Which game have you been the most patient for (as in, delaying purchase)?
For me, it would have to be GTA V. I stopped playing games for years, then built a new rig in 2018. Since then I’ve played through GTA IV (well, I beat the story, and it was amazing), but I never played GTA V.
My plan is to purchase it and start playing it the day GTA VI is released, as I have enough other games to get through in the meantime.
The dev is quite against the deep discount sales for Rimworld, it never drops below a few quid off. It is 100% worth it at full price however so take the plunge when you’re ready, you won’t regret it. I’ve got a good few hundred hours, it’s one of my most played games. I come back and start a new colony at least once a year or so. All the explanations are great and add something cool to the base game. I haven’t even looked at mods for it yet but there’s a huge scene for those.
Imo that’s backwards. Who cares. The backers backed it because they believed in the vision, and now it’s been realized, so it’s done.
It’d be like getting mad that I bought a game full-price and then some time later it goes on sale.
Edit: I’d also like to add that they’d probably get even more sales if they put more of a discount on their games more often. Allow the super-budget gamers a chance to actually pay for your game you know?
I heard about it because it had music by Lorn. It looked cool. Cyberpunk pixelart aesthetic. ‘Post-cyberpunk’ concept. Then there was some twitter drama about something the creator said in a tweet years before that maybe indicated some unsavory views which they immediately disavowed. They said they were still working on it ~5 years later, which was ~5 years ago. The game remains unreleased.
There’s also ‘What Lives Below.’ I don’t know what happened with it. Wishlisted it after it was announced, but haven’t heard anything since. It might have died in the womb, as it were.
I do have Mass Effect pirated. Just need a hardware upgrade to run RPCS3 better.
Another alternative is to buy on console. I bought the PS4 version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon because the steam version has Denuvo. I’m kind of torn between generally preferring physical over digital media, versus the openness and flexibility of PC vs the closed-off proprietary-ness of consoles. Trade-offs either way.
I’m still patiently waiting for a 3D VR voxel based falling sand engine type game. There are a couple of interesting projects working towards that goal and technology helps make the cubes smaller and smaller from minecraft to something more like cube world with more material interactions.
I did. I played it a bit and it’s fun. Not sure why it didn’t really scratch that itch. I feel like the mechanics are too simple and the moment i try to push the physics it just doesn’t really do interesting stuff i think. The best part was collapsing a huge structure by cutting each leg but it took a while and the fps fell to a crawl and i couldn’t really move my head to see stuff breaking and falling unfortunately.
and the fps fell to a crawl and i couldn’t really move my head to see stuff breaking and falling unfortunately
Huh… Didn’t have that issue on my hardware, which made it a lot more enjoyable, I guess. Maybe try again at some point if you’ve ever got a significant hardware upgrade.
(And, honestly, the missions are kind of a pain a lot of times. It’s actually more of a heist and getaway game when you play the missions. I mostly just wanted to play it in sandbox mode and destroy stuff.)
I’m waiting for Civilization VII’s first expansion to come out before buying the base game, as that’s usually the time when a Civ game has had all the problematic bugs and balancing issues worked out.
I got the itch and played a campaign on 6 last week and was thinking about what 7 would need for me to buy it…and the answer is an expansion and a deep discount. The feature changed are kinda meh to me
Or maybe hearing that all the buggy stuff that bugs me about 6 is fixed.
That’s likely wise. I played Civ 5 before any expansions and it was bad. So bad that it turned me off Civ games and I haven’t played one since. I’m sure they eventually figured it out, but I should have waited.
Same for Diablo 3. Played through the whole game to the endgame on release, waiting for it to be fun. It never was. Went back to PoE, Last Epoch, and others. I hear the expansion made it pretty good, but I’ve moved on. Diablo 4 isn’t as bad as D3, based on what I played in free play weekends, but it’s still a subpar Diablo-style game. It’s a shame they didn’t pursue Diablo 3 before they lost all the devs from Blizzard North that worked on D2. I played thousands of hours of D2, and I’m sad we’ll never get a true Diablo successor using the IP.
