It’s a bad game that makes you bad by exposure

I really wanted to get into MOBA games, the idea seem really cool. But every one I’ve tried the meta/community seem infuriating.

The worst game I’ve ever sunk thousands of hours into

I hate this game but I love Bard. He’s the only fun thing in the game. ARAM too.

OMG so much this!

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.

I’ve find aram to be pretty fun tbh. No raging or anything, just skill spamming and it’s super casual

I can see it, I played a lot, but I never lost my job over it.

But there were folks that were on no matter what, and as time has gone on the micro transactions have only gotten worse and more aggressive. So it’s easy to imagine that those folks who were on 24/7 were burning whatever money they had on the micro transactions.

The high of the really good things happening felt SOO good. Like pulling off the perfect heist/ambush felt so good it pulled you through another 50 hours of grinding on the amount of adrenaline and endorphins you would get after that 5 minute victory.

I feel like that game isn’t good enough to warrant that sort of sacrifice. It’s gotta be more than just his addiction to tanking a fake economy…

Actually the first thing I thought of. Played the fuck out of that game, but kinda always hated it while playing it. Can’t explain why. Was a weird time.

Your post is like a year late for me.

“Everyone” loved the game, so I finally bought it, installed mods for days, played it like an hour and haven’t touched it since. It’s just too shallow in comparison to other/modern games.

I don’t disagree with anything but man, I love Skyrim anyways. I guess because quests do get repetitive I love the stupid ones, like the ones given by the Mara priestess.

When it released I wanted to play it one without any mods. I lasted less than a week.

I love ultimate Skyrim/wildlander though, it gives it a lot of improvements and I just rp in my head.

I played tons of Morrowind and Oblivion… could not get into Skyrim at all and I tried multiple times.

I’m kind of afraid for Starfield. It looks interesting but given their track record I’m afraid they might botch it up.

I must have played skyrim on 5 different platforms, started by playing 250 hours on pirated copy and then buying it and playing for 750 hours at least.

And you will play hundreds more.

This is 1000% my Skyrim experience. Also, Oblivion and Fallout 3. and yet, I can’t get enough.

I mean, I clearly can, since I haven’t played them in a couple years, but you know what I mean.

Thank God Bethesda knows how mods keep them up or I wouldn’t bother with anything they put out.

Starfield mods bout to be crazy, I can feel it.

I played a shitload of COD4 with friends in college. I think I played MW2 briefly and then basically dropped COD.

When I bought a PS5 I was looking for games with PS5 versions to show off the graphics and thought hey, why not get back into COD? So I bought Cold War.

The multiplayer menus and lobbies are damn near indecipherable nonsense. There is so much spam and shit I can’t even see what I should do to play the game. It’s a sad state of affairs how things are now.

Definitely destiny, I realized I was paying an absurd amount of money for seasonal content just to play once a month with friends, the separate dungeon pass was the last straw, wish I had moved on sooner

I’ve lost interest in the game, but in terms of bang for your buck entertainment, I have no regrets for the money I’ve spent on Destiny. Even at 100 bucks a year for the most recent expansion and all the seasons, it still feels like a deal to me, but I’ve never spent a dime on the cosmetics and that may not be the case for others.

Is that screenshot from this year? ARK came out 2015, so if this person had 2 years of playtime in 2020, then they basically spent 40% of their time every day playing this game. That’s 9.6 hours every day!

every time I see this I think someone must care about this person and is missing the red flags about their crippling addiction

I feel this so much. I wasn’t sure if I would answer Ark or The Sims 4. I have my own personal Ark server because I don’t like the timers on official, housing or dino. I have other things I need to do besides watch a downed dino for 20hrs. I don’t want to rely on tribe member dinojoe to help me either. But my goodness I love playing Ark. 😕 I stopped recommending it several years ago. But I still play it myself. 🤔

Imo Genshin is a decent game at its core. The problem is that the gacha elements make it really hard to enjoy.

I think idle games are interesting to mindfully experience. They - at least good ones - demonstrate the influence of external motivation, of progression.

Outside of that… Yeah. There’s a fine line of experiencing theme and gameplay Design, and falling into mindless simple number scaling and waiting.

This is a crazy one for me. I saw this for like 5 seconds and I knew instantly this would piss me off and I never ever ever touched it or any ‘idle’ type games. I would rather stand still and stare at a wall. I don’t understand how anyone could find any entertainment at all. And apparently they are massively popular.

I enjoyed playing Cookie Clicker, but probably because I only really played it for a month or so - I can imagine playing that any longer would not be worth the time 😅

I quit when they stopped developing vr. I bought my headset for elite.

The king of ‘oops I forgot my keys’ simulation

I second this. I really love the aesthetics and design direction - especially the sound - but the gameplay just falls flat after a few dozen hours. Doing anything cool requires copious amounts of grinding, and the story has been dead in the water for years.

It’s a real shame that Frontier botched it so badly.

But the ship management is very basic and less complicated than what you’d find on ETS2 for example.

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.

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.

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.

For me it’s actually TFT ahaha. I’ve played enough league that I can come back and derust fairly quickly, but for TFT, I’ve always felt lost for way longer, because the entire set changes and the units and meta are drastically different to what I remember playing.

Had to scroll way too far to find WoW. I’m still actively raiding wotlk classic with my small guild, but blizzard seems to have a policy of,

• Step 1: determine what should be done
• Step 2: do the opposite

For everything. Server population management. Bots. Moderation. Customer support. It’s incredible how incompetent they are. Any patch now they’ll add RDF and I’ll unsub one last time and be done for ever. Cannot NOT recommend it enough.

