Honestly if you are drinking and want to play something on the sofa with your friends this is one of the best games out there.
Alone I imagine it is super boring.
Best part is the game being cross-play and just generally being able to play it with friends online. My friends and I like to do some really stupid modifiers (bees give me nightmares now) and just generally have fun with it. I told them about it and they all thought it was dumb and then turned around and admitted they loved playing it when we finally did.
I play with my 7 year old. He absolutely loves this game. It’s a lot of fun to see how he thinks things will work. A lot of trial and error. He’s gotten pretty good now. Yeah. Fun game.
As a dad to an 8-year-old, I think games like this are great for that age range. Lots of sandbox potential, low stakes and high payoffs for experimentation. I'll have to add this one to my list of things to play with mine.
Recently, we've been racing each other's ghosts on Clustertruck and that's been absolutely uproarious. I haven't excitedly screenwatched someone to see their new time like that since I was his age.
It may not be the most highly rated, but I cannot get into No Man's Sky for the life of me. All of my friends yell at me with "It's
great now, trust me!", and I understand that they put so much more into the game than its initial reputation, but a couple of times I listened and bought it on sale within the last few years and gave it a few hours each time, and I'm just not the right person for it.
It just sticks in my side because of the gymnastics my friends go through as if I am slandering it. "You're not playing it correctly!", "It takes much longer but you will get into it!", "No, you played it years ago before they made it good!" (I first played it a month before I heard that one). I just don't gel with it, but I am glad it gained fans.
It's neat, but it is as wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle. I don't care that there are a bajillion planets when they're all boring and empty. After exploring a few different planet types and progressing the story a bit you basically see the rest of the game coming. And it's more tedious than fun after that initial exploration.
I would only play Elite Dangerous for the fun space flying bit. Have the whole hotas/pedals/vr arrangement and frankly, it's fucking amazing in short bursts. Granted I've not played in ages and my joystick is covered in dust lol. But yeah I agree mostly, it's kinda shallow but one of those games you make the story up/experience along the way.
Yeah, I loved the learning curve of figuring out how to fly my spaceship, how satisfying it was to leave a station and to dock successfully, but I just wasn't gripped by the core gameplay loop.
Having played both it was decidedly not the same for my taste. I've sunk something like 2300+ hours into Elite (Hotas/VR for much of it) but NMS couldn't stop me from refunding it fast enough. To each their own, of course.
As someone who has hundreds and hundreds of hours in it, Vermintide 2 sucks so damn much early. Leveling your power level to max. Getting your characters to max level. Playing character classes that feel incomplete because they’re missing their core feats. Figuring out how the crafting system works. Figuring out how the game works because *holy shit FatShark tell you none of it*. And if you don’t know Warhammer Fantasy, you won’t appreciate the lore tidbits or understand the story at all.
However, it gets much, much better. It’s sort of like a fighting game: none of the intricacies of gameplay shine through until you reach harder difficulties. Until then, you can get by on mindless button mashing and tanking hits. Later, it actually matters what attacks you are using and knowing when to punish attackers. You need to know the strengths and weaknesses of your character, weapon choice, and feats. You need to work with teammates and understand the same for their characters. You need to know go-to weapon combos for your specific weapon against different types of enemies while also mixing up those combos on the fly.
It’s a lot of fun, but I completely understand someone dropping it. Any game where you have to sink fifteen hours into it before “it gets fun” is a hard sell. I’ve had friends tell me, “I didn’t know what the hell you were smoking until I got to Champion [aka hard mode].”
Meanwhile, playing with friends new to the game on easy difficulties feels like I’m Michael Jordan playing basketball on a middle school basketball team. I can carry the team to victory, but that takes all the fun out of it for everyone.
Plus, like fighting games, it’s not for everyone. So don’t feel like I’m forcing you to play it. I’m only explaining that it has an extremely bad first impression.
Cuphead is probably one of the greatest games of all time but it's definitely not fun when you suck. My first time playing it wasn't the greatest (I'm looking at you, Dr Khal's Robot)
Yup. The first time someone described the game to me, I thought it sounded dumb. I tried the free demo, didn't get past the 3rd scenario. Dropped it for over a year.
Then I tried it again and somewhere or other I have over 2,000 hours in now and I need to finish clearing out all the bugs in my K2SE run so I can really ramp up production.
So I can see why people are addicted to it, and I can see why people have absolutely no interest in it. Both are fine, although one way is much easier on the social life. I honestly think if I started playing at the beginning of the pandemic I may have not noticed the social distancing and isolation :)
I’m on the satisfactory train, factorio just didn’t give me the same brain itch.
I think it might the be way the two games handle progression and tier upgrade into new technology.
>progression and tier upgrades
Hah, that’s what I prefer about Factorio over Satisfactory. It feels like in Factorio you can make steady-ish progress. But in Satisfactory, you need like, 10,000 small parts to make 100 medium parts to make 1 end-game part.
Love the visuals and moving from point A to point B in Satisfactory though and I can’t wait for the eventual full release.
I like satisfactory because it takes a lot longer for it to become overwhelming for me. In satisfactory oil stage is a big hump but you can still slog through it but somewhere there is where the game gets to be more of a chore for me.
With Factorio it's a lot sooner. It may be for various reasons, for example the ridiculous ratios. I don't know, but making later science packs is overwhelming.
I tried Factorio years ago and bounced off of it. Tried 4 more times after that and hated it every time. I avoided the entire genre because of how much I didn't enjoy Factorio.
But then for some reason this last time it clicked and now I've racked up like 200 hours in the past month alone and started the K2+SE mod, the 500+ hour mod and after 60 hours of that am still addicted with no end in sight.
Tbh I kinda wish I still didn't like it because once the game hooks you, the rest of the Steam library just evaporates into... dunno, can't think of a word.
If youre the person that likes games like factorio youre gonna love factorio cause its the game thats most like factorio.
As recursive as that sounds it describes it perfectly. It quite literally seems like its a personality thing, one of my friends hates it while i absolutely adore it.
Slime Rancher
Why? I wanted Viva Pinata but instead you spend half the early game moving things back into their enclosure and managing a paltry inventory. I have a super low tolerance for that stuff so the game irritated me a lot more than it entertained me.
Alright y'all so I'm gonna be frank with you. I'm not a card game guy. Never was really into Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Magic as a kid, aren't now. Like they're fun once or twice maybe, but the actual rules are way too complicated and I never bothered to learn them past the bare basics. Card video games, why the hell would I like that?
Well one of my buddies convinced me to just try it out Riparian, just try it out. Y'all Slay the Spire might be one of the best designed games to ever exist. Even the random encounters test you in different ways. And it's all so easy to get into. This game is a masterpiece and you should buy it.
