Patient Gamers

People missed the point of this, its games that you waited for after release, not games you waited to release.

I turned 40 this year. I pledged for Star Citizen when I was 20-something 🙃

It's still my dream-game, so I'm still patiently waiting.

Starbound. Waited years while it was in development, and my buddies and I just let the hype build and build. When it finally came out, it wasn’t even close to worth it. At the time, it still seemed like something that would eventually get to where we hoped (or at least for the most part), but picking it up every few months/years showed us the dev team’s ideas were great on paper, but they just weren’t capable of implementing any of it well.

More recently, I’ve seen YouTube docs that have gone into the awful development and bad treatment of young developers who weren’t paid, and fired after they caught on that they never would be.

On the bright side, it gave my friends and I a new appreciation for how great Terraria is, and why it’s similar features work so well when Starbound’s didn’t

The Outer Worlds. Would have been the last game to date that I'd had pre-ordered, but they went Epic exclusive, so I decided to be patient and wait for the Steam release. Year goes by and it releases for Steam, but at original launch price. Decide I'm not willing to pay full price for a game I had to wait extra for.

Now it's turned into a game of seeing it go on sale and remarking, "Come on guys, you can do better than that."

I only buy games on steam or very rarely GOG. I refuse to buy a games that are exclusive to a single platform. I don't want to pay people to remove my choices. So there's been a few games I've waited to leave their exclusive deals with epic or whatever. Satisfactory is one. They had an epic store exclusive I think for 2 years and then they went to steam. I very much enjoyed the game. I'm still waiting for escape from tarkov to join us on steam.

Unless I have friends doing multiplayer at this moment, I just waitlist games until they hit $5. And when that happens I buy them. So I have a large game backlog. I don't anticipate or wait for games. I just wait list and forget and then I have happy surprises during the steam sales.

I think I had lost seas on my waitlist for 2 years 3 years.

The Witcher 3. I'd been following its development since the Witcher 2, and I loved the games and the books. After 5 years of waiting I knew that it wasn't likely to live up to my expectations, so I prepared myself for disappointment.

Then it came out, and it was the best RPG I'd played. Some of the Novigrad story lines went on for too long, but that was my only issue with it. I've 100% it three times. Best €30 I ever spent. The DLC was somehow even better than the base game. I have no idea how CDPR managed it.

Sonic adventure for the Dreamcast. It was released in 1998 and I played it for the first time in 2019... and it blew my mind. It's such a solid game, a really cool environment with amazing camera angles, diverse levels, and a difficulty that's just right.

Almost every game. I just can't afford most games for the full price so patience isn't a virtue but a necessity. Currently I'm waiting to play FarCry 6. My old GPU couldn't handle it, then I got a new one and another game sale happened. But as soon as I'm through with AC Valhalla I might give it a try.

The only full price PC game I played from release that I can recall was No Man's Sky (my hot take: it was great from the start). And I got that one gifted.

The next waiting will be done for Starfield, I think. But that's more for stability ("ripeness") and mod situation.

I played Destiny 2 when it came out, but then they kept releasing more and more DLC and expansions I didn't feel like buying for how little content there was. My plan was to simply wait until the entirety of the game was released so I could buy the rest of everything in a single purchase and play it all.

I think I heard recently they have been actually removing old content so this plan no longer makes sense.

I waited a while for sekiro. Finally broke down and got it on sale after it had been on my wishlist for 2 years.

I found it too challenging, even as a fan of their other games, it just didn't click. Finally I hit a wall on some enemy who I couldn't kill and gave up. Sad cuz I really wanted to like it.

Death Stranding. Completely forgot about the game until I got it in humble monthly, and... Damn it was worth playing. In retrospective, I'd have been happy dropping 60 on it. I thought going in it'd be boring gameplay for a weird story, but the gameplay was actually REALLY FUN and the story was weord.

Fallouts. I knew they existed for, I don't even know, decades? I finally got New Vegas some years back (and others later) and it really is the greatest game ever made. I don't know why I waited.

I waited four years for breath of the wild, and when I finally played it, it was like I was playing an entire new genre. Like I was playing ocarina of time for the first time and the world seemed endlessly exciting. Except this time I could climb mountains and paraglide.

