Digimon World on P1 and Digimon World Next Order on PS4. I love the game but it's a time sync just to get anywhere with it. You pretty much have to follow a guild and the difficulty curve is just too much. The remake was beautiful but I just couldn't get very far in it. Grand Theft Auto 4 - I tried it and couldn't get past how poorly it aged. Dropped it after a couple of hours. Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy - Realized I'm not that kind of good on platforms. I'll stick to Spyro.
I had the exact same experience with Octopath. I was fairly into the game when I started grinding a lot and it sucked the joy out. I also realized the only party chatter is at the Inn at VERY specific times in the story and if you miss it, you can't watch that party chatter at any future point. I thought that if the character stories were disconnected, then at least I'd see them interact with each other on each other's stories, but then that wasn't even the case! It was like 8 strangers doing 8 different things. It made their reasons for helping each other paper thin and diminished my investment. I love the unique combat system, so sometimes I think of going back, but I do wish it was uncomplicated gem to me like it seems to be to so many others.
Finally! Someone who is brave enough to voice the same frustrations I had with octopath. That was the first game I got for my switch, and I wanted so desperately to like it. Won't be touching any more of squeenix's generically named games because it hurt to burn the last of my games budget on octo, only to be so bored and frustrated with it.
The reinsurance of being okay with deleting games is something i wish i can buckle down but unfortunately i'm in the "Gots to see it through" mentality
Games I put to the back-backlog recently: - Loria: I expected more strategy and less adventuring - Two Crude: I was never good at beat'em'ups, but if I'd learn the controls... - Figment: I thought it'll be a puzzle-box game, and not a point&click adventure - Crosscode: I really need to find WEEKS to invest into this - Baldies: I don't even know if I can make it work on a modern system - Sir Whoopass: I'd need a controller, and a stronger computer to run it enjoyably.
I have Figment but not tried it yet. I played their other game Back to Bed but didn't enjoy it too much so I have put off trying Figment because I thought it would be similar. Knowing it's a point-and-click though makes me more intrigued
I finished Octopath Traveler's main story, but didn't want to continue with the secret ending because it was a slog. I think you should consider finishing Disco Elysium, it is so beautiful and deep, kind of desolating and nihilistic, but still extremely enjoyable and has some of the most intense moments I've ever experienced in a videogame (it does have combat).
I have realized that I don't enjoy using a strong color to illustrated which games I DNFed, so I choose to make them light gray, with is working out great. It does not send me the signal that I failed, but that I tried and am not interested. A much more positive message :) I DNF Don't starve. I really liked watching "Stump" playing it, so I got it. But I booted it up a few days ago and I was more bored then scared and by day 3 I was waiting for death to come, so I could end my boredom (I died on day 6, because of a miss click that made me die to killer bees). I borrowed a ps4 and am attempting to play my ps4 games like Kingdom hearts 1 and Persona 3 reload. But I am struggling. I am realizing I prefer playing on switch and not on my tv, so it takes a lot for me to boot up my tv and the ps4. It probably does not help that I am only playing kingdom hearts 1, because I lost my save near the end, 10+ years ago and believe I need to complete the game myself. Persona 3 has also been dragging a bit, because I have already completed persona 3 portable and even with the enhancement of reload, it just feels too much like replaying portable, which is the slowest of the persona stories in my opinion. Even if the story is dark, which I adore. I should probably play something "new" and then see later if I would be willing to continue the other games or if I am done. Anyway good luck to anyone getting through their backlog! Even DNFs are important parts of this experience :)
That's a great idea! Using the red kinda shouts "you've failed" whereas grey just makes it kind of ignorable. I get what you meant about booting things up. I sit at a PC all day for my job so the idea of sitting in front of my PC to play games can take a lot of motivation
Disco Elysium took me about 40 hours for my playthrough. It's more like an interactive novel than a traditional RPG. It's all about the mystery of who you are, what has happened and why you're so broken. There's an Irony in relating the game to communism. if ykyk
Honestly i get why one would not keep on playing disco elysium, because i did it the same way, I actually believe i quit after 8 hours aswell. However i retried it and honestly to me personally its one of if not the best game ive ever played, however its more like a book than a game, it wants to be read carefully, it wants to be thought about, something that you can clearly see with it being a really political work. Seeing it as a game made me personally enjoy it less because obviously as a game it feels rather slow, but if you see it more like a novel it gets really interesting, especially in the latter half of the game when you come closer to the solution of the mystery, it really picks up. Also you can just go batshit insane and it can be hilarious at times. The biggest Strength of this game is the writing so therefore if you do not want to read this game can feel like a real chore i agree.
