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I am going to buy a new game!
Kyleran
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Yeah, I know, no big deal, for some of you this is an almost daily occurrence.
For me however I have purchased exactly two new games in 4 years, buying Wasteland 2 last Nov and Albion Online last fall.
People have asked, "are you really a gamer?" To tell you the truth I'm not sure anymore.
When I bought my first PC back in '88 I had limited experience to the available games at the time. (Previously playing arcade games, Kings Quest and a small dungeon crawler called Dungeons of Daggeroth.)
I ended up buying 5 or 6 totally at random from a game store and decided Bards Tale 1 was the one I enjoyed best and started me down a near 30 year road in the RPG and MM0RPG genre.
I did branch out at times enjoying titles such as Half Life 1/2, Real Time Strat games such as Dune 2, Warcraft and some others. I enjoyed space sims particularly Chris Roberts titles and some naval /sub / tank combat sims but in the end I returned to RPGs.
So in order to try and rediscover the "fun" so to speak I'm going to buy 5 or 6 new games and see if I like them. Not going to do it at random however.
This is where you all come in, if willing could you share say no more than 3 titles you feel are "must plays" and most likely to grab my interests.
Don't worry too much about what genre you think I might like, I definitely plan on trying a wide variety of titles (might need to bump the total to 10)
I would ask you to exclude sports games and early access titles. Also I prefer to pay up front for my games, someone once told me we boomers often need to have a vested interest in getting the most for our money in order to really enjoy a game and at least for me he was correct.
Now, if there is an early access title that is just so fabulous you think I must play it now, put it on the list but realize I give most games only one chance, and I don't believe I've ever returned to a game that failed to grab me the first go around.
Thanks in advance to those willing to share, everyone else can just ignore.
Cheers ;
For me however I have purchased exactly two new games in 4 years, buying Wasteland 2 last Nov and Albion Online last fall.
People have asked, "are you really a gamer?" To tell you the truth I'm not sure anymore.
When I bought my first PC back in '88 I had limited experience to the available games at the time. (Previously playing arcade games, Kings Quest and a small dungeon crawler called Dungeons of Daggeroth.)
I ended up buying 5 or 6 totally at random from a game store and decided Bards Tale 1 was the one I enjoyed best and started me down a near 30 year road in the RPG and MM0RPG genre.
I did branch out at times enjoying titles such as Half Life 1/2, Real Time Strat games such as Dune 2, Warcraft and some others. I enjoyed space sims particularly Chris Roberts titles and some naval /sub / tank combat sims but in the end I returned to RPGs.
So in order to try and rediscover the "fun" so to speak I'm going to buy 5 or 6 new games and see if I like them. Not going to do it at random however.
This is where you all come in, if willing could you share say no more than 3 titles you feel are "must plays" and most likely to grab my interests.
Don't worry too much about what genre you think I might like, I definitely plan on trying a wide variety of titles (might need to bump the total to 10)
I would ask you to exclude sports games and early access titles. Also I prefer to pay up front for my games, someone once told me we boomers often need to have a vested interest in getting the most for our money in order to really enjoy a game and at least for me he was correct.
Now, if there is an early access title that is just so fabulous you think I must play it now, put it on the list but realize I give most games only one chance, and I don't believe I've ever returned to a game that failed to grab me the first go around.
Thanks in advance to those willing to share, everyone else can just ignore.
Cheers ;
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What game are you going to buy?
Wasteland 2 a solid choice btw, see you in four years when you can tell us about your next game.
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Whatcha gonna buy?
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Unless he just plays the games he owns exclusively. Then..... I don't know.
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just kidding Ky
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
Does look like a b0rked post.
Well you guys are too quick to pile on, I mis-clicked trying to delete the poll I inadvertently added so I hope some of you will revisit the OP now that I've completed it.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Kerbal Space Program
Prison Architect
edit: Have to add GTA V in there
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
The market did not get better it just became a crowded space of quantity not quality.I cannot speak for others and why they buy crap but i am not a sucker and will sit and wait for something good to come along.
If you made 2 purchases in 4 years,that sounds about right,there are not that many good games out there worthy of being bought at least not at the price most devs/publishers are asking.
Big example,Stardew what ever it was called as selling around 50-60 bucks at one time,i laughed at that price,a 1980's type engine,game design selling in 2017 for 50-60,yeah right.
I don't keep track of my purchases,i make quite a few but i almost always wait for a sale price because VERY few are good enough to have any longevity.Example Diablo 3,i already had enough of the game after my first month,so it's long term value is very low,good thing i never bought it when released.
I know people are all different,nobody likes the same set of games but i value money and put a value on games.Example Albion is not worth very much imo,i hope you paid a very low price.Wasteland 2,maybe worth 10 bucks on sale.I paid 19 bucks for Dishonored awhile back,it was selling around 60 maybe more but i waited.
That is the bottom line for me and the same goes for PC hardware and games,i don't get suckered in to buy new on release and get ripped off on prices,i wait for the proper value price.
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"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
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I think part or most of my problem is I am addicted to a M&B Warband mod called cRPG so once I log on to that I have a hard time logging off to try something else.
But I am going to buy ME Shadow of War in october and hope I don't do what I did with Deus Ex MD barely was able to get into it even though I loved and finished DEHR.
edit: I forgot to mention "The Void", now on steam. "The Void" is the game I would have wanted to design.
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If you only occasionally buy new games, then I would actually recommend looking more at games that were big hits 2 years ago as opposed to today.
Based off the little i know of you.
Elite Dangerous. Maybe Black Desert in the MMORPG realm.
Nier Automata - IMO the godfather of videogames
and mybe Prey if you like halflife or bioshock games
playing: Dragon Age
Waiting: for FF14, Mass Effect
Want to try: Fallen Earth
http://store.steampowered.com/app/262060/Darkest_Dungeon/
Thea the Awakening .....
http://store.steampowered.com/app/378720/Thea_The_Awakening/
or
Hand of Fate .....
http://store.steampowered.com/app/266510/Hand_of_Fate/
3 of the best games to come out in years
and a bonus because of how much you enjoyed Bards Tale .. try ...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/408400/Swords_and_Sorcery__Underworld__Definitive_Edition/