Games/Game communities you want to get into, but haven't yet - For whatever reason, why, etc

[Guts Gets Some]

Got any games you've had on your mind or been wanting to get into for awhile, yet haven't? Why's that?


I have a couple.

-The longest one is Star Trek Online. When I heard this was a free Trek game with tons of content, that you could even play for free on PS4 without a Plus membership, I was very interested.
Thing is, I have no idea how these MMO games work and I found it very weird to play, and almost overly complicated. Worst of all, I think these games are meant to be enjoyed with either friends or random strangers, but I never encountered anyone. I was very lost.
And I actually started the game as a Klingon with my real life friend in the room, and even he didn't really get it. Didn't play it since.

When I used to be a member of a Trek forum a long time ago, I also remember posting in the Online topic, asking if anyone could help me or if they wanted to play. And of course, this awful community just ignored me and continued to go back to sucking off STD. So that was a bust.

The interest is still there. Hopefully I'll find a friend with PS4 capabilities also into Trek sometime to play with.


-Second choice is pretty surprising, but from what I've heard of now regarding No Man's Sky (the game that was a laughing stock at launch, remember?), it's actually a very good and amazing sci-fi game after several huge updates. I'm very curious to see for myself.
But like Trek Online, I think a lot of its fun also requires other people, and probably even a Plus account on PSN. I literally only have one friend on PSN who even signs on more than once per year, and he's too busy and playing his own games for indulge into sci-fi with me. So yeah, I'm way more in the dark about this one, but I'm pretty interested as well.


Share yours!

 

[epigenes]

warhammer 40k, because of the massive money and time investment.
the lore is some of the best popular grimdark sci-fi but the barrier to entry (which is a good thing for that community to have) is very high and I don't have the time to paint all those models

 

[Francesco Dellamorte]

Good ol' dorf fort. Been wanting to get into the legacy games that forums occasionally host, but I'm terrified of ruining the save file and wasting peoples' time. I've also forgotten all the key bindings by now.

 

[Harvey Danger]

Warframe. It looks cool as hell and a fair enough business model, but I always tell myself I don't have the time to commit to grinding up another account on another live service game.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

I always wanted to get into a Battle Royal like Warzone or Fortnite, but between feeling left behind due to getting into them late, and an inherent lack of patience with competition e experiences, it never lasts long.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

I really like the story and characters of Mortal Kombat but between how insane the gore has become (too much for me) and how stiff the games still feel, I just can't. Not even some anal fighting game fan either, I just can't get into a flow like I do with KoF or GG.

Still, fun story modes to watch on yt.

 

[Tour of Italy]

Warframe. It looks cool as hell and a fair enough business model, but I always tell myself I don't have the time to commit to grinding up another account on another live service game.

I had a blast with Warframe, but part of the fun was having 2-3 friends who went through it with me at roughly the same power level.

It’s also the only free to play game whose story actually solicited a genuine emotional reaction from me.

The lower level content holds up well and is fairly well populated; they designed it so that older stuff doesn’t get abandoned wholesale as new updates are pushed. At least that’s how it was when I last played about a year and a half ago.

Long story short, you can jump in just to try it and start having fun without feeling like you have to waste your life to get to the good stuff. The base gameplay is satisfying enough in its own right. You get to parkour around as a space ninja. I’ve never played another game quite like it.

The main con is the fact that it can get a little esoteric to figure out what the best direction to progress is. It’s definitely the kind of game where you need the wiki open in the background. Community is great though.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

The actual Warhammer 40K tabletop game looks really fun, but I'm terrible at strategy and mainly read the books and lore anyways.
Also the Dwarf Fortress and SS13 types of games, i.e really deep autism, are games not even my galaxybrain can handle in a way that makes them fun.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Warhammer. I love grimdark stuff and enjoy strategy games. Don't know if I want to get into such a money sink, though. Don't know anyone who would play it with me.

Would love to get back into Yu-Gi-Oh. Probably too expensive now. Better off using that money to buy anything else.

Really want to get back into Path of Exile after a few month break. POE is like heroin for me, though.

 

[crocodilian]

I think I've enjoyed a grand total of five video games since 2007, despite trying all the new releases.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Some communities I kinda want to get into but I don't because

1. Compared to everyone else, I'm shit in the games the community is involved with
2. The activity in the community is low... like "regurgitate the same talking points and huff each other's farts" low.
3. The communities have strict rules about how you MUST play the game and if you don't follow these rules, then nobody wants you around (A.K.A. Elitists).

