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Have a friend who is obsessed with the borderlands series. Played through the pre-sequel with him. Was not a good time
He wanted to play through 3 with me after, and I noped the hell out
Undertale was zero fun. Interesting story and I liked the graphics and music but the combat got extremely annoying, and I say this as someone who plays 8 bit (heck even 4 bit) combat games. I quit it.
I beg to differ. It was a lifechanging game for me. I can trace a half a dozen major life decisions and events to the people I met through the Undertale fandom. It has some deep personal sentimental value, too.
There are definitely lots of things in life that I personally fail to see any value for myself in; but that I respect specifically because I know it brings lots of other people happiness.
Oh sure. By all means play what you enjoy. Just wasnt what I enjoy.
I was the main marketer for "weird, different games" to my friends, back in school. I was the one that first found out about Harvest Moon on PSX and recommended it to another friend, he loved it - mind you, this was back in 2004. In 2006, I got 3 into World of Warcraft, I even printed a "beginners' guide" I made myself just to help them understand the game.
Two games that I experimented from word of mouth were Tibia and Ragnarok Online. The former I gave up the same day - there were like 10 players for each rat in the sewers, the respawn took forever and you were supposed to grind them until you reached level 7, which would take over a week of real playtime at that rate.
RO was an interesting situation, the dude who first started it was bragging about having lots of hours to play, when I disdainfully replied "Why pay when you can just play for free"? He didn't like the reply, but we didn't get along anyway, so I took every chance to jab him, and he did the same to me. Anyhoo, I went online, looked around for a private server and started playing, free of charge. The others didn't join in.
During school and college, none of my friends were interested in RTS or even turn-based strategy games. I already knew about Civilization thanks to my dad. In the internet years, I always lurked around some talks about strategy games and that's where I found Supreme Commander, which is still one of my favorites. Total Annihilation is still on my "to-play" list.
Time for some more word of mouth (potentially): have you tried Beyond all Reason? It's more or less a modern open source remake of Total Annihilation. Runs like a dream even with tens of AI players and tens of thousands of units in-game.
Compared to SupCom I would say there is more unit diversity but less wacky experimentals, and the commander unit cannot be upgraded. There are currently only 2 factions, that basically map to UEF and Cybran from SupCom (or rather SupCom derived those two from the 2 in Total Annihilation). The dev team is currently working on a third faction that, from the previews, seems to me to be a mashup of the Aeon and Seraphim from SupCom: Forged Alliance.
I have, both it and Zero-K ;)
The Witcher 3 felt very sloppy to me, controls wise. I felt like combat had me sliding all over the place. Blocking, parrying, and dodging didn't feel satisfying or responsive.
Just couldn't get into it at all because of it.
I ended up running around and talking to everyone I could, then realize there's a ton of combat stuff to do and nobody else to talk to and I just turned it off
Maybe you'd prefer Monster Hunter or Elden Ring combat.
I love elden Ring! I've played through and beaten it several times.
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