Alan Wake 2
>>750261428outer wilds
Rain World
Alan Wilds 2
>>750261428Dark Souls 1PalworldDMC5
yeah, with Zelda Wind Waker
what game
>>750261646Hollow Knight
>>750261428Yeah, definitely Dark Souls. I don't even what I did the first time I was playing. I didn't have a controller for my pc back then. I probably just deleted it, when I didn't like how it played on keyboard and mouse.
>>750261428smt nocturne
>>750261428Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen
>>750261428Freespace 2 did that for me. I spent a whole day on a friday after getting home from school playing it, and it didn't hook me because it was quite honestly a lot to take in.1 year later, my friend goes on to tell me its the best game she's ever played, so I went back to it, and just pushed through most of the tedious stuff. Turns out she was right.
>>750261428Fallout 1&2. Same for Morrowind. Took many tries to get the build right.
>>750261428dark souls 1
>>750261428Happened with Dwarf Fortress, yeah.I spent an entire week learning things and felt drained so I dropped the game for like a month.One day I randomly picked it up again and everything just clicked instantly. Love that lil game
>>750261428FF5>>750261646TLoU>>750261937Bonanza Bros.
The first time I played Wonderful 101 I ragequit on the first level, then went back to it a month later because the Wii U had no games and now it's my favorite game ever
>>750261428DRG. Initially thought>oh wow its like a 20€ overhyped game with 10h worth of content that repeats itselfThen tried it again after seeing some threads on /v/ and plopped 2.2k hours in it. Real shame about Rogue Core, and for the wasted potential it had.
>>750261428sekirohated it at launch, no build variety, no weapons, no pvp, cheated to beat isshin just to wrap it upwent back a year latereverything just clicked, found it 100x more fun than my first playthrough, ended up preferring limiting player agency because they can focus on fun and challenging encountersnot really sure what changed, but i do a playthrough like every few months now. i can fly through the whole game in an afternoon
>>750261428The Incredibles for the GBA, it's so kino that even Mr. Incredible goes from fit on the blue suit, to fat on the red one
>>750261537same. I moved the slugcat around, disliked the physics movement, got stuck in drainage, and didn’t touch it for a few months.
>>750262472>limiting player agencyFunny way of saying "we put a bunch of systems in the game but made 90% of them dogshit and 9% works in specific situations only". I have never played worse stealth gameplay in a game claiming to feature it. The ONLY mechanic that is fully developed is parrying, everything is about parrying and doing anything outside of parrying, including all of the stealth and platforming, is shit.
>>750261428Kotor
>>750261907DIVE DIVE DIVE
>>750261428Hollow knight.Thought it was overrated but saw people really hype it up.The game is a masterpiece
>>750262704HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!
>>750261428Dead Rising 1 initially filtered me with its timer. It's now one of my favorite games of all time.
>>750261428Crusader Kings 3WarframeRimworld
>>750261428Mahjong
>>750261428Well I wouldn't call Persona 5 a masterpiece but it's probably the closest thing.
>>750261428i couldn't stand sekiro at first but it's now my favorite from game
>>750261646I don't know, I don't remember.
>>750262773
Bravely Default 1.The rest never got past step 4.
>>750262690I hated Kotor 1 and thought it was boring asf. Got to the sand planet and actually had to use all my abilities because of the raiders. Kotor turned me into a Star Wars fan, even watched the movies to figure out the lore on Kreia's force rants.
>>750263305the combat system turned me off initially. I was used to Jedi Knight's action combat so all that crpg gameplay was for NERDS but man, once it clicked?instant favorite
>>750263258
>>750261428TWEWY and OOTTWEWY is just awful at the start, shitty protagonist, shitty touch screen slop combat, annoying soundtrack, I dropped the game twice. Then I played further and further and now it's my favorite game of all time. The game picks up hard near day 5 and only gets better and better. OOT was similar, took me like 5 deku/goron dungeon clears to finally get hooked, now it's my second favorite game of all time. Still not playing the dogshit remake, MM3D already raped me hard enough
I need to be in a certain mood to play JRPGs nowdays.If i just force myself to play them i'll drop it after a few hours
>>750261428
>>750262773I didn't dive on time the first time around and the juggernaut rammed me :(
>>750261428witcher 3, thought the combat was too chinese (this was in 2015)
>>750261907SHE?
>>750263291Second it's worth playing it, fuck II
>>750261428I wouldn't trust anyone whose opinions are so mercurial that they can go from "quickly dropped" to "masterpiece" just like that. I guess the closest for me would be Dark Souls 1 (like a lot of other anons apparently), which I initially bounced off of but now consider a solid 9/10, but I still feel my initial complaints about the game were correct.
