Patient Gamers

11561 readers

119 users here now

A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

^(placeholder)^

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

BurntWits

Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? (self.patientgamers)

submitted 11 months ago by InEnduringGrowStrong to c/patientgamers

97 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Tell us what game you are currently, or recently played, greater than 6+ months old.

If the game happens to be on sale, a link would be a plus.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just started The Outer Worlds, which I got free on EGS during the holiday.

I love the aesthetics and voice acting. The movement feels a bit floaty, but it's alright. At least the configuration of the controls is intuitive.

I know some people who've played it. Some say they really enjoyed it, while others said it was rather bland. I'm really enjoying it so far, but I'm not too far in. It seems like a game where I could get caught up in the side quests without ever advancing in the main quest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I loved it when I played it, but that was before I had played any Mass Effect games. Now that I've played Mass Effect, I don't know that I would have liked Outer Worlds as much as I did. I wouldn't be surpised if that's where the differing opinions come from: those who've played Mass Effect vs those that haven't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm in luck then because I never could get Mass Effect to create saves on my PC for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I played ME1 years ago. It was decent overall, but I would hardly call it exceptional.

I remember a little. Just that story was mostly good, main quests okayish, side quests mostly terrible and repetitive. It always felt like cheap knock off of KotOR (cheap in content, not presentation).

Everyone was hyping the game so hard I was quite disappointed in the end. So disappointed I haven't even started ME2 despite having it in library. And it probably won't ever happen, especially when I discovered they ditched the bare minimum RPG elements ME1 had.