Gaming

Same. I wanted to like it.

I must suck or it must be hard, but I restarted like 3 times before it clicked.

I feel infinitely sorry for both you and your husband for never being able to enjoy one of the best games of all time.

You would probably click quite a bit more with Factorio then.

Actually, I wonder if that is why Satisfactory wasn't clicking for me. Since I kept making stuff to feed into the big box.

Damn. I just finished my first play through yesterday and I had a blast. Sunk 250 hours to get credits. Top 10 game for me.

My only complaint was the combat system. I turned it off around 40 hours in as the combat is pretty shallow and was detrimental to my experience. I like that the game allows you to turn off combat so easily although I wish it was off by default.

Same. It's especially frustrating when people get hyper specific about genres. Specifically, claiming that black myth wukong is not a souls like because reasons, so I bought it and suffered through the first two chapters before giving it up. I don't care what monkey minutia makes it not a souls like, it has punishing bosses and no difficulty settings.

Point: The series and genre has evolved

Conclusion: The first of the series was not as good as it could have been.

There have been many games since that provided an interesting evolution on the formula. Sometimes, just by throwing away needlessly obtuse bits of the original. And only by traveling back do we see: Yeah, it broke a lot of molds. But some of those molds existed for a good reason.

Stopping people from pausing, giving the most obtuse explanations, putting near-invincible enemies so near your starting point - generally not good design steps even when building up something challenging for players.

And worse: Every critique of it had to be filtered through “git gud”. Yes, its push for high difficulty was a good thing for gaming advancement. But people tried to excuse EVERY issue the game had through that filter. A dad that wants to pause the game to care for his crying baby does not need to “git gud”.

I'm the same. I loved GTA4 but I just found the characters in 5 too unlikeable. I also hate when games get you to switch between a number of characters as it just sort of ruins my immersion

Take me back to cousin Roman calling me asking if I want to go bowling

My friend once suggested to play The Binding of Isaac. I have checked gameplay and though "what a crap game. Soot tears to dig through poles of poop. How funny..."

The I was watching one streamer and he began to play that game. I got the idea of how it plays and this time tried myself this time.

It is weird. Weird as heck. Controls are simple and it is basically bullet hell type of a game. But when you understand how items are working with each other, you begin to appreciate work put in this game and how deep it can actually go. The beauty of this game is in how items work with each other. Really unique game.

I'm with you on this one.

ER definitely should have been like...30% shorter so much shit repeating

Playing BG3 a few hours at a time is fine, if your normal gaming sessions last for a day or longer please consult a medical professional

BG3 also, if you're into d&d it's probably amazing. But the learning curve is insane. Just so much niche stuff a non d&der would never think of.

You gotta try the mod packs

Game is dead now, the devs introduced aggression based matchmaking because lots of us were sick of pointless pvp, that initially made it better, then sweats figured out how to game the matchmaking and get peaceful lobbies and just kill everyone. Haven't made it through a run in weeks so I just stopped playing, after more than 100 hours. If you like the sweatiest Rust players, ARC is awesome.

TALE

With Halo, you're probably running into the same problem as Ocarina of Time. Both caused massive changes to their genres, but later games also built on that and refined the formula so they feel dated now.