Disco Elysium has a learning curve, but try playing the game with skills you think you would have and engage with the game with how you would be in that situation.
We all had experienced not feeling like playing some games. To add to your experience, I have played both Disco Elysium and Octopath Traveler, I droped Disco Elysium but not Octo. I played Octopath at a time when I had more free time for sure, but I also really like Turned based JRPG so I never had to fight the same enemies more than the time it takes to travel from A to B (I did all story elements). Also, I feel the story element was not well exploited but overall, it's a great JRPG (about 25 hours for me) that you missed because you didn't manage to find a nice gameplay loop. Then Disco Elysium, it's just not the right time for this game. I need the game to be mildly appealing at least at this moment in time and the game doesn't want to look good, at all. The voice acting is amazing, though. I also have an issue with the gameplay, it's an immersive RPG so you are free to do a lot of things but by the nature of the game, the options you have are often not what I want to do. In contrast, I played BG3 and I didn't feel the same because the game is at the same time more free and more straightforward. Disco Elysium doesn't have the same scope and it hurts the game a lot, I feel the same with the previous games from Larian "Divinity", unless you have a lot of time and money it's really hard to make this kind of game compelling.
I'm glad you found enjoyment in Octopath. 25 hours is good going! BG3 is definitely on my list to buy. I think I'll get on with it because I'm more into the fantasy setting and it looks beautiful.
it's valid to take off a game you already played or invested Any amount of time into. i think all of us have a huge backlog (Thanks steam sales LOL) and it becomes this sort of daunting mission to complete them all to make it worth your while. but you're right in saying it's only worth it when you're having fun, especially when time is such a limited and valuable currency. sometimes i subscribe to this mindset, but sometimes the sunk-cost fallacy comes into play and i also have a mighty need to fully articulate WHY i didn't like a game, so i force myself to complete it at least once and throw it into my "never play again" list LOL.
There have been a few games that I have stuck out before, and was glad to have done in the end. Most games I start to not enjoy, I will stop though. I also think I made a mistake adding games to the backlog that I have already completed before because technically, it's no longer a backlog, just a list of games I want to play. It's all because of my old PSN account haha
I forced myself to platinum GoW 2018, then i started playing Ragnarok and i can't be even bothered to play for more than like 8 hours, these games simply suck. Braindead gameplay, i don't care about characters, it tries to be a movie way too hard, i want to play game not watch a movie. I dropped it for Stellar Blade and some other games. Also i've been playing Dragon's Dogma 2 recently but i'm not sure if i will come back to finish it, almost 30h played but damn it got repetetive really fast.