For what it’s worth, the final version of Civ V with the expansions is for me the best game in the franchise, even better than Civ IV. Maybe you should give it another chance.
I’ve been playing Civ games since III shortly before IV came out and they all seem to follow this pattern. VI was a mess on release, but now it’s actually pretty good though not as good as V.
Spider-Man 2. I did initially buy it when it first released on PC, but the performance was so bad I literally couldn’t even do anything. So I returned it.
Edit: I’m also waiting for a good sale on Sonic x Shadow Generations. I don’t really care about the Sonic half of the game, I just wanna play as Shadow.
Elden Ring. After listening to my PS4 struggle with CyberPunk 2077, I decided that I would be better off waiting until I purchased better hardware for both.
Resident Evil Village. I played most of the middle games, but skipped the first one because I hate tank controls and 0 because I heard it was awful. I told myself I won’t buy Village until I play those two. I own them, I just can’t get myself to want to play them for more than ten minutes at a time.
Similar boat here. I own all RE games (cept Requiem) and I really wanna play Village but omg it’s hard to get started. Took me a long time to get started on RE7 too. And I still got RE4make too but I wanted to finish RE4 first but also dropped that one ugh (tho technically I finished it on release already I want a fresh perspective).
But like holy hell the series has like 4 different entry points and my ADHD brain can’t handle it.
I’m holding off to this too. I still want to finish the two Divinity: Original Sins first, yet haven’t been able to do so. Also there are several unfinished Pillars of Eternity saves, haven’t been able to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance, too. There is simply not enough time.😭
It aint the best of the best, but it is good and people can argue (legitimately) it is one of the best of the best.
Do you play any irl DnD or tabletop rpgs? Cause the dice system in video games i think is terrible, and it turned me off of bg3 immediately. And im a tabletop rpg player.
Now months later, im enjoying it, i dont finish most rpgs. Do with that what you will, but at the least wait for a decent sale price
I’ve played some tabletop in the past (10+ years ago) as a noob, never quite got super deep - it was mostly an activity to enjoy with friends.
With the way my life is structured these days, I’d be a key contributor to “schedules & conflicts” and don’t want to burden a party with my inability to fully commit to a campaign.
CRPGs give me the advantage of being able to start and stop whenever, short or long sessions.
Personally, I think BG3 will fit very neatly into that feast/famine mode. I’ve been playing it since early beta when there was only the initial map, and I’ve come back to it for nearly every update for the new classes, races, options galore, and the meta is deeep (if that’s of interest).
On top of that, the mod community is lively, so there’s a non-zero chance that whatever you might find annoying can be easily resolved to your liking. (eg. dice rolling, etc.)
Lastly, it’s been my experience that nearly every RPG-adjacent Di$cord server I’m on has at least a searchable conversation if not an outright channel for BG3 chatter. From local gaming shops to online RPG guilds to 3D-printing groups and such, there are millions of people that’re totally game to hang out & bullshit and/or theorycraft on the topic. I’ve connected with more than one D&D campaign that way, so maybe give it a shot! 🫡
O absolutely. I understand the problem with schedules and what not. Crpgs def have some serious advantages. I mostly brought up tabletop cause I wondered if op was familiar with dice mechanics.
Having played literally 0 TES games in my entire life, I do own some sort of Skyrim enhanced edition in my Steam library. I share your promise. Haven’t got close to play it yet.
Honestly it’s worth it if you’re down for mods. It felt like an insult when it came out, it was like call of duty wearing morrowind’s skin, but since then it’s become a pretty robust modding community and Legacy of the Dragonborn is miles above anything in the base game.
I know the Wabbajack scene is pretty big for Skyrim, is there any big mod pack you would recommend? Skyrim is also an embarrassing blind spot for me (played enough of Morrowind and Oblivion back in the day so never got around to it) but after all the hundreds of hours I’ve spent modding Fallout: NV, Cyberpunk and STALKER Anomaly I am not sure I want to dive headfirst into another multi month mod project.
