How long have you waited to get it? Was it worth it?
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.
What was the game you were the most patient for?
Submitted 1 year ago by glau@lemmy.world to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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nailbar@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
SilverFlame@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
BobKerman3999@feddit.it 1 year ago
I gave up, I used to follow the subr*ddit to get news and all that was coming were sales of non-existent ships
NerfHerder@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I remember the original announcement and worried it was a ponzie scheme. 20 years later and here we are.
oillut@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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
simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Maaaaan I bought this game on release and it was actually better then than it is 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.
hughperman@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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.
oillut@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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
late_night@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Sonic adventure for the Dreamcast. It was released in 1998 and I played it for the first time in 2019… and it blew my mind. It’s such a solid game, a really cool environment with amazing camera angles, diverse levels, and a difficulty that’s just right.
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
I only buy games on steam or very rarely GOG. I refuse to buy a games that are exclusive to a single platform. I don’t want to pay people to remove my choices. So there’s been a few games I’ve waited to leave their exclusive deals with epic or whatever. Satisfactory is one. They had an epic store exclusive I think for 2 years and then they went to steam. I very much enjoyed the game. I’m still waiting for escape from tarkov to join us on steam.
Unless I have friends doing multiplayer at this moment, I just waitlist games until they hit $5. And when that happens I buy them. So I have a large game backlog. I don’t anticipate or wait for games. I just wait list and forget and then I have happy surprises during the steam sales.
I think I had lost seas on my waitlist for 2 years 3 years.
30isthenew29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What if something is $6 and it’s never been this cheap for 7 years now? You wait more?
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
I’m only human! It’s a rule of thumb! Depends on my emotional state when I see the sale. So yeah I’ve snagged a $6 game sure.
coffinwood@feddit.de 1 year ago
Almost every game. I just can’t afford most games for the full price so patience isn’t a virtue but a necessity. Currently I’m waiting to play FarCry 6. My old GPU couldn’t handle it but as soon as I’m through with AC Valhalla I might give it a try.
The only full price PC game I played from release that I can recall was No Man’s Sky (my hot take: it was great from the start).
The next waiting will be done for Starfield, I think. But that’s more for stability (“ripeness”) and mod situation.
fadedmaster@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just about the same here except for me it’s just that I don’t have the time to play every game I want to. The Steam Deck has helped me to play more and fit a little bit of gaming in here and there. I did get Final Fantasy XVI right at launch and set aside a lot of time to play through it.
But to answer the OP, probably Dark Souls. I played it a little at a friend’s house years ago when it first came out but never actually bothered to buy it until the end of 2021 when it was on sale through Steam. Immediately played through it, fell in love, then played through the second one. I haven’t played the third yet, but it is on my list.
Styxie@feddit.nl 1 year ago
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 waitong 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.
soloner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I waited a while for sekiro. Finally broke down and got it on sale after it had been on my wishlist for 2 years.
I found it too challenging, even as a fan of their other games, it just didn’t click. Finally I hit a wall on some enemy who I couldn’t kill and gave up. Sad cuz I really wanted to like it.
ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 year ago
There's some mods that make it easier that might help.
Gurei@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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.”
MyOtherCarIsEpona@kbin.social 1 year ago
I got really excited for the first half of that game title.
verysoft@kbin.social 1 year ago
The crosshair not being in the middle of the screen really killed that game for me.
TacoThrash3r@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Fo3 Fonv and halo 3 were all that way also. It’s a hard thing to unsee
Mythnubb@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You can pick it up now, along with a couple other games for $12.
Izzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Fallouts. I knew they existed for, I don’t even know, decades? I finally got New Vegas some years back (and others later) and it really is the greatest game ever made. I don’t know why I waited.
MyOtherCarIsEpona@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's actually great that you started with New Vegas. This can help give you perspective about why Black Isle/Obsidian understands the IP so much better than Bethesda does. I truly consider 3 and 4 to have great moments, but are overall trash when you compare them to 2 and New Vegas.
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I was planning to start a full replay of FO1-2-3-NV this week, but man, those games have not aged well presentation-wise. I ended up installing only F:NV with the Viva New Vegas modlist; I tried adding visual mods, but the game kept crashing. But at least I’ve got a stable version of the best game now.
It would be nice if someone made a remaster of FO1 and 2 like they did with Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2. I don’t mind the top-down perspective, buv i would like some more graphical fidelity and UI improvements
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
World of warcraft. I’d been playing the games since warcraft 1. My parents wouldn’t pay for my subscription so had to wait years to get it after release. 100% worth it. Amazing game back in the day.
Diablo 3 and 4. 3 was kinda worth it. 4 not so much.
StarCraft2 and hell yeah. Loved it.
Skyrim, again definitely.
Fallout 4. Despite some things lacking I thought it was awesome.
Seven kingdoms conquest. Was very shit.
ToNIX@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I was playing Guild Wars back in the days and I remember trying the free trial of WoW. At the end of it, I decided against getting a subscription, knowing how many hours I’d sink in the game. Truely a masterpiece.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Yeah I wasted most of my teens on it haha
Got bored after wotlk but it was fun while it lasted.
