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submitted 1 year ago by Mandy@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

recent: tears of the kingdom, or as i like to call it botw 1.2, its the same thing all over again just with one or two added gimicks, the open world is dead, npcs are boring and nintendo just got away with it like that

not so recent: i cant stand persona 5, joker and his entourage are annoying teenagers, the time management is a horrible gameplay addition and the artstyle is just a visual overstimulation

with that being said,~~ plz dont kill me~~

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[-] polygon@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

I'll probably get roasted for this but.. Pokemon. It just seems like endless copy/paste and might be one of the laziest game franchises I've ever seen. I've really tried to get into them. I was there when the Pokemon cartoon started, I saw it rise to the phenomenon it is today, but damn if it isn't the most boring grindfest ever.

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[-] CptNoobCanoe@feddit.dk 22 points 1 year ago

Red Dead Redemption 2. Everyone goes on about how awesome it is, but I just found the story and gameplay really slow and dull.

[-] sjolsen@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

RDR2 suffers heavily from the same problem as GTAV's single player mode: it's a movie posing as a video game and both aspects suffer for it.

RDR2 would have been great if it was just the part where you wander around tracking critters and collecting flowers and playing cowboy dress-up, but the game really doesn't want you to do that. Not to belabor the point, but between how unpredictable the connection between "interact with item/character X" and "start mission with character Y" can be and the game's tendency to fail missions the second you go off-script, RDR2 often felt like it was directed by someone who actively resented the concept of player agency.

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[-] ohokthatsgood@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

I still can't make it through any of The Witcher games. Smooth and satisfying gameplay is super important for me to enjoy a game, and The Witcher has always felt slow, clunky, unintuitive, and super menu-heavy. I'm sure the story is great! But I just can't get past its gameplay.

[-] doostein@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I adore Witcher 3. That said I've always said controlling Geralt feels like driving a boat. God help you for the very few instances that you do platforming.

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[-] d4r1us_drk@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

This will be an extremely hot take for some: Almost all recent online games are complete garbage that solely exist to make profit and create addicted user bases and they hurt what videogames truly are, a revolutionary and interactive form of art.

[-] ascclemens 10 points 1 year ago

This is why I can basically only play old games or indies. Games shouldn't feel like work or require me to pay tons of money. I play games to have fun, which I guess is a radical idea now.

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[-] Jentu@lemmy.film 16 points 1 year ago

Any game that has daily login bonuses or a bonus for playing every day. Animal crossing pocket or whatever it is. Pokémon go. A bunch of afk phone games. A bunch of gacha games. It just feels so shallow to me. Like, I’m not being manipulated to play something, I just end up feeling so guilty to lose a streak I’d rather delete the game.

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[-] lunasloth@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Honestly, Stardew Valley for me. I've tried it a couple times and it just didn't work for me. I wanted to like it, and I like the idea of it, but in practice, I hated the time management aspect and not being able to just run around and do as much as I wanted in a day (I haven't played on PC with mods; I know there's at least one or two that let you change that). I also hated the fishing. 🙃

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[-] thunderbird32@fedia.io 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Borderlands: I mean the combat is fine and all, but the story is super weak. What is my incentive to keep playing? Just to click on more heads? There are better games for that (Doom, Quake, etc)

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[-] naxsat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Didn't play Skyrim at the time and the two times I've tried to get into It didn't really click for me. I understand why people like It, mayo give another try sometime

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Oh thank god, I came here to say Skyrim and was afraid of being the only one.

I should have liked it. Absolutely loved Morrowind. But just never could get into Skyrim despite multiple attempts and now I've given up.

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[-] Gert@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Didn't see anyone else mention it, so I'll say MMOs. Pretty much all of them. WoW, FFXIV, Guild Wars 2, Star Wars one (can't remember the name). I really like the idea of MMOs, having a huge shared world that feels alive, tons of lore, epic quests, but I just find the gameplay loop so boring. They just feel like endless busywork to me.

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[-] gingerrich@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Witcher 3.

