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Posted April 25, 2014
I didn't like point n' click adventures or survival horror games at first when I tried to get into them.
Posted April 25, 2014
I hated turn-based party RPGs when I was younger but now they are my favourite type of games.

I almost never truly enjoy strategy games because I suck at multi-tasking and I'm too lazy to learn how they work but whenever I actually make an effort to try they seem easier than I first thought and I have a lot more fun than I thought I would.

I enjoyed shooters when I was younger because they are easy to jump into but I prefer those with gimmicks (special gadgets and what not) to spice it up as I've no interest competitive multiplayer or personal scoreboards but lately I've slowly losing interest in them as I find them quite close to meaningless but I still try to enjoy them as when I start to play I remember how I used to enjoy them. Last one I enjoyed was Far Cry 3 but only for the first few hours, long before I completed it yet I completed it and looking back, I definitely should have stopped once it became boring.

Adventure games I've always enjoyed, not necessarily point and click but the idea that you're on an adventure like you want to be when you're a child and I'll likely never lose that enjoyment but the presention and structure of these games rarely interesting, there's always something that bothers me from unbalanced pacing, to technical issues to poor writing, to lack of depth or challenge. I'll likely get into these games after my gaming break in the future though, but that is just a feeling.
Posted April 25, 2014
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Strijkbout: The classic Tomb Raider games
The games were so hyped back then and the marketing exploited feminism in a rather awful way I should say I more or less dismissed them.
I had the first TR on my shelf for almost two decades and because I liked Core Design's Project Eden I decided to play it and oh boy did I like this game.
The TR games just slowly suck you in and I just want to keep playing until the end, the gameplay is so much fun, a lot of exploring and puzzles to solve and occasional battles with enemies to keep the tension.
It also shows everything that is wrong with AAA gaming today, TR hardly had a deep and involving story but it never shoved it in your face with extensive voiced cutscenes like these days where games have tons of cutscenes and little gameplay TR is the exact opposite.

Carmageddon.
Hyped to stratospheric levels because of it's violence.
Another game I owned for a long time, even though I played it occasionally it never really grew on me, that I had the censored zombie versions probably didn't make the game more fun either.
Maybe it was because I got to play it later when the graphics looked so dated that the violence really looked cartoony and at last I downloaded a patch which replaced the zombies with human pedestrians.
This game is probably the best stress reliever I can think of as it doesn't force you to play in any way apart from keeping the timer going.
I didn't know you were a TR fiend, or did I? All together my favorite series. None of the games themselves make my best of list but the whole group of them is timeless....even the shit one.
Posted April 25, 2014
Ive bought I-War 1 twice boxed and third time here on gog. It took the second time till i learned to really appreciate it .
Posted April 25, 2014
Why did you buy it a second time if you didn't like it the first time?
Posted April 25, 2014
Mega Man X6.

This game is hard. Not Dark Souls hard, but along the lines of " Here you go, spikes everywhere! Oh, and here's an enemy in the way of your crucial jump" kind of difficulty. I thought I wasn't going to touch this game again but strangely
I come back to it periodically. I honestly now love the game, even though the difficulty is still BS.
Posted April 25, 2014
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MetalPixel: Mega Man X6.

