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Disco Elysium.
First go was after finally playing Planescape : Torment and I just wasn’t in the mood for another text heavy game, even though it came highly recommended and had some voiceacting from some podcasters I knew about.
Then the Final Cut came out with all the professional voice acting and it was absolutely excellent.
Hollow Knight.
At first, I was a bit put off by what I felt were stiff mechanics (I played the Ori games first), then I tried it again after a while and realized the mechanics were really just precise.
And now I’m absolutely hooked on Silksong and nothing else compares.
Red Dead Redemption 1. 2 I unfortunately was never able to get into.
Skyrim.
I couldn’t stand the ultra hype. I didn’t see anything special about the game. To me it just looked like a dumbed down fantasy Fallout without guns.
Then like a decade later I picked it up on some huge sale. Ended up first playing hundreds of hours on normal, then hundreds more on VR.
witcher 3
first time playing, i got to the bloody baron and for whatever reason i can’t explain, felt like it wasn’t resonating with me. went back some time later and was hooked enough to finish the main game and all DLCs.
fucking fantastic game
Oh it’s a distant memory now, but I remember the first time I played RimWorld I bailed out again in less than an hour and didn’t touch it again for at least a year
Fast forward to now and I think it’s claimed 1500h of my time
Baldur’s Gate 3. I tried it when it was in early access and thought it was too clunky. Tried it again a few months ago, absolutely love it.
100% same answer. For me, the big change was playing it in multiplayer. It’s worth all the trouble wrangling friends and their schedules together for this. I’m even comfortable playing solo since then, because of all the memories of good times and shared struggles
I tried playing it after release and just didn’t really get into it, but I feel like at some point, I will and will appreciate it more.
GTA V. Also didn’t help that I was running it on integrated graphics.
I’ve been playing regularly for 8 years now.
Witcher 3. It had me for a bit then lost interest again. But, I’m planning on trying again.
Destiny. I picked it up at launch, played the campaign, then thought “that’s it?” I didn’t exactly realize what Bungie was doing. I picked it back up when The Taken King launched and have been playing ever since. Still play D2 even though many people have dropped it.
Hollow Knight
Bought it not long after it came out because I was so in awe with the visual style. Played it for some hours and thought it was fun, but it was not clicking with me as much as I thought it would. It got even worse when I got stuck in the progression. I put the game down and did not play it for a while. Fast forward 3 months and I decide to pick it up again. For some reason this time I found out where to go next and from that moment I could not stop playing it. I could not believe how vast the exploration felt. To this day it is still my favourite game of all time.
Bloodborne, and then Sekiro
Kenshi. I got it in 2013. It seemed interesing but ran so badly on my machine at the time that I gave up on it. Played it again when I got a better PC and some religious people came around to preach and hand out bibles, I put them in a skin peeler.
Guild Wars 2. Didn’t click with it at launch, tried it again a few months ago and oh my god so much has changed in over 13 years. I’m still playing plenty of other games but it’s nice to have an MMO (without monthly fees or any kind of FOMO) to come back to every couple of weeks.
I’m the exact oposite. I loved it at launch and played it extensively. But after Heart of Thorns I fell off. Ever since then it grabs me once in a while but I usually just fall off once the story content is over. Sometimes I play around a little longer but it just doesn’t stick anymore.
Probably Gunfire Reborn: It’s sort of a cartoonish FPS roguelike I initially bought on sale, played a bit, and wrote off, but I randomly picked it up one day months or maybe even years later and ended up getting hooked. The unique weapons keep it interesting and the and semi-casual nature of the game makes it easy to pick up and play for a bit, then put down when you have to do something.
This happened to me with three games:
In each case the game just didn’t gel with me on the initial play, even if I could objectively tell it was a quality game.
Currently playing through Stranger of Paradise again now. I think I expected a more traditionally “Final Fantasy” game my first time through and dropped it at 10 hours. Started fresh recently and am tearing past where I was and playing it enthusiastically now, it’s a lot of fun.
I’ve played some souls-like games in the interim which helped with the general gameplay loop and control scheme. Also have upgraded hardware since my first run, which makes a big difference as the game was previously a shimmery mess full of slowdowns.
As weird as this will sound, Skyrim. Picked it up, played a tiny bit then didn’t touch is for 3-4 months
Same, I tried to play it several times but couldn’t get into it. Learned about some exploits and installed some QOL and graphics mods, and it’s a blast
Dragon Age Origins. My third try it finally clicked, but a year after I bought it!
Celeste, sorta. It wasn’t so much that it didn’t click, I just got distracted with other things and it took a back seat for a few years. Came back to it and ended up 100%ing it (not including every golden berry) and am now at roughly intermediate/advanced skill level for custom maps
Dark Souls, kinda. Got DS2 when it was pretty new, and couldn’t get into it at all. Then I tried DS1 years later and absolutely loved it. So I tried 2 again, and it still didn’t click. Then 3 released, loved it to bits, played through 1 again, tried 2 again, SotFS this time, and I still hate that game. The way everything moves in 2 is just awful, and I will die on the hill that it’s a poorly made mess, from the ground up.
The other souls games are great though. Still have to get around to BB since the frame rate killed it for me on the ps4, but it works great in emulator now, as well as DeS
DS2 exists for when you don’t want to play DS1 or DS3 anymore but you want more souls game to play.
It is also the roughest game to get started in but also by far the best game to cycle into New Game+ multiple times. It’s weird like that.
BOTW. First time played handheld and screen was too small to appreciate it. Picked up again years later on a tv and finally loved it.
Possibly my favorite game, “From the Depths” got me like this. It’s a vehicle builder that gives you a lot more stuff to design, both in functionality and in letting you make something look how you want, than most others I’ve seen… But the learning curve is like a brick wall and I just didn’t get what I was supposed to do the first time around.
Happy to say - none. Only time a game didn’t click right away was due to being way too young for it, and all of those were most excellent once I played them again later in life.
Stationeers. I bought it a while ago and apparently played it for an hour, although I don’t remember anything about that experience. Then I got into it again and got really into it.
rimworld, dwarf fortress, factorio. ugh. cannot escape it now. though with DF the “jitter” of the chars moving messes with my eyes, so i really dont play it much. i know its turn based, I just like smoother movement or a roguelike where my actions begets movement in “clips”.
Various actually
My steam top X :
Demon Souls, couldn’t get into it the first time, then I gave it a shot sometime later but with a guide for only the order to do levels ( I have no walkthrough policy) , it is fantastic (ps3)
It’s a cliché, but Dark Souls. Rented it through Redbox with my brother-in-law, made it past the tutorial boss, then pissed off the Crestfallen Warrior on accident and got ganked at spawn a dozen times before putting the game down.
A few months (and many articles praising the game) later I picked it up on sale and played the whole way through, and it’s now one of my top games of all time.
NFS Underground
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 minutes ago
Dark Souls
Eventually went back to it after beating Bloodborne.