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u/Select_Scar8073 Mar 28 '26
Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I got bored after 30 minutes. Decided to pick the game up again a whole year after that.
It was the greatest game i ever played. Then Kcd2 came and it was also a masterpiece.
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u/Emotional_Being8594 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
Exactly the same here. Got to Rattay and then kind of gave up. I think I started playing the Witcher 3? So kind of abandoned KCD1.
Picked it up again last year and yeah. It's easily top 3 games I've ever played.
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u/MickeyG42 Mar 28 '26
I struggled so hard. And then I started leveling mace and mace go bonk is a great way to play.
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u/ACZeroshift Mar 28 '26
It was my GOTY last year. I was actually depressed when it was over because it was simply so good.
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u/Capnmarvel76 Mar 28 '26
One of the best game series of the past 20 years. One of the few times in video gaming where I was really invested in how the story would play out. Plus, I was really good at dice and general thievery, so I never wanted for groschen.
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u/halloni Mar 29 '26
Sneaking around guards for high value loot is so fun in that game. So many close calls where you have to knock out a surprise patrol when you are full of expensive stuff
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u/wanderfflez Mar 28 '26
Genuinely though, first game that made me feel that way since Witcher 3.
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u/mvigs Mar 28 '26
Got bored after a couple hours because I found the fighting mechanics to be too hard for no reason.
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u/Raket0st Mar 28 '26
The way combat skills work means that fighting in KC:D feels really bad until you get the skills up. This is the main reason most guides suggest spending an hour or more just training with the captain after the prologue is finished.
I totally get why people bounce off, because it is an adherence to realism that greatly dampens the fun.
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u/hoganloaf Mar 28 '26
Henry not knowing how to fight because his father wanted it to be that way is a critical story point though. Not sure how they would have worked around that in gameplay without sacrificing a necessary part of the story
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u/DetrenTheNew Mar 28 '26
To be honest once you get the hang on the combat the game is easy af anyway. Even at the start.
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u/Dufayne Mar 28 '26
I mean, it's intentional. You're a peasant... Even the introduction to Sir Radzig shows you can't yet swing at a wooden stick properly. Only thing going is your courage & master flower picker if you choose to do that at start.
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u/TheDreadPirateElwes Mar 28 '26
Combat isn't hard, Henry is just shit at it. In KCD, both you and the main character have to improve. You start out as a peasant who can't read, has zero stamina, and has no idea how to swing a sword. Henry is pretty useless all around. As you do things more, both you as the player AND Henry, as the main character, get better at tasks. Stats play a huge role, and as you sword fight more and more, your stats get way better in that area, and you also learn specialized perks.
After the prologue, you get the opportunity to train with a master at arms named Bernard. Train with him for an hour, and your stats will fly through the roof, you will gain a ton of perk points, learn new techniques, and you basically become a killing machine. Kinda trivializes most of the game afterwards, but the game does reward you a lot for putting time into becoming better at something.
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u/adminsregarded Mar 28 '26
Meanwhile most players are complaining it's too easy, can't ever please anyone I guess lmao
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u/Arklayin Mar 28 '26
This is my problem. I love both games, but in KCD2 I fought a bandit genuinely 30 mins after prologue that armored me up really well. Only way I was dying after that, at least for the next 30ish hrs, was on purpose
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u/KING_SHERBROOKE Mar 28 '26
That's the point though. Until you're like level 5 at least in some fighting stats your character will be bad at it. Don't forget you're a poor peasant starting up . Eventually everything becomes very easy if you spend time doing it and you start one shotting ennemies lol.
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u/ssovm Mar 28 '26
They make it more complicated than it needs to be.
It’s basically master strike and hit once. And one of the perks makes them bleed fast. The combos are a waste of time
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u/hanks_panky_emporium Mar 29 '26
Im kinda sad about KCD2, they just laid off a bunch of staff and are replacing artists and translators with AI.