>>750261428Talos Principle
bloodborne, poe, osrs. There's also an inverse of this where I've played through a game and think of it as a masterpiece, then go back and the combat or other features feel so shit I can't continue playing.
>>750263443I think we all did. It was basically a jumpscare before jumpscares were a thing, and you had to fucking SLAM on your engines.
>Start playing>"Whatever, it's not like some action RPG form the 90's is gonna change my life">Put it off for 6 years>Resume it>It's life-changing
Xenoblade Chronicles 2. First time I dropped it when I reached Gormott. Years later I gave it another chance and started over and holy fuck it's good game.
>>750261428FF7 remake demo i liked it and all but i later bought into the fake fan/grifter outrage about changes and that its bad. And then i played it and its now one of my favorite games this generation.
>>750263539I knew nothing about Dark Souls 1, but I was completely hooked right away, even though I was playing it completely wrong in retrospect, like equipping multiple weapons at once and fatrolling through the first half of the game. I can't imagine not wanting to keep going.
>>750263539You sound like a colossal faggot
>>750261646Tears of the Kingdom.
>>750261428Kenshi
>>750261428Stanley Parable
>>750261646Silksong
new vegas
>>750261428SekiroGot it around release and like most shitters I was playing it like it was Dark Souls which made me lose interest in it. Returned a month later and the combat actually clicked this time and now it's one my favourite games ever.
>>750261428Rose Guns Days in 2019I read the first chapter up to alfred being thrown out a window and I enjoyed it but wasn't hooked like I was with other WTC games. I read ciconia phase 1 the next week, then gave RGD a try again in early 2020, starting from the beginning. This time I was hooked, legit kino and gut wrenching VN. High-stakes too cuz there's no looping
>>750261428 I barely made it past 3 missions before I was bored. Picked it up again a month ago and have been playing nonstop.
>>750263763La Mulana was sold to me as "You're going to be an archeologist, like Indiana Jones, but you HAVE TO sit down, take notes, and do the work if you wanna beat the game." and was then given one of those shitty pocket notebooks and was told "If the game tells you NOT to do something, don't fucking do it"
>>750263683I just hit the Gargoyles-Capra Demon wall and after a few attempts of each decided I wasn't having fun doing these annoying runbacks over and over. It didn't help that I didn't know about either poise or rolling, which, like I say, I still think the game does a poor job of conveying basic mechanics to new players (and Capra Demon is still awful).
>>750264050I like it. It's a cool runback with lots of hidden thieves ambushing you in a narrow alleyway where you barely have room to maneuver past them. They've never really been able to replicate that feel in future games in the genre. Every area is just obscenely large so you can run circles around every enemy.
>>750261428Basically from soft games for me (starting with sekiro)
>>750261428celeste.
>>750261428zelda botw
>>750264169I've learned to just start that runback from Firelink; it's slightly longer but there's no risk of getting bodyblocked by those fucking dogs. I can appreciate liking slightly more dangerous runbacks but the punishment for getting poise broken by the dogs followed by CD itself being a bit of a coin flip is just too much.
>>750261428Jagged alliance 3Its not ja2 but its certainly better than xcom, kinda plays like a crpg
>>750263498...yeah...?
>>750264862Getting ambushed and cheapshotted is the name of the game, and the capra folds quickly once the dogs are gone. I actually had much more trouble with the gaping dragon because I was still fatrolling, so that sudden tailwhip would oneshot me.
>>750261937Dragons Dogma 2
>>750261428genshin impacti dropped it because i didn't like having to manage a team of 4 during combat instead of just 1 protaggave it another go a year later and holy shit was it worth it
>>750261646E33.Everytime i forgot theres always some anon who keep reminding people it exist as the best game ever. Like, why are you people so insecure about your game that you need to keep telling people about it?
>>750261428the 2D fallout gamesthey are too jank but when you learn to work with what the game has instead of trying to fight the game's shortcomings, they are kino
>>750261428Undertale. Completely ambivelant to earthbound nikki clones
Europa Universalis 3
>>750263594This is such a great game.
>>750261428I dropped Monster Hunter 3U at first but ended up really liking it down the line.I played 3 before that and didn't really like it either so I'm not sure why I ended up playing what was essentially a rerelease of it, maybe it was part of a package deal or something, don't remember. Either way I'm glad I gave it another shot.
>>750265404I kept playing hooping it would get good, but it never did.
