r/videogames • u/Chunky-overlord • 22h ago
Discussion / Question What video game are you Glad you stopped playing?
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u/Slouchman42 22h ago
The Lion King on Sega Genesis. Got as far as the time skip back when I was 6.
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u/Howlinginpaint 22h ago
I could never figure out how to get past the end of the volcano level as adult simba
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u/Cautious-Lobster6669 22h ago
It’s the giraffes for me
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u/truthfulie 21h ago
i remember getting so excited when i finally beat the giraffe level.
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u/Dense-Law-7683 16h ago
I was super young and was pissed off by the giraffe level. My mom had to help me beat it and she didn't play video games. I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize the pattern so I just had to memorize which way the monkeys went or roar at them until I finally got where I needed to be. That and Aladdin were great games.
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u/kittykatmandoo 22h ago
The goddamn giraffes haunt me to this day 😡
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u/2JZ1Clutch 19h ago
That crap where you had to roar at the monkeys?!?! That's the level you're talking about? I think I made it past that level once and that was like beating the game for me
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u/ProudHeretic84 22h ago
It took me twenty years and YouTube to figure out that damn volcano section!
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u/RabidTeapot 19h ago
I vividly remember pausing that level close to what I hoped was the end of it, because I desperately had to go to the bathroom. When I came back, my sister was on the Sega, playing Sonic... I've never fully recovered from that betrayal. I did eventually beat the game, but holy crap, I will never forget how defeated I felt in that moment.
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u/Kareemofwheet 21h ago
For some reason I stimmed out hard on this as a kid. I was the only person I knew that could beat that game. It's all timing and memorization. However, you can't tell me they didn't know what they were doing with that bullshit double jump ostrich part of level 2. There's one specific jump thats off and if you had rented that game, it would block you for the weekend unless you knew the wonky timing.
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u/Darius_Rubinx 21h ago
I've beaten it, but there was a lot of bullshit. The 2nd level is just stupid. So is the hyena maze. There's not many levels that I would describe as good old honest platforming.
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u/Tuvano 22h ago
I went back and beat it as an adult. It was still bullshit but felt good to finish it.
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u/Money_Present_3463 22h ago
Call of Duty
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 21h ago
My opinion is that the Call of Duty games had little utility added after like Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops. Every game after those felt like paying $60 for a re-skin of the same game. Like how you only need a new Madden game once every 5ish years
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u/PreferenceContent987 21h ago
Half my matches start with the new map skin failing to load over the old map. They also have a cheating enterprise dedicated to the game now as well. You can even get cheat subscriptions that are guaranteed to be supported even if dev nuke the cheats
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 21h ago
Yea even in Modern Warfare 2, there were a couple of maps you could strafe jump your way out of. I realized that many of the multi-player maps were built within old campaign maps from the first modern warfare
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u/Dry_Departure_7813 21h ago
I agree to an extent, but the recent "reboot" trilogy has been incredible. From a purely single player perspective, the level of detail on the missions is unparalleled in a shooter. Now obviously the single player is only 6-8 hours and the games intended as a multiplayer package, but there really isn't another company doing a biiig budget single player shooter right now. The Amsterdam mission in particular, if you've ever been there the level of detail is genuinely impressive.
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 21h ago
I admittedly have not played the game you are talking about but that was part of my core issue with COD. The older COD games (like Big Red One) were entirely driven by single player content. Somewhere along the line it became all about the multi-player, and the campaign was basically them shitting on a disk just to check the box of having it. That really frustrated me and was a big reason I stopped playing the COD games
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u/Dry_Departure_7813 21h ago
You should at least check out a video of the campaign man, the detail Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - Amsterdam 4K HDR
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u/NomadFH 21h ago
I've never seen a game have such smooth and responsive controls with the most unengaging game built around it
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u/SmolishPPman 22h ago
Destiny
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u/StJimmy_815 22h ago
I didn’t stop soon enough. That shit ruined a relationship of mine
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u/Kultaren 22h ago
Whoa, how so?
