How long have you waited to get it? Was it worth it?
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People missed the point of this, its games that you waited for after release, not games you waited to release.
Yeah, my intention was to ask more in the spirit of the capital Patient Gamer, as in the community name, instead of just a gamer who is patient. Some good discussions happening here so it’s all good either way.
Death Stranding. Completely forgot about the game until I got it in humble monthly, and… Damn it was worth playing. In retrospective, I’d have been happy dropping 60 on it. I thought going in it’d be boring gameplay for a weird story, but the gameplay was actually REALLY FUN and the story was weord.
+1. It’s one of those games that got better overtime. When it came out in 2019 there were people like, “Really? A hiking / Amazon Prime simulator?”
But after the Pandemic, the isolation and theme of yearning connections really hit home, and the entire design and philosophy just clicked and worked for me. I started appreciate everything about the game. I think Hideo Kojima even said he’s going to try and not predict the future in Death Stranding 2 😄
I turned 40 this year. I pledged for Star Citizen when I was 20-something 🙃
It’s still my dream-game, so I’m still patiently waiting.
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I remember the original announcement and worried it was a ponzie scheme. 20 years later and here we are.
Alternatively, a friend of mine has sunk 10k into it.
I want to love this game but every time I try to play it I run into a plethora of game-breaking bugs within an hour. Maybe my grandkids will enjoy it.
It sure hates to be played
Dark Souls trilogy, waited a long long time to try it out due to the memes of the brutal difficulty.
When DS remastered came out, I finally took the plunge and am now a through enjoyer of souls games. They are difficult, but fair (as long as you’re not doing pvp lol)
The memes about difficulty I think helped them gain a community, but now they only hurt. They really aren’t all that hard. They can be if you want them to be, but most of the time they’re somewhat easy (well, with a few bosses that are exceptions, like O&S). The meme needs to die.
It really depends on your build and playstyle imo, you definitely need to be able to learn and adapt to what you’re fighting which can be construed as difficult. I agree though the meme should die (and I think it kinda did with ER)
Starbound. Waited years while it was in development, and my buddies and I just let the hype build and build. When it finally came out, it wasn’t even close to worth it. At the time, it still seemed like something that would eventually get to where we hoped (or at least for the most part), but picking it up every few months/years showed us the dev team’s ideas were great on paper, but they just weren’t capable of implementing any of it well.
More recently, I’ve seen YouTube docs that have gone into the awful development and bad treatment of young developers who weren’t paid, and fired after they caught on that they never would be.
On the bright side, it gave my friends and I a new appreciation for how great Terraria is, and why it’s similar features work so well when Starbound’s didn’t
Maaaaan I bought this game on release and it was actually better then than compared to now. Before, you could be “evil” and kill innocent villagers and loot their stuff. The game also wasn’t mission-based like they made it later on in development, the progression was more comparable to Terraria where you just find and craft equipment across planets.
Then they started limiting what the player could do, railroading them into linear story missions, making progression slower etc. It was a big disappointment, because the game isn’t bad, it’s just built on many bad decisions.
Wow, I played it very very early, while they were just starting to introduce the concept of missions at all. It seemed cool then, sad to hear it’s got worse.
Lol I do remember having more fun when it first came out, assumed that was just the honeymoon period but now I’m not too sure.
It definitely had more of that Minecraft openness compared to the later “crappy Terraria” pre-built content. Doesn’t help most of the additions we were looking forward to at release ended up falling flat. But yeah, the game isn’t bad, just screams having more potential than it could ever have lived up to
The Outer Worlds. Would have been the last game to date that I’d had pre-ordered, but they went Epic exclusive, so I decided to be patient and wait for the Steam release. Year goes by and it releases for Steam, but at original launch price. Decide I’m not willing to pay full price for a game I had to wait extra for.
Now it’s turned into a game of seeing it go on sale and remarking, “Come on guys, you can do better than that.”
You can pick it up now, along with a couple other games for $12.
