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.
Half-Life 3.
I’m still waiting, Gabe. No pressure. You do your thing.
I’m still waiting for the right sale price to buy Cyberpunk 2077
Looking at my Steam wishlist, Dead Cells is the game that’s been on there the longest. It looks like a fun game, but it also being a roguelike always has me hesitant to pull the trigger on it.
One of my absolute favourites! Pull it! :)
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…
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.
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
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.
They actually moved some of the base game content from the starting planet to other planets with the DLC. And you can transport things between planets to kick start your factory, so each new planet should take significantly less time than the starting planet. So it’s not really as long as playing through the whole base game then 4x more.
Still takes longer to beat but not like 5x. Closer to 2x for most people I think. Don’t be afraid. The interplanetary factory must grow.
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
My last run was over 300 hours… But you are right. I haven’t really picked it up again since.
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.
Starfox 64, which I still haven’t played.
It’s a pretty good game, doesn’t take long to complete a playthrough, either. I think you’d enjoy it if the spirit moves you one of these days.
Beyond Good & Evil 2?
Terraria, waiting to play it with friends when i make some
I still recommend it solo. I started w friends but most of my time in game has been alone
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!)
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.
GT7 is still crap this many years later. I’ll never pre-order another game because of it.
Rdr2. Still waiting for a fps patch on console (most powerful machine I possess)
Im still waiting for a pc release of RDR1. And for RDR2 to srop in price significantly
RDR1 is on PC already!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2668510/Red_Dead_Redemption/
Ah I missed that. 50 euros tho for what’s now an old game is a bit much
It pretty regularly goes on sale for 50% off. I’d never played it before, so I bought it at that price.
I’ll be patient a bit more
I’m waiting until I finish Sonic & The Seven Rings before moving onto Sonic &.The Black Knight. I am very slowly going through the game I never beat growing up and at this rate I’ll probably get around to finishing it near when the heat death of the universe occurs.
Looking forward to Black Knight since it was a game I wanted but never got. I just hope I can get an official wiimote by then because Seven Rings controls poorly on the 3rd party one I currently have.
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!
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.
It aint the best of the best, but it is good and people can argue (legitimately) it is one of the best of the best.
Do you play any irl DnD or tabletop rpgs? Cause the dice system in video games i think is terrible, and it turned me off of bg3 immediately. And im a tabletop rpg player.
Now months later, im enjoying it, i dont finish most rpgs. Do with that what you will, but at the least wait for a decent sale price
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
