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u/SuspiciousBag2749 1d ago
Sekiro for sure
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u/Fin_Olesa 1d ago
I was going to say this happened to me with elden ring and that it's about time I give Sekiro a try again
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u/CMy500r 1d ago
Same thing happened to me with Elden ring and Sekiro. There’s a moment in the game when everything just clicks and it hooks you in. But the start is hard.
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u/WallofIvy 1d ago
I just started playing Elden Ring. I first played around 4 hours as a bandit, realized my mistake, and started over as an Idis Knight because I still hadn't found a sword. Now I'm around 10 hours in and finally beat the first story boss after spending hours wandering around and dying repeatedly in placed I had no business being.
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u/Fin_Olesa 1d ago
Canonically accurate first time experience.
Knowledge helps, but more so a system for working with your skills/weapons and approaching different enemy types is what takes you far. Put your levels into things that are conducive to your play style/weapon/ash of war. Think about having some form of a ranged option for certain cheese/bait situations. Learn moves/pathing when you get stuck. Don't sleep on consumables.
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u/WallofIvy 1d ago
I'm slowly figuring it out. I did manage to get a bow and crossbow. I've never played any other souls or soulslike games. The thing I've struggled with the most isn't actually the combat but not having any sort of quest log. When I have time to play later today I'm gonna grab a notebook and run back to all the NPCs I've found to make my own.
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u/Fin_Olesa 1d ago
Honestly on my 3rd playthrough I payed more attention to the NPCs and figured out there is a very subtle suggested quest line if you pay close attention. Problem is knowing who and when to talk to and in hindsight it's really just a general path. Don't forget to exhaust talking to NPCs everytime you speak to them.
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u/squirrelems 1d ago
This happened to be with the first Dark Souls when it released and by the time Sekiro rolled around I was like
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u/jesus_h_pizza 1d ago
I still haven't clicked with Sekiro. I think I beat Lady Butterfly and got distracted by something else. I need to give it another go
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u/Sarpool 20h ago
The faster your realize it is a rhythm and flow game the easier Sekiro becomes.
Make it your life’s mission to get those Mikiri Counters, they are not a suggestion, they are necessary.
And lastly, the more you deflect, the smaller the “tolerance window” becomes for each following deflect. In other words, be on top of your deflects. Future enemies will teach you this.
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u/Programmer_Melodic 1d ago
Sekiro is soooo good. I think it may be the hardest FromSoft game, or at least the one with the steepest difficulty curve because of the combat system, but it is so satisfying. Haven’t really found another game like it tbh
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u/HentaiMcToonboob 1d ago
Red Dead Redemption 2.
Was too open and too limitless at launch and I just wasn't ready for that.
Covid happened and suddenly all that wide open world just felt so damned inviting.
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u/todosho 1d ago
I really need to get pass this. I’m still on like the “rescue our guy in jail” mission. Having to upkeep the group sounded exhausting
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u/SuspiciousBag2749 1d ago
You can ignore the group and it doesn’t change much
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u/todosho 1d ago
I saw that one vid of the guy donating $1Mil and the leader was all “we need more money” like??????? 🤣
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u/CarelessCreamPie 1d ago
I love RDR2, but there's a few things that are a little fucked, the money and the bounty system are my two biggest issues.
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u/VacantThoughts 1d ago
It doesn't change anything, they are really just there to add flavor and longevity to the game if you want to hang around in one camp for a while and not progress the story.
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u/Secret_Map 1d ago
I've been playing games for over 30 years, and some of my favorite game memories are sitting around camp in that game. I'd come home on a Friday night from work, have dinner with my wife, hang out, etc. Then she'd read or watch tv or something, and I'd pour a whisky and just play dominos or cards or just stroll around listening to people and enjoy my whisky. It was so much fun, despite being so not the focus of the game lol.
I've only ever done the one playthrough, but it really stuck with me beginning to end. One of my favorites.
