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FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out.

I've tried playing some JRPGS because they are considered classics and detective games like LA Noire before realizing the genre just wasn't for me.

I've also been stuck in the mentality of if I want to play a game in a series I need to play the prior games. I'm doing this currently for Deus Ex, the Witcher, and Splinter Cell. I guess I'd consider that FOMO to a degree.

Edit: I meant FOMO as in the fear of missing out on something relevant. Not necessarily something that is intentionally being time limited like raids or micro transactions.

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[–] Grrbrr@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Umm. It sounds more like that you are just trying out new things and genres and finding that it's not always a hit with you. That's healthy.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When you put it like that yeah but I was forcing myself through games I wasn't necessarily enjoying.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not really FOMO. FOMO would be like, pre-ordering a special edition of a game you aren't even sure about wanting for $90 because there's a "Preorder-Only" in-game perk and you just have to have, or falling for those "Limited Time Only" microtransactions in FTP games.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I meant it more so in the fear of missing out on something culturally relevant. Whether it's a modern multiplayer game like Destiny 2 or a classic that is frequently referenced like Half Life. Not being able to be part of the conversation when it's brought up

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[–] Dragonmind@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an important moment where you have to ask yourself...

"Is this story so bad I'm not invested in it anymore?"

"Is the gameplay bothering me so much that it feels bad or unfun to me?"

If the answer is yes to both of those, you may feel free to drop the game with full confidence you're not gonna play it again.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago

I get what you are saying but a lot of the time it's just a mediocre experience and I'm not necessarily disliking it. More indifferent than anything. Occasionally a game has made a pretty solid turn around in the last act

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[–] EsteeBestee@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surprisingly, Baldur's Gate 3. I absolutely love D&D, but I tried playing through the Pathfinder video games, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and nothing stuck with me. I just wasn't a fan of the CRPG genre, despite me playing in-person tabletop RPGs multiple times a week.

I bought BG3 thinking I probably wouldn't get hooked, but I didn't want to miss out when literally every one of my friends is playing it. Well, I am absolutely hooked and have 40 hours in the game and will likely do multiple playthroughs, and I kind of "get" the genre now. I know PoE, PF, or DOS2 may not be as good, but I feel a lot more confident at the prospect of playing them now.

So in this case, FOMO helped me a great deal.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Cuphead and I fucking hated it. Lovely art style and retro feel but my god. I play video games to unwind and have fun. What the hell maaaaaaaaaan.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cyberpunk 2077. I was pretty skeptical of it before it came out (didn't really feel like it was doing anything unique), but it was such a big release I picked it up to have an opinion on it.

Don't think I'm gonna do the same for Starfield, though, that's just a pass

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

I think for me it's going to end up depending on the modding community and how linear the game feels.

I played The Outer Worlds due to the hype around Obsidian releasing a game but it just felt kind of flat and lifeless. Maybe it's just because it seems similar in atmosphere but I'm worried Starfield is going to end up feeling the same.

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[–] Newtra@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mass Effect Andromeda. The reviews convinced me I'd hate it, but I couldn't stand the thought of possibly missing some lore after I loved the first 3 so much. Turns out it was actually pretty good.

No Man's Sky. It looked slow and grindy but people kept hyping it up. I caved, and forced myself to play 20 hours trying to find the good bits. I never found them.

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[–] sculd@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elden Ring

The glowing review and how people say its the best time to try a souls game made me buy it.

Not a game for me.

(Just in case people start saying I need to get good. It has nothing to do with the difficulty. I am thoroughly enjoying AC6 now.)

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[–] regalia@literature.cafe 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's not what fomo means. I have a bad case of FOMO right now with Genshin Impact. I genuinely like the game, but it forces me to login twice a day with the resin system (basically energy that accumulates over time), otherwise it caps and I lose progress. Also a lot of their content is in the form of limited time events. They do this for the obvious reason of it being extremely profitable. This is why you should be very cautious about getting into live service games.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp, I was interested in trying GI until reading this.

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[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only live service game I have and likely will ever allow myself to play is Another Eden, ostensibly a mobile gacha but unlike any others in that genre (and yet... not entirely if you know what I mean:-D - it is less predatory than any modern game that allows in-app purchases that I've ever even heard of but that aspect is not entirely absent from it). It hits the JRPG nostalgia feel for being a spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger and Cross, made by some of the same developers actually, and the artwork and music especially are just gorgeous.:-D

And ironically, many people complain bitterly that they want it to be more like GI, with a pity system. Never mind that the gacha can be irrelevant here as you can do everything purely with the free characters (and more effort, especially JP-style i.e. heavy grinding), the FOMO salt is real, and I see now that games are just giving the people what they want, regardless of whether that's good for them or not. On the one hand it keeps further game development going, and people are free to spend how they please, while on the other there are horror stories of people dropping hundreds or even thousands of dollars (I think even USD $ currency), while having little to show for it in the end.

Predatory is predatory, and while on the one hand I'd love to check out GI someday, on the other I just don't think I could stand the gacha elements in it. It warps and twists EVERYTHING it touches, e.g. increasing pressure to make waifu/husbando portraits that objectify both women and men in it, and leads to content that looks visually appealing but in Another Eden at least, has not been tested and is not "fun" to play.