>>7502654643U got rid of the janky underwater combat, so maybe that's why you liked it better
>>750261730I forced myself to play dark souls 5 separate times and the first 4 times I didnt get it and the fifth time I played it everyday after work until sleep time until finishing it. I never enjoyed any other souls game since though.
>>750263550Same but it was caused by motion sickness.
>>750261428Xenoblade X for me. I tried it because mecha but was turned off by the gameplay. Several years (and a few hundred hours in FFXIV) later I was more accepting of the combat style and sunk a shit ton of hours into it.
>>750263594>Greatest space game ever.made>No one can surpass it
>>750265878Star Control 2? But I was hooked right away.
Rimworld. I just bounced off it twice but the third time something clicked. Guess I just needed an idea for a playthrough or the right random shit to happen to pull me in.
>>7502655633U still has underwater combat. You're probably thinking P3rd.
>>750261428Guilty gear x many years ago>>750261646every game post 2012
>>750261428Yes, but can't remember which game it was.
>>750261428Majoras MaskAs a kid, even though i liked OOT, i put it off as a childish horror game. Played it again 2 years ago when the recomp came out and its one of the greatest games ever made. Its such a neat adventure with so much soul. The soundtrack, world and npcs - everything about it is great. Its a god game.The only thing i hate about the game is climbing the tower. Its fucking annoying for no reason.
>>750261428Last Remnant
>>750265224similar story heregave it a try when it came out and for some reason just didn't stick with itcame back during Natlan and fell in love
>>750261428disco elysium>>750261646metro 2033 since release
>>750263602if this demo disc tier crap changed your life I'm sorry but you need to kys
>>750266136....It did? I definitely played it but I recall people being happy there was no underwater combat. There is a 3DS version and a WiiU version of it....did one of them remove it and the other didn't?
>>750261646Ni no Kuni
>>750261428Deus Ex 1
>>750261428I'm actually hoping this will happen for me with Toal WarhammerLooks amazing and I love WHF but the gameplay is shit
>>750266509Quit stalking me.
>>750261428deus ex was that game i tried and tried until on my 4th or 5th time trying to get into it i finally cleared the tutorial mission in liberty island and oh my goodness, did the game ever open up for mei think what kept me from playing it the few first times was how clunky the stealthing is the game was, i can never hit anything with the nonlethal weapons
>>750261428mhwwhen i came back i just switched from DB to SA and the game became 10x more fun
>>750261501Alan Woke 2
>>750263416>shitty protagonist, shitty touch screen slop combat, annoying soundtrack, You should've never touched it again
>>750266730give it a chance, once it clicks you cant stop.
>>750261428Dead rising. A lot of Japanese games filtered younger me who just wanted to ball and gun
>>750265878Hey, at least Volition had the foresight to see they made a gem, and just said "Okay, we're not going to top this. So we're just going to leave it as-is"
>>750261428>Has this ever happened to you?no
>>750261514>Outer WildsThis one is quite frequent. Happened to me as well.Typically you spend hours and get frustrated for not being spoonfed a plot.Then you come week/month/year back later, this time you reread the data you discovered, you start putting together what happened yourself, you try to solve the time loop, and then you understand what every themes of the game were leading to.
>>750261428Thief.One of the best summers of my life.
MGS1BastionWouldn't really use the word masterpiece but still
>>750261646I forgot
>>750263539This post is too funny, like this guy loses faith in humanity if someone changes their mind about a video game.
>>750261646I uhhhhhh I forgit
>>750261428Pizza tower for me. Changing expectations helped, I was expecting wario land 4 and once I got over that it wasn’t, I P ranked the entire thing
>>750261428Yeah, Else Ring. Dropped it after getting raped by Margot. Now I just summon coop players to help me (if coop feels like working) or maybe use ashes since no one plays anymore. I didn't but the game until 2025 since I was on a 2011 ThinkPad for several years (I fell for the meme).
Dragon Age Origins
>>750261428Yes, you'll laugh but Prey (2017).I'm a huge (censored) fan so I did like it but first playthrough, I gave up after 5-6 hours. Half the skill tree was locked and I was finding way too few skill point thingies.I replayed it a year later and finished it twice (to see if there was a different ending based on not getting any alien powers).
>>750261428Okami. Dropped at the forest twice two years apart, then played it again almost 15 years later because I was disappointed that BotW wasn't like old Zelda and it was recommended to me. It's one of my top 5 favorite games now.