It just feels so generic and suffers from one of the things I hate the most about rpgs. Endless sidequests that have nothing to do with the main quest.

Cyberpunk 2077. The first part was really enjoyable. Then you get to the open world part and it suffers from the same issue as the Witcher above and also has fiddly levelling up/skill tree. Also it's overwhelming. You're on a mission. The phone calls. Sone rando wants you for a job. Start job. The phone calls. There's an out of control ai taxi...repeat. Just too much information at once and mostly for stuff unrelated to the fact your character has a very personal and important mission.

Survival/Builder games I find incredibly boring.

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[-] misguidedfunk@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WoW. Can't stomach paying monthly for a game that's a lot of grinding. It's just not my thing.

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[-] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Terraria - I just don't understand what you're meant to do or why it's interesting.

I actually really like TOTK though, it's a big improvement over BOTW with a slightly more alive world and the vehicle creation stuff is fun.

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[-] IHawkMike@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Monster Hunter. It's just so painfully slow and boring. Combat just feels clunky.

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[-] ylch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I just can’t stand Genshin Impact. Idk what it is but I don’t see the draw and find it boring.

[-] wizjenkins@lemmy.wizjenkins.com 9 points 1 year ago

Gacha games completely turn me off. I just hate random loot boxes or other gimmicks to get you to spend money for the chance at getting something neat.

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[-] alternativeninja@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Monster Hunter. I don't understand any of it. I tried rise and generations and I just... I just don't get it.

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[-] Hugh@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

I guess I'll take the hit for this one. Dark Souls.

The combat can be really fun and I had a great time fighting the bosses but the slow, careful crawl between boss fights is just so dull to me that it's not worth it.

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[-] bilb@lem.monster 10 points 1 year ago

Diablo and Diablo-style games like Torchlight. Every time a new one comes out a few of my friends get excited and I've been convinced to try it again, but I think I've learned my lesson finally and I have skipped Diablo IV.

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[-] hazelnot@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

The Souls games.

I can see the appeal of the story and stuff, but they're just impossible for me to get into cause of their difficulty

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's the thing I never got: most Souls-like aren't actually that difficult, they're just tedious. And I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because people don't seem to notice and/or care.

I don't mind doing a boss encounter 20 times to get the move set down. I like the feeling of beating a boss by actually becoming better. But why the hell do I need to run trough a dozen enemies before I get back to him? It's like a damn unskippable cutscene where I need to mash the same buttons over and over again! And people rightfully get mad at those, but put it in a souls-like dress and people love it.

I'm a 40 year old dad, I really don't have the time to waste doing stuff I already mastered 20 times over. Just give me a damn quick save that doesn't work during combat. It doesn't make anything easier, it's just less tedium.

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[-] Remedy@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Don't hate me but I cannot get into Minecraft. I get so bored running around collecting supplies and building things, it feels like a chore each and every time I try it out.

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[-] EnigmaNL@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Souls games.

I like difficult games but I just don't enjoy the gameplay of Souls games. They feel sluggish and repetitive.

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[-] Lux 10 points 1 year ago

Most jrpgs that I've tried to play. The movement is always way to slow, and I'm not a fan of most of their combat systems

[-] SindriDeLaMancha@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

honestly most competitive multiplayer games like league (stretching the definition of everyone loves I know). I just have a hard time learning the game when I feel like I'm dragging the team down

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[-] edent@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

That stupid Goose game. Pissed me off how simple and repetitive it was. Completed it in a few hours and felt like a total rip off. I still get angry when I see the memes.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/01/the-value-of-videogames-or-why-i-think-untitled-goose-game-was-a-rip-off/

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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

I just got done with Subnautica. Man, either I just had shit luck, or that game does NOT respect your time. It's infuriating to me when I know exactly what I need to do to progress, but I'm blocked by not being able to find a single damn rock out in a giant ocean. I dug the story, but man I was glad to be done with it.

