2 picks for me: Stardew Valley, most boring shit ever, I don’t see the appeal, seriously how the hell did that thing sold 20 million copies?
And Witcher 3, I own that game since 2019 and I regret buying it, funny thing is that I’ve finished Dragon Age 1 and 2, which are kinda same genre but I actually enjoyed those games. I guess the old BioWare sauce carried those games unlike Witcher where there’s nothing to enjoy in its massive pointless world.
Anything within the MMORPG genre, the Diablo-like genre, and the Looter Shooter genre.
Played them on my own – Felt like I was grinding just so I could grind some more, the entire thing felt like an exercise in pointless skinner-boxing with no reward other than “number go up”
Played them in the company of friends – Second verse same as the first, but now less tedious because of voice-chat with people whose company I enjoyed, the micro-instant they had something else to do I’d log off immediately because the whole thing bored me.
Then I’ll see people get excited for like, Diablo 4, and it’s like – This is the same skinner box as the last three games, but now slightly prettier. And now you know you are giving your money to abusers and I’m like “???”
How do people get a kick out of clicking the same monsters until they explode like piñatas for a random chance at a helmet that gives them +.5% gullibility status?
Every video game is this on some level, but these games are so very transparent with this, I just can’t. Not only do I not enjoy them, I flat-out don’t understand how people enjoy them.