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To me right now is the first Red Dead Redemption. Finally I'm able to play it, I've wait for over a decade. No spoilers, zero youtube gameplay videos, zero questions about the game to my friends. It gotta be me, and the game, it happened, and I think it sucks.

Maybe you thinking in "well, you shouldn't play the second first". I did not. My first Red Dead game was Red Dead Revolver, I was able to play it a few years ago when I could buy a PS2, but I couldn't get a PS3 nor a Xbox 360 to play RDR1. It grinded my gears because we got the prequel in PC. When RDR1 came to PC it was so freaking expensive, yet today, I think it is expensive. I was able to buy the game some weeks ago while there was a Steam Sale, and well, I regreat it now.

I don't like its exploration, its missions, its characters, its world, its secondary missions. its wanted system, and nothing but less important: has a lot of bugs.

That's my experience in a few words.

What's the game that you wanted to play but it was a total mess?

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[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Baldurs Gate 3 for me. I like the game mechanics and everything like that, but the story and characters put me off. The characters in general because of how unlikeable they all are, and the story I think my main problem is mostly that I know nothing about D&D and the game doesn't try to introduce anything. So I can't even follow the conversations properly because half the time I have no idea what they are talking about.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Baldur’s Gate 3 for me as well. BG2 is on my top five all time favorite games. BG3 was just a tedious bore.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Just fyi, if you hate the main characters you can kill then if you want and just have generic NPCs as your companions.

Or you can ignore them full on it you don't want to kill them - you don't need them to join you.

I'm surprised you dislike Karlach though, the most normal/relatable one.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

I think it took me getting to act 2 before I started liking anyone besides Gale and Wyll.

In the end I mostly stuck around Shadowheart but at first she was REAAAALLY annoying. I hated her guts lol.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I really enjoyed the game with 0 knowledge about the lore

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's promising. I want to try it but don't want to play the two precursors

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 points 10 hours ago

You don’t have to, they are very old games and quite hard to play if you are not used to the genre. I believe that practically the only connections are two reoccurring characters whom you don’t need to know anything about beforehand.

[–] EgoNo4@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Really sorry to hear. Imho, it's a strong candidate for best game of all time. I actually love the characters and I think you don't need that much knowledge on lore to follow the story... I do know some lore, having previously played NWN 1 and 2 only...