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u/StJimmy_815 22h ago edited 21h ago
Other person was right, addiction. The formula they had with weekly resets and constant stream of things to grind out for a chance of a chance of what you wanted but more so than anything, it was the constant FOMO with them constantly time gating many weapons and armor. I stopped playing in 2022 and will never play a live service or MMO game like that again
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u/Finnsbomba 21h ago
This is why I play mostly single player games or multiplayer games that are just small groups. Not fully online games and especially live service/MMO games. I like to game on my own time and terms. Being forced to play at specific times or do specific modes or whatever would throw me off of a game completely. It's why I can't play 99.9% of phone games. I'll play when I want to, I don't need to be bothered to log in everyday and do something. Makes it a chore more than a hobby.
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u/oh_f-f-s 22h ago
Wow, it put you off that much?
What do you think you'll pick up next? I'm assuming a single player, offline game?
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u/DJBreadwinner 21h ago
I'm not the person you replied to, but I quit WoW after several years of addiction. Games like that keep you coming back by rewarding you with miniscule rewards that feel like progression and the sense of community that comes with being in a guild, clan, etc. I broke my addiction to it by playing single player games. It's a much better life.
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u/slaw_daddy 17h ago
Dark Souls 1 helped kill my WoW addiction. I hadn't had that amazing of a single player experience since Ocarina of Time, and it brought me straight back to that.
Now I've got like 15k hours across all Souls games, but with a much more healthy relationship with them. I can play them when I want, obsessively or not when I can afford it. With WoW it was a literal job to be top-tier at the game. I can be top-tier at Elden Ring on my own time.
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u/StJimmy_815 21h ago
I still love video games, I just have a much more healthier relationship with them. I play games that have endings lol, but mostly nowadays I’ve just been playing competitive Pokemon, which is easy to put down
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u/Jeremiah-Springfield 19h ago
Wow, this comment thread came at literally the PERFECT moment for me. I’ve had a sort of inverse journey to you. I got back into gaming a few years ago when Elden Ring came out. It’s such a work of art to me that I sunk 750 hours into it, more than any other game I’ve played. May not be much to some, but it’s substantial to me, and it was partly the game, but also what it meant to me, truly a work of art.
But to get to the point, after beating FromSofts catalogue and soulslikes, Silksong, Hades, I was greeted with Arc Raiders. I love the apocalypse fantasy, the release of the game was an event, and the extraction genre could become for multiplayer what Souls was for single player: challenging, but rewarding. But I quickly felt something strange was going on, namely the amount of RNG involved with the games design. I don’t know what items are in that drawer. I don’t know if someone’s about to one tap me from behind, I don’t know. It’s tense, fun, but… predatory? The psychology of it feels like a bad idea to get sucked into, but I did anyway.
300 hours I’ve put into it, and it’s been a rollercoaster of emotions. I still feel the pull to playing but I’ve had so many moments where I felt truly upset by how I died, like people get upset after watching sports for the rest of the day. It’s just a game, sure, but I feel like it taps into sides of my brain that are involuntary and I just think I need to take more responsibility for what I give my time to.
Maybe I’m being over dramatic, but I’ve been reckoning with these thoughts just now and this thread came across my feed. So I guess I must be thinking somewhere in the right direction…?
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u/Sindica69 21h ago
Much as I loved a lot of the experiences I had on Destiny and its successor, D2 was unbelievably predatory in a really twisted manner, and that will be shoved under the rug because the franchise was absolutely legendary and the raw gameplay will likely never be matched. It’s now pretty much a martyr in the form of a franchise, not entirely for bad reasons, but the malicious nature it had will be forgotten long before the game’s good parts, and that is not a good thing.
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u/StJimmy_815 21h ago
I had so many amazing and fun memories from those games and met so many awesome people that I played with for years that I could genuinely say were good friends, but, just like your party years in your twenties, sometimes you have to let that part of your life go to grow as a person
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u/Sindica69 21h ago
Yeah, absolutely. Day One Raiding will probably never be topped in terms of it being the greatest experiences I’ve ever had in gaming, and while I am sad I’ll never get to chase that high again, I’m glad I don’t play anymore.
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u/Commercial-Winter151 20h ago
My husband played tons of Destiny 2 and it makes me sad he stopped playing. One of my core memories with him is playing D2 while I'm next to him with Stardew on my switch 😭😭 we rotted on the sofa together on weekends.
