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[Dream-Knife]

Recently I reinstalled MW2019 after having been playing Insurgency Sandstorm for the past few months and realized that I no longer like CODs style of game play. This made me wonder if anyone else has had experiences where certain games in certain genres have made them stop playing other games. I don't mean iterative games, ie. Smash 64 vs Melee, or Soul Calibur 2 vs 6, but games from different franchises.

 

[mansoor1980]

have to say diablo2 back in the day

 

[Sejan]

BotW made me drop Horizon hard. When I tried to go back to horizon after playing BotW, it just felt outdated and stale. It was months before I could bring myself to finish it.

 

[Dream-Knife]

BotW made me drop Horizon hard. When I tried to go back to horizon after playing BotW, it just felt outdated and stale. It was months before I could bring myself to finish it.

Thats really interesting. I played HZD a year after BOTW and enjoyed it, but the world felt bad. The story kept me going and I enjoyed the fort raids.

That being said, GOT is a reskin of the same game and by that point I was tired of it.

 

[Corgi1985]

games after bloodborne are boring

 

[IDKFA]

Medieval 2: Total War.

That game had me in its iron grip for years. I actually still play it to this day.

The recent remaster of the original Rome:TW had me hopeful they'll also remake Med2, or even better, release a Medieval 3!

 

[tommib]

Demon’s Souls back in 2009. I couldn’t for the life of me engage with any other games. Everything felt so bland, uncomplicated, generic… It lasted until Bayonetta came out.

Returnal is doing the same at the moment. Can’t play anything else even if I suck at the game and can’t pass world 3.

 

[Handel]

After beating Ico other games felt so shallow in comparison. Was able to play other games again just fine after a week or so but that's the longest stretch I've had.

 

[Malio]

Everquest, Fallout 3, Dark Souls, Demons Souls, Grimrock 2, MHW: They all made me stop playing other games for long periods of time.

 

[Halo0629]

I remember dropping everything to play botw on my brand new switch. I would only play other games when I'm charging my switch since I don't like playing with my switch docked.

 

[Moonjt9]

Dark souls made playing other games a chore that gets in the way of thinking about dark souls.

 

[Marcus Aurelius]

Metal gear solid

 

[sublimit]

Tried playing my rented Skyrim copy after i had played Dragon's Dogma. I returned it to the shop the same day.

 

[Kumomeme]

Dragon's Dogma. it made me harder to play with other open world rpg, particular those with unresponsive combat, janky animation, clunky control.

once you get used to it, it set the bar of character control and combat. some people experienced similliar stuff with souls game.

 

[Alvin]

F.E.A.R. because of it's AI. There a few games that make enemy AI be aware of their surrounding and respond to the player like that.

 

[burst]

counter-strike 1.6 for 10 years

 

[MrMephistoX]

Been pacing myself on the Yakuza series so I don’t get burned out playing back to back but I just finished Kiwami 2 and really couldn’t put it down once I started.

 

[WakeTheWolf]

Been pacing myself on the Yakuza series so I don’t get burned out playing back to back but I just finished Kiwami 2 and really couldn’t put it down once I started.

This for me too. Yakuza 0 is a masterpiece

 

[Alvin]

Ocarina Of Time and Majora's mask. Love the art direction from Grezzo and game mechanics. I love how the world is fully accessable yet unlocked one at a time.

Shadow Of The Colosus. The player can dynamically climb and hold themselves onto huge monsters.

Need For Speed Most Wanted. It's the atmosphere of the environment that pulls me in and going through the blacklist that feels very rewarding.

Ghost Of Tsushima. Combat like that, with different stances, dodging and parrying the attacks is very satisfying.

 

[bender]

World of Warcraft

 

[ZywyPL]

CoD4 - it was just too good with its custom class system, to this day I cannot play any arena-type shooter where you have to run around the map to search for weapons.

 

[rofif]

Dark souls ruined me. I swear I played way more other games before souls

 

[Spaceman292]

Dragon's Dogma. it made me harder to play with other open world rpg, particular those with unresponsive combat, janky animation, clunky control.

once you get used to it, it set the bar of character control and combat. some people experienced similliar stuff with souls game.

After Dragons Dogma, bow and arrow stuff in every other game is just disappointing.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

BotW made me drop Horizon hard. When I tried to go back to horizon after playing BotW, it just felt outdated and stale. It was months before I could bring myself to finish it.

Pretty much. I didn't have a PS4 when it released so got Horizon on PC during Christmas. Played for about 40mins and was just like 'Why am I playing this?' BoTW really has changed up how these types of open world games should be done.

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

The first game that made me not play anything else for months was Civilization (Amiga).

 

[Venom Snake]

Monster Hunter.

 

[killatopak]

RE4 consumed me.

Stardew Valley as well.

I bought a Switch for portable Stardew Valley and to this day, I'm still playing it.

 

[user1337]

For a lot of us it will probably end up being some MMORPG or multiplayer FPS. For me there were predominantly 4 phases:

1- Younger me (School) got hooked on Unreal Tournament and UT2004, tried to play other games but they all felt slow. I needed quick games that I could start and finish while being able to do my studies.

