Submitted 1 day ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
New games.
I understand the hype around a new game you’re specifically looking forward to, but people drag the Steam Deck because it’s “not powerful enough” for the latest AAAA game. Have you seen the disgustingly huge catalog of old amazing games from the 6th, 7th, and 8th console generations that are perfectly playable on the Steam Deck? How many games have gen Z and gen Alpha missed out on simply because they’re “old.”
Football (soccer).
I’ll probably be hung for this one but Disco Elysium.
And the thing is. I like text heavy dwcision-based games. Like I could go on and on about Shadowrun Dragonfall. But Disco Elysium was just do drab. It just felt like a slog of memorization, and when I gave up on trying to do that I was like “okay, I’ll just play and do whatever I feel like” the game punished me. Maybe people like that? I don’t know… Like… Maybe I like games for escapism? So playing some peice of shit alcoholic didn’t do it for me? It just felt like a depressing version of a good game. People kept telling me “you just need to keep playing it gets so good”. At like 6 hours in when it’s not good yet, you failed at good story telling and you failed at good game development. To each their own I guess.
Star Citizen. They’ve had a decade and almost a billion with a B budget yet they still hide behind early access for their buggy mess. They do this while selling ships for a grand USD.
Anyone playing that game gets ignored in any consumer rights or business ethics discussions. Lol
Breath of the Wild. A big empty open world with a few fetch quests thrown in. The shrine puzzles are all trivially easy they’re just not fun and the four main dungeons are just a joke.
It’s beautiful. That alone transforms the emptiness and thin challenge into a wonderful exploration game for me. Tarry Town has such a cute, wonderful story.
I get why it is popular, but Fifa/ EA Sports FC. I have never in my life played a way buggier, clunkier game and i literally only play single player on it. I feel like it’s just hot garbage but it’s the only…soccer game with the licensing gravitas.
Yeah. And, I can’t imagine there is anything new after 20+ FIFA games. It’s likely the exact same game I played in Windows 9x days
Halo, i love the sci fi concept designs by sparth, but for some reason the game feels so bland to me.
Gta. I get that it’s a well made series, but GTA V got repetitive really quick when I played it and people act like GTA VI will be the greatest game ever made, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about it.
I’ll second this. My issue with the entire series is that they’re smashing a ton of mechanics together (driving, fighting, shooting, etc) and everything is just functional but not great. Any time I was shooting I just wished I was playing a shooter. Any driving you did just made me wish it was a racing game.
Nothing was done well enough to make me want to keep playing. I think I put a couple hours into 4 and then 5 and lost interest.
Never mind that it’s the umpteenth time doing it as well if you’ve played previous gtas
I stopped after GTA 4. Never liked San Andreas even. Vice City was better
It’s mostly the same game play loop but the characters are really irritating. I hate everyone in that game, even the NPCs.
The soundtracks never miss, though.
Hell Divers 2. Cool soundtrack, cool visuals. But replay ability doesn’t seem that great. Some of my friends play it a ton. For me though, there was a lot of just slowly walking between objectives, hit a button, fight some, walk between objectives. Repeat each map with slightly different monsters and maps. But might just be that i didn’t get far past the first worlds.
If you ask me, playing on lower difficulties is boring. But there’s an insane rush from the challenge and chaos on the higher difficulties. Also the core mechanics mesh so well together; every action feels heavy and like a tactical decision.
I think the game just has too many mechanics and it doesn’t work that well together.
What is “gacha”? I don’t game almost at all anymore but never heard this.
Loot boxes/gambling, sorta.
Games with mechanics highly involved around games of chance. Sometimes it’s the whole game Other times it involves a specific game mechanic. Rarely is it involve skill. Pretty much gambling …
Chess. Fuckin’ a, no new characters for like a thousand years now. One map. Small children can beat me. Shit’s trash.
UMM ACKSHUALLY the queen was added in the 15th century, replacing the weaker vizier.