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u/EqualPlan4595 22h ago
Adventure quest reference in 2026?
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u/fangaas 20h ago
That game is one of the only times I'd use the phrase "lives rent free in my mind". I still can't figure out or remember if it was even remotely good or not.
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u/Mondasin 18h ago
its the little caesars of rpgs.
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u/Honeybadger2198 20h ago
They're remaking AQWorlds in their own engine, and all of their games still get weekly updates. AQWorlds consistently peaks around ~10k players every once in a while, despite running like utter dogwater.
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u/WhereTheJdonAt 18h ago
all of their games still get weekly updates.
MechQuest and WarpForce fans be like
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u/breckendusk 18h ago
Fun fact, I based my entire online gaming presence off a version of this very werewolf design twenty years ago and it still holds to this day
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u/tangodogkanye 20h ago
I came here for this comment. I couldn’t think of the name but definitely played my fair share of AQ
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u/Linford_Fistie 19h ago
I knew it!
I actually went back to AQ recently but it's not the same at all, sad times.
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u/Thatidiot_38 22h ago
League of Legends. I was on a esports team and no matter how much I tried to chill and relaxed it was still so incredibly toxic that it ultimately made me drop the game and doing esports as a whole
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u/Gildaroth 22h ago
I had to scroll so far for this lol, league is definitely the game that fits the bill for this post
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u/Midnight-cherry-red 21h ago
Yes, exactly this, and also the most addicting game I have ever played, quitting was not easy despite all the stress and toxicity that could happen during a match.
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u/SleepingWillows 20h ago
I worked in marketing for a game that was considered a direct competitor of LoL and did some promos for their esports division. I was always so surprised at how intensely the players portrayed themselves on their socials and in tourneys, but whenever I would talk to them they were all just… so shy. There was one or two that were somewhat extroverted, but everyone else it was painful to get them to say anything on camera with any kind of flair or interest.
I’m paid to make you look likable, PLEASE work with me dude
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u/MrSlay 21h ago
Fun game, but its totally not worthy dealing with people. I still sometimes watch some pro matches.
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u/Snowtwo 22h ago
World of Warcraft.
It was fun at the start, but around MoP and WoD I realized I was playing for no other reason than, because if I *DIDN'T* I'd fall behind and effectively get punished. I soon stopped because I just... I wanted my life back.
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u/pm_me_fibonaccis 22h ago
Quitting WoW felt like leaving a toxic job, because that's what it amounted to.
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u/Snowtwo 21h ago
Or leaving a relationship with an abusive partner whom you used to love but they stopped returning the love and became entirely self-obsessed and you realize you're in love of the ghost of who they were, not the reality of what they are now.
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u/Houdinii1984 17h ago
Ya'll are sitting here telling horror stories and I'm sitting here feeling a pull to search for alt servers as a result. That's messed up.
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u/BAMFaerie 22h ago
The FOMO treadmill became too much for my wife and me and honestly, switching to FFXIV has been throwing a spotlight on everything wrong with WoW. Yes, every MMO has its share of issues and assholes but FFXIV has had a FAR lower incidence of both. We confused enjoyment for addiction and once we broke up with wow for good, we've both been far happier.
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u/TheDucksAreComingoOo 19h ago
Is ff14 worth getting into?
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u/greyghostwriting 16h ago
No one’s gonna say it, but as someone with 5k hours in ffxiv, the game plays mostly like a visual novel as you go through the story. I’m talking hundreds of hours of back and forth cutscenes and reading. I almost quit two expansions in because it doesn’t really change much until you are further in the story with more group content unlocked.
The story is great but ARR is slow as hell to get going. Very hard to recommend something that took sincerely 100 hours before I started to really enjoy.
If you love reading, go for it, try it free and do the story. If you want more gameplay… it’s there, but a lot of it is gated behind the story initially.
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u/foreverdonefor 18h ago
Once you get over the fact that it's not just WoW reskinned (the 2+ second GCD took me a while to get used to) it really is a pleasant and charming game. The story is great if you're into that, and the endgame fights are a lot of fun once you understand them.
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u/ZeroBrutus 22h ago
I really think Lich King with the dungeon finder is where it was peak.
