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.
What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?
Submitted 2 months ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 1 month ago
bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think the game just has too many mechanics and it doesn’t work that well together.
dalekirkwood@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CyberPunk 2077
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I disagree here. The side quests and atmosphere are great. FemV nailed the voice acting. It has a lot of fun, bitingly memorable characters I still think of, sometumes.
The gameplay is satisfying… if, and only if, you mod it to not be bullet spongey and so grindy.
I’m not a 2077 apologist. Does it run well? Nope. Was it absolutely unacceptable at launch? An understatement.
But (in 2025/2026), it finally deserves the praise it gets, IMO. There’s a very good game in there.
dalekirkwood@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The mods sound interesting - any you recommend? I find the whole thing a grind to be honest. And I hate watching a 40 minute cut scene to play for 5 minutes with guns that feel like they don’t actually do anything.
asret@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Seems easy to see why it sold well - The Witcher 3 was very successful and then they attached Keanu Reeves to it.
As for the game itself, it told some petty good stories, had some excellent characters, and managed to do this while still feeling like a game, not an interactive movie. It delivered well enough on the setting as well.
dalekirkwood@lemmy.world 1 month ago
See, I feel like it’s more movie than game. That’s what bothers me. It doesn’t have the same feel as GTA V for example.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Fantastic setting (I could spend days just playing tourist around Night City), great story and characters (and the characters don’t just stand there talking to you like in Bethesda’s games, there’s actual acting in there), enjoyable gameplay, beautiful graphics…
Sure, it got a bit of flak when it released due to the console cartels forcing it to run on highly inadequate ancient hardware, but I’ve been playing it from day one on an even older but properly specced PC and I could count the bugs I’ve experienced on the fingers of one hand, with fingers to spare.
And CD Projekt kept improving and expanding it for years after release, so it’s even better now.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Minecraft. I’d rather just play with Legos.
Also I’ve had a hard time not down voting some of these but its peoples opinion so who am I to tell people their opinions are wrong.
But some of you are wrong. Lol
bryndos@fedia.io 2 months ago
roulette
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
Simulators? Boring games for boring people, I suppose.
BaroqueW@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There must have been a way to chime in and not attack players of that genre of games.
qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I feel seen
Jarix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And immediately attacked?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
The fantasy part of it. Magic doesn’t exist and I wish it did.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 months ago
I don’t think I’ve encountered a magic system that doesn’t annoy me, unfortunately.
64bithero@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never looked at this way but your not wrong
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
The Stanly Parable. Boring walking simulator with cheap philosophy.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Now this is a truly difficult take to read. I found the game utterly charming. The exploration of relationship between the player, the player character, and the narrator is great fun and well written. Finding all the endings requires cleverness and outside the box thinking. It’s a very British humor type of game but it’s worth every penny.
auzy1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought that at first. But, after a while after finding more endings, it’s just a good relaxing game
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What is “gacha”? I don’t game almost at all anymore but never heard this.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Loot boxes/gambling, sorta.
64bithero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 …
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The word comes from those Japanese capsule toy vending machines that are called Gachapon. It’s an onomatopoeia for the sounds the machine make. Gacha is the sound when you turn the big dial on the machine and Pon is the sound when the capsule lands in the tray.
Basically in games anything that has a similar blind box mechanic as these machines is called a Gacha. It’s also why you often see Gachas visualized as capsules coming out of virtual vending machines.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
arcine@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Counter Strike.
Nothing interesting ever fucking happens, it’s just shooting guys in corridors and around corners, first who gets an accidental headshot thanks to random spread wins…
The time-to-kill and the rounds are just too short for any sort of interesting macro-game to arise, it’s all micro all the time.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
almost all of them.
terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
no one is making you like games but why even participate in the community?
auzy1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You sound fun at parties
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Any game that’s “best with a controller”. I’ve never liked a controller, and I’ve tried those of the SNES, Sega Genesis, GameCube, PS1, PS2, XBox, XBox360, XBox1, Wii, & PS5. They’re all trash.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Halo, i love the sci fi concept designs by sparth, but for some reason the game feels so bland to me.