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They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? (lemmy.zip)
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Feel free to replace "friends" with "anyone you know in real life" or even online groups you trust or are close with.

"They":

WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.

and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me.

Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don't run the place.

EDIT: The "not" in the title is optional; I'm asking about both successful and failed recommendations.

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[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Dragon’s Age Origins. Had a friend tell me how it was their favorite franchise and that specifically was the best game, such amazing lore, gameplay, etc.

Couldn’t even make it past the first quest before I hung it out.

[-] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

When did you play it? I liked the game when it came out, but I tried to replay it recently and the mechanics did not age gracefully. It's pretty clunky by modern standards.

I'm sure that to a lot of people this is likely sacrilege lol

[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Hi, me, I'm a lot of people.

I cannot agree with it being clunky, at least not any more clunky than any other game in the genre. What are you referring to specifically? The combat or something else?

[-] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I'm your reverse. Friends with some big Dragon Age fans, they wanted me to join, it worked for me too! The Dragon Age train crashed when I had to free up space on my PC for more important real life things sadly, but when I finish that I'd like to finish my playthrough and maybe replay with fight-skipping cheats, or hit up the rest of the series.

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I never made it out of the first zone. I was honestly shocked by how little I cared for it considering I made it through Jade Empire, but Origins just felt like Knights of the Old Republic and that game bored me too.

[-] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I enjoyed it but the character arc resolutions were extremely rushed.

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