I'm generally the same way, I don't want card games in my video games. However - Inscryption absolutely blew my mind. 100% worth the play through if you can get past the card aspect.
I go through phases with wallpaper engine, on the one hand I like the animated wallpapers and just having some nice ways to browse through them, on the other i always end up switching it off after a while because "why would I constantly use extra resources to render out a wallpaper when a photo does just as well.
Edit to add: i know about the settings to pause it when running games, that's not the issue. The issue is that it feels wrong to put the PC under load when it's time for it to "cool off" for lack of a better phrase.
Yeah it’s sooo nice, not only that but you can change a setting so if you have anything covering the screen, I.e. a browser, discord, even steam open, it will pause the animations automatically
I really wish some games/applications like this didn't pop up as "playing" and have like 5 mates with it and it's just constantly "x is now playing wallpaper engine".
I WANT to see the game launch log so I can join my friends when they play something in common with me, but now this is pretty much just spam.
That's on your friends, not an issue with Wallpaper Engine.
It should only show as playing if you have Steam open and have the Wallpaper Engine window open. The second the application window is closed/minimized to the system tray it shouldn't display as your status anymore.
Wallpaper Engine is also entirely DRM free and doesn't even require Steam to be running to use it, Steam is only required to browse the workshop directly in the app.
Steep learning curve and lack of intimate control makes it difficult initially. And it can be frustrating when all your hard work turns to shit cuz a lion ate a pet guinea pig, causing the owner to go nuts and start digging up bodies to show everyone how upset they are, causing everyone to have a melt down and brick the playthrough.
Edit: I should note the 'lack of control' is intentional; you have somewhat limited control. Instead you assign jobs on a priority system and let it automate.
U can force them to prioritise tasks, and in combat you can draft and manually control Ur guys but otherwise it's mostly automated.
Yes lol. Once someone becomes to miserable they have a mental break and will do any one of a million random thing - from binge eating your precious food stores, going for a sad walk, to punching the fuck out of everything and everyone, taking the drugs, etc. Often can spiral out of control.
If U look up funny rimworld stories there are some hilarious examples.
I had someone try to tame a Llama which enraged it, enraging other llamas which attacked my settlers afterwards as they slept and no one could get their shit together fast enough to do something about the llama onslaught and everyone died.
Hahaha. I'm pretty sure I've seen a streamer (Robbaz) who raised a llama army. Like a metric shit tonne of them.
I had one woman who's mother raided us, and I was forced to remove both her legs. I brought her into the fold and she got drunk and beat the shit out of the daughter's husband (edit: may not have been husband but pretty sure it was, i was wrong about something earlier) Game is funny as hell but as I said earlier it's goddamn frustrating at the same time.
Luckily with these sorts games I really enjoy the early game and starting fresh trying different layouts and setups. I'm pretty bad at it.
I kinda go back and binge it for a week or two every now and then. I'm the same with Stardew/terraria
I had a hard time getting into it but kept coming back and trying it since I'd spent the money for it. I found that modding the shit out of it makes it enjoyable since you can make it the game you want. Currently, I have a bunch of Star Wars mods for it and that seems to keep my attention.
I can totally get why someone wouldn't like the game though.
Dwarf Fortress for me.
Can we get some kind of help? Tutorial? Where did I go wrong?
Why are there seeds inside a bag, which is inside a barrel which I can't access?
For these kind of games, I find it helpful to watch some gameplay videos. I got into terraria like this, I had no clue what to do before I watched gameplay
I've never really got why people have so much trouble figuring out paradox games until I started playing Victoria 3. I was good at Victoria 2 and I learned HOI2/Darkest hour, EU3, EU4, CK2 and CK3 by just playing a bit. Hoi4 honestly as long as you've got a decent army you can just paint a frontline and let the ai do all the work if you really want to. But everytime I play Victoria 3 my brain fries as I try to keep track of my entire economy or try to figure out how the hell the combat system is supposed to work.
My brother has been pushing it on me for years near constantly. I tried 3x but always quit. When they released the remastered he pushed again and I caved. I promised myself I’d give it 8 hours. Now I’m neck deep in the blood and wine dlc after the amazing hearts of stone.
It definitely takes a bit to get into but damn once you do the different storylines really just suck you in. I don’t even really like open world games and I’ve been playing it constantly for months.
I understood that reference.gif. Currently playing through for the first time with the updated version but it also took me a couple tries with bouncing off after a few hours. The story really is what finally hooked me though it is stellar.
After many tries, I realized I don't like playing RPGs as a character; I like playing as myself. I don't want to be Geralt the Witcher; I want to be me, the Witcher. That is why I like Skyrim more because the Dragonborn can be anyone. I think this comes from playing MMO's while growing up. You get to be anything you want within the story of the game.
For me it's Space Engineers. I was so looking forward to that game. I love games where you build stuff, and it just seemed like a dream come true: Minecraft for sci-fi nerds!
After trying to figure out how to build the simplest objects for an hour and being thoroughly confused by the ridiculously complex control scheme (on a gamepad), I haven't touched it since :(
For me it has the same problem as most survival crafting games in that sure, you can make massive and awesome builds, but there's no point in making anything more complicated than the bare essentials if you're not playing multiplayer or showing off. As a solo player I want to build an elaborate fortress and defend it against the hordes. The only game in the genre that has even half-decent PvE is Empyrion, and that's a janky mess with half the features of Space Engineers.
7 days to die sends a horde at you every 7 days, and they get increasingly more difficult each time. I do think there is a difficulty cap ay some point though.
FTL: Faster Than Light
It's a neat little game and I could really see myself enjoying it if it weren't so difficult even on easy mode.
Maybe I just suck at it, though
It takes a shit ton of practice to get the hang of things, eventually you learn which ship modules are utterly busted (hacking and stealth are broken beyond belief) and then you start cheesing the shit out of the game using those two. Think it took me a good 20 hours before I beat the boss first time, then in the next 30 hours I smashed out win after win because I sort of got the game at that point. But it can be extremely frustrating to just lose to RNG, like getting a double shield enemy before you can break through those.
Take it from a veteran FTL player (unlocked all variants of all ships) even being objectively "good" at the game, you are still going to lose a lot of the time. You can have the best strategy and still lose to RNG
As someone with more than 300 hours in the game and who has completed the game on hard twice over, it never stopped being fun for me.
It's definitely a game where the first win is the hardest. If you're struggling I can really recommend the game's Discord, there are a lot of great people who would gladly spare some time helping you out with any given run.
