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?
Skyrim. The writing is horrible, I can’t remember the name and personalities of more than 5 NPCs, the town’s are microscopic, it can’t handle more than 5 NPCs on screen, all the dungeons are theme park rides with gift shop exits, combat is a horrific sloppy mess, it’s ugly, it has 4 voice actors, it’s a buggy mess despite being released 37 times, the only way to interact with the world is violence, and all of the quests are flaccid boring murderfests.
I’ve played hundreds of hours.
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.
People that complain about Skyrim town size complain that Lego Police stations are missing a back wall.
There are not a lot of games where you can play a thief and up being a vampire, after recovering from a alcohol night with a deadra.
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.
Definitely. Wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle. I would have settled for a nice lake.
I do this with a ton of open world games. I always like the scenery and want to enjoy the game but end up bored. Some do manage to keep me interested, I got through Horizon Zero Dawn eventually and enjoyed God of War.
I’m kind of afraid for Starfield. It looks interesting but given their track record I’m afraid they might botch it up.
Don’t even be afraid they “might”, just accept that they will. Go into it with the understanding that it’s going to be an overhyped bugfest when it launches, that you can then eventually fix and massively overhaul with mods, just like every other Bethesda game, and then you can just skip the part where you’re disappointed.
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.
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.
Play some modded Morrowind and live the good life
And you will play hundreds more.
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.
League of Legends
I really wanted to get into MOBA games, the idea seem really cool. But every one I’ve tried the meta/community seem infuriating.
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.
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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The worst game I’ve ever sunk thousands of hours into
My dumbass ex-brother-in-law is deep in the process of losing his wife and two kids largely because of his EVE Online addiction.
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.
Cookie Clicker
like drugs… just say no
Looking at my Steam, the game with the highest number of hours played, of which I would currently say unambiguously that you should avoid it, looks to be War Thunder. Among the reasons I’d tell you to stay away from it:
- It’s a grindfest starting very early on.
- It’s far too easy to lose as a result of what can reasonably be called bad luck.
- Unless you specialise, or throw real money at it, the fun, high-tech stuff is probably thousands of hours into the future.
- There’s content gated behind “if you were not around when this was regular stuff, you will never get it”
- It calls itself an MMO, while there’s nothing MMO about it. It’s all instanced battles, with little to no world continuity as you progress.
I love/hate warthunder for all the reasons you listed. I used to play WoT, but I much prefer the experience of WT.
League of Legends. I’ve sank so many hours into it a few years back. It’s not a bad game, just highly addictive and toxic. It was only really worth playing it with friends, but now they’ve all moved on.
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.
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.
I feel like all the games I’ve sunken more then 50 hours into have some merit tbh. I’ve never really been into those super grinding or janky games that seem to be the target of the comments haha.
How dare you not have the personality flaw we all share in the comments!
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.
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.
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.
Destiny 2.
Incredibly engaging loop, great gunplay/moment to moment gameplay, and an intriguing story that keeps me interested to see what will happen next.
Loaded with micro (and macro) transactions and time gating of reused content as the game approaches it’s conclusion and Bungie prepares it’s next project for launch (this project also highlighting the poor state the PvP section of the game is in.).
Again, so much of my time has been spent in Destiny 2 and a good majority of it I’ve personally enjoyed. But when asked this question it’s my go-to answer to advise people to steer clear if possible.
No Man’s Sky.
No, I’m not one of the fellas that fell for the hype. I didn’t preorder it. I started playing around 2020, after many patches and updates, my expectations were very low. Even then, I was disappointed, because everything is half baked. I think ~10h is more than enough to see everything there is to see, then it’s all pure repetition.
I still got almost 500h in it, and check in once in a while, but it’s not “fun”, it’s just cheap comfort food.
You know I feel like I was the only person in the world who liked NMS when it came out. I didn’t preorder but I bought it within a month or two of lauch. It was fun to just wander around those giant planets not really doing much. I’ve actually liked it less since some of the big updates.
Expectations really affect your opinion on games. There were people who were hyped for NMS for years in advance. People who came to it with low expectations or later in the development cycle seem much less disappointed.
You and me both. NMS happened to show up at a time in my life when I really needed peace and quiet, so the slow pace and solitude of the gameplay was great.
I vaguely recall Hello Games saying that ~100 players are still playing on version 1.0, probably back on a reddit thread. You’re not alone in preferring the launch version, though I didn’t get to experience it.
Stellaris. I can’t recommend it anymore due to how fragmented the game mechanics have become due to the dlc model
eyes 2K of game time
Honestly yeah. Like the last 2 DLC’s just did not do it for me, and I try to get excited and just can’t.
What really killed me was my saves breaking every update while I waited for mods. Live service games, and relying on mods to make the game fun, are two things that don’t mix well.
Skyrim modded is great because mods that haven’t been updated in a decade still work
Thomas the Tank Engine on SNES. Me and my mates used to find it hilarious when high. Still do.
Elite: Dangerous.
Hell of a good space trucker sim. If you like spending 2 hours managing your ship before making a 6 system jump only to dock and do it all over again.
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The king of ‘oops I forgot my keys’ simulation
You mean fuel scoop. Nothing worse than making jumps with a full tank only to get to your destination and realize you forgot to equip a fuel scoop. Better hope they have a fuel scoop you can afford that also doesn’t take forever to refuel!
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.
I’m from Thailand. We have a term called เกมหมา (dog game) which means a shitty game that gets you raging. The list varies from person to person but every list so far includes Dota 2 and League of Legends (which I have personally played). Other honorable mentions include:
- Free Fire
- Fortnite
- PUBG
- Minecraft
- Roblox
- FIFA Online
Battle arena games tend to get people raging lol. I loved playing honour of kings but damn I raged so much I couldn’t do it to myself anymore 🥲
Minecraft doesn’t get me raging I find it soothing like playing LEGO.
The lack of micro-transactions (so far) is amazing to me as well.
