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Which game have you been most patient for?

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Which game have you been most patient for? - sh.itjust.works

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.

slazer2au Feb 25

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.

Zahille7 Feb 25

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 least $20.

Berttheduck Feb 25

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.

slazer2au Feb 25

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.

Zahille7 Feb 25

Imo that’s backwards. Who cares. The backers backed it because they believed in the vision, and now it’s been realized, so it’s done.

It’d be like getting mad that I bought a game full-price and then some time later it goes on sale.

Hell, I hope someone over there is reading this:

Considering your crowd-funded game’s MSRP floor as equal to a donation tier of said backers?

Easy solve.

Announce the sale and follow immediately with “Backer’s Choice”: either a refund of the difference or a free copy to gift to someone.

Boom. Sales through the roof like beanstalks.

Now, go get me that golden egg, ya marketing spooks.🤌🏼

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.

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 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

ToTheGraveMyLove Feb 25

What is HD2?

hell divers 2, my friend group is pressing me hard to buy it

ToTheGraveMyLove Feb 25

Gotcha, ty

OmegaMouse Feb 25

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…

UnderpantsWeevil Feb 25

One of the nice things about Factorio is that you can finish a level and put it down and come back later.

Not a ton of plot. It’s mostly just a building sim.

OmegaMouse Feb 25

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.

UnderpantsWeevil Feb 25

Finish a run, excuse me

My last run was over 300 hours… But you are right. I haven’t really picked it up again since.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks Feb 25

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.

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.

OwOarchist Feb 25

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 Feb 27

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.

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

CurvatureOuttakes Feb 25

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

OmegaMouse Feb 25

Ah I know, I’m not waiting for a sale. Just need more spare time lol

Bababasti Feb 26

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 :<

MagnificentSteiner Feb 25

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.

ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 Feb 25

I’m gonna play Super Mario Sunshine one of these days, I swear.

James R Kirk Feb 25

I played it on Dolphin emulator with a 60fps patch and some HD textures. It aged really well.

EDIT: Also a widescreen patch!

Phil Ociraptor Feb 26

Is it better than Galaxy 1 and 2? I 100%ed these two and i feel like sunshine would give me less of the same, am I wrong?

James R Kirk Feb 27

Funny you should ask, I am actually playing Galaxy for the first time right now!

All I can say is that I really enjoyed Sunshine and will probably finish 100%ing it one day. With the patches I mentioned it feels about as modern as Galaxy (I suppose they are only five years apart). But better or worse? I can’t yet say. I love the “Fludd” mechanic and find it really satisfying in 60fps.

Coelacanth Feb 25

I would probably say Withering Rooms. I’ve been super interested in it since it released but have managed to restrain myself to wait for a deep(er) sale.

Withering Rooms on Steam

Withering Rooms is a challenging 2.5D horror RPG set in a procedurally generated Victorian mansion that changes each night. Explore Mostyn House to collect the perfect items for your build and face a huge cast of overgrown undead, invisible ghosts, devious witches, and more.

UnderpantsWeevil Feb 25

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.

Quetzalcutlass Feb 25

When you get around to playing it, you might want to check out these two mods. I couldn’t even get through the intro without them.

Less Grunting in Cutscenes

Edits English voice over files to moderately reduce the overly numerous and unnatural sounding grunts in cinematics.

Nexus Mods :: Final Fantasy VII Remake

UnderpantsWeevil Feb 25

If you take away the grunts, you lose half of Barrett’s dialogue! /s

I’ll have to keep an eye out for this in FF7R-3. But I’ll be honest, I barely noticed. Might be cause I’m a bit of a grunter myself, though…

Quetzalcutlass Feb 27

Ha! It’s a bit poorly named, but what the mod actually does is edit out most of the anime reaction sounds in the cutscenes. It’s surprisingly subtle - there are still plenty, but they’re placed where it makes sense instead of characters exclaiming with every slight movement they make.