I could not for the life of me get wabbajack to work, but I did get steam tinker launcher to work out of the box and used nexus to put together asking related to LotDB
I’ve been enjoying Nordic Souls as a Wabbajack pack. It’s got gameplay adjustments that do change the difficulty curve but is closer to the base game in difficulty than many of the other prominent mod packs. It also has a smaller footprint (~100GB maybe?) as compared to some others. Skyrim feels more modern and fresh, for sure.
I downloaded it on a whim after I used Wabbajack/Nexus Premium for some Fallout New Vegas modding (went with Viva NV). I wanted to get full value from that premium sub lol.
Edit: I will say that I don’t think Nordic Souls includes Legacy of the Dragonborn, so I’d look into that and choose another pack if desired.
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Elden Ring. Every time I get close to buying it, something else has a better sale. One of these days though…
Rimworld.
It’s on my list of games to play and steam will recommend it at least once a day but I just haven’t purchased it yet.
For me, it needs to go on an actual sale. I feel like it’s never really gone on sale, or at least not a relatively good one.
Like it’s always been at least $30+, and I’d like to get it for at most $20.
The dev is quite against the deep discount sales for Rimworld, it never drops below a few quid off. It is 100% worth it at full price however so take the plunge when you’re ready, you won’t regret it. I’ve got a good few hundred hours, it’s one of my most played games. I come back and start a new colony at least once a year or so. All the explanations are great and add something cool to the base game. I haven’t even looked at mods for it yet but there’s a huge scene for those.
I see it like Factorio. It started as a crowdfund/Kickstarter so selling it below the price the backers paid diminishes the trust the backers showed.
Imo that’s backwards. Who cares. The backers backed it because they believed in the vision, and now it’s been realized, so it’s done.
It’d be like getting mad that I bought a game full-price and then some time later it goes on sale.
Edit: I’d also like to add that they’d probably get even more sales if they put more of a discount on their games more often. Allow the super-budget gamers a chance to actually pay for your game you know?
Hell, I hope someone over there is reading this:
Considering your crowd-funded game’s MSRP floor as equal to a donation tier of said backers?
Easy solve.
Announce the sale and follow immediately with “Backer’s Choice”: either a refund of the difference or a free copy to gift to someone.
Boom. Sales through the roof like beanstalks.
Now, go get me that golden egg, ya marketing spooks.🤌🏼
Still waiting for Microsoft Flightsimulator 2020 to fall to a price that’s worth it for the amount of time I would be playing with it.
And I’m still salty for the time they accidentally discounted it by 85 % and removed it from my shopping cart just as I was about to pay.
I personally would never buy the game out of spite if they did that to me.
The Last Night
I heard about it because it had music by Lorn. It looked cool. Cyberpunk pixelart aesthetic. ‘Post-cyberpunk’ concept. Then there was some twitter drama about something the creator said in a tweet years before that maybe indicated some unsavory views which they immediately disavowed. They said they were still working on it ~5 years later, which was ~5 years ago. The game remains unreleased.
There’s also ‘What Lives Below.’ I don’t know what happened with it. Wishlisted it after it was announced, but haven’t heard anything since. It might have died in the womb, as it were.
The Mass Effect series, LA Noire, and Sonic Frontiers are all examples of games where I am waiting for DRM-free versions.
Sonic Frontiers had its DRM forcibly removed in January. 🏴☠️
Good Luck.
You could just pirate them, or nows the perfect time to (re)discover the Xbox 360 with how great the modding scene has become lately.
I do have Mass Effect pirated. Just need a hardware upgrade to run RPCS3 better.
Another alternative is to buy on console. I bought the PS4 version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon because the steam version has Denuvo. I’m kind of torn between generally preferring physical over digital media, versus the openness and flexibility of PC vs the closed-off proprietary-ness of consoles. Trade-offs either way.
I’m still patiently waiting for a 3D VR voxel based falling sand engine type game. There are a couple of interesting projects working towards that goal and technology helps make the cubes smaller and smaller from minecraft to something more like cube world with more material interactions.
