Right now:
Crash Bandicoot Nsane trilogy, FFX-2, Cyberpunk 2077, DMC V.
Been going at it little bit by little bit, but Baba Is You. Puzzle Is Hard. Game Is Fun. Brain Is Dumb.
Not right now, but on the original Baldur’s Gate, it autosaved when I had like 1% health right before a boss. There was no chance of getting around that. Totally screwed me over and I gave up.
If you still have that save file, you might consider tasteful use of an editor to give yourself a chance. If not though I’m sorry to hear that. BG1/2 were a huge part of my childhood and my longtime favorite villain came from the second.
Noita. I don’t see how a single person has beaten it. Wand building is basically a game within the game (and I don’t get it – ditto for potions), the character is squishy with barely any healing mechanism, and every playthrough is randomized so there’s not a lot to learn from your mistakes. I guess it’s not a casual game (what I usually go for). I can’t see anyone getting any better at it if they only play it a few hours a week and watching just as many tutorial videos.
I have played Dwarf Fortress and I consider myself quite good, pulled off a bunch of tricky megaproject engineering tasks and mastered hydraulics and lava flows.
Most people consider Dwarf Fortress a very hard game. I consider it a moderately hard game.
Noita is a
FUCKING
hard game
And I say that as a person with likely more than 20k hours in game.
This game is brutal but man do I love it. There are so many RNG factors that can make or break your run. But when you go God mode boy is it satisfying. Dunkorslam YouTube videos are your best friend to learn how to get your first win.
The unmodded experience absolutely isn’t a casual game. Due to the semi random nature of the game I actually rate it harder than dark souls.
It doesn’t have the same roadblock encounters souls games have but you can learn how to pass them in the souls games. However in Noita you need to learn the systems and then use your knowledge of the systems to bypass the problems in a more dynamic way. For example I wanted to carve a path through lava. Usually I’ve done it with a freezing spell, but I didn’t have it. Instead I had found lava to blood spell, so I turned parts of lava to blood which then reacted with the rest of lava to create volcanic rock, which I then dug through.
For a more casual experience I recommend using mods for whatever gives you the most trouble, because there’s a lot of that can give you problems. You can learn at your own pace because it does get easier the more you get used to the systems in the game.
I definitely recommend experiencing Noita, it’s one of the most unique games I’ve ever played. It’s so unique I actually have a hard time putting it into a specific genre. I usually just call it a roguelite Metroidvania. It starts out as a roguelite but the more you play it the more it becomes like a Metroidvania where there’s usually a specific mechanic preventing access to other areas but there can be multiple solutions to the mechanic and your solution depends whatever things the roguelite aspect of the game gave you.
Happy to see noita here, it belongs
After 1500 hours I beat nightmare mode, but still haven’t beaten the 33 orb kolmi
There’s a steam workshop mod which puts a checkpoint in all the temples, this let me beat it, the base game only that is, no challenge runs or secret bullshit, haven’t even attempted that.
I do enjoy setting everything on fire and exploding myself though. I played a fair few hours on and off.
It’s a very hard game. I really got into it playing with the Noita Together mod, and the Spell Labs mod when I was playing solo, to really figure out the game. Then once I felt I had a good grasp, I beat it, did the sun quest, eventually beat 33 orb Kolmi… Lost all my progress and had to do it again.
If you can’t tell, I love Noita, but I fell in love with the wand building first. Spell Labs has excellent tutorials on improving your wand builds too. But I now have modded the game, so I’m not a casual player of it either.
Space Engineers.
It’s not so much that I’m stuck, as that I hit a motivational wall when I realized I have no goal.
Just building stuff isn’t so interesting to me. I like to build stuff to solve problems.
For a long time my goal was to get to the moon. Now I’m just bored. I’ve done a little stuff on the moon, including making a specialized drilling ship that gobbles up ore at a ridiculous rate then lifts it back to my moon base, and a welding ship that stores massive numbers of plates, and a loading station that automatically fills it from the base’s network.
But I’m just bored. Kinda want to play it multiplayer, but all the servers are too ephemeral to build anything of consequence on.
I don’t know if it still works but abusing the physics engine to make kinetic ship obliterating shotguns added an easy extra hundred hours to my gameplay.
Ooh, I have that game too!
Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Accidentally triggered the Woman’s Lot DLC and now I’m stuck in a stealth section vs a town of angry Cumans that I just cannot figure out.