>>750261428>ctrl-f>Void Stranger>0 resultsY'all niggers never play that or what? It's a sokoban puzzle game on the surface but it has a ton of hidden shit in it>>750265293I think part of the fun with UT/DR comes from speculating and lore analysis. But once the last chapter is out, the fun will disappear. Also it's not fun to binge in one sitting. I can stomach maybe 1-2 chapters at a time. I also hate how the mechanics are arbitrary between chapters; some items have silent nerfs for no reason, and even the bonus boss of ch4 silently changes the scaling on Susie's healing>>750261514>>750267407Thoughts on the dlc? I know it was tonally different from the base game, but I thought it was well executed. I liked the moment when you realize the codes you were chasing in the "other" world weren't there and what you actually had to do.
>>750261428Deadlock, played it for the first time 2 years ago (with 4 lanes) and it was horrendous. Started playing it again 2 months ago, and I'm hooked.
>>750261428No. It just reminds me why I stopped playing in the first place.
>>750263763>>750263990One thing I love about LM1 is that each zone's map fits into a 5x4 region, and has backside, and each zone is enumerated (1-8). Very clean, symmetrical design, and while the movement is stiff, areas and puzzles are built around it and the movement itself can be like a micro-puzzle. I think it's more like Myst meets Kaizo Mario. As much as I like it, I think the remake aged poorly, even if it's designed to be retro style.Meanwhile, LM2 is better in every way: mechanically, movement, narrative, knowing where to go, etc, but the way the overall maps link up doesn't feel as satisfying to me. You have like 9 fronts and 5-6 backsides? And the backsides are where the behelit is used after? The arrangement of the fields on the wiki seems coincidental too (the corridor or blood is a hexagram as well, but zones like the Tower of Oannes weren't originally in the game and it doesn't hit the middle ones)
>>750261646Witcher 3
>tried crusader kings 3 on game pass>no idea wtf was going on>bought it on summer sale this year>actually try to learn the mechanics>it's pretty funthere are so many goddamn systems and things to optimizeimpressive rpg
>>750261428Salt and Sanctuary.What were they thinking tho? The forest area at the start of the game is fucking horrendous, once you get through that dogshit place, the rest of the game is fun.
>>750279137Are you talking about that first little tower you climb to fight the first boss? Been ages since I played
>>750261646Rain World
>>750279212It is a shitty forest with small platforms you must jump on because there is a death pit below, pretty sure it is after the village of smiles.
>>750261646Persona 4
Took me 3 tries for Mass Effect to click but when it did, I loved it.
>>750261428Dark Souls is the biggest one. Maybe Deadlock counts, I went from "it looks fine just not for me" to "it looks pretty good maybe I should try it".I've had this happen more with manga. It took me two tries to get into JJBA because I genuinely don't find the first two parts that interesting and when I was a teenager I found myself in a lot of fanboy flame wars shitting on manga I never even read only to end up regretting it when I finally did. But the biggest one was Jujutsu Kaisen. I read the entire manga from start to finish and thought it was funny-bad, like Kubo trying to write Hunter x Hunter. But I heard so many people talking about things that I didn't remember, so 6 months later I read through it again and now I love it. I've never had such a complete 180 before. I don't know how it happened, I honestly can't explain it. Maybe it depends on the translation you read?
>>750261428Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade EditionI didn't care for it too much because I was accustomed to Smash Bros controls, but when I actually tried learning the characters that interested me I began having a lot of fun.Sadly, I haven't been having as much fun in SF6. Even if it's similar, something feels off. Maybe it's because of how random the game feels with Drive Rush? The flow of the game just doesn't feel the same.>>750261646>Prototype>Bioshock 2
>>750261646Dragon's Blandma
>>750261428Recettear, Dragon's dogma 1 (although that was largely because my pc was extremely shit at the time) and more games. I've had many games where this has happened though although not quite to the level of masterpiece. More like "Damn, wtf, this is kinda good actually"
>>750261428Nothing comes to mind, maybe I'm still at step three.
>>750278486>Void Stranger.It doesn't really respect your time.In several places if you fuckup once in some minor way your entire run can be bricked and you have to redo the same 1000 levels again.Sure there are skips, but the player isn't going to know about them till later.Still had fun in the end, but there was more than a little bit of spite involved.Also I worked out the teleport early and pmuch skipped most of the other character's runs.
>>750261646every wrpg I've ever tried
>>750261428The first Dragons Dogma. Not Dark Arisen but the original.Lend the game to a friend after I bounced off, he ended up loving it and since I respect his taste, I gave it another chance once he returned it and loved it.I miss that friend. RIP.
