games are great though. Still have to get around to BB since the frame rate killed it for me on the ps4, but it works great in emulator now, as well as DeS
For me, a friend let me borrow Demon Souls but it just didn't click. Years later, I played Dark Souls and it immediately became my favorite game. DS2 was my least favorite of the series, in equal parts because of the much different control/feel and also the wasted mandatory levels you have to spend to get reasonable i-frames. It just feels clunky compared to the rest of the series. I do really like the level design and environments though.
DS2 exists for when you don't want to play DS1 or DS3 anymore but you want more souls game to play.
It is also the roughest game to get started in but also by far the best game to cycle into New Game+ multiple times. It's weird like that.
You're not alone. Loads of people (me included) just don't like DS2.
Celeste, sorta. It wasn't so much that it didn't click, I just got distracted with other things and it took a back seat for a few years. Came back to it and ended up 100%ing it (not including every golden berry) and am now at roughly intermediate/advanced skill level for custom maps
Baldur's Gate 3. I tried it when it was in early access and thought it was too clunky. Tried it again a few months ago, absolutely love it.
100% same answer. For me, the big change was playing it in multiplayer. It’s worth all the trouble wrangling friends and their schedules together for this. I’m even comfortable playing solo since then, because of all the memories of good times and shared struggles
I tried playing it after release and just didn't really get into it, but I feel like at some point, I will and will appreciate it more.
Kenshi. I got it in 2013. It seemed interesing but ran so badly on my machine at the time that I gave up on it. Played it again when I got a better PC and some religious people came around to preach and hand out bibles, I put them in a skin peeler.
Witcher 3. It had me for a bit then lost interest again. But, I'm planning on trying again.
The Witcher 3. First couple of times it didn’t click. Now it remains one of my favorites.
As weird as this will sound, Skyrim. Picked it up, played a tiny bit then didn't touch is for 3-4 months
Same, I tried to play it several times but couldn’t get into it. Learned about some exploits and installed some QOL and graphics mods, and it’s a blast
Probably Gunfire Reborn: It's sort of a cartoonish FPS roguelike I initially bought on sale, played a bit, and wrote off, but I randomly picked it up one day months or maybe even years later and ended up getting hooked. The unique weapons keep it interesting and the and semi-casual nature of the game makes it easy to pick up and play for a bit, then put down when you have to do something.
This happened to me with three games:
- Hollow Knight
- Steamworld Heist
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
In each case the game just didn’t gel with me on the initial play, even if I could objectively tell it was a quality game.
Currently playing through Stranger of Paradise again now. I think I expected a more traditionally “Final Fantasy” game my first time through and dropped it at 10 hours. Started fresh recently and am tearing past where I was and playing it enthusiastically now, it’s a lot of fun.
I’ve played some souls-like games in the interim which helped with the general gameplay loop and control scheme. Also have upgraded hardware since my first run, which makes a big difference as the game was previously a shimmery mess full of slowdowns.
Hollow Knight for me too. It all started to click after getting a movement ability or two.
Guild Wars 2. Didn't click with it at launch, tried it again a few months ago and oh my god so much has changed in over 13 years. I'm still playing plenty of other games but it's nice to have an MMO (without monthly fees or any kind of FOMO) to come back to every couple of weeks.
I'm the exact oposite. I loved it at launch and played it extensively. But after Heart of Thorns I fell off. Ever since then it grabs me once in a while but I usually just fall off once the story content is over. Sometimes I play around a little longer but it just doesn't stick anymore.
Dragon Age Origins. My third try it finally clicked, but a year after I bought it!
BOTW. First time played handheld and screen was too small to appreciate it. Picked up again years later on a tv and finally loved it.
Possibly my favorite game, "From the Depths" got me like this. It's a vehicle builder that gives you a lot more stuff to design, both in functionality and in letting you make something look how you want, than most others I've seen... But the learning curve is like a brick wall and I just didn't get what I was supposed to do the first time around.
rimworld, dwarf fortress, factorio. ugh. cannot escape it now. though with DF the “jitter” of the chars moving messes with my eyes, so i really dont play it much. i know its turn based, I just like smoother movement or a roguelike where my actions begets movement in “clips”.
Happy to say - none. Only time a game didn't click right away was due to being way too young for it, and all of those were most excellent once I played them again later in life.
Various actually
- Speulnky
- Slay the spire
- Fallout : New Vegas
- Rogue Legacy.
My steam top X :
- Speulnky
- Balatro
- Isaac
- STS
- TF2
- FNV
- Rogue Legacy
For some reason, the repeated misspelling of "Spelunky" as "Speulnky" has really tickled me. I'm genuinely sorry if you're dyslexic or similar, but "shpoil'n'key" is irrationally funny.
Stationeers. I bought it a while ago and apparently played it for an hour, although I don't remember anything about that experience. Then I got into it again and got really into it.
EDIT: It happened with DRG a while ago too. That was because my motion sickness prevented me from getting into it, but a while later and with a PC upgrade I was able to get into it.
Demon Souls, couldn't get into it the first time, then I gave it a shot sometime later but with a guide for only the order to do levels ( I have no walkthrough policy) , it is fantastic (ps3)
It's a cliché, but Dark Souls. Rented it through Redbox with my brother-in-law, made it past the tutorial boss, then somehow pissed off the Crestfallen Warrior right next to the bonfire and got ganked at spawn a dozen times in a row before putting the game down.
A few months (and many articles praising the game) later I picked it up on sale and played the whole way through, and it's now one of my top games of all time.
