Don't Give Up On Games
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- Everyone's interests are different, but sometimes we need to dig deeper to discover what we really like.
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I gave up on the Witcher 3 like 5 times until it finally clicked and now I’ve 100%’d it and adore it
are you tim rogers
I’ve never even played it before. Also I love your videos
Me in a nutshell with every open world games ahah.
Same experience. I remember telling myself I'd never understand Gwent but it's oddly addicting
@@Trashedaccount123 I remember putting off Gwent until they mission in novigrad where you can enter if you win the tournament
so I went back to learn Gwent and then spent 10 hours playing nothing else 😂
It's also okay to just not enjoy a game, series, or genre -- you don't need to ultimately enjoy every piece of entertainment that others get hours, days, or even years of enjoyment out of. No pressure, no guilt.
I agree forcing yourself to beat games also isn’t good
This is basically what happened with Metroid Prime for me. I played it for maybe 5 hours in total across a year, but then after the Metroid Prime 4 trailer, I beat in a week, and it might be one of my favorite games of all time.
Same for me along with Zero Mission. I've been wanting to play more after Dread but almost found 0 drive to do it. So when the trailers for the new game came out I was so excited to dive right into both again and beat both of them simultaneously!
@@Researcher_Ryan I’ve been playing zero mission a bit after beating Metroid prime
Man I love 2d metroid so much but after maybe a dozen attempts I can't feel any affection for prime whatsoever. I think first person games outside of VR are just not for me.
I had the same feeling with Dread I just wanna do another playthrough bc I hadnt done hard mode and then just couldn't find the energy to play it again idk why...
Metroid games get better once your mid way through the game as you have more power ups to traverse
And that's why my game library never stops growing.
The easily solution is to stop buying games until you've played the ones you already have
@@C0D97 Then, I probably need multiple lives to do so.
@@KLGB76 Lmaoo! Same bro. But collecting games is part of the fun, you don’t need to beat every game you purchase.
My strategy is to just frequently go back through my library and retry games I didn’t beat or didn’t get very far into. I can’t tell you how many games have been sitting on my shelf for years before I FINALLY got invested in them after multiple attempts.
@@C0D97 You can't be serious. No one with an ounce of human life experience would say this, let alone say it's an easy solution. Please tell me you're joking here, lol.
'OMG, a new 3D Mario is coming out in a few days. But I have these niche 20+ years old games in my backlog I need to clear out before buying it!'....
I am being serious.
But when I'm talking about "backlog", I'm on about games that have been purchased, not games in a list you've written down or something.
So the solution is don't buy the game unless you're going to play it
Def agree, but also: Give up on games! You don't have to force yourself if you don't want to! It's okay if everyone else is obsessed with Baldur's gate. You can just choose to not engage with it. There are too many games! This is fun, don't stress, and don't force anything.
Your taste changes when you're older. Which is why you can appreciate them now.
It took me about 3 different attempts at picking up Xenoblade 2 before it really hit. Now it's one of my favorite JRPGs.
Sometimes it takes the right moment for a game to click, and then it's off to the races until the credits roll.
Edit: As someone who recently got into the Persona series... it's worth getting into. Finishing Persona 5 will make you want to play 3 and 4.
don't forget about P5 Strikers! I actually liked that better than the first game just because of my tastes
@@TheBlueGoldenHawk That's on my list with P5 Tactica as well. I'm trying to get all that Persona goodness!
@@Danbecker000 I also would like to play tactica at some point, but I have too many games already lol
@@TheBlueGoldenHawk Enjoying Persona 5 as much as I did added a lot of games to my "to play" list. I feel that way about Person Strikers right now lol
2 attempts for me and still hasn't hit. I love the beginning but once I get to that first big open forest area and town it just loses me.
Such a great video. This is one of the largest issues in gaming imo, so many people give up on games before they give them a real chance or they go into the game already expecting not to like it and is a shame.
Its because we don't have time. Games nowadays don't get attention right away forget it
I tried TTYD twice on the GameCube once when I was a kid, and once when I was in college. Both times I didn’t even make it past Chapter 1. Something just didn’t click and I don’t typically like RPGs, even though I have beaten a few like Bowser’s Inside Story and gens 4-6 Pokemon.
I wasn’t even going to bother with the TTYD remake, but all of my friends were so hyped for it. My friend ended up having a second copy (he lost his first, then bought another, then found his lost copy), so he gave it to me cause he really wanted me to give the game another shot.
I got absolutely hooked this time and made it all the way through, while also completing most of the side content. I honestly think the modernization of the remake helped a lot with my enjoyment this time around, and I’m so glad that I was given the opportunity to give the game a fair chance
My favorite video game of all time right there. Thank you for giving it another chance!
Couldnt agree more. Games that didn't initially click with me include Hollow Knight, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and Banjo-Tooie, each of which i would consider some of my all-time favorites now.
My man. Tooie is underrated.
I love Fire Emblem Path of Radiance. Usually when I try a new game, series, genre, it is hard for me to learn and get into it. But this game clicked instantly, I loved the premise, the gameplay, the characters and artstyle, the ost as well. Even went out of my way to find a physical copy of it and its sequel Radiant Dawn
I initially dismissed Xenoblade 2 for the longest time because of it appearing “too anime” and piggybacking off the opinions of others. But after giving it a second chance it ended up becoming my favorite game of all time. From that moment I decided to never form any strong opinions on a game until I actually played it myself ever again
Classic redemption arc. Xenoblade 2 seems to do this to a lot of people.