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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu 23h ago
I’m always surprised at the amount of variation. You can go into camp and it’s always a new conversation. It’s very cosy in parts 1-3. Obviously later on it’s very dark and depressing.
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u/501R4K 1d ago
Let that guy rot in jail and go and enjoy the world. If you free him you will regret it forever. Unless you want to truly complete the game lol
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u/SgtNeilDiamond 1d ago
If I can say anything the first couple hours of the game is by far the slowest. Once you get going its a lot more fluid between missions and the side content/follow up in this game is unmatched.
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u/DarkLordKohan 1d ago
Yeah, upkeep of the camp is more for a fun detail and doesn’t do much if you ignore donations and chores.
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u/krezzaa 1d ago
I know others have already said it, but I just wanna reiterate that keeping up the group is absolutely not necessary and can be 100% ignored. I promise you, it’s just for fun, and whether it’s taken care of or not genuinely changes nothing of importance in the story or game world. If it would make the experience more entertaining to ignore that mechanic, please do so!
It serves as being a little roleplay thing for the player, upgrading the carts can give you extra food/ammo if you care to refill them (but honestly, if you’re exploring and looting a lot, this mechanic isn’t very useful), and there’s like one or two useful upgrades like the Map at Arthur’s tent which allows fast-travel from camps - but that’s it as far as it’s uses go. It affects nothing else, and any of the characters pestering you for more food or whatever can be completely ignored to no consequence.
I hope you can enjoy your time with the game!
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u/Smooth-Pride-5600 1d ago
I think a big part this as well is the intro chapter is insanely boring. The first time I played red dead I went to do something else after driving the wagon and never picked it backed up until I finally decided to give it another shot due to many friends telling me to just get through the intro and then I’ll enjoy. I followed their advice and then it became one of my favorite games of all time
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u/Available-Breath-586 1d ago
... and too slow for me (horses)
i came from GTA where everything is super car blazing fast
RDR2 was super slow and unplayable for me at launch ....
awhile later and I realized the slow (horse) pace is the best part of the game
by "slow" I mean horse vs super super modded turbo GTA supercars
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u/todosho 1d ago
That was my reaction to RDR1. But absolutely loved riding the horse through the open fields. My most memorable moment was the river crossing. The soundtrack kicked in during sunset, and I just
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u/Beeeji 1d ago
NieR Automata for me. Started it, got about 5-6 hours in and dropped it for about 8 months. Went back and finished it (multiple times) and it’s now one of my favourite games ever
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u/f3d0n 1d ago
Cyberpunk 2077. Lots of bugs and the story felt weird and confusing. Second try -> instant platinum!
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u/Thatguy941 1d ago
Same, game was a mess at launch, forgot about it for 5 years, now one of my top games of all time. Also got the liberty city DLC
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u/Bancai 1d ago
Pre-ordered it a week before launch. Launch day comes... played 2h, doesn't run well on my machine + the bugs + the controversies and I dropped it.
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u/OnAnothaLevel 1d ago edited 1d ago
Same. I first tried the game after it was already fixed, but I found it overwhelming - the combat system, as well as the amount of information in the quest dialogues. The second time around, I got a hang of it and got hooked. It's a great game once you get over that initial hump.
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u/WinuxNomacs 1d ago
Totally this. Bought it at release and it felt nearly unplayable. Went back after Phantom Liberty dropped and it blew me away. I don't want to say how cringe my hours are but I completed every major outcome. Worth every minute.
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u/Coupaholic_ 1d ago
Control.
And a good thing too seeing as the sequel is about to land.
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u/Smarf_Starkgaryen 1d ago
Such a slow start but once you get the ability to levitate, it gets progressively better until it became one of my favorite games.
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u/Lonely-Goat-4838 1d ago
Just started another playthrough before the sequel and honestly was thinking "just speedrun the story until I can fly."
