"It gets better later"

Thrasher · December 13, 2016, 11:12:31 PM

When playing a new game how much time do you give it before deciding if it's worth to continue playing/returning to the store? Are there any games with slow starts that you loved later?

Luciana · December 13, 2016, 11:13:48 PM

If it's a game people have been recommending me, or if I want to give it an HONEST shot, I say a few hours. 3 hours for me, I think. Enough time to get past whatever tutorial crap is thrown at you, and enough to get into the heart of the game. If I'm just not feeling it, I'll give up, but if I have SOMETHING that interests me, I'll try to stay interested.

🍁 Aria 🔮 · December 14, 2016, 01:36:56 AM

Depends on how much I'm enjoying it. There are some games that I only decide are shit after like eight hours, then others I can't play for more than thirty minutes.

NieR is the defining example of "it gets better" being true.

Verbatim · December 14, 2016, 01:54:24 AM

I generally know within an hour of playing the game whether I'm going to enjoy it or not.

Half-Life 2--projected rating (one hour of gameplay): 8-9/10. actual rating 7/10 (revising to an 8)
Halo: CE--projected rating: 4-6/10. actual rating: 5/10
Fallout 3--projected rating: 6-8/10. actual rating: 7/10 (revising to a 6)
Wind Waker--projected rating: 7-9/10. actual rating: 10/10
Pokémon Moon--projected rating: 7-8/10. actual rating: 7-8/10.

Even if a game has a "slow" start, it's easy to gauge within a short amount of time through small details and tone-setting whether a game will end up being great or not. I can't think of a game that has surprised me too heavily, unless it was in a negative way (SSB Brawl: projected rating, 10/10. actual rating: 4-6/10).

True Turquoise · December 14, 2016, 07:18:09 AM

Games I'm recommended, and I get recommended a lot, I tend to play the full thing, but if I don't like them I find out early on. That's when I'll stop playing.

The Witcher 3 was a good one, I wasn't really feeling the start, didn't care for the story and didn't enjoy the combat, as I started to get use to it and got further in, I really enjoyed the game and characters.

In terms of it gets better, as Prime said, NieR is probably the living example of that. I'd argue DoD too

Deleted · December 14, 2016, 08:04:58 AM

Wasn't the major defense of Ff-13 that it gets good once you're like 20+ hours in?
I totally get slow starts in games, it's the reason I can put up with Custom Robo's 15 effing minute long intro, but these niggas are talking about AN ENTIRE DAY worth of bad gameplay to get to something that MIGHT be entertaining . nah

Spartan · December 14, 2016, 08:32:30 AM

The only game I've disliked that I played through fully is Majoras Mask

Elai · December 14, 2016, 12:17:43 PM

3 hours usually.

Genghis Khan · December 14, 2016, 01:36:44 PM

Quote from: Spartan on December 14, 2016, 08:32:30 AM

The only game I've disliked that I played through fully is Majoras Mask

your casual

🍁 Aria 🔮 · December 14, 2016, 03:22:32 PM

Quote from: Uranium on December 14, 2016, 08:04:58 AM

Wasn't the major defense of Ff-13 that it gets good once you're like 20+ hours in?

The issue with the defense isn't that it takes so ling, it's that it's completely false. FFXIII never gets better. It's always shit.

Jono · December 14, 2016, 08:21:31 PM

Far Cry 3

I played it for a few hours and I didn't like it. Came back to it a few weeks later and ended up enjoying the hell out of the game.

Super Irish · December 14, 2016, 09:26:13 PM

Sometimes it's as simple as playing a mission or two after the tutorial.

Other times it depends on whether the game's the problem or if I'M the problem (usually by not reading the instructions properly and royally fucking things up with hiw I play), which can take a while.

Doctor Doom · December 14, 2016, 11:06:08 PM

It has to be good the instant I put the disc in or I take it back in a rage and demand a refund at gunpoint.

Busta Nut · December 15, 2016, 01:25:59 AM

Quote from: True Turquoise on December 14, 2016, 07:18:09 AM

I'd argue DoD too

Taro knows what he's doing, even if he doesn't remember it. Caim is literally one of my favorite protagonists of all time, and I was considering dropping DoD1 during the first level. Only Angelus commenting on Caim's destructive nature kept me anchored, and it's perhaps one of the best decisions I've made. The game was a clunky mess, but it's the characters that make it.

Thrasher · December 16, 2016, 12:08:09 AM

I feel like I'm on the shorter end of waiting to see if it will get better later. I think I'll try Dishonored again and give it another chance.