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u/zveroshka 21h ago
I think BC was peak WoW personally. It was just pure fun and chaos. After that it slowly went down hill in order to facilitate integration of massive amounts of new players rather than just be a good game. Started making everything easier, simple, and adding buy rather than earn options.
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u/Present-Ambition4007 22h ago
Same here. I had played WoW since retail vanilla except I stopped right at Cata. Played a few hours on release and basically never went back (other than some vanilla private servers every few years for a week or so at a time)
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u/Shambhala87 22h ago
I logged in for midnight, I didn’t make it past the first quest. They didn’t even change anything it’s just the same thing happening over and over…
I finally picked up Hollow Knight and there are many other games I haven’t played because I spent so long with WoW that I have a lot of great options to keep me from going back.
If all else fails I still have Minecraft!
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u/SoulsofMir 22h ago
You should play the Gothic remake, I think you may appreciate it Best game I've played in a while! It's kind of janky but it's still quite good.
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u/CJ_Pride_Wolf 22h ago
Destiny 2, I kept trying, but they sucked it dry. Its a soulless shell of what I loved, with the worst fomo mentality ive ever seen.
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u/OttawaTGirl 18h ago
Gonna sound silly, i quit destiny when everything became jumping. The first game and a lot of the single player had feet on the ground running and gunning. But then I noticed they made so many more levels and raids with a core mechanic being jumping or dying. I fucking hate jumping in a game and just got bored with trying to make jumps.
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u/captstinkybutt 22h ago
World of Warcraft.
I realized at some point I had so much fun because of the people I was with at the beginning and they were long gone, and I was only playing out of habit.
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u/zveroshka 21h ago
I think the biggest issue was that they removed a big social element by allowing players to just form random groups on demand. A lot of the people I became friends with online I met while leveling and doing dungeons. By the time I quit in Cata, it was just so automated, simplified, and watered down that it took all the fun out of it IMO.
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u/captstinkybutt 20h ago
On the flip side, stuff like that makes it easier for a 42 year old gamer dad like myself to enjoy MMOs. I don't have time to play 10 hours a day like I used to 😂
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u/jacwub 22h ago
pokemon go
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u/banhatesex 22h ago
I played first day , played with wife for a longtime but then there was nothing . Came back last year more pokemon nothing really changed.
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u/FeanorEvades 18h ago
I can’t really explain it but that game felt like such a psyop before we even knew about the mapping.
A franchise that was all about finding pokemon friends and growing with them somehow became a game where you just replaced them if you found a better one. “Catch 1000 of the same pokemon just to get rid of them” is so antithetical to what it was supposed to be.
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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill 20h ago
My son spent his time in the American Museum of Natural History playing Pokémon Go.
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u/magicman419 19h ago
The data harvesting your app that gets mad and pushy if you don’t give it access to your camera, your location, your movement, your activity, ALL the time even when you’re not using it. Pfft
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u/Envy661 22h ago
Halo Infinite and Destiny 2.
I can go back to MCC and just have way more fun, and have a much less toxic experience. Infinite just made me feel angry every time I booted it up. Angry at the aim assist. Angry at the challenges that were the only means of progression, and often had my team playing against the objective instead of toward it. Angry that this is what one of my favorite IPs had become, yet it was considered "Good" by the community. I haven't touched it since Forge dropped, and I have no plans of going back to it. It was just such an awful game that I don't actually think I will revisit another Halo title outside of MCC again. I don't trust Halo Studios (basically just 343) to make a quality Halo product.
Destiny 2 just became constant and incessant light level creep. You never had end game gear unless you grinded for days on end for pinnacles. I can go to Fallout 76 and have a better experience, because the gear is capped at 50, so I can actually expirament with my build instead of constantly pushing it to the max LL for that season. Destiny 2 became so tedious there became no point in playing, and because of how bad it was to get into, I couldn't convince anyone to play it with me. I miss the Red War so much, because even if it wasn't perfect, Destiny was at least fun back then.
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u/ssudiooo 22h ago
Darkest Dungeon
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u/cromwest 22h ago
I got to end and realized how much grind it was going to take to make separate groups capable of finishing and I was like, I'm out
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u/MLucian 21h ago
Yup. I like it. I get it. Love the vibe. Really like the gameplay and the complexity and depth of base upgrades, character upgrades, brutal difficulty complexity.