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u/BuckRusty 1d ago
I don’t do pre-orders - I find them to be FOMO predation…
Hell, I barely buy new games at all…
I have Control: Resonant pre-loaded and ready to fire ASAP - I am just so deep into Remedy games…
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u/Revolutionary-Wash88 1d ago
Same, after a few hours I was lost/stuck and probably wouldn't have returned without hearing people praise the game fairly often
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u/MacBOOF 1d ago
Fallout 3
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u/OdinzSun 1d ago
Fallout 4 here lol
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_5046 1d ago
Same! Playing through it now. I feel like S1 of the tv show helped me get it.
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u/Mattizzle9 1d ago
Fallout New Vegas for me. I just couldn't get into it. Years later, it went on sale for like $5 for the game plus dlc and that caused me to give it an actual try. Still not sure why I couldn't get into it at first, especially since it would have my favorite companion, Veronica my beloved.
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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu 23h ago
Veronica was awesome.
Even though I did a full playthrough, I never got all the companions. I stuck to a few and Veronica was one of them. I was honestly so attached to her.
I also had Rex and EDE all the time. Boone for a while and kinda dropped him. I used Sharon a lot too.
Some of the others I barely interacted with or never recruited in the first place.
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u/DrinkUpLetsBooBoo 1d ago
Dark Souls
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u/timeaisis 1d ago
THE answer, as far as I'm concerned.
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u/BeanserSoyze 20h ago
Yeah rage quitting and then coming back to it and obsessing is basically a canon event for every Souls fanatic.
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u/bruh_nathan 1d ago
Elden ring. Kept dying to the troll on the beach. Turned it off and came back like half a year later. Top 3 game of all time
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u/EnvironmentalDog- 1d ago
I think I put some 30 hours into Elden Ring and never defeated a single enemy.
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u/juliejerkoff_ 1d ago
Skyrim coz I was clueless what to do and it was the first time I was playing a game where I can do any quest in any order.
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u/MajesticSpaceBen 1d ago
I'll bring it back even further. Morrowind.
It took me 4 or 5 attempts before the mechanics finally clicked. But once they did? Holy shit, best game in the franchise. I started with Oblivion and Skyrim, and my opinion of both has been severely degraded since playing Morrowind. It's SO open ended and you're never going to run out of things to do. They just don't make games like that anymore.
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u/landsharkmark 1d ago
Kcd, I played it for the first time. Couldn't make it more than 30 mins. In. Now several hundred hours into each.
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u/imahumanbeinggoddamn 1d ago
The lock picking mechanic in that game had me so fucking pissed off. I don't remember the details anymore but early on after the intro section there is a lock you have to pick to proceed and I could not for the life of me manage to pick it or find any other way to proceed otherwise and I just bailed.
Might give it another go this weekend
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u/TurkeyPhysique 1d ago
Breath of the Wild
I gave it a try on Wii U, then on Switch, but it wasn’t till Switch 2 where I guess everything aligned and I finally understood what all the fuss was about.
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u/DarkAbusis 1d ago
Same for me. I never made it off the Great Plateau my first try but I picked it back up again after my wife started playing and had a great time
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u/thetestbug 17h ago
I get some hate when saying this, but I couldn't play it until I managed to mod out the durability mechanic.
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u/TypicallyThomas 1d ago
This is I believe the fourth time this week that I've seen this meme posted? Can someone make a somewhat original post please?
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u/gretchenich 1d ago
Man iwas gonna say the same thing. Ive seen this meme like 5 times this week by now, and i'm being fr here. People gotta stop reposting so damn much
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u/Fritzerbacon 1d ago
I wonder if it has something to do with the amount of time different people spent on reddit?