Not surprising tbh, the game has some annoying quirks that can be really off putting, part of this is the inconsistent English dub and the game feeling a bit rushed in places, the second half of the game really starts ramping up tho, and by the end there's some really great moments if you stick with it
I'm completely turned off by anime as well. But also I hate the hot women because it's unnecessary. I'm not 13 anymore and it's just pandering to that age demographic... I can't shake that distaste for it
@@HoboWithAShotgunI get what you are trying to say, but this seems so funny ooc.
“Oh no. These people are too hot. I can’t enjoy this.”
The men in xenoblade are hotter anyway.
Surprisingly for me it happened with Xenoblade 1, with 2 I loved it from the start
Yoshi's Island.
At first, I couldn't get past the idea of leaving stages un-100%'d, and found the game to be a chore because I was too honed-in on that aspect.
I came back to it late last year with the perspective of "to heck with the score, let's just enjoy the adventure".
It is now my favorite Super Nintendo Game.
The moral of the story: Let yourself be less than perfect, sometimes a game is SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE if you're willing to let that go.
Amen to that. I tried 100%ing levels in Yoshi’s Island at first, but by world 2, I thought to myself, "this isn't fun" and decided to not stress over the score; just get what I can get on a first run and move on. I started enjoying the game a lot more after that.
I think my willingness to throw full completion to the wayside if it's too tedious/unfun is also why I enjoyed Crafted World more than many others seem to. I didn't bother doing the vast majority of the Poochy missions or the "find the object" missions because I very quickly realized how tedious they would be and ignored them. I also approached that game with a "get what you can get on the first run and move on" mindset, only revisiting levels if I needed more flowers to unlock more levels, which only happened once with the game's bonus levels for me (which thankfully don't require anywhere close to every flower in the game).
Yoshi's Island had the exact opposite effect for me- 100%ing the level made me feel like I had fully mastered and experienced that level. I didn't feel the need to do so before moving on to the next level, but did so before the next world area. This was something very different from the Super Mario World and Bros 3 gameplay- it felt good achieving difficult objectives.
Yoshi's Island normalized the idea for me of working to achieve clear objectives in a game one plays for fun, and segued me from platformers being my favorite genre to RPG's becoming so. Yoshi's Island resides somewhere in the middle there for me. I think it might be the perfect platformer to decide if you like these types of elements, period.
@@savagej4y241 Saving full completion of the levels for later actually is a pretty good strategy; it's a strategy I used myself when I played Kirby and the Forgotten Land for the first time because I was replaying almost every level for missed missions, which bogged the pace down. By world 3 or so, I decided to save the missed missions until after I had beaten the main story, which definitely improved my experience.
I don't completely agree with your last sentence because I do enjoy fully completing levels in other platformers I've played (I just mentioned Kirby, but DKC 2 & 3 are also good examples in regards to specifically the SNES). Yoshi's Island was particularly obnoxious to me because it required you to get everything in one run for any of it to count. In theory, requiring basically a "perfect" run of the level makes them more challenging, but in my experience, it instead felt like the game was forcing me to get a bunch of crap I already proved I could get, just so I can collect the few things I missed. It was more of a pain in the ass than it was a fun way to test my skills imo.
That's why I like Yoshi's Woolly World more. In that game, when you get a Smiley Flower or a Wonder Wool or a Stamp, you keep it; you don't need to get it again.
Thank You. 😊 It's nice to see something that encourages people to open their mind and not reject new experiences outright. I think this should be spread to anyone hesitant to play different games, whether because of preferences, or fear of being a part of a toxic community, or out of spite for a publisher for its practices.
Take a chance. Clear your mind of fear, and maybe you'll enjoy something you never expected to enjoy. It may even change your life. ❤️
This happened with me & FF7R. I played like 2 chapters, put it down, and then beat it in 2 weeks before rebirth. One thing I’ve found that works is to divide your time evenly. For example, if a game is 40 hours long, play 2 hours for 20 days (or more if you wish) and it will seem so much more bearable. Do 1 chapter per play session, one section a day, etc. and things will be so much better.
Stickerbush Symphony off the bat makes this an insta classic
I'm forever thankful for my experience with Ocarina of Time. We got a copy with our N64 when I was a kid, and though I wasn't getting much out of it, I pushed through to the Forest Temple before dropping it. When I came back years later, the themes of ageing and losing childhood connections really resonated with me. I understood Sheik's poetic speeches. It's now one of my favourite games, and uniquely meaningful to me. I don't think it would have had nearly as profound an impact on me if I'd experienced it any other way.
It was much easier back then because there was last distraction and less games overall
I honestly prefer Majora’s Mask because of the themes of lost, grief, and friendship.
Wanting to truly experience games and not just mindlessly buy them is why I got into LPing and streaming as a hobby. By turning a play though of both games I’m really excited for and games I never would’ve touched into a project I give myself a reason to not only play but to truly think about what I’m playing. Being able to share my experiences with a community that loves games as much as I do is a massive bonus.
This has happened so constantly throughout my life, it feels like a miracle I ever went back to these games. From Xenoblade 2, to Shovel Knight, to A Link Between Worlds, Twilight Princess, Pokemon White 2, and even Super freakin Metroid, it’s weird to look back and realize I put any of them down when I first played them. On 2nd playthroughs, they all became contenders for my favourite video game of all time, so it’s absolutely become something I constantly consider now
I tried many times to get into Super Metroid. Once Prime Remastered was announced, I made it a goal to finish Super before getting my copy of Prime Remastered.
Metroid is now my favorite Nintendo franchise.
