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What games did you sleep on for too long? (lemmy.today)
submitted 5 days ago by WoodYouLookAtThat@lemmy.today to c/gaming@lemmy.world
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I played Nine Sols recently and it had a transformative effect on my gaming experience. I've found myself no longer getting mad at fairly structured games and deeply enjoying the personal refinement of my skill set in pursuit of a goal. Suddenly this shift in perspective has allowed me to see difficulty in a new light and truly savor the victory that comes after significant effort. With this new perspective, I decided to try the game that had made me hesitate the most with its reputation for difficulty: Sekiro

Its been truly eye opening to realize that my nervousness has only kept me from a good time. Or maybe I just wasn't ready for it...

Following that trend, I started Celeste for the first time even though I never play pure platformers, and it has blown my socks off. Do I suck? You bet your ass I do. But I know it's from a lack of detailed platforming, and developing that skill has been very fun and satisfying.

Now, I'd love to hear from others. What games made you regret waiting so long to try them?

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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

I recently played Fez for the first time. One of the earliest big indie titles, possibly the first metroidbrainia, I can see obvious homages other games have paid to it that I realize were references (ex. the blue/pink boxes in celeste that toggle to a beat).

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

did you complete the whole game or just 1 playthrough?

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

I'm still finishing up my last few puzzles. But probably don't ask leading questions like that for a game like this.

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