Infuriating.
jfc man… god i want to love that that, i want to play it but i got stuck so many times, randoms kills sends you back 30-60 min back… how many times can a man take this shit?
i tried few times but could never go few hours without some bullshit. i really hope they fix this shit for new game.
The same game 99.999% of people that played it are stuck on: Super Ghouls n Ghosts
Disco Elysium. It is so good, but I think I would rather have read the book.
I just picked up AC valhalla after 3 years of not touching it due to the stupidity of the game. There really isn’t anything stealthy or assassin like except the mini quests that max out the difficulty settings that can’t be adjusted and since you don’t really play stealth having these sections turned to max made me say it’s not worth the effort. I play on the easiest setting so that I can enjoy a relaxing experience and feel like I’m progressing with my insanely small amount of time I have I don’t wanna be replaying levels 15 times in a row.
And I know what everyone is gonna say and while I agree it’s a series I use to love even well after it got terrible. I’m just doing me in my own world not interested in all the multi-player games out there.
Retunal… and I FINALLY just recently beat it
I’ve been playing it off and on for about two years now, and it was so satisfying to finally finish the main story
Fallout 4. Playing for the first time, and have done everything except for the main questline and DLCs. I started losing interest in playing, but I want to eventually get through the main story. Taking a break and playing some Rimworld before returning to the wasteland.
I’ve got 1k+ hours in both Fallout 4 and Skyrim, bought them both on opening day.
Haven’t finished either of their main quests, for Fallout I just really didn’t care at all about Shaun.
I do that with almost every open world RPG, except that I never end up going back. I love Fallout 3/NV, FO4, Oblivion, Skyrim, Baldur’s Gate 3, Horizon Zero Dawn, The Witcher 3 and yet I have not finished a single one of them. I’m not really concerned about finishing them. I had a lot of fun playing them until I didn’t. 10/10 would buy again.
Hollow Knight
I’ll probably pick it up again next time I’m stuck in bed sick for days. I don’t think I remember where I need to go next, or all of the techniques I’ve unlocked, though…
Ori and the Blind Forest
See above.
Hollow Knight for me also… I’ll resume once I find the damn paper maps I drew while exploring, I moved house and they’re somewhere…
Why draw maps? theres an NPC that gives you a map of the current area, you can locate him by the sound he makes.
Oh and theres a charm that shows your location at all times on the map
I don’t play metroidvania type games very often, and I struggle to remember details to come back to. For example, if I gain a dash ability, I want to be able to check my map and know where to head back to as there might be half a dozen spots it may allow access to.
Add in a few other types of blocked routes scattered throughout, and all of the branching paths etc, I find it hugely helpful to have a customised map.
I first tried with just the in game maps and the pins you can drop, but I ran out of pins before finding the abilities to revisit and clear out the areas.
i see, makes sense. Its been a long time since i played HK, but you can also increase charm slots.
Also you’re not supposed to be able to use all of them at once, you have to change based on situation (although you can have one charm over thr limit at the cost of double damage received)
good luck with your custom map search though, Hollow Knight is a very good game
Cheers, I’ll definitely give it another go, what I played of it was fantastic.
With the running out of pins, I just meant the map markers that you can place on the map. You have a few different colours and a limited amount of each, so I was using them for different types of gate/hurdle/blockage. But quickly ran out. That’s when I decided to draw a map
Not stuck exactly, more slightly overwhelmed, by Skyrim - never played it before, but it was cheap on Steam recently and day one I played for about 5 or 6 hours… and I’ve never yet gone back because there’s already so much to do. I will go back eventually though.
i’ve done this several times, starting from scratch each time. it works for me
Some games I can’t just cheat/hack so it’s easier fore with my disabilities, currently only one I can think of is outer wilds where it’s completely timed based.
I hate how games say they are so accessible friendly yet are designed to be incredibly difficult. Although I absolutely love it when games let you alter a lot of the game from the start, to make it as easy or hard as you like.
I gave up on Outer Wilds too. I got so frustrated with the controls, changing perspective, and the timing that I just dropped it after a couple hours of play.
Got stuck playing Earthworm Jim when I was a kid. Literally fell in a hole and couldn’t figure out how to get him outta there. Turned it off and never went back
Baba is you. Every couple months I’ll take a crack at it, maybe solve 1 or 2 more screens, get stuck again. Love the soundtrack
This reminds me that I am stuck on Dev is You, level 19! Probably been stuck for a couple of years now. Now I need to go and try again.
Was trying to think of one recently and this is the one, although I have it on mobile as a train-ride pastime. Still stuck on the puzzle I’m on.
