Thread 722865883

What game had you feeling like this /v/?

Fallout New Vegas

>>722865883 (OP)
Persona 5.

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The King's Field games. Well maybe not the first one, but I was always overjoyed to find the next area or new place.

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when a VN gives me a "you unlocked the harem route" screen

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Poe, colony 37, voices of the void.

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any translated pc engine visual novel

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Star Ocean Second Story R
Everything I wanted in a remake.

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under the witch

>>722866164
>>722866193
Based VNchads

>>722866193
opinions on Private Eye Dol?

>>722865970
Isnt there like a 5 hour long tutorial?

>>722865883 (OP)
True route of a mystery visual novel.

>>722865883 (OP)
>God of War 2018
I didn't think AAA could make good stories anymore or that I'd like a God of War game so much.
>Kenshi
Didn't think such an ugly game could create it's own type of genre that I've been missing all my life.

>Astrlibra
The type of Action RPG I wish there were hundreds of: Basically 2D Kingdom Hearts without nostalgia-bait and a story that makes sense.

>>722865883 (OP)
Wukong

>>722865883 (OP)
Another anon already said it but Astlibra

EverQuest project 1999. I never hated and despised a game so much but I liked it. Made it to lvl 24, was drunk irl fell off a cliff 3 times and rage deleted my character

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Minecraft

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Tetris Grandmaster 1
I spent three fucking months on that fucking game and every second of that suffering was worth it for my funny Gm badge at the end

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Noita

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Battlefield 4
Battlefield 1
Gta5

>>722865883 (OP)
With that hairline? Nothing.

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Elden Ring

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Ace Attorney Investigations 2 after playing 1

>>722865883 (OP)
Tunic

Probably Pokerogue. I bashed my head against it for a bit, frequently losing pre-wave 100, until I started getting egg moves and passives, realizing how busted they are. Then it became like crack for a bit.

>>722865883 (OP)
Doom Dark Ages. It had a great ending.

>>722869816
I had a Chikorita with Spore that was more or less the foundation of my runs, but then it lost that egg move in an update and I lost interest.

>>722865883 (OP)
warcraft 3 after beating the human campaign and seeing the ending cinematic

Xenoblade Chronicles. I had tried to play it several times throughout the years but kept dropping it within the first couple of hours because of the combat. On my third attempt I finally stuck with it a bit longer then got to a very enjoyable game.

Oxygen Not Included

>>722865883 (OP)
Deep Rock Galactic

>>722865883 (OP)
The meme being about wasting your life and turning back at the last moment you would have struck gold is... sad
You would have still wasted your life digging up the money

>>722866403
A breath of fresh air compared to Persona 4's 8 hour tutorial

>>722870184
Yes but you can buy drugs

Half life 1, i grew up on consoles so i never played any half life back when they were popular, and i was craving for a shooter and /v/ said it was good so i installed it

10/10 pure kino except xen fuck xen

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Phasmophobia

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Finishing the 4 part level on black hawk down.

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Tails in the sky SC

Rain World

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ELDEN RING

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the golden land reveal in umineko episode 3

Rimworld

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DQ11

>>722871458
Really? I had an opposite experience with the game actually. Absolutely loved the game from the start, but it became the slog toward the end. Constantly getting killed by random bullshit got too tiring, so I had to brute force through the last stretch of the game and felt almost nothing at the end but the relief that the game had finally ended.
Retrospectively, the ending was great, but being nearly filtered by the game made it feel like a white noise at that moment.
I still think the game is amazing. But, maaaan.... I should've just swalled my pride and played Monk for lower diffuculty.

>>722872430
I got got to the coast so I might hate it later, but so far I don't really mind dying to bullshit

ROR2

SteamWorld Dig.

>>722872430
>the slog
*a slog
>swalled
*swallowed
>some other mistakes
God damn esl brain, why can't me write english good?

>>722870125
This and DS/DST, most players will miss 98% of the content of the games just because of the steep difficulty curve.

>>722865883 (OP)
Moon Remix RPG Adventure

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Noita
it's the literal definition of "This game sucks ass" until you reach a point of understanding where the game is actually enlightened

>>722873395
How do I stop dying? Is it just RNG to get good want parts? I wish they let you keep something on respawn

>>722873457
By recognizing worthwhile spells and understanding which wands help you exploit worthwhile spells
Plus learning the enemies' patterns

>>722873683
>recognizing worthwhile spells
Yeah but the RNG has to give you them first

>>722873395
It was the opposite for me
>oh this game is great
>nevermind all the secrets are schizo shit that aren't worth interacting with even if you know the solution
>oh half of the spells are worthless and the best wands are basic bitch ones that just shoot a spark trigger as quick as possible
>oh all bosses you either kill them in a couple seconds(you need to know what they are immune to) or you just die
>oh the lategame is just teleporting around at max speed using the nolla + teleport combo and effortlessly killing enemies until you clip into a pixel of polymorph and die instantly/the game crashes

bots

>>722873805
It's a roguelike what do you expect

>>722865883 (OP)
Starsector
When i have nothing to play i just come back to it like a moth to a flame

>>722873859
>boohoo 100% of the game isn't handed to me
Beat Kolmisilmä and be done with it faggot, the game costs like 10 bucks

>>722865883 (OP)
RE4 2005 once you get used to the movements and aiming

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rivals of aether 2

>>722874024
Handed?
The problem is that only 5% of the game is good, even if the rest of the game was handed to me I wouldn't bother interacting with that content because it's dogshit.

There is zero joy to be had grinding for all orb runs, literally only the base game is decent and even once you learn it the optimal wands to build are the least fun ones.

Kenshi

>>722865883 (OP)
Tiny Rogues, simple and fun

>>722874183
Your whole life is a joke

>>722865883 (OP)
Crusader Kings II.