I think this happens a lot when the internet has collectively decided that a game is disappointing. Recently with Starfield I went into it with very negative preconceptions because of what I’d read online, and sure enough at first I was only paying attention to the negative aspects of the game that were confirming my bias’. Once I went back to it later though, I had so much fun with it once I started enjoying it for what it was rather than looking for what it wasn’t 🤷♂️ sometimes it’s okay if you don’t agree with the general consensus on a game either way.
I like what you’re saying, but I also don’t think you should force yourself to love anything. I’ve tried dozens of competitive shooters and can’t get into any of them. I can keep playing them but I’m not having fun. Especially when you have limited free time I think it’s okay to play what you know if you’re still having fun. But don’t be afraid of new experiences
THIS!! Little King’s Story doesn’t get good until you’ve defeated the second boss, but most people quit it at the area before, sunflower plains, assuming they’d seen everything the game is about. Those people absolutely haven’t. Heck, I did that initially too. But the rest of the game is, no hyperbole, legendary. Thank you for sharing this positive message!
Yup, Little King's Story feels kind of basic in the early game, but once it grows on you, its like being on a subway train with no stops and a cleared track. When its gameplay hooks you, there's no going back. What occurs gets both wackier and increasingly existential, and the conclusion is both mystifying and heartbreaking, especially with Verde...
I started Mario Odyssey in college and dropped it. Then, I had the adventure of my life after graduation. It was definitely worth giving it another try.
My number one example of a game I didn't give up on is Persona 4. Played through the first dungeon and hated everything about it. The socializing didn't make sense, the music "had vocals" as high school Katelyn might say, and ugh it's ANIME? I put it down, ready to call it the worst game I've ever played. Um... oops I went back to it and it's my favorite *thing* of all time and won't ever be dethroned. That game taught me games and storytelling could be way more than the Mario and Call of Duty games I was playing at the time. Certainly not perfect but it was my gateway to so much more.
When I played, I made it to the second dungeon and thought the game was neat, but sort of just stopped playing. I had never finished a long-haul JRPG before, and I thought I just wasn’t capable of doing it. After all “JPRGs weren’t really my thing!” I told to myself.
Months later I came back to it and everything just started falling into place - the 1 more system, persona fusion, social links, the utmost importance of the rainy day mega beef bowl challenge, the main story, all of it - and then those 80+ hours flew by like they were *nothing.* It is now also one of my favorite games (and franchises!) of all time, all because I gave the game another chance and streamed it for my friends. Persona 4 is such a special game and imo is genuinely one of the best deals in gaming considering its current price. I think it’s the only game on Steam that I rebought physically because I just *had* to have a physical version of it for myself. I’m glad someone else had an experience somewhat like mine with it!
@@MarioMasterProductionsnot liking anime is not xenophobic
It's fitting that you mention Splatoon, because that's a series I struggled to like in the past. I always wanted to like it because I enjoyed its world and characters, but the fact that it was an online competitive game was a huge obstacle for me because I historically haven't handled competition well outside of with close friends (none of whom play Splatoon). I decided to try Splatoon 2 when it was new (I hadn't played the 1st game at the time), and I eventually became so frustrated with it that I dropped it for over 4 years. That means I missed out on most of the splatfests (including Chaos vs. Order) and the shifty stations.
In the follow-up to Splatoon 3, the passion of Splatoon fans on the internet inspired me to give Splatoon 2 another shot. After all, I had grown a lot since 2017, so maybe I would handle it better this time, and I did. Not perfectly by any means, but I was able to get a lot more out of the experience this time around. I finally played Octo Expansion too, which was pretty damn great in my book (I even beat Inner Agent 3 after hours of attempts).
As a result of this positive experience, I bought Splatoon 3 on launch day, and it's one of my most played games on the Switch. It still pisses me off sometimes (despite my personal growth, I still got burnt out on it for a year and didn't come back until Side Order rejuvenated my love for it), but I can handle the heat of competition much better than I used to, now understanding that these kinds of competitive experiences can't be "beaten" in the same way single player adventures can, and that's wonderful in its own way. Of course, it helps a ton that Splatoon has plenty of great single player content to enjoy when I'm not in the mood for the multiplayer.
The persona thing happened with me too. Bought 5 royal for the first time when it dropped on switch around fall/winter 2022. I played about 3-4 hours, thought “that was neat” and then just kinda gave up on it and let it slip into the recesses of my backlog. Fast forward a year later, and I’m in bed, sick as a dog, and in need of a distraction. For whatever reason, I pick up persona again. It was then that persona clicked with me. The turn based combat was addictive and extremely replayable, the characters were deep and interesting enough to make me want in, all leading to the perfect environment for a sick guy like me to really engage with this deeply immersive experience. In those 2 weeks, I got through about half of the game. So thank you persons 5 royal, for being one of the best games of all time, and being so good that you made a nasty cold a good time
To be honest: The reason why I buy a lot of games and don't play them right away, is because I have a backlog of over 1500 games (obviously most of them digitally), so I simply can't keep up anymore.
Slow down. You'll never play all those games. You can easily remove 90% of that backlog.
i need someone to put me in a room and don't let me out until I finish part of my backlog
I had this reaction with Super Metroid the first time I played it. Got it on Wii U. For some reason, it just didn’t click. I thought it was fine, but nothing mind-blowing. Gave up after about an hour. Then I played it again on NSO and it became one of my favorite games. What a masterpiece.
