Mobile games that have a cooldown timer when you play too much. Oh you don’t want me to play your game anymore? Cool. Uninstalled.
I do get those, but not that I think they’re good. You have to understand the design philosophy is not to make a good game. It’s to make a game that’s addicting and wallet draining.
The timer does two things. It makes you plan your time around it, always coming back as timers end (often with notifications when they finish). It also creates an obstacle they can sell you the solution to. Its pretty antithetical to good game design, but it’s profitable game design.
Elder Scrolls and Fallout. This style of game is just super hard to get into. I get super bored after a few hours
I get super bored after a few hours
You would’ve beaten another game in that period of time.
True, I often feel games are far too long for my taste. I would love more games in the 3-5hr length
Which have you played? There are multiple eras for them. I’d say Morrowind is easier to enjoy personally, but you have to be OK with reading. The later you go the more brain dead they become.
Tried Oblivion, Skyrim, FA3, and FA New Vegas.
Morrowind looks like an objectively good game but, I suspect once again I’d fail to enjoy/finish it
If you don’t like any of those, odds are you won’t like Morrowind either.
Bethesda has been making the same game since Daggerfall. It’s not for everyone.
Anything with PvP.
Balatro.
The first one was good though.
CoD i reamber being a kid and playing it tried it again now and its the same game
Pretty much anything really plot driven or with prescribed paths to victory. I like a bit of room for creativity and decision making.
FNAF. Just a cheap jump scare game popularised by shitty youtubers. I literally don’t understand how it got so big other than children being easily amused.
Fight me.
I dont care too much about the games but the lore is fun
I think you mean the back stories and personalities of the different animatronics? I don’t know anything about the lore.
So in the earlier game there was a lot of sub plot. If you’re familiar with the game theorists they did go a bit overboard about it but they dove deep looking into the clues of said sub plot and it was just good listening material. I dont play the games, I like to watch playthroughs and then video essays about its lore
I only find the theory/lore for the first few games to be kinda interesting and even then, it felt shallow and later on just felt like it was jumping a shark.
FNAF is so overrated, it’s not even funny.
No, I am Spartacus!
Call of Duty. I had fun for the first few and Modern Warfare, but then it just kept going.
I haven’t enjoyed a CoD since the first MW2.
Same! I could just never get into it even though I enjoy first person shooters
I really liked World at War but that was the last one where it felt like they had an actual story to tell.
FIFA, NBA, Madden or any popular sports game, really. Just to start off, I don’t like sports games in general, but that’s on me. The part I don’t understand is the level of hype for each new iteration when for the last decade it’s been the same game with the same engine, same effects, slightly different roster and sometimes even missing features. Like, what are people excited for exactly? More of the same?
I can’t speak for the other games, but as a former player, FIFA did change a lot each year, usually its changes to physics, game speed, skill moves, mini games, and ofc graphics. Not $60 worth of game changes, but I’d argue it’s similar with things like call of duty. Best value was always to skip every other year.
Also gambling. Doesn’t get talked about enough but FIFA YouTubers are more or less payed by EA to shill packs and get people (usually teens) addicted to opening them. I probably bought $200 a year on packs from 2016-2020, usually money I didnt have too. Mostly why I stopped buying the games. (Stopped playing CounterStrike for the same reason)
These days, I just casually play mods of older games and get football manager every other game.
Also gambling.
I can’t believe I completely forgot about the gambling aspect, good call. The trailer for NBA 2k20 was especially disgusting in this regard.
I had an aggressive gambling problem as a teen. 2016 would have been my worst because I was still gambling on counter strike skin sites. I’d save up every dollar mom would give me to run to the store or whatever (I’d lie and say things were more expensive than they were), throw it onto prepaid visas and just waste it.
I can’t even begin to describe the amount that I spent.
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you’re doing better now.
Dark souls and the like. It just feels tedious and boring. Monster Hunter is the same for me
Are you too skilled for Dark Souls, sir? The process of killing enemies and being afraid of dying thus losing 20 minutes of progress is the game itself.
Nah definitely not too skilled, I just got burnt out on ds2 and blood borne. Felt like the same thing over and over again in a new pretty area.
Pokemon. Behind the pleasant facade of the game series, there is a reality: people kidnap animals in the forest, lock them in pokeballs, and force them to fight in arenas, at least until they are damaged. I didn’t understand this game series when I was younger and I still don’t. Do people really like playing this game?
The gameplay loop was really really fresh stuff back when it released for the first time, i stopped playing after the emerald generation because it never built up on what it had. To this day its the same damn game with barely better art style. Even their recent attempts to go 3D feel like N64 quality which is just a no-no for me. If a product is shitty, i won’t buy it even if it’s X brand.
I enjoyed Pokemon Red and Pokemon Snap. I’m vegan and don’t associate playing Pokemon with animal cruelty as the video game is fictitious.
