100% Orange Juice and those types of games. It’s not super popular but also people love it. Personally I couldn’t think of a more boring type of game, even with friends there’s boardgames I’d rather play.
What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?
Submitted 2 days ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
kurcatovium@piefed.social 1 day ago
For me it’s either almost all of them or pretty much none, depending on point of view.
I consider myself being quite a gamer, maybe a little old school one, but gamer nonetheless. I grew up with DOS classics like Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Civilization, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Quest for Glory, Heroes of Might & Magic, Ishar, Betrayal at Krondor, TES: Arena, etc. Supply was very limited so I played those plenty times. I did read game magazines at that time, drooling over pictures of games I could never get, kept informed about new releases… And I do keep quite specific taste and quirks to this day.
I do like RPG, even though they are very time consuming and there’s not that much free time. I keep hoarding them and telling myself I’ll play them later. Same goes for my other preferred genre: turn based strategies. I like me some slow paced turn based combat and exploration, but man, that time investment is brutal. My third preferred genre is FPS, either this new/old “boomer shooter” phenomenon or some good story driven game (like e.g. Half Life). Last, but not least, is something I’d call “casual games” which might include everything from Slay the Spire, Inscryption to Golf with your friends or Megabonk. Those are games I like and play (or just dream about playing) and the rest is… just what you ask.
- FIFA and other sports? I don’t like it. I might get why there are people playing it, but buying actual rooster each year for full price? No way.
- Souls like? Not for me. I want to relax, not feel like I have to work hard non-stop to not die. There’s enough of that in real life. I still get why some people might like the challenge, but not me.
- RTS? I know it’s pretty much dead genre, but I never liked it. I don’t have that fast reflexes and fast tactical decision making, so I prefer TBS where I can plan my actions in peace. Enough stress IRL, no need to add it in game…
- Competitive online games? Same as above. Too fast, too stressful, to gain what?
- Plenty of others, don’t want to put wall of text.
I do understand people are different and have different taste and that’s alright. This is just my personal take. That’s why I said it’s either all or none. If I’d be strict and focus just on my personal prefs, most games would fall into “why do people play them?” But when I look from the broader side, people play games they like, so its alright.
But man… there’s one exception, that’s despicable no matter the point of view. Grinding&gambling addict games -those should be banned worldwide for humanity’s sake.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
- Mixtape: Not even a real game.
- The Sims: I never played it, but it looks boring like a TV show simulating real life.
- Most MMORPGs: Just a grind fest and you pay every month to be able to “play”.
- Cookie Clicker (and similar “games”): What even is this?
For the most part, it’s not like I wouldn’t understand why these games are popular. I mean I see why Mixtape and Sims are popular in example. I get it. So this is not literally “I can’t understand”.
Mika@piefed.ca 1 day ago
MMOs today vs MMOs in the early age of gaming - they differ a lot. Now they are shinier with a lot of gameplay features, but they lost the core feature - global player interaction & competition.
Most MMOs today just offer you some version of singleplayer RPG quests that you can do with your friends. You might see the other players but you can’t do any offensive actions, many dungeons are just generated for your team and cut from the rest of the playerbase. While that’s fun, that’s…
Not on the level of fighting other players who keep you out of a good leveling location fun. Not the same as 5 competing guilds go to the same worldboss and now they need to fight each other and worldboss fun. Or some local rivalries that end up in clans viciously fighting each other, and that can chain react into some alliances fighting each other. All while a single death slightly de-levels you.
And yes, I’m talking about Lineage 2. When players and social interactions are what actually writes the story of the world, there is some charm in that.
Strider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe I can shine some light on the appeal.
Mixtape looks great to me and I’m not even from the US so it’s not a very relatable setting. However I like walking Sims and designed to be experienced. Sort of living through a slice of something different. An interactive experience.
Sims: like it’s grandfather little computer people. Just for watching, messing with. Maybe leave running on the side. I personally never got much out of it but can understand the appeal. Would rather leave “progress quest” running.
Mmorpgs were a great experience. When they were smaller it was similar to a pen and paper session with likeminded people. Now it’s more of an action multi-player game for mass appeal. Sigh. Seems more people like grinding to be able to grind even more over an rpg experience together.