Elden Ring after making it past Limgrave

The Binding of Isaac

Starting the game out is kind of boring honestly. Most runs start extremely slow, with some basic health upgrades or pitiful stat boosts that barely change how you play. Same goes for the early characters you have/unlock. But, like with any game in the genre, once you start unlocking more items and understanding how to skew everything in your favor, the depth and fun you find is insane. I honestly think I put 30 hours or so into the game before it really clicked. Now I've got Dead God with 685 hours in it.

It definitely takes a while to really see what's there though. Especially compared to other games in the genre that start you out with interesting combat mechanics, weapons that change your playstyle, or intricate bosses.

>>722874243
Either refund the game or beat it you gigantic faggot

>>722874327
Based and CK2-pilled. CK3 is a downgrade.

>>722865883 (OP)
SA:MP

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Blind first playthrough of Expedition 33 up to until the end of act 1, I hate when they do that

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Void Stranger's voided ending

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Kings Field, namely 2 and The Ancient City.

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The World Ends With You

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Valkyrie Profile

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Once you get used to the controls, Kid Icarus Uprising is the best game on 3DS

astlibra again

>>722877165
Fuck, the real ending is pretty much the definition of op.

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Blue Prince
Fucking hated it at the start and now it's one of my favourite games to have come out this decade

>>722866518
>>722866764
>>722877312
Based Astlibros
I had no idea what I was in for KEIZO's wild ride
Absolutely baffling how the story just kept one-upping itself ad infinitum

>>722865883 (OP)
Minecraft

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Enter the Gungeon. Had to spend a good week unlocking stuff before it became good

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Stellar Blade and Red Faction: Guerilla. They're both great action games where the haptic feedback from the combination of haptic feedback via motors and routing the audio through my Dualsense controller just makes the game feel IMMACULATE.


The world just feels that much more tangible when you can feel Eve's footsteps and how they change as you walk across different terrain or the constant rumble of a Martian mining machine. The combat just feels that much better in both games since between feeling every blow you deal and receive in Stellar Blade and FEELING the destruction physics in RFG, YOU JUST GET HOOKED ON THAT CONSTANT SENSE OF HAPTIC FEEDBACK. It's fantastic.

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Triangle Strategy. Almost got filtered by the slow start and all the words words words but it got better as it went on and I got to know how giga based Benedict is.

>>722866164
What VN? The only one I've read that kind of had that was Majikoi.

astlibra

>>722865883 (OP)
Minecraft

Crystal Project.
>exploration is its own reward...
>but also here's some actual rewards too

>>722865883 (OP)
The World Ends With You on DS, once the gameplay truly clicks you feel amazing.

>>722865928
This, but unironically. It took me like 2 years to actually sit down and play it after bouncing off like a retard

>>722865883 (OP)
Lobotomy Corp and Library of Ruina

the actual game of ff7 rebirth started at chapter 12

>>722866518
Are you excited for Kenshi 2?

>>722866403
I mean like 90 percent of the game is a tutorial.
Weird thing going on in modern games where the games mechanics are still unlocking 3/4ths of the way through

>Astlibra
>Chrono Ark
>Troubleshooter
>Anno 1800
>Cavalry Girls
>EDF 5/6
>Monster Train 2
>Rune Factory 3/4
>Rance
>Starsector
>Dungeon Warfare 2

>>722865883 (OP)
Going with the assumption you mean "playing a game that seems okay until THAT part blows your mind":
>Solatorobo with the first "ending" and all the big reveals the game has. Shit man, the game's full of that shit, like damn. Also I still find it funny that the game shows Elh in a towel like three times
>Ghost Trick, pretty much the whole thing, but especially the ending. Replaying it to see all the hints the game threw at you is great too
>Last Epoch when unlocking the skill skill trees, and again when unlocking your subclass (fuck the plot though, the game's writing is ass. Honestly the game's not that good, but seeing your skills have skill trees still blew my mind)
>Undertale's neutral and pacifist endings, blind, for the first time
>Crisis Core's ending despite being incredibly obvious since you know exactly what's going to happen the whole time you're playing the game
>Halo ODST when it's raining and the smooth jazz kicks in
>Warframe; most of the story quests
Honorable mention: Death Stranding. Honestly, just anything to do with Lou, as a good chunk of the game is just filler and half-baked shit, effectively a giant 100-hour tech demo full of unfinished thoughts and ideas crammed into a game.

>>722872038
>7 that high
>3 that low
I guess it depends on which versions of them that you play, but still man...

>>722878902
>Red Faction: Guerilla
fuuuuuck i forgot about that game

>>722865883 (OP)
you go from being a nobody that everyone steps on to being an all powerful warlord that everyone is afraid of

>>722882776
you can do this in Kenshi too, honestly
both games are neat.

>>722865883 (OP)
MHFU

>>722865883 (OP)
>We're locked out by Professor Klaus.

>>722865883 (OP)
over 10 years ago i bought FTL at 75% off on Steam, it was pretty good, after the Advanced Edition update, it became one of my favorite games of all time

and recently, i guess The Finals, like wow, a modern multiplayer game i actually enjoy a lot, played it during release got a bit, but picked it back up on season 7, been hooked ever since

>>722865970
When does it really take off?

>>722865883 (OP)
Abiotic Factor.
God, the scale and scope of that game is intimidatingly massive when venturing into the unknown for the first time.

>>722865883 (OP)
KAG
Noita
Synthetik
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Deep Rock Galactic

>>722865883 (OP)
At first, it felt like I was playing a kusoge, but for some reason I couldn't drop it. I tried playing co-op with a friend, but due to its archaic online mode and the fact that he wasn't motivated to download Hamachi, we dropped it, but something called me to continue.

It was worth it. I still see the flaws, but I appreciate it for all the good things, the aesthetics, the deep rpg, and how at the end of the game it goes from just another shooter to gameplay full of random bullshit go (in a good way).

