I've never played rdr2 but I watched my wife play when it first released....very first thing she did was accidentally punch her horse in the mouth and I was dying of laughter.
RDR2 was first game I played on console in like 20 years. I hate controller, I was so bad at it, I remember trying to buy meat from butcher, but I pressed one of the trigger buttons by accident and just shot him dead... P.S. I will get internet hate, but I will say it - I don't like RDR2, like at all, I do not think its very good game, here I said it. Great characters and cutscenes, but the game itself is bad.
You didn't know Cyperpunk was first person game, what? I mean, most of us had no idea those preview cutscenes would be gone and we would only see our character in a mirror or on a bike or in a menu, but we knew its FPS game, come on haha.
Imagine being a grown ass human and being upset you were “bullied” into spending your money. 😂😂😂😂 when will fan bases stop being such pussies and either buy the game or not and leave it at that
@@secretlybeastly6965 To me, its sports games. Do not get me wrong, I am a nerd, but from childhood I been hooked on sports games. But I am dinosaur at this point who only plays single player manager type modes still, I have thousands of hours in FIFA and NBA 2k, but I can at least say that I never even tried MyCareer or Ultimate team garbage. I hate myself for being addicted to sports games, I know how cynical those products are, but I just love a manager fantasy and I keep playing NBA 2k now, I aint buying this years, I still enjoy my current campaign and I might stick with it for a couple of years.
i feel sad that we have to purchase to unlock new characters these days. remember 'def jam: fight for NYC'? that game had 67 playable characters, 20 unlockable arenas and 9 match types and you could unlock them all just by winning matches in the game and using tokens you earned
I can at least say that I never bought skins. Granted, I just do not play games that usually has that stuff, but more and more games have it. MARVEL Midnight Suns has it, and I played a ton of that game, but if you think I am buying Spiderman skin for 5 Euros or smth, you are wrong. Thinking of reinstalling that game on Steamdeck, I see its steamdeck verified.
Regarding #5. I had a college roommate who got fallout 4 at the same time as me. He did none of the main or side quests after realizing he could just build a settlement (single) and farm resources to make drugs and sell them at the city.
The biggest gaming mistake I made - other than not eating a pork bun in Sleeping Dogs - was when I upgraded to a PS4 Pro from a regular PS4, reset + sold the PS4, then realized I forgot to backup or transfer any of my save data to the Pro. I screamed like Toni Collette in Hereditary.
Thank god that some games now have hide helmet in them, I am a culprit of spending 40mins to an hr on a character, but if I know I can't hide the helmet, its a 5 to 10min character.
@@happymonkeycircle3838 I booted Sims 4 for the first time yesterday. Spent maybe an hour plus making my sim, bought a land, and then realized I dont want to play anymore lol.
@@cosmicshatter91 How the hell BG3 does not have hide helmet feature (it only has hide all the armor feature)? I am pretty sure Divinity had ability to hide helmet. Any time I played that game, there are scenes where NPCs recognize my party members after not seeing them for years, but all of them have like insane stupid helmets on, how do you even recognize that person :D
Buying $30+ games and spending an hour in them and moving on to something else. Quitting a game just before beating it to have an excuse to return to it later.
I have 30 games or so that I know I am close to finishing, but can't bring myself to finishing, so I uninstall them and think, well maybe i'll finish it 1 day... Well the back long of those games keeps going up.
Regarding No 7: As game graphics have evolved, good and noticable visual hints where to go and what to interact with have become more and more important. Because modern games are often overloaded with visible objects and details to make the environment make more realistic and many unnecessary fluff objects are actually interactible or at least somewhat reactive, but that makes it also more difficult to identify the correct path and the objects that are actually interactive - Because the game still ISN'T realistic in the way that you could touch everyting you see and do whatever you feel makes sense, you still have to interact with often very specific objects and arrive at specific targets to progress in the game. One pet peeve I have with many more recent games that have highly mobile characters that are very good at climbing or at making impossible jumps is when they do a bad job at showing the player what routes they actually could take by making objects unclimbable or impossible to jump over that really look like you could easily climb them or jump over them with your character's skills that you have seen in action. But instead you helplessly drop down to where you started or worse, drop into the deadly chasm that you wanted to jump over and grab that ledge on the other side that looks perfectly grabable, but really isn't. The white/yellow paint thing is a bit of a blunt way to do it, but at least it's clear. Older games didn't have that problem at much, because the graphics were more simplistic and there was much less decorative fluff, so objects that you could interact with automatically stood out more. You'll have much less problem to spot a pluckable healing herb in a meadow when the meadow texture is mostly just green painted flat floor and the interactable plants are the only thing that sticks out, than when the meadow is lush, almost realistic looking grass and wildflowers. I'm not saying that the way games were "back in the old days" is necessarily better, I love games with stunning semi-realistic visuals, but they do come with a challenge in finding your way (and a challenge for good level design to guide the player without breaking the immersion by being too blunt about it).