BUT. I aint got the time to grind THAT much.
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u/turducken19 20h ago
Same. It looks awesome but I'm already addicted to TBOI and lack the dedication for DD right now.
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u/type_rex_ 19h ago edited 17h ago
Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one. For me, all that was left to do were the final dungeons. I got three rooms in and lost my best squad to unknown enemies.
I was livid. Left it at that.
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u/RockLeePower 21h ago
After I realized I didn't have enough money to fix my people and I had to start fresh with level 1, I was done. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
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u/Sackofwack 22h ago
smash bros. i have thousands of hours on that game over years and years and when i finally took a game off a ranked player it didn’t feel as good as i hoped it would. now i just play casually with items
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u/CastlePokemetroid 22h ago
getting sweaty in any fighting game ever has never jammed with me
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u/DJ_CRIZP 22h ago
Tarkov back when it turned out 90% of the player base was wall hacking. I always felt like it was weird that everyone seemed to know more than me. It was a moment of relief when we all found out because damn I thought I was just really horrible. Turns out the game was just dead to real players.
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u/Wmd_JR 21h ago
I played it a little bit a few years ago on my uncle’s account. I think I played four matches, all of them I died to some guy sweating through their plate carriers. He found out that PvE was introduced about 2 months ago, and PvE is so fun if you don’t want to deal with real players and don’t want to be constantly on your toes.
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u/dj92wa 21h ago
A buddy got me to buy the super mega ultra version of the game a couple years ago, but I only played like three matches before I uninstalled it. I didnt realize it at the time, but I don’t care for extraction shooters. I did however realize at the time that I didn’t like the scav system. You’re telling me I have to wait to play a game I paid for while my lives come back on a slow cooldown like a mobile game’s time-gated stamina system? Absolutely the fuck not.
But, like you said, PvE mode officially launched and has been a blast. I’ve been playing with the same friend that got me to buy the game in the first place and we’re getting our asses clapped by bots. The devs have honestly done a good job with bot behavior. They’ll sink a round right between your eyebrows if you don’t take them seriously. Peak a corner incorrectly? Dead.
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u/TheBrackishGoat 20h ago
It’s almost impressive that they managed to make the worst/best game you’ve ever played. Everyone that plays it hates it, but they all have 3k hours
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u/Top-Waltz5244 22h ago
Donkey Kong 64…loved it as a kid but now it was just a damn tedious struggle
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u/Sandwich_Destroyer44 21h ago
I was replaying it for the first time in decades on switch and have no idea how I was able to get to the final level as kid on n64
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u/ngmatt21 18h ago
As a kid I always made it to the Pirate level, then would stop. I’d pick the game up again later and restart it.
I just got to the pirate level on my current playthrough and I totally understand why I stopped there as a kid haha. It becomes way too tedious
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u/CastlePokemetroid 22h ago
it having the most amount of collectables out of any video game at the time was a curse not a blessing
why do I need to switch characters to collect banana, it's annoying
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u/Interesting-Clock680 21h ago
I've been looking at a rom that lets you swap characters anywhere. Dk64 swap anywhere, I think it called
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u/Ok-Mousse-4595 22h ago
Starfield. I've never been so bored playing a game.
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u/FoxinShards 22h ago
Starfield? Oh you mean loading screen simulator?
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u/Lawfurd 22h ago
To be fair that loading screen sim had a fun ship building mini game (I spent more time in the ship builder than playing the game lmao)
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u/ForgesGate 21h ago
Spent all the time and money to customize the coolest ship ever only to not be able to hardly do anything with it. 🤦🏾♂️
You got me again Bethesda 🥲
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u/BlitzShooter 20h ago
Got to a point where I could take on an army and not really flinch. Auto turrets are crazy.
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u/Historical-Lynx948 22h ago
Yknow, if you mod it so fucking hard that it removes all the tedium it becomes a pretty mediocre experience instead of a mind numbing one.
Like idk why the loading screens were needed like that or wtf they were thinking implementing systems that would require them, their excuses of "well we need time to send data" or some shit blows up when I have a mod that skips the docking / undocking load screen sequence and just puts me in the ship / wherever im going instantly.