Persona was one of those series. I was pestered by my friend to play P4G when I got my Vita and I bought it on sale. Played it for maybe 5-6 hours, didn't get it and dropped it. Then almost exactly a year later I gave it another shot and just fell in love with it. I don't know what changed, but it absolutely hooked me. Now I am a major Persona fan.
Don't hate me but this was me with Chrono Trigger. I wasn't always an RPG person and I've been spoiled by newer games, so playing a game where I'm wandering a medieval ren fair with redhead Goku wasn't exactly blowing my mind. Even when I time traveled, it got better but I still wasn't hot on it. I kept taking breaks and forgetting I was playing it. A friend pushed me to pick it back up and for whatever reason the music started hitting me right, I met Frog and that Lavos reveal got me a little hype. Fast-forward a month and I'm going for my third alt-ending and I'm obsessed. It's not Persona or Majora's Mask but it's easily in my top 10 now. Best soundtrack too.
I think its because Chrono Trigger takes a while to get going. It sort of plays with the time travel idea and at first you go, "Oh, that's neat, whatever," but then you get thrown into a post-apocalyptic future and go, "Oh, now we have something to work with." Dealing with Magus feels like a climax but its the midway point, then seeing the birth of Lavos and going through the pivotal events of 10,000 BC to me are the high points of the story. You witness the apex and fall of multiple empires throughout history, and ultimately the ending is so hopeful that its too good to be real... But its definitely the kind of future most would want, I think.
(Then of course Chrono Cross just annihilates that hope, but I digress...)
I jumped into Cross afterward and had that experience that apparently most people have.
1. This isn't a sequel to Trigger, what is this?
2. Ok this is pretty great in it's own right.
3. Oh no. This IS a sequel to Trigger and I feel sad.
No one crucify me, but I gave up on BOTH breath of the wild and Metroid dread when I first played them. I'm used to linearity and structure so those two games were intimidating to me at first. But after retrying them multiple times, I fell in love with both games and now I wanna wanna play all the games in both series!! Always worth giving all games a second chance!
Very similar situation: I had recommended Outer Wilds to my cousin, but he bounced off after a few hours saying he was stuck. I asked to sit down with him and watch him play, and it really helped him out. I didn't spoil any puzzles or anything, but just offered a bit of guidance. He said my best advice was "you aren't stuck if there are other places you haven't explored yet". He went on to finish the game and counts it among one of his favorites!
I was not into JRPGs for the longest time. My preconceived notions of the genre kept me from playing many incredible games cause as a young kid, I thought “turn-based combat SUCKS!”
Then, one day, in the summer of 2020, I decided to finally give this genre people love so much a shot. I played the demo for Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age: Definitive Edition on Switch to grab every spirit in Smash Ultimate initially, but that demo intrigued me enough on its own to play it for real.
Many weeks later, I beat it, and I came to see how much of a fool I was for writing off a entire genre just because I believed that turn-based combat could never be as tense as real-time combat. HOW WRONG I WAS!!
That one game made me a new Dragon Quest fan(waiting on the Erdrick Trilogy to drop to play more of it), and finally pushed me to explore more series I have come to love. From there, I have now played and beaten Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Persona 5 Royal, Shin Megami Tensei V, Persona 5 Strikers, and Persona 4 Golden(currently playing enhanced version of SMT V, Vengeance)
Needless to say(for those who can see my pfp in detail), I have gone on to making SMT/Persona(or Megaten) a HUGE part of my personality, for better and for worse(jokingly, ofc). I still love Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest, but Megaten has become a very special franchise to me, and I can’t imagine my current life without it.
All because I decided to play DQ XIS in the middle of the pandemic.
So yeah, what this man said!
DON’T GIVE UP ON GAMING!!
I remember first playing Mega Man 7 and getting frustrated because I was used to the controls and physics of the NES games. I came back some months later and it finally clicked with me, now is one of my favorites!! The OST is incredible and that final boss fight is incredible challenging and rewarding
It was the opposite for me, I didn't like the absolute precision demanded in the NES titles, but Mega Man 7 felt a lot more forgiving, and had all those hidden extras, making it the first mainline Mega Man title that I actually finished.
Brandon! This was such a good video! I love giving games a chance whether they’re typically something I play or not. I think there’s almost always something you can enjoy or at least appreciate in a gaming experience if you try. There’s also something oddly comforting in coming back to games I’d dropped with a fresh perspective, so def couldn’t agree more with this 💜
For me it was halo. I first played it at a friend's place from school and it didn't work. The guy was obnoxious and not really willing to tone it back for me. Couple with me not typically liking shooters and I thought that was it. A few years later my best friend to this day sat us down on halo 2 and we cleared it in two nights together in a series of massive 12 hour long sessions. He slowed his pace down for me and let me absorb the lore of it all and I loved it. I still love halo lore to this day and it led me to realising that what I really love about games is the stories, both from the games and the players. Even a simple cliche story is wonderful if it's told properly and the mechanics surrounding it are interesting.
Agreed
You talked me into it. I’m going to give Donkey Kong Jr. Math another try!
Me: *listens to video casually on the side, zoning out while writing something on the other screen*
*Monster Hunter is mentioned*
Me: *turns my head towards the video as if something awakened in me*
as a kid i got the n64 port of mega man legends, it was a used copy with some save files at various ranges of progress. tried them out, jumped around on the cars in kattleox’s city, and turned the game off because i Didn’t Get It. a few years later i tried a new save and fell in love. one of my favorite games to this day
It's nice to see a video with an encouraging message like this. It's easy to give up when a game just doesn't hit the first time and I definitely have a couple of games I think I should try to go back to after hearing this.