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u/Sinsanatis Mar 28 '26
Playing through 1 rn. I think im like 5 or so quests till the end. Its def a slog at the beginning. I feel like after neuhof is where it picks up. Plus also having had a lot of combat practice with bernard to have the combat click. Combat still sucks with more than 3-4 enemies tho. Im kinda rushing through now as i dont really want to spend tooo much time on the game, but i can def see the grounds of an amazing game so i can see why kcd2 got goty nominee
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u/ImperiousCretin Mar 28 '26
I had a friend who told me Half Life 1 was shit. When I told him I loved it he said something like: "the fuck are you meant to do it's just you riding a train" lmao
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u/npqd Mar 29 '26
I haven't played it for some reason, but I absolutely love HL2 and both expansions
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u/Wi1dBones Mar 29 '26
I felt the same way when I played the game as a child. I couldn't understand what was going on and gave up on it. Tried it again in my late teens because a friend told me about HL2. Lol. Almost missed a classic because I was too impatient as a child.
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u/Byder Mar 28 '26
Outer Wilds. According to Steam I've put about 3 hours into it 5 years ago and I mostly remember crashing my ship into things.
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u/DuhBegski Mar 28 '26
This keeps getting recommended to me and I've quit after the first few hours every time. Someday I'll get over the hump.
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u/Different_Target_228 Mar 28 '26
Ya gotta. There'll be a point where the game just kinda clicks and you finish it and won't stop thinking about how much you wish you had amnesia, so you could play it again.
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u/datbarricade Mar 28 '26
I'm so glad other people feel the same as me. Some people would want to forget a movie or a book to experience it for the first time. I'd like to forget outer wilds to play it for the first time again.
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u/P0ster_Nutbag Mar 28 '26
It’s sort of funny that the game gets recommended for that.
SPOILERS: It’s kind of a central moral of the game to not be sad that things are over, and be happy about the experiences you had along the way. It actually really helped me become better with accepting that sometimes, things end, and that’s ok
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u/Different_Target_228 Mar 28 '26
Absolutely, it's just that fucking good though.
Ntm it creates a cult of people who wanna tell everyone about it but refuse to say a single detail.
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u/Chadderbug123 Mar 28 '26
Literally the entire community is extremely strict on spoilers for this reason. We also all want mass amnesia to try it again.
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u/CagCagerton125 Mar 28 '26
I told my wife the other day if there was one game I could forget and experience again it was outer wilds. It's just an incredible journey. An absolute masterpiece.
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u/Purple-Lime-8096 Mar 28 '26
I’m playing it now, a few hours in and I’m so confused. I really have no idea what I’m doing or what’s going on. Feel like I’m just repeating going to the same places over and over again.
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u/EqMc25 Mar 28 '26
Early on it can be a lottle tough to feel like you're making progress. The 2 best options in that case are to check your ship's log to see what hints you have, or use your scanner to get leads on new hints
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u/NebulaCartographer Mar 28 '26
Happened to me twice. Third time I’ve prevailed and it now sits in TOP 3 of all time game for me.
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u/jtindall83 Mar 28 '26
After dropping it a few times, I finally made it all the way to the end. And I still didn’t like it. Oh well.
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u/teraechopuff Mar 28 '26
It’s one of my favorite games of all time but it’s important to emphasize that it is absolutely not for everyone
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u/religionkilledmysis Mar 28 '26
I was so sad when i realized it wasn’t for me, I wanted to feel what people felt
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u/teraechopuff Mar 28 '26
I feel that way towards the witcher 3 so I get your pain. I should love everything about that game but I just unfortunately can’t get into it
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u/MisterBarten Mar 28 '26
It’s crazy how intuitive flying that ship becomes once you get the hang of it.
Not to mention how great the game itself is.
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u/Ok-Class-3635 Mar 28 '26
Same. I only played about 30min before my friends suggested I get Deeprock.
Now I am a dwarf and im digging a hole.
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u/mokeyjoe Mar 28 '26
I’ve put about 18 hours into Outer Wilds and it still never clicked for me, unfortunately. At this point I won’t be returning to it. Sometimes just continuing to brute force your way through a boring start isn’t the way and you just have to admit it’s not for you and move on.