The crosshair not being in the middle of the screen really killed that game for me.
Fo3 Fonv and halo 3 were all that way also. It’s a hard thing to unsee
I waited four years for breath of the wild, and when I finally played it, it was like I was playing an entire new genre. Like I was playing ocarina of time for the first time and the world seemed endlessly exciting. Except this time I could climb mountains and paraglide.
I’m just now getting into it. It is so so so good.
Oh awesome. Yeah I’m so glad I waited, because the game seemed, in addition to everything I mentioned just so smooth when I finally played it. I would just run in a direction for easily like 15 minutes and then just climb a mountain for another 15 minutes. After 30 minutes of that" game time," I was as satisfied with the experiences I was with almost any other game haha, even though I had done basically nothing. It’s just pretty and fun and engaging.
By the time I finally said “fuck it, I need to see what the fuss about this game is” for Dark Souls, 3 was about to be released. All I ever heard about the game up to that point was how hard it was; but that the difficulty wasn’t bullshit. I figured it was just pattern recognition, and was right; but there’s so much more nuance to that. The difficulty brought me in; but the game feel and the lore got me hooked and I now own every single one of the Souls/Borne/Ring/Sekiro games. And even a few knock-offs, like The Surge and Mortal Shell.
I bought the Chinese version of demons souls before it released here in the UK because of the reviews it was getting.
I then loved Bloodborne.
I still haven’t played one bit of a dark souls game. It’s on the list, it’s just not time yet.
Uru. I spent hours wandering the halls of D’ni waiting for something to happen.
Yakuza 0. Had a PS4, but wanted to play it on the PC instead so kept waiting hoping it would be ported to the PC. It later then did and I waited longer for a price drop and it ended up showing up on a Humble Bundle so finally snatched it years later.
It was worth the wait. Very enjoyable and I did all the side quests. Cabaret club was an amazing part of the game.
I played Destiny 2 when it came out, but then they kept releasing more and more DLC and expansions I didn’t feel like buying for how little content there was. My plan was to simply wait until the entirety of the game was released so I could buy the rest of everything in a single purchase and play it all.
I think I heard recently they have been actually removing old content so this plan no longer makes sense.
I finally completed fallout 1/2/tactics at the end of last year.
I’m looking forward to playing baldurs gate, planetscape and arcanum soon.
I’m still waiting for a Hogwarts Legacy sale
Don’t bother, it’s antisemitic
I’m definitely going to borrow it from a seafarer on the high seas in the future.
It’s not a case of having waited for it as such, but I played The Last of Us this year, after watching the show. I’d say it was worth it, and I don’t mind that a lot of the story beats and emotional moments were ‘spoiled’ as such, because I still felt them when playing the game.
Haven’t moved on to the second one yet.
Would you recommend game or show first for a new consumer of it?
Apparently some people don’t like that you asked that question.
I honestly couldn’t say. Usually I’d be able to give you a definite answer one way or another (and maybe my answer would be different if I’d played the game first) but I don’t think there’s a huge difference. Maybe just go with whatever you get a hold of first? That said, you can never go wrong with experiencing the source material first; at least not when the adaptation is of a similar quality. You’ll have a good experience either way. It really just depends on whether you want to watch the show and say “oh that’s how they did that in the show” or play the game second and say “Oh, that’s what it was originally like!”
Yeah, I think I must have said something to upset someone. I have had a few innocuous posts and comments down voted in the last day. Weird.
Or people take offense to me asking that question… (shrug)
The Witcher 3. I’d been following its development since the Witcher 2, and I loved the games and the books. After 5 years of waiting I knew that it wasn’t likely to live up to my expectations, so I prepared myself for disappointment.
Then it came out, and it was the best RPG I’d played. Some of the Novigrad story lines went on for too long, but that was my only issue with it. I’ve 100% it three times. Best €30 I ever spent. The DLC was somehow even better than the base game. I have no idea how CDPR managed it.