I got the first Pokemon game (Pokemon Red) when I was 14 years old. I never watched the anime. Back then the game was revolutionary, I’d never played anything like it. The goal of collecting all Pokemon, gaining experience to level up, evolving to make new Pokemon, selecting and organising my squad, it really played into my young brain chemistry. I finished it multiple times. I got a game boy link cable to trade Pokemon with my friends and battle them at school. Thats exactly who the game is made for.
I also played and finished Pokemon Silver, and Crystal. But after that I stopped playing them. Too similar, too repetitive, too many different Pokemon to know and remember, mechanics got too complicated.
By the way, surprisingly, cartoons are also fictional, but for some reason, child abuse in cartoons is 18+ marked or prohibited. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Ratings among different media are indeed strangely incoherent.
Well, I have nothing against the players. It’s just that it’s really hard for me to play this series.
I can understand that people find it repetitive but spare us the virtue signaling. It’s just a game it’s not that deep.
Its not virtue signaling, people just expect better products? Why can’t pokemon pull a zelda-esque quality game instead of the same recycled stuff?
The bad guys in Black and White were Pokemon rights activists and your heroic allies were watching them speak being like “everyone knows Pokemon love being captured and made to fight each other, these guys are a bunch of nutjobs!”
Then later it turns out the Pokemon rights thing was just a cover for something nefarious because nobody could actually believe what these people are claiming to.
Ah, as one person on YouTube dubbed it, the debate and switch
I’ve heard the original manga in Japan was super hardcore. Like full-on dismemberment, pokemon would actually die instead of faint, and pokemon would regularly attack humans.
To be honest, I would probably play a game with such a plot with more pleasure than a game where all Pokemon look like puppies.
I tried one of the old parts, it’s incredibly repetitive and boring.
Collecting monsters and fighting them is fun, but Pokemon, to me, is just not the best game for that.
I somewhat understand the game, although i never was into it. But if you look at the newer games, they are just shitty looking cash grabs. But pokemon fans are insane and they would buy anything. I watched one or two movies with my nephews and god damn, they are super shitty. Don’t get me started on pokemon cards…
I hope the movies are not the same as the cartoons of the 90s. I once watched a couple of episodes where Ash sends Pikachu to fight in the arena and then cries when Pikachu gets hit hard. I just wanted to ask, “buddy, you literally sent Pokemon into the damn arena where he was supposed to FIGHT, what were you hoping for?” But in general, I understand you now. In fact, the plot is not important at all. People just collect Pokemon like things, like Magic the gathering cards. Now I’m not sure if this is as insensitive or logical as possible.
AFAIK the first movie’s plot is exactly that; the cast of the anime realising how cruel Pokémon fights are, but they conveniently forget about it at the end.
CoD and Battlefield. There is so much war in the modern world and all it creates is sorrow. Not sure why i’d want to re-enact that.
Persona 5 and disco Elysium.
Gameplay akin to pulling your own teeth out but you don’t even get to choose which tooth you want to pull
In terms of difficulty or emotional/mental load? Disco Elysium is pretty fucked up but kinda awesome when you get into it IMO.
It’s hands down one of the best games I’ve played. The story was incredible, the world building was top notch, the characters were really well written, and the narrator was brilliant.
In terms of funness and having agency. I tired to put a tie on and failed a rng check for that. Then I tried to get a guy out of a tree and failed a rng check for that. And then the game said “sniff bath salts and you won’t vomit when getting the guy out of the tree.” So I went and scoured the area for bath salts for like 15mins, finally got them. Then went back to get the guy out of the tree and failed anyway because it doesn’t always work. Not to worry though. I just have to wait another 6hrs before I can try again to presumably fail again.
Believe it or not I actually like to make decisions and deal with the consequences of those decisions rather than just fail arbitrarily at objectives the game tells me I should be doing.
Disco Elysium was aesthetically pleasing and I loved the vibes but the game sucked.
I got about as far as you… Might go at it again because the FOMO on the hype is big. The writing felt like reading a thesaurus…
I didn’t mind the writing. Thought the hyper stylised nature of it clashed with the “you can’t do anything and always fail” type gameplay though.
It’s an RPG… You have stats and those stats dictate how good of a chance you have at achieving something. That’s why you can play this game in so many ways. Just go with it when you fail something. Most times it doesn’t matter, it just changes the way you play the game.
Sure, but how about how good you are is determined not by arbitrarily stats but by how good you are. Also having a stat spread that makes you literally incapable of doing the very first tasks the game gives you is not my idea of good design.
That’s just not the point of a role playing game. You’d need some action game instead. It’s completely cool that you don’t like the game but it just sounds like you were expecting something not-rpg from an rpg.