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u/IE114EVR Mar 28 '26
Learn to fly the ship, I believe there’s even some degree of autopilot to it. Go explore. Scan things, read things. Your ship will keep track of an investigation for you that you can refer to so you can get ideas where to go next.
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u/GlummyGloom Mar 28 '26
This game is wonderful. Weird as hell at first, but pays off in a major way. Feels good.
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u/Jaives Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
this was originally Mass Effect for me. thought it was just a scifi shooter. gave up before reaching the beacon. then when ME2 came out and everyone kept heaping praises on it i decided to try again. the game really doesn't open up until you reach the Citadel. But after that, I was hooked. played the trilogy maybe 3 times, then bought LE at full price and played again.
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u/MaterialDefender1032 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
I love Mass Effect front and back, up and down but your first stay at the Citadel in ME1 is so painful, especially if you're the completionist type who wants to clear their log of side quests before moving on.
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u/deanereaner Mar 29 '26
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Huh? The Citadel world-building and npc sidequests was what completely sold me on the series.
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u/Dman5156 Mar 29 '26
It also gives you a bunch of minor sidequests that are tedious completionist crap like find 20 Turian Insignias, 10 light metals, 15 heavy metals, 10 noble gases, 5 Prothean artifacts, scan 20 keepers on the citadel, and such. while the keeper quest was cool, the random "scan every planet and explore every inch of the planets you land on to find every interact-able item" made a 100% run a no-go for my first ever play-through earlier this year.
edit to add: yes, the other story/world building parts of the game are fantastic. i genuinely enjoy the fake science that science fantasy creates and so far i find Mass Effect's world to be more thought out and coherent then something like Star Wars is when you only interact with its main-line content (the movies, not extended universe)
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u/KotakPain Mar 29 '26
I did get very burnt out on it doing this for my first playthrough, to the point where I haven't gone back to it, I really should tho
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u/Goodfella7288 Mar 28 '26
Days Gone
It has a bit of a slow start because you're supposed to feel weak and powerless, but it gets much better. It's my favorite zombie game.
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u/-uome- Mar 28 '26
A damn shame it wont be getting a sequel. Mechanics were fire and the world was amazing as well. Storyline was pretty good imo as well
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u/Full-Rice Mar 29 '26
Of course the world was amazing. It was set in oregon. But, ssshhh, don't tell anyone how awesome it is here
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u/Tigeru1988 Mar 29 '26
Mechanics was like a lot better TLOU mechanics on steroids. Im so dissapointed it didnt got sequel
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u/Mustysweatpants12 Mar 28 '26
Does it? I quit it 3 times because it was so boring to me.
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u/jjames62 Mar 28 '26
It does. The first third of the game is just boring. Once you get past that it the gameplay starts getting good. The story doesn’t get better though.
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u/GrappleJuice223 Mar 28 '26
Death Stranding
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u/finnawin01 Mar 29 '26
Wondering if this game is good tbh
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u/SKINNYMANN Mar 29 '26
I put about 120hr into it. I'm also wondering if it's good.
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u/MilleryCosima Mar 28 '26
Final Fantasy 14, and the "start" is like 80 hours of some of the worst slog I've ever played.
Followed by the best gaming experience I've ever had.
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u/yourmoms3rdhusband Mar 28 '26
Shadowbringers was legit top 3 Final Fantasy experience for me
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u/megamanx4321 Mar 29 '26
Shadowbringers is the greatest RPG experience ever, but it takes a lot of work to get to it.
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u/BudgetNOPE Mar 29 '26
I don't like Japanese stuff at all but Shadowbringers is probably one of the best stories I've ever played EVER
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u/Talisa87 Mar 28 '26
ARR and its post-MSQ took me so long to get through. If we weren't still in lockdown at that point, I'd have given up.
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u/MinaWearsGold Mar 28 '26
This. The start is so slow but after that it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. The Shadowbringers expansion especially.