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[-] Kindajustlikewhat@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

There's one opinion that I've been afraid to say out loud forever because people are so passionate about it... Disco Elysium. I love rpgs and I love choice-based, narrative-driven games. But there were two main things which drove me crazy:

  1. I really didn't like the writing. Honestly it felt like some fresh English lit major suddenly discovered big words and angst and went crazy with it. It was really cringy to me.
  2. I didn't like the false paradigm of choices in terms of world views and beliefs, when the game very clearly sets them all up to suck. With a strong preference for communism. Like when you try to be measured and moderate the game actively negs you for being weak. Why give me the choice when you're just going to punish me for it? And what if I have some anti-capitalist beliefs but don't want to kill the landlords? It was just so extreme and off-putting.
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[-] uzay@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

For me botw was that game. I didn't like the gameplay and many aspects of the game design. In contrast, I'm enjoying totk a lot more. It improved on a few aspects I didn't like and the gameplay feels closer to what I want in a Zelda game. Overall I'd still prefer them to go in a different direction with the series though.

But in general, I'm not a fan of a lot of currently popular elements. I don't need big, open worlds with a lot to do, that just gives me FOMO. I don't want to build and manage stuff, and make a lot of decisions in my adventure game, I just want a good story and fun traversal and combat. And I don't need 50+h of gameplay, I don't have that much time and I usually start burning out after the 20h mark anyway.

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Hollow Knight. It feels gross af to die only to have to walk like 10 minutes back to the boss I die to again, and the exploration is some of the least rewarding in the metroidvania genre imo.

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[-] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 8 points 1 year ago

For some reason I couldn't get into God of War (the ps4/ps5 game). Everyone I know praised the game and I read great reviews online. Once I tried it though, I felt like it was very linear and the storyline annoyed me. (Climbing up the mountain top to then have to climb down and go to parallel worlds) I might not have been in the right state of mind when I played it, but the game just didn't have an impact on me like it seemed to have had with others.

Needless to say that I didn't finish, but I've considered giving it another try again after hearing about the PC release

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[-] Sinnz@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West. Game is so empty and has an open world for having an open world’s sake. Couldn’t stand it for longer than 3 hours.

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[-] Honkinwaffles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Destiny 2! The game is total trash. The combat is so fucking boring, its just nothing but bullet sponge bosses with simple ass mechanics.

I know that lots of people love it but man I do not understand lol

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[-] cambionn@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly most online games. I just prefer to game alone than with strangers or even friends. And while there are exceptions to the next point, I am well aware. But I also don't feel like spending my free time having rando's on the internet hate me for not being some awesome e-sporter, or be called a hacker when it does go well, as often seems to be how it goes. Like, I don't get why people would spend their free time on something that just tends to make everything so negative. I have more fun things to do in my free time than get complained at... Honestly, the few online games I do like, you can play alone, and I mainly do, like ESO.

But one of the most loved games that I hate the most is GTA V. Especially the online mode. It's so full of hackers it's nearly impossible to do anything. Heck, I couldn't even go buy a new outfit because some stupid guy was spawning shopping cards above everyones head causing the store to close and me to loose my whole selection of stuff I wanted to buy.... Just why...

I also keep getting confused with the controlls somehow. Wanna get in your friends car picking you up? End up jumping on it's roof or kicking it instead... It's not that I can't game. My hand-eye cordination might suck but that's not even the issue here. I somehow just keep mixing everything up, while I'm fine with other games.

[-] Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Honestly, Animal Crossing (new & old). What's sad is it really is a fun game if you have a good attention span and no depression. I have a hard time keeping basic routines so logging into a game regularly was really challenging for me. By the time I'm reminded of the game it'd be weeks or months since I touched it. In the old game this meant everything you worked on has been undone and you have roaches. The newer one is better about overgrowing weeds and I haven't got roaches yet, but the neighbors notice your disappearance and have some things to say about it. Last time I logged on one of the characters was so personally slighted by my disappearance I just logged out after the conversation. I haven't logged on since. When I can keep up with it, it's fun and cute. When I can't I'm made to feel guilty for hurting the feelings of an unsympathetic AI. At least my friends in real life understand depression and it's ability to steal my motivation. I do miss Sherb tho.