Your inability to deal with extremely minor setbacks is pretty funny given the content of the game. You got filtered by being too much like the protagonist, RIP
Think of it as a dice rolling tabletop RPG
Nat 1’s only
Definitely wasn’t my experience. The way you solve puzzles largely depends on how you set up your character, and each problem had different ways you could approach it. There’s also no single ‘correct’ path through the game. Failure is just part of the story. Kind of weird to complain that a role playing game has RPG mechanics in it if you ask me.
I picked the default recommended character. How was I supposed to know the optimal build to complete the first objective on my first run. Why should I even assume that the recommended characters are incapable of doing things? I’m fine with rpg mechanics, the problem I had was I tried to do the first objective 3 different ways, failed all three times due to no fault of my own and then got progress locked. The game actually said “you have to wait 6 hours before you can try again.”
Genuinely what is the point of continuing after that. I wasn’t able to do anything and didn’t find the gameplay satisfying up to that point. The next thing to do was go afk and wait it out. I don’t want to do that, so why should I keep playing.
I didn’t do anything special with my character build, and ran through the game just fine. Maybe you just got supremely unlucky, but doesn’t seem to be representative of the experience most people have had. 🤷
Persona 5 is one of my least favorite games of all time and I regularly rant about how much I hate the UI/UX.
Wdym (genuine), persona 5 gameplay is the best turn based system with shin megami tensei v
Even if one doesn’t like the gameplay loop or the story, it’s straight up the most stylish game ever made. Its just disingenous and pedantic to say you can’t see the hype behind a game that is just objectively peak. I personally do not like GTA loop but i would be lying through my teeth if i said i didn’t understand why it’s one of the most succesful franchises of all time.
It’s an anime with a “press a to view next scene” feature
This brushes aside the superb combat and dungeon design it offers. But that’s unfortunate you don’t like visual novels
Final fantasy and everything Hideo Kojima. I don’t get it.
“Everything Hideo Kojima,” do you mean Metal Gear Solid 5 and Death Stranding?
I find it hard to believe that you’ve played his other games and still have this opinion. It’s much more believable that you’re kind of young and only played what was released when you were around.
No I never got those because I don’t like Hideo Kojima, watching about a hour of each on twitch was good enough to tell it’s not gonna be significantly more my taste than the other MGS games, nice try at patronizing an opinion simply because you don’t share it though, real cute.
It’s okay if I was right about my assumption.
You’re inexperienced, and it makes sense you would be insecure about that.
Dense and patronizing, classic Kojima fanboy, just adorable.
If you don’t like him, that’s fine. You’re just basing your opinion off of what I assumed you were.
Now you’re insecure and attacking me instead of learning. I can’t say I expected more from the next generation.
I haven’t played a FF game in years, but grew up playing them. At least up through FF10, the stories were compelling. The turn based game play is slow, and I get not enjoying that, but I liked the writing the most.
Having just finished the first Death Stranding, I agree with you re: Kojima.
Don’t get me wrong, the game is great; I ended up enjoying the delivery aspect more and more as it went on. But man, the story is…tough. The broad strokes of it are interesting, but I feel like the inertia of it got lost in the attempt to make it a multiple-hour open world.
As a whole, the game is undeniably an incredible piece of work. While you’re immersed in it it’s wonderful. But when you stop to think about it for even a few seconds, it flakes away.
And, like I said, while you’re playing, you’re really into it, you get to the end game, you ‘defeat’ the final boss. Then there’s the best part of 90 minutes worth of exposition to explain the parts of the story that weren’t explained DURING THE STORY. Never before have I played a game that had to put so much effort into explaining itself.
But somehow it all works. The experience of playing it is excellent. Or maybe Kojima just has his own reality distortion field.
Not a series but I tried playing Witcher 3 because of the meme about how much redditors loved it. I played for about 10 hours and got bored and never bothered playing again. I wouldn’t say it’s a bad game but I didn’t understand the hype. Also, despite playing it years late with a decent graphics card, I had regular issues with frames. That is not a performant game.
I will say Witcher 3 kind of forced AA/AAA games to up the quality of their writing. It still stands up as some of the best writing in games, but maybe a little less obviously so after a decade of other competent game stories.
What’s really exceptional is how pretty much every sidequest is also very well written, with believable characters and compelling situations. Many games, again especially before W3, might have pretty good main plots, but the sidequests would just be endless dross with maybe one or two standouts.
As for performance, you probably enabled some silly options. Both Witcher 2 and 3 pushed the envelope in crazy ways for PC graphics; there’s an ultra setting on W2 that was still bringing GPUs to their knees a decade later as well. The game still looks great if you turn it down a little.
Its one of those games that felt cheap at full price back when it launched, i can’t say that for 99.9% of the stuff coming out nowadays.
It’s a 2015 game that is straight up relevant to this day, also maybe there was something wrong with your settings because it ran flawlessly for me on a rx6600 and its a game made for nvidia.
You mean you didn’t spend a month playing gwent?