That was me, and after that I'm never pre-ordering a game again. I'll get it 6 months to a year down the line when the version we should've gotten is on sale
The only game I preordered was Ghost of Tsushima. I mainly bought PS4 just cause of that game and Spiderman. It was my first and only console since SEGA genesis. I got lucky on those as those games were amazing. But I do buy games day one sometimes, Cyberpunk... I never was more exited for the game as I was for Cyberpunk. Now, I also have very very strong depression, so I do not get exited for anything, but man, I thought Cyberpunk will be bigger than Jesus, and it was crushing disappointment. Even now after fixes, its still not the game that it supposed to be.
As a RPG/JRPG player and someone who is obsessed over collecting everything i know the pain of getting burnt out and changing game only to forget what i was doing on the main game and restarting it causing the cycle to repeat itself
The biggest gaming mistake I ever made and still upset about is playing on a autosave file with all my progress for DBZ Kakarot. It's upsetting because I went to start a new game and lost the original file with all the hard work put in to it.
You forgot to mention that some gamers save the game create chaos or choose a more violent decision just to see what happens and then go back to the saved file
There used to be a time when day one purchases and pre orders were a sign of luxury and mannn they felt sooo good. I still remember purchasing doom and uncharted games but dude just now it’s a mistake. Every single game is incomplete… almost as if they ran out of budget and this is their fundraiser especially gat trilogy definitive, cyberpunk and almost all Ubisoft games. They are just sooo much of a regret. I hope the next gta brings back the trend that should be there
There was also a time where there was no such thing as day one or pre orders. You would get the full game with hidden extra content that which kept you playing for longer.
I'm actually guilty of stopping whatever I was doing in the main story and just moving on to the side quests before continuing because I wanted to 100% the game since you get rewarded for doing that. All I got for 100% Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a badge that lets me change the sound effects that you make. I was pretty annoyed by it but at least I can say that I finished the Final Final Badge Test in that game. I'm even doing that with Echoes of Wisdom right now because I know that game is short if I just did all the main objectives, so I wanted to make it last longer by trying to find all the Heart Pieces, completing all the side quests, and finding all the secrets in that game in order to 100% it. I don't know if you get a reward for 100%ing Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, but at least I'm satisfied knowing that I 100%ed a game that I enjoyed playing.
The thing that sucks about having a lot of unplayed games in your library is sometimes the servers don't work or exist by the time you get around to it.
I’ve grown to really hate the amount of options in character creation, like I get why people love it but I get a quarter of the way through and I’m just like “I want to play the game!” But I did love that Dragons Dogma 2 released the character creation before the actual game release
Saving loot or upgrade material for later and what-if. I just finished Lords of the Fallen, and have three Deralium chunks unused. Used one for a longsword at +10, and had a crossbow at +9, so had three chunks left over. ... I realised it would be better to save the chunks for weapons that would upgrade with higher end stats. Then as you do, think I worked out which would be the best weapon had to upgrade. Then just never upgraded any other weapons. Then googled about NG+ in LotF, and saw enemies are harder. Figured 'sod-that', so will never use the chunks.
Just bought it on an Xbox sale and I scooped all the DLC too. In 2024, I’ve put more time into that game than I have since it came out so long ago. I swear to god, though, Roman makes me want to throw that phone into the river sometimes 🤣😂
In my experience physical games aren't what they used to be. Having to copy and install most if not all data from either 1 or multiple discs. What happened to reading from the media itself?
