Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago.

And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they've made that online-only as well. Like, I know I'm always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can't afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can't do that with online-only games because it's like being gated away from something you bought.

So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.

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Ascendor@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Elite Dangerous. Extremely beautiful, especially impressive in VR - but way too time-consuming for me.

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- Senal@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Holy fuck, “Space logistics simulator with some casual space piracy” the game.
  
  For the receptive kind of brain that’s some premium crack.
  
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- nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  why did they skip VR compatibility for the on foot sections of the game? seems insane
  
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  - horse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That expansion ran like shit and was full of bugs when it released (maybe it’s better now), so I wouldn’t be surprised if they couldn’t get it to run well enough for VR.
    
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umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
There’s like a boatload of really classic Xbox 360/One era games that I’d love to play on PC.

Problem is they were made by Ubisoft or EA. Repurchasing them is already dubious from the get-go, but chances are the versions in Steam, if they’re still there at all, are old neglected buggy builds. And things are not much rosier on the Uplay or Origin! They may have gotten a patch or two, but old shit’s janky. These need the GOG treatment.

I did get the Mass Effect trilogy rerelease for a pittance. Also found out I somehow had Dragon Age Origins already. These should keep me occupied for a while, as (to paraphrase a certain video game villain) at this very moment, EA burns.

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jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m addicted to DOTA 2, but I sometimes will play other single player games. I bought and downloaded Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and RDR2, but I can’t get into them. If I’m not playing with other people, it just seems kinda… lonely? I like games where I can log on and chat/communicate with other players. I’m alone enough in my real life, so anytime I can spend with even just virtual friends is something I value.

I dunno, I started the cyberpunk game, was going the street kid route, and the guy it puts you with… The guy put a gun to you, and all of a sudden we’re friends? No. I’m from a shitty family and that shit gave me mad anxiety. I got into the tutorial level, stopped to do something else, came back, and every time i try to load the game back up to play, it crashes.

So yeah, back to DOTA 2

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Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The newer Anno installments. I’m not buying another Ubisoft game unless they get rid of their stupid Launcher, and I’m also not buying anything with Denuvo and similar BS.

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johnnixon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Anything on PS5. I bought one thinking I’d catch up on whatever I’d missed since the PS1 days. Heard that that mushroom zombie game was good. Never started it. I just sit at the desk and play another round of CS2 deathmatch.

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- Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Not quite the same dillema, but I have a similar issue. I have many singleplayer games I know I want to finish, but when I start my vegout state, it often defaults to a few known multiplayer games, even knowing I’ve had many sessions that leave me infuriated.
  
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- Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The Last of Us?
  
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  - johnnixon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yes! At this point I wonder how much of the show has spoiled my eventual run through the game.
    
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mohab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Immersive Sims: BioShock. Dishonored, Deus Ex… etc. I can’t do FPS, it’s so unnatural for me not to be able to see my character. I struggle to establish spatial relationships with anything else inside the game world, and I don’t find aiming fun at all.

To a lesser extent, yet for similar reasons, fast-paced action FPS like Doom. Looks super fun, but I can’t get over my fundamental issues with the genre.

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- Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Far Cry 3 is what got me into FPS. Cyberpunk is also, of course, great.
  
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rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Dead Space 1’s remake. I categorically refuse to buy anything from EA, and that’s their only game I’m even remotely interested in that isn’t available through alternative channels.

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Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
A lot of soulslike games. I’m terrible with a controller for anything that is not in 2D. I tried Dark Souls 1. Managed to kill Gargoyles, ventured into Darkroot Basin and got filtered. Ents taking 80% of my HP on hit was pretty frustrating too.

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bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The Dark Souls series takes place in a fascinating universe and I’m sure the lore is enthralling… I just refuse to play games that are made artificially hard for the sake of it. If it’s single-player, the devs shouldn’t have an opinion on how much time each player is comfortable wasting on it. Give me “story” difficulty, cheats, etc., and let me decide what to do with them. All you’re hurting are your own sales.