>>722883972
>play for 2 hours
>pure hl1 tier snooze fest
>drop it
nope

>>722865883 (OP)
Rising Storm 2:Vietnam

I was a CoD kid. My first match playing in a squad with friends, I got maybe one or two kill the whole match and cost dozens of tickets for my team. I genuinely thought the game was bad, I could never get the ball rolling and it was incredibly frustrating. I'm pretty sure I still thought the game had kill streaks because I saw things like air strikes (only the commander can use them).

Month later with a fresh mind I tried again, this time with randoms. I got put in a squad with a leader who constantly kept talking and giving orders, which I just ignored. Because we were losing, I eventually started following him around and actually doing what he said and the game totally opened up. I felt like I was literally in Vietnam, with actual soldiers that's the only way I could describe the feeling of closeness with my squad. This was not a run and gun on your own kind of game, this was squad based with an emphasis on the BASED. That squad lead kept on larping and I kept on following his orders. At one point, shooting through a wall he marked for me and getting 5 kills with no idea why, I was hooked for life. Some day I wanna be this guy for someone else, I thought.

>>722865883 (OP)
might & magic 6
too bad the lil zoomzooms on this board will never even try it because:
>muh gwaphix!

>>722884396
Your loss ADHD zoomie.

>>722882776
I've heard people complain about the slow start, but I was instantly hooked by just killing bandits. Something about having a really small shitty army and fighting toe to toe with bandits, having to try to keep as much of your guys alive as possible by heroically charging into battle yourself as the commander just felt so good straight out of the gate.

for me it's La-Mulana 1/2
It took me like 4 tries to get invested enough and aware enough of what 1 wanted from me to power through
then I got to play 2 with /v/ when it first came out and is easily my favorite memory of this forsaken place

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>>722882776
in these kind of games I always prefer the slow beginning compared to late game

>>722865883 (OP)
What game had you feeling like this /v/?

Outer Wilds. It WILL feel incomprehensible at first, but when you realize how interconnected everything is, it all blows up in the best way possible.

>>722885902
any MMO ever

>>722869269
Why did you use the DS2 version of the Moonlight Greatsword?

>>722885902
Runescape
I think it permanently rewired my brain to only crave extremely long-term payoff

Unironically Silent Hill F

>>722886095
Runescape really is the greatest educational game ever made. Best way to learn English and best way to learn how to grind and succeed in real life.

Evil West starts off really basic but it keeps upping the complexity of the encounters so that by the end it's like you're playing a different game. It's the only game where I remember thinking "what the fuck you can't make me fight 3 of these at once"

>>722865883 (OP)
Balatro

>>722865883 (OP)
The Ys games. Especially the earlier ones because there was less filler.

>>722883917
When Sojiro tosses you the keys.

>>722872038
Absolute dogshit tier list, DQXI's ost is so fucking bad compared to the series standard it can't even be top 3

>>722865883 (OP)
>Final Fantasy VI

I tried to play the game maybe 5 times over the years before finally making it out of Narshe on one rainy August day a couple years ago. I thought that so far the story just wasn't pulling me in and the combat was too simple, but I pushed through.

By the time I was in Castle Figaro, I had gotten charmed by the art style and music. I decided to talk to every NPC and was instantly rewarded, I got to hear the coin song, which even without context made my imagination run wild with some unexplained meaningful story I wasn't yet privy to. Later, learning Edgar and Sabin's story hit me like a ton of bricks, because there were parallels to some people I knew in real life. I did nothing other than play the game for the next two days, I could sense it was going to be a peak gaming experience. The simple combat ended up requiring a lot of consideration and had some serious complexity by the end.

Getting the airship in the ruined world and hearing "searching for friends" for the first time. I just sat there for 15 minutes listening to the music. It was perfect. I was like Miyamoto listening to the Plok soundtrack, I couldn't believe the SNES was capable of conveying emotion like this.

>>722865928
this when i discovered that charisma is a useless dump stat on my second playthrough

>>722865883 (OP)
Never happened to me. Either a game is good from the beginning, or it's shit.

Every game when I figure out how to make my own mods for it.

>>722887215
DS2 above
DS3 below

>DS2 above
>DS3 below

>>722873805
If you think rng fucked you on spell choice, then you need to get more creative with what the game gives you.

>>722886587
that game was trash outside of the aesthetic
And it becomes pretty obvious pretty quickly they just have the four enemy types they're going to throw at you in various combinations.

Dyson Sphere Program
It start like another factory slop, but once you start making solar ring and sphere, my neuron activate and so does my erection

>>DS2 above
>>DS3 below

>>722887215
>new monster hunter players
>old monster hunter players

>>722879569
the venerable CandySoft trilogy did that

>>722887412
Man. FFVI is one of my absolute favorite games and reading this just warms my fucking heart. Thank you for this.

Playing through the Yoko Taro games in order of release

>>722865883 (OP)
Silksong when I unlocked the dash and got used to Hornet’s moveset

FFXIV but then it quickly turned to liquid shit.

>>722865883 (OP)
I knew it was amazing before, but still

>>722892993
is that the smug loli game

>>722865883 (OP)
'Star Trek Fleet Commander 2: Empires at War'

I want to play that fucking game again damn it.

>had you feeling like

I have niggerism fatigue

>>722893143
>N-nigger
Proud of you chud, you have become better man

>>722893084
not so loli now isn't she

>>722865883 (OP)
ac6

>>722893224
she looks very upset about that fact

>>722865883 (OP)
any game with this

>>722865883 (OP)
VNs make me feel like this, i always feel like its going to be boring but end up having tons of fun.

>>722893952
Just a boomer protip. Books are the same but with an even bigger payoff. It feels boring at the start but when you get into it and the story gets all together at the end it's something that can never be eclipsed by regular games.

>>722865883 (OP)
STALKER SoC and CS

tried to start the game for years but cordon always filtered me
when I finally got through it it was amazing.

>>722866518
cuck

1:47:18
https://youtu.be/EWp1fs1Hy3g?si=opV-QWaZcIC5ovPJ

S4League, the envy of the online shooters, then the purge did come and Overwatch, Rainbow6, Apex took many... very few survived...

