Ask Lemmy

Starting in 2016 I spent four entire years looking forward to the end of the Trump presidency.

Shit.

Silksong 🥲 waiting since 2019, release window in 2023 was cancelled in the last month of the window, no communication since except "we're still working on it". Subreddit has gone crazy unlike anything I've ever seen, someone from there possibly offed themselves a couple weeks ago due to their shitposting.

I can't wait to read history books about it

A bit silly. I picked up the Holy Mightstone quest item on my WoW paladin in like 2005, and decided to save it to use, someday, to get some RP revenge on Arthas. I held on to it until facing him down I'm WotLKs Icecrown Citadel raid, and used it on our first boss attempt. I want to say that was 7 years but I can't be arsed to look it up.

Immediately wiped, of course, but winning was never the point.

I'm looking forward to becoming a character in an action movie.

Ya know, the guns-ablazing war movies, or some disaster movie where everyone is trying to survive, chaos everywhere?

Maybe I could stop being bored and can enjoy some excitment in a irl movie plot

except, I'd probably be the side character that dies in the first 10 minutes... 🙃

15 years.

The time between losing my first child and having my second.

I've been building a house myself for four years. I move in in 3 weeks.

Duke Nukem Forever. Announced in 1997 and released 2011 💀

Been waiting 8 years to be told I'm allowed to turn my pp into a not pp 🥲 More waiting to go yet

Half Life 3

still waiting

Well, I'm a Star Citizen backer, so...

"looking forward to": A week at most for the next episode of anime series or next chapter of the best book series "Ascendance of a bookworm"

"Waiting and working towards": Lifetime of yearning for feeling loved

16 years. Star Wars: Episode I.

The Winds of Winter? At this point though I'm not sure I'm actually waiting anymore.

They were marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though not by name, because it didn't have a name yet) before the WiiU was released. And they strung everybody along until after the Switch was released.

Fuckers! I was an early adopter of the WiiU because "well, I'll for sure want one when the WiiU exclusive Zelda title comes out."

Several years I was looking forward to turning 18 :-)

Top Gun Sequel, probably the longest I can think of right now.

For most things if I'm gonna be waiting more than a few weeks, I'll let myself kind of forget about it and then enjoy it whenever it happens.

That said, I didn't do that for The Wheel of Time TV show. I learned about it relatively late; a few months before release, and then spent a lot of time reading up on it, looking into the cast, watching trailers, interacting with WoT communities online, and just generally getting kind of hyped. Most people seemed pretty positive about it. It was looking like it might actually be a good adaptation of one of my favorite book series.

Then it came out and it was the single most disappointing adaptation I've seen since Eragon.

Not the longest, but the most recent.

I've been waiting for this game to launch (2019), as long as the site doesn't go down there's hope.

https://dokev.pearlabyss.com/en/Main/Index

Eight years ago Puyo Puyo Tetris got localized. The crossover is a massive step down from past main series games, but it was the first game to get localized since Fever in 2004. I hated it as a game, but I thought that it would be a good sign for the future because its record sales would surely mean the next mainline game would get localized too.

We never got an actual mainline game. But we've been teased over and over instead.

The next year we got Puyo Puyo Champions, a budget versus mode client that's pretty much just a romhack of PPT's engine with assets recycled from the mobile spinoff. It actually fixes all of the problems I had with PPT, the online is fantastic... but it is still nothing more than a bare bones versus mode client. There is no story mode or any other singleplayer content at all, nothing like the fantastic stuff past games were packed with, which makes it a very hard sell for new players.

Then we got Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. A bugged ctrl-c ctrl-v of the first game. Literally no new content. I already hated the first one and this is even worse in every way. Even the things that Champions fixed are broken again. The fact that this horrible rehash even exists is an insult and I detest it with every fiber of my being. But the worst part is that it split the playerbase from Champions, which basically ended up killing both games in the end.

Then Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop. The trailer looked like it was finally going to deliver on what I wanted. But they made it exclusive to Apple fucking Arcade. The game is so dead that if you try to play it online, you will simply be matched into bots. Sega knew the exclusivity deal would kill this game and they tried to fake the online to cover it up.

Eight years of disappointment after disappointment. The IP is long dead, Sega's just parading its corpse around to tease.

I mean there are several things I still look forward to, but the grammar implies things that have already happened. I guess Dwarf Fortress with an actual GUI, so for around about a decade.

Still waiting for Alive 2017 (I know…)

Diablo III

I've been waiting for Mass Effect 4 ever since the ending that shows Shepard as surviving the events of 3. Closer and closer. Granted, the recent Dragon Age isn't giving me a lot of hope.

I'm still waiting for the chaos to come back

Well, I haven't died yet, so...