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- duelistsage@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Part of what makes Souls games fun is that you can work together with others.
  
  I pretty much only play them co-op.
  
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- fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Agreed.
  
  I love dark fantasy as a theme. But I can't enjoy the theme if the game is going to be padded like that. That's how you make games not fun and there's nothing fun when you're killed in one or two hits. There's challenge and then there's not fun and all soulslike games fall into the not fun part.
  
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thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Hollow Knight. I watched someone on YouTube play it and I just don’t want to spend that much time playing that kind of game. I’m someone who grew up playing Mario 64, Mario sunshine, Mario Galaxy and I just recall spending so much time playing those games as a kid. So much time wasted. Cannot bring myself to do that again. I’m pretty stubborn and so I know because I wasted so much time on those Nintendo games that I would pull ridiculous amounts of time on another game like that. Not worth it anymore for me.

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elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I’m not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.

For a different direction on this – I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I’m not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder

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- Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Might I recommend Median XL?
  
  An OG D2 mod, adds a load of content and changes things dramatically, vibrant MP scene, and even after having spent most of a decade playing D2 back in the day it’s changed enough to feel new and shiny again.
  
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- Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  StarCraft 2 is the bomb, just download it and play the campaigns, it’s worth it. Probably the best RTS campaign IMO.
  
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AstroLightz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Mouse-heavy games like Cities: Skylines, Sims 3, and other management games. Due to a chronic injury, I’m force to mainly play with a controller, and trying to play these games with a controller would be abysmal.

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- Cease@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Try the steam deck or wait for the steam controller! The touchpads work great once you get used to them!
  
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- ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You can get a used Steam controller on eBay. It’s perfect for games like these.I played Dawn of War with one and it worked great.
  
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- SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Btw, some management games like OpenTTD and OpenRCT2 (Transport Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon respectively) run on Android, so one can play them on a tablet (a phone is too small for the interface). Also, back in the time of PlayStation 1, games like Theme Park and Theme Hospital were ported to it — they’re easily emulated these days, and run even on handhelds.
  
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- SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Perhaps a decent touchpad would work better for you. You would only need to fondle the surface and lightly tap it with one or two fingers. But you should investigate in advance if the touchpad allows clicks via tapping, as e.g. some drivers don’t support the right click without pressing into the surface, which can be heavy on the wrist. Macbook touchpads worked great for me, being large, responsive, and easy to press.
  
  However, doing lots of scrolling with a touchpad could be rather inconvenient.
  
  If your issue is the position of the hand, you might be interested in vertical mouses, which would allow at least some cursoring, perhaps for more important use-cases. Personally I’m also using the Vimium addon for the browser to avoid the mouse on the web.
  
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Davel23@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
As a long-time Diablo player (my name is even in the credits of Diablo 1) I can say Diablo IV is thoroughly meh. You're not missing much.

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deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The Talos Principle 2. The micro stuttering makes it unplayable for me, and it will never get fixed.

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Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ve bought the Witcher 3 for two different platforms, and I have neither the time or the patience to play it to completion.

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- fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  People play games at their own pace. You have your own and there isn't a shred of shame in that.
  
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- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I was there for a while. I finally got around to it and played semi regularly for a year and a bit, took a year or two off, and then finished off what was apparently the last quest of the base game lol
  
  it’s a decent game. you don’t need to a ton of time to make it worthwhile but you do need to play it in slightly longer individual chunks (playing 30 min at a time isn’t very viable).
  
  if you can, give it a try. but yeah it does require some time, it’s not like popping into minecraft for a bit or mini metro for a round. but it’s also not like civ’s ‘just one more turn’
  
  I liked the story, environments, and gameplay. I found I enjoyed it best when I actually relaxed into it instead of trying to rush through and complete stuff, so again yeah maybe won’t be possible for your available time. but it’s not necessary to complete it to get enjoyment out of it. around a third of the way through to halfway through is probably where I enjoyed it the most
  
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- ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I was in that pit for a while, it took me years to actually sit down and play it long enough to kind of figure out what to do and how to play, when I did it was very good. I still never had the time to actually finish it, but I highly recommend just pushing through that first barrier, it’s worth it for at least a few days.
  
