I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.
Do you have a similar game?
Ultima Online is the only thing that I can really think of. Most things I think are garbage, were always garbage. But UO used to be so fucking awesome until EA started trying to make it more like EQ and later WoW.
Paladins. I’ve spent like 400 hours in it and tbh it’s all hand crafted to keep you addicted and keep grinding their bullshit battlepass.
Honorable mention: Team Fortress 2. Game is great but Valve has pretty much done nothing with it. Last major update was in late 2017 and since then the game has received minor updates that usually only add shit for people to throw money at. The game still has a bot and cheater problem due to aforementioned fuck all Valve has been doing. Feel free to play, but you better open your wallet if you even want to speak! Let that one sink in, the game is free to play but you need to pay! To! Communicate! In the fucking game! Why? Oh the aforementioned cheating/bot problem of course! The bots were spamming racial slurs and other shit so Valve in infinite wisdom made free to play players unable to communicate at all! And that didn’t even do anything! The bots just had premium accounts! There are cheaters in the game with very valuable items and are not banned. After all that trash talk the game is still fun, 4000 hours well spent. It’s just sad that it’s being left to rot.
Shop Titans (played on PC). It’s just predatorial and I got caught in its addictive gameplay loop for every waking hour of 2 days. I’m lucky that it was only 48 hours (compared to other people) and that I hate playing on mobile unless it’s short sessions of non-mechanical stuff because it seems mobile is full of games like this.
Drakensang Online. Originally started fine until Bigpoint sold it to the chinese and started doing crazy p2w shit called The Dark Legacy.
That update ruined builds, made veteran accounts look squishy and made long time players disappointed
Goat Simulator.
Hotline Miami 2. I’ve beat it on several platforms but I really don’t think it’s as good as the original.
Fallout 3. Mostly due to the mountain of technical issues it has on PC but even playing on console you can run into stability issues.
It’s hard to play Fallout 3 when New Vegas is so similar and so much better.
Everyone says this but personally I always liked 3 more.
Maybe it was the nostalgia because I played it first.
felt the same way about Hotline Miami 2. it just didn’t have the same feeling to it for whatever reason, despite the mechanics being arguably better/refined. That first game though, it’s so good
The Genesis Young Indiana Jones game. Played it a lot when I was a kid, because I owned very few games. Got so good at it I was able to beat the whole thing without dying. I loved that game.
Then a few days ago, James Rolfe played it in the latest AVGN episode and holy cow that game is absolute garbage. For the curious, you can check it out from 18:34: https://youtu.be/xPsN_rcEpu4
League of Legends
Yep, this is mine. And I have barely any time in compared to serious players. But when it was first becoming a thing I think I probably put in 50+ hours playing with my friends. As someone who primarily plays single player games this is a lot. Then I realized I hated every minute playing, and it was making me hate my own friends. It was actually stressful to play. I would be angry after ever play session. So I quit.
Fuck League of Legends. It’s shit and no one will convince me otherwise.
it was making me hate my own friends
Yep. Other games it’s easy to brush off a mistake and laugh about it. Just something about this one (probably the massive time investment and amount of attention required for every game) had us seething at each other… I played for 10 years and probably played less in those 10 years than most of my friends I played with did in their first 2… Lol. I liked team fight tactics, but blizzard did it better in my opinion. And they removed Dominion. Was the only game type that was worth playing.
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I hate this game but I love Bard. He’s the only fun thing in the game. ARAM too.
OMG so much this!
I really wanted to get into MOBA games, the idea seem really cool. But every one I’ve tried the meta/community seem infuriating.
It’s just annoying how everything has to follow the “meta” and if you do dare to try something else and you don’t perform above expectations you’ll get shit on. I just want to play the game the way I enjoy it sometimes.
I play Blizzard’s MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, every now and then.
Similar to most others, the community can be toxic as fuck, but the “vs AI” mode is fun enough to keep me coming back.
It’s so good. I tried it first and then tried LOL. I couldn’t do it because it was such a step back.
The worst game I’ve ever sunk thousands of hours into
I’ve find aram to be pretty fun tbh. No raging or anything, just skill spamming and it’s super casual
It’s a bad game that makes you bad by exposure
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That is an extremely good description of the reality of Eve. For me this would be Arma 3. Such extraordinary potential but for every 15 hours you fiddle, you get 6 minutes of peak gaming. Absolutely not worth it.
And of course our brains will say “Well if you just get better at the game, you will get more of the peak gaming!” But no, no we won’t. The game was not made for that.
Arma was a full time job for me one summer. Never again
I’ve tried to get into Arma 3 many times over the years. But it’s just way too much for me. I like some MilSim, but Arma is so complicated and just not worth it to me. To make it worse, everybody that I’ve linked up with to learn how to play with always says that the base game sucks and you have to install 15+ mods just to start having fun.