S4 was better than sex, certified by me.

One of the best cliffhanger endings ever

>>722865883 (OP)
Wasteland 3

>>722865883 (OP)
Dark Souls when I randomly picked it off the shelf.

>>722894329
I dont read many books but i do enjoy the few times that i do, problem is that they tend to be so long and if i dont pick back up the very next day i just cant get into it without starting from the top. I feel like i've read the 1st chapter of Brave New World 10 times by now (and i still havent finished it and will have to restart).

Fuck LNs though, outside of one exception they read like bad fanfic, its not even the content that by itself is very stiff, shallow and awkward already, its the way that is written, the prose, that feels incredibly immature, ugly and stupid. Maybe its just the translation not making it justice but i read a few too many too think its just that.

>>722865883 (OP)
Dead Rising

>>722866403
that's the part where you are still digging before reaching diamonds
>>722885797
yeah same for stalker games as well

>>722865883 (OP)
The Witness for sure. The only game that's had me fall to my knees in amazement.

>>722865883 (OP)
FlashBack
Turok Rage Wars
Fahrenheit
Shadow Complex
N+
Antichamber
Bloodstained

>>722865883 (OP)
MO: Astray

La Mulana

>>722865883 (OP)
Disney Dreamlight Valley.

I have been binging this poop water all night

>>722865883 (OP)
Monster Hunter. I kinda hated the game even in LR because it was pissing me off. Ironically it was partly due to some guy lying to me from these threads saying my times were shit, when in reality they were pretty good. I got to late LR and actually engaged with the farm and then HR ended up being fun. In the village, of course. I went through a whole other thing learning to appreciate solo fights in the hub which I still don’t really care about since that’s a multiplayer area but I at least got one solo kill on each monster there.

>>722865883 (OP)
ss13

>>722865883 (OP)
Outer Wilds and Amnesia The Bunker are the only games where i was no longer playing to see the credits but to only satisfy my own curiousity.

>>722865883 (OP)
NieR.

>>722894329
>Books
Fuck. I remember those! Used to read so much when I was a kid. I remember my mom constantly scolding me for reading way past midnight on school days. Fucking loved sci-fi and fantasy novels. Horror books also, but I don't remember reading much outside King and Koontz, for some reason.
But at some point, when I have started living alone, video games just replaced books completely. Literally do not remember the last time I have read a book. Definetely more than a decade ago now.
I wish constant work-related stress and instant gratification brainrot, like youtube and 4chan, didn't fry my brain beyond repair. So I would have attention span stable enough to read books again.

Name of the games?

>>722865883 (OP)
F.E.A.R
I expected it to be just another mediocre FPS, but it was amazing.

>>722865883 (OP)
Pokemon Unbound on Expert

if the game isn't captivating from the start it will not happen, unless you count tutorials that drag on and finally leave you to your own devices

>>722897232
DS2 left
DS3 right

>>722865883 (OP)
Sekiro
I went from dodge dodge tap R1 doge doge to actually playing the game. I felt comfortable to start using skills, sugars, and prosthetics.

>>722896769
>So I would have attention span stable enough to read books again.
You just need to find an engaging series of books to start reading again.
I got into WoD after playing VTMB and while they are not traditional books I think I must have read as much as I could, like 40+ books from that setting after that.

>>722865928
This but instead of diamonds it's HRT pills

>>722865928
Fpbp

>>722873003
based

>>722897781
Degenerates like you belong on a cross

>game leys you join a far right faction and bring them to total victory by doing terrorism for them
>bethesdrones still have the gall to call it woke

Most recently, Psychonauts

>>722898275
fixed your image, it was still readable

>>722865883 (OP)
Im sure the retarded Garfield-Joker from Twitter will use this image, getting free money.

>>722898373
Get glasses nerd

tunic

>>722865883 (OP)
Final Fantasy XIII

whats with the seething ds3fag in this thread?

>>722865883 (OP)
Death Stranding.

>>722873235
I don't think it's about the difficulty curve. ONI just looks like crap at a glance and the art style doesn't help. "Haha, cutesy funny colony game" but then you realize the game's actually deceptively deep and complex. There's solids, liquids, gases, simulated temperature, light, pressure, radiation, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, liquid locks... It's the reason why I think it's a fitting game for OP image.

>>722865883 (OP)
Dragon's Dogma
Nioh
Stranger of Paradise
Trails in the Sky

>>722865883 (OP)
any player's first dark souls game would do that, unless they had low determination or just bad taste

>>722865883 (OP)
Battlefield 6

>>722865883 (OP)
>he dropped reddition 33 five minutes in

>>722873003
If only Gearbox hadn't installed a septic tank right above the diamond vein

>>722865970
I made it to futabas palace before I finally gave up. the VN to actual gameplay ratio just filtered me. I probably gave up right before it got kino.

>>722865883 (OP)
Morrowind once I understood how things like hit chance worked.

dark souls 2

>>722866298
ps1 version is still superior.

>>722901363
>make game where you only get good at a certain weapon type once you get good at the weapon type
>people cry about not hitting anything for 20 years

>>722865883 (OP)
Morrowind

>>722900841
Yu-Gi-Oh post LV monsters

When I hear people recommend Astlibra, it reminds me why I still come back to this place. Lots of shit, but underneath, people with genuinely good taste

ASTLIBRA Revision motherfuckers

>>722865883 (OP)
Warframe. You do missions and get better weapons and inmprove your weapons and frame so you can do harder missions and get better weapons and improvements that let you do harder missions to get even better improvements. It's not that I want to improve my character and just roll over enemies but I don't want the eternal staircase either. Movement was fun though.

>>722901402
Absolutely fucking not. Just the encounters make it a completely different game that's far better.