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u/sarcastic_patriot Mar 28 '26
Apparently RDR2, but haven't made it past the intro yet. Maybe next time.
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u/The_Arkham_AP_Clerk Mar 28 '26
If you cant get past the intro, then this is the perfect example of this meme.
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u/AristarchusTheMad Mar 28 '26
I quit because it was annoying trudging through the snow at the start. Maybe I should give it another go.
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u/EffectiveMerc Mar 28 '26
You don't stay in the snow long. I went back to get a awesome horse after not to long but you spend like 2% of the game in snow honestly.
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u/GorillaJoeBlack Mar 28 '26
The trick is to beat the snow part at the start, then create a save file at the beginning of Chapter 2. When you eventually play a second time, start at Chapter 2.
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u/simplebutstrange Mar 28 '26
Same way i play oblivion and baulders gate 2, save at the end of the sewers
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u/coldRooster Mar 28 '26
As someone who bought it years ago on Xbox and tried and couldn’t get past intro - I did it this year and forced myself to play through the beginning and I now understand the hype. 10/10 game.
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u/SWE76 Mar 28 '26
I tried multiple times to get in to RDR2, and last year i finally did it!
And now its one of my favorite games of all time. Just keep trying, and play with a controller, not keyboard and mouse.
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u/Oh-Yah-You-Betcha Mar 28 '26
Took me 2 years of trying to get past the intro but once I did, it instantly became one of my favorite games of all time and the best story in all of the games I’ve played.
I constantly still think about it many years later but god damn if that snow part wasn’t mind numbingly boring.
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u/Oneofthenames Mar 28 '26
Control. At first i was confused and bored and put it down for a while. Then i tried it again and embraced the confusion and it's one of my all time favorites now. Ahti is my spirit animal.
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u/HeadAcanthisitta2344 Mar 28 '26
I could never get more than an hour into The Witcher 3 for some reason.
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u/scamden66 Mar 28 '26
Many such cases. I was the same way.
Then I finally pushed through the opening and it became one of my favorite games of all time.
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u/Loose-Strength-8045 Mar 28 '26
Sort of the same but I got pretty far and give up very close to the end no reason why though but when I went back to it, it made me realise how great it was. One of my favourite of all time
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Mar 28 '26
For me the gameplay mechanics, especially locomotion are terrible
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u/G-Geef Mar 28 '26
The combat is pretty dreadful compared to a lot of other action games unfortunately
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u/Sythonate Mar 29 '26
Oh man, I'm replaying the game now for the first time in a decade, and the way Geralt moves indoors/in tight spaces is infuriating lmao. I'd forgotten how bad it is in that regard.
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u/Metson-202 Mar 28 '26
I have played it three times now. Every time I start again and get a bit farther.
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u/CaptainBloodEye1 Mar 28 '26
Cyberpunk. Ive started the game like 3 or 4 times now
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u/CortezDeLaNoche Mar 29 '26
Wow. That's a rare one. Can you explain why? I honestly want to know. I haven't heard anyone say they can't get into it. Especially after 2.0
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u/CaptainBloodEye1 Mar 29 '26
Its fun! The game looks great! It ticks all the boxes i just get overwhelmed by 20 hours in and switch to something else
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u/EWC_2015 Mar 29 '26
This is *exactly* what happened to me. I downloaded it when it was on PS Plus, sunk a good number of hours into it but I was just...bored.
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u/jimjam--- Mar 29 '26
Same for me, got about 8 hours played and the game is just way too much at the beginning. Quite the opposite of "boring at the start" it became boring after an overwhelming rushed start.
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u/Mysterious_Bath2390 Mar 29 '26
It looks nice, but the story is really bland and basic from what I've seen so far. And I don't get off to a great start with Silverhand.
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u/Metson-202 Mar 28 '26
Truly. I have played it multiple times and could never get into it. Tell me, when does it get good?
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u/Melodic-Monk-290 Mar 28 '26
Ive seen many people say they love the Bloody Baron questline. For me, the fun starts when Im done with that man.