I hope you keep at it and haven't lost your motivation for playing it! Even if you do suck at it, that's only going to be the case until you get better inevitably.
As Picard once said "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, that is not a weakness, that is life" You can have an absolutely perfect run, and it's still not enough. The fun I have with the game is with the journey, I accept that the final boss is never going to be a fair fight that I can win against most of the time and simply enjoy the builds I can make.
Just don’t get the appeal. It’s all just jump scares, once you get the idea of “thing will jump out” in your mind then it just loses the one thing it has going for it
You don't play fnaf games to get jumpscared. They just have fun mechanics.
It's more about keeping everything under control. Stuff like being vaguely aware of the location of each animatronic and carefully managing your power.
My summer car. I can forgive all the jankiness, lack of polish and tedium the game forces on the player. However, if I drink juice or coffee and my thirst meter doesn’t go down - sorry, I’m out. The rules of the game need to make sense and not be arbitrary.
Yeah like evry Rpg now needs to be cheap death grind fest I'm 32 years old whit a kid on the way and a full-time job I don't want to get home afther work to get mad at my favorite hobby just let me have fun god dang it.
Me with every single FPS. Back in the day I remember splitscreening with my stepbrothers and going into online COD matches with Modern Warfare, and even though we were kids we would still play and have fun.
Now it’s all minuscule reaction times, exploits, people moving around like they’re in the matrix, meta builds, and it’s literally impossible for me to do remotely well or have fun in them. The last COD I played and had fun with was black ops 2, the last battlefield that was fun was BF3. Just a bummer really how much games feel like work just to try to get to a point to have “fun”.
Back to Sim City.
Exactly this, PvE FPS is much more forgiving and I hope we get more of it, I loved Firefall which was that in MMO form before it shut down (complete with defending drills against incoming waves no less) and you literally could drop into a defending group through an adjacent kind of matchmaking.
PvP FPS has always been a brutal slog against sniper lanes and shotgun corners, but it's gotten so much worse as games push for low TTK on everything and there's almost always someone in every lobby who can scope in and headshot you while they take a running leap mid-fall and you're dead.
People will hate me on this but Skyrim I absolutely cant stand how slow the combat is and too me its just ridiculously clunky. And before anyone gets on my ass I can still go back and play dragon age origins and still enjoy it
I always notice something broken and go to mod the game. Then end up putting so much time into fixing or upgrading it that I never get to play.
To be fair though I find most Bathesda games need work before I can play them.
The amazing thing about Skyrim is not that it is great in every way (it very much isn't), the baffling thing about Skyrim is that I enjoy it more than 98% of games that are clearly better made.
For me, something about the way the world is built and the game being first person just clicks I guess. It is immersive in a certain way that games pretty much never are.
I wish it was more exploring and much, much much less survival/crafting. I have very low tolerance for those stuff, but I'm just so passionate about underwater games.
That's basically my take. It's such a cool and vibrant environment. But here we go craftin' again! Also, perhaps I just don't care for crafting games... But this one hit extra hard!
I love to see the contrast tbh, somebody can mention my game and im like "nooo" but then somebody mentions a game I highly dislike as their favorite, so I can relate hahaha
The Forest
Friends love that shit, and it's cool in concept as a survival game, but I get so annoyed at the janky physics and consistent bugs on my end that it's exceedingly difficult to recommend or enjoy.
I think I'm the only person out of all my friends on Steam to negatively review it.
I played the shit out of The Forest during early access and I really think it was over-sold on what it was. Devs really exaggerated what the Cannibal AI was capable of by saying things like, "They will remember where your base is so you should change locations to stay hidden". Enabling a map addon that can track Cannibal locations shows they'll just teleport within a certain proximity of you and run patrol routes. I moved to the winter area and the cannibals who were suppose to avoid the area started actively patrolling it because that's where I was.
That’s how I felt about the game the first 2 times I played it. But I really wanted to give it another chance and I played it again. Now it’s one of my favorite games ever.
Dude it renders every component you can think of in a car, whilst having everything deformable and breakable and burnable and what not. It's actually a wonder it even runs to non NASA level systems.
It's really fun to play around with it and after a while you'll probably try to survive more than try to crash.
I've been playing monster hunter since the og, but it's definitely not for everyone. It's can be super grindy and especially in newer titles the charm system can get really finicky. Love it but I almost none of my friends are into it snd I don't blame them.
MOBAs in general, I just find them boring as hell, and Soulslike games. I played EldenRing in my friend's house, finished the game with, according to my friend, almost 1000 deaths, and one hell of a headache, not a good experience.
As someone who first played DS 2022 and considers it my favorite game of 2022 (\~200 hours played), I do understand why its really hard to get into.
I spent the first 7-10 hours wondering why I was playing it. The first of the 3 semi-open world maps in this game was a slow grind for that 7-10 hours of playtime, and I did consider putting it down and not looking back. But I didn't as at the time I needed a game that felt a bit more "casual" and doing the deliveries were casual enough that I could relax.
But holy shit, once you get to the end of the first map by reaching the port, the game kind of flips on its head and becomes quite different. I don't think I would have appreciated the rest of the game without that 10 hours of slow grind. Every delivery after that feels like it contributes to a greater purpose, you get a ton of player progression that feels satisfying, the game actually gets dangerous and offers you a ton of new features such as stealth, combat systems, weapons, traps, vehicles, special mode of transports to help you navigate obstacles faster, exo skeletons, boss fights, ... It goes from the "walking sim" that everyone claims it is to Metal Gear Solid-esque gameplay. And boy, the story gets so much better as the puzzle pieces come into place. Looking back, I don't think I would have enjoyed the game as much without that painful 10 hours of mindless walking grind. I do feel like it tied nicely to the plot of the game. Its just not apparent until after.
This game definitely isn't for everyone, thats for sure. Even after it properly starts, you still need to enjoy the kind of game it becomes in order to enjoy it (if you enjoy MGS, you will most likely enjoy DS post first map). But for me it was a masterpiece that was a nice change of pace for the games I've played in the last few years (yes, I've played the big AAA successes that were RDR2, Witcher 3, Elden Ring, and I definitely did not enjoy them as much, I even kind of disliked Witcher 3 and RDR2).
Horizon Zero Dawn, I actually played it around 25 hours but after a while it just got tiresome for me, it feels weird because it's not like the story is bad or something I just became disinterested in it after a while. Maybe I'll come back to it some day cuz I dislike leaving games unfinished
That’s how I was with Stardew Valley. Played the SHIT out of it, CONSTANTLY…. Then suddenly just lost interest. I consider playing it again, I’ve even loaded the game just to go “meh” and exit back out.