>>750261428Dark Souls 2
>>750261428Viscera Cleanup Detail. Got filtered by the fact that you have to put boxes and barrels in their respective zones and fill out the PIDs for a perfect score. Came back about a year later and have now done just about every level, only excluding the low/zero grav ones because fuck those ones.
>>750261646prey
>>750261428Horrorvale.
>>750261428This never happened to me :(
>>750261428Path of Exile
>>750266669>>750266882Same, it took me a second try for it to click and then it became one of my favourites
>>750284357sameI mean it's just doom 3 with shit levels, shit enemies and a couple of gay tricks like walking on the ceiling.also, amerindian protagonist, really
>>750263457This, way too console feeling. When I first started playing I wished Witcher 3 could have the Mount & Blade combat/melee system instead. Immediately would make it a 1000% better game.
>>750284839I suspect this is quite common. PoE is amazing.
>>750261428dorf fort
>>750261428Final Fantasy XII
>>750261428yes, rain world
>>750261428battle brothers
>>750261646Elden Ring. I guess I just don't have the patience for games like that anymore. I don't feel like spending hours learning a dance, then moving on to the next one.
>>750261428Disco Elysium. Glad i finished it.
death strandingI gave up on it about 5 hours in at release. Epic gave it away for free years later on pc so I gave it another shot. Fell in love. I still haven't played 2 though.
>>750261428Omori, before the porn made me finish it.
>>750263990I fucked that up because halfway through I wanted to just grab a screencap of every tablet and didn't think about it when I was going through each one
>>750278486>Thoughts on the dlc?I was a bit worried about it having only one planet but it was quite excellentI still jam to the river theme from time to time. Also the cosmic pessimism vs optimism was interesting.I spent hours stopped on the fucking puzzle where you have to wait for the dam to break to "kill" the owls in the simulation so that you can go through
>>750261428Digimon World
>>750261428RE 2 Remake
>>750261428DD1>Attempt 1:Wtf, this is shit>Attempt 2:This is still shit>Attempt 3:Wtf, this is the best game ever (proceeds to 100% it)
>>750261646outer wilds
>>750261428Dark Souls 1
>>750266615i put hundreds of hours into MH3U for 3ds. it 1000% had underwater combat. i assume the wiiu version did too... that would be weird if they changed it. some monsters like that elder dragon you have to fight totally underwater. you must be misremembering something.
>>750261428nioh 1I did like it at first but i was playing other games when I tried it so I soft dropped it then picked it backe up again recently.honestly if anyone here hasnt tried it, do it. It's a pretty good action rpg, way more satisfying combat than any souls shit and apparently it gets insane in both ng+ and nioh 2.Im 2/3 aof the way in, probably will finish it next week.
>>750261428I actually don't think that has ever happened to me.
>>750266615It not only still had underwater combat, 3U even added some new underwater monsters. It's the only game that lets you chase Plesioth into the water for example (as base 3 did not feature it), Lagiacrus has 2 different subspecies with a land and underwater moveset focus respectively, and the final boss was some fat black dragon you had to fight by diving into its hot tub. As >>750289712 mentioned the whale dragon that's the final fight for the village quests (and also the last fight before G-rank iirc) is also completely underwater. Basically completely impossible to have 3's content without also incorporating underwater combat.The Wii U game was also basically just a wholesale port of the 3DS game so no difference there.Most I can give you is that 3U deemphasized that part of the game by having so many monsters you just don't fight in/near water at all, but 3U absolutely had water fights.
>>750261428r_eddit
>>750261646Valheim
>>750291609you mean cuanto cabron
The closest thing I got is Twilight Princess, and even then I don't think it's a masterpiece, just really good.
>>750291847Seriously though, the first area is such a slog that I got filtered till my lockdown backlog blitz
>>750278486>Thoughts on the dlcWell, you played it, so why would you need my thought? (you won't carry mine in the Eye anyway)It's thematically perfection, it answer every remaining plot point, and the reels are so damn fitting.That said I would have improved it with making you activate things in the real world to create bridge in the dreamland since gameplay is limited in there, also would give you extra dev-mode when far from the lantarn and it was very difficult to find some stuff.I also FAILED to discover the most important getting away from the lantern by accident because I was killed too close of it.Kind of a bummer because that's a critical aspect.
>>750261646
I couldn't beat a single stage in this when i was a kid when the Legacy Collection came outReturning to it with actual motor skills was incredible, top 3 classic Mega man now for me
>>750261428Deus Ex 1ArcanumKinda Gothic 1KotOR 1-2Many such cases with RPG's
