Patient Gamers

11444 readers

212 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 1 year ago

MODERATORS

cod@lemmy.world

briongloid@aussie.zone

BurntWits@sh.itjust.works

178

What is an unpopular game/series you enjoy anyway? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

136 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Mine is the Army Men series. Objectively mediocre games at best but the concept of toy soldiers fighting over our yards and rooms has always been cool to me

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

[–] Kinglink@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dynasty Warriors, They are my "Dumb fun" game. I usually just turn off my brain and "grind" even though I usually call out every game for grinding or unnecessary combat.

But something about that series makes me pick up every one and waste tens of hours just killing the same-ish soldiers over and over.

[–] kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Lu Bu has entered the battlefield!

[–] Lakija@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same here. And if they come out with another one I’ll grab it. Although I didn’t play 9 because of bad reviews.

But I did recently replay DW8 Empires yet again. Love it!

I picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms to read finally.

[–] Kinglink@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I recently started 9... and it's... Yeah It deserved most of the somewhat negative reviews, but it's still a DW game. I honestly think they should have called it something like Empires. As an open world game it's interesting and unique but it is a little too open for "DW". IT feels like a half step in the wrong direction but if they continued on and made "Dynasty Warriors 10 World" with that system and improved it, it could be something pretty unique. Just not as the main line series.

If you haven't read Romance of the Three Kingdoms you're in for a treat, I really enjoyed those books quite a bit, especially after being such a fan of the series. Getting more of the back story is great, and the characters are way more interesting.

[–] GenericUsername34@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As someone who invested an embarrassing amount of time into each mainline game since 3, 9 was awful. I think there may have been a decent (musou) game under there, but even several years and patches later it's rough. The battlefields are empty. The traversal is buggy. The upgrade system is grindy in the least fun way. I don't want to mine metal in a DW game...

The best musou games in the last 5-10 years have been spinoffs like Hyrule and Fire Emblem. I don't have much faith in Koei Tecmo releasing a DW game that captures the essence of 3-5 in a modern way.