The mod page has a comparison video with the base game that shows what I mean, but if the noises didn’t bother you then more power to you. Just be careful - I hear it can be contagious.

FFVII Remake Mod: Less Grunting in Cutscenes

YouTube

Zephorah Feb 25

A playable PC version of RE4. It finally happened, but it took them long enough.

paultimate14 Feb 25

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.

paultimate14 Feb 25

I do have Mass Effect pirated. Just need a hardware upgrade to run RPCS3 better.

Another alternative is to buy on console. I bought the PS4 version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon because the steam version has Denuvo. I’m kind of torn between generally preferring physical over digital media, versus the openness and flexibility of PC vs the closed-off proprietary-ness of consoles. Trade-offs either way.

samus12345 Feb 25

Sonic Frontiers had its DRM forcibly removed in January. 🏴‍☠️

dindonmasker Feb 25

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.

OwOarchist Feb 25

Have you looked at Teardown?

dindonmasker Feb 25

I did. I played it a bit and it’s fun. Not sure why it didn’t really scratch that itch. I feel like the mechanics are too simple and the moment i try to push the physics it just doesn’t really do interesting stuff i think. The best part was collapsing a huge structure by cutting each leg but it took a while and the fps fell to a crawl and i couldn’t really move my head to see stuff breaking and falling unfortunately.

OwOarchist Feb 25

and the fps fell to a crawl and i couldn’t really move my head to see stuff breaking and falling unfortunately

Huh… Didn’t have that issue on my hardware, which made it a lot more enjoyable, I guess. Maybe try again at some point if you’ve ever got a significant hardware upgrade.

(And, honestly, the missions are kind of a pain a lot of times. It’s actually more of a heist and getaway game when you play the missions. I mostly just wanted to play it in sandbox mode and destroy stuff.)

Peruvian_Skies Feb 25

I’m waiting for Civilizarion VII’s first expansion to come out before buying the base game, as that’s usually the time when a Civ game has had all the problematic bugs and balancing issues worked out.

Madzielle Feb 25

Hopefully.

I’ve been playing Civ 6 still, it’s hard for me to get my hopes up for 7.

Same thing I came here to say.

I got the itch and played a campaign on 6 last week and was thinking about what 7 would need for me to buy it…and the answer is an expansion and a deep discount. The feature changed are kinda meh to me

Or maybe hearing that all the buggy stuff that bugs me about 6 is fixed.

definitemaybe Feb 26

That’s likely wise. I played Civ 5 before any expansions and it was bad. So bad that it turned me off Civ games and I haven’t played one since. I’m sure they eventually figured it out, but I should have waited.

Same for Diablo 3. Played through the whole game to the endgame on release, waiting for it to be fun. It never was. Went back to PoE, Last Epoch, and others. I hear the expansion made it pretty good, but I’ve moved on. Diablo 4 isn’t as bad as D3, based on what I played in free play weekends, but it’s still a subpar Diablo-style game. It’s a shame they didn’t pursue Diablo 3 before they lost all the devs from Blizzard North that worked on D2—I played thousands of hours of D2. I’m sad we’ll never get a true Diablo successor using the IP.

Peruvian_Skies Feb 26

For what it’s worth, the final version of Civ V with the expansions is for me the best game in the franchise, even better than Civ IV. Maybe you should give it another chance.

I’ve been playing Civ games since III shortly before IV came out and they all seem to follow this pattern. VI was a mess on release, but now it’s actually pretty good though not as good as V.

TheDarkestShark Feb 25

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.

OwOarchist Feb 25

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!)

Coelacanth Feb 25

The modding scene in general is really good. The only shame is that so many old classic mods got broken by the 2.0 update.

Zahille7 Feb 25

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.

Redacted Feb 25

Terraria, waiting to play it with friends when i make some

tigeruppercut Feb 27

I still recommend it solo. I started w friends but most of my time in game has been alone

Madzielle Feb 25

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

James R Kirk Feb 25

CupHead is coming up on ten years old and I don’t think it has ever dipped below $10 on Steam.