>>722901584
>>722901609
played this game for 10 hours. it was crap
>b-but it gets good 100 hours in!
fuck off

>>722901228
Hopoo are one of the worst niggers out there and nobody calls them out for their shit.
They left RoR1 in a broken state, literally unplayable online.
They then proceed to release a shitty remaster as a fix and crank up the price by 50% of the original (not including that everyone got the original for $2 in a sale)

>>722865883 (OP)
Elden Ring because the last time I played a Souls game was DS2 and I was retarded and only knew of Heide's tower of flame
and Armored Core because I played the AC4 demo a decade ago when I was still retarded

>>722865883 (OP)
Survivalist Invisible Strain. It's what State of Decay should've been moving towards. With a better combat and driving system it would become a very decent alternative.

>>722895959
PEAK

Dominions 6 is better though, even if it's janked to all hell

I got poker night at the inventory 2 for $150 and it came with omaha hold'em which i had 0 clue about. already worth it

>>722901636
Your power level in Warframe eventually goes way past anything the game offers you as a challenge and then the game becomes a hollow shell. You ask for even tougher elite elite elite versions of enemies but you realize the devs of Warframe are too afraid of scaring off their faggoty community to ever do that and even the new content they add is just weak shit you blow up instantly and then the game..... just ends.

Oh well, rip Warframe. It was such a good game back in 2017/2018.

>>722865883 (OP)
FO3 actually. Restarted that fucking thing 3 times before it clicked. Later when I played >>722865928 I wasn't surprised it was good since I already expected it.

I'm glad another anon mentioned Colony 37, I talked to the Dev Valen and got some juicy info about the next update. Enemies are finally gonna take damage which will make Lab 3 much easier

>>722865970
I wish I could delete ur reply

>>722868002
it would be noita if it was him digging through diamonds and reaching level 2 diamonds at the end

>>722865883 (OP)
arma

>>722865883 (OP)
Rain world

>>722865883 (OP)
Trails of the Sky

>>722868002
bought it for a friend, gonna play together tonight
yeeeee

>>722868002
>>722873395
>>722903284
based

>>722882170
i was a year or two ago..

>>722885902
black souls 2

>>722865883 (OP)
labyrinth of refrain. ive played through it 3 times and the only thing that got me into it was the artstyle. and dead space 1 when i picked it up for 4 bucks out of the blockbuster bargain bin.

Contractors VR. game itself is S H I T but it has mods and PvP that allow for some really authentic feeling VR versions of gen 6 shooting games like MW2 and Battlefront and halo

>>722887862
>turn entire planet into a machine that shoots solar panels into solar orbit
such a great visual spectacle

>>722865928
Are you cute?

>>722903883
Black Souls is on Steam...

>>722865883 (OP)
Finally finding Helldivers 2 after looking for a good co-op horde shooter for YEARS

>>722896769
>I wish constant work-related stress and instant gratification brainrot, like youtube and 4chan, didn't fry my brain beyond repair.
i've been unemployed since june and the 'hurry hurry make the most of your free time while you can!' instinct is STILL at full strength. entire days where i do a couple household tasks and then flit from video game to website to movie...

Dark Souls, when it finally clicked for me.
Years and years of autism ensued

>>722901358
not really, no. just more of the same

Hearts of Iron.

>>722865883 (OP)
Sengoku Rance.

>>722902480
man FO3 captivated me instantly. i was so hooked on that game, shame the DLCs were so... varied in quality, let's say

>>722865883 (OP)
EvE
DayZ

>>722899340
I have no idea how people look down on ONI or other cartoony games as looking like crap. It looks great. Actual cute and funny art style.

>>722887215
Bottom is w3-wotlk era
No king rules forever my son

>>722887698
handsome lad desu.

>>722873864
I would say finishing the game and then moving onto mods had this moment. Not that the base game was a slog or anything, but the mods let me focus on the bits I liked the most.

pre moon lord Terraria top
post moon lord Terraria bottom

>>722902450
i miss the old raids. i only ever joined as a slova with cards i either farmed or traded for at the comfy markets. i remember giving away beginner cards people were willing to pay plat since i had multiple. it was comfy to just stand where i was pinged to and just press one button for a map wide debuff. now i have a hard on for anything with utility that effectively ignores levels

>>722866120
No one here played kingsfield before demon souls and dark souls, NO ONE. Stop larping like you were there.

>>722904496
Personally I like the art style and the movie shorts are cute but it's deceptive as hell. This is one of those games where you need to have a wiki open at all times and need to look up youtube tutorials whenever you want to get anything done.

>>722883972
I knew since this game was in early beta that I cared deeply about it. I thought it was a Half-Life mod at the time. But yes, I'm so glad it turned out to be a complete gem. Games like this make me want to go out and get friends just to play it in multi.

>>722895959
and what is it? Looks almost like a spider-web software game.

>>722904886
It's definitely a wiki game. The in game encyclopedia is pretty good. But not anywhere near enough.

>>722902265
Play the new chud nation. Their heavy moose cavalry is amazing.

SMT IV when you reach the Tokyo and this music plays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDsDYCI3fyc

SAAAARfield ship building & costumization

>>722865928
So true trans sister!

>>722900841
Elden Ring

>>722901636
>>722902450
Warframe is a game where everyone can be super strong for endgame content, but the hardest content the game can provide is midgame.

getting laid

>>722865883 (OP)
any mystery game with a large cast that all has to be introduced at the start like danganronpa or your turn to die. once the setup is done it just becomes unending kino

>>722870136
really fun game. Just now getting back into it because a buddy of mine just recently got it and he loves it.

Bit.trip Core
Really any game in the series, Core was just the first one I played. Coming off Guitar Hero, it kicked my ass quite a bit, but when I finally started memorizing the songs and getting good combos going I knew this was gonna be a great series.
I'm still not good enough to beat most of them.

>>722870136
ROCK AND STONE

>>722865883 (OP)
Peripeteia's last level ending.

>>722866164
Vn is not a game anon

>>722882503
It's called "tiers of play" I think.
It's kind of a skud. Personally I love it.

