Sigourn
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One thing I noticed months ago was that my favorite RPGs all shared one thing in common: I usually played them for a very short while before uninstalling them. Yet, when I reinstalled them, I loved them.
In order:
- Fallout: New Vegas: I had started with Fallout 3, and I remember being disappointed at the whole desert setting, thinking it was very boring. So I uninstalled at Goodsprings. The rest is history: best RPG ever made.
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: I had started with Skyrim, so after taking in the awful graphics outside of the boat in Seyda Neen, yep, uninstall.exe it is. Eventually I installed the MGSO, was shit too, but after I installed the Morrowind Watercolored mod and MGE XE to disguise the blurry textures and the bad draw distance, I really got into the game too.
- Planescape: Torment: I didn't make it past the Mortuary on my first go. I was using the high resolution mod, but everything was too damn tiny. On my second, proper, run I decided to play in windowed mode but with the pixels scaled x2. It looked ugly, but at least it didn't hurt my eyes. And that's how I finished the game and appreciated it.
- Gothic: the controls, enough said. But I knew the game was something special, so after reinstalling I decided to put up with them and after a while I didn't notice them anymore.
Those are but a few. King's Field and Dark Souls (IMO the best game ever made for many reasons) are a few examples, and I won't mention Fallout because it isn't exactly a "favorite" game (just a game I wanted to experience and beat). But I find it curious that of all RPGs I've played, the ones I had the hardest time getting to enjoy eventually becamse my all time favorites, as opposed to Skyrim and Fallout 3.
In order:
- Fallout: New Vegas: I had started with Fallout 3, and I remember being disappointed at the whole desert setting, thinking it was very boring. So I uninstalled at Goodsprings. The rest is history: best RPG ever made.
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: I had started with Skyrim, so after taking in the awful graphics outside of the boat in Seyda Neen, yep, uninstall.exe it is. Eventually I installed the MGSO, was shit too, but after I installed the Morrowind Watercolored mod and MGE XE to disguise the blurry textures and the bad draw distance, I really got into the game too.
- Planescape: Torment: I didn't make it past the Mortuary on my first go. I was using the high resolution mod, but everything was too damn tiny. On my second, proper, run I decided to play in windowed mode but with the pixels scaled x2. It looked ugly, but at least it didn't hurt my eyes. And that's how I finished the game and appreciated it.
- Gothic: the controls, enough said. But I knew the game was something special, so after reinstalling I decided to put up with them and after a while I didn't notice them anymore.
Those are but a few. King's Field and Dark Souls (IMO the best game ever made for many reasons) are a few examples, and I won't mention Fallout because it isn't exactly a "favorite" game (just a game I wanted to experience and beat). But I find it curious that of all RPGs I've played, the ones I had the hardest time getting to enjoy eventually becamse my all time favorites, as opposed to Skyrim and Fallout 3.