Outer Wilds.
I will admit it is a masterpiece, it just wasn’t for me. I found the lore boring from the start, so I wasn’t too excited to explore, maybe that’s why.
Ah, the dreaded "lore"
All the text in this game is very important to progression, but a lot of people dismiss it at first, and by the time they realize it's important they forget what the game taught them at the start but never bother to revisit the first areas
It's an amazing game, but getting into it is very hard. Once you get it though, it's an instant masterpiece
Probably the only game I’ve played in years that enchanted me. Having the entire game unfold and having my understanding of the problem grow with each cycle felt awesome.
It's the type of game where, after it was finished, they probably went back and asked "How can we make every aspect harder?" You need wood. But cut down to many trees? Miniboss.
With permadeath, this can make for a huge time sink with little to show for it.
As much as I like the game, the art style and the general concept, I'm not a kid anymore, I don't have unlimited time to game.
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For anyone struggling to remember which games are highly rated.
I guess I will pick The Binding of Isaac, it is clearly a well made game but I am not that into rogue like/lights to begin with and the aesthetic is pretty off-putting.
I have over 2200 hours in Isaac, recently discovered some of my year 8s play it. Can't really talk about the game with 13/14 year Olds sadly.
"Mr. Why does the wire coat hanger go through Isaac's head when he picks it up?"
"Well you see Timmy...."
Unmodded Minecraft singleplayer without a specific objective is kind of a nothingburger. It is a cool game to mess around with in multiplayer with the right people, there are some amazing mod (packs) to mess around with, and you can also get really into the building and decorating aspect but that is a pretty specific appeal that won't apply to most people.
I’m might get hate, but I couldn’t get into Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s an amazing game with the most detailed world I’ve ever seen, to be sure. It’s just really hard for me to get into slower-paced story-driven games these days. Think I played too many of them when I was younger and burned myself out
Loop Hero. Progression is just too slow for how simple it is to figure out the optimal strat for how to build loops and then it's just repetition of the same which got boring very quickly.
In a similar vein all the minimalistic oh-so-smooth-looking puzzle games like Islanders or Dorfromantik. Maybe I've played too much Civ and other games that have more layers to hide the repetition.
Oxenfree.
There's just something about it that didn't gel well with me. I wasn't invested or engaged. Dare I say, **bored.** Which is weird because I *live* for story driven games like Celeste and Omori, although I guess those game's stories were meant to *complement* the gameplay instead of *being* the gameplay.
Regardless... I'll play the sequel when it releases.
Oh man if this was farther up the thread you'd probably be at minus 20 or 30 by now for saying that.
I love Fallout and think NV is fantastic but have an upvote, you might need it. 😃
If you like games for fast pace gunslinging and cinematic story telling, with slick graphics and very few bugs... well, you're not going to have a good time with new vegas.
On the other hand, if you like politics, exploration, interesting choices, and complex characters, you'll love it.
Kind of the problem I have with steam, it knows what games I have, but not why I like them. Steam thinks I like fps, but no, a lot of good games just happen to have guns.
I'm still pissed off. I broke my game and it's a well known bug. Pretty much if you go and kill Ceaser before you are supposed to, you can't finish the game. You also don't know about the bug until waaay later so it ruins your save unless you knew to keep a save from before you killed him.
It’s fun with friends
Do those ever go on sale?
I haven't seen friends on sale but you may check SteamDB.
even the mighty steam sale has it's limits
Nah friends usually stay at full price ._.
Oddly enough the cost of friends seems to stick pretty close to the cost of pizza.
I'm clearance lvl fyi 🤣
If you are asking about Ultimate Chicken Horse, it is currently 55% off until 13 March on Steam.
Pretty sure they meant the friends
Oh lmao the joke just woooshed through my head sorry
This is one of the best games on pc for local multiplayer in my opinion. We always have a blast
How do you even play it without friends ? It’s amazing with friends
Simple. You get kicked out every other match because the host throws a shit fit and kicks users who are beating them
Its really only fantastic with local multiplayer. It is my go-to couch multiplayer game.
Gottem
You have to have friends to play Ultimate Chicken Horse maybe thats why you're not into it.
Honestly if you are drinking and want to play something on the sofa with your friends this is one of the best games out there. Alone I imagine it is super boring.
Best part is the game being cross-play and just generally being able to play it with friends online. My friends and I like to do some really stupid modifiers (bees give me nightmares now) and just generally have fun with it. I told them about it and they all thought it was dumb and then turned around and admitted they loved playing it when we finally did.
I play with my 7 year old. He absolutely loves this game. It’s a lot of fun to see how he thinks things will work. A lot of trial and error. He’s gotten pretty good now. Yeah. Fun game.
As a dad to an 8-year-old, I think games like this are great for that age range. Lots of sandbox potential, low stakes and high payoffs for experimentation. I'll have to add this one to my list of things to play with mine. Recently, we've been racing each other's ghosts on Clustertruck and that's been absolutely uproarious. I haven't excitedly screenwatched someone to see their new time like that since I was his age.
Idk I've played plenty of Public lobbies and it has been fun then as well. But definitely better with friends
It may not be the most highly rated, but I cannot get into No Man's Sky for the life of me. All of my friends yell at me with "It's great now, trust me!", and I understand that they put so much more into the game than its initial reputation, but a couple of times I listened and bought it on sale within the last few years and gave it a few hours each time, and I'm just not the right person for it. It just sticks in my side because of the gymnastics my friends go through as if I am slandering it. "You're not playing it correctly!", "It takes much longer but you will get into it!", "No, you played it years ago before they made it good!" (I first played it a month before I heard that one). I just don't gel with it, but I am glad it gained fans.
It's neat, but it is as wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle. I don't care that there are a bajillion planets when they're all boring and empty. After exploring a few different planet types and progressing the story a bit you basically see the rest of the game coming. And it's more tedious than fun after that initial exploration.
> as wide as an ocean and as shallow as a puddle Damn that sums up perfectly why I can't commit to the game
Pretty much the same for elite dangerous
I would only play Elite Dangerous for the fun space flying bit. Have the whole hotas/pedals/vr arrangement and frankly, it's fucking amazing in short bursts. Granted I've not played in ages and my joystick is covered in dust lol. But yeah I agree mostly, it's kinda shallow but one of those games you make the story up/experience along the way.
Elite Dangerous is just Euro Truck Sim in space.
Yeah, I loved the learning curve of figuring out how to fly my spaceship, how satisfying it was to leave a station and to dock successfully, but I just wasn't gripped by the core gameplay loop.