>wtf is this random bs impossible to win
>ok I kinda get
>wtf is this boss complete bs
>oh ok I have 300 hours played now not even counting mods and clones

>>722900841
I wish I did.
It was nice to see it kick shinkblivion out of the spotlight, back when it released.
But it did not deserve that much engagement.

>>722866518
>good stories
Dad of boy
God of onions
Nigga that's nuts
Squirrels ahoy
Captcha: PRP0Y

>>722903536
Uhhh it's a single player game last I checked

>>722903384
This x 100

My first attempt at playing the game I went to Drainage System first, then ended up in Filtration system / Subterranean...

So you can imagine I bounced off of it.

My second playthroug

>>722877312
This, especially once you hit chapter 4 or so and it all starts coming together through the questionably slow act 1/2.
replying to breasts

>>722904886
i've probably watched youtube videos on the game for as much time as i've actually played it.
hundreds of hours (no DLC) and i've yet to build and launch a rocket at all

>>722895247
Very interesting list.
One would think that turok's q3a/ut99 moment would have nothing to do with a portal clone, a platformer, two metroidvania, etc, but I actually genuinely get it.

>>722909625
lmao half the games we play together are ones that have had multiplayer modded in. Noita is just the most recent after Morrowind, Dyson Sphere Program, Mario 64, etc.

genuinely, the MP mod for noita is mindblowing. never thought the engine would allow for it so seamlessly

thief from the very first frame of gameplay

>>722909984
>thread about games that are a slog to get to the good part
you lost, friend?

I got this a day before school ended for the summer back in the day....

>>722910123
and what about the game was tough to endure before you mananged to have fun with it?

>>722910047
no retard
game is pure diamonds all the way all the time

>>722865883 (OP)
Sekiro

>>722865928
No, it's mediocre at best.

>>722865883 (OP)
FFXIV when reaching Heavensward.

>>722909350
>clones
Please don't tell me you have the void war devs any money

>>722910426
okay? again, are you lost?

>>722910759
why? does it give you hurty bum-bum knowing the FTL devs gave it the thumbs up?

>>722865883 (OP)
Culdcept for Ps2

>>722909948
recommend some single player games with fun multiplayer mods
sounds like a cool space to explore

Terraria

>>722865970
Absolutely not, the game becomes shit after the first castle

>>722911107
rimworld, rollercoaster tycoon, kerbal space program, cave story, Blade and Sorcery, STALKER, damn near any RTS with a decent campaign...

>>722911107
>>722912868
god i love pc gaming and all my friendly anons who love it too

>>722865883 (OP)
Dragon's Dogma. Opening five hours is shit.

>>722865883 (OP)
Cassette Beasts

>>722865883 (OP)
Expedition 33
>barely anybody on /v/ talked about it, threads were few and far between
>wanted to play it on release date since I saw the trailer, it clicked with me
>thought best case it'd be just a solid game but nothing special
>op pic is mfw entire playthrough

>>722909350
FTL was the only game ever for me that had zero barrier to entry. The game just fit me perfectly. On my first time playing I sat there for 14 hours without eating or drinking. I was just hypnotized and stuck playing.

>>722882170
Yes. It can only be an improvement from Kenshi since the main things holding that game back were base building feeling like shit and the game looking ugly. Shit was made on a education game engine. I know people think UE5 is a boogeyman, but if they had enough autism to work on the OGRE engine, then they'll have it easy with UE5.

>>722901636
>last played warframe in 2013 when it was in beta
>no orbiter, nothing, pretty much a hollow grindfest with special effects and cool movement
>decide to try it out again in ~2020
>didn't google or read anything in advance
>hey its the same game with sugar flavor, I even remember some of the locations and designs that I've been through
>the quests are boring MMO-tier shit
>accidentally start second dream
>wtf???
>next one
>next
>it just kept going and going
I don't know what made me onions more - the actual full storyline with dialogues and choices, the existence of operator or drifter, the lore dumps, interactive cinematics, I straight up did not know anything of this in advance
Its a shame that after all this the game turns into the same hollow grindfest that its always been

>>722914042
yeah DD fits the bill. that took a few tries to click with me

>>722915309
Replaying it again on PC for the first time since I played and beat it on the PS3. Hell of an upgrade experience wise. But, I'd forgotten how slow the start was and how gimped the initial options are for each class. I'm B-Lining through Sorcerer profession grind to Mystic Knight. Will eventually unlock everything before going to BB Isle.

>>722914178
It was one of those games I was gonna eventually get on sale in a few years but one of my friends started playing it a couple months after release and heavily recommended it
Glad I pulled the trigger, the game was literally made for me

>>722915538
Probably a bit too late now but Hard Mode is the perfect mode for a replay. You get so much XP and money that you can speed through the vocations, it's great

>>722865883 (OP)
Nier, the original one. I got it for cheap on PS3, and that was back when people had been shitting on it hard.
It was actually amazing.

Black Souls 1 to Black Souls 2. The first game had good moments as well, but the initial impressions are kind of rough especially when it throws you into a forest with random assets strewn around.

>>722865883 (OP)
unironically
becomes good when you get the mantis claw

What games are you excited for next year?
>Re9 Requiem
Hopefully Leon is playable, there's some light rpg mechanics like with Re4's Merchant, and it's open-worldish like The Evil Within 2.
>Mewgenics
RPG mechanics, Turn Based Combat, and Meta Progression, basically all the reasons that I couldn't get into Binding of Isaac were solved. This honestly will probably be indie GotY.
>Saros
Yeah, another protagonist that nobody can or wants to relate to, but I loved Returnal's gameplay so an emphasis on perma progression means this is exactly what I would want from a sequel. As you can probably tell, I'm addicted to RPG Stats going up.
>Honorable Mentions
Onimusha and Pragmata look like they could be fun. I also am waiting for a Death Stranding 2 PC Port.

