Disco Elysium shouldn’t be bought because the devs won’t get a cent from the sale, pirate it, that’s what they want you to do.

Don’t buy Disco Elysium. Pirate it.

The original devs got screwed over by the publisher ZA/UM. The devs actively encourage people to pirate the game so the scumbag publisher won’t get to profit off what they created.

It’s a great game and the OG devs want you to play it for free by pirating :>

Can’t recommended DE enough, and for that price it’s a must buy.

Thanks for the recommendation! It’s not necessarily something that would jump out at me, but it seems people really like it.

Love that game

You’re an inspiration to us all. Well done, sir!

I on the other hand may have crossed the threshold where I have more games than time to live. I’d better get a move on.

I bought Horizon Zero Dawn when it was 50% off. For me it was really worth it. Got every achievement for it. I plan to do the same when Horizon Forbidden West is 50% off.

It’s definitely a great game, when it reaches the right price point for you

I too have a backlog, but it’s fairly small. I tend to play genres of games by spells, so I often have a few of each type in my queue for the day I’m interested in that kind. While I don’t force myself to finish a game I don’t like, I do try to keep the number of unplayed games low!

I often find myself looking at some of the PlayStation games, but I often find myself disappointed once I start playing them. The main series of the former exclusives that I like is Uncharted, but many of the others I’ve just lost interest in after a few hours. That being said, Uncharted games are very short, so maybe I just don’t like most long games anymore! Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy were both a lot of fun though.

I know the feeling of getting sidetracked by old favorites! I run into that with Morrowind as well as Stardew Valley, The Sims, Farming Simulator and a few others!

I’m keeping an eye on it as well, but I’m waiting for a major price drop/bigger sale. Divinity Original Sin 2 didn’t really click with me, and BG3 reminds me of it a little too much. Fantasy isn’t really my favorite setting, so it may just not be the game for me.

I am waiting half for this reason and half because I’m busy! I won’t get around to playing it anytime soon, so why buy it at this price now when it’ll probably be for sale cheaper in a few years, which is when I predict I will have time to play?

If you can’t afford it you can’t afford it. My two cents though is I would have paid double the cost to play BG3.

Infant I did, I bought it for myself had such a great time I bought it for my wife too

Witcher 3 was great even though the pacing almost lost me. I’m the kind of player who plays one main story mission and then has to complete all available side quests, before continuing the main quest. It’s the reason the only Bethesda Game I have ever finished is Oblivion.

That’s why I recommend people to stick with it and finish some main quests if you ever feel like the game loses yo.

The Witcher 3 is pretty good. I normally don’t like a lot of fantasy games, but the Witcher and Elder Scrolls games are two that I like for some reason! I finished the whole game and both dlcs once. I started a second playthrough, but that is mostly running around and playing gwent! 😂

Both Euro and American Truck Simulator are really good games. I like to just put on a podcast or some music and drive for a while. If you find you like it, the dlc states are worth the price in my opinion. Especially since they go on sale pretty often!

Oh man. Once you get some of the higher level fighting moves that games can just be a ballet of rend and slice.

Be careful, I have a or lot of those I haven’t played yet. Add up enough of those and you could’ve gotten a game you actually will play.

It sounds like you’ve got a plan! Once I get all the bills paid for this month I’m planning to get my partner a Steam Deck as well, so both of us are looking at games. They’re a Harry Potter fan, so Hogwarts Legacy is one that came up on the list.

Dying Light’s gameplay is pretty good, but I like immediately got a mod to fix the idiotic weapon break system. It’s the extremely tiresome “Your hammer breaks after hitting 20 zombies” system plus “you leveled up! now you can use a better hammer with bigger numbers!”. Easy enough to mod to taste.

The story, however, is kind of bad. You don’t really get any choices, which is fine, but what happens is not satisfying. The DLC is also fun, but the story ending is trash. I just uninstalled it after instead of doing any of the extra bits.

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Hades, on the other hand, is very good. No complaints.

Bloodstained is $3 on cdkeys. I Kickstarted it and got the Switch cart when the PS Vita port was cancelled. For that price, it was a no-brainer getting it for PC now, too!

I loved Shadow of Mordor. Shadow of War didn’t really feel like a good continuation of it.

Is that the one where you start with a stealth mission that never appears again in the game? It acts as a mandatory tutorial and makes the whole thing unreplayable because of its heavy handed enforcement? If I’m right, this game is a really good minor evolution of the original for exactly one play through. However I wanted to enjoy it a second time a few times but never got through the intro. Hmm exactly how I’d describe metal gear solid 5. I’ve got great memories just can’t revisit it.

Is this the one with the weird multiplayer stuff where you fight other people’s orcs, and sometimes they’re suspiciously like level 100 and super annoying to kill? And it has stupid sexy shelob?

I never finished it because of those things, but otherwise the core gameplay was alright.

Hey me too! Put around three hours in so far and am absolutely loving it!

First game I’ve 100% in a long time. I absolutely loved this game.

Love the game so much. It is such a fun concept for a game and they executed so well. I’m still in the first phases of the game and unlocking new content and I’m hooked.

Those are rookie numbers! I don’t want to think about how much money I have wasted. Stay strong.

Yeah, you don’t want to stack up too many! I’ve got some in my queue until I feel like playing them, but I’ve started moving more toward just buying a game when I want to play it rather than stacking a bunch up during sales.

I play it with my spouse. Really helps with the long distance times.

I originally played the iOS version.

I then bought it again on Steam and have 200 hours logged, which is probably only going to grow. All of these hours happened during the adult phase of my life in which I usually have to be mildly peer-pressured into gaming instead of actually taking the initiative to do something I like (though I am trying to fix that). However, I do think that the way it breaks the game up, into days, gives a nice stopping point.

If only I could stop thinking “one more day, I still need to turn in that quest/plant that new crop in the exact place I want it/get that one last fish I need for the community center before I forget”.

I don’t play Stardew Valley that often or that much, but what I do play is delightful. It’s a pretty versatile game.

My partner and I both have hundreds of hours in it, so that could be possible! Try not to have super high expectations for it before you start though, I wouldn’t want you to miss out on a fun game because fans hyped it beyond what it is.

That being said, both of us are pretty big fans of the game. We drove quite a distance to go to one of the Stardew Valley concerts, and it was really great. I’m not someone that likes crowds, but all the fans there were very friendly and it made for a great time.

Enjoy your new computer! There’s some good games that came out in that time period, so you’ll have plenty to enjoy. You’ll probably get some really good prices on some of them too!

Good luck! I have run into the same thing before, although not quite that many!