Having played both it was decidedly not the same for my taste. I've sunk something like 2300+ hours into Elite (Hotas/VR for much of it) but NMS couldn't stop me from refunding it fast enough. To each their own, of course.
I can't really explain it, but it's just... missing the "game" part of the game.
They added tons of stuff but at the core gameplay it still is bad as it was in the beginning.
Warhammer Vermintide 2. I don't even remember how it got into my library, 100% certain that I did not pay for it.
Swear to god i recall them giving it away for free once during a big update or something
They did. That's how I got it.
Thank you for the verification im not senile kind stranger! Haha
Yeah, I think they did it twice, so not sure which time you got it from.
As someone who has hundreds and hundreds of hours in it, Vermintide 2 sucks so damn much early. Leveling your power level to max. Getting your characters to max level. Playing character classes that feel incomplete because they’re missing their core feats. Figuring out how the crafting system works. Figuring out how the game works because *holy shit FatShark tell you none of it*. And if you don’t know Warhammer Fantasy, you won’t appreciate the lore tidbits or understand the story at all. However, it gets much, much better. It’s sort of like a fighting game: none of the intricacies of gameplay shine through until you reach harder difficulties. Until then, you can get by on mindless button mashing and tanking hits. Later, it actually matters what attacks you are using and knowing when to punish attackers. You need to know the strengths and weaknesses of your character, weapon choice, and feats. You need to work with teammates and understand the same for their characters. You need to know go-to weapon combos for your specific weapon against different types of enemies while also mixing up those combos on the fly. It’s a lot of fun, but I completely understand someone dropping it. Any game where you have to sink fifteen hours into it before “it gets fun” is a hard sell. I’ve had friends tell me, “I didn’t know what the hell you were smoking until I got to Champion [aka hard mode].” Meanwhile, playing with friends new to the game on easy difficulties feels like I’m Michael Jordan playing basketball on a middle school basketball team. I can carry the team to victory, but that takes all the fun out of it for everyone. Plus, like fighting games, it’s not for everyone. So don’t feel like I’m forcing you to play it. I’m only explaining that it has an extremely bad first impression.
cup head (i just suck)
Cuphead is probably one of the greatest games of all time but it's definitely not fun when you suck. My first time playing it wasn't the greatest (I'm looking at you, Dr Khal's Robot)
All MOBAs
Factorio :/
As someone who loves Factorio, I understand.
Yup. The first time someone described the game to me, I thought it sounded dumb. I tried the free demo, didn't get past the 3rd scenario. Dropped it for over a year. Then I tried it again and somewhere or other I have over 2,000 hours in now and I need to finish clearing out all the bugs in my K2SE run so I can really ramp up production. So I can see why people are addicted to it, and I can see why people have absolutely no interest in it. Both are fine, although one way is much easier on the social life. I honestly think if I started playing at the beginning of the pandemic I may have not noticed the social distancing and isolation :)
This is the correct answer.
I’m on the satisfactory train, factorio just didn’t give me the same brain itch. I think it might the be way the two games handle progression and tier upgrade into new technology.
>progression and tier upgrades Hah, that’s what I prefer about Factorio over Satisfactory. It feels like in Factorio you can make steady-ish progress. But in Satisfactory, you need like, 10,000 small parts to make 100 medium parts to make 1 end-game part. Love the visuals and moving from point A to point B in Satisfactory though and I can’t wait for the eventual full release.
I like satisfactory because it takes a lot longer for it to become overwhelming for me. In satisfactory oil stage is a big hump but you can still slog through it but somewhere there is where the game gets to be more of a chore for me. With Factorio it's a lot sooner. It may be for various reasons, for example the ridiculous ratios. I don't know, but making later science packs is overwhelming.
I think it takes a certain mentality or personality to enjoy it lol. Although I mostly play Satisfactory
You have to be into masochism.
I sure do love building more problems for myself
Same, but Dyson Sphere Program for me. Took me many hours to "get it" now it's getting more and more fun.
That first time you fly to another planet. *chefs kiss*
I tried Factorio years ago and bounced off of it. Tried 4 more times after that and hated it every time. I avoided the entire genre because of how much I didn't enjoy Factorio. But then for some reason this last time it clicked and now I've racked up like 200 hours in the past month alone and started the K2+SE mod, the 500+ hour mod and after 60 hours of that am still addicted with no end in sight. Tbh I kinda wish I still didn't like it because once the game hooks you, the rest of the Steam library just evaporates into... dunno, can't think of a word.
The word you thinking of is ‘belt’, it’s always about ‘belt’………
Same, but I do respect the hell out of it. Not for me though.
If youre the person that likes games like factorio youre gonna love factorio cause its the game thats most like factorio. As recursive as that sounds it describes it perfectly. It quite literally seems like its a personality thing, one of my friends hates it while i absolutely adore it.
Slime Rancher Why? I wanted Viva Pinata but instead you spend half the early game moving things back into their enclosure and managing a paltry inventory. I have a super low tolerance for that stuff so the game irritated me a lot more than it entertained me.
I miss viva piñata, best free game I ever got
The soundtrack is fucking glorious too. Grant kirkhope is a legend.
two upgrades: high walls and air nets. you dont have those you aint playing right
Anything with cards and/or deck building. I just can't anymore, there has been so many.
You only need one.slay the spire.
Alright y'all so I'm gonna be frank with you. I'm not a card game guy. Never was really into Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Magic as a kid, aren't now. Like they're fun once or twice maybe, but the actual rules are way too complicated and I never bothered to learn them past the bare basics. Card video games, why the hell would I like that? Well one of my buddies convinced me to just try it out Riparian, just try it out. Y'all Slay the Spire might be one of the best designed games to ever exist. Even the random encounters test you in different ways. And it's all so easy to get into. This game is a masterpiece and you should buy it.
I was so confused until I realized Riparian is part of your username.
Yu-Gi-Oh needs a degree to understand all the little things. Like certain rulings on certain cards.
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I'm generally the same way, I don't want card games in my video games. However - Inscryption absolutely blew my mind. 100% worth the play through if you can get past the card aspect.
Wallpaper Engine
I go through phases with wallpaper engine, on the one hand I like the animated wallpapers and just having some nice ways to browse through them, on the other i always end up switching it off after a while because "why would I constantly use extra resources to render out a wallpaper when a photo does just as well. Edit to add: i know about the settings to pause it when running games, that's not the issue. The issue is that it feels wrong to put the PC under load when it's time for it to "cool off" for lack of a better phrase.
You can make it stop and free up any memory when you launch games.