I used to hate Sonic Colors when I first got it as a kid, I didn't like the fact that it was primarily 2D and not fully 3D in gameplay. But when I got a bit older and decided to try to accept the game for what it was it became one of my favourite sonic games. I think that I might need to try to do the same with Pikmin 4.
Ironically this happened to me with Persona 3 FES, after playing several hours it felt a little aimless at times so I stopped for a good long while. But a friend recommended I keep trying and simple curiosity of the story kept me going. It’s very nice to see people get into Reload now for how much better structured it is as a remake.
I had a friend who let me play Resident Evil Village and it didn't really do much for me. It wasn't really my thing. I picked up Resident Evil for the gamecube at a used game store about a year and a half later and fell in love with it, and am now playing through most of the PS4/PS5 remakes of the games
Stardew Valley is that game for me.
I brought it on steam and not really being a PC gamer really struggled, gave up after a few hours.
However when i got a Switch, I brought it again remembering just how much i really wanted to play first time around, and it clicked perfectly the second time around, think having the joy cons really helped.
Just did this with Final Fantasy 7 original and Metroid Prime. I love both franchises but I just never buckled down and actually finished them. I've started them SO many times. This summer was my goal to finish both games and I'm so glad I did.
The 1st time I tried to play Donkey Kong Country SNES, I had a really hard time just enjoying the game. After a long time, tho I gave it another try, and I beat 1 and 2 in the same month. 👍
This was my Xenoblade 2 moment I did 8 hours or so then gave up and came back months later because it just didn't jive with me. The combat took more time to open up and get into those characters. And this is coming off Xenoblade 1 being one of my favorite Wii games.
I'm a huge fan of visual novels, including amazing games like 999 and Ace attorney. games that have fantastic stories that i wish i could play for the first time again....unfortunately due to how memorable the story is, i cant do that. so this leaves with the unfortunate conclusion that i will never get the chance to play them. Therefore i have to live these games all over again by playing them alongside my friends, just how your friend played outerwilds with you. and it was like playing them for the first time all over again. i cannot recommend enough playing more games with friends if you ever get the chance. its amazing
I remember putting down Metroid Dread for a while, thinking that maybe I didn't have the skills required to beat the bosses and solve the puzzles. But a few months down the line, I picked it up again. Perhaps after other games trained up my reflexes, I ended up 100%-ing Metroid Dread.
I almost never 100% games; I could count my completed games in one hand. But Metroid Dread just made me understand the appeal of the Metroidvania genre. That feeling of getting stronger, and returning to that once-impenetrable room, and conquering it.
I wanna share my story. I first played VA-11 Hall-A in early 2018. That was the first game I ever bought on Steam. I remember looking up the reviews at the time: 98% positive. I was like "how is this possible? is this game that good?" Well, I played it, and for a game that had "Cyberpunk Bartender Action" in the name, there just wasn't a lot of action. Long story short, I didn't like it, and stopped playing after just a few hours. Later in 2019, when the game arrived on Switch, I bought it again just for nostalgia sake (late 2017 and early 2018 was a very special time for me). And guess what? The same thing happened. I did not like the game one bit. I felt so dumb for buying the same game I didn't like twice, so I pretty much forgot about it.
Fast forward fiew years. It is now 2024. I wanted to play something that didn't require a lot of effort and didn't cause that much stress, and I saw this little game sitting on my Switch library. This time I said "I know that this game is and what it's not" so, with my expectations now in check, I gave it a change for the third time... and I became hooked. The setting, the lore, the characters, the humor, the easter eggs... but most importantly, THE MUSIC!!! This is a game I couldn't have enjoyed six years ago. A lot of time needed to pass for me to appreciate it, and here I am. Sometimes you just need to wait for the right time for a game to click on you. I have currently got one ending and I'm hunting for the other five on my own. I am so glad I gave it another chance, even if it took me years to do so. I still find it hard to believe that I had been missing out on this for so long.
MGS1. I got the essential collection for $2 at a Goodwill in 2019 and I still haven’t finished the first. I played up to around the end of the first disc back in 2020 while my Switch was being repaired and haven’t been back since. I think this video inspired me to come back to it once I’m done with Lego Star Wars 2 and GTA BoGT. Almost done with those two wouldn’t want to drop them right at the end to come back to MGS and have those two be in the same spot MGS is in rn 😅.
Metal Gear Solid and Chrono Trigger are probably the two most dramatic examples of games that just didn't click for me the first (or even second) time around, and then I came around to loving after giving them another try. MGS frustrated me and I just couldn't get very far in the game (in hindsight, I'm positive that the TV I originally played it on must've been set too dark, because I truly had so much trouble just seeing where anything was). I played it again a few years later (via The Twin Snakes) on a better TV, and practically inhaled the whole game over a weekend, and almost immediately ran out to buy copies of Sons of Liberty, Snake Eater and the PS1 version of MGS once I was finished.
Chrono Trigger had the issue of almost impossible expectations; whenever a game has a reputation like, "this is the greatest RPG ever made!", it's hard not to not have that color the experience, and I've found that even the best games can feel wanting when you enter them with that as your baseline expectation. I started it a couple times, and while I thought it was good, it didn't blow me away or hook me and I'd usually fizzle out somewhere around when you first go to the distant future. Gave it another go several years later when the DS version released, with a more modest mindset, and had a total blast.
This was me when I couldn't get into JRPGs. Now it's one of my favorite genres alongside platformers, fighters, beat em ups, character action & puzzle games.
