I played Nine Sols recently and it had a transformative effect on my gaming experience. I’ve found myself no longer getting mad at fairly structured games and deeply enjoying the personal refinement of my skill set in pursuit of a goal. Suddenly this shift in perspective has allowed me to see difficulty in a new light and truly savor the victory that comes after significant effort. With this new perspective, I decided to try the game that had made me hesitate the most with its reputation for difficulty: Sekiro

Its been truly eye opening to realize that my nervousness has only kept me from a good time. Or maybe I just wasn’t ready for it…

Following that trend, I started Celeste for the first time even though I never play pure platformers, and it has blown my socks off. Do I suck? You bet your ass I do. But I know it’s from a lack of detailed platforming, and developing that skill has been very fun and satisfying.

Now, I’d love to hear from others. What games made you regret waiting so long to try them?

  • pentastarm@piefed.caEnglish
    121·
    8 days ago

    Cyberpunk 2077. I know it’s not as old as some of the other games here, but I totally ignored it. I usually suck at FPS and I thought this one would be no different, but oh my gosh, the cyberware stuff and the stealth takedowns, so so much fun. I really enjoyed the story, I thought V’s female VA (Ilia from RWBY!) did a fantastic job, as did Keanu Reeves. And now I see the DLC is on sale!

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      You also might enjoy Deus Ex games: Deus Ex: Human Revolution or Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Its a bit different off course, but has the skill tree elements, stealth takedowns and isn’t a standard FPS shooter. But it lacks the bigger world and city and no car driving off course. On Steam they are sometimes on sale for 2 or 3 Euros (and Dollars respectively I guess).

    • Statick@programming.devEnglish
      31·
      8 days ago

      I finally grabbed it during the GOG summer sale and it quickly became one of my favorite games.

      It’s impressive how immersive they made the city feel.

      • pentastarm@piefed.caEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        I’m kicking myself for not picking it up sooner, but I read there were a bunch of bugs that were squished in the 2.0 update, so maybe I would have felt differently about it if I got when it first came out.

        • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          I preordered the physical disc release for pc with a gog code. I am just now finishing the game, so don’t feel bad lol. I just had a shitty computer for quite a while and wanted to play it maxed out.