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Games you felt like you wasted time playing or games that didn't respect your time?
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havoc00
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I think I kept thinking it would get better. I also think covid was still going strong and I didn't have much else to do
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
MMOS(by design), MOBAs, Mobile Gaming
Kupfer
Member
Horizon Forbidden West as the most recent example. HZD was great though. even platinumed it.
It still annoys me today that I put about 20 hours into HFW, of which I only remeber unbelievable characters and a small, bitchy, arrogant, annoying, know-it-all and snooty brat-protagonist in my head. However, the technical realization was good.
I haven't even played the AC series since Unity, because it's always the same. I don't even need to try it out to see if I like it at all. AC 1 & AC 2 were great, AC3 was exhausting already. But Unity was nice again, great tech and nice climbs, but I lost interest in the series, it's just not interesting anymore.
I'm also sure that I would have felt the same way with GoW Ragnarök, because it just seems to be more of the same and although GoW 2018 was a good game it didn't came nowhere near as captivating as the Greek GoW saga.
It still annoys me today that I put about 20 hours into HFW, of which I only remeber unbelievable characters and a small, bitchy, arrogant, annoying, know-it-all and snooty brat-protagonist in my head. However, the technical realization was good.
I haven't even played the AC series since Unity, because it's always the same. I don't even need to try it out to see if I like it at all. AC 1 & AC 2 were great, AC3 was exhausting already. But Unity was nice again, great tech and nice climbs, but I lost interest in the series, it's just not interesting anymore.
I'm also sure that I would have felt the same way with GoW Ragnarök, because it just seems to be more of the same and although GoW 2018 was a good game it didn't came nowhere near as captivating as the Greek GoW saga.
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killatopak
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Mobile games the thread. Daily quests, log in, and seasonal microtransactions.
There are some I tolerate due to the game being good by itself but a lot these really irks me. I tend to play in longer chunks and not bite-sized game time daily so it’s definitely counter to my playstyle.
Oh you‘re a returning player? Good luck. All your OP stuff 6 months ago? They’re now dogshit. You have to get the new stuff to keep up.
There are some I tolerate due to the game being good by itself but a lot these really irks me. I tend to play in longer chunks and not bite-sized game time daily so it’s definitely counter to my playstyle.
Oh you‘re a returning player? Good luck. All your OP stuff 6 months ago? They’re now dogshit. You have to get the new stuff to keep up.
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Codes 208
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Halo infinite comes to mind.
Gotta love how the best cosmetics are behind paywalls and that you generally dont earn jack shit for simply playing
Gotta love how the best cosmetics are behind paywalls and that you generally dont earn jack shit for simply playing
Pretty much. This and gaas titles
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FinalBossWithTheMostPower
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Fucking waste of time. Sure is pretty though
Palabragrís
Member
Oh, my God. Finally someone put my feelings about HFW on digital paper! I also got the Plat on HZD, but just couldn't stand Alloy on the second one.
I don't care for a third adventure at this point.
Knightime_X
Member
Ever since the PS360 days some would say "Just keep playing. It gets better"
I took their word and gave the game a solid try.
I'm pissed I won't get that time back.
Now if i'm more strict than ever.
I took their word and gave the game a solid try.
I'm pissed I won't get that time back.
Now if i'm more strict than ever.
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Ceadeus
Gold Member
Such a good choice. The thing is, the graphics are insane and the world really beautiful. That's something Ubisoft mastered over the time. But then, they have the bad habit to let their world lifeless yet they bloat it with stuff for you to collect until you get sick of running around. Literally makes you put the controller down wandering why you're spending so much of your free time accomplishing nothing but collecting shit in a game that never pays off.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Starfield. As much as I love it, wasting your time is at the very core of the design philosophy of that game.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
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Destiny 2....
Played it for literal years. The highs were some of the highest. I slogged through some of the lowest lows in gaming, only for Bungie to shit the bed with LightFall.
Played it for literal years. The highs were some of the highest. I slogged through some of the lowest lows in gaming, only for Bungie to shit the bed with LightFall.
chromhound
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LA Noire
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
A vast majority of modern games (especially AAA titles) have sooooo much useless fluff to pad out the play time. I would much rather pay $70 for a 5 hour game I’d want to replay a few times (like the modern RE games/remakes) than spend 20-30 hours in a game that bores me for more than half of the playthrough.
It’s one of the reasons why I keep coming back to a lot of Nintendo first-party releases. Most of the time, they either have already trimmed the fat (Mario Wonder), or the fat is entirely optional.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the only example of a 50+ hour game (in my case, closer to 150 hours) where almost all of it was quality enough to actually justify that length. Not every side quest, mind you, but I’d argue most of them were unique enough to justify the length.
Counter that against something like Starfield or FF16, and the difference is night and day.
It’s one of the reasons why I keep coming back to a lot of Nintendo first-party releases. Most of the time, they either have already trimmed the fat (Mario Wonder), or the fat is entirely optional.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the only example of a 50+ hour game (in my case, closer to 150 hours) where almost all of it was quality enough to actually justify that length. Not every side quest, mind you, but I’d argue most of them were unique enough to justify the length.
Counter that against something like Starfield or FF16, and the difference is night and day.