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remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m paying my EvE Online accounts for over 10 years now … I log in about 2 twice a year. Basically playing skill training online.

Maybe I’ll have time to continue playing when I retire …

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Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
A ton of PvP games that I can’t play because I’ll want to get good which means spending a ton of time then once I’m good I won’t want to play anything else. Counter strike, StarCraft.

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Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Dyson Sphere Program. Played in early access few years ago. The game has changed a lot since, but with a toddler now I don’t think I’ll have the amount of time needed anytime soon, and by the time I have I’ll probably have something else

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- IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  iirc, DSP has some anti-grind settings you can set to increase yield/reduce costs.
  
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mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Daggerfall.
It has the most elaborate character creation and most freedom of choice of all the Elder Scrolls games.
You can walk, ride or fly through an open world that’s as large as Great Britain, with thousands of realistically modelled towns and cities, and enter any house in them. You can turn into a vampire, werewolf or were-boar, buy a ship, make deals with the gods, invent your own spells, and commit bank fraud.
First time I played it, it took all night to download the 140MB installer from Kazaa.
But actually playing it now, after so much development in game mechanics has happened, is a chore.
When doing quests, you just go through the same loop of “talk to person, clear an absurdly huge dungeon, kill dozens of enemies that aren’t scaled to your level, die a couple dozen times unless you cheesed the game to become invincible, solve a text riddle, find the McGuffin, return, repeat” over and over again.

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- duelistsage@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  When doing quests, you just go through the same loop of “talk to person, clear an absurdly huge dungeon, kill dozens of enemies that aren’t scaled to your level, die a couple dozen times unless you cheesed the game to become invincible, solve a text riddle, find the McGuffin, return, repeat” over and over again.
  
  That’s pretty much all Elder Scrolls is. What’s particularly impressive is that they’ve been releasing the same game since the 90s.
  
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- fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  They really favored being a lycanthrope in that game. It's the most OP transformation, especially when you get a special ring that takes away some of the negatives of being a lycanthrope. All of your stats get maxed, you can instantly heal between transformations, you are immune from what the guards try hitting you with.
  
  Being a vampire in Daggerfall, isn't as fun.
  
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Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Bloodborne

The last console I owned was a PS3, and I don’t plan on ever having another. Sony thankfully mostly got with the program and released a bunch of their stuff on PC, but Bloodborne remains a standout.

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- GunValkyrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Emulating bloodborne is really good now. It is 100% playable with rare minor bugs now. Highly recommend playing it. It’s the best souls orne out there. Imo
  
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  - Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    What kind of specs do you need to run it smoothly? Does any of the online stuff work?
    
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Botanicals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Any of the Civilization games. I used to spend 10+ hours on a single session! My ass can’t handle more than 1-2 now

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- ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I keep trying Civ VI and keep uninstalling it before finishing a single game.
  
  I can’t put my finger on exactly what’s changed since earlier games, but it’s lost a lot of the addicting charm and intuitive flow that made me play prior versions for days.
  
  If that’s the trend of the franchise I sure won’t be touching any of the later ones.
  
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  - washbasin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Civ V is the sweet spot.
    
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  - chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Sometimes I think it’s nostalgia talking, then I go back and play Civ II or Civ IV and confirm that no, no it is not.
    
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  - Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    If that’s the trend of the franchise I sure won’t be touching any of the later ones.
    
    Good news! It’s prolly not. In an interview I’ve read quite some time ago, creators said that they hit a silly problem of not having path of improving the game because everything works and…well, not much to add.
    
    So instead they experiment slightly wiyh each version, making small changes every time to create another “flavor” of Civ.
    
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  - Botanicals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Did you ever try Beyond Earth? I felt similarly about that one. Luckily V still hits even after 15 years!
    
