Which game have you been the most patient for (as in, delaying purchase)?

For me, it would have to be GTA V. I stopped playing games for years, then built a new rig in 2018. Since then I’ve played through GTA IV (well, I beat the story, and it was amazing), but I never played GTA V.

My plan is to purchase it and start playing it the day GTA VI is released, as I have enough other games to get through in the meantime.

  • tarsakos@lemmy.world
    3·
    16 hours ago

    Resident Evil Village. I played most of the middle games, but skipped the first one because I hate tank controls and 0 because I heard it was awful. I told myself I won’t buy Village until I play those two. I own them, I just can’t get myself to want to play them for more than ten minutes at a time.

    • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Similar boat here. I own all RE games (cept Requiem) and I really wanna play Village but omg it’s hard to get started. Took me a long time to get started on RE7 too. And I still got RE4make too but I wanted to finish RE4 first but also dropped that one ugh (tho technically I finished it on release already I want a fresh perspective).
      But like holy hell the series has like 4 different entry points and my ADHD brain can’t handle it.

    • Zaemz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      It’s a pretty good game, doesn’t take long to complete a playthrough, either. I think you’d enjoy it if the spirit moves you one of these days.

  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    Super Mario Run on the iPhone. I won’t buy it until it goes on sale and, since it’s Nintendo, it’ll never go on sale.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    2·
    23 hours ago

    I’m waiting until I finish Sonic & The Seven Rings before moving onto Sonic &.The Black Knight. I am very slowly going through the game I never beat growing up and at this rate I’ll probably get around to finishing it near when the heat death of the universe occurs.

    Looking forward to Black Knight since it was a game I wanted but never got. I just hope I can get an official wiimote by then because Seven Rings controls poorly on the 3rd party one I currently have.

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          I could not for the life of me get wabbajack to work, but I did get steam tinker launcher to work out of the box and used nexus to put together asking related to LotDB

        • CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          I’ve been enjoying Nordic Souls as a Wabbajack pack. It’s got gameplay adjustments that do change the difficulty curve but is closer to the base game in difficulty than many of the other prominent mod packs. It also has a smaller footprint (~100GB maybe?) as compared to some others. Skyrim feels more modern and fresh, for sure.

          I downloaded it on a whim after I used Wabbajack/Nexus Premium for some Fallout New Vegas modding (went with Viva NV). I wanted to get full value from that premium sub lol.

          Edit: I will say that I don’t think Nordic Souls includes Legacy of the Dragonborn, so I’d look into that and choose another pack if desired.

        • Landless2029@lemmy.world
          6·
          24 hours ago

          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.

        • kbal@fedia.io
          4·
          2 days ago

          Starting 3 years ago, it only took me about 3 years to mod it to perfection — which was another exercise in patience I guess.

      • FippleStone@aussie.zone
        31·
        1 day ago

        I completely agree, if you need to heavily mod Skyrim for it to be good, is it even Skyrim any more? Grossly overrated on release in my opinion

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Having played literally 0 TES games in my entire life, I do own some sort of Skyrim enhanced edition in my Steam library. I share your promise. Haven’t got close to play it yet.

  • OmegaMouse@pawb.social
    39·
    2 days ago

    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…

        • Bababasti@feddit.org
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yeah same. I feel like it would be irresponsible to buy it now, cause my kids are still very dependent on me and it‘d be a shame for them growing up without a father. So until then, the factory must grow wait :<

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • OmegaMouse@pawb.social
        9·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • e0qdk@reddthat.com
      7·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • Denjin@feddit.uk
        11·
        2 days ago

        It’s not about the destination, it’s about the optimisation tangent we spend 15 hours on, we met along the way.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.

        Massive increase in time commitment there.

        You still start the same way, but now launching a rocket isn’t the end of the game … it’s just the end of the first act. Now you also build orbiting space stations and interplanetary spaceships (which require launching dozens of rockets to build), so you can go colonize 4 more planets, each with their own new challenges and new resources to gather and exploit. Each one of those can easily take just as much time to colonize as your original planet, if not more. You’ll need to build autonomous spaceships to regularly ferry supplies and finished products around the solar system to where they’re needed. Then finally build a big, badass spaceship capable of reaching the edge of the solar system, and that is the new win condition.

        After playing Space Age, the original Factorio game seems like just a tutorial level.

        • arrowMace@lemmy.world
          2·
          16 hours ago

          They actually moved some of the base game content from the starting planet to other planets with the DLC. And you can transport things between planets to kick start your factory, so each new planet should take significantly less time than the starting planet. So it’s not really as long as playing through the whole base game then 4x more.

          Still takes longer to beat but not like 5x. Closer to 2x for most people I think. Don’t be afraid. The interplanetary factory must grow.

    • taco@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I did this with Rimworld. Started a few months ago, approaching 400 hours, and I was totally correct.