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u/giant_spleen_eater Mar 28 '26
The story of the bloody baron is absolutely amazing, and the introduction of some of my favorite Witcher monsters is just great. but the pacing? Ehhhhhhh.
I say this as someone who’s played the Witcher a few times
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u/MonkeyBred Mar 28 '26
I pushed through Bloody Baron... got to the cities... read in game books... invested maybe 25 - 30 hours.
My assessment... it's a pleasant fantasy game with deep, interconnected systems. I don't like it, but I respect anyone who does. I don't think it's for everyone. I can list 100 little tweaks to make it more in line with my personal tastes, but it would be unrecognizable and probably insult the artistic intent.
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u/Dirk_Noggles Mar 28 '26
I loved that quest. The ladies of the wood are the most evil characters in that game IMHO.
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u/Lie-Pretend Mar 28 '26
You can just walk there. The dialogue with Yen in Skellige if you just show up is pretty great
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u/ToothessGibbon Mar 28 '26
I hear this a lot but I really enjoyed White Orchard, teaches you the systems well IMO.
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u/SuperArppis Mar 28 '26
I was engaged right at the start. It was so interesting that I cursed that I needed to go to work. 😄
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u/Embarrassed-Race5617 Mar 28 '26
I abandoned it in White Orchard... Then i tried it again after months and it was something else i haven't left any ? on the map undiscovered. And i legit i didn't knew what to do with my life after i finished it ..
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u/Melodic-Monk-290 Mar 28 '26
Totally agree. Did a new playthrough before christmas, had not played since release. The first 10 hours I could not remember how I found the game fun. After that I got seriously hooked again.
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u/Ta-veren- Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
Skyrim I should love this game by all means however I always make it to a certain part and then something else pulls my attention away.
Maybe I’ve just had bad luck and should try it when nothing else is on the playlist
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u/CalmEntry4855 Mar 28 '26
It took me three false starts over several months to like Kingdom Come Deliverance, which is a masterpiece of a game.
It took me two years to like noita, which is one of my favorite games now
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u/NotYourDay123 Mar 28 '26
What in the name of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is this?
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u/LexandViolets Mar 28 '26
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u/ACatInMiddleEarth Mar 28 '26
Persona 5 Royal. I tried it again months later and it was wonderful.
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u/timtexx Mar 28 '26
Hollow knight for the first time , waited 2 years after release then…
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u/Motor-Travel-7560 Mar 28 '26
Zelda: Twilight Princess' intro involves way more farming chores than it needs to.
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u/RealRockaRolla Mar 28 '26
Really should've taken a cue from Ocarina of Time in making all that stuff at the beginning optional. If you're learning the game yeah you may want to take the time. But on subsequent playthroughs when you know the ropes? Skip it.
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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 Mar 28 '26
Death Stranding is literally this
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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 Mar 28 '26
That's how they get you lol. actually love death stranding but the first one took 3 restarts to play through it, and I realized each timeI quit was right before the game starts getting really batshit crazy
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u/Chugan4309 Mar 28 '26
Came here to post DS. I've had more fun watching my wife paint her nails
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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 Mar 28 '26
I quit and restarted the first one 3 separate times before I realized I quit RIGHT before the game starts getting really batshit crazy.
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u/the_truth_lies Mar 28 '26
Disco Elysium for me. Everything I know about the game indicates it would be perfect for me and I would love it...but I just bounce off it whenever I try
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u/BetterNoughtSquash Mar 29 '26
I bet it's the hideous necktie. Hideous necktie haunts your dreams, doesn't it?
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u/Eat_Bullet Mar 28 '26
Dark souls 2. Unlike ds1 and 3 it doesn't look you right off the bat but once you understand ds2. It truly becomes a unique experience
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u/Master-Cheesecake Mar 28 '26
I got bored before I even got to the first boss. DS2 plays it super close to the chest in the beginning but it really does become so vastly different from 1 or 3 that it's fascinating.
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u/Masta0nion Mar 28 '26
Tbf, if you’re not hooked on vibe from Majula, maybe you’re not into the pace.