Have you looked at Teardown?
I did. I played it a bit and it’s fun. Not sure why it didn’t really scratch that itch. I feel like the mechanics are too simple and the moment i try to push the physics it just doesn’t really do interesting stuff i think. The best part was collapsing a huge structure by cutting each leg but it took a while and the fps fell to a crawl and i couldn’t really move my head to see stuff breaking and falling unfortunately.
Huh… Didn’t have that issue on my hardware, which made it a lot more enjoyable, I guess. Maybe try again at some point if you’ve ever got a significant hardware upgrade.
(And, honestly, the missions are kind of a pain a lot of times. It’s actually more of a heist and getaway game when you play the missions. I mostly just wanted to play it in sandbox mode and destroy stuff.)
I’m waiting for Civilization VII’s first expansion to come out before buying the base game, as that’s usually the time when a Civ game has had all the problematic bugs and balancing issues worked out.
Same thing I came here to say.
I got the itch and played a campaign on 6 last week and was thinking about what 7 would need for me to buy it…and the answer is an expansion and a deep discount. The feature changed are kinda meh to me
Or maybe hearing that all the buggy stuff that bugs me about 6 is fixed.
That’s likely wise. I played Civ 5 before any expansions and it was bad. So bad that it turned me off Civ games and I haven’t played one since. I’m sure they eventually figured it out, but I should have waited.
Same for Diablo 3. Played through the whole game to the endgame on release, waiting for it to be fun. It never was. Went back to PoE, Last Epoch, and others. I hear the expansion made it pretty good, but I’ve moved on. Diablo 4 isn’t as bad as D3, based on what I played in free play weekends, but it’s still a subpar Diablo-style game. It’s a shame they didn’t pursue Diablo 3 before they lost all the devs from Blizzard North that worked on D2. I played thousands of hours of D2, and I’m sad we’ll never get a true Diablo successor using the IP.
For what it’s worth, the final version of Civ V with the expansions is for me the best game in the franchise, even better than Civ IV. Maybe you should give it another chance.
I’ve been playing Civ games since III shortly before IV came out and they all seem to follow this pattern. VI was a mess on release, but now it’s actually pretty good though not as good as V.
Hopefully.
I’ve been playing Civ 6 still, it’s hard for me to get my hopes up for 7.
Spider-Man 2. I did initially buy it when it first released on PC, but the performance was so bad I literally couldn’t even do anything. So I returned it.
Edit: I’m also waiting for a good sale on Sonic x Shadow Generations. I don’t really care about the Sonic half of the game, I just wanna play as Shadow.
Terraria, waiting to play it with friends when i make some
I still recommend it solo. I started w friends but most of my time in game has been alone
Elden Ring. After listening to my PS4 struggle with CyberPunk 2077, I decided that I would be better off waiting until I purchased better hardware for both.
Resident Evil Village. I played most of the middle games, but skipped the first one because I hate tank controls and 0 because I heard it was awful. I told myself I won’t buy Village until I play those two. I own them, I just can’t get myself to want to play them for more than ten minutes at a time.
Similar boat here. I own all RE games (cept Requiem) and I really wanna play Village but omg it’s hard to get started. Took me a long time to get started on RE7 too. And I still got RE4make too but I wanted to finish RE4 first but also dropped that one ugh (tho technically I finished it on release already I want a fresh perspective).
But like holy hell the series has like 4 different entry points and my ADHD brain can’t handle it.
Still haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3
I have several unfinished RPGs and really don’t want this one to get added to the list.
I’m holding off to this too. I still want to finish the two Divinity: Original Sins first, yet haven’t been able to do so. Also there are several unfinished Pillars of Eternity saves, haven’t been able to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance, too. There is simply not enough time.😭
It aint the best of the best, but it is good and people can argue (legitimately) it is one of the best of the best.
Do you play any irl DnD or tabletop rpgs? Cause the dice system in video games i think is terrible, and it turned me off of bg3 immediately. And im a tabletop rpg player.
