Right now:
Crash Bandicoot Nsane trilogy, FFX-2, Cyberpunk 2077, DMC V.
Been going at it little bit by little bit, but Baba Is You. Puzzle Is Hard. Game Is Fun. Brain Is Dumb.
I just picked up AC valhalla after 3 years of not touching it due to the stupidity of the game. There really isn’t anything stealthy or assassin like except the mini quests that max out the difficulty settings that can’t be adjusted and since you don’t really play stealth having these sections turned to max made me say it’s not worth the effort. I play on the easiest setting so that I can enjoy a relaxing experience and feel like I’m progressing with my insanely small amount of time I have I don’t wanna be replaying levels 15 times in a row.
And I know what everyone is gonna say and while I agree it’s a series I use to love even well after it got terrible. I’m just doing me in my own world not interested in all the multi-player games out there.
Retunal… and I FINALLY just recently beat it
I’ve been playing it off and on for about two years now, and it was so satisfying to finally finish the main story
Not stuck exactly, more slightly overwhelmed, by Skyrim - never played it before, but it was cheap on Steam recently and day one I played for about 5 or 6 hours… and I’ve never yet gone back because there’s already so much to do. I will go back eventually though.
i’ve done this several times, starting from scratch each time. it works for me
Final Fantasy VII.
The reason I’m stuck
For some reason, Aerith Gainsburough wants me to dress like a girl and sneak into a whorehouse in order to find Tifa and I have to in order to progress through the whole story of Disc 1.
Dying Light 2. Just too much high heart rate action for me when I get home from work, so I just play other things while thinking about DL
My level 1 Elden Ring run. I’m up to Morgott, and I really should run around to grab more talismans, weapon upgrades, etc. I just don’t have the patience to do so.
Been throwing myself at the wall and fighting him, but the best I’ve managed is getting him to 33% health. I’m enjoying it, but it’s not something I can stick to for more than one session a week… getting 1-shot gets pretty frustrating.
Looney Tunes - Back in Action for the PlayStation 2. There is this jump that Daffy has to do between two pillars that is driving me crazy. The two pillars have buttons on them that Bugs and Daffy have to stand on to open a door. Getting to the top of the pillars is pretty easy now, but takes some amount of time and you have to fight with the camera. When Daffy makes contact with the second pillar he always jumps off because I don’t stop his “flight” in time.
Disco Elysium. It is so good, but I think I would rather have read the book.
Pacific drive. Great game for the first ten hours, torture every minute after that.
I bought it, played it for 2 hours, got tired of dying to invisible poisoned zones and uninstalled.
I WANT to like the game but it is really stupidly buggy and claustrophobic
I love hard sci-fi/fantasy and Pacific Drive checks so many boxes for me, but between the tedious controls, and the only reward for advancing in the game is more tedium, I just couldn’t go on. Why can’t you save in the zone?? The further you get on the map, the longer each run gets. I have kids and can’t spend 3 hours at a time without being able to save in a game. It bugged me so much that I submitted a constructively worded support ticket.
It looks like they just released a big update to address some of these quality of life issues, so I’ll give it another chance, but I’m not getting my hopes up.
Not right now, but on the original Baldur’s Gate, it autosaved when I had like 1% health right before a boss. There was no chance of getting around that. Totally screwed me over and I gave up.
If you still have that save file, you might consider tasteful use of an editor to give yourself a chance. If not though I’m sorry to hear that. BG1/2 were a huge part of my childhood and my longtime favorite villain came from the second.
Space Engineers.
It’s not so much that I’m stuck, as that I hit a motivational wall when I realized I have no goal.
Just building stuff isn’t so interesting to me. I like to build stuff to solve problems.
For a long time my goal was to get to the moon. Now I’m just bored. I’ve done a little stuff on the moon, including making a specialized drilling ship that gobbles up ore at a ridiculous rate then lifts it back to my moon base, and a welding ship that stores massive numbers of plates, and a loading station that automatically fills it from the base’s network.
But I’m just bored. Kinda want to play it multiplayer, but all the servers are too ephemeral to build anything of consequence on.
I don’t know if it still works but abusing the physics engine to make kinetic ship obliterating shotguns added an easy extra hundred hours to my gameplay.
Fallout 4. Playing for the first time, and have done everything except for the main questline and DLCs. I started losing interest in playing, but I want to eventually get through the main story. Taking a break and playing some Rimworld before returning to the wasteland.
I do that with almost every open world RPG, except that I never end up going back. I love Fallout 3/NV, FO4, Oblivion, Skyrim, Baldur’s Gate 3, Horizon Zero Dawn, The Witcher 3 and yet I have no finished a single one of them. I’m not really concerned about finishing them. I had a lot of fun playing them until I didn’t. 10/10 would buy again.
Portal Stories: Mel
Agreed. What a unique blend of extreme frustration and absolute awe at the designers of those puzzles.
Some games I can’t just cheat/hack so it’s easier fore with my disabilities, currently only one I can think of is outer wilds where it’s completely timed based.
I hate how games say they are so accessible friendly yet are designed to be incredibly difficult. Although I absolutely love it when games let you alter a lot of the game from the start, to make it as easy or hard as you like.
I gave up on Outer Wilds too. I got so frustrated with the controls, changing perspective, and the timing that I just dropped it after a couple hours of play.