[-] IncrediblyIncredible@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I finished Fallout New Vegas but never really enjoyed my time with it. Was a boring open world with emotionless NPCs and a forgettable storyline. Tried Fallout 76 recently and it was still the same type of thing. I played the hell out of Skyrim though and loved it the whole time. Maybe I just don’t like an apocalyptic open world? People always seem to love Fallout but it’s just not for me.

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[-] jmf1@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Mine is definitely League of Legends. I cant get behind the boring slow walking around and baiting bots to farm coins. Zero dopamine even during 'intense' teamfights and I just cant get the hype of this game!

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I want to love Skyrim so much. I own it I've tried a bunch of mods I've played it probably 5 or 10 hours. I just eventually wander off looking at something neat the distance get lost, end up getting stuck in the terrain somewhere, get bored and find something else to do.

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[-] DarkMatter_contract@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This should be in unpopular opinion lol. For me it is control. The combat feel tiring after 2 to 3 hours and the story didn't caught on for me.

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[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Genshin Impact or as I recently started to call it Genshit impact

-Microtransactions -Botw 0.01 -Visuals are not original -Bad touch controls besides having 99% of its players playing on mobile.

[-] flibbertigibbet@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Anything with multiplayer.

[-] Zebov@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I LOVE RPGs and open world games. Love the Fallouts (all of them except 76), elder scrolls, dragon age, old baldurs gates, etc. Basically every game that's apparently indicative of liking the Witcher 3. But holy hell, I've played it 4x and can only get 10 hours or so into it before I have to turn it off. I have no idea why honestly, because every thing about it screams that I'll love it.

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[-] yozul@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Ocarina of Time. I thought 3D games from that era had terrible controls and ugly graphics even by the standards of the time, and that's only gotten worse over the years. Plus I just wasn't really ever all that into the Zelda formula from the time between A Link to the Past and Breath of the Wild. For me Breath of the Wild felt like a return to form after decades of mediocrity.

I don't even really think Ocarina of Time is bad, exactly. I just resent the fact that it feels like everybody I know holds it up as the greatest game of all time when in my opinion it's practically the definition of mid.

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I think it's a generational gap. You're looking at it from a vacuum perspective while other people are looking at it from the 1998 perspective... You may seem graphics are bad in your high definition screen but I guarantee you that everyone back then thought the graphics were amazing on the CRT. You need to understand we were playing the SNES before N64 came out...

Back then games were different, more simple in design and mostly linear. Ocarina of Time was a pioneer of its time. In my opinion it was the best game at the time it was released and one the biggest increase in quality to what we were used to play. Super Mario 64 is obviously up there as well.

Obviously you have all the right to dislike the game but no need to resent people who did enjoy it.

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[-] UltimoGato@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I don't get Minecraft. By all means it seems like one of those games that should totally be up my alley, but it does not click with me at all.

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Borderlands

I apparently hate looter shooters. I loved the art style, tone, and everything else about the game, but I just really didn't like the gameplay. I bailed on it in like 20 minutes.

In fact, I don't like loot in general. I also don't really like Diablo, and I dislike managing loot in most RPGs (esp. Elder Scrolls games). I care very little about what items I have in games.

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[-] SirSauceLordtheThird@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I have over 1300 hours in fallout 4, and 3 & vegas combined are probably in a similar realm. So I really want to like Skyrim, but I just don't care for it nearly as much. It gets so much praise but when I look at it it all looks so samey. The dungeons all feel identical, the combat is extremely boring, and you have the same combat music playing over and over.

Blindly swinging a sword doesn't come close to how good gunplay feels in fallout 4, dungeons in fallout each feel more unique, and the radio is such a good feature compared to not having the option. Also i simply find sci fi more interesting than medieval sorcery stuff.

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