World of warcraft. I'd been playing the games since warcraft 1. My parents wouldn't pay for my subscription so had to wait years to get it after release. 100% worth it. Amazing game back in the day.

Diablo 3 and 4. 3 was kinda worth it. 4 not so much.

StarCraft2 and hell yeah. Loved it.

Skyrim, again definitely.

Fallout 4. Despite some things lacking I thought it was awesome.

Seven kingdoms conquest. Was very shit.

I'm still waiting for a Hogwarts Legacy sale

Red Dead Redemption 1. Played it for the first time about a year ago. I knew how it ended, but it was still worth the wait to experience everything myself.

It's not a case of having waited for it as such, but I played The Last of Us this year, after watching the show. I'd say it was worth it, and I don't mind that a lot of the story beats and emotional moments were 'spoiled' as such, because I still felt them when playing the game.

Haven't moved on to the second one yet.

Probably Duke Nukem Forever. I told myself that if it were ever $1, I'd buy it.

Then it was in the $1 tier of a Humble Bundle. Gonna be honest, still not really worth it, I don't think. Never finished it, didn't really think it was that fun.

IDK, probably Mass Effect? I just got Mass Effect Legendary this year and I've been playing it, and it's fantastic! I didn't hear about it at release for some reason, and I had heard the game was great, but decided to wait to see if they'd remaster it or something. They did, but it was too expensive, so I held off.

I eventually got it for ~$15 on a Steam sale and about 6 months later, here I am playing it. And yes, it's worth it, the game runs fantastically on my Steam Deck and it's a ton of fun.

My main reason for being patient is to get the best experience (fewer bugs, all DLC, etc), not just to save money, and I think I got it at the right time. My coworker is also playing through it for the first time, so I have someone to talk to about it.

Morrowind would be my choice, since there was almost a decade long gap between when i first wanted to play the game and when i actually played it. it didn't reach my expectations but that doesnt matter that much to me since i still really liked that game. i didn't finish it in my first playthrough, but i did once i got around to doing my second

Yakuza 0. Had a PS4, but wanted to play it on the PC instead so kept waiting hoping it would be ported to the PC. It later then did and I waited longer for a price drop and it ended up showing up on a Humble Bundle so finally snatched it years later.

It was worth the wait. Very enjoyable and I did all the side quests. Cabaret club was an amazing part of the game.

2002: Kingdom Hearts ......... 2005: Kingdom Hearts II ......... 2019: Kingdom Hearts III

14 years!

Dark Souls trilogy, waited a long long time to try it out due to the memes of the brutal difficulty.

When DS remastered came out, I finally took the plunge and am now a through enjoyer of souls games. They are difficult, but fair (as long as you're not doing pvp lol)

Skyrim, and yes it was. Got it on disconnected in a pack with Prey for €19, so that was excellent value for money.

I only played the first Half-Life about 6 months ago despite having friends who grew up playing it. Well worth the wait, it was fantastic (I played Black Mesa to be fair, not the original Half-Life, but I’ve heard they’re near identical). That’s definitely my longest. The main other one is Dark Souls, I’ve been wanting to play it since it came out and only started it a month ago. I’ve played DS3, Elden Ring, and Sekiro, but this is my first time with DS1.

A couple of games I've been looking at for a while like The End is Nigh and 20XX ended up being free on Epic, they were great games and definitely worth playing if you picked them up for free. Glad I didn't have to buy them.

I only played Doom 1 and 2 when D3 was about to come out, so it was about 10 years old. I played some mod with polygonal models/hires textures so it wasn't a vanilla experience, but in terms of game and level design I was quite blown away.

Also I played Metal Gear Solid 3 only about 5 years ago, so that was a ~15 years old game.

Breath of the Wild.

I got a Switch a few years after BOTW released, and couldn’t stomach paying full price for a game that had been out that long.

Finally got it on PC via methods a few months ago and glad I waited, playing at 2k 60fps with better shaders is great.

I'm still waiting for Silk Song, if that counts.

Secret of Mana 2, when I was a kid in the 90'. I knew back then it was released in Japan, and I was waiting for it in Europe. … and it never happened. 😂 I think I've seen they finally translated it recently, as a retrogame, but hey, my tastes and priorities changed a bit in 30 years.