>>722916249
for me, it's when I sat down at the bench just before city of tears and the music started playing. pure magic.

>>722915631
Ah, will keep that in mind in the future.

>>722867101
>>722878203
>>722879804
/thread

astilibra

>>722865883 (OP)
Ar Tonelico 2.

>>722879569
>Majikoi harem route
The fucking what?
Did I miss a fucking harem route for skipping the katana girl route?

Fall out 4

>>722909350
The only good roguelike ever created.

>>722865970
Other way around. Game peaks at the first dungeon than proceeds to nosedive off a cliff for everything else until you finally reach the boat dungeon.

>>722865928
>>722887475
>every 2 Charisma gives you a companion slot
boom, fixed your game for you, Avellone, no need to thank me

Subnautica when you get the Cyclops
I know the term gets thrown around a lot, but it was genuinely one of the most immersive ways to get around.

the NieR games

>>722900841
This sums up Elden Ring, the trash heap being the DLC.

>>722865883 (OP)
Chrono Ark

>>722865883 (OP)
>all these Astlibrachads ITT
holy based

>>722874617
You can do mega Satan really early. The "cool" stuff after that is basically only interesting once

Awesomenauts before they ruined it

>>722911568
Nice opinion. Which youtuber who only played the first 3 hours gave that to you?

>>722865883 (OP)
>Unlocking Overdrive in Xenoblade X

>>722920305
Overdrive carries X's combat hard. They erased everything that made 1's good. It's such a goddamn mess without that overpowered mechanic.

>>722920389
You have 385 ore good job but this site isn't for miners.

>>722920297
Played the game on release and then Royal. It's a slog through and through with a plot that only appeals to wish fulfillment teenagers.

>>722920495
>completely abandoned his point
Thanks for conceding.

Rain World

>>722865883 (OP)
SMT Vengeance is the last game that made me feel that way, I went in with semi tempered expectations having read the switch reviews primarily when vanilla came out and was met with kino.

>>722920589
>too mad to even be amused at a stupid joke
Alright man.
>>722920530
If that's all you got out of the game it reflects more on you than anyone else. Being dismissive is the opposite of intelligence. That's called ignorance.
The quality only drops in madarame and okumura's palace, everything else gets consistently better, peaking at futaba, casino, the ship, mementos and even higher in maruki's dungeon.
The writing is solid with the stipulation that the characters suffer for a larger message.

>>722885503
Hey as a lil zoom zoom I watched a lets play of this like 10 years ago by a guy called chainsawman before chainsawman came out

>>722865883 (OP)
Most recent one was Kingdom Hearts. I don't give a fuck about Disney but this game is solid.

>>722920803
And what is this larger message, exactly?

>>722865883 (OP)
for, a while, unironically, Starfield

>>722865883 (OP)
Yakuza kiwami, sadly it only got kino on the last 5 minutes.

>>722909785
What cycle are you on? If you have no DLC installed I think it's actually easier to do objectives such as building the monument for the "Home Sweet Home" imperative since you don't have to gather data units on rockets for research. I don't remember if it cuts having to deal with radiation for research as well since that's kind of a pain.

>>722921792
Its cool at first but then after a while and like the 100th loading screen the cracks start to show and then the game becomes tedious when youre at your 50th samey location.

>>722877875
That's because ad infinitum is a multilayered mechanic in the game

>>722904685
That's not what he said dumb nigger

>>722865883 (OP)
Terraria
thought it was a minecraft clone for a good while

>>722865883 (OP)
Minecraft
No, not because you're literally mining for diamonds.

The surface level of the game is pretty boring. Especially at the start.
But there's a ton of depth to exploiting game mechanics for farms and contraptions.
Not to mention modding.

>>722865883 (OP)
Snowrunner.

Once you realize it's not just "press W but on dirt roads" but instead sort of a puzzle game, it becomes quite satisfying. Especially with fishing out the cars running on pizza cutters that the residents of the town managed to get stuck here and there.

>>722865883 (OP)
Noita

>>722918904
I think the Cyclops is way too far into the game. Either the game should have more content after the Cyclops to justify it being this glorious mobile home base or introduce it earlier.

>>722887215
That doesn't even make sense.

>>722865883 (OP)
Hitman WoA. It seems obtuse ad arbitrary at fiest and then it clicks.

Gambling games

>>722871458
Like I said before, it feels like swimming in a ocean of shit with some diamond floating, sometimes even an island of diamond.
Right now I am STILL waiting for a patch to play the Watched on the fucking Switch... I don't want to delete all the progress with the others slugcats.

>>722865883 (OP)
Dying Light.

>>722887215
>f2p gacha players vs paypigs

>>722925683
kek

>>722920803
>Larger message
A bunch of teenagers kill god and that's good or something lol

>>722865883 (OP)
Foxhole, amazing game but extreme autism required to really enjoy it

yolandi visser camel toe gazing
i got called gay cause i like staring at camel toes and imagine them resting on my lips with the ight of a full person keeping them there

>>722865883 (OP)
Sonic frontiers.

>>722866164
Based haremchad

>lose access to PC
>Have not much choice, play mobile games while i get money for a new c
>Be bored of shit that always requires that you have internet access, gacha shit, and games that asks you to watch shitty add to fund the game
>Find UnCiv
>Think its going to be one of those idle building shits with some multiplayer thats essentially grow and army and raid somebody for the lulz
>Play it
>Its an actual, proper 4x Civ game
>Its a passion project thats pretty much finished that still gets funded with donations to the main dev to keep up some support
>Doesn't require internet to run, but you can still need it if you want to play multiplayer with actual people
>There is an autistic amount of factions/civilizations, as well as several city states that you can negotiate into turning into your allies/bufferstates.
>Can play from the ancient era all the way to the futuristic era where you can get mechs
>You can use nukes on people
>Has a spy system
>Has a religious system
>Maps can be stupidly tiny or so fucking large that it might take you several hundred years into the future to conquer the whole thing.
>All this shit available on phone and PC.
>Has fucking mod support.
>All this shit completely free.
Seriously anons, this is fucking amazing.
At one point I almost managed to conquer the whole world using Mechs and hordes upon hordes of APCs, tanks, and several destructors, Im talking about several dozens upon dozens of untils, and still i was fighting a 1v4 since the bots always had more units than i had.
It was such a large scale that my game was starting to choke on how much shit was going on, and my action feed took half a minute to fully scroll down to get a report.
Absolutely amazing.