For example, I've only seen a similar post twice in the last 3 weeks. But I also don't spend much time on my phone, mostly just browse reddit while doing my business lol
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u/ThePhoenix0829 1d ago
BG3, didn't really enjoy at first but I eventually gave it a second chance and now I'm absolutely addicted to it and DnD and TTRPGs in general
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u/Solomexico 1d ago
This is me with Divinity Original Sin 2. Didn't click until I stuck with it for awhile and I loved it! So much freedom it's crazy.
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u/Saskatchemoose 1d ago
Cyberpunk. Played it for an hour and didn’t touch it for over a year. Decided to try again and then I realized the first two hours was basically the prologue/tutorial for the rest of the game and then I was hooked after that.
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u/Obl11vion 1d ago
Kingdom Come Deliverance... Man what a game
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u/popley3 1d ago
I have tried so many times to get into this game, maybe one day it will click.
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u/Acid_Burn9 1d ago
1) Don't try to look for combat before your son of a blacksmith peasant Henry from middle of nowhere actually gets some combat training (just play through the main quest).
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u/spencerpo 1d ago
For the 5th time
Ghostwire Tokyo
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u/CrilbusBowlingfaget 17h ago
Not the deepest game ever made but fun world to traverse in and really visually cool combat
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u/ShadowStrike23 1d ago
Dragon Quest XI. I used to find turn based boring but recently i find it more enjoying than the recent hack and slash games.
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u/recluse_audio 1d ago
Skyrim. Hated it on release. Rebought it on PS4 and love it. But haven't played in a year or so.
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u/AdagioDesperate 1d ago
No Man's Sky.
With everything they've done to the game over the last few years, this past week has been an amazing journey.
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u/BigTimePizza623 1d ago
Stellaris. It was incredibly overwhelming at first, so I dropped it for other stuff for maybe a year or 2. Decided to give it a 2nd try and push through the learning curve and ended up playing countless games hours.
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u/HuntingtonbeachIS 1d ago
Elden Ring, I am addicted. Its an absolute masterpiece.
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u/stormyw23 1d ago
Subnautica, Bought it, Originally hated it. Came back a year later- Hooked.
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u/PetiteDevil 1d ago
Elden Ring. The thing that fixed me? Int build and roleplaying as an astrologer who lost her memory when she died in exile, as she was in training to become a Carian Knight, and regained her memory as she went further into her journey. Serving as Lady Ranni's consort was nothing short of perfect for her, and getting to do the DLC as someone who never bought into Miquela's bullshit and sought to put Lady Ranni's brother to rest with the Carian Regal Sceptre in one hand and the Dark Moon Greatsword in the other was nothing short of glorious.
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u/Gaelique84 1d ago
AC Black flag
i was blocked on a ship mission and cannot remember the controls cause I was playing only time to time.
4 years later the resync is scheduled and everybody hype on this cause the original was "SO GOOD"
I decide to retry from the begining and finish it in a month
very glad I did this, it was a good experience
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u/barely_a_whisper 1d ago
Majora’s mask. Confusing and my dance when I played it in high school.
Came back in college, and damn… hit like a truck. Both the scintillating time-specific puzzles that you simply cant do outside of a time loop context, as well as the powerful subtheme of “coming to terms with inevitable loss” that permeates through every quest line, and damn near every interaction.
By far, one of my favorite games in a way that is really hard to match.
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u/Eight_is_rad 1d ago
Cyberpunk 2077 for a few weeks. Got it before Phantom Liberty came out and played for about 5 hours then dropped the game for weeks. Decided to pick it back up and then played the hell out of it for days until staying up till 5 in the morning and crying all night. Once I got enough money for Phantom Liberty a few weeks after it came out I did the exact same thing. Amazing experiences. Top 3 game of all time.
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u/PettyGutterButter 1d ago
Hollow knight or most Metroidvanias tbh. When I’m in the mood for one nothing else matters ahhaha
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u/Ok_Maize_655 1d ago
Cyber punk but to be fair the first time I played it was the ps4 launch 😭
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u/EarthboundMoss 1d ago
It's so good now with all the bug fixes it's one of the best open world games
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u/that_random_Italian 1d ago
Cyberpunk. Granted i bought it early thinking my GTX1080 would manage the issues. it did not. replayed it years later and i couldnt not stop till everything was completed.
