Probably Gunfire Reborn: It's sort of a cartoonish FPS roguelike I initially bought on sale, played a bit, and wrote off, but I randomly picked it up one day months or maybe even years later and ended up getting hooked. The unique weapons keep it interesting and the and semi-casual nature of the game makes it easy to pick up and play for a bit, then put down when you have to do something.
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Dark Souls, kinda. Got DS2 when it was pretty new, and couldn't get into it at all. Then I tried DS1 years later and absolutely loved it. So I tried 2 again, and it still didn't click. Then 3 released, loved it to bits, played through 1 again, tried 2 again, SotFS this time, and I still hate that game. The way everything moves in 2 is just awful, and I will die on the hill that it's a poorly made mess, from the ground up.
The other souls games are great though. Still have to get around to BB since the frame rate killed it for me on the ps4, but it works great in emulator now, as well as DeS
For me, a friend let me borrow Demon Souls but it just didn't click. Years later, I played Dark Souls and it immediately became my favorite game. DS2 was my least favorite of the series, in equal parts because of the much different control/feel and also the wasted mandatory levels you have to spend to get reasonable i-frames. It just feels clunky compared to the rest of the series. I do really like the level design and environments though.
Sekiro is what did it for me. I bounced off every souls like until Sekiro
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Red Dead Redemption 1. 2 I unfortunately was never able to get into.
Some chase sequence where I shot my own horse in the back of the head, he immediately faceplants and throws me like 20 feet and land on my head and break my neck. "Fuck joystick aiming." I still haven't picked it back up. Maybe the PC port will do it for me, idk
I had this exact same experience. The idea if RDR didn't dry much for me b so I ignored it. One day I saw "gold edition", or whatever the one with all the DLC and expansions included, for like $15. Thought "why not".
Took a while to play it, but when I did I was hooked. Even the, at first, seemingly ham fisted undead expansion was really fun.
RDR2 I got at launch, played it almost immediately, but never really got more than half a dozen hours in before realising I was just going through the motions
2 was just so slow compared to 1. I know they were going for ultra realism, but it made it not fun for me.
Yeah, I couldn't nail it on the head but by the time I got to the more free play open world part I was just like "I don't really know what I want to do... And I don't care"
Might have been that, at that time, I'd burnt out on open works sandboxy games
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The Citadel. I didn't realize how fast the combat loop was at first. The first level was setup like a stop and pop shooter, but it's really a run and gun style.
Schedule 1, tried it early alpha, meh has potential, tried it few months ago, amazing!
Dragon's Dogma. I tried any number of times to get into it over the span of years, I'd put 8-10 hours in, but I just couldn't manage it, it felt like I always hit some kind of unreasonably gruesome difficulty spike and I could never overcome that, and I'd drop it. But then one time I played it and I just... Never hit that spike, for whatever reason. Played it all the way through to completion. Great game, knew I'd like it, I just couldn't find a foothold!
HBS Battletech
Hollow Knight.
At first, I was a bit put off by what I felt were stiff mechanics (I played the Ori games first), then I tried it again after a while and realized the mechanics were really just precise.
And now I'm absolutely hooked on Silksong and nothing else compares.
Destiny. I picked it up at launch, played the campaign, then thought "that's it?" I didn't exactly realize what Bungie was doing. I picked it back up when The Taken King launched and have been playing ever since. Still play D2 even though many people have dropped it.
Bloodborne, and then Sekiro
rimworld, dwarf fortress, factorio. ugh. cannot escape it now. though with DF the “jitter” of the chars moving messes with my eyes, so i really dont play it much. i know its turn based, I just like smoother movement or a roguelike where my actions begets movement in “clips”.
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Various actually
- Speulnky
- Slay the spire
- Fallout : New Vegas
- Rogue Legacy.
My steam top X :
- Speulnky
- Balatro
- Isaac
- STS
- TF2
- FNV
- Rogue Legacy
For some reason, the repeated misspelling of "Spelunky" as "Speulnky" has really tickled me. I'm genuinely sorry if you're dyslexic or similar, but "shpoil'n'key" is irrationally funny.
IDK english spelling sucks dick.
Try Noita. It's like Spelunky on crack
Try Noita. It’s like Spelunky on crack
I mean, I've had it on my wishlist for years, but also, I don't want to have all my time disappear, I'm starting to be productive in my spare time
Noita, or as I've taken to calling it, "Witch Spelunky"
Enter the Gungeon. I stopped after a while because it felt a bit too hard and I felt like I wasn't progressing. Came back 3 months later and had a blast and beat it.
Stationeers. I bought it a while ago and apparently played it for an hour, although I don't remember anything about that experience. Then I got into it again and got really into it.
EDIT: It happened with DRG a while ago too. That was because my motion sickness prevented me from getting into it, but a while later and with a PC upgrade I was able to get into it.
Currently for me its The Last Stand Aftermath... Lots of roguelikes on this list for a reason I think.
Persona 5 Royal.
Hades & BotW were like that for me.
Celeste, sorta. It wasn't so much that it didn't click, I just got distracted with other things and it took a back seat for a few years. Came back to it and ended up 100%ing it (not including every golden berry) and am now at roughly intermediate/advanced skill level for custom maps
Happy to say - none. Only time a game didn't click right away was due to being way too young for it, and all of those were most excellent once I played them again later in life.
It's a cliché, but Dark Souls. Rented it through Redbox with my brother-in-law, made it past the tutorial boss, then somehow pissed off the Crestfallen Warrior right next to the bonfire and got ganked at spawn a dozen times in a row before putting the game down.
A few months (and many articles praising the game) later I picked it up on sale and played the whole way through, and it's now one of my top games of all time.