There were some interesting parts of the world (err, galaxy) building that was interesting but not much.
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u/SourceMountain561 22h ago
I put a good amount of time on this game. Got to one of the final missions, game bugs out, and it auto saved. Couldn't complete the mission and it was saved in a buggy spot, so the game was broken at this point for me. Last main save was like 5 hours ago from the auto save. Angrily, I went online to see if it was common thing for other players and to my sarcastic surprise, it was. It wasn't worth it to start again or from the main save, so i walked away.
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u/Cestus_Saphrax 22h ago
Dune awakening after Deep Desert and overland teststations became a grind
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u/ichkanns 22h ago
Crimson Desert. Spent 30 hours on it and was just getting nothing out of it, so I quit.
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u/MusclyArmPaperboy 22h ago
But the spear you get at hour 31! /s
Kidding, I'm 200+ hours in and love it but recognize it's not for everyone
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u/GoGoGadgetChris 21h ago
Tears of the Kingdom. First Zelda I'd played since Windwaker and after 3 hours of building silly contraptions and bonking robots with my rock on a stick, I thought to myself "I don't feel like I'm playing a Legend of Zelda game..."
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u/Desmoclef 22h ago
World of tanks, when the game became overly paid to win.
Saved me so much money and time.
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u/Educational-War-8343 21h ago
Minecraft.
Without friends or online play, the world just feels empty. There's things to do sure, but after a while it just get monotonous, tedious and boring when you can't do multiplayer and only play alone.
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u/Majestic_Finding3499 14h ago
Storyless or make your own fun games just were never going to appeal to a guy who's loved narratives since he could read. Im a fucking literature student now. Minecrafty sandboxes will never appeal, the only non-narrative-driven games I even think about playing are sports games, and thats only if they are on sale and because im a fan of the sport, not because those are good games, its the same shit every year but ill keep drinking that garbage.
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u/RARUNN1739 21h ago
Anything where difficultly is the primary or only point. Tried several different souls like games and gave up. The nail in the coffin was metroid dread. Long time metroid fan, but the final boss in dread was such a buzz kill and I had very little fun getting there. Finally said "this isn't fun" and deleted the game. No regrets.
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u/BebopHook 22h ago
Nightreign
The only reason I bought it was to play with my brother. Such a miserable experience never touching that shit again
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u/eljefe3030 21h ago
I love Elden Ring and could not get into that game after several attempts. Just not my style. The whole draw (for me) of soulslikes is the ability to methodically approach challenging situations. Adding a time crunch to that formula just ruined it for me.
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u/Calelith 22h ago
Warthunder.
Went from been a game i enjoyed playing all the time and as the time went on I realised I was playing for nostalgia.
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u/nediablo 21h ago
Hearthstone
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u/Iusuallyworkalone 21h ago
Me too. Played 8 years since beta. I quit not because it was a bad experience. I still think time to time about returning. But it was consuming my life.
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u/SonOfMcGee 21h ago
Same for me.
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u/LinkyGuest045 21h ago
Two that come to mind are Watchdogs and Starfield. Watchdogs, I don’t remember why. Starfield, I don’t know what I was expecting
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u/Dragonwulf 21h ago
Red dead online. Had such huge hopes for it and it got thrown away for GTA online microtransactions and GTA 6. At this point, I refuse to give a flying fuck about either GTA.
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u/ArchCerberus 22h ago
League of legends ... the gameplay is somewhat fun but the community and time investment is not worth the mental health degradation.
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u/RealDepressionandTea 22h ago
Dead by Daylight. Genuinely made my mental health worse. 😂
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u/donutfiend84 20h ago
Fr. It becomes super clear that the devs have no interest in fixing the design problems that make it so frustrating to play.
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u/Doc-Eldritch 21h ago
I didn’t stop playing the whole game itself, but I gave up trying to finish the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight.
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u/SuperKrusher 19h ago
Honestly, WoW and Maplestory. Both are abusive relationships. Maplestory endgame is a slog grind and very pay to win. It lures you in with flashy animations, fun classes, and honestly a pretty cool story (while still anime generic). But endgame requires you to be unemployed and have money to burn.
