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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.

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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 6 days ago

The Last Night

I heard about it because it had music by Lorn. It looked cool. Cyberpunk pixelart aesthetic. 'Post-cyberpunk' concept. Then there was some twitter drama about something the creator said in a tweet years before that maybe indicated some unsavory views which they immediately disavowed. They said they were still working on it ~5 years later, which was ~5 years ago. The game remains unreleased.

There's also 'What Lives Below.' I don't know what happened with it. Wishlisted it after it was announced, but haven't heard anything since. It might have died in the womb, as it were.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 39 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] CurvatureOuttakes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Skyrim. I'll play it one day I swear.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Modded skyrim is one of my favorite games, vanilla skyrim is just... meh.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] w24@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Its worth ten bucks for sure, as long as you like brutally hard retro platformers. I wish I did, because that game is gorgeous

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

EDIT: Also a widescreen patch!

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[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Half-Life 3.

I'm still waiting, Gabe. No pressure. You do your thing.

[–] TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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!)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago

I'm still waiting for the right sale price to buy Cyberpunk 2077

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I personally would never buy the game out of spite if they did that to me.

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Mass Effect series, LA Noire, and Sonic Frontiers are all examples of games where I am waiting for DRM-free versions.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Titanfall 3. Took a while but it was worth every single moment that the devs spent polishing it.

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[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Final Fantasy vii, just bought it on gog. I think I first saw screenshots of it in a PC magazine almost 30 years ago.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] shrewbacca@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

I guess KSA (successor of KSP). Still in dev.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

only just got bg3

too early

[–] chirayu_alias@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Nobody mentioned Megaman X Corrupted? Really?

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