I used to be a BIG part of the DDR/StepMania community in the majority of my 20's, joining any forum that existed dedicated to it. For the most part it was great, wound up making a few online friends. Once ITG came onto the scene it divided the community up to the point where it went from "making fun stepcharts with your favorite songs" to "Let's see how many arrows we can fill on the screen for those ultra 1337 pad players using the most common popular songs". Eventually I left the community cause i needed a break and then some years later came back and it was pretty much a hollow husk of what it used to be. The people that have stuck around masturbate to the newer DDR games (which even those are an empty husk with "normie shit" tier song lists) and give you the stink eye if you don't like the same things they do or even if you called someone autistic. The last thing I did to take part of the community before I left was add a bunch of info on their dedicated Bemani Wiki site.

Speaking of Wikis, the SRK Wiki has a TON of empty information, and I figured I'd fill the missing ones out on the games no one really gives a shit. And that's when i learned that you need to fill out your life story and submit a resume. Fuck that noise.

People in the Puyo Puyo community are fucking ANAL about using "proper/correct" chains and according to them, you're not playing correctly if you decide to go rouge and do your own thing.

There's so much that I can talk about Pokemon to where it get's boring after 10 minutes, not to mention I gave up playing "newer" titles once US/UM became irrelevant, so that's out. Same thing with Sonic.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

There's so much that I can talk about Pokemon to where it get's boring after 10 minutes, not to mention I gave up playing "newer" titles once US/UM became irrelevant, so that's out. Same thing with Sonic.

I'm surprised you stuck around that long. I was done after Y.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I'm surprised you stuck around that long. I was done after Y.

I don't blame you. X/Y's story is literally the only pokemon game where I blank out on the actual story. Like even Diamond/Pearl/Platinum was more memorable and that's my least favorite 2D Pokemon game. The online battles were the only thing i gave a shit about, but even then seeing the same pokemon get used over and over by different opponents was just so tiring, especially once SM/USUM came and the Tapu's became the newest crack-cocaine.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

I don't blame you. X/Y's story is literally the only pokemon game where I blank out on the actual story. Like even Diamond/Pearl/Platinum was more memorable and that's my least favorite 2D Pokemon game. The online battles were the only thing i gave a shit about, but even then seeing the same pokemon get used over and over by different opponents was just so tiring, especially once SM/USUM came and the Tapu's became the newest crack-cocaine.

Oh, I actually had the most fun with Y. But I never played Pokemon for the story anyway. The later games just got progressively more lazy and greedy and just weren't fun. S/M was the last straw for me.

 

[Pop-Tart]

RTS is a near dead genre, everyone who has been playing say AoE 2 has pretty much been doing it since the 90s. They will curb stomp your face in as a newbie. Same concept for Quake Live. Good luck getting into that as a newfag.

 

[Spamy the Bot]

Talking about games online. I simply don't feel that I am qualified, good or hip enough to do it.
Not to mention I really don't belong to subcultures that seems pretty mandatory online nowadays.
It's a pity.

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

DnD, I’m way too autistic to understand the rules and way too shy to find a team to play with. I had more experience with WoD but I feel uncomfortable playing it after a session with creepy GM who offered extra points in exchange for nudes, lol.

And I’m a fond of OSU/rhythm games but I play offline. Thinking about starting to play competitively but my skill suck ass.

 

[Freedom Fighter]

I always wanted to get into a Battle Royal like Warzone or Fortnite, but between feeling left behind due to getting into them late, and an inherent lack of patience with competition e experiences, it never lasts long.

Warzone I don't really find fun, but Plunder is fun as fuck to just screw with people and take their money without having to fight in gulag, find enough money for a loadout drop, then worry about losing it again.

 

[HarveyMCR]

I always wanted to get into a Battle Royal like Warzone or Fortnite, but between feeling left behind due to getting into them late, and an inherent lack of patience with competition e experiences, it never lasts long.

