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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 18 hours 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.

[–] tarsakos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 points 1 day 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.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Starfox 64, which I still haven’t played.

[–] zaemz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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.com 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago

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

[–] thlibos@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago

Beyond Good & Evil 2?

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Still hurts, why are you like this?

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 38 points 3 days ago (15 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.

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 29 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (9 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.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Half-Life 3.

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

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 days 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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[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days 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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[–] lustyargonian@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rdr2. Still waiting for a fps patch on console (most powerful machine I possess)

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Im still waiting for a pc release of RDR1. And for RDR2 to srop in price significantly

[–] lustyargonian@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah I missed that. 50 euros tho for what's now an old game is a bit much

[–] b000rg@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It pretty regularly goes on sale for 50% off. I'd never played it before, so I bought it at that price.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'll be patient a bit more

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 20 points 3 days 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.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 17 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

EDIT: Also a widescreen patch!

[–] phi@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

only just got bg3

too early

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days 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.

[–] phi@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

One of my absolute favourites! Pull it! :)

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[–] chirayu_alias@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Nobody mentioned Megaman X Corrupted? Really?

[–] TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days 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 12 points 3 days 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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[–] wildflowertea@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I am a big classic mythology nerd, but I got Valhalla as a present and I want to finish it first, yet life keeps getting in the way.

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