This game is hard. Not Dark Souls hard, but along the lines of " Here you go, spikes everywhere! Oh, and here's an enemy in the way of your crucial jump" kind of difficulty. I thought I wasn't going to touch this game again but strangely
I come back to it periodically. I honestly now love the game, even though the difficulty is still BS.
I don't remember that one being that hard, at least not in the beginning. The X series usually have increased difficulty once you defeat the normal bosses and enter into the final stages trying to find Sigma.
Posted April 25, 2014
Mount & Blade: Warband. Can't say what turned me off the first time. Mabey it were the sluggish animations.
But this game is great, also some nice mods available. To bad it's not on GOG.
Posted April 25, 2014
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tinyE: I didn't know you were a TR fiend, or did I? All together my favorite series. None of the games themselves make my best of list but the whole group of them is timeless....even the shit one.
They're great games, I'm a very late TR convert (3-4 years ago) but only the classic ones 1-5, I haven't played the other ones much but I found them too action oriented and too much cutscenes with nothing important to tell.
Posted April 25, 2014
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tinyE: I didn't know you were a TR fiend, or did I? All together my favorite series. None of the games themselves make my best of list but the whole group of them is timeless....even the shit one.
You're talking about Angel of Darkness, right?
Post edited April 25, 2014 by djdarko
Posted April 25, 2014
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tinyE: I didn't know you were a TR fiend, or did I? All together my favorite series. None of the games themselves make my best of list but the whole group of them is timeless....even the shit one.
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Strijkbout: They're great games, I'm a very late TR convert (3-4 years ago) but only the classic ones 1-5, I haven't played the other ones much but I found them too action oriented and too much cutscenes with nothing important to tell.
Ironically, 6 and on and even more so acquired taste. I love 6,7, and Anniversary but they are WAAAAY different than 1-5. If you love #1 you might want to check out Anniversary just for shits and giggles to see what they did with the levels.
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tinyE: I didn't know you were a TR fiend, or did I? All together my favorite series. None of the games themselves make my best of list but the whole group of them is timeless....even the shit one.
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djdarko: You're talking about Angel of Darkness, right?
YES! I played it and I enjoyed it but it is SO BROKEN! There are cut scenes where her wardrobe keeps changing; sure sign they didn't do much testing it before release. I still might get it here if it ever goes on sale so at least I can lose the disc which only slows it down more.
Post edited April 25, 2014 by tinyE
Posted April 25, 2014
Thief GOLD (and kind of Thief II: The Metal Age). I had heard nothing but good things about the first two games, so I picked up the whole series during a sale. I started the first one and, well, I wasn't that impressed. The atmosphere was okay, but I hated the supernatural enemies, and something about the game felt weirdly claustrophobic. I finished the game, but by the time I was done, I was just happy it was over. I didn't hate it, exactly, but I certainly didn't enjoy it. My reaction to Thief II was less severe, but similar. However, I played the first game again some months later, and I loved it. I even consider it to be one of my best purchases here on GOG. I have yet to play the second game again, but I have no doubt I will enjoy it much more the second time.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. The first time I played this, for the first week I thought it was awesome. By the second week I realized I wasn't actually having fun, so I quit. I have come back to the game many times in the few years I've had, and while I'm still not to the point where I can say I really like it, each time I play it I find something that helps me enjoy it just a little more. Some day I will see the sprawling awesomeness that is this game. Some day.
Posted April 25, 2014
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Strijkbout: They're great games, I'm a very late TR convert (3-4 years ago) but only the classic ones 1-5, I haven't played the other ones much but I found them too action oriented and too much cutscenes with nothing important to tell.
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tinyE: Ironically, 6 and on and even more so acquired taste. I love 6,7, and Anniversary but they are WAAAAY different than 1-5. If you love #1 you might want to check out Anniversary just for shits and giggles to see what they did with the levels.
I haven't dismissed them completely, I still plan to play through them someday, though I remember it left me with a bad Gears of War taste (even though that game came out later).

About Angel of Darkness, it weren't the broken things that bothered me so much but the complete abandonment of great gameplay mechanics of the classics. If they just upgraded the graphics, animation and smoothed the contols somewhat (by that I mean make it better not worse) it would have been good enough, I think this is what really spelled doom for Core Design, blind ambition and revisionism.
Posted April 25, 2014
An Xbox live game called Cloning Clyde.
Posted April 25, 2014
Waaaaaaay back in the day when I only played adventure games and shooters my first few RPGs were very "WTF is this shit?" Betrayal at Krondor and Fallout, specifically. Once I got a little older and realized how to play them I fell in love with the genre and now it's by far my favorite. Fallout is one of my top three favorite games of all time now.


There are several games I was disappointed by because they were poor sequels which I later realized are decent games on their own, if you ignore the name on the box. Invisible War, Thief 3, Fallout 3 and Oblivion are pretty good examples of that.
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