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?
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.
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Definitely. Wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle. I would have settled for a nice lake.
I do this with a ton of open world games. I always like the scenery and want to enjoy the game but end up bored. Some do manage to keep me interested, I got through Horizon Zero Dawn eventually and enjoyed God of War.
I quite enjoyed the Horizon series! I found the world building and enemy design really kept my interest, even if the game follows the Ubisoft formula (though I admittedly do not play that many open world games, and thus lack that jadedness).
Now I’m partway into Forbidden West after a half year break post Zero Dawn, and my partner’s just finished ZD. I can’t state how much I enjoy shooting components off enemies without getting trampled into the ground, like shooting apples off a tree.
I don’t disagree with anything but man, I love Skyrim anyways. I guess because quests do get repetitive I love the stupid ones, like the ones given by the Mara priestess.
People that complain about Skyrim town size complain that Lego Police stations are missing a back wall.
There are not a lot of games where you can play a thief and up being a vampire, after recovering from a alcohol night with a deadra.
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.
I played tons of Morrowind and Oblivion… could not get into Skyrim at all and I tried multiple times.
I’m kind of afraid for Starfield. It looks interesting but given their track record I’m afraid they might botch it up.
Don’t even be afraid they “might”, just accept that they will. Go into it with the understanding that it’s going to be an overhyped bugfest when it launches, that you can then eventually fix and massively overhaul with mods, just like every other Bethesda game, and then you can just skip the part where you’re disappointed.
Thank God Bethesda knows how mods keep them up or I wouldn’t bother with anything they put out.
Starfield mods bout to be crazy, I can feel it.
This is 1000% my Skyrim experience. Also, Oblivion and Fallout 3. and yet, I can’t get enough.
I mean, I clearly can, since I haven’t played them in a couple years, but you know what I mean.
Play some modded Morrowind and live the good life
When it released I wanted to play it one without any mods. I lasted less than a week.
I love ultimate Skyrim/wildlander though, it gives it a lot of improvements and I just rp in my head.
And you will play hundreds more.
I must have played skyrim on 5 different platforms, started by playing 250 hours on pirated copy and then buying it and playing for 750 hours at least.
Fucking Ark. I have a major love-hate relationship with that game.
This review visualizes it well.
Is that screenshot from this year? ARK came out 2015, so if this person had 2 years of playtime in 2020, then they basically spent 40% of their time every day playing this game. That’s 9.6 hours every day!
Or they left it on while they were doing other things.
I hope so! Otherwise that statistic makes me a bit sad. I mean, I love playing games, but spending basically all your free time on a single game for 5 years straight?
I love ARK so much, it is an amazing game when you customise your own server and play with friends only.
Just … don’t join any public server where the admin is a 17 yo who makes up weird rules like every woman has to join his harem or no one is allowed to ride a bigger dino than his. ( ´ ▽ ` )
Yeah that post was what I thought of when I asked this question. I don’t have THAT many hours in Eve, but oh boy did I waste so much time in eve.
I was bitten by the eve bug. I played early on, and then it got to a point where there was too much new content, that it became so much of a chore to bother with. Fwiw I stopped playing around the time when you could interact with planets, however long that was.
I feel this so much. I wasn’t sure if I would answer Ark or The Sims 4. I have my own personal Ark server because I don’t like the timers on official, housing or dino. I have other things I need to do besides watch a downed dino for 20hrs. I don’t want to rely on tribe member dinojoe to help me either. But my goodness I love playing Ark. 😕 I stopped recommending it several years ago. But I still play it myself. 🤔
every time I see this I think someone must care about this person and is missing the red flags about their crippling addiction
Just bought it lol
Just in case you’re out of the loop and it’s relevant to you: they’re remaking Ark in Unreal 5 and going to be shutting down official servers for “old” ark within the next few months. And then it looks like you might have to pay for everything all over again. At the very least the base game already seems to have a set price.
My dumbass ex-brother-in-law is deep in the process of losing his wife and two kids largely because of his EVE Online addiction.
I can see it, I played a lot, but I never lost my job over it.
But there were folks that were on no matter what, and as time has gone on the micro transactions have only gotten worse and more aggressive. So it’s easy to imagine that those folks who were on 24/7 were burning whatever money they had on the micro transactions.
The high of the really good things happening felt SOO good. Like pulling off the perfect heist/ambush felt so good it pulled you through another 50 hours of grinding on the amount of adrenaline and endorphins you would get after that 5 minute victory.
I’ve only ever been a miner, and not a moon miner, but like the kind who goes to .4sec and just tries finding the most valuable ore… I know there is a huge pvp and pve scene, but like, where can I find it? I’ve also never been a multi boxer, so I have one character who over the course of 7+ years has trained every possible thing, and i have no idea what to do with that, besides maybe joining for a week and strip mining before gettin burnt out
How you were unable to find those is shocking to me, as they are everywhere. But I’m not going to tell anyone how to better find the good bits of eve.