I feel that with recent games. Narrative is great and all but it's frustrating when control keeps being taken away to tell more story. I just want to sit and play! Also, thank you. I'm extremely thankful to the algorithm with my recent videos. Feels like my work is starting to pay off
@@Emelenyt Also it's not really mentioned a lot, but these games cost hundreds of millions to produce. Would you rather have them spend 100mil to get perfect mocap sessions, amazing facial expressions and other stuff like that? I would rather have them make games for 1/3 of the cost, keep their job and make 10 games instead of one. Also about the narrative, all those movie games forget about telling the story with environment, show instead of tell rule- now everything needs to be said and assured, writers take player for idiots like it's some marvel movie
@dorminbased I do feel like studios need to rein it in a bit. I miss the PS3/360 era where bigger studios experimented and came out with fresh ideas. There's a lot of cookie cutter stuff in AAA now Now I'm just "old man yells at cloud"
Honestly all of them are hit or miss, I’ve come to the conclusion I just stick with genres I like so rpgs like the Witchers and gothic games mass effect dragon age etc, survival games 7 days to die v rising etc, and they always scratch my itch and most of the time I feel like they are so worth for the price especially on sale, I’ll buy a new game or something and I pause see what else I have installed think why aren’t I playing this instead
Sticking to your lane is a good way to almost guarantee you'll have fun. I've had the Gothic games in my library for a good few years now but just never played them. Do you recommend them?
@Emelenyt Killzone 2 and 3 are amazing games. You can play them with Ps2/3 emulators. Besides that if ur into older games Rayman 2 and Crash bandicoot 2.
Which games have you given up, and why?
@@micshazam842 Best way to do it!
Digimon World on P1 and Digimon World Next Order on PS4. I love the game but it's a time sync just to get anywhere with it. You pretty much have to follow a guild and the difficulty curve is just too much. The remake was beautiful but I just couldn't get very far in it.
Grand Theft Auto 4 - I tried it and couldn't get past how poorly it aged. Dropped it after a couple of hours.
Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy - Realized I'm not that kind of good on platforms. I'll stick to Spyro.
@@murruelaflaga Crash bandicoot is hard! I remember beating warp 3 when I was a kid, but trying to do it now, just seems like to much work :)
I had the exact same experience with Octopath. I was fairly into the game when I started grinding a lot and it sucked the joy out. I also realized the only party chatter is at the Inn at VERY specific times in the story and if you miss it, you can't watch that party chatter at any future point.
I thought that if the character stories were disconnected, then at least I'd see them interact with each other on each other's stories, but then that wasn't even the case! It was like 8 strangers doing 8 different things. It made their reasons for helping each other paper thin and diminished my investment.
I love the unique combat system, so sometimes I think of going back, but I do wish it was uncomplicated gem to me like it seems to be to so many others.
Finally! Someone who is brave enough to voice the same frustrations I had with octopath. That was the first game I got for my switch, and I wanted so desperately to like it. Won't be touching any more of squeenix's generically named games because it hurt to burn the last of my games budget on octo, only to be so bored and frustrated with it.
I too was really excited to play it because I had heard so many great things. It's okay, on to the next one!
The reinsurance of being okay with deleting games is something i wish i can buckle down but unfortunately i'm in the "Gots to see it through" mentality
There have been times when I decided to stick it out, and I will admit that some of the time it's totally worth it.
@@Emelenyt Agree, you only need it to happen one or two times and then quitting becomes so much harder.
Games I put to the back-backlog recently:
- Loria: I expected more strategy and less adventuring
- Two Crude: I was never good at beat'em'ups, but if I'd learn the controls...
- Figment: I thought it'll be a puzzle-box game, and not a point&click adventure
- Crosscode: I really need to find WEEKS to invest into this
- Baldies: I don't even know if I can make it work on a modern system
- Sir Whoopass: I'd need a controller, and a stronger computer to run it enjoyably.
I have Figment but not tried it yet. I played their other game Back to Bed but didn't enjoy it too much so I have put off trying Figment because I thought it would be similar. Knowing it's a point-and-click though makes me more intrigued
I finished Octopath Traveler's main story, but didn't want to continue with the secret ending because it was a slog. I think you should consider finishing Disco Elysium, it is so beautiful and deep, kind of desolating and nihilistic, but still extremely enjoyable and has some of the most intense moments I've ever experienced in a videogame (it does have combat).