Sorry, but if a base game isn’t worth playing unless you spend 2-3 hours fighting to get 15+ mods all working together just to then get barely 40 FPS, spend another hour planning the mission, and then trying to remember the dozens of hotkeys for the 10 unique ways you can crouch next to a wall, I’m just not interested and it probably isn’t a very good game.
Most people recommend playing Minecraft with like 50 mods, but at least Minecraft is a good fully playable game in vanilla mode…
Spot on.
HA! It’s funny cuz it’s true! Eve is much more fun to read about than to play.
For me, it’s most mobile games I’ve spent a large amount of time in. Recently it’s Marvel SNAP. Before that it was SWGoH. These games are fun fun and they hook you but eventually you play enough to see all the levers they’re using to manipulate you and it sours. I should really stop playing them… lol
that was me with clash royale, Id play just to get mad haha
I was really hooked onto Marvel Snap for the first 4 seasons I played (6-7 total now). The game can be a lot of fun. I haven’t made infinite the last 2 seasons and I stopped paying for premium after my 3rd season. I don’t regret doing that since the game has become more transaction focused and I feel it’s quick turn around makes it more enjoyable than MtG. That said I wouldn’t recommend someone to pickup the game if they are serious about competitive card players.
Ugh, YES to any mobile game. I’ll find a game on my phone, get sucked in, then after like 3 weeks be like… wait have I had ANY fun at all at this? And how many ads have I been shown? How much grinding would be required to finish this game? Then realize I should just uninstall…
And yeah Eve was crazy, cause I would rarely get the cool thing… but that made it worse. If I never got the cool thing, then it would have been easy to quit. But because I sometimes got a cool thing my brain would say “If you just played more then the ratio of time to cool thing would go up!”
Lost ark
That game was super fun right up until I hit the artificial grind wall.
Oh you need to be gear level X to play with your friends. Here’s enough crafting mats to try raising your gear level once per day at a 1% chance of success. And once you get past gear level X, you’ll need to be gear level Y and your chance of success goes DOWN!
Yeah, no thanks.
League of Legends.
I had some fun at the beginning but soon realized that this game just is way too complicated. I don’t want to study a game and watch dozens of YouTube tutorials just to be at an average “not really bad” level. And my friends tried to convince me to play over and over again and I joined them without actually having any fun at all. Will never play this dogshit game again.
My biggest complaint is how it CONSTANTLY changes. I started playing back in season 2, and played pretty consistently for at least like 5 years or so. Then life got busier, and I would have to drop it occasionally for a few months. But then when I’d pick it back up, there were tons of new things to learn or find out no longer existed, every single time. It was exhausting to catch back up on to a point where the game was playable and fun again. I kept that up for a few years, but then spent just a little too long not playing one of those times and the barrier to re-entry was just too big, so now it’s been like 2 years since I’ve played. And honestly, I don’t miss it.
This is also one of the few games where I realized I was angry and unhappy whether I won or whether I lost. Just a super emotionally exhausting experience.
I feel like I’m a worse person when I’m playing league with chat enabled. I have to play with everyone muted to not get tilted. It kind of defeats the purpose of playing a multiplayer game
As someone who’s been playing since season 1, I can’t imagine starting the game now and learning all the champions, there’s so much shit. Also low levels are filled with toxic smurfs which just ruins the experience. So yeah, I’d say LoL is a dead game for new players.
Genshin. Sucks really, and I felt that after I quit the game, looking back, I never had fun at all.
Imo Genshin is a decent game at its core. The problem is that the gacha elements make it really hard to enjoy.
That’s true. I just can’t seem to separate the breath of the wild aspect of it. It’s like I’m playing BOTW with more characters.
Weird I didn’t mind the gatcha it’s the fucking non-stop talking fairy and unskippable dialogue, I have 30 minutes to an hour of time to PLAY the game and I’m sat smashing A trying to get to the content.
Easily a game called Infra. It’s an older source engine adventure game based on exploring crumbling ruins of public facilities and recording damage and things. I put over 50 hours into it (which is a lot for a first person walking simulator puzzle game) And it was just …work. It felt so much like work. I have no idea why I forced myself through it. The environments were just so cool. But wow … Would not recommend.
Work in games is popular! For me it plays on the satisfaction of completing a project. A game that does this well I think is Satisfactory.
Whoa there! This is a thread for naming bad games. Satisfactory is an amazing crafting game. I didn’t get bored until level 8 when the amount of material required to finish just got insane. But it is the end of the game, so I understand why it’s like that.
I like a lot of work in games, that’s actually why I wanted to give it a shot. Not fun, though. Terrible slog. What really ruined it was they took the concept and made it too big. It couldn’t just be a game about looking at janky infrastructure and reporting it …they HAD to inject this entire narrative with shady business men from the past and other unnecessary world building. But it forced them to make the game overstay it’s welcome by at least 20 hours imo, just to tie up the narrative.
I better stop ranting while I can. I played it over 5 years ago…I’ve clearly been scarred lol