Last gameplay patch was in the 70s, when they fixed the vertical castling exploit.
In my first language we still call the chess queen a vizier!
What the hell are you on about, they added a new piece just last month.
I thought this was going to be about the nook :(
An LRR reference in the wild? Absolutely mythical.
According to Star Trek: The Original Series, in around 2 centuries, chess will get updated to support 2 more dimensions. We won’t have to wait long! So exciting!
Just wait until they have 8 separate cubes each consisting of 8 planes with an 8x8 grid each: true 4D chess.
Now it would only take 8 arrays of 8 of these cubes to advance to 5D chess!
Fuckin’ a, I had to share that with !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
I saw your repost before I saw this. Then I read his comment and thought “did he just steal that quote from the meme I just read?“
GTAV Online
It makes a BILLION DOLLARS a year of PROFIT. Not revenue. Profit. Why?
Men in their early twenties are really easily entertained, source: many years ago I was a man in my early twenties and was really easily entertained
Everything in game is obscenely expensive, and once rockstar discovered they can charge idiots for Shark Cards, tye game got specked and the quick-money smaller activities got neutered, basically requiring people to swipe credit cards.
i own all 3d GTA, the og’s - I’ve never played online, it’s just not appealing to do it 😅
league of legend, this thing is so boring i cant comprehend the reason people are addicted to it since 13 years
The level of skill really intrigues me but the community itself is a barrier. What a bunch of angry, stressed out tryhards.
Large amount of players, high skill expression, impossible to master, cool lore, one of the biggest e-sports scenes, hundreds of characters to play, and it can run on most hardware.
That being said, terrible game, wouldnt recommend.
It’s boring and people spit on you the whole time you play. Maybe it’s the spitting? Some people love that.
Monopoly. If it wasn’t a classic, and someone was looking for a publisher with that concept, they’d be completely trashed.
That’s because Monopoly (well, the game Monoopoly ripped off from) was designed to be bad (like Undertale’s genocide route). It wanted to show how shitty the stock market is
I used to like Monopoly, before its many problems became evident to me. I notice that even in the official excessively mythologizing biography of supposed-creator Charles Darrow, it notes that Parker Brothers didn’t believe the game would sell well, and it had to be proven to them from the sales of 5,000 units of the game through department store Wanamakers.
The reasons Monopoly is popular are several, most of them pretty dumb. At this point Monopoly is a part of the culture and lots of people buy it because they don’t know there are many much-better games out there. Hasbro merchandises the hell out of it, there’s over 4,000 themed versions of Monopoly now. It pushes a pleasing narrative that people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become successful (ignoring that all but one of the players will go bankrupt during the game).
What positive attributes does Monopoly have? Well it’s ultimately a game about trade, what causes someone to win at Monopoly, in ideal situations, isn’t how they move but what trades they make. In nearly every game of Monopoly I’ve ever played few people ever traded, causing games to run long and winners ultimately decided by whoever managed to make a natural color group, but in principle it’s an interesting idea. And it’s open-ended, as that mythologizing document I mentioned notes at the time of its origin you couldn’t get a game published unless it adhered to certain dogmatic rules, one of which being that it had to have a clear ending. Open-endedness is interesting in a board game, even if, as in Monopoly’s case, it can make a game excessively long.
I sometimes muse about how Monopoly could be improved. I think it’d be interesting to make the trading less ad-hoc and random. Maybe only allow trades at certain times, so players would have to think more about when to make them or else lose the chance, and make trades more formalized, maybe with a randomized element? Maybe fewer properties, reduce all color groups to two, make railroads and utilities a bigger part of the game. Maybe an explicit mechanism by which a player can resign from the game. Definitely make bankrupting a player less of a windfall for the person causing it. Definitely increase the costs of owning lots of properties. Definitely set an end point rather than just meander on until all players lose. Maybe add additional reasons to play than just winning; at their best board games tell these little stories about how the game progresses. Maybe have awards for players who circle the board the most times, who spend the least time in Jail, etc. Maybe one or more of these could be a “bar goal,” by which I mean, if the players agree ahead of time the players might have to buy the player who wins/gets a specific award a drink or some other minor forfeit.