WoW on the other-hand also has grind for cosmetics, but really it is the direction of where it’s going. I love my main character. They are a badass Demonhunter. I have a cool outfit and a weapon for them and I am just hoping to experience the legion level story again. But each expansion is just meh. It is not the same WoW. Because of it, my head canon is that the story ended with Legion and the rest is a fever dream some mage or cleric is having.
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u/Rafnork 22h ago
FF16. Played 30 or so hours and the combat never gained an inkling of depth. Its the blandest character action game ive played in a very long time.
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u/anonymeese_geese 22h ago
You know what really bothers me games like Nier and even FF7R exist why not copy the combat style.
The story was cool I was invested but the fucking gameplay absolutely ruined it for me.
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u/ActionFigureCollects 22h ago
This meme is actually a better description for chess players.
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u/TyrantJaeger 22h ago
GTA Online. I already have everything that can be had in that game. There's not enough incentive to play any new missions now. The grind is really the only reason to keep playing. So when you've basically finished that, there's nothing left to do that's worth doing anymore. It's just so boring.
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u/Chargercord069 22h ago
Fortnite. With the layoffs and the genAI, I couldn't keep playing. Stopped when the chpt.7 season 1 ended.
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u/BluesCowboy 22h ago
Destiny 2. I gave up so much time and money to that game, it was like waking up from a crazy fever dream or going cold turkey from an addiction.
Heard it’s worth going back to now but definitely not happening, uninstalling genuinely improved my life.
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u/Sufficient-Ferret-67 22h ago
Counterstrike, my friend bashes me and my other friends for playing deadlock meanwhile he spent the majority of his youth playing LOL. Now when he joins a call he just mocks our deadlock comms and trashes every aspect of the game saying it’s too complicated.
I mean counterstrike isn’t much better. “Oh you just click heads” yeah past 1k elo you have to work on every aspect of the game to get a semblance of being decent. Then you’ll be passed up by all of the no lifers with 8k hours and they have a photographic memory of every map and utility lineup
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u/montyrattus 22h ago
World of warcraft, I spent as much time playing as I did at work and it ruined my sleep. In the end it ruined my work as well because I didn't bloody sleep enough.
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u/HylianRacer 22h ago
Animal Crossing New Horizons. I loved the first one when I was younger. With this game I just felt like I was doing chores and more work. It just didn’t click with me like AC did when I was a kid.
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u/ElrondCupboard 22h ago
Apex Legends. I used to always joke, “oh yeah I’ll play that other game after I beat Apex” and I tried so hard to be a sweat and it just made me incredibly irritated and unhappy.
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u/Additional-Charity90 21h ago
MTG Arena, the only way to be competitive in that game is to be a huge asshole.
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u/Barbanks 21h ago
Arc Raiders.
Played it once and put it down. I was sold by a friend on the story about apocalypse and robots and instead kept getting my head blown off.
Edit: also, a little game called Star Tropics from the NES. No one told me that you need the actual booklet that came with it to beat the game because there’s a secret in it. Not a big deal now with the internet but when I was a kid it was just too vague.
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u/normallystrange85 21h ago
League of legends. I used to have a group of 5 that played together. They gave it up after a while and after interacting with the community.... Well I'm not sad about leaving it behind.
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u/MyraBannerTatlock 17h ago
No Man's Sky. I was one of the few who was pretty happy with the product we got on launch day, the beautiful, moody, lonely exploration and discovery vibes were fucking amazing and i put a couple thousand hours into it, was super active in the sub, yada yada.
While I appreciate that the updates have given the majority of the player base what they wanted, the heavy lean into multiplayer mechanics isn't what I wanted from it, and I liked it less and less until I just never went back. I don't go over there and yuck anybody's yum about it but I feel sort of sad about it sometimes, I really loved it
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u/Dr_blazes 16h ago
For me its World of Warcraft. 20 years and I finally broke the habit because I realized the gane "ship of theseus-ed" itself.
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u/RiverCityRansomNote 22h ago
Elden Ring.
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u/sephiralis 22h ago
Elden Ring is my favorite modern video game, but I completely understand and respect this choice. For any From game in general, really. Play games that make you happy.
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u/Kinetic_Pen 22h ago edited 22h ago
Any Souls game