For me it’s Deus Ex Mankind Divided. I played the original when it was new but barely remember it and I owned shadow war and never got into it.
However Human revolution blew me away. I loved that game so much. I still think about it and actually am making this post because I finally started cyberpunk last night and got human revolution vibes like crazy.
However I bought mankind divided on my birthday when it released. Happened to be right around the same day. I turned it on, walked a few steps and turned it off. For whatever reason I’ve never turned it on again.
All DMC, all Dark Souls, GOW, Elden Ring, Alan Wakes, Dishonored 1&2 and etc… there are too many games to say but i like how those look and got games only for that reason but probably never gonna play those games.
RDR2. Not sure why I can’t get into it.
It’s so slow. I forced myself to play it but as the game went on I loved it
The first couple hours are beautiful and cinematic, but it’s a brutal gameplay introduction.
When you walk into one of the cabins and spot a can of peaches on a shelf you can loot, you fumble your way overthere, awkwardly bumping into every object and having to pan the camera around half a dozen times to figure out there’s a table leg in the way. You finally get close enough to highlight the item and select to loot it. Arthur shuffles a little, walks up, stops, turns around, does a 180 and walks up to it again, stops, reaches out, picks up the can, makes a gruff “Hrm…”, opens up his bag, puts the can in his bag, turns around and shuffles a little to the left while one foot stands on something invisible.
You then turn the camera around and see 5 more cans of peaches.
Yep, pretty much this. The first shootout was frustrating because while trying to follow the tutorials prompts, I kept wandering off in directions I wasn’t even pressing. Then in the horse riding part after that, where you walk across the mountain cliff in the snow, my horse literally walked me off the edge twice before I decided the game wasn’t worth playing for me, good story or no.
Because it slow as hell. Felt like a game for 70-year olds.
The first part in the snow is a slog. I’ve only beaten it once because I didn’t want to deal with that again.
Most of the Assassin’s Creed games
Blasphemous and Darkwood
starfield. I sweared im gonna play it but after I realized there are no “aliens” in starfield which is literally space opera like I got demotivated as hell. when I found out how shallow and boring this game is, I don’t regret my decision even more
Also the entire story is literally just a long-winded way to use lore to say why new game plus is a thing. You heard that right the story is literally just a preamble to new game plus every single time
TIL there are no aliens. Didn’t need another reason to wait for mods yet here we are
No intelligent aliens. Lots of alien wildlife.
There are Aliens, just not intelligent life forms.
It’s a bit ironic that there are more aliens in fallout than there are in Starfield. They could at least have added an alien Easter egg or something.
Terramorphs and the story that comes with them is pretty cool
I’m honestly gonna tell you to try it. I played for 50 hours and I was done, but it’s not bad.
Only reason I say to try it (on gamepass) is to at least say you’ve tried it so if you want to hate on it you have the right. It’s a good game made wrong.
With that said, yes there are aliens
Expected to really get lost in that game. Was excited. Ended up severely disappointed
Darkwood and the pathless
Disco Elysium. I would love to play it and i bought it but not sure when i’ll get the mood to read all that text
I just can’t get into , tried 3 different times and don’t understand why it’s such a great game.
Same for me.
I have been meaning to play Disco Elysium but I always get overwhelmed by the choices and the character creation. I don’t replay games so I keep thinking I will do a perfect run one day.
Controversial but: The Witcher 3
My witcher 3 experiance is this: i Get past the 1st area and into the 2nd, then never play it again, rinse, repeat.
Like 5 times now
Its good except for the main story.
A bit batman-y in its quest design owed to the gaming trends at the time.
Oh shoot… that’s a shame if the main story isn’t super good. Would you recommend it still?
The story is very strong in Witcher 3. One of the reasons I played was because I was excited about Open World in the Witcher Universe, and ended up loving it because of the heart-touching story.
Just a thing, if you get it, get the edition with all dlcs, goes usually for way too cheap during sales, and the dlcs are even better than the main story.
Don’t listen to that guy, the main story and ESPECIALLY the dlcs have strong and good writing
I still have Witcher 1/2 to play but man, whenever I start the first game I lose interest in around 2hours… Tried it like 4 times now and I’ll prob try again next month because I really liked the books…
I totally know what you mean. The beginnings of both games are really tough to get used to, especially if you’re coming off W3.
After trying many times over the years, I eventually found easier W1 to get into, once I got used to the fact the combat is essentially a rhythm-clicking game.
Also the beginning area isn’t very compelling but once you start helping people on quests the story really opens up and pulls you in, especially after you beat the first big boss – which unfortunately is one of the tougher boss fights you’ll encounter because you’re so weak in terms of weapons and skills. Once I managed to kill it, I felt a real high, and I started to really enjoy the game.
Like you, I also read the books, so that also helped to keep my attention in the game.
I don’t know why, but while W2 is a way less janky game than W1, I just found the interface and combat really awkward on the PC, even if using a controller. You can tell it was really designed for consoles. You can’t remap some of the commands (maybe with the mod you can), and it took a long time for me to get comfortable with how the game works. I actually started to miss the rhythm combat of W1.
Both games are definitely worth playing if you big Witcher fan, but for some reason I think I may slightly prefer W1 over W2. It has a certain charm that I liked and I liked the more compact size of the game.
You don’t have to play the witcher 1 and 2 to enjoy 3.
Xenoblade Definitive Edition, Days Gone and Golf Story.
Forbidden West. Octopath Traveler.
The Batman Arkham games.
MGS5. I’ve had the game for years and I’ll play the game once all the previous games are on PC. Doesn’t look promising for MGS4.
Hades and Devil May Cry 5
I finished that game pretty quickly. Loved stealth games
Mankind Divided was in my backlog for years too, lol. I finally restarted my game and got around to playing it just a few months ago, and I highly recommend going back to it. I forgot how much I love playing Deus Ex games (especially going back with much better hardware). There’s a bunch of hoopla about it being half a game, but it tells a complete arc IMO, even if it’s got tons of sequel hooks left for future games.
For me it’s probably all the PS4 greats like Horizon, GoW2018, and RDR2. Not to mention the sequels lol.