What positive attributes does Monopoly have?
Well, it’s supposed to teach the players that for most participants capitalism’s a mug’s game. 🤷
Football games. I don’t see any gameplay difference between one made in 2007 and the latest football game, so why people still decide to drop 60$ for the very same game every year is something i don’t get.
Two reasons:
Its also important to note that a lot of sports game fans are just into that style of video game and buy consoles 6ust to play them. They aren’t playing videogames just sports games.
Actually, PES and FIFA used to get really good gameplay updates back in the 2000s. Like, the difference between FIFA 2002 and FIFA 2003 was massive, for example.
Then they realized they’re too big to waste money on actual development and went all in on licenses and marketing. It’s been shit every since.
If any sports games where made for the first time today they’d probably just go the subscription model. You buy the base game and need to pay for annual subscription updates and access to multiplayer.
Essentially releasing a game every year is this but the ideal of the subscription model wasn’t around back in 1995 when the first 3D sports games where releasing.
FOMO, mainly.
Bro, if you haven’t played FOMO26 yet, you’re really missing out
Theres actually quite a huge difference. The animations are much better, the detail in ball control, unique player moves, real time stat updates and the multiplayer. Plus there is the collection aspect.
The last football game i played was in like 2002. The otger day i saw a friend of mine playing the new fifa (we probably talk about a different kind of football) and i asked him to stream it, because i was waiting for a download or something. The game looked obviously better, but damn these are some low effort games that make billions. BILLIONS. they are the reason that there wasn’t a skate 4. Skate was the better game in every way possible. It even outsold fifa. But fifa made that microtransactions money. They don’t fix bugs, you can still make the same cheap goals as you could do when i played it last. Glitchgoals they call it now i think, so you can win 20-0 every game. The announcers are just as bad as back then. They repeat the same catchphrases over and over. I asked him not 10min in if that is all they have to say.
Everyone can enjoy what they want, but in my honest opinion you have to be a special kimd of idiot if you support these games. They literally laugh at anyone’s face dumb enough to buy their slop. Fifa 2026 sait fifa 2025 in the main menu at launch, that’s how much they care.
If there was a fan game that ran on donations, like stardew valley but on donations, one game could rule them all.
Or like, just make it a free commercial game but don’t put any real players in it. Let the community do that, just intentionally make it moddable. The fans will do the rest.
People love to shit on the yearly FIFA releases, but if you genuinely can’t see any gameplay differences between one released in 2007 and 2026 then you’re either being disingenuous or haven’t actually played them.
I own PES 2008 on my PS3, and never felt the need to upgrade throughout its many yearly upgrades. It was just a game to play with my brother if we wanted to play together.
Have tried EA 2026 football game on a playstation cafe with friends a few months ago and I did not think there was anything new compared to what i played as a kid. Sure, you can play the game at 4K, but I don’t even own a 4K TV, and certainly not getting one when all the tv brands keep putting smart tv crap with ads on them.
Cyberball on the Genesis was peak football gameplay. And probably the last one I ever played.
Tribe
Tribe was a great game at its time though
Football like PES or FIFA? Or Madden?
Because PES was a whole different beast: like, a proper VG with actual meaningful gameplay changes (for the most part) between versions, and FIFA used to be like that in the 2000s.
IDK about Madden though; I only played a couple and they were fine, but I can vouch for their quality or pinpoint when they stopped being fun.
PES on Wii was peak. You control one player with the nunchuk and with the remote you could tell your other players where to go. That was so, so refreshing, but unfortunately never went anywhere 😭. It was the onhy time I enjoyed some sports game, as I felt for the first time that I had some agency about what’s going on.