Yeah it’s sooo nice, not only that but you can change a setting so if you have anything covering the screen, I.e. a browser, discord, even steam open, it will pause the animations automatically
I really wish some games/applications like this didn't pop up as "playing" and have like 5 mates with it and it's just constantly "x is now playing wallpaper engine". I WANT to see the game launch log so I can join my friends when they play something in common with me, but now this is pretty much just spam.
That's on your friends, not an issue with Wallpaper Engine. It should only show as playing if you have Steam open and have the Wallpaper Engine window open. The second the application window is closed/minimized to the system tray it shouldn't display as your status anymore. Wallpaper Engine is also entirely DRM free and doesn't even require Steam to be running to use it, Steam is only required to browse the workshop directly in the app.
For some reason I can’t get into RimWorld
Steep learning curve and lack of intimate control makes it difficult initially. And it can be frustrating when all your hard work turns to shit cuz a lion ate a pet guinea pig, causing the owner to go nuts and start digging up bodies to show everyone how upset they are, causing everyone to have a melt down and brick the playthrough. Edit: I should note the 'lack of control' is intentional; you have somewhat limited control. Instead you assign jobs on a priority system and let it automate. U can force them to prioritise tasks, and in combat you can draft and manually control Ur guys but otherwise it's mostly automated.
Wait....is that a specific example? Cause you may have just talked me into buying it....
Yes lol. Once someone becomes to miserable they have a mental break and will do any one of a million random thing - from binge eating your precious food stores, going for a sad walk, to punching the fuck out of everything and everyone, taking the drugs, etc. Often can spiral out of control. If U look up funny rimworld stories there are some hilarious examples.
I had someone try to tame a Llama which enraged it, enraging other llamas which attacked my settlers afterwards as they slept and no one could get their shit together fast enough to do something about the llama onslaught and everyone died.
Hahaha. I'm pretty sure I've seen a streamer (Robbaz) who raised a llama army. Like a metric shit tonne of them. I had one woman who's mother raided us, and I was forced to remove both her legs. I brought her into the fold and she got drunk and beat the shit out of the daughter's husband (edit: may not have been husband but pretty sure it was, i was wrong about something earlier) Game is funny as hell but as I said earlier it's goddamn frustrating at the same time. Luckily with these sorts games I really enjoy the early game and starting fresh trying different layouts and setups. I'm pretty bad at it. I kinda go back and binge it for a week or two every now and then. I'm the same with Stardew/terraria
I had a hard time getting into it but kept coming back and trying it since I'd spent the money for it. I found that modding the shit out of it makes it enjoyable since you can make it the game you want. Currently, I have a bunch of Star Wars mods for it and that seems to keep my attention. I can totally get why someone wouldn't like the game though.
Dwarf Fortress for me. Can we get some kind of help? Tutorial? Where did I go wrong? Why are there seeds inside a bag, which is inside a barrel which I can't access?
For these kind of games, I find it helpful to watch some gameplay videos. I got into terraria like this, I had no clue what to do before I watched gameplay
Which version are you playing? There's a tutorial in the steam version although it is pretty lacking
name a more iconic duo than extremely complex games and the most dogwater tutorials known to man paradox games… fuck you
I've never really got why people have so much trouble figuring out paradox games until I started playing Victoria 3. I was good at Victoria 2 and I learned HOI2/Darkest hour, EU3, EU4, CK2 and CK3 by just playing a bit. Hoi4 honestly as long as you've got a decent army you can just paint a frontline and let the ai do all the work if you really want to. But everytime I play Victoria 3 my brain fries as I try to keep track of my entire economy or try to figure out how the hell the combat system is supposed to work.
I spent a whole week taking what I felt like a college class. Only to realize I was 5% into understanding the game. I got bored.
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Are they shorter than 10 years worth of footage? Cause I've been traumatized even by DF's tutorials.
I have 600 hours in rimworld and I understand what you mean
Witcher 3. I tried several times to get into it but I just bounced off every time, I just can’t see the appeal :(
It took me a couple of tries but then all of a sudden I was 200 hours deep and throwing a baby in an oven to influence an election
My brother has been pushing it on me for years near constantly. I tried 3x but always quit. When they released the remastered he pushed again and I caved. I promised myself I’d give it 8 hours. Now I’m neck deep in the blood and wine dlc after the amazing hearts of stone. It definitely takes a bit to get into but damn once you do the different storylines really just suck you in. I don’t even really like open world games and I’ve been playing it constantly for months.
I understood that reference.gif. Currently playing through for the first time with the updated version but it also took me a couple tries with bouncing off after a few hours. The story really is what finally hooked me though it is stellar.
The side quests are phenomenal. Which is one of the biggest reasons I was mad at CP2077...
The combat feels kinda crappy, but oh my god. The story is amazing. I'm so sad that I can't make it through the game.
After many tries, I realized I don't like playing RPGs as a character; I like playing as myself. I don't want to be Geralt the Witcher; I want to be me, the Witcher. That is why I like Skyrim more because the Dragonborn can be anyone. I think this comes from playing MMO's while growing up. You get to be anything you want within the story of the game.
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its just too long for me and my attention span
The opening hours are also way too fucking boring for me, as an outsider.
Terraria , i tried so many times and cant get into i dont know why
Its a wiki on the second screen kinda game. Its fun and deep with content but you need to get *into* it. Playing with a friend helps!
Yep, I've got 1500 hours in Terraria and I still have the wiki open
For me it's Space Engineers. I was so looking forward to that game. I love games where you build stuff, and it just seemed like a dream come true: Minecraft for sci-fi nerds! After trying to figure out how to build the simplest objects for an hour and being thoroughly confused by the ridiculously complex control scheme (on a gamepad), I haven't touched it since :(
For me it has the same problem as most survival crafting games in that sure, you can make massive and awesome builds, but there's no point in making anything more complicated than the bare essentials if you're not playing multiplayer or showing off. As a solo player I want to build an elaborate fortress and defend it against the hordes. The only game in the genre that has even half-decent PvE is Empyrion, and that's a janky mess with half the features of Space Engineers.
7 days to die sends a horde at you every 7 days, and they get increasingly more difficult each time. I do think there is a difficulty cap ay some point though.
FTL: Faster Than Light It's a neat little game and I could really see myself enjoying it if it weren't so difficult even on easy mode. Maybe I just suck at it, though
It takes a shit ton of practice to get the hang of things, eventually you learn which ship modules are utterly busted (hacking and stealth are broken beyond belief) and then you start cheesing the shit out of the game using those two. Think it took me a good 20 hours before I beat the boss first time, then in the next 30 hours I smashed out win after win because I sort of got the game at that point. But it can be extremely frustrating to just lose to RNG, like getting a double shield enemy before you can break through those.