Idle. To do something and yet nothing and still demand nothing of you. A friend has several hundred hours in tap ninja. Mind-boggling but still has its audience.
I think most of it is just circling around the definition of a game. I’d recommend getting off that thought since it can easily lead to gatekeeping. Yet there are games (especially mobile, ugh) that I despise but still, it’s gaming, theyre gamers. Just because it’s not my game or one that I like or see it as a game does not change that it is to someone else.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Just because I don’t like something does not mean its gatekeeping. I have my own definition of “Fun”, “Interesting” and “what a game is”. To me Mixtape and Cookie Clicker are not real games.
However as I noted already, I understand why these games are popular. And I am not stopping anyone from playing them.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
I get that I like certain things and other people like others. Currently im not looking for a challenge in games im just looking to play with dolls.
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Simulators? Boring games for boring people, I suppose.
BaroqueW@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There must have been a way to chime in and not attack players of that genre of games.
qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I feel seen
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And immediately attacked?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 day ago
Basically anything focused on fantasy dungeon crawling. I spend my life indoors without enough daylight. Why would I want to do that but with even less light and more stuff trying to kill me?
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The fantasy part of it. Magic doesn’t exist and I wish it did.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 day ago
I don’t think I’ve encountered a magic system that doesn’t annoy me, unfortunately.
64bithero@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Never looked at this way but your not wrong
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
ORS, i prefer the new one, the old one was so grindy and annoying you can easily spend a long time while not achieving much in the game. plus they complain/gatekeep so much it nerfed RS3
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 day ago
I can’t tell if this is a joke comment or not. I don’t know what the letters stand for and as such it could be about almost anything.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
it stands for OLD SCHOOL Runescape.
Nelots@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Old School RuneScape and RuneScape 3.
Ashtear@piefed.social 2 days ago
The Outer Wilds. Completely not for me.
I’m not big on puzzle games in general and I found the ship controls infuriating.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
I loved the ship controls and traveling around exploring the planets, but the story and puzzles didn’t interest me much lol
Yaky@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Loved Outer Wilds, but I completely understand why someone would not. There is almost zero direction, and that is not for everyone. Plus the time limit gets in the way sometimes.
early_riser@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I bought this game after playing Tunic because there seems to be a lot of overlap in the fandom, but haven’t gotten around to playing it.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Don’t listen to them, it’s incredible! Don’t go in expecting Tunic, but the joy of learning is core to both.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 day ago
I can understand basically any game’s audience because I can understand three things: masochism, operand conditioning, and social pressure. Souls games are just an absurd level of self flagellation. Grind games are just a process of rewarding a behaviour over longer and longer times to trick you into thinking you are doing something fun when you get to the release point. Social pressure takes individual tastes and grinds them away because if you want to have friends they will naturally congregate in cheap friendslop games because shit’s expensive and tastes vary, but any gamer crew can afford $7 a piece to have something mediocre to complain about together.
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Any time I see someone referring to souls likes as self-flagellation or something else along those lines, I gotta wonder: have you ever overcome something difficult? The satisfaction it gives most people should make it easy to understand without just going “you must love to torture yourself”.
The fact that you can find tons of souls players who are constantly complaining about unfun, bullshit bosses (cough Bed of Chaos or Micolash cough) just shows that’s we aren’t all just in it for the punishment.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 day ago
It doesn’t give satisfaction as itself. It gives satisfaction after the fact in the same way a man who was abused for years as a child can say ‘I’m glad my dad beat the shit out of me because it built character.’ He’s not lying. He really believes it. But if you measured his happiness at any point in the abuse, and even after he reaches the stage where he can say that, it’s not going to be positive. If souls players are masochists, they are at least enjoying themselves. If they aren’t enjoying themselves, they’re just… what? Manipulated? Victims of social pressure? Delusional? Masochism is actually the least awful interpretation of why someone would do something they don’t enjoy. Take masochism as a win.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
almost all of them.
auzy1@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You sound fun at parties
terabyterex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
no one is making you like games but why even participate in the community?
bryndos@fedia.io 1 day ago
roulette