I rarely don’t finish games but if I stop playing a game for long enough then I might not return just because there are other games that catch my interest (plus time is a limited resource)
Most of the games I have played but not finished:
-Fire Emblem Awakening: fun game but each stage takes an hour to complete (plus I killed an optional party member that I could have recruited so if I return it will likely be from the start)
-LBX: I watched and enjoyed the anime before playing the game, only to realise the game just the anime story
-Etrian Mystery Dungeon: I don’t know how I am suppose to play this game, is there even a story? You start with being able to pick 4 team members and then what? You just complete each dungeon that becomes available?
-Skyrim: played through the intro, explored the map from corner to corner, had my fill before starting any of the quests
-Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga: honestly, would have preferred a more linear experience such as in the Complete Saga game
-MegaMan Battle Network: I feel out of my depth with the whole chip mechanic, I haven’t even touched the default deck of chips because I just don’t know what deck would best suit my play style
As for some of the other games I haven’t finished, I either have them as “I play through them in short bursts and eventually they will get completed” or “I enjoy playing the game but I know I will never finish the game”
A game I didn't like at first but ended up loving was Xenoblade Chronicles 1. I remember it not clicking with me the first time I played it when it first released and stopped playing around 10-20 hours in. Than I saw a lot of people constantly say the game is a masterpiece, and decided to give it a second chance a few years later. This time, I ended up loving it, and Xenoblade would end up becoming one of my favorite game series of all time.
This is EXACTLY what I realized throughout my years gaming. This always happens to me. Dark Souls, No Man’s Sky, Portal, there are so many games I thought I found boring, but a year passes and I try it again, I loved it.
The only game that still hasn’t clicked with me are bethesda games.
For me, it was RDR and RDR2. Although I never completed the games. I’ve definitely found the fun in them and plan to complete RDR and jump into RDR2 on my Steam Deck
Dead Cells. Literally playing it right now. Also Monster Hunter, too. I played a bit of Tri back in the day and didn't really love it. Years later, a friend suggested we played Rise together with another friend, then another friend joined and man, it was truly magical. Some of my most most cherished gaming experiences in the last decade.
It really is funny just how common the exact experience with MH where someone plays one of the games, bounces off of it very quickly, then plays a different one a few years later and becomes obsessed. My guess is that more than just the lack of handholding in earlier titles, MH is a series that really asks you to meet it on its own terms, so someone entirely unfamiliar will usually be caught completely off guard, but when someone has an idea of what they're getting into, it definitely helps the whole thing click.
For me, there were a few games that I ended up dropping that usually was because of them being too hard or me getting lost/not knowing where to go. The 3 main ones that I can think of are Return of the Obra Dinn, Metroid Dread, and Death's Door. Since I started my backlog journey at the beginning of 2023, I got around to picking up and finishing all of these games. Return of the Obra Dinn is a masterpiece that everyone should be able to experience the pure joy and adrenaline of figuring out the mystery. I finished that in May 2023. Metroid Dread was my first Metroid game I played, and it was a fantastic entry to start with. Amazing design, boss fights, and overall world design and lore were all meticulously crafted. I finally finished Metroid Dread in July of 2023. And Death's Door is an indie darling that has awesome combat and fights, hilarious writing, among many other things. It was a fantastic game that I'm glad I was able to finish, and I completed it in January of this year.
I like to watch Good Vibes Gaming or Scott the Woz for example when I play a game that I am not familiar/comfortable with yet, it works really well
This makes me a little sad because i dont have friends to play with anymore. And im going though a huge blockage in games where i play games i want to play but have to stop because im not feeling the spark. I hope.this goes away soon
I was like this with both Pokémon legends arceus, and zelda breath of the wild. I played a 2 hours of both and it didnt really click,but like a few months later for both respectively i came back to them and now they're both pretty much my favourite from both franchise (legends is a close 4th fav)
I legit had a similar experience with Nier Automata, where I played the first few hours while in the desert but the game didn’t immediately hook me. To the point where I put it down for several months. However, once I got to the Adam+Eve fight, it captured my interests and I got endings A-E, and I’m most certainly glad I did due to being a truly magnificent experience. I beat it shortly before Nier Replicant dropped too, and so I ended up having even more Nier to enjoy!👌🏽
I also didn’t play Xenoblade 2 until half a year after it’d released due to finding the designs too sexualized anr the characters too cliche and “anime” compared to the first game, which I held up on a pedestal. And despite its slow beginning and steep learning curve, I ended up heavily enjoying it and placing 200+ hours into it collectively doing every quest, getting every rare blade and even doing the DLC, including Torna. I’m glad I managed to push through my pre-conceived biases, or else I would’ve missed out on one of my absolute favorite Switch games.
I totally get that, Brandon. When I first tried out the Ys series, I couldn't really get into it: but when I played Mostrum Nox, I was immediately hooked and now I can't wait for Nordics🤩
(We just need a release date, darn it!)
Same thing here, but i got hooked on Lacrimosa of Dana (8)
For me it was Sonic Heroes. It's now my favorite game of all time but I didn't really get how it worked 20 years ago and so could only beat team Rose. Now I think it frequently suffers that problem of people who try it, don't get it snd just play ot like any other sonic game and they hate it. When I'm constantly learning new things about it and it's honestly the mist complex game I've ever played and I keep telling people this.
so many of my favorite games ever made, from Metroid Prime to Dragon Quest XI, are games that took me several tries to really get into, and I am thankful for it. Sometimes it just takes time for a game to click, and that's ok. I never like to write games off entirely, because sometimes a revisit later on can help me appreciate a game I had previously dismissed as not for me.