Now months later, im enjoying it, i dont finish most rpgs. Do with that what you will, but at the least wait for a decent sale price
I’ve played some tabletop in the past (10+ years ago) as a noob, never quite got super deep - it was mostly an activity to enjoy with friends.
With the way my life is structured these days, I’d be a key contributor to “schedules & conflicts” and don’t want to burden a party with my inability to fully commit to a campaign.
CRPGs give me the advantage of being able to start and stop whenever, short or long sessions.
Personally, I think BG3 will fit very neatly into that feast/famine mode. I’ve been playing it since early beta when there was only the initial map, and I’ve come back to it for nearly every update for the new classes, races, options galore, and the meta is deeep (if that’s of interest).
On top of that, the mod community is lively, so there’s a non-zero chance that whatever you might find annoying can be easily resolved to your liking. (eg. dice rolling, etc.)
Lastly, it’s been my experience that nearly every RPG-adjacent Di$cord server I’m on has at least a searchable conversation if not an outright channel for BG3 chatter. From local gaming shops to online RPG guilds to 3D-printing groups and such, there are millions of people that’re totally game to hang out & bullshit and/or theorycraft on the topic. I’ve connected with more than one D&D campaign that way, so maybe give it a shot! 🫡
O absolutely. I understand the problem with schedules and what not. Crpgs def have some serious advantages. I mostly brought up tabletop cause I wondered if op was familiar with dice mechanics.
Starfox 64, which I still haven’t played.
It’s a pretty good game, doesn’t take long to complete a playthrough, either. I think you’d enjoy it if the spirit moves you one of these days.
CupHead is coming up on ten years old and I don’t think it has ever dipped below $10 on Steam.
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Enjoy the art of it with mods that lessen the crotch kicks baked into it. 🖖🏼
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Go deep enough down a modding rabbit hole, and the mods have mods for their mods. 😋 (Skyrim, Fallouts, et al.)
Skyrim. I’ll play it one day I swear.
Having played literally 0 TES games in my entire life, I do own some sort of Skyrim enhanced edition in my Steam library. I share your promise. Haven’t got close to play it yet.
Not worth it
I completely agree, if you need to heavily mod Skyrim for it to be good, is it even Skyrim any more? Grossly overrated on release in my opinion
Yep, same.
Honestly it’s worth it if you’re down for mods. It felt like an insult when it came out, it was like call of duty wearing morrowind’s skin, but since then it’s become a pretty robust modding community and Legacy of the Dragonborn is miles above anything in the base game.
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Modding Skyrim is one of my favorite games.
Load game. Load mods. Break game. Repeat until pretty. Finish 10 hours later. Play for 2 hours and drop game.
10 hours? I’ve been at this for over a week (of total time spread across 6 weeks).
Starting 3 years ago, it only took me about 3 years to mod it to perfection — which was another exercise in patience I guess.
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I know the Wabbajack scene is pretty big for Skyrim, is there any big mod pack you would recommend? Skyrim is also an embarrassing blind spot for me (played enough of Morrowind and Oblivion back in the day so never got around to it) but after all the hundreds of hours I’ve spent modding Fallout: NV, Cyberpunk and STALKER Anomaly I am not sure I want to dive headfirst into another multi month mod project.
I could not for the life of me get wabbajack to work, but I did get steam tinker launcher to work out of the box and used nexus to put together asking related to LotDB
I’ve been enjoying Nordic Souls as a Wabbajack pack. It’s got gameplay adjustments that do change the difficulty curve but is closer to the base game in difficulty than many of the other prominent mod packs. It also has a smaller footprint (~100GB maybe?) as compared to some others. Skyrim feels more modern and fresh, for sure.
I downloaded it on a whim after I used Wabbajack/Nexus Premium for some Fallout New Vegas modding (went with Viva NV). I wanted to get full value from that premium sub lol.
Edit: I will say that I don’t think Nordic Souls includes Legacy of the Dragonborn, so I’d look into that and choose another pack if desired.
Thank you, Nordic Souls does look pretty great. I’ll jot that down for the future!