Which game have you been the most patient for (as in, delaying purchase)?
For me, it would have to be GTA V. I stopped playing games for years, then built a new rig in 2018. Since then I’ve played through GTA IV (well, I beat the story, and it was amazing), but I never played GTA V.
My plan is to purchase it and start playing it the day GTA VI is released, as I have enough other games to get through in the meantime.
I waited a LONG time to pick up Gran Turismo 7, and boy do I feel like that was a waste. I had fond memories of playing a previous GT title on ps3 with my dad before he passed away, but GT7 is just awful. I HATE how the chat bubble heads “explain” the gameplay. I HATE pretty much every menu outside of the standard gameplay pause menu. I HATE new car showroom/marketplace/museum whatever the fuck it is.
Idk if I missed more than a few entries in the series but this shit is the most infantile, disrespectful talk down I’ve ever recieved from a video game.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. I could have got it for PS5 but I knew I would end up also buying it for PC, so I just waited the year or whatever.
Doing the same with Death Stranding 2.
Probably Sekiro and Metaphor Refantazio, though I’m a bit over From Software style games at the moment.
Still haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3
I have several unfinished RPGs and really don’t want this one to get added to the list.
Skyrim. I’ll play it one day I swear.
Honestly it’s worth it if you’re down for mods. It felt like an insult when it came out, it was like call of duty wearing morrowind’s skin, but since then it’s become a pretty robust modding community and Legacy of the Dragonborn is miles above anything in the base game.
I know the Wabbajack scene is pretty big for Skyrim, is there any big mod pack you would recommend? Skyrim is also an embarrassing blind spot for me (played enough of Morrowind and Oblivion back in the day so never got around to it) but after all the hundreds of hours I’ve spent modding Fallout: NV, Cyberpunk and STALKER Anomaly I am not sure I want to dive headfirst into another multi month mod project.
Modded skyrim is one of my favorite games, vanilla skyrim is just… meh.
Starting 3 years ago, it only took me about 3 years to mod it to perfection — which was another exercise in patience I guess.
I nuked mine when I made the switch to Linux 😂
Yep, same.
Terraria, waiting to play it with friends when i make some
CupHead is coming up on ten years old and I don’t think it has ever dipped below $10 on Steam.
Its worth ten bucks for sure, as long as you like brutally hard retro platformers. I wish I did, because that game is gorgeous
I’ve been meaning to try Factorio for years. But I’m worried that as soon as I do, I’m never going to get round to playing all the other games in my backlog…
The Devs have stated the game will not be on sale. The price is what they felt a fair price is for their game. Its in a blog post somewhere
Ah I know, I’m not waiting for a sale. Just need more spare time lol
Usually when I pick it up it’s only for about two weeks. Then I get back to my job and leave the house again.
I just played it recently for the first time. Took me about 50 hours from start to rocket launch (the win condition) in the default, recommended free-play campaign + a few more hours before that to go through the tutorial stages.
Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.
It’s not about the destination, it’s about the optimisation tangent we spend 15 hours on, we met along the way.
Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.
Massive increase in time commitment there.
You still start the same way, but now launching a rocket isn’t the end of the game … it’s just the end of the first act. Now you also build orbiting space stations and interplanetary spaceships (which require launching dozens of rockets to build), so you can go colonize 4 more planets, each with their own new challenges and new resources to gather and exploit. Each one of those can easily take just as much time to colonize as your original planet, if not more. You’ll need to build autonomous spaceships to regularly ferry supplies and finished products around the solar system to where they’re needed. Then finally build a big, badass spaceship capable of reaching the edge of the solar system, and that is the new win condition.
After playing Space Age, the original Factorio game seems like just a tutorial level.
I did this with Rimworld. Started a few months ago, approaching 400 hours, and I was totally correct.
One of the nice things about Factorio is that you can finish a level and put it down and come back later. That’s harder to do with an RPG like Expedition 33 or Dragon Age.
Not a ton of plot. It’s mostly just a building sim.
How does one ‘finish a level’ in Factorio? I thought it was pretty open ended (until you launch a rocket)?
But I do get what you mean - it’s definitely harder to drop and return to a story based game.
Finish a run, excuse me
Missing out on one of the best video games ever made out of fear of the backlog is ridiculous. Play it.
I mean I say it kinda tongue-in-cheek! I’ll play it eventually, it’s not going anywhere :)
My answer is probably Cyberpunk2077, I bought it on accident since it was in my cart on the day Silksong released. Luckily it was on sale at that time. Tried playing it on my ps4 pro and it was struggling so I put it aside and plan on playing it whenever I get a new console. So I started silksong instead which is ironically the first new game I bought in over 5 years.
Cyberpunk is an awesome game now, years after its release.
It was rough and buggy at release, but now it’s everything it should have been from the beginning. (I prefer to play on PC so I can have the mod that turns some people into furries, though!)
The modding scene in general is really good. The only shame is that so many old classic mods got broken by the 2.0 update.
Paralives. I’m willing to wait forever though, house flipper 2 placates the build desire for now, but I’m still excited to see how paralives turns out. I guess I’m also being (less) patient for The Pets DLC for House Flipper 2. I really want that dlc lol
I also dont know the timeline, but I’m hoping Rust adds the Farm update to console this year, or maybe next year, but I want the pies, chickens and flowers
Elden Ring. After listening to my PS4 struggle with CyberPunk 2077, I decided that I would be better off waiting until I purchased better hardware for both.
I’m gonna play Super Mario Sunshine one of these days, I swear.
I played it on Dolphin emulator with a 60fps patch and some HD textures. It aged really well.
EDIT: Also a widescreen patch!
Oh, so you missed the time when Epic gave GTA V away for free? Bummer.
Though with all the launcher-hassle I actually prefer the pirated version.
I did, yep. I mean, my PC is fairly old so I don’t think I’ll play the current “enhanced” version on Steam even when I do eventually get round to trying it.
Spider-Man 2. I did initially buy it when it first released on PC, but the performance was so bad I literally couldn’t even do anything. So I returned it.
Edit: I’m also waiting for a good sale on Sonic x Shadow Generations. I don’t really care about the Sonic half of the game, I just wanna play as Shadow.
I’m still patiently waiting for a 3D VR voxel based falling sand engine type game. There are a couple of interesting projects working towards that goal and technology helps make the cubes smaller and smaller from minecraft to something more like cube world with more material interactions.
Have you looked at Teardown?
I did. I played it a bit and it’s fun. Not sure why it didn’t really scratch that itch. I feel like the mechanics are too simple and the moment i try to push the physics it just doesn’t really do interesting stuff i think. The best part was collapsing a huge structure by cutting each leg but it took a while and the fps fell to a crawl and i couldn’t really move my head to see stuff breaking and falling unfortunately.
and the fps fell to a crawl and i couldn’t really move my head to see stuff breaking and falling unfortunately
Huh… Didn’t have that issue on my hardware, which made it a lot more enjoyable, I guess. Maybe try again at some point if you’ve ever got a significant hardware upgrade.
(And, honestly, the missions are kind of a pain a lot of times. It’s actually more of a heist and getaway game when you play the missions. I mostly just wanted to play it in sandbox mode and destroy stuff.)
