What video game have you played the most, that you think is garbage and no one else should ever play?

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?

EnthusiasticMind, (edited )

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BoredPlank,

Rainbow six: siege. I played it pretty religiously and had a pretty good ranked k/d. At some point the magic wore off and playing with randoms is insufferable. Very toxic too

ericbomb,

The skill curve on that game always seemed insane, cause you could throw the game by taking cover behind the wrong wall?

BoredPlank,

You can also get killed by someone aiming through a 2-pixel-wide hole

Yerbouti,

I’ve spent way too much hours in Fall Out 3 and NV. I love those games but I would glady take back a few dozens hours,

ProfezzorDarke,

So you name them because they’re garbage?

Yerbouti,

You’re a chicken Michael

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Any free to play game. TF2 was mine, I spent stupid amounts of money on it as a kid because it had the addictive loot crate dark patterns. I don’t play games like that anymore.

Venutianxspring,

Overwatch was it for me. Loved the game for the first couple of years, then Blizzard did typical Blizzard things and it’s a disgusting pile of micro (macro) transaction shit now. I hate the battle pass format so many games are trying to incorporate now.

MiuST,

I played ow a lot and I was pretty excited when ow2 was announced. Now I want overwatch 1 back. Overwatch 2 is just the first game but with a battle pass and a bunch of microtransactions. I stopped playing it.

Venutianxspring,

Same with me. Made it even worse Thay I gave my son my overwatch account when we switched to 2 and it would’ve cost me a years salary to get them all back lol

planforrain,

What I am seeing here is that mostly people regret playing free to play games. That tells me that their business model is working as intended but we should all wise up.

My regret is spending too much time making cool mods work together and then not playing the games, oblivion was the worst because I didn’t get it until skyrim was a year or two old and there were so many stupid mods out already. Most of them are janky or old and have incompatibilities with each other. I discovered pretty quickly that I need less options not more in open world rpgs because I’m an adult and don’t have time to play games the way my heart wants to (look in every door, under every bush, around every corner).

weew,

Free to Play games are basically a test of willpower. They use every trick in the book to get people to keep playing and spend money. FOMO via time limited events, gambling addiction via loot boxes/gacha, impatience via playtime or realtime limited resources, sunk cost via slow and difficult to earn resources/rewards. All of which can be “solved” with money.

On the other hand if you’ve got the willpower to just… ignore FOMO, ignore the gambling, and just walk away when you’ve played a little bit each day, F2P games actually offer incredible amounts of content. Over the past decade I’ve played about 5 different F2P games and never spent a single cent. Each one was pretty fun, and I just walked away when I got bored.

richyawyingtmv,

Thomas the Tank Engine on SNES. Me and my mates used to find it hilarious when high. Still do.

mbryson,
@mbryson@lemmy.ca avatar

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.

Nika03,

Paladins. I’ve spent like 400 hours in it and tbh it’s all hand crafted to keep you addicted and keep grinding their bullshit battlepass.

Honorable mention: Team Fortress 2. Game is great but Valve has pretty much done nothing with it. Last major update was in late 2017 and since then the game has received minor updates that usually only add shit for people to throw money at. The game still has a bot and cheater problem due to aforementioned fuck all Valve has been doing. Feel free to play, but you better open your wallet if you even want to speak! Let that one sink in, the game is free to play but you need to pay! To! Communicate! In the fucking game! Why? Oh the aforementioned cheating/bot problem of course! The bots were spamming racial slurs and other shit so Valve in infinite wisdom made free to play players unable to communicate at all! And that didn’t even do anything! The bots just had premium accounts! There are cheaters in the game with very valuable items and are not banned. After all that trash talk the game is still fun, 4000 hours well spent. It’s just sad that it’s being left to rot.

lunaticneko,

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
SatansMaggotyCumFart,

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.

Skooshjones,

Sim City for GameBoy. If you’re thinking, “how the heck would you play Sim City on a GameBoy?” Exactly, don’t do it. Young me wanted to like it, but just spare yourself…

variouslegumes,

GTA for the Gameboy on the other hand, kinda rad.

Skooshjones,

I’ll have to check that out lol.

lol3droflxp,
lol3droflxp avatar

War Thunder, the game just got increasingly more pushy with the economy and vehicle repair costs so that you are almost forced to pay to progress or even play at all. The sad part is, that the gameplay is actually pretty unique with the damage model but the matchmaking and economy is just horrible.

miles,
miles avatar

world of warcraft, league of legends. ive always had an affinity for infinite time-sinks but i could never recommend them. i don't even play them anymore

0101010001110100,
@0101010001110100@sopuli.xyz avatar

Fucking Ark. I have a major love-hate relationship with that game.
This review visualizes it well.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/7d689f05-0b77-407b-a766-e3e024f02cb0.webp

Poob,

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.

tookmyname,

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.

CorrodedCranium,

Hotline Miami 2. I’ve beat it on several platforms but I really don’t think it’s as good as the original.

Fallout 3. Mostly due to the mountain of technical issues it has on PC but even playing on console you can run into stability issues.

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