2- Slightly older me (undergrad) then got hooked on FF14 online, played that for a few years and nothing else. Had a lot more time after lectures to invest into this hobby and a MMO just helped scratch that itch.

3- An even older me (postgrad) then got hooked onto Neverwinter and basically predominantly just played that. As before I had time after my lab work to spend gaming in the evenings and weekends, so continued with the MMO genre.

4- The even even older me (work/family life) is now a mixed bag and am no longer predominantly playing just one game. I do however require the games to be entertaining very quickly. If a game doesn't hook me within the first couple of hour or so, I basically stop playing and delete it. I do have my "staple" of 3 games that I always fall back on (Apex legends, Rocket leagues, Destiny 2) when not playing the latest and greatest releases (Demons Souls, Control, and soon R&C) .

 

[SegaManAU]

Gears 3 multiplayer.

 

[skakmk]

I was playing Borderlands 2 and CoD for weeks together when God of War dropped.

 

[Arun1910]

RDR2 has killed open world games for me. The amount of stuff you can do in this game, the random events, how alive everything feels, organic... it’s such a step up above other open worlds.

 

[Aurelius]

Civ6 on Switch.

 

[TheKratos]

Monster Hunter. I always go back to Rise even aftrr buying new games lol.

 

[sublimit]

Dragon's Dogma. it made me harder to play with other open world rpg, particular those with unresponsive combat, janky animation, clunky control.

once you get used to it, it set the bar of character control and combat. some people experienced similliar stuff with souls game.

My biggest fear is than not even Dragon's Dogma 2 will have the combat depth that the original had.

 

[hlm666]

Everquest

Train to zone, god that game had massive highs and lows. I'm not sure if the game was good but i'm pretty sure I had some addiction problem to it.

 

[RJMacready73]

Witcher3 (first time playing) has me stopped playing anything else, haven't been this into a game since TLOU2 where I'm actively shooing the wife upstairs to bed early so I can continue Geralts adventures

 

[SirTerry-T]

Must say after finally being bitten by the Monster Hunter (Rise) bug, it takes an inhuman amount of effort for me to even consider playing anything else at the moment on my Switch.
Once that game digs it's claws into you, the gameplay loop is like a crack addiction.

 

[22:22:22]

Hmm.. I tend to juggle several games at the same time. Always has been that way. Fluctuating moods calls for fluctuating experiences ie different games. But in regards to games that got their claw into me which made me play those more or less exclusively for that time being it would have to be...

Halo CE/2
GT Sport
BotW
MGS 3/5
Death Stranding
Dark Souls 3
Bloodborne
F-Zero GX

Among others I suppose...

 

[Rolla]

Returnal

 

[reinking]

Mostly MMOs. EQ and then WoW. I saved money during the years I played them because I didn't bother buying other games.

 

[sainraja]

I can only think of two games (or three if I can count a sequel of one of the games) that had that kind of effect on me.

• WarCraft 2 & 3
• Zelda: Breath of the Wild

 

[nightmare-slain]

Witcher 3, Bloodborne, Persona 5, Breath of the Wild.

each one of those made me stop playing other games because the bar was raised too high. 2015-2017 really shaked things up.

 

[kyussman]

Playing and enjoying games with a strong narrative focus has made me pretty uninterested in pure gameplay focussed ones these days.

 

[OrionNebula]

Recently : Persona 5 Royal

 

[Mister Wolf]

Dropped everything when Xenoblade 2 released. So good I beat it twice.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

Interesting topic. I tend to play one game until it is finished regardless, but good multiplayer games will suck me in for months, sometimes years. When I started playing Halo almost everything else stopped. Then the same thing happened with world of warcraft. I love interacting with other players, which can keep a game fresh for as long as devs support it. Those two games are just so good.

 

[sainraja]

I can only think of two games (or three if I can count a sequel of one of the games) that had that kind of effect on me.

• WarCraft 2 & 3
• Zelda: Breath of the Wild

To explain a little more, with Warcraft I pretty much stopped playing console games for the time. With Breath of the Wild, it was hard to get back into other games, even Destiny 2 (now I am back into the Destiny 2 verse.)

 

[ValiantTraveler]

Shadow of the Colossus. I had a ton of PS2 games to play and was short on time (I borrowed the console and its games) but forgot about everything else once I started Shadow of the Colossus. I didn't even start Zone of the Enders 2.

 

[IKSTUGA]

I played Melee and PSO almost exclusively for several years during the Game Cube era. Absolute GOATs.

 

[Kuranghi]

Shadow of the Colossus. I had a ton of PS2 games to play and was short on time (I borrowed the console and its games) but forgot about everything else once I started Shadow of the Colossus. I didn't even start Zone of the Enders 2.

I was going to say something more recent but THIS. Me and a bunch of friends literally stayed up more than 24 hours, smoking and completing it on both difficulties + doing all the time trials, with breaks to watch Season 1 of Arrested Development. Such a fun days!

We even went a bit mad at one point near the end and starting trying to sync up other music (Including the main theme from the Live and Let Die OST lol) with the colossus time trial battles, because we got bored with the constantly repeating intro to the in-game music