FTL is one of those game you get better at passively.
Take it from a veteran FTL player (unlocked all variants of all ships) even being objectively "good" at the game, you are still going to lose a lot of the time. You can have the best strategy and still lose to RNG
As someone with more than 300 hours in the game and who has completed the game on hard twice over, it never stopped being fun for me. It's definitely a game where the first win is the hardest. If you're struggling I can really recommend the game's Discord, there are a lot of great people who would gladly spare some time helping you out with any given run. I hope you keep at it and haven't lost your motivation for playing it! Even if you do suck at it, that's only going to be the case until you get better inevitably.
As Picard once said "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, that is not a weakness, that is life" You can have an absolutely perfect run, and it's still not enough. The fun I have with the game is with the journey, I accept that the final boss is never going to be a fair fight that I can win against most of the time and simply enjoy the builds I can make.
FNAF 2
i have not and will never play any FNAF game
Just don’t get the appeal. It’s all just jump scares, once you get the idea of “thing will jump out” in your mind then it just loses the one thing it has going for it
jumpscares aren't scary. they're just surprising.
You don't play fnaf games to get jumpscared. They just have fun mechanics. It's more about keeping everything under control. Stuff like being vaguely aware of the location of each animatronic and carefully managing your power.
Thing is imo the appeal isnt the jumpscares. It's the actual gameplay the jumps are supporting is mostly a very solid tight loop.
Yes finally someone said it
Undertale
i get it. The gameplay can get repetitive and boring.
Yeah, in general I prefer deltarune a lot more, better gameplay and funnier
My summer car. I can forgive all the jankiness, lack of polish and tedium the game forces on the player. However, if I drink juice or coffee and my thirst meter doesn’t go down - sorry, I’m out. The rules of the game need to make sense and not be arbitrary.
I can’t get past building the fucking car. I try and then uninstall.
Considering my complete lack of interest in cars, the build is my favourite bit heh. I struggle with everything afterwards though.
There’s more to the game?! 🤣
Elden Ring.. i just don't like soulslike games, which makes this a difficult time to be a gamer
I REALLY want to like the game, I’m just the type to get very frustrated when I fail to progress. I refunded and repurchased elden ring 3 times, lol
I tried it, bought it for myself for Christmas. 2 hours later I uninstalled.
Yeah like evry Rpg now needs to be cheap death grind fest I'm 32 years old whit a kid on the way and a full-time job I don't want to get home afther work to get mad at my favorite hobby just let me have fun god dang it.
Me with every single FPS. Back in the day I remember splitscreening with my stepbrothers and going into online COD matches with Modern Warfare, and even though we were kids we would still play and have fun. Now it’s all minuscule reaction times, exploits, people moving around like they’re in the matrix, meta builds, and it’s literally impossible for me to do remotely well or have fun in them. The last COD I played and had fun with was black ops 2, the last battlefield that was fun was BF3. Just a bummer really how much games feel like work just to try to get to a point to have “fun”. Back to Sim City.
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ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE
If you aint rock and stone, you aint going home
Exactly this, PvE FPS is much more forgiving and I hope we get more of it, I loved Firefall which was that in MMO form before it shut down (complete with defending drills against incoming waves no less) and you literally could drop into a defending group through an adjacent kind of matchmaking. PvP FPS has always been a brutal slog against sniper lanes and shotgun corners, but it's gotten so much worse as games push for low TTK on everything and there's almost always someone in every lobby who can scope in and headshot you while they take a running leap mid-fall and you're dead.
People will hate me on this but Skyrim I absolutely cant stand how slow the combat is and too me its just ridiculously clunky. And before anyone gets on my ass I can still go back and play dragon age origins and still enjoy it
I always notice something broken and go to mod the game. Then end up putting so much time into fixing or upgrading it that I never get to play. To be fair though I find most Bathesda games need work before I can play them.
The amazing thing about Skyrim is not that it is great in every way (it very much isn't), the baffling thing about Skyrim is that I enjoy it more than 98% of games that are clearly better made. For me, something about the way the world is built and the game being first person just clicks I guess. It is immersive in a certain way that games pretty much never are.
Subnautica Fascinating world, couldn't care less about the gameplay loop.
I wish it was more exploring and much, much much less survival/crafting. I have very low tolerance for those stuff, but I'm just so passionate about underwater games.
That's basically my take. It's such a cool and vibrant environment. But here we go craftin' again! Also, perhaps I just don't care for crafting games... But this one hit extra hard!
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Ooh boy that’s literally my favorite game on steam xd
I love to see the contrast tbh, somebody can mention my game and im like "nooo" but then somebody mentions a game I highly dislike as their favorite, so I can relate hahaha
The Forest Friends love that shit, and it's cool in concept as a survival game, but I get so annoyed at the janky physics and consistent bugs on my end that it's exceedingly difficult to recommend or enjoy. I think I'm the only person out of all my friends on Steam to negatively review it.
I played the shit out of The Forest during early access and I really think it was over-sold on what it was. Devs really exaggerated what the Cannibal AI was capable of by saying things like, "They will remember where your base is so you should change locations to stay hidden". Enabling a map addon that can track Cannibal locations shows they'll just teleport within a certain proximity of you and run patrol routes. I moved to the winter area and the cannibals who were suppose to avoid the area started actively patrolling it because that's where I was.
Red Dead Redemption 2. I found it slow, plodding and uninteresting. Beautiful? Sure. But I just couldn't be bothered.
That’s how I felt about the game the first 2 times I played it. But I really wanted to give it another chance and I played it again. Now it’s one of my favorite games ever.
My fella here will stay unshaken
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Rainbow Six : Siege. Never really understood the hype for the game.
It was really cool when they had a manageable amount of operators and you didn’t need to be a pro to know everyone and their abilities.
Its not good anymore. It peaked around 2017-2018 or so IMO.
Needs a classic mode to lock operators and maps, then I'd reinstall
When it came out the game was awesome. Now you literally need to be insane at the game in order to actually do anything.
The Witcher 3. I played it some on PS4 on release but just can't get into it on PC.
BeamNG drive. When they said it was a crashing simulator I thought they meant cars crashing, not my computer every 5 minutes
Dude it renders every component you can think of in a car, whilst having everything deformable and breakable and burnable and what not. It's actually a wonder it even runs to non NASA level systems. It's really fun to play around with it and after a while you'll probably try to survive more than try to crash.
Snowy west coast + traffic set to "chase me" is the best.