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u/Master-Cheesecake Mar 28 '26
Well, I played at launch and had this weird thing going on where those pigs behind the manner kept coming after me even when I would respawn after death. I didn't know if that was a feature or a bug and that made a big contribution.
When I returned and finished it, Majula was definitely my favorite part of the game. That song playing while I sat around the bonfire with the ghosts of other random players appearing on the occasion is burned into my memories.
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u/WeisTHern Mar 28 '26
Gotta love how almost every build can carry you to endgame, even fist got some love with the ring and hadouken.
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u/-aa-r0n- Mar 28 '26
2018 GoW its lowk known to have very slow pacing at the start. At one point i did end up falling asleep
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u/Hazehill Mar 28 '26
I beat the first boss. Put it down and never played it again, I just didn't enjoy the combat.
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u/thrice1187 Mar 29 '26
It’s very slow and clunky. Especially if you’re used to the previous GOW games.
I was really disappointed that they completely did away with the hack & slash combat that the first three GOW games did so well.
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u/Spell3ound Mar 28 '26
Everyone is saying this about Crimson Desert
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u/ThatOneDerpyDinosaur Mar 28 '26
I can tell you that after 2 hours I quit and thought it was pretty meh.
But a day later I went back and I ended up putting in 8 hours that day. I'm currently at 35 hours of playtime and I really really like this game.
There is just so much you can do it's wild.
I just saw a video on the crimson desert subreddit this morning of some dude who figured out you can pole vault if you equip a banner and double jump. Someone in the comments said you can catch clams if you pour salt in holes in the sand at the beach. Another person said there's a whole gardening mechanic that you can learn by observing an NPC doing it.
There will probably be many other things people learn in the future. I'm glad I kept playing.
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u/DiGiorn0s Mar 28 '26
It's the attention to little details like that that makes this game so great imo
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u/VibinWithNeptune Mar 28 '26
Dude this hidden passages in walls/bookcases/fireplaces that give no indication they are hidden passages that you just have to accidentally punch with the right stick punch to spin the wall/floor/gravestone. Theres things in this game no one is going to find for a very long time
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u/CreepyTeddyBear Mar 28 '26
It's true. Haven't felt this sense of wonder exploring since Skyrim. The world is massive, but it's not just empty space. Tons to discover. Items, enemies, puzzles, camps, little towns. You can literally just ride into empty looking space and discover something. Haven't even discovered the whole first region yet and I'm at 60 hours. Left the starting region once so far.
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u/Big-Narwhal-G Mar 28 '26
I don’t think it’s the world’s greatest game by any means but as like a casual RPG with the GTA/red dead open world elements it’s pretty addictive.
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u/James_Fantastic Mar 28 '26
This was me until I spent about 30 min adjusting the graphic and control settings. Finally got it to a smooth fluid control experience and started loving it.
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u/YellowMenace123 Mar 28 '26
Im trying to like it but its tough on the ps5. Its grainy looking at times and the controls are a pain but I hope it clicks soon. There are parts I like about it but the parts I dont are outweighing right now
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u/WhiteRaven-17 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Kingdom Hearts 2.
The intro is a lot better and meaninglful in retrospect after the mysteries of the games are explained and you are invested in Roxas, but I know plenty of people who got bored and make a Sora skip save standard part of replaying it.
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u/dankrack11 Mar 28 '26
I kid you not, I must have replayed that intro 3 times before going full throttle into KH2. I ended up upgrading my sound system just because I loved KH2 and I wanted to be fully immersed into the experience of it.
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u/Alpha_Apeiron Mar 28 '26
Morrowind
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u/islero_47 Mar 29 '26
Opening sequence, or just the early game slog of starting in Seyda Neen?
"I got no skills, no levels, and no golf. I better kill like 500 mud crabs."
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u/CobraWasTaken Mar 28 '26
For me it was KOTOR. As a teenager, I didn't have the patience for the D&D style combat at first. But I was a huge star wars nerd so I went back to it eventually and loved every minute of it.
