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What game changed your mind?
DKLond
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Have you ever played a game that you started out disliking, or even hating, only to turn around and absolutely love it?
If so, which game?
If so, which game?
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I got this game free with a CPU. I hadn't played previous Deus Ex's but had heard loads of good things about them. It took me 3 attempts before I "got it". The opening of DE:HR just wasn't inspiring. I don't often play first-person games, so that was off-putting, then the opening area seems really small so it just wasn't interesting for me.
However, on my 3rd playthrough I pushed on far enough to start getting into the stealth aspects and upgrading aspects. Then the story started to make vague sense and I got hooked. I think I probably played the first 2/3 of the game purely stealthy with an aim to never need to shoot a gun and pretty much managed it, then decided to switch it up and start blasting stuff. Both styles were fun. My third playthrough I'd started during my lunchbreaks, so was limited to 45min sessions but as I approached the end I started playing it at home and started hitting 4-5hr playsessions (something relatively unusual as I get older). Only thing I disliked was the boss battles.
Dawn of War 2: Last Stand Mode
I enjoyed the campaign on DOW2 but my brother sunk hundreds of hours into the last stand mode. I tried it a few times and just didn't understand the appeal. Then, started playing it co-op with my brother, found a hero I liked and found a combination that suited my playstyle and fell in love. I've since bought 2 expansions plus some DLC to unlock more heroes and put in about 100 hours into just last stand. I've maxed out most heroes, got the achievements etc and still enjoy playing it. I retrospect, this is probably the only game that has motivated me to buy DLCs (tho, admittedly on sale, so spent less than £5 total).
Rainbow 6 - Las Vegas 2
I don't like shooters. Usually avoid them. Didn't enjoy story mode or normal multiplayer on this game. Then I tried terrorist hunt coop with my bro. Its awesome! Combination of some stealth, setting up ambushes, the dodgy spawning mechanics for enemies combined with earning experience to unlock new guns and cosmetics.....yeh, its brilliant! Admittedly, we did reach a point where we could clear all levels on realistic setting in a single session (2-3hrs) so don't go back to it often, but when we do it's still great.
Neverwinter Nights 2: was so difficult to get through some of the first game play as I hated the story points, the whole "your adopted", I didn't like the area where you were trying to get on the ship. But aftwards I pushed through that and really liked it.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
I think I would agree with the NWN series, in general. When I first tried playing NWN the first time, the strange semi-realtime combat was a little jarring. After playing games like BG and ID, etc., the drastically different play and appearance were a bit hard to adjust to.
I can't think of anything off the top of my head, beyond that, at the moment.
I thought, crafting is cool but that blocky shit and zombies? nope. Then I watched some videos after they smoothed out the blocks and now I am about 800 hours in the game
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
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Every other game remained in line with my 1st impression.
Both ways. The OP asked the interesting question. The opposite is boring.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This game was just the opposite for me. The strange thing about this game, is that it literally ticks off every box on my "I like this" list of game attributes. It's a stealth game. It has an absolutely fantastic soundtrack. There are multiple ways to play and beat most levels. It has an interesting base story and some really cool cyber upgrades.
But for some reason I kept getting to about the China area of the game and then just quitting. It's a combination of the forced boss fights, boring filler in the story progression, the piss yellow lens filter, the not so great graphics and the cover system which just felt all kinds of clunky to me. I started out loving it, but hated it by a few hours in.
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For the sake of the great main story of Deus Ex, I did go watch all the cut scenes on YouTube later. It did have some really great ending choices.
Not only that, but this looks a lot better to me:
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LOTRO.. well it's Lord of the Rings. At first taking part in the story sounded great. Until you realize that it's mostly fetch quests for most of the game and very little storyline. The crafting sucks. The housing is some of the worst in the industry being only slightly better than having no housing at all.
ESO gets "more of the same" after level 10.
Rift is extremely restrictive, and offers only PVE and PvP, even the so called housing is a joke, as is the crafting. The crafting has always been horrid right from the start as you quickly outlevelled any crafting you did. The housing was an after the fact idea thats only slightly better than the horrid hooks in games like LOTRO.
And Secret World is an online version of VTM Bloodlines almost to a T with the same technology apparent, and with about the same advances. For god sakes, your toon doesn't even blink or move their mouth during conversation, you just sway back and forth. It's like it's back in 2000 with how primitive it is, they just expanded it to include things like zombies (ala Silent Hill, and Resident Evil and not done any better than the ten year old games were). If I want to play ten year old games, then I'll go play the actual games. For a AAA developer, they could have done way better.
SWTOR... I love Star Wars. Probably more than almost any other fandom out there. Star Trek comes second (hated STO almost from the moment I logged in as it's not at all from the original Star Trek but of the new horrible ones). I have a lightsaber that glows and makes sound when you hit it. Love that thing. And the game isn't horrible, it really isn't. I love the companion system, and the fully voiced parts of the game. But it is lacking somehow. It doesn't have the same incredible magic as the original KOTOR and KOTOR2. Not even remotely. And I'm not sure why. The new expansions almost get it right except that they eliminated the fact that you can have real conversations with people with animations and voice over (let's not kid ourselves, they did it so they didn't have to pay voice actors). I don't mind paying a fee to play it. But it was a very short amount of game play in a world where games can have hundreds of hours of replay. There are people who have clocked thousands of hours in games like Skyrim. This game does not have the same appeal. I don't mind the story either. The housing is only slightly better than LOTRO. The crafting a serious disappointment and some of the worst in the industry as YOU don't even really take part in it, you send your companions to do it.
I could keep going.
The only MMO I'm currently playing and consider worth paying for is EQ2. I haven't actually played any quests recently either, unless they were for an event (like Frostfell and the others). I mostly craft and decorate my house which I am enjoying immensely. Currently trying to decide if I want to go further with one of my housing designs or if I should start over before it goes even further. Best housing in the entire industry. Even better than Landmark where you have to buy absolutely everything but building blocks with real life money and I consider a rip off (I regret having spent $50 to become an explorer member. This is the game that has convinced me NEVER to spend money on a game in advance).
I'm at a complete loss how you can spend multiple millions to produce exactly the same game by different companies with different graphics and one or two gimmicks and figure that you'll remain in business.
But one of my friends got on voice comm with me and walked me thru the basics, and once I adjusted, I really got to like the game. I even wrote several player guides!
Now it is my favorite game of all time. Go figure!
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
I thought the same thing would happen with ESO but as of now, I still can't get into it. I have tried 4 times now since release and each time its still not there for me.