Love RPG's but just cant get into Temple of Elemental Evil. Difficulty on it is just crazy from the word go, tried vanilla and also the Co8 for start out but everytime I venture out from the town I get killed within minutes. Just cant seem to get to grips with it. I want to be able to get levelled up a bit on it so I can venture a bit further out and actually start seeing what he game has to offer.

Pokemon in general: I spent so many hours when I was younger and enjoyed it so much, but I can't seem to get into any of the newer editions. The idea of having outgrown something I used to love makes me really sad, so I try to get into it again from time to time.

Final Fantasy XIII/ XIII-2: I used to love the FF series, but then I took an awful awful battle system in the knee.

Diablo 1+2. Two is mostly what I tried to play. About an hour in my wrists started to cramp up and my pointer finger spasmed. Okay so it wasn't that bad but I came to realize that there was little to combat except clicking and there wasn't much to the game besides combat so I subsequently stopped. I read the story online and haven't tried to play it again.

Civilization 3, there's no in game manual and I haven't ever tried civilization before....

I don't really like to replay games; I know that replayability is a big factor for a lot of gamers, especially with RPGs, but I don't enjoy it, especially not with RPGs. But if you say it's unlikely for me to bump up against the time limit, I'll give it another try, thanks!

Btw, does the time limit define the whole game's length or is finding water just a first goal and the game will still continue for a while afterwards? If you think this is a spoiler for others, you coould tell me in a PM.


Thanks to you, too. In that case I might actually enjoy Fallout despite all. It's mostly the uncertainty on the technical side that put me off. It's not that uncommon that games allow you to fail halfway through them (I'm glad I still managed to complete VtM: Redemption with a little bit of luck, after commiting one fatal error early in the game without realizing it), although the better ones try to avoid that risk.

It's the latter. There are two major quests in Fallout, and finding water is the first one. The second one does not have a time limit.

(I don't think that's much of a spoiler. The game is designed to make sure that by the time you complete the first quest, it's quite obvious what the second is going to be.)

The second one also has a (hidden) time limit, but you you really have to try to fail on this one. And by the time you completed the first one, you're about 80% done of the game anyway (at least in my case, might be different).

But Fallout has some "dead ends". But as long as you don't throw away important items and have always enough anti-radiation meds (they don't weigh anything), you shouldn't be worried. I finished it on my first walkthrough chrismas '97 with a rather shoddy build. And unpatched, bitches!

Some other ones are Baldurs Gate 1 & 2

And... Majora's Mask I dont know why I cant play this game, I loved OoT, as a matter of fact I loved every 3D Zelda game (not including Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks) so I'm not sure why I cant get into this one.

How is overcoming an illness/disability to play games a job, or not worth doing? If you want to play such games and something is preventing you from doing so then why not try to overcome it? Just curious why giving up is preferential over not doing so in such a situation(seemingly).

Deep strategy games with complex economic systems, a la Victoria or Europa Universalis, and it's the economic part that does it for me. I like strategy and enjoy RTS games, but the moment I have to do the math regarding production and trade routes on different cities or provinces, I'm toast.

Word for word exactly my case, but I know why I can't play it: extended time trials.

You probably know this, but playing the Song of Time backwards slows down the days to a crawl, giving you more than enough time to beat any dungeon comfortably. I had the same issue as you until I found out about that trick.

So, for the record, I'm giving Homeworld another go!

And it just looks a beautiful as it has always been :-)

(Any mods, hacks, cheats recommended)

Yep, I found that out in my second attempt to approach the game. Either way, I couldn't shake the feeling of being time constricted by then. And the notion of missing important events, having to go back in time and wait a day or two for it.... I really understand why so many people love it, it's original and I would like to like it, but can't.