I'll give Disco Elysium another go at some point with a different starting build. I can do without the Encyclopedia skill
I have realized that I don't enjoy using a strong color to illustrated which games I DNFed, so I choose to make them light gray, with is working out great. It does not send me the signal that I failed, but that I tried and am not interested. A much more positive message :)
I DNF Don't starve. I really liked watching "Stump" playing it, so I got it. But I booted it up a few days ago and I was more bored then scared and by day 3 I was waiting for death to come, so I could end my boredom (I died on day 6, because of a miss click that made me die to killer bees).
I borrowed a ps4 and am attempting to play my ps4 games like Kingdom hearts 1 and Persona 3 reload. But I am struggling. I am realizing I prefer playing on switch and not on my tv, so it takes a lot for me to boot up my tv and the ps4. It probably does not help that I am only playing kingdom hearts 1, because I lost my save near the end, 10+ years ago and believe I need to complete the game myself.
Persona 3 has also been dragging a bit, because I have already completed persona 3 portable and even with the enhancement of reload, it just feels too much like replaying portable, which is the slowest of the persona stories in my opinion. Even if the story is dark, which I adore. I should probably play something "new" and then see later if I would be willing to continue the other games or if I am done.
Anyway good luck to anyone getting through their backlog! Even DNFs are important parts of this experience :)
That's a great idea! Using the red kinda shouts "you've failed" whereas grey just makes it kind of ignorable.
I get what you meant about booting things up. I sit at a PC all day for my job so the idea of sitting in front of my PC to play games can take a lot of motivation
Disco Elysium took me about 40 hours for my playthrough. It's more like an interactive novel than a traditional RPG. It's all about the mystery of who you are, what has happened and why you're so broken. There's an Irony in relating the game to communism. if ykyk
I think I will revisit it at some point and try a different starting build
This is a lot of words for "I don't like rpgs"
Far from it, RPGs are my favourite genre, specifically JRPGs
octopath 1 and 2 are really good, its 1 i would suggest you finish. and i agree with most the others
Honestly i get why one would not keep on playing disco elysium, because i did it the same way, I actually believe i quit after 8 hours aswell.
However i retried it and honestly to me personally its one of if not the best game ive ever played, however its more like a book than a game, it wants to be read carefully, it wants to be thought about, something that you can clearly see with it being a really political work. Seeing it as a game made me personally enjoy it less because obviously as a game it feels rather slow, but if you see it more like a novel it gets really interesting, especially in the latter half of the game when you come closer to the solution of the mystery, it really picks up.
Also you can just go batshit insane and it can be hilarious at times. The biggest Strength of this game is the writing so therefore if you do not want to read this game can feel like a real chore i agree.
That's an interesting way of looking at it. I will try it again at some point with a different starting build, and I'll try your approach
Disco Elysium has a learning curve, but try playing the game with skills you think you would have and engage with the game with how you would be in that situation.
I'll try it out again with a different start build. One that isn't Thinker 🤔
I wanted to like Disco Elysium so bad but i didn’t get very far
It's definitely a slow burn. I'll probably give it another go
@@EmelenytI hope you do!
We all had experienced not feeling like playing some games. To add to your experience, I have played both Disco Elysium and Octopath Traveler, I droped Disco Elysium but not Octo.
I played Octopath at a time when I had more free time for sure, but I also really like Turned based JRPG so I never had to fight the same enemies more than the time it takes to travel from A to B (I did all story elements). Also, I feel the story element was not well exploited but overall, it's a great JRPG (about 25 hours for me) that you missed because you didn't manage to find a nice gameplay loop.
Then Disco Elysium, it's just not the right time for this game. I need the game to be mildly appealing at least at this moment in time and the game doesn't want to look good, at all. The voice acting is amazing, though. I also have an issue with the gameplay, it's an immersive RPG so you are free to do a lot of things but by the nature of the game, the options you have are often not what I want to do. In contrast, I played BG3 and I didn't feel the same because the game is at the same time more free and more straightforward. Disco Elysium doesn't have the same scope and it hurts the game a lot, I feel the same with the previous games from Larian "Divinity", unless you have a lot of time and money it's really hard to make this kind of game compelling.