The yellow paint is not bad perse, the problem is when developers use it way too much, like you can't progress an area or levels if you don't interact specifically with the yellow painted object or some other object or colored thing, that's just lazy level design, my favorite way for this problem is to do it like most immersive sim games where you can climb almost everything but the level layout is done well enough you don't get lost and don't even need markers or yellow paint, of course not all games need to be immersive but the enjoyment can be broken when you just see that yellow paint and think to yourself "damn I've seen that 4 times now", and yes there are people who needs the yellow or a marker of some sort but using it so much in a game world doesn't seem to me as an accessibility, looks to me more like laziness. (To be fair there are good games, even great ones that have this problem, this is just me nitpicking)
13:47 when i was a kid i did not know english so everytime i replayed Jazz Jackrabbit 2 i always did it on the hardest difficulty because it had animations for every setting (easy was a baby Jazz rabbit and Hard was a Jazz rabbit full of muscles with tattoos). I always tought that it is an error because no matter what i chose, the character looked the same :(
I'll admit to number 8 having many games like 35 percent of my game completed and the rest register at least 10-30 minutes of gameplay and never go back to them until i've remember i've got them in my library like recently got back to the Bioshock Trilogy when i have games like Death's Door, Stray, Driver Parallel Lines waiting to be finished.
00:22 Number 10 - Day 1 Purchase 02:14 Number 9 - Cosmetic Only Battle Pass FOMO 04:04 Number 8 - Free Games downloaded and not played 05:24 Number 7 - Getting lost without indicators in games 07:19 Number 6 - Upgrading PC but just playing old games 08:36 Number 5 - Restarting "Easy to start but hard to keep going" games 10:08 Number 4 - Time consuming character creation 11:51 Number 3 - Looking up guides before attempting interacting with the game 13:39 Number 2 - Thinking every difficulty is for everyone 15:34 Number 1 - Playing games we don't actually really want to play
1. I won't play a game that doesn't have my interest after two hours. Even if i paid full price. 2. Hard mode pisses me off. But I'm gonna do it anyway. 3. Guilty as charged. You got me here. 4. Random default cus the customization isn't that important. 5. Collectibles have definitely gotten exhaustive. 6. Feels kinda wasteful to buy the top of the line anything when it's just gonna get outclassed sooner rather than later. 7. I'm happy when they add an option to remove the "yellow paint." 8. Always add the freebies to the library. Never install unless I know I'm gonna play it. 9. Battle passes are FOMO. Can't afford that. 10. That's why I watch Gameranx.
I had the ‘played a game I hated’ when I started Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I forced myself to play for the first 10 or so hours, and almost gave up multiple times. It drove me nuts, I figured I’d just wasted my money. Then the 11th hour came, and I fell the fuck in love with it and couldn’t put it down. To this day it’s in my top 3 or 4 favourite games. If anyone reading this gave up after 7 hours, stick with it, I swear it will click eventually and you’ll fall in love with it just as I did. One of the best turnarounds in history for me.
choosing a style of play in competitive games, finding out that style is not that effective and even loose so many on high levels, but still refuse to change that style because it took you so long to adapt! (talking about PES, FIFA, CoD, CS, and even mobile games)
Your biggest mistake taking on the 1st part of Gravemind on Legendary is not being either in the stands up top, or slipping into one of the spawn corridors. Being down in the middle is just instant doom.
Biggest mistakes... Buying a Cyrix CPU in 1996 to play Quake. Buying FallOut 4 on DVD from a local store to discover the game was not on the DVD, just a link to download the game. I never pre-purchase anything.
15:39 A variation of this I have experienced multiple times is when you play a game you really WANT to like (because a friend recommended it, because it's popular etc.) but just can't find it in yourself to enjoy it for whatever reason. I have had this with the Witcher 3, Disco Elysium and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It made me feel guilty for not liking them/not enjoying the experience, lol.
Another game specific one: Picking the accessibility job in Final Fantasy 14 (Summoner) as your first job and then refusing to play anything else and get mad when someone suggests something else.
In so guilty of the "playing a game i hate". My most recent one was Evil West. My god. Once I realized bosses were just getting recycled constantly, i was so done and beat it out of spite lol
10. Very few day 1 purchases I regret 9. I’ve only ever bought one battle pass just to say I bought one 8. I only download game I know I’m playing and delete what I’m not 7. Leave that on, I don’t have time to just run around and get lost anymore 6. I make fun of pc player all the time with this, they boast about how powerful their set up is but mostly use it to play Minecraft or among us 5. This made me hate the big open world, 100 hour single playthrough format 4. I’m indifferent 3. I only do that after my first playthrough 2. I used to only play on hard exclusively, now I just stick to normal 1. If I was able to get a full refund, I would never finish all the terrible games I’ve beaten, looking at you god of war ragnarok
A big problem I have with the issue of preorder / day 1 orders is that if it is something you want to play and you plan to do the smart thing and wait you now need to jump through hoops to avoid seeing spoilers for any major game. For example with the new spiderman 2 the final boss fight was on youtube (and in my recommended) the first week of release and spoiled aspects of the final boss for me. So if its something I am invested in the story I will get it day 1 because I dont want to have the story spoiled by a youtube video thumbnail or title. On the other hand I am trying to get games (like Astro Bot and Space Marine 2) early because I want to support good single player games over the sea of "games as a service" titles we've been getting.