Fair enough, that said, I was never much a social bug. Only ever joined a corp because someone would find me strip mining, and offer to help me out via a corp, and try to get me to moon mine with them.
I definitely had my fun, but similar to others even just moon mining cut deep into time I should have spent with my family.
I feel like that game isn’t good enough to warrant that sort of sacrifice. It’s gotta be more than just his addiction to tanking a fake economy…
League of Legends
It’s a bad game that makes you bad by exposure
I really wanted to get into MOBA games, the idea seem really cool. But every one I’ve tried the meta/community seem infuriating.
It’s just annoying how everything has to follow the “meta” and if you do dare to try something else and you don’t perform above expectations you’ll get shit on. I just want to play the game the way I enjoy it sometimes.
I play Blizzard’s MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, every now and then.
Similar to most others, the community can be toxic as fuck, but the “vs AI” mode is fun enough to keep me coming back.
Yep, this is mine. And I have barely any time in compared to serious players. But when it was first becoming a thing I think I probably put in 50+ hours playing with my friends. As someone who primarily plays single player games this is a lot. Then I realized I hated every minute playing, and it was making me hate my own friends. It was actually stressful to play. I would be angry after ever play session. So I quit.
Fuck League of Legends. It’s shit and no one will convince me otherwise.
it was making me hate my own friends
Yep. Other games it’s easy to brush off a mistake and laugh about it. Just something about this one (probably the massive time investment and amount of attention required for every game) had us seething at each other… I played for 10 years and probably played less in those 10 years than most of my friends I played with did in their first 2… Lol. I liked team fight tactics, but blizzard did it better in my opinion. And they removed Dominion. Was the only game type that was worth playing.
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I’ve find aram to be pretty fun tbh. No raging or anything, just skill spamming and it’s super casual
I hate this game but I love Bard. He’s the only fun thing in the game. ARAM too.
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…
GTA for the Gameboy on the other hand, kinda rad.
I’ll have to check that out lol.
Idleon - The Idle MMO. The dev billed himself as a non-predatory mobile dev; premium currency could be reasonably earned for free. I was happy to support the dev by buying seasonal bundles. Then he started adding stuff that had to be purchased directly with money. Then he implemented FOMO with rotating bonuses. This guy makes millions a year and rants on Twitch streams about having to pay too much taxes.
Recently, he added a gacha system with a separate premium currency that cannot be earned for free so that the very few players who are running a hacked version of the game can’t pull the best equipment. F2P players get one pull a week and will statistically likely pull the best bonus in 1-3 years, but there are already plans to add more bonuses and rotate out existing ones.
This was right after another controversial incident when many players exploited an infinite currency bug which was predicted and could have been removed well in advance. Historically, the attitude was “you guys had your fun” and he removes the bug with no punishment to players. This time, he went into full meltdown mode, posting walls of text on discord with screenshots of Steam reviews that hurt his feelings, then reset a bunch of exploiters’ skill - not just rolled back but reset to remove months of progress.
He’s recently removed a statement from the Steam page that stated mobile game developers don’t have to be predatory, so at least he’s self aware I guess? Steam reviews were very positive; recent reviews are mostly negative. He’s responded by offering a concession that the best bonus is guaranteed after 200 pulls, which equates to 3.8 years if you’re F2P.
I haven’t quit the game yet, but I’m pretty close. My wallet is closed for sure.
Pour a drink out for a fallen friend. Hurts so much to see a game you once enjoyed devolve into utter garbage.
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.
Ha, I was just about to say the same exact thing. I’ve played around 4000 hours of the game because I love the core of the game, but as time goes on so many bad decisions just keep getting put on, and I’ve finally hit my point where I’m just checking out from it for a bit.
I’ve hoped on every now and then for either the seasonal story (which has wrapped up) or when a friend asks me to, but otherwise… It’s time for my break. When everyone else in my clan had their breaks (Season of the Drifter comes to mind…) I continued to play, but not this time.
Their use of FOMO and timed content really worked against it for me. The new player experience now is just awful. I tried it a while ago. I played for 4 hours, and I had no idea what I should have been doing. I feel like that’s a fair shake, and I gave up on it.
Don’t forget about increasing the price of each season battle pass by just enough silver so you’re forced to buy more silver than what you need. No new Gambit or PvP maps. Pay walling almost any “new” content (dungeon keys). I could keep going. But hey the seasonal story writing has been amazing.
I literally feel we’re funding Marathon.
Looks like it’s the same thread and I double posted haha
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
Looking at my Steam, the game with the highest number of hours played, of which I would currently say unambiguously that you should avoid it, looks to be War Thunder. Among the reasons I’d tell you to stay away from it:
- It’s a grindfest starting very early on.