When I first played Jak and Daxter I wasn't a fan of how the game felt to play or maybe it was the open-world aspect to it, but I wasn't a fan of it at first. I tried sometime later on and still wasn't a fan, but I only played an hour or so through the game.
I started playing more games in my backlog and I decided to give another shot at the game and I started to like it more and more. It's not one of my favorite platformers, but it does have some really cool gameplay mechanics to it! Now I might actually play the other games in the series at some point!
My backlog is judging me so hard rn
Bro 100%. I got into Fire Emblem Three Houses because my friend who was a big FE fan helped me get started and we played our own copies of the game together. I love that game SO MUCH and have put 200 hours into it lol
I also got into Xenoblade Chronicles back when the definitive edition came out on Switch. Then I bought Xenoblade 2 and couldn't get into it because my memory of the first was too recent. That's when I played FE3H. Then when that was over, I was determined to play Xenoblade 2 and I felt ready to play again and played it to the end.
Fire Emblem and Xenoblade are now my top 2 favorite game brands and will play every game eventually.
2020 was rough but it was so good for games.
-Animal Crossing New Horizons
-Xenoblade Chronicles (1 + 2)
-Fire Emblem Three Houses
-Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
-Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
A legendary year for me
Anybody doing this with the Legend of Heroes Trails JRPG series, keep playing this series is quite literally the best JRPG series going on right now. It has several story arcs, each taking taking place across across 2-4 games. Each arc takes place within the same world across different regions focusing on a set group of heroes and villains. So hyped for Trails through Daybreak and can't wait to see if any of my favorite characters return in this new arc.
I went through my backlog and beat like 15 unfinished (mostly small) games earlier this year and for the most part it was great! There were a few that wore out their welcome by the end... But by and large, it was a fun experience :)
The original Luigis Mansion on GameCube, I was only about 12 when I first played it. Didn’t understand it and couldn’t get much further than the 1st area, once I grew up a bit and went back to it, I fell in love with the series as I grew to understand the mechanics
I have had plenty of games where I forgot why I stopped playing them, and after another 30 minutes or so, I was like ' oh yeah that's why '
At this point it's less that I "quit" games and more that I just never come back to it in favor of other games
Xenoblade was this way for me, i heard the praise from the fanbase back when it was on the Wii. I bought it, and it wasn't clicking at all. I tried it 3 times on Wii, then 2 came out and i got it. Same thing, it didn't click at all. When the definitive edition came out o the switch, it finally clicked and its one of my favorite games of all time. Finally beat 2 after it and Torna, i loved the hell out of it too. I loved what i played of XC3 but put it down because of life events, havent picked itupo since. I will get into it soo, though. I need to beat it and the DLC.
For me, A Hat in Time. Tried it in 2017, for whatever reason it didn't click with me, regardless of how much praise it got from others. Tried it again in 2021, and I absolutely loved it. I guess it's due to playing it in 2017, as that year was a tough one for me in my life.
Tbh I like when a game can change my first impressions. Rollerdrome at first seem boring when I played the tutorial and the first stage I thought it was overrated. Later om I was proven dead wrong more enemy variety, having 4 weapons and using tricks and keeping the combo meter active made it one of my GOAT games. It truly is amazing to see a slow start turn into something amazing.
New vegas was another game that i didn't like at first but learnt to love. Although I have a lot of top games i enjoyed instantly, games where i had to learn to appreciate are just as valuable too.
Funnily enough, I’m going through that exact experience now with Into The Breach. I had my eye on it for ages on account of the recommendations for it, but when I finally got to play it, it just didn’t do it for me. Several months later, bored and with nothing else to do, I gave it another try and click! It’s bloody brilliant! Highly recommend.
In the same breath, I will never go back to Sports Story purely because of the sheer disappointment and deception.
I agree, I did a second chance on Xenoblade Chronicles on the Switch after bouncing off of it pretty hard back in the day borrowing a friend's Wii copy.
Now I'm a Xenoblade fan for life!
Final Fantasy IX, a game I didn't like all that much back in the day, actually became my favorite Final Fantasy and one of my top-five favorite games of all time. It's the series' creator's favorite, as well as the composer's favorite as well.
2 for me. I bounced of Hollow Knight hard the first two times I tried it. I went back in almost a year after the 2nd attempt and this time it clicked. I suddenly got why people loved it.
The second was Elden Ring by which I mean the whole Souls genre. I'd tried Dark Souls and had a miserable time, but a friend who was really into the series encouraged me to give Elden Ring a try. With him helping nudge me towards mechanics I could have missed, suggesting 'helpful' directions to go in which don't have any ambushes, and keeping the 'hit list' of bosses I had died to a few times and needed to come back to I had a lot more fun. Heck I did every major boss in the base game (although I did need player summons for Malenia and the final boss). The social element made it a lot more fun. We're currently doing the DLC - he's managed to sink about 15 more hours in than me so far, so we've got the same system in place.
Having said that there are games I have bounced off, tried again, and bounced off again. Bayonetta being the first one that springs to mind.
You should try the elden ring DLC cuz it's too hard apparently
As someone who regularly does this and forces myself to finish games, I'm honestly not sure I entirely agree. Sure, there have been games that didn't click first and by sticking with them I came out of the experience adoring it. Xenoblade 2 is my big example. But I have also endured through countless hours of many games that I just hoped would become enjoyable to me at some point, then never did. After loving the first game, I pushed entirely through horizon forbidden West. It was 2 years on and off playing it and waiting for that click before I finally finished the game to a resounding meh. I don't look back on that experience fondly, I look back on it wishing I had spent my time doing anything else.