I'm glad you found enjoyment in Octopath. 25 hours is good going!
BG3 is definitely on my list to buy. I think I'll get on with it because I'm more into the fantasy setting and it looks beautiful.
it's valid to take off a game you already played or invested Any amount of time into. i think all of us have a huge backlog (Thanks steam sales LOL) and it becomes this sort of daunting mission to complete them all to make it worth your while. but you're right in saying it's only worth it when you're having fun, especially when time is such a limited and valuable currency. sometimes i subscribe to this mindset, but sometimes the sunk-cost fallacy comes into play and i also have a mighty need to fully articulate WHY i didn't like a game, so i force myself to complete it at least once and throw it into my "never play again" list LOL.
There have been a few games that I have stuck out before, and was glad to have done in the end. Most games I start to not enjoy, I will stop though. I also think I made a mistake adding games to the backlog that I have already completed before because technically, it's no longer a backlog, just a list of games I want to play. It's all because of my old PSN account haha
Octopath traveler is very worth it
Completed 12 games this week. It was awesome!
12?! How did you manage 12?
@@Emelenyt I sat down and gamed. I don't care about 100%ing. Never did. I gamed like I did in the 90s
@@Emelenyt and coffee
Love to see it!
@@Emelenyt I don't stream. Dunno how to prove it
I forced myself to platinum GoW 2018, then i started playing Ragnarok and i can't be even bothered to play for more than like 8 hours, these games simply suck. Braindead gameplay, i don't care about characters, it tries to be a movie way too hard, i want to play game not watch a movie. I dropped it for Stellar Blade and some other games. Also i've been playing Dragon's Dogma 2 recently but i'm not sure if i will come back to finish it, almost 30h played but damn it got repetetive really fast.
Also congrats algorithm seems to push your video to people who watch game video essays before sleep or something
I feel that with recent games. Narrative is great and all but it's frustrating when control keeps being taken away to tell more story. I just want to sit and play!
Also, thank you. I'm extremely thankful to the algorithm with my recent videos. Feels like my work is starting to pay off
@@Emelenyt Also it's not really mentioned a lot, but these games cost hundreds of millions to produce. Would you rather have them spend 100mil to get perfect mocap sessions, amazing facial expressions and other stuff like that? I would rather have them make games for 1/3 of the cost, keep their job and make 10 games instead of one. Also about the narrative, all those movie games forget about telling the story with environment, show instead of tell rule- now everything needs to be said and assured, writers take player for idiots like it's some marvel movie
@dorminbased I do feel like studios need to rein it in a bit. I miss the PS3/360 era where bigger studios experimented and came out with fresh ideas. There's a lot of cookie cutter stuff in AAA now
Now I'm just "old man yells at cloud"
Honestly all of them are hit or miss, I’ve come to the conclusion I just stick with genres I like so rpgs like the Witchers and gothic games mass effect dragon age etc, survival games 7 days to die v rising etc, and they always scratch my itch and most of the time I feel like they are so worth for the price especially on sale, I’ll buy a new game or something and I pause see what else I have installed think why aren’t I playing this instead
Sticking to your lane is a good way to almost guarantee you'll have fun. I've had the Gothic games in my library for a good few years now but just never played them. Do you recommend them?
Killzone Shadow Fall as someone who loves Killzone with all my heart is absolutely garbage. The story was absolute garbage.
Is there another from the series you would recommend trying out? I'm all for giving it another go
@Emelenyt Killzone 2 and 3 are amazing games. You can play them with Ps2/3 emulators. Besides that if ur into older games Rayman 2 and Crash bandicoot 2.
Thanks! Crash 2 is fantastic! Best of the whole series imo. Rayman 2 is one that escaped me though. Is it as crushingly difficult as the first game?
Who even are you and why am i seeing your posts
I'm just some guy. The algorithm I guess
I don't have a backlog. I don't procrastinate.
I don't procrastinate, I procreate