Find a couple friends who already play and hop on with them. I only started playing Warzone a couple weeks ago, but I got pretty decent really Fast because I learned the meta from them, got pointers, and had them tell me about niches noobs wouldn’t know about

 

[Pissmaster]

Some communities I kinda want to get into but I don't because

1. Compared to everyone else, I'm shit in the games the community is involved with
2. The activity in the community is low... like "regurgitate the same talking points and huff each other's farts" low.
3. The communities have strict rules about how you MUST play the game and if you don't follow these rules, then nobody wants you around (A.K.A. Elitists).

I used to be a BIG part of the DDR/StepMania community in the majority of my 20's, joining any forum that existed dedicated to it. For the most part it was great, wound up making a few online friends. Once ITG came onto the scene it divided the community up to the point where it went from "making fun stepcharts with your favorite songs" to "Let's see how many arrows we can fill on the screen for those ultra 1337 pad players using the most common popular songs". Eventually I left the community cause i needed a break and then some years later came back and it was pretty much a hollow husk of what it used to be. The people that have stuck around masturbate to the newer DDR games (which even those are an empty husk with "normie shit" tier song lists) and give you the stink eye if you don't like the same things they do or even if you called someone autistic. The last thing I did to take part of the community before I left was add a bunch of info on their dedicated Bemani Wiki site.

The Bemani community was always very autistic, full of teenagers with egos the size of the sun because they could get perfect scores on Sobakasu Freckles. But man, once In the Groove hit, the screeching never stopped. Criticizing every tiny little facet of the game, screaming at people posting scores because they didn't count because muh timing windows, just about any turbo-autistic thing you can think of. But they played it anyway, because so many people there were the kind of idiots who'd play a game for a thousand hours and write a novel about how much it sucks in a Steam review. They even had some serious Kyle Ward Derangement Syndrome, since he was the face of the game, and I think they still trash him to this day. (Kyle's a really nice guy, a chad among an endless sea of virgins)

Hell, you called them "stepcharts", and I've had retards sperg at me for calling them that instead of "simfiles", like it fucking matters. They probably have aneurysms when newcomers call them "beatmaps" today. I also remember having some guy snap at me when I thought Sakura on Oni difficulty, in DDR Extreme, was an 8-footer, when it was really a 9. That's the level of autist we're dealing with.

Hell, just look at some of the shit in that Bemani wiki you mentioned. Cutie Chaser Morning Mix is a completely unremarkable song that's fairly easy and nobody really ever discusses, so here's its trivia section:

Trivia
This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.

• CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX) is the only brand-new KONAMI original song in おはスタ DanceDanceRevolution.
• CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX) received brand-new Single HEAVY and Double STANDARD and HEAVY charts in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME. These charts were later used when the song appeared on DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX- CS.
  • It also received a brand-new BEGINNER chart in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME.
• Before DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME (and DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX- CS), CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX)'s title was CUTIE CHASER MORNING MIX.
• CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX)'s background was slightly modified in DDRMAX -Dance Dance Revolution-, removing the pistol from the dog character's hand, to keep the game's ESRB rating of E.
  • Curiously, the censored version of CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX)'s background was used in arcade releases starting with DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME, even in the Japanese releases.
• CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX) received an altered banner in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA, which featured a different artist font, the song title being moved to the left, and the dog from the background moved to the right side of the banner.
• CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX) didn't appear on any DanceDanceRevolution game soundtrack until the release of the DanceDanceRevolution Party Collection ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKalbum, over three years after its debut.
  • It also appeared on the V-RARE SOUND TRACK CD over a year and a half earlier.
• CUTIE CHASER and CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX) both use 3/4 time signature-specific charts, opposed to all other charts with 4/4. This can easily be seen in TRAINING or EDIT modes.
• Unused data of CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX) can be found in DanceDanceRevolution Disney Channel EDITION.

Before DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME (and DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX- CS), CUTIE CHASER (MORNING MIX)'s title was CUTIE CHASER MORNING MIX.

Apparently it's noteworthy that they added some parenthesis to the subtitle. Absolutely fascinating AAA work, lads.

There's also sort of an unspoken assumption that everyone can just kind of read Japanese, as the use of it intermixed in the wiki and posts, so that they can have the ever-important perfectly accurate titles of things. So that's very annoying.

I could go on and on, but I haven't been a part of any kind of music game community for ages, because holy shit are they toxic all-around. I've been yelled at enough by humorless egotistical crackheads who spend every single cent they earn at Round 1.