Fallout 1

Picked and dropped multiple times across the years. Once it clicked I was dealing with some of the best vidya structure I had ever seen.

>>722865883 (OP)
Stranger of Paradise FFO
Fallout 2, when you get the ship from Shi

>>722879801
That game is very dear to me. Still haven't finished it, maybe one day I will.
I will never again feel what I felt on my first playthrough, on the shitty family desktop running windows xp and 512MB ram.
I didn't care about the loading times because the music immersed me so well in the setting.
The start cinematic kicked me in my little kid guts like nothing did before.

>>722887215
Playing wide vs. tall in civilization

>>722865883 (OP)
Final Fantasy XI
Everquest
Phantasy star online episodes 1 & 2 BB

>>722898275
Huhhh lucculus sir I never asked

>>722865883 (OP)
>some of the games posted in the thread completely miss the point of this image
Its not because I hate the games I just hate the posters for being so fucking stupid

>>722929525
The image doesn't show the guy working hard with no payoff beforehand
There's nothing saying he didn't just walk through a tunnel and immediately hit upon diamonds

>>722873067
>>722902735
Wait, I was about to respond seriously, but are you just referencing these games because it's about digging in the ground for gems? I finished both, so I was going to argue if they were what OP was describing, but yes, yes they are literally.

>>722865883 (OP)
This happened to me twice with Divinity Original Sin 2. Also Mass Effect 1 at Ilos.

>>722865883 (OP)
not a whole game but
>just go to a random early game map and hit shit until you have enough jp for cherry blossom and swiftcast bro

>>722914362
Is it really? Because I started it and felt kind of bored with it. Does it actually improve later?

>>722917625
Do you mean the beginning before the game starts proper? Do you consider The first failed attempt at metafalica still a slog or already the good part?

>people posting modern mmo slop like FFXIV or WoW
You can tell a lot of people never really experienced what a grinding game is actually like, or even get the point of OPs image.

>>722918606
The game would be way too easy if you could walk around with 5 companions. AT THE MOST 3, if you count Rex/ED-E

>>722865883 (OP)
Hitting mooncat in UFO50

>>722929975
Its a good game but its not about grinding, that anon is a retard for posting it here. I still recommend it though

>>722930151
>grinding
>>722930082
>grinding
see
>>722929687

>>722865883 (OP)
Darktide.

>>722930151
>>722930082
Anon the thread isn't about grinding, it's about finding an unexpectedly good game

>>722865883 (OP)
picrel
There is no more satisfying feeling than when you finally git gud enough to start getting consistent S ranks in 2.4

>>722865883 (OP)
Underrail after Depot A

>>722930208
>>722930186
That is literally not what the original image is trying to entail. The original image shows a guy giving up after a long difficult and tedious job right before he gets to the diamonds.
“Game gets good in 100 hours” is not the definition of that, nor do I think a single person can even post a game that you’d suffer for that many hours before it gets good as most games that are that long are ending by the time you reach that hour mark.

>>722927621
Why do cunnykeks always cope with asses instead of behaving like proper men

>>722930414
>The original image
Not pictured in OP. You lose

>>722930414
No one cares about the original image

>>722930414
You are overthinking it. OP's image could just mean a game with a rough start or patch, but then goes on to be good for the rest of it.

>>722930208
Thats not what the image its based of is trying to entail. The original meme this is based of is describing someone who puts a decent amount of time into a game and gives up right before it gets good usually because they find the game tedious or boring.
This image feels like its trying to describe the 1000 hour old mmo grind like OSRS

>>722905285
That's literally when the game part of the game goes to utter shit though.

>>722865883 (OP)
Superhuman

>>722930628
No one cares about the original image

>>722930628
>The original meme this is based of
Not pictured in OP. Why are you seething about us not using games that fit an image nobody posted?
You lose btw

>>722865883 (OP)
>Payday 2

early game sucks and it only gets fun once you reach max level and can mess with certain builds.
but even then you need to become infamous and max out your perk cards to get the most out of your build too.

DSOD can be a fun challenge in stealth but on loud if you don't have a maxed out metafag build you're gonna get your shit kicked in.
and don't give me
>skill issue
shit about DSOD, all weapons are viable, but only because you got some cranked out metafag build you probably copied from a youtuber.

>>722930628
This anon right now

>>722903934
Both LoR are great games. I truly believe that they perfected the dungeon-crawling style, nothing else compares.

>>722930680
>>722930687
>>722930954
>i’m a stupid midwit but nobody can tell so it doesn’t matter anyway
Sure whatever. Have fun

>>722931357
Congratulations on your below average IQ

>>722931357
No one cares, it's a good thread where people recommend good games
Go back to your steamchart/twitter screencap mines

Jagged alliance 2. I got a weird half russian half german( languages that i didnt understand) pirated version as a kid, and the information at the beggining was overwhelming and i i didint understand any of it, Didnt even know what type of game it was, at the moment i thought it was some menu type simulator, but i somehow didnt drop it, kept clicking random shit and when i finaly hired my squad and got the clock moving, i got one of my favorite games of all time.

>>722865883 (OP)
Nine Sols.

>>722918606
You would need 10 Charisma for 5 companions, pretty much dumping every other stat. Seems fair to me

>>722865883 (OP)
Rogue trader by owlcat, it's been tempting me for a long time, cause I was waiting for mire of it's DLCs to drop, I couldn't resist any longer and I've been having a blast

>>722865928
You're Trans