The irony is that the game designers made Starfield with the deliberate purpose of being played multiple times so that players can see the consequences of their actions across several different universes.
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I loved that game so incredibly much. Now I see I haven’t touched it in 4 years. The reason is simple. The publisher took a good game and decided to chop its mechanics into DLCs… Would you like to strafe and bomb enemy supply lines? For that you need the €20 No step back DLC. And now there’s so many DLC, almost without exception with mixed to poor reviews, you can either get the whole thing in a deal for 180 right now or you just subscibe to the game for 8 per month… apologies for this rant.
Me too. It was absolutely gutwrenching.
Forced myself to finish cyberpunk (as a corpo rat no less…) and couldn’t beat witcher despite buying it twice and having to hear friends rave about it all day and night. Just not doing it for me. The games must be absolutely great but in Witcher when you get to that part where you use your superpower vision to solve these mysteries I check out so bad I uninstall. It’s just so diametrically opposite of what I want out of a game.
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For those who have played and enjoyed the RDR games, how many of you are also fans of the Wild West genre on tv and film? I’m just curious to see if there are people who really like the RDR games but have no interest in the Wild West genre on tv and film.
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Not of TV so much, but then again there have never been very historical western TV shows. There have been some excellent movies over the years however. Also a big fan of good western fiction. Honestly I could leave the outlaw aspect of RDR behind, and that’s what kept me from really getting into the story. Ridding around and just seeing the world, and doing non-outlaw things kept my interest for quite a while.
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While I don’t (generally) go nuts over them, I do like a good Western. My favourites are probably the least historically accurate though - Pretty much all the Eastwood spaghetti westerns, Big Jake, True Grit (both), Blazing Saddles… etc.
But RDR2, just couldn’t get into it. It wasn’t being forced into the role of villian, as such. I mean in CP2077 you aint exactly a paragon of virtue and that remains one of my top 5 RPGs, I just didn’t find any of the characters relatable.
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Here’s a controversial one:
When I was a kid, and it was all there was, I played quite a bit with microsoft flight simulator (wireframe version). It had a mode where you were in a camel doing a dogfight vs another. That was mostly what I played. That is about the last time I put serious hours in MSFS. I bought the 2020 version, played around with it but I just can’t feel it. Perhaps DCS flight modelling has me spoiled. Perhaps putting warheads on foreheads just does more for me than buzzing the Parthenon.
So my game I treally tried to like but just couldn’t is Microsoft Flight Simulator 20XX. And it breaks my fokker heart, I would love to complete a christmas flight with you guys (flying nothing but fokkers) , love reading the AARS but I tried and I just CBA.
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I don’t get what is controversial here. Am I missing something?
The carrot-on-a-stick that I needed to enjoy both MSFS and X-plane has always been flight sim economy. Signing a wet-lease, finding a hauling job and go fly it to get paid virtual $ to expand the fleet? Absolutely! Flying the route for just the sake of it? Might do it once or twice but not more. The christmas route has the same appeal to it, it’s a goal to chase with a reward(ing feeling) at the end.
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I waited for years to have flyable missions, a career mode, my own airline and all that other stuff.
Now I’ve got it all, I’ve got a real business to run and haven’t got the mental energy for it now.
Same as X4. I WANT to love it. I desperately want to. But my real business takes all of my mental faculty already so i can’t enjoy it
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Of the 20+ games I have tried in the last two years, I have enjoyed exactly three:
Hogwarts
Skald (but didn’t finish)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Everything else started out OK but became work once I figured out the mechanics. RDR2, Baldur’s Gate 3 are just two of the major ones that I tried and quit after 10 hours. I think my game days may be mostly behind me.
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You may be right. It may be time for a new hobby. I know several people who were gamers for decades and quit and picked up something else like hiking, model building, etc.
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Ugh I wish I was “done” with gaming. Between work, family, judo and games, I am structurally missing about 24 hours in a week!
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Ugh same! Between work, playing with computers at home, games, music, model building, and in warmer months, kiteboarding, I would be happy to get 25 hours in a day.
25 hours extra per day. I don’t understand people who get bored at home.
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I love most games, even if I don’t finish them and wouldn’t recommend them I can appreciate them for what they are (all except maybe the modern “asset-flip”, but I’ve been very lucky to avoid all of those so far).
The one game that seriously disappointed me was Sea of Thieves. It was sold as an epic co-operative adventure where you could run your own pirate crew. It was actually, on release at least, the worst griefing simulator ever created. Every single mechanic seemed designed to be subject to griefing, all the way to the point of being able to remotely scuttle your ship if another crew steals it (ask me how I know).
I’ve heard it’s a lot better with the Safer Seas update, and that does sound like what the game was originally sold as. But it’s almost a decade later now. My kids aren’t interested in sailing the seas as fun pirates and digging up loot any more!
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This is kind of where I am at too. Maybe it is about not having found the right game - but I don’t have the time or the bandwidth to look for it.
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I don’t think it is mainly a time thing, well not so much for me…
Back when I was working I hardly ever read any media, why would I bother when I got the ‘unvarnished truth’ 9-5? Games were a distraction from the ‘real world’, a way to switch off and I devoured them. Yeah I was still expending a lot of mental & emotional energy doing my job, but there was a certainty about what was actually happening and if I wasn’t in the ‘office’. Well that can wait until tomorrow (or a phone call at stupid-o-clock).
Yeah there are days when I have been physically active and just want to collapse on the couch with a beer and watch something ‘popcorn’.
But lately it is because more often than not I have also been trying to keep up with current events. After sifting through mountains of shite for those few nuggets of ‘truth’… I just couldn’t be arsed playing a game, even if I have been busy with manual labour. It is just so ■■■■■■■ mentally exhausting & even the best game in the world, ever, couldn’t hold my attention.
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@Torc. I came to Sea of Thieves three or four years ago. So I may have missed the behavior you mentioned. I don’t think I included SOT as a game I play regularly. But actually I do. It’s the one thing that keeps my friends and me together now that IL2 seems to have ceased filling that role. I love the simplicomplexity™ of the game. Sometimes we just trade (buy-low-sell-high) for the Merchants. We often end in grief. But even the watery grave feels fun. It’s a good laugh.
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