- It’s far too easy to lose as a result of what can reasonably be called bad luck.
- Unless you specialise, or throw real money at it, the fun, high-tech stuff is probably thousands of hours into the future.
- There’s content gated behind “if you were not around when this was regular stuff, you will never get it”
- It calls itself an MMO, while there’s nothing MMO about it. It’s all instanced battles, with little to no world continuity as you progress.
I love/hate warthunder for all the reasons you listed. I used to play WoT, but I much prefer the experience of WT.
Elite: Dangerous.
If you want to enjoy it, you need to go in with lowered expectations and a certain frame of mine, lest you go mad grinding materials.
Ah E:D. Love and hate it. Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle.
I have a few hundred hours in ED. I accomplished absolutely nothing in the game. It’s basically Space Travel Wallpaper The Game .
For me it’s Space Truck Simulator
I can’t knock that. I play ED and American Truck Simulator lol
None of my friends know about Truck Simulator though
I was really disappointed with this one. I tried it out per a friend’s recommendation after they heard I was playing a freeware space flight simulator (Orbiter, which I do actually recommend).
What didn’t you like about it?
Sort of a dumb reason, but imo, flying a spaceship is not really what the game is about and that’s all I wanted to do. For example, I wanted something where I had to use orbital mechanics to dock with a station, but the powerful SciFi boosters in Elite Dangerous take all that fun away.
Oooh yes. I cannot even explain why I’m hooked. The first obstacle new players have to overcome are the absolutely insane default key/mouse bindings.
Oh haeeell no, I used an xbox 360 controller, never KBM. …which is probably one reason I was trash at combat.
Agreed. Don’t expect the end and all of storytelling. It’s a make your own adventure game with surprisingly deep lore through galnet.
Same here. I’d be playing much more of Odyssey ran better on Steam Deck. On foot stuff is rough, but maybe I should just look at my settings again. I can’t remember if they’re down all the way or not. Ship stuff runs just fine though!
I really enjoyed it up until the Engineers update, that just totally killed it for me. Spending god knows how long trying to find “Modular Terminals” that are described as “Ubiquitous” but almost impossible to find was just maddening. At least call it fucking Unobtanium or some shit.
I did LOL pretty hard when I saw what the space legs stuff ended up being. Some people are having fun and good for them, but even the tech demo Star Citizen on foot stuff is better than that.
They ended up tweaking engineering to a point where its tolerable, and mining became so cool. Exploration too. Those two gameplay loops are great.
But the game was unplayable without third party tools. Which was kind of fun, having them open in a second monitor added to the immersion, but without them you’re shit out of luck. Those tools were how I knew how to sell my mining stock. It was also how pirates knew where to blockade, which made for awesome emergent gameplay.
I’m bummed that space legs ended up being a buggy mess, because I wanted them real bad. Mostly I wanted to do an EVA in deep space, hanging off my ship, and enjoying the sound design. I never tried it because I heard the update did something weird to planets.
The update did do something weird to planets. They regenerated them all and their terrain got a lot more same-same with fewer canyons and mountains. Texture popping got a lot worse for a while but they smoothed that out to tolerable.
Even still, Odyssey killed ED.
Thomas the Tank Engine on SNES. Me and my mates used to find it hilarious when high. Still do.
Stellaris. I can’t recommend it anymore due to how fragmented the game mechanics have become due to the dlc model
eyes 2K of game time
Honestly yeah. Like the last 2 DLC’s just did not do it for me, and I try to get excited and just can’t.
What really killed me was my saves breaking every update while I waited for mods. Live service games, and relying on mods to make the game fun, are two things that don’t mix well.
Skyrim modded is great because mods that haven’t been updated in a decade still work
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.
Yeah this is why I have completely given up on competitive multiplayer like this. Bots and cheaters everywhere.
I used to love playing CS Source and FEAR (that was sooo fun) and COD the-one-with-wall-running, but then cheaters ruined it all.
I’m rediscovering my love for single player games so, it’s not all bad.
League of Legends. I’ve sank so many hours into it a few years back. It’s not a bad game, just highly addictive and toxic. It was only really worth playing it with friends, but now they’ve all moved on.
The fact that nobody has said Escape from Tarkov yet is shocking. The desync makes you never sure if you were killed legitimately or from a cheater (of which there are plenty). You’re brutally punished for every mistake, including those caused by the ever present audio issues. The developer, Nikita, will make the most nonsense changes in the name of stopping Real Money Trading, but all it does is encourage people to pay cheaters to get ahead since it gets harder to progress every wipe (the game completely wipes your progress every 6ish months). The quests are uninspired and boring at best, or sadistic at worst and encourage the worst play styles. This is honestly just a fraction of all the issues with the game.
I haven’t played in probably 6-8 months and I will for sure go back because apparently I’m a masochist.