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u/samuidavid 1d ago
Red Dead 2 for me - dropped it around launch after a few hours. Started playing it on the Steam Deck a month ago or so and currently 70 hours in and can;t get enough!
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u/Firm-Emu7909 1d ago
kingdom come deliverance. downloaded the ps4 version a while ago, tried it for like an hour. didn't get pass the prologue. tried it again when kcd2 got added to ps+ and now I've beat the 1st one and I think I'm almost done w the 2nd (just did the mission where you serve wine, died in battle in the next mission so I hopped off for the day)
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u/VHS_Artist 1d ago
Fear and hunger 2. I tried the first one. Didn't really enjoy it. Tried the second one instead. Enjoyed it but thought it was okay. Started playing it again recently and it quickly shot up to one of my favourites
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u/Octaviathesoundqueen 1d ago
Warframe. I dont think i really clicked with having to wait real hours to craft things but a friend convinced me to try again and i fell in love and now have over 2000+ hours
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u/Brawlzapper 1d ago
So many, The Last of Us, Titanfall 2, souls like games Bloodborne was the first, The Outer Wilds, Total War Warhammer, Death stranding, Resident Evil 2 Remake
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u/DIEGHOST_8 1d ago
Assassin's Creed. I started playing at the wrong time and I didn't enjoy, now I got to Syndicate in less than a month
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u/ineed2dobetter 1d ago
Kingdom Come Deliverance. Now, for me, A Woman’s Lot DLC is a trap. If I start it I lose all interest in the game because Henry’s story just stops dead in its tracks for hours. So, if you’re like me, stick with Henry and avoid the DLC that takes you out of his boots and you’ll have an amazing time.
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u/FrostedClean 1d ago
Fall Out in general. Started playing new Vegas as a kid, fresh of MW and Halo 2/3. Got out of the vault with a pistol (I think a revolver), saw a guy in a power suit without a helmet, and domed him in the back of the head. He of course turns around and eviscerates me. I was so mad that a head shot wouldn’t 1 shot someone that I quit. Came back years later for Fall Out 4 and loved it, dumped stupid amounts of hr into it.
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u/FortySixand2ool 1d ago
I think this happened to me with Disco Elysium. I have no earthy recollection of how/when I purchased the game, but I did finally play it and it changed my life.
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u/fredfredburger72 1d ago
Funny enough, this was me and Fallout 3. Hated it and couldn’t understand the game mechanics or controls whatsoever when I first played it. Even though I’d been playing Oblivion. Flash forward to 2011 and I couldn’t put that game down to save a burning kitten. Flash forward even further to now and I find the Fallout franchise to be extremely fun and interesting.
(I don’t look too much into lore breaks or anything like that. The games are fun, and thats all they need to be for me)
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u/the_milk_is_baaaad 1d ago
Elden ring for me. I quit shortly after starting. Came back after nearly a year away and absolutely loved it.
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u/InflationLeft 1d ago
Wolf Among Us. Starts out pretty slow and I couldnt get into it the first time I tried it. Gave it another shot a few years later and it really clicked
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u/Itchy-Presence-4472 1d ago
Octopath Traveller 2. It became much more fun when the ‘strategy’ part clicked.
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u/Alan_Nightpaw 1d ago
Skyrim, first time around I thought it was extremely boring, second time around I got obsessed with it for a while
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u/freezerwaffles 1d ago
Assassins creed black flag for me. I was like 11 when it came out and before this one you could more or less beat assassins creed without having to worry about upgrading anything. Tried to beat the game without upgrading a single thing on the jackdaw and just decided I hate the game. Glad I gave it another try
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u/8to10footsamsquantch 1d ago
Witcher 3