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[Simbabbad]

Tons of games back in the day used to be hard as fuck and Game Over meant starting over. Especially arcade games.

You could spend hours playing a game, only to have to start again from the start to get to the same point.

Are you seriously saying learning to master an arcade game was wasting your time as a player?

 

[Quocia]

I feel bad playing games that are 100 hours long, Xenoblade aren't for me.
I love Persona too, but there is the same problem with them.

 

[Producer]

Any decent beat em up.

 

[GravityMan]

The Ys series.

 

[Gears]

Super meat boy

 

[BadData]

N++

 

[dragonbane]

Story driven games with no combat and old Nintendo games for me.

 

[Shoebox]

Journey. Short and sweet.

 

[To Far Away Times]

All arcade games, really. Because wasting time means wasting money for the arcade operator. You even get countdown timers on selection screens to keep players from stalling.

Pinball for exactly the same reason.

Yeah. One of the reasons I love arcade games.

 

[SonyToo!™]

Tons of games back in the day used to be hard as fuck and Game Over meant starting over. Especially arcade games.

You could spend hours playing a game, only to have to start again from the start to get to the same point.

Outside of early arcade games like Pacman and Space Invaders which had no ending and were designed purely with highscore in mind with no continue, arcade games generally didn't last longer than a hour start to finish.

 

[Pinky]

I would say Super Metroid falls into this. Game has good pacing. True, there is a good amount of backtracking when trying to gather energy tanks, missles, bombs, etc.. However, the design of Zebes feels so tight and accessible that it doesn't feel like a chore when you backtrack. Well, it didn't for me...

 

[Dynasty8]

Easily the Souls series.

 

[Uthred]

I wouldn't say "thankfully" since unlocks have mostly been replaced with paid DLC but eh

I dont think any of the big franchises do character DLC, do they? They just force you to buy a bullshit update pack every 9 months or so (or if theyre BlazBlue they do both) Still, in a way, less annoying than bringing home a new fighting game and having to grind single player so you could use the full roster with your mates

 

[ugly]

Demon's Crest

ma nigga

 

[Twilight Gap]

Ori and the Blind Forest. You can save anywhere and death respawns are near instantaneous. Some people find the back tracking tedious, but it's quick and efficient once you unlock the abilities. And the definitive edition might end up having fast travel...

 

[Nesther]

Which games actually do waste your time? Of all the games I recently played, Witcher 3, Batman, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 2 and Rocket League, none waste my time. Indies especially, they cut straight to the chase.

 

[manueldelalas]

Demon's Crest

Great game, but NOPE. You have to repeat stages a lot because of the stupid path to the true ending. They really screwed up there. A ton of backtracking here.

 

[hohoXD123]

Which games actually do waste your time? Of all the games I recently played, Witcher 3, Batman, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 2 and Rocket League, none waste my time. Indies especially, they cut straight to the chase.

Bloodborne does waste your time. The lamps are often some distance away from the bosses which you will be losing against with numerous weaker enemies in between, plus having to pointlessly farm blood vials before these encounters if you use too many, the Souls system of replenishing healing items at bonfires worked better imo.

F2P games are so considerate of your time, they let you buy upgrades/shortcuts.

Spoiler

you never said anything about wasting your money

Touché

 

[TP]

Which games actually do waste your time? Of all the games I recently played, Witcher 3, Batman, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 2 and Rocket League, none waste my time. Indies especially, they cut straight to the chase.

Witcher 3 just wasted my time my marking a contract within my range and having Skull icon monsters when I got there

 

[ClaptoVaughn]

F2P games are so considerate of your time, they let you buy upgrades/shortcuts.

Spoiler

you never said anything about wasting your money

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

This is generally a hallmark of games with progression systems so any genre that doesnt do that meets the criteria, e.g. fighting games (barring character unlocks which thankfully seem to be a thing of the past), puzzle games, etc.

I don't look at it that way. The way I look at it, is that a game is wasting my time if I sense that there are less-good gameplay sections that feel like they only exist to make a game longer. repeated levels, pointless easy, time consuming back-and-forth puzzles, collect-a-tons (mandatory) and stuff like that.

I don't consider it time waste if the game feels like it has an incredible high level of quality all the way through.

Max Payne 1 and 2 are great examples of no-nonsense third person shooters, that do not become watered down, decluttered with bullshit. No shallow sub-RPG like mechanics, upgrading of skills, no pointless vehicle sections to try and ease the pace of stagnant gameplay, no locked paths that require convoluted un-fun puzzles just to access the next area.
No- the games do one thing really well, shooting and that is what it does in spades. It has one mechanic (bullet time) and it works beautiful. installation is smoth, system reqs are low, interface is not intrusive.
Max Payne is just gorgeous, and every time I reinstall it when I am in mood for explosions and killing people I am always reminded of that.

I got so many games on steam where I don't even bother, because of tutorials, because of bullshit, because of all this crap they put into the games. those games waste your time. You're never going to replay those. they spend all their time and money doing 30 different things trying to make a sum-is-greater-than-all-of-its-parts thing, and most often it emerges like mediocre.

 

[Mac the KNife]

Any game where "experience" isn't measured in points.