Ah okay. You got the best two moments in the game then (Kaer Morhen and finding Ciri). Well, two of the three best, the epilogue is pretty fantastic.Casual Shinji said:
Ever Had This Happen To You
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I can imagine that happening with me in regards to Fallout 4. I am currently on a two week vacation in Montreal and fully anticipating coming back, seeing Fallout and going "fuck it". I am not even halfway through the main story because I don't care enough about finding Shaun.
When I play stuff where the mechanics are about making the "right" decisions (Civilization and other slow(er) paced stuff) getting back into it works great.
With stuff which relies heavily on knowing some combos and special controls (for me that would be for example Castlevania: Lord of Shadows and other "be alert and reacting fast"-games) then...woah, I can basically never get back into it, like my skills vanished. I am even too afraid to play LoL again with a friend because i KNOW skill deteriorates whereas the skill which is in games like Civ and other turn based stuff erodes....differently? Somehow there it is not hard for me to start again after ages.
With stuff which relies heavily on knowing some combos and special controls (for me that would be for example Castlevania: Lord of Shadows and other "be alert and reacting fast"-games) then...woah, I can basically never get back into it, like my skills vanished. I am even too afraid to play LoL again with a friend because i KNOW skill deteriorates whereas the skill which is in games like Civ and other turn based stuff erodes....differently? Somehow there it is not hard for me to start again after ages.
If you have the DLC, the deep roads DLC has an unlockable crafting table early on that sells basically every crafting material in the game, up to and including dragon bone I believe. You can start the DLC at almost any time, and just come back to the merchant to buy stuff without completing the DLC.cojo965 said:
Same for the post-epilogue DLC, every material is for sale at that point.
Just yesterday actually, when I started up Far Cry 4 again after about half a year away from it. Had no clue about what was going on, what the story was, where I was or anything. Closed it down after that as I didn't really feel like starting over again right now.
Recently when trying to get back into Guild Wars 2.
I last remember recently hitting level 80, then stopping. When i returned about 2 years later, i couldn't recognize most of the things in my massive inventory, what class i was, how to play my class, or exactly what I was doing. I tabbed out for 5 minutes and when i came back I was dead and the NPC camp i was in was gone.
After another look, its a little easier to get a grasp of, I had one bag dedicated to parts for crafting a high level Orichalcum jewel, the rest was filled with raw crafting materials and a ton of bags and chests that accumulated over time.
Though if I wanted to go back, i'd have to learn the new specialization feature, and there's an expansion now... uuugh. No thanks.
I last remember recently hitting level 80, then stopping. When i returned about 2 years later, i couldn't recognize most of the things in my massive inventory, what class i was, how to play my class, or exactly what I was doing. I tabbed out for 5 minutes and when i came back I was dead and the NPC camp i was in was gone.
After another look, its a little easier to get a grasp of, I had one bag dedicated to parts for crafting a high level Orichalcum jewel, the rest was filled with raw crafting materials and a ton of bags and chests that accumulated over time.
Though if I wanted to go back, i'd have to learn the new specialization feature, and there's an expansion now... uuugh. No thanks.
Not only has it happened, it keeps happening and I kinda like it.
I find it quite interesting logging back on a really old character, or loading up a dirt old save, then try to figure out what I was doing and how I was thinking (or not thinking) at the time.
Sorta love the moment where I load something up and immediately have to facepalm over something that I did, knowing I have grown into recognizing it so easily now. It shows progress I guess.
However the other part of it that is not so fun, which I guess is what you are actually getting at, is when you have totally forgotten what was going on, and you may as well just start over to get back into the story.
It's a playthrough killer when you reach the moment where there is just too much going on that you have forgotten about, but
it's too much of a hassle to start over because you remember just enough for it to be boring to do it all over again.
I find it quite interesting logging back on a really old character, or loading up a dirt old save, then try to figure out what I was doing and how I was thinking (or not thinking) at the time.
Sorta love the moment where I load something up and immediately have to facepalm over something that I did, knowing I have grown into recognizing it so easily now. It shows progress I guess.
However the other part of it that is not so fun, which I guess is what you are actually getting at, is when you have totally forgotten what was going on, and you may as well just start over to get back into the story.
It's a playthrough killer when you reach the moment where there is just too much going on that you have forgotten about, but
it's too much of a hassle to start over because you remember just enough for it to be boring to do it all over again.
Definitely, always with convoluted RPGs and such. Dragon Age and Skyrim did this quite well, even the Witcher 3. Poor Witcher 3...i shouldn't have left it alone really. That quest log is more intimidating than my panini toaster! (Which isn't around at the moment, but that is quite intimidating in itself...how did it learn to hide?) I wandered...spoke to some villagers, killed...something angry? Then broke down and cried on my horse from the existential horror i have placed upon myself. Horses are usually comforting, damnit...what was the name of my horse?? I was too afraid to ask...him? Too many real life happenings to remember. Fallout 4 is simple enough. Find baby. Kill angry people. Rob stuff. Collect stuff. Build stuff. Reload save if accidentally shoot sensitive types. I only recenttly got Wasteland 2: Director's cut, so perhaps it is best to be wary about leaving that game for too long a period, as it does appear to have a LOT to remember. Me can be dumbsome at times!
