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

By the time I finally said “fuck it, I need to see what the fuss about this game is” for Dark Souls, 3 was about to be released. All I ever heard about the game up to that point was how hard it was; but that the difficulty wasn’t bullshit. I figured it was just pattern recognition, and was right; but there’s so much more nuance to that. The difficulty brought me in; but the game feel and the lore got me hooked and I now own every single one of the Souls/Borne/Ring/Sekiro games. And even a few knock-offs, like The Surge and Mortal Shell.

I finally completed fallout 1/2/tactics at the end of last year.

I’m looking forward to playing baldurs gate, planetscape and arcanum soon.

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 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.

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.

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)

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.

Persona 5 on PC. Fuck Sony and their exclusive policy.

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

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.

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.

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 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.