Games I didn't wanna beat but did anyway? Sekiro, I'm looking at you... The Internet: "The game clicks eventually." Naw, I just don't like something that you do. Weird, I know
As for guides, I use them when I'm at the point of dropping the game. I usually have one of two reactions (a) I read it and say "How could I have missed that!" or "there's no way I would have worked that out in a million years". Particularly in games that aren't puzzle games but have some incongrous crappy puzzle, I just want the boring bit to go away so I can get back to the fun. If puzzling is the point of the game, then I'll hold out as long as I can but there reaches a point where you wasted so much time, you could never feel satisfied even if you did work it out. Regarding games you hate-play, I'm forcing myself to play Doom Eternal and man do I despise it; I love shooters, Doom, Doom 2, Doom 64, Blood, Prodeus, Far Cry, Ion Fury, Turbo Overkill, Counterstrike, to name but a few, I have played an absolute ton of shooters, and hundreds of hours of other Doom games and Mods, but Doom Eternal is a bloated, tedious, over-produced, overrated pile of tedium. From the pointless jumping/climbing to the endless waves of bullet sponges, via the contrived lack of ammunition and dire 'glory kills' I am so sick of this game. Also the insipid level design "Oh look another bland arena, I hope I get to jump about like a march hare on meth" said no on ever. And yes, I did 'git gud' at it, and I still find it boring.
Hate playing some games to completion is a real problem for me sometimes and I don't fully understand why I push myself to beat games I don't enjoy. Probably a combination of sunk cost and OCD lol.
#6 I'm guilty of. But you often want to see how good the old game runs on the new hardware. Maybe it ran 60 FPS at 1080 but on the new card you can run it at 120 FPS at 1440p.
That last one fit for the latest Saints Row for myself; it was a dumpster fire for sure, but I wanted to see how bad it got to get the company shut down.
I’ve only got 9 more games I need to beat and I’ll finally have time to play Bloodborne. As long as no good games are released I should be done by 2027.
Don't agree about spending lots of time on character customization. It does matter what you're character looks like. This is someone you're going to be spending a lot of time with throughout the course of your adventure, watching them the whole game in multiple settings. It's very important that you like what you see and can take pride in the appearance of the character you created to enhance your enjoyment of the game.
Playing a game just for the 100% achivements. Sometimes I pick games based on if I want to plat it or not (and if I'm interested in its content, 2nd priority). I think platting a game should come from that you actually beat and liked the game enough to play it again, but I'm doing it the other way because I want plat in the first playthrough without missing missable achivements.
Every character creator needs a randomize button for how your character looks. I just want to hit the randomize button tell my character is pure nightmare fuel and call it good.
If a game is bad at signposting, I simply won’t play it. I’ll try to get a refund if I can. There’s a difference between being stuck in a game and being lost. I hate being lost.
I try to not look up guides unless I'm genuinely stuck, trying to collect all of whatever collectibles, or if it's a shorter game and I want a favoured ending (usually my 2nd playthru).
I constantly buy DLCs and never play them 😂 The only two DLCs that I have actually played recently are Shadow of the Earthtree and Burning Shores, and I don't even own them, a friend of mine shared them with me 😅
I only own 2 day one games, Payday 3, NCAA Football 25, and RDR2 My storage space is 4TTB and that's gradually filling up with mods being the main reason ( 252gb for Farm Simulator 19 or 22 A 90-day wait is the minimum for me before I decide to purchase a game. -HRK Games, CDKeys, Humble Bundle, Instant Gaming, GreenManGaming, and a few others are my prefer stores before Steam.
10. - Day 1 purchase; if regret it; you didnt even know what you were buying. I have never regreted a day 1 purchase. I only get like 1 or maximun 2 or those a year (if any). Be cause I researsh what Im buying. 9.- The battlepass was created by Valve for Dota 2; stop giving the credit to fortnite. 8.- Nothing to say 7.- Bad design 6.- Cant relate 5.- I will finish the Witcher 3 DLC, I swear 4.- Nothing to say. 3.- The mistake is looking at guides? this point was very ambiguous and not well indicated. 2.- Always playing on Hard first time this days. 1.- Cant relate.
