I've been meaning to try Factorio for years. But I'm worried that as soon as I do, I'm never going to get round to playing all the other games in my backlog...
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Usually when I pick it up it's only for about two weeks. Then I get back to my job and leave the house again.
One of the nice things about Factorio is that you can finish a level and put it down and come back later.
Not a ton of plot. It's mostly just a building sim.
How does one 'finish a level' in Factorio? I thought it was pretty open ended (until you launch a rocket)?
But I do get what you mean - it's definitely harder to drop and return to a story based game.
The Devs have stated the game will not be on sale. The price is what they felt a fair price is for their game. Its in a blog post somewhere
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Skyrim. I'll play it one day I swear.
Honestly it's worth it if you're down for mods. It felt like an insult when it came out, it was like call of duty wearing morrowind's skin, but since then it's become a pretty robust modding community and Legacy of the Dragonborn is miles above anything in the base game.
Modded skyrim is one of my favorite games, vanilla skyrim is just... meh.
Modding Skyrim is one of my favorite games.
Load game. Load mods. Break game. Repeat until pretty. Finish 10 hours later. Play for 2 hours and drop game.
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I know the Wabbajack scene is pretty big for Skyrim, is there any big mod pack you would recommend? Skyrim is also an embarrassing blind spot for me (played enough of Morrowind and Oblivion back in the day so never got around to it) but after all the hundreds of hours I've spent modding Fallout: NV, Cyberpunk and STALKER Anomaly I am not sure I want to dive headfirst into another multi month mod project.
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Still haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3
I have several unfinished RPGs and really don’t want this one to get added to the list.
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CupHead is coming up on ten years old and I don't think it has ever dipped below $10 on Steam.
Its worth ten bucks for sure, as long as you like brutally hard retro platformers. I wish I did, because that game is gorgeous
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Oh, so you missed the time when Epic gave GTA V away for free? Bummer.
Though with all the launcher-hassle I actually prefer the pirated version.
I did, yep. I mean, my PC is fairly old so I don't think I'll play the current "enhanced" version on Steam even when I do eventually get round to trying it.
I'm gonna play Super Mario Sunshine one of these days, I swear.
I played it on Dolphin emulator with a 60fps patch and some HD textures. It aged really well.
EDIT: Also a widescreen patch!
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My answer is probably Cyberpunk2077, I bought it on accident since it was in my cart on the day Silksong released. Luckily it was on sale at that time. Tried playing it on my ps4 pro and it was struggling so I put it aside and plan on playing it whenever I get a new console. So I started silksong instead which is ironically the first new game I bought in over 5 years.
Cyberpunk is an awesome game now, years after its release.
It was rough and buggy at release, but now it's everything it should have been from the beginning. (I prefer to play on PC so I can have the mod that turns some people into furries, though!)
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I'm still waiting for the right sale price to buy Cyberpunk 2077
Half-Life 3.
I'm still waiting, Gabe. No pressure. You do your thing.
Still waiting for Microsoft Flightsimulator 2020 to fall to a price that's worth it for the amount of time I would be playing with it.
And I'm still salty for the time they accidentally discounted it by 85 % and removed it from my shopping cart just as I was about to pay.
I personally would never buy the game out of spite if they did that to me.
I waited a LONG time to pick up Gran Turismo 7, and boy do I feel like that was a waste. I had fond memories of playing a previous GT title on ps3 with my dad before he passed away, but GT7 is just awful. I HATE how the chat bubble heads "explain" the gameplay. I HATE pretty much every menu outside of the standard gameplay pause menu. I HATE new car showroom/marketplace/museum whatever the fuck it is.
Idk if I missed more than a few entries in the series but this shit is the most infantile, disrespectful talk down I've ever recieved from a video game.
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I waited years for the FF7 Remake and then even more years for the FF7 Remake to come to PC and then even more years for the sequel to the FF7 Remake to come to PC and now I'm waiting for the three-quel to release, at which point I will begin waiting for it to come to PC.
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Elden Ring. After listening to my PS4 struggle with CyberPunk 2077, I decided that I would be better off waiting until I purchased better hardware for both.
Titanfall 3. Took a while but it was worth every single moment that the devs spent polishing it.
Still hurts, why are you like this?
Looking at my Steam wishlist, Dead Cells is the game that's been on there the longest. It looks like a fun game, but it also being a roguelike always has me hesitant to pull the trigger on it.
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Spider-Man 2. I did initially buy it when it first released on PC, but the performance was so bad I literally couldn't even do anything. So I returned it.
Edit: I'm also waiting for a good sale on Sonic x Shadow Generations. I don't really care about the Sonic half of the game, I just wanna play as Shadow.
Paralives. I'm willing to wait forever though, house flipper 2 placates the build desire for now, but I'm still excited to see how paralives turns out. I guess I'm also being (less) patient for The Pets DLC for House Flipper 2. I really want that dlc lol
I guess KSA (successor of KSP). Still in dev.
I'm not holding out on any game at the moment. I nuked my wishlist and told myself I'm not even going to look at the Steam store page until I can get some of my backlog down.
If I had to choose a game that I'm holding out on currently, it's probably HD2 for a combo of the above and price
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. I could have got it for PS5 but I knew I would end up also buying it for PC, so I just waited the year or whatever.
Doing the same with Death Stranding 2.
Final Fantasy vii, just bought it on gog. I think I first saw screenshots of it in a PC magazine almost 30 years ago.
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Probably Sekiro and Metaphor Refantazio, though I'm a bit over From Software style games at the moment.
only just got bg3
too early
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