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Windom Earle
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FF7 Remake. Literal corridor crawling simulator.
Instead of saying something predictable like Ubisoft games i'm going to go with Yakuza.
It's the second time i'm playing one. First time was 0, and i just finished Ishin.
Just like the 0 it started really well before going down the drain. Not just the repetitiveness of the overall content, but even the damn plot. Ishin's ending was absolutely terrible and didn't make any sense. It was the last straw after so many back and forth and fake twists everywhere.
It's the second time i'm playing one. First time was 0, and i just finished Ishin.
Just like the 0 it started really well before going down the drain. Not just the repetitiveness of the overall content, but even the damn plot. Ishin's ending was absolutely terrible and didn't make any sense. It was the last straw after so many back and forth and fake twists everywhere.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
FF7R was padded with slow-walk, extending mundane things to 10, 15 minute segment chunks.
Probably the main reason why I'm not gonna replay before the sequel comes out, just don't have it in me to slog through it again.
Probably the main reason why I'm not gonna replay before the sequel comes out, just don't have it in me to slog through it again.
kruis
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That was the first game I thought of. Played 120+ hours, only 80% done. It's such a slog.
Krieger
Member
Horizon Forbidden West. The story was such a convoluted mess that went fucking nowhere except reveal a new big bad evil at the end, which shouldn't even be an enemy, because this big bad evil helped you find a way to kill the seemingly invincible other new big bad evil introduced in this game. Also, Aloy. I can't describe how annoying she is. "I need to save this planet and humanity, so I'm gonna blow up a mountain fortress which protects countless people to strong arm them into doing what some other dude said so I can get what I came here for."
King Dazzar
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Out of all the many, many games I've played over the years. The one that truly sticks in my memory for player time abusement, has to go to Elite Dangerous. I'm sure there are many MMO's that must be up there too....
Windom Earle
Member
Also this. What a slog of a "game".
Fucking waste of time. Sure is pretty though
havoc00
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I honestly thought sleeping dogs was way better than gta IV.
raduque
Member
Sleeping Dogs was actually really good. I sadly didn't finish it.
havoc00
Member
You should pick it up sometimes it usually on sale for like 5 bucks or so the definitive edition
gaming_again
Member
Sleeping Dogs is amazing and a really good length for an open world game. Extremely underrated.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Starfield. An utter waste of time, from menus to lack of compelling gameplay or story.
You play hoping it gets good and never does. Take my advice and don’t play it
You play hoping it gets good and never does. Take my advice and don’t play it
Schmendrick
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FF16 is the latest example for me. No idea why I actually finished this mediocre bloated thing.
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Hudo
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It's better than every GTA game released after San Andreas.
Shake Your Rump
Member
Agreed. They took an awesome game and story, shoehorned in an alternate ending, made Aloy insufferable, and added so much bloat. I bought this at release, got about six hours in (twice) and resigned. The the epitome of ”slog”.
drezz
Member
Clash of Clans
Holy balls I ended up spending straight above 100USD on the microtransaction shit, cause of a few min here and there...
What a moron I was.
And the newest cods, with their dumb unlockable weapons.
"Grind THIS OTHER WEAPON THAT YOU ARE TERRIBLE, WITH to unlock attachment for your main weapon"
Eat my tingeling.
Holy balls I ended up spending straight above 100USD on the microtransaction shit, cause of a few min here and there...
What a moron I was.
And the newest cods, with their dumb unlockable weapons.
"Grind THIS OTHER WEAPON THAT YOU ARE TERRIBLE, WITH to unlock attachment for your main weapon"
Eat my tingeling.
PanzerCute
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HFW is a downgrade in every way (except graphics of course). The writing is insanely bad, the story is terrible, characters are unlikable, gameplay is average at best and the level design is uninteresting.
Oh and I still cant understand how there was no bad buzz against the game: I had to wait several months to play the game as the performance mode was completely broken at launch and made me sick with the worst IQ I have ever witnessed.
And I LOVED the first one, one of the best surprise of last gen.
And to add on topic, I think Dragon Age Inquisition is up there. It is basically a failed MMO revamped to be a (terrible) solo game, bloated with shitty content that you HAVE to do.
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Happosai
Hold onto your panties
I play demos and will watch early playthroughs if I'm on the fence. Unless it's Steam where I can find games at low dollar risk, I won't bother buying or playing if I feel it's not going to pan out. There's a twist though, my wife is highly skilled and will playthrough anything. Half of my choices for games I opted-in for were because she made the playthrough interesting.
The only time I bit off more than I could chew was with MGSV. Open world didn't bother me. It was the seemingly endless side missions. I don't remember getting to the end. Just got bored of the repetitions.
The only time I bit off more than I could chew was with MGSV. Open world didn't bother me. It was the seemingly endless side missions. I don't remember getting to the end. Just got bored of the repetitions.
Puscifer
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Game design has taken a shit, don't get me wrong but Persona 4 and 5 are similar in that regard that you can tell which one definitely respected your agency as a player and which one didn't. Honestly at times in P5 I was just hitting X for several hours and it was ridiculous.
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Pasta la Vista
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Yeah it's gotta be this most recently for me. Combat was fantastic but for the love of God, fuck the padding and pacing was so bad. I have quit that game numerous times because of it.
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