Having to resist getting wotlk classic right now!
kaladininskyrim@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm still waiting for a Hogwarts Legacy sale
Historical_General@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m definitely going to borrow it from a seafarer on the high seas in the future.
GreneArwe@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Red Dead Redemption 1. Played it for the first time about a year ago. I knew how it ended, but it was still worth the wait to experience everything myself.
WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I only played Doom 1 and 2 when D3 was about to come out, so it was about 10 years old. I played some mod with polygonal models/hires textures so it wasn’t a vanilla experience, but in terms of game and level design I was quite blown away.
Also I played Metal Gear Solid 3 only about 5 years ago, so that was a ~15 years old game.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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.
li10@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Breath of the Wild.
I got a Switch a few years after BOTW released, and couldn’t stomach paying full price for a game that had been out that long.
Finally got it on PC via methods a few months ago and glad I waited, playing at 2k 60fps with better shaders is great.
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I still haven’t played Red Dead Redemption 2 despite getting it on sale two or three years ago.
I’m generally just more interested in indie games for some reason.
ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
MyOtherCarIsEpona@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yakuza 0 is one of those rare "game of the century" candidates, especially since most people are able to buy it on steam sales for $5. It is truly unbelievable how ambitious each Yakuza game is, yet they still manage to have amazing QC and polish in spite of how widely scoped they are.
ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, I've played up to Yakuza Kiwami 2 so now gearing up to play through 3-5. Excited for it. The games side quests are so fun and wacky.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
IDK, probably Mass Effect? I just got Mass Effect Legendary this year and I’ve been playing it, and it’s fantastic! I didn’t hear about it at release for some reason, and I had heard the game was great, but decided to wait to see if they’d remaster it or something. They did, but it was too expensive, so I held off.
I eventually got it for ~$15 on a Steam sale and about 6 months later, here I am playing it. And yes, it’s worth it, the game runs fantastically on my Steam Deck and it’s a ton of fun.
simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A couple of games I’ve been looking at for a while like The End is Nigh and 20XX ended up being free on Epic, they were great games and definitely worth playing if you picked them up for free. Glad I didn’t have to buy them.
drekly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
HypnoToad1077@lemmy.world 1 year ago
2002: Kingdom Hearts 2005: Kingdom Hearts II … … … 2019: Kingdom Hearts III
14 years!
Secret300@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Love the kingdom hearts games but never had a console as a kid. I always had DS’s tho so I played the shit out of 358/2 days, re:coded, and Dream Drop Distance. Still haven’t played 1, 2, or 3 yet. Well I played a little of one and two at a friends house but not all the way through
Firipu@startrek.website 1 year ago
Pretty sure it’ll be the latest God of war when it finally releases for PC somewhere next year?
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mega drive version of Theme Park.
I saw it getting closer in the release section of having magazines, closer… then delayed… closer… delayed… then I finally got it and the cartridge casing was deformed and wouldn’t fit in the console.
My mum had to brute force it because I was losing my shit.
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 1 year ago
As an oldschool GM for the Cyberpunk 2022 P&P Roleplaying game I was immediately hooked when CD Projekt Red announced the video game of Cyberpunk 2077. Despite the initial bugs, I enjoyed it. A lot. Probably the only game so far for which I got all achievements. Now patiently waiting for the Phantom Liberty DLC.
Hellooooo Night City!
Anafroj@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Secret of Mana 2, when I was a kid in the 90’. I knew back then it was released in Japan, and I was waiting for it in Europe. … and it never happened. 😂 I think I’ve seen they finally translated it recently, as a retrogame, but hey, my tastes and priorities changed a bit in 30 years.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s actually the third in the series (Seiken Densetsu 3) and also known as Trials of Mana, released in Japan in 1995. A fan translation was actually completed in 1999 and kinda big news so you could have played it way back then if you were able to run a ROM patch. But the official translation to English wasn’t released until 2019.
Anafroj@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oh yeah, indeed, there was Mystic Quest (the european name for the first game) before. Although, it was such a different beast it’s only with Wikipedia later that I discovered the two games were related.
A fan translation was actually completed in 1999 and kinda big news so you could have played it way back then if you were able to run a ROM patch
Oh really? Nice, I missed that. But well, I didn’t speak English back then, so it probably wouldn’t have helped. :)
DakkaDok@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m still waiting for Silk Song, if that counts.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.astaluk.icu 1 year ago
Duke Nukem Forever. And no it wasn’t.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Same. What a dumpster fire of a release.
floppy@rabbitea.rs 1 year ago
My dad commented that One Man And His Droid was supposed to be good, when we were in a shop (Woolworths?) looking at games. Mid-late 1980s. I finally played it a couple of years ago.
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
And, was it good?
floppy@rabbitea.rs 1 year ago
I think it was, yes!
verysoft@kbin.social 1 year ago
People missed the point of this, its games that you waited for after release, not games you waited to realease.
glau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, my intention was to ask more in the spirit of the capital Patent 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.