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.
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.
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.
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
Skyrim. I'll play it one day I swear.
Honestly it's worth it if you're down for mods. It felt like an insult when it came out, it was like call of duty wearing morrowind's skin, but since then it's become a pretty robust modding community and Legacy of the Dragonborn is miles above anything in the base game.
Modded skyrim is one of my favorite games, vanilla skyrim is just... meh.
Modding Skyrim is one of my favorite games.
Load game. Load mods. Break game. Repeat until pretty. Finish 10 hours later. Play for 2 hours and drop game.
I know the Wabbajack scene is pretty big for Skyrim, is there any big mod pack you would recommend? Skyrim is also an embarrassing blind spot for me (played enough of Morrowind and Oblivion back in the day so never got around to it) but after all the hundreds of hours I've spent modding Fallout: NV, Cyberpunk and STALKER Anomaly I am not sure I want to dive headfirst into another multi month mod project.
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.
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.
I did, yep. I mean, my PC is fairly old so I don't think I'll play the current "enhanced" version on Steam even when I do eventually get round to trying it.
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!
Half-Life 3.
I'm still waiting, Gabe. No pressure. You do your thing.
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
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 years for the FF7 Remake and then even more years for the FF7 Remake to come to PC and then even more years for the sequel to the FF7 Remake to come to PC and now I'm waiting for the three-quel to release, at which point I will begin waiting for it to come to PC.
I'm still waiting for the right sale price to buy Cyberpunk 2077
Still waiting for Microsoft Flightsimulator 2020 to fall to a price that's worth it for the amount of time I would be playing with it.
And I'm still salty for the time they accidentally discounted it by 85 % and removed it from my shopping cart just as I was about to pay.
I personally would never buy the game out of spite if they did that to me.
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.
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.
I'm not holding out on any game at the moment. I nuked my wishlist and told myself I'm not even going to look at the Steam store page until I can get some of my backlog down.
If I had to choose a game that I'm holding out on currently, it's probably HD2 for a combo of the above and price
I'm still patiently waiting for a 3D VR voxel based falling sand engine type game. There are a couple of interesting projects working towards that goal and technology helps make the cubes smaller and smaller from minecraft to something more like cube world with more material interactions.
Spider-Man 2. I did initially buy it when it first released on PC, but the performance was so bad I literally couldn't even do anything. So I returned it.
Edit: I'm also waiting for a good sale on Sonic x Shadow Generations. I don't really care about the Sonic half of the game, I just wanna play as Shadow.
Rimworld.
It's on my list of games to play and steam will recommend it at least once a day but I just haven't purchased it yet.
For me, it needs to go on an actual sale. I feel like it's never really gone on sale, or at least not a relatively good one.
Like it's always been at least $30+, and I'd like to get it for at most $20.
The dev is quite against the deep discount sales for Rimworld, it never drops below a few quid off. It is 100% worth it at full price however so take the plunge when you're ready, you won't regret it. I've got a good few hundred hours, it's one of my most played games. I come back and start a new colony at least once a year or so. All the explanations are great and add something cool to the base game. I haven't even looked at mods for it yet but there's a huge scene for those.
I see it like Factorio. It started as a crowdfund/Kickstarter so selling it below the price the backers paid diminishes the trust the backers showed.
The Mass Effect series, LA Noire, and Sonic Frontiers are all examples of games where I am waiting for DRM-free versions.
Good Luck.
You could just pirate them, or nows the perfect time to (re)discover the Xbox 360 with how great the modding scene has become lately.
Titanfall 3. Took a while but it was worth every single moment that the devs spent polishing it.
Final Fantasy vii, just bought it on gog. I think I first saw screenshots of it in a PC magazine almost 30 years ago.
Paralives. I'm willing to wait forever though, house flipper 2 placates the build desire for now, but I'm still excited to see how paralives turns out. I guess I'm also being (less) patient for The Pets DLC for House Flipper 2. I really want that dlc lol
I also dont know the timeline, but I'm hoping Rust adds the Farm update to console this year, or maybe next year, but I want the pies, chickens and flowers
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. I could have got it for PS5 but I knew I would end up also buying it for PC, so I just waited the year or whatever.
Doing the same with Death Stranding 2.
I guess KSA (successor of KSP). Still in dev.
Elden Ring. After listening to my PS4 struggle with CyberPunk 2077, I decided that I would be better off waiting until I purchased better hardware for both.
More future patience... but Ys X Nordics.
Given the bullshit about releasing a better version of the game for full price just a year after the first release I'll be waiting a long time until it's on a decent sale price before I give them any money.
A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.