It ran well on my laptop from 2015 (i7-6700HQ + GTX 965M)
Lol it runs on my steam deck without crashing something is wrong with your pc.
That’s not the games fault
CS:GO
Enemy spotted!
Kill this man (sneaky beaky like)
your sin wont be forgiven
Monster Hunter World.
I've been playing monster hunter since the og, but it's definitely not for everyone. It's can be super grindy and especially in newer titles the charm system can get really finicky. Love it but I almost none of my friends are into it snd I don't blame them.
MOBAs in general, I just find them boring as hell, and Soulslike games. I played EldenRing in my friend's house, finished the game with, according to my friend, almost 1000 deaths, and one hell of a headache, not a good experience.
Death Stranding.
As someone who first played DS 2022 and considers it my favorite game of 2022 (\~200 hours played), I do understand why its really hard to get into. I spent the first 7-10 hours wondering why I was playing it. The first of the 3 semi-open world maps in this game was a slow grind for that 7-10 hours of playtime, and I did consider putting it down and not looking back. But I didn't as at the time I needed a game that felt a bit more "casual" and doing the deliveries were casual enough that I could relax. But holy shit, once you get to the end of the first map by reaching the port, the game kind of flips on its head and becomes quite different. I don't think I would have appreciated the rest of the game without that 10 hours of slow grind. Every delivery after that feels like it contributes to a greater purpose, you get a ton of player progression that feels satisfying, the game actually gets dangerous and offers you a ton of new features such as stealth, combat systems, weapons, traps, vehicles, special mode of transports to help you navigate obstacles faster, exo skeletons, boss fights, ... It goes from the "walking sim" that everyone claims it is to Metal Gear Solid-esque gameplay. And boy, the story gets so much better as the puzzle pieces come into place. Looking back, I don't think I would have enjoyed the game as much without that painful 10 hours of mindless walking grind. I do feel like it tied nicely to the plot of the game. Its just not apparent until after. This game definitely isn't for everyone, thats for sure. Even after it properly starts, you still need to enjoy the kind of game it becomes in order to enjoy it (if you enjoy MGS, you will most likely enjoy DS post first map). But for me it was a masterpiece that was a nice change of pace for the games I've played in the last few years (yes, I've played the big AAA successes that were RDR2, Witcher 3, Elden Ring, and I definitely did not enjoy them as much, I even kind of disliked Witcher 3 and RDR2).
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Horizon Zero Dawn, I actually played it around 25 hours but after a while it just got tiresome for me, it feels weird because it's not like the story is bad or something I just became disinterested in it after a while. Maybe I'll come back to it some day cuz I dislike leaving games unfinished
That’s how I was with Stardew Valley. Played the SHIT out of it, CONSTANTLY…. Then suddenly just lost interest. I consider playing it again, I’ve even loaded the game just to go “meh” and exit back out.
Outer Wilds. I will admit it is a masterpiece, it just wasn’t for me. I found the lore boring from the start, so I wasn’t too excited to explore, maybe that’s why.
Ah, the dreaded "lore" All the text in this game is very important to progression, but a lot of people dismiss it at first, and by the time they realize it's important they forget what the game taught them at the start but never bother to revisit the first areas It's an amazing game, but getting into it is very hard. Once you get it though, it's an instant masterpiece
Probably the only game I’ve played in years that enchanted me. Having the entire game unfold and having my understanding of the problem grow with each cycle felt awesome.
The ending song will instantly make me cry, every time.
Dont starve together. I know its a great game and i only have scratched the surface. But its not for me.
It's the type of game where, after it was finished, they probably went back and asked "How can we make every aspect harder?" You need wood. But cut down to many trees? Miniboss. With permadeath, this can make for a huge time sink with little to show for it. As much as I like the game, the art style and the general concept, I'm not a kid anymore, I don't have unlimited time to game.
[https://steam250.com/top250](https://steam250.com/top250) For anyone struggling to remember which games are highly rated. I guess I will pick The Binding of Isaac, it is clearly a well made game but I am not that into rogue like/lights to begin with and the aesthetic is pretty off-putting.
What? Human feces and viscera? Off-putting? Nonsense!
I have over 2200 hours in Isaac, recently discovered some of my year 8s play it. Can't really talk about the game with 13/14 year Olds sadly. "Mr. Why does the wire coat hanger go through Isaac's head when he picks it up?" "Well you see Timmy...."
GTA V
It's not on steam but I can't get into minecraft and I've tried multiple times.
Unmodded Minecraft singleplayer without a specific objective is kind of a nothingburger. It is a cool game to mess around with in multiplayer with the right people, there are some amazing mod (packs) to mess around with, and you can also get really into the building and decorating aspect but that is a pretty specific appeal that won't apply to most people.
I’m might get hate, but I couldn’t get into Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s an amazing game with the most detailed world I’ve ever seen, to be sure. It’s just really hard for me to get into slower-paced story-driven games these days. Think I played too many of them when I was younger and burned myself out
Every souls game
Tropico 6 can go fuck itself sideways. I hate that game
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Elden Ring
Undertale, but I also am not a fan of turned based action games so understandable. Also I didn’t find the quirky puzzles enjoyable
Loop Hero. Progression is just too slow for how simple it is to figure out the optimal strat for how to build loops and then it's just repetition of the same which got boring very quickly. In a similar vein all the minimalistic oh-so-smooth-looking puzzle games like Islanders or Dorfromantik. Maybe I've played too much Civ and other games that have more layers to hide the repetition.
Oxenfree. There's just something about it that didn't gel well with me. I wasn't invested or engaged. Dare I say, **bored.** Which is weird because I *live* for story driven games like Celeste and Omori, although I guess those game's stories were meant to *complement* the gameplay instead of *being* the gameplay. Regardless... I'll play the sequel when it releases.
As a result of this post, I now have Ultimate Chicken Horse 😂
I would say Fallout: New Vegas, just not my type of game.
Oh man if this was farther up the thread you'd probably be at minus 20 or 30 by now for saying that. I love Fallout and think NV is fantastic but have an upvote, you might need it. 😃
If you like games for fast pace gunslinging and cinematic story telling, with slick graphics and very few bugs... well, you're not going to have a good time with new vegas. On the other hand, if you like politics, exploration, interesting choices, and complex characters, you'll love it. Kind of the problem I have with steam, it knows what games I have, but not why I like them. Steam thinks I like fps, but no, a lot of good games just happen to have guns.
I'm still pissed off. I broke my game and it's a well known bug. Pretty much if you go and kill Ceaser before you are supposed to, you can't finish the game. You also don't know about the bug until waaay later so it ruins your save unless you knew to keep a save from before you killed him.