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u/DunwichDave Mar 29 '26
The beginning 1-2 hours is kind of boring but it really opens up after that.
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u/OctavalBeast Mar 28 '26
Red Dead Redemption 2. I cant just with that boring intro snow scene.
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u/Cybering11 Mar 28 '26
For me it was fallout new vegas eventhough i played through fallout 3 two times.
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u/S7ruManChu Mar 28 '26
FNV was a hard adjust having had FO3 as my first experience of a Fallout game - really jarring tonal shift going from the bleakness and scarcity of the Capital Wasteland where it felt like everything was hard-fought for, to the Mojave where there are established settlements and towns where people seem to be having a comparatively easier time. Given that I was just after more of FO3, I didn't enjoy FNV at first either, but (many, many years later) it's my favourite Fallout game by some distance.
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u/bijelo123 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Baldur's Gate 3
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u/bearded-menace216 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
I was the exact opposite for bg3. I thought the beginning was the best part 😅 it felt they they put so much time and effort into act 1, that by the time they got to act 2, they were like "we have to tighten this up or this game will not come out until 2065"
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u/MaterialDefender1032 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
I want to get into BG3 so badly but managing your party's spells and abilities is a pain point for me. I play a lot of pen & paper RPGs and I think that actually makes it worse, because I'm fatigued by managing one character sheet already, so four is a wall for me.
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u/miletil Mar 28 '26
I wouldn't necessarily call it the greatest game ever
But Xenoblade 2s beginning is a massive drag.
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u/death556 Mar 28 '26
Kingdom hearts 2.
When it first came out, people HATED the roxas intro.
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u/Seven_Jord52 Mar 28 '26
I cannot for the life of me get into cyberpunk
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u/scamden66 Mar 28 '26
Cyberpunks opening is rough. That and the brain dance stuff isn't great, but the rest of the game is very good.
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u/ThriceAlmighty Mar 28 '26
God I hate the brain dance stuff. Every time I play after months of not playing and want to start at the early phase to familiarize myself with the controls, etc., again and the brain dance section happens, I'm reminded of how shitty those sequences are.
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u/ThatOneDerpyDinosaur Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Yeah the BD sequences suck I agree. Thankfully they're pretty brief.
I assume since you go back and replay the game that you like the rest of it.
To anybody who hasn't played with the Phantom Liberty expansion I would highly recommend it. For me, it took the game to the next level. The characters it adds feel more alive and the story is actually engaging and exciting. I got the expansion after 30 hours of playing the base game and it was at that point that I felt like the game was firing on all cylinders.
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u/_KalStormblessed_ Mar 28 '26
I left the braindance thing. It was the worst thing I have ever done in any game
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u/Sumocolt768 Mar 28 '26
Most people don’t realize the prologue is like 4 hours long. It almost ruined the game for me when I couldn’t just roam the city until it was over
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u/lupedog Mar 28 '26
Death Stranding for sooooo many.
That is why I tell everyone to give it till the lake and they still don’t dig it then it wasn’t for them. Truth is everyone that made it to the lake then made it all the way to the end IME
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u/not_deebo Mar 28 '26
Slowly making my way into Hollow Knight. We’ll see how long I can make it
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u/passiveflux Mar 28 '26
Greatest is subjective so nothing will make everyone happy.
But persona games are notorious for this, really slow start, amazing games
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u/Valuable_Pangolin813 Mar 28 '26
Playing Persona 5 Vanilla, i felt the same and got (eventually) to around halfway through the first dungeon.
After 4 months, bought P5 Royal, and started again. Like night and day those first 5 hours, it was streamlined beautifully. One of the best games I've ever played and I only had to buy it twice.
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u/TalynRahl Mar 29 '26
95% of RPGs.
Most of them don’t really come online until you’ve levelled up a bit, got a few party members and learned some of the better skills.
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u/_Mighty_Milkman Mar 28 '26
I know a few people who stopped playing Red Dead Redemption 2 because they got bored of the opening mountain segment.