I bought Batman: Arkham City when it was released and a friend borrowed it shortly afterward and I never got it back. Yesterday I jumped back into my saved point and had this dilemma of feeling overwhelmed.cojo965 said:
Which is bullshit. Making the player do that makes the developer a virtual slave driver. Look, (picture me talking to the developer right here) if you have a quest that involves collecting a very rare crafting item, either up the drop rate (for players that have the quest), make the amount only 1, cut it entirely, or (and this is what fucked the quest up for me) DON'T PUT THE ITEM IN THE MENU OF "SHIT ONLY GOOD FOR SELLING!!" Because when you do that don't blame the player for selling off the item before the quest needs it.Casual Shinji said:
That happened to me when I went back to one of my saves in Tales of Symphonia:"Why am I on an island?"
"Are those cat people?"
"Why is my party set up this way?"
"Which New Game Plus is this?"
"Wait... EVERYONE'S OVER LEVEL 100?!"It took me two hours of battling on that island to make me realize that I originally flew there just to grind for Grade and nothing else...
Other than that, I also did that when I booted back up the first Hyperdimension Neptunia game on the PS3... only I started questioning why was I still on the second region minutes later...
"Are those cat people?"
"Why is my party set up this way?"
"Which New Game Plus is this?"
"Wait... EVERYONE'S OVER LEVEL 100?!"It took me two hours of battling on that island to make me realize that I originally flew there just to grind for Grade and nothing else...
Other than that, I also did that when I booted back up the first Hyperdimension Neptunia game on the PS3... only I started questioning why was I still on the second region minutes later...
Nope, can't seem to recall anything like that going on. How about you, Nox?
Nox: Well, you DO have a habit of letting your MMO progress slide, but I don't recall you forgetting what it was all for.
It's one of the reasons I play free games. I hate time constraint, and that's what subscriptions are.
Nox: Oh, I don't blame you, especially since those sorcerers are a pain in the ass.
Mmm-hmmm. So, how's the immortality?
Nox: It's refreshingly squishy inside, like my last victim.
Gotta love them Sith.
Nox: Well, you DO have a habit of letting your MMO progress slide, but I don't recall you forgetting what it was all for.
It's one of the reasons I play free games. I hate time constraint, and that's what subscriptions are.
Nox: Oh, I don't blame you, especially since those sorcerers are a pain in the ass.
Mmm-hmmm. So, how's the immortality?
Nox: It's refreshingly squishy inside, like my last victim.
Gotta love them Sith.
To OP: I know that feel.
I usually just end up restarting the game.
I used to play a lot of different MMO's, and one of my biggest problems in coming back to an mmo(after extended breaks and playing 2-3 other mmo's) was having to relearn how everything worked: passives, skills, abilities, synergies, etc. Bonus points if character classes had been redesigned at some point and all your spent skill points on your end-game characters had been refunded, so you don't even have your old builds to help ease you back into the game.
I usually just end up restarting the game.
I used to play a lot of different MMO's, and one of my biggest problems in coming back to an mmo(after extended breaks and playing 2-3 other mmo's) was having to relearn how everything worked: passives, skills, abilities, synergies, etc. Bonus points if character classes had been redesigned at some point and all your spent skill points on your end-game characters had been refunded, so you don't even have your old builds to help ease you back into the game.
If your friend's been needling you about it, now might be a pretty good time to give it a shot. The last season ended recently, and with it came changes to tons of items, champions, and the mastery trees. You can hide your backsliding with a veneer of "NO ONE knows how this works yet". Plus, the seasonal game mode, "Legend of the Poro King" is back, and I personally believe it to be the most casual fun mode available in a MOBA.Hieronymusgoa said:
OT: I'm sure I WOULD have this problem, if I ever went back to anything I ever quit (that wasn't as linear as a Pokemon game). To much stuff keeps coming out, and I don't have the time to finish things while I'm busy trying to keep up with the Joneses so I can (try to) understand what the people around me are talking about. It's a hellish existence, I tell you what.
One nice thing about the "Tales of" series of games (at least the newer ones, I can't speak for anything older than Graces): There's a plot summary available in the ingame menu and you can bring up the current objective by pressing a button while you're playing. Personally I'd like to see it in more games...
OT: Yeah, this happens to me occasionally, particularly when I can't settle on a game to play. Its not too bad if I'm mixing strategy games with RPGs, but if I'm going through multiple RPGs at the same time it takes me a while to get back into the swing of things.
OT: Yeah, this happens to me occasionally, particularly when I can't settle on a game to play. Its not too bad if I'm mixing strategy games with RPGs, but if I'm going through multiple RPGs at the same time it takes me a while to get back into the swing of things.
I'm more likely to forget the controls and gameplay elements and not want to bother to learn again. This was somewhat different in the days of manuals, but if I have to replay a game's early missions for a tutorial, I'm probably not going to bother.
This isn't so much a problem with a general sandbox or FPS, mind.
I FEEL YOUR PAIN, even if not for the same reasons.
This isn't so much a problem with a general sandbox or FPS, mind.
There were two points in the game where the game just...froze on my PS1. Every damn time. So I played up to Cosmo Canyon a lot. Only got past it once I had friends with a PS that I could use.altnameJag said:
I FEEL YOUR PAIN, even if not for the same reasons.