Have you ever really liked a game, made some fond memories of it, and then dropped it?
Specifically because you're afraid it might go off the rails?
I dunno what else I'd call this but an emotional stockmarket.
I have nothing but high praises for what VANISHINGLY LITTLE I've played of Dragon View.
Really cool game.
>>11836120 (OP)I don't fear anything, but I do sometimes stop playing a great game because I'm entirely fulfilled by it and is content to just bask in the glow of what I've experienced... And eventually I forget the plot and controls and stuff and see no point in picking it back up again.
Similar thing happened to me, but then I realized something was off with the game. It's like you're so impressed, you don't even notice the problems, but then you suddenly lose interest.
Like recently I started GTA:SA, was legit impressed… Then dropped it. Only later I realized how tutorial-ish it started, teaching you all the gimmick RPG stuff. Wasn't until car DDR with Mexicans that I thought "ok, this is bad". Still gonna come back to it, I just burned out on GTA a little.
Similar thing happened with Mario Galaxy. Almost dropped when I got to purple coins, it was then I realized the latter half of the game was a huge drop in quality.
You may have problems with anxiety.
>>11836124I remember renting Drakkhen once. It's neat to look at now with what they were able to do with the limited hardware, but was the most obtuse thing I ever saw as a kid. The constellations coming to life and attacking you at night if you looked at them was a neat and genuinely unsettling idea though.
>>11836124I’ll second this. Kind of reminds me of Zelda 2. It’s not half as weird as Drakhhen but it’s a better game.
One funny thing about Drakkhen is it's actually a spinoff of a french strategy tabletop game, which is best known for its later comic adapation, the Black Moon Chronicles
>>11836673I played it recently and just used the default party they recommend and I thought the game was surprisingly straightforward. I always heard bad things about it and it is weird, but I thought it was pretty damn comfy. The music playing in those early hours on the overworld map was great and I love watching my little lemmings party walk around attacking. It was always funny.
>>11836704Ooh a comic! I'll have to check that out.
>>11836750https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS_DFoUruKI
>>11836120 (OP)Not with a game but sometimes with music. It was years before I listened to a Talking Heads album aside from Remain in Light because I kinda knew their other stuff would be nowhere near as good
Played the very early part of MGS as a kid, had fond memories of it. Came back as an adult to play the whole game, realized I didn't like it at all, too many cutscenes and too much action, I had fallen more in love with the early stealth feeling of the start of the game. Didn't like the shooting and story.
>>11836120 (OP)Yeah I kinda did this stuff as a kid. Like I would be scared to go any further. The game might get too challenging and intense!
Also kind of my experience with "Dungeon Master" and "The Immortal". I still remember thos games fondly. As a kid i tried level 1 of those games but never got further, I was okay with it. Back then I viewed those games as extremely difficult and hardcore. To be fair I went back as an adult and completed a remake of Dungeon Master, but never went back to the original.
>>11836120 (OP)Why Dragon View? It's pretty solid the whole way through. I just wish some of the music tracks didn't loop so fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_KXJr727Yc&t=1458s
not so much dropping it before that happened, but i never finished xenogears because i was playing it to help with a really emotionally low point in my life, and then disc two happened.
so bad i not only quit 20 minutes into disc 2, but when combined with how lonely i already was i cried for like an hour