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Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Lots, as you said too. Blizzard lost its way a while ago, not giving them money.

Neither epic, ubi, ea. F all of them.

On the bright side there’s so much games coming out and so much backlog too, I don’t miss them.

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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I was going to say diablo4 as well. Diablo1 and 2 were some of my favorite games in my youth, but I just don’t want to give blizzard any more money. Path of exile 1 and 2 are good for the same itch.

Also any console exclusives. Bloodborne? Would love to play. Not buying a console. New Zelda and Mario? Same.

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- ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Diablo 2 was one of the best games of its type ever, and everything after has just been desperately trying to recapture that feeling. PoE was kind of close, but got a tad grindy. I like when a game just wraps up and you don’t have an endless slog at the end to do completion sub-goals.
  
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- pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You can play Bloodborne via an emulator.
  
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  - jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’ve heard this but I haven’t taken the time to find a rom and emulator and get it working (on Linux)
    
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caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Crusader Kings 3, I know I‘ll look at the clock and get a panic attack, don‘t have time for that time machine right now lol

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- LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is me with EU5. I’ve sunk so many hours into EU4 that I know I could get lost in EU5, and I don’t want to enter the time vortex.
  
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jode@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Shadow of the Erdtree. It’s never gone on sale. I know it’s 40 bucks but ffs its been out for years and the base game goes on sale all the time.

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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  It’s been out for years
  
  It’s barely been a year and half since the DLC came out…
  
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- fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  By years, you mean, 2 years.
  
  You can't just expect games to be on sale for deep discounts within 1 - 2 years or even 3 years of it being released. It sucks, I know, but that's how it is. You're forced to either wait 5 - 10 years or just make the jump to buy it as it is after some savings and when you're able to.
  
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thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I tried to get into MOBAs multiple times. Just reinstalled Dota 2 again (previously when I was still on Windows tried LoL). I don’t know what it is, but I just cant get into and play it. I like the idea of it though.

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- Trilogy3452@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Deadlock accomodates more playstyles, has builds to blindly follow to ease into the game mechanics and still have loads of fun
  
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  - thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m actually very interested into Deadlock. Got an invite when the game was new and it is what I imagined SMITE would be. The game has actual hero shooter elements and third person shooter like Overwatch, paired with the genre I am trying to get into. The reason why I do not play it is, because I don’t like playing Early Access games and wait for its official launch.
    
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- AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Likewise, Smite was my main flirtation with MOBAs, but I only really played the arena mode (which was admittedly fun)
  
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  - thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Mine actually too. lol. But it didn’t do it for me either, at least not in the long run.
    
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- Royal_Bitch_Pudding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You could try Heroes of the Storm. It’s shorter, team combat focused, and all xp is shared.
  
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TheV2@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I want to avoid time-consuming games like Dota 2 or Crusader Kings 3…

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
D2R even dropped LAN play and backwards compatibility with classic D2. Those had both been promised during development.

And I would also like to play D4. The atmosphere in the beginning is great, really felt like Diablo 1. But apparently the rest of the game is more like D3 again so I’m not that salty that I can’t play.

There are a lot of games I simply don’t have the brainpower or energy for because of !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone. I have started Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Mass Effect. But they’re too wordy for me. And I can’t bring myself to play them in a way where I don’t fully exhaust every conversation.

I hope I will be able to stomach the Gothic Remake. The original is one of my favourite games ever.

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- Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Have you been playing PoE/PoE 2?
  
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  - bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah, I don’t know exactly what it is but I always feel like I don’t have enough overview in those. Like I can’t really make out the enemies. Apart from that I don’t really like the gem system. I think PoE 2 had something new but PoE2 is too hard on my brain unfortunately.
    
    D2 exactly hits that sweet spot of simplicity and new mechanics for me. Although nothing beats the atmosphere of D1.
    
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SlippiHUD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Factorio, I might legitimately starve to death.

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Birch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Any game at the moment would be nice

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