D3 got better with age. The seasons, especially the later ones, were a blast.

Hard agree with you that D2 was better than D3 in every way. I also bought D2r and played it a bit at launch.

Have you played any D4 yet? As someone who never loved D3 I will say that D4 has been refreshing. I have some low level gripes with it, but overall I am really enjoying it.

I just couldn’t click with Hearthstone. Wanted a time killer that I could jump into for a quick game or two and just couldn’t figure out what was going on really.

Even at my lowly beginner level it seemed that everyone else knew what was going on and would ace me. And I was just left dumbfounded. Couldn’t figure out if it was just me not getting the game or a load of smurfs.

Also doesn’t help that there’s years and years of content to catch up on and anyone new is just in an ocean of it.

The single player mission packs were great. I loved Naxx and League of Explorers. I wish Blizzard could have just made that a separate game, since there was no incentive for unfun power creep in a single player experience. I guess Slay the Spire fills that void at least.

The main game is just impossible to catch up nowadays if you want to have competitive decks and not spend money.

However, I love Battlegrounds and buying the stupid season pass doesn’t do much 4 me (4 hero picks instead of 2 and cosmetics that I don’t care about).

I wish there was a way for games like this to not have an annoying, expensive, ever-changing meta! That’s always the reason I end up dropping games. Did the same for Hearthstone and League, it was either too expensive to try and have a feasible deck and/or too difficult to have to constantly keep up with changing metas.

I had a similar arc with D2. I was on it straight from work for hours for a few years, was a bit too much to be honest.

Then it became even more cyclical and the grind felt like I was Sisyphus, constantly working towards the next thing.

Haven’t turned it on in years now and happy that way!

Yeah +1 on Destiny. My most played game after ARMA2 and I’d not recommend it. It doesn’t respect your time and you’re expected to just grind the same 3 or 4 events constantly and those don’t have any variation to them. Each season roles around with the same event to do each week for the next 12 weeks to get a slight recoloured gun.

I know it’s common among MMOs to hyper focus in a small subset but at least alts exist and there’s a world to explore. There’s virtually no reason to go back to the main world in D2 outside of seasonal events and every area has the same feeling to it. Alts don’t really matter either, there’s 3 classes that all play almost the same way with slight variation. If I start a Mage or a Warrior in an MMO I’m going to have a different experience and challenge, In D2 the biggest challenge between a Hunter and Warlock is learning how double jumping works. I’m still going to be using the same gun to kill 99.9% of enemies.

The devs also don’t care that much about their game. That much is self evident if you followed the recent major DLC release where at the end of the story even the communities own lore experts were scratching their head about what exactly the MacGuffin in the story was. At no point did the writers decide they should tell the players what it is/does even though all of the NPCs talk to you as if you already know.

Same. I think I have roughly 2k hours over the years, but I’ve reduced my own playtime (and also the amount of money I give them, I don’t buy it unless it’s more than 50% off) over the years and ever since Forsaken I’ve had less and less reason to recommend it to anyone else. The big reason is pretty simple. Bungie just keep giving it less and less focus while monetizing the game as much as possible. Without writing an essay on everything wrong with Destiny I think the best summary is that the game has lost it’s vision and turned into a content treadmill. The themes of the original story have been largely thrown out the window. There’s no longer a clear artistic style of Destiny but rather whatever seems “fun”, like having 80s themed sci-fi setting with a “surfs up bro” type of character for an expansion. That expansion in the context of the wider story was supposed to be the dreadful defeat and uncertainty about the future, but we’ve thrown the story out anyway so who cares? Content is largely the same thing we’ve been doing since Forsaken with the biggest difference being the setting. All the while price of the game is increased and content gets spread out between expansions, seasons, dungeons and in game store, so that Bungie could get all the money they want.

And that’s just for the seasoned players. New players have it even worse. The new player experience is a lazily put together nonsensical mess. One of the worst I’ve seen. New players would have to put in a lot of effort to “get” Destiny and for that commitment they get “buy now” thrown in their face on every possible chance like some shitty F2P mobile game.

Oh man, I used to love this game. I adored the lore and gameplay, but fell off at Season of the Splicer, which is a damn shame because I LOVE the eliksini!! It was like that season was made for me. But I just got tired of the weekly chore list, and the need to “get my money’s worth” for whatever season I bought. Story was locked behind these chores too. Just… damn shame.

Kept scrolling till I found this comment.

I absolutely loved Destiny 2 but good god is it terrible in a lot of ways. Couldn’t keep up with the time investment required and the game really likes using FOMO to keep players hooked.

It’s less of a game and more of a second job. At least, that’s how it started feeling towards the end for me.

I haven’t played since they removed a bunch of content that I paid for. I played the hell out of Destiny and pre ordered Destiny 2 but Bungie is dead to me now.

I feel this. I loved 1 and 2 growing up. Easily the most nostalgic games for me. 3 was pretty good but I didn’t get too far into it tbh. Spent a lot of time with 4 (pirated) and enjoyed it.

Fast-forward to a time where I no longer pirate games so I decided to play it through Xbox Game Pass with limited DLC and it was just bland. Felt like I was missing the “full game” and the price tag to own such a thing is out of this world. Last I checked if you want “everything” you’d be spending around $1k USD.

EA is disgusting.

I like The Sims 4. I think it’s the best Sims game. The mood system makes it so much more interesting than previous games and makes the sims feel a lot more like real people.