Any gacha.
“Oh I got so lucky! It only took 20 pulls to get Boobina!”
Yeah man, bet that felt a lot better than just unlocking her by doing her story quests like any normal game. Maybe you need to be a gambling addict or something.
Most souls likes. The marketing on those games is pure genius. No budget for an actual story? No problem! Let’s hide some nebulous lore in item descriptions so youtubers can sell their head cannon as “the story”. Oh there’s only enough money for 8 hours of gameplay? I have a solution! Let’s remove the save system everyone got used to these past 20 years so the player has to constantly redo our content just to get to the boss he’s trying to beat. We’ll sell that unecessary tedium as “difficulty”. And people a gobbling that stupid mechanic up because it allows them to flaunt their e-peen, although it just shows they have more time time than skills.
No one’s touched analog games so…
Monopoly. It’s tedious, it’s a grind, it was stolen from a last trying to say that landlords are shit, and it just ruins families.
Also the Outer Worlds is shit. It had cool art Nouveau style aesthetics, and had a great premise, but completely dropped the ball on practically everything. The art Nouveau ideals are counter to the world where everything is commodified and automatic. It starts off trying to be funny, but isn’t really, and does nothing to get you to feel like you’re stumbling into a capitalistic nightmare. You have no investment in the world or people or anything. It throws in the aliens and rebels like an afterthought. A fan made music video did more for the theme and feeling of oppression. Utter disappointment and they are going to make another for some reason
I grew up with doom/unreal tourn/quake…all with mods etc… so now every single first person game feels like just a mod of a generic first person shooter. Halo, skyrim, bioshock, rdr… it’s like I’m ruined for an entire section of games.
Any game with grinding where microtransactions can invalidate weeks of grind.
It’s already a big ask to make players find fun in a grind, but some C-level dipshits found a way to stamp that fun out too.
Sports games almost all are universally bad and it really shows when a real game adapts sport concepts like Rocket League or Wii sports. These days sport games are just gacha games.
Gacha games all suck period. I’ve given up on them entirely as the gameplay always suffers eventually as mobs just becomes sponges unless you do repetitive garbage daily. Really hate this as some awesome games are being held hostage by gacha extraction but I’ll never be fooled into gacha again, ZZZ was my last chance.
The Last Of Us. I tried it and found it to be really boring gameplay wise. Everybody told me I had to power through the first bit and then it would get interesting. I did that and waited and waited and then the game was over. My firat thoight was “Well, this would have been a great movie.” When the series came out I loved it. The story is awesome, but the gameplay is just incredibly dull to me.
Anything by Fromsoft and Soulslikes in general.
Red Dead Redemption 2 for me.
The mechanics and controls just piss me off to no end.
League of fucking legends. Why… The repetitiveness and toxic community especially… Just dont get it.
People seem to be misinterpreting the question as “Games I don’t like”.
I don’t like soulless sports games or Gacha games. But I understand why they are popular. (In my example: Gacha, in one word: gambling; sports games, popularity of the sport and again gambling)
I don’t understand why The Elder Scrolls series has so much goodwill, there are many better RPGs out there. The sandbox factor has the depth of a puddle as well.
The Sims 4.
I mean, The Sims 3 and The Sims 2 are right there ! Both much, much better games, with the same premise but both with much better and clearer direction. Both quite different from each other and interesting in their own right…
Meanwhile The Sims 4 is a buggy mess with over 1000€ of DLC, I cannot fathom why anyone would choose it over its predecessors…
Kingdom Hearts. Goofy and Sephiroth in the same room together breaks my brain, and not in a fun way. I played the first game when it came out on PS2 and decided it wasn’t for me.
I’ve seen story breakdowns of the other games on YouTube and figured I’m not missing anything. Lots of setups and plot hooks that don’t go anywhere or go somewhere stupid.
Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 minutes ago
Lol, why so many people are addicted to an inferior version of dota 2?