theSavant
Self-Ejected
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As the title say, I'd like to hear some anecdotes, where you suddenly got the urge to replay a certain game, but then stopped right after installing or briefly playing it. Why did you want to replay it, and why did you drop your decision? I'll make a start:
Lands of Lore 1: I wondered if it's possible to specialize so much in your skills, that you can 1-hit-kill opponents? This means: for magicians only use magic (and no melee attack), for fighters only use non-magical weapons (and no spells). The difficult thing is, that some weapons are skilling both Strength & Magic, so you'd need to avoid them. What put me off here was, that I've read some content was cut off from the game (e.g. Dawn as companion in late game). Instead you only have shitty Paulson. Another thing was this: you could trick the game into keeping Lora (and therefore specialize her accordingly), but it will crash the game, once you meet Paulson. Interest lost before installing the game.
Lands of Lore 2: Kind of liked this game, don't know why. My purpose was to achieve this bug again, where you could kill Baccata in the first jungle (without him being able to disappear) and he drops his Snake-Staff - a very powerful weapon, you otherwise only get in the endgame. I believe you can produce this bug only then when you kill the Huline king by sword (and not by explosion) and then meet an angry Baccata somewhere in the jungle reading out a sheet of paper claiming how he will arrest you. I never continued the game where I succeeded in that, becaus I felt guilty... but no this time. But then I thought about the giant dracoid cave, the dracoid cemetary, and most of it all the annoying backtracking, the back and forth, back and forth just to charge magic balls to open cemetary buildings, eventually resulting in that I didn't even install the game.
Dragon Age Origins: Thought about a badass walkthrough... what happens if you play in a really evil way? then remembered the boring beginning, the overly long stretched deep roads, the stupid riddle with the foot plates, meeting your clones as opponents, the pseudo decision making... naw thanks... the internet says you cannot skip any of this shit, no matter how evil you play. Also I've read, that you'll lose Wynne (which I had chosen as a Healer for the killing spree), when you destroy some Holy Ashes, so another dealbreaker. I only played until Ostagar, but uninstalled the game after reading the boring facts of matter.
Wing Commander V: It's been a while since my last space shooter. The ongoing talk about Star Citizen wanted me once again to jump into a spaceship. However then I recalled the milkface protagonist, the gameplay being just a stressful 360° shooter, with enemies just attacking you, instead of the NPC wingmen, the stupid AI partners getting one-hit-killed etc ...and eventually didn't install the game.
Now feel free to add any of your experiences
Lands of Lore 1: I wondered if it's possible to specialize so much in your skills, that you can 1-hit-kill opponents? This means: for magicians only use magic (and no melee attack), for fighters only use non-magical weapons (and no spells). The difficult thing is, that some weapons are skilling both Strength & Magic, so you'd need to avoid them. What put me off here was, that I've read some content was cut off from the game (e.g. Dawn as companion in late game). Instead you only have shitty Paulson. Another thing was this: you could trick the game into keeping Lora (and therefore specialize her accordingly), but it will crash the game, once you meet Paulson. Interest lost before installing the game.
Lands of Lore 2: Kind of liked this game, don't know why. My purpose was to achieve this bug again, where you could kill Baccata in the first jungle (without him being able to disappear) and he drops his Snake-Staff - a very powerful weapon, you otherwise only get in the endgame. I believe you can produce this bug only then when you kill the Huline king by sword (and not by explosion) and then meet an angry Baccata somewhere in the jungle reading out a sheet of paper claiming how he will arrest you. I never continued the game where I succeeded in that, becaus I felt guilty... but no this time. But then I thought about the giant dracoid cave, the dracoid cemetary, and most of it all the annoying backtracking, the back and forth, back and forth just to charge magic balls to open cemetary buildings, eventually resulting in that I didn't even install the game.
Dragon Age Origins: Thought about a badass walkthrough... what happens if you play in a really evil way? then remembered the boring beginning, the overly long stretched deep roads, the stupid riddle with the foot plates, meeting your clones as opponents, the pseudo decision making... naw thanks... the internet says you cannot skip any of this shit, no matter how evil you play. Also I've read, that you'll lose Wynne (which I had chosen as a Healer for the killing spree), when you destroy some Holy Ashes, so another dealbreaker. I only played until Ostagar, but uninstalled the game after reading the boring facts of matter.
Wing Commander V: It's been a while since my last space shooter. The ongoing talk about Star Citizen wanted me once again to jump into a spaceship. However then I recalled the milkface protagonist, the gameplay being just a stressful 360° shooter, with enemies just attacking you, instead of the NPC wingmen, the stupid AI partners getting one-hit-killed etc ...and eventually didn't install the game.
Now feel free to add any of your experiences
run of DX: Human Relations, turned out it was actually not very fun when played as a straight cover shooter. The original DX was enjoyable in FPS mode, though.