Go back to the first Horizon and see if you still hold it in high regard. This can happen sometimes with some sequels, before realizing whether the previous entry really was more enjoyable or if it just had a sense of newness to it that felt good at the time.
Fallout 3 is the absolute best example for me. When I retried the game a year later after release I was hooked. It opened many paths to games I would never have played, including future Bethesda titles and similar titles like mass effect.
I would mostly agree about trying different genres and things you aren't into could lead into discovering more things you like as long as you don't overly force it. Your taste will probably continue to change throughout life. Sometimes you like a certain thing and that is okay too. Sometimes I spent so much trying different things for the sake of trying to venture out to no avail and went back to playing what I always liked. Sometimes I come across games like with Splatoon that I know I would enjoy despite not liking shooters.
i used to hate roguelikes, but i've always liked rhythm games. after playing and loving crypt of the necrodancer, i suddenly started to get sucked into so many other roguelikes which i didnt initially enjoy. i think if a game in a genre you arent generally into offers a unique twist that appeals to you, it can help you appreciate the genre a lot more, like how earthbound's humor and aesthetic helps a lot of people get into RPGs
This exact thing happened to me with a few games: DBZ Kakarot (took my 3rd attempt to fall in love with it) and believe it or not: FINAL FANTASY VII
Red Dead Redemption 2 was a big example of this for me before. I played maybe 6 hours and shelved it for a month before coming back. I finished it recently and I gotta say it was an excellent experience, just a slow burner.
I LOVE this video/concept. Way too many people are so quick to just give up. It’s a horrible habit imo and leads to the inability to adapt. I get it, there’s so many things out there, but sometimes you’ll be missing out on your new favorite thing if you don’t take the chance.
I have played nothing but Wario's Woods for the past 2 days
i think it's too easy
I NEVER give up on video games
They never give up on me
This has happened with many games for me. Symphony of the Night was one of them. I couldn't really get into the game the first time I played, but when I tried again later, I found myself trying to collect everything throughout the map! And this is coming from a metroidvania fan.
If you can't get into a game, it's certainly not your fault, but it's not always the game's fault either.
You should give Federation Force another shot. It's great with friends.
The first time I played hollow Knight, it didn't click. Put it down for over a year I believe. Came back to it one day, back when my backlog was far smaller, and it clicked. Giving games multiple chances doesn't have to be a waste of time. It can be, but time could be all you needed to get over the entry barrier to something you love.
This was me and the Yakuza games. I rented the first one for PS2 back in 07 and it didn’t grab me at all in the 2 hours I played. Never touched again. It wasn’t till I saw 0 at a press show’s coverage (think TGS) the year before it came out in Japan that I wanted to try it out again. I then saw Japanese reviews say how good it was. So I waited for the English release.
It started probably the best gaming string I’ve ever had (Spring-Fall 2017) with Yakuza 0, Horizon Zero Dawn, BotW, Persona 5, Nier Automata, Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein 2, Cuphead, Splatoon 2, and so many more games occupied that time.
What’s more I fell in love with Yakuza/LaD as a series and played so many back to back after that.
Dude, I have at least 500 unplayed/unfinished games in my backlog on Backloggery to go through.
I'm wondering if I'm even gonna be able to not give up on all of them.
Don't buy any new games until you're finished with at least every 10 unfinished games. Not great for keeping up with social trends, but it is great for your wallet.
@@savagej4y241 Honestly, good advice. Only issue is some of them are RPGs and are long.
I bought mh3u on a whim as a kid. Got to that one quest where you can meet Lagiacrus early and wimped out, never played again. Years later in college my bf got into World. Watching him made me want to play so I tried it. Now I have probably close to 1000h in the series.
I remember when I was little, I played Rhythm Heaven DS but had no clue on what rhythm even was, so I was constantly using visual cues. Somehow got to Rhythm Rally (the stage after Remix 1) and just couldnt beat it.
Long time later, I found it randomly and decided to give it a shot, and now I've perfected every game to their fullest.
Another game I remember is Yo-kai Watch. I played the first game and beat it, and some time later got both versions of 2 for my birthday, played the game at the time but never really got into it.
Some time later I was bored and decided to go through my 3DS games to see what to play, found Yo-kai Watch 2 and decided to play it since I remembered at least liking the game. And now I cant get enough of it. It’s become one of my favourite game series of all time
There are so many games I have yet to play, even amongst series that I like, and games that I've been meaning to replay, but I feel like this video really goes to show how much our perspective is shaped by how much attention we give to it, either by ourselves or if we have the confidence to share that love with others. Really interesting.
This is what happened to me with The Last Guardian. I love Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, so when Trico started acting up, I gave up. I came back to it a year after its release and all of a sudden it just clicked, and I beat it within a few days.
such a relaxing video
I remember being very young. I almost got close to beating New Super Mario Bros. U before ultimately giving up. Few years later, I revisited the game and defeated Bowser, thinking that was it…
Until now, when I decided to collect every Star Coin in the levels. As of now I’m currently trying to get the second one in Pendulum Castle (Superstar Road-8).
There are also other games I have beaten, but not fully completed yet. I have intentions to try to complete those as well. Oh, and as for games I haven’t beaten at all yet, I’m currently going back to playing the original GBA version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and THE iDOLM@STER SP; maybe even Super Mario RPG. Figured you should finish what you’ve started.