The funny part is that originally I had to choose between GI and AE, and I am so glad that I went the way that I did. Although probably better to avoid any such gacha at all in the future.:-|

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[–] uzay@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Among Us. But it was free and I only needed a couple of rounds to figure out I don't enjoy it much

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subnautica, because lots of people said it was a great game and there were things that could be spoiled, so that indicated a neat story. The beginning was freaking awesome! But I hate crafting survival games, so I didn't play for very long.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

The grind and particularly the inventory management make me never want to play Subnautica games again despite loving the first one. I hope they sort this out for the next game in this style if they do it again. The base needs to have a shared inventory that it pulls from when crafting, and preferably stacks of items are shown instead of individual items.

That said, I don't know if they'll do another survival game again. They made Natural Selection before it (which is awesome and still has a community) and have made Moonbreaker now. They tend to jump around to a ton of different styles of games.

[–] Montagge@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I grabbed Elden Ring on sale for $40 and I wish I hadn't

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Montagge@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not worth $40. It's basically a Bethesda game without the modding community to fix it.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I found ER to be pretty polished on ps5. When i bought it in pc to do the seamless coop with my friends i was shocked by the stuttering that i couldn't get to stop. So I'd say it depends heavily on platform

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yikes. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, most people would not agree with their assessment. To me, it's open world Dark Souls, but better.

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[–] Montagge@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

A lot of people liked it. I'll probably beat it because I bought it, but I'll throw it on the heap of other Fromsoft titles that I find to be lacking. I don't see myself wasting time on NG+ as the first playthrough has been less than satisfying.

[–] totallymojo@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Diablo 4. Played it for 10hrs then I got bored of running 30m, fighting a group of demons, running 30m, fight demons, repeat. Haven't touched it since.

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[–] nosebleed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Minecraft.

Way back in its beta days, a couple of mates couldn't put it down. They couldn't explain why digging holes was fun nor placing cubes. I really didn't get it after a demonstration from them. Eventually had a LAN with a mate that was vaguely curious but also didn't think it was going to be interesting.

We didn't sleep for the next 36hrs, nor notice it was a new day until my family got up and started making breakfast.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only multiplayer games, since a single player game is usually available forever someway or another. Multiplayer games live and die based on popularity. No players = no game. And the longer the game is around, the fewer players it generally has so I like to get in right when they come out if I'm interested at all.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's no single player game you played because your friends were hyping it up?

[–] essellburns@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. That's a young person's game

[–] ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not young and I still will play a game because it's suggested to me. If everyone tells me a particular game/movie/book/restaurant is amazing, I'm going to try it.

Taking the advice of others and trying new things isn't a sign of inexperience.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What friends?

Seriously: I've had friends talk me into getting stuff; but not from a fear of missing out. My friends were never really gamers. Half the shit they recommended to me I was already into or didn't give a single fuck about lol

[–] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fallout 3 was one. I had just transferred to a new college and was dorming. Several of the guys were playing FO3, so I decided to get it, even though I knew almost nothing about FO games. Mainly so I'd have something to talk about with people. And it worked, even though I didn't get that far into the game. Made friends; some that 15yrs later I still talk to on occasion. As far as the game itself, I haven't played another FO since; just generally not my kinda game.

My gaming buddies now, who I've known them for several years, have the attention span of goldfish, so I've largely stopped FOMO games purchases. I can't keep spending money on games they'll play for a week or two, or less. Though if it appears there's some longevity, then maybe I'll jump in. Barotrauma and Project Zomboid are a couple where the FOMO eventually won out, but it did pay off. We've sunk hundreds of hours into each game over the last 2-3yrs.

[–] Case@unilem.org 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fallout 1 and 2 are 2D isometric turn based games, while 3 and later move to a first person perspective so you might enjoy the classics... Unless you just don't enjoy the setting - in which case fair enough.

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[–] sparklepower@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

stardew valley and the stanley parable. no regrets :)

[–] TimTheEnchanter@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of the Zelda games, for me. I tried Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask and they were not my thing. A lot of people raved about those games but I couldn’t get into them. Then there were a couple on the DS that I couldn’t get into, either.

But then I found Wind Waker and absolutely loved it, and then loved Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom (so far), too!

[–] r1veRRR@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Nier Automata. I really hated the replaying it part. The combat gets incredibly boring after the first two playthroughs. I also found the supposedly "deep" story to be extremely lacking, very on the nose and, like way too much japanese entertainment, bipolar when it comes to emotions.

[–] IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Valorant, Fortnite

[–] squid@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

None, fomo is a bullshit marketing word

[–] napalminjello@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, so edgy and cool. But come-on, certainly there's a game you've tried out because of all the hype around it

[–] squid@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

If you think its cool then follow suite youll find yourself better off. When I was younger I'd bought trash games as friends where playing online, I don't do hype any more, if anything when I see a large marketing push I question the monitory input that's been diverted from the development

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[–] nueonetwo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I think the last game I bought out of fomo was the og COD WM2 on 360. I didn't have much money for games until like two years ago so I really only bought what I knew and only took a chance on games I knew were hyped and looked like something I was into (ie Skyrim).

I don't really care about what's new if it doesn't interest me. Bought BG3 cause it got a lot of hype and I've airways wanted to get into DnD and this looked like a good way. Don't think I'm going to buy Starfield, at least not at release.

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think a handful apply for me, but the biggest case is probably WoW Classic. It felt like a can't miss, lightning in a bottle kind of moment, so I absolutely had to be there. I'm glad I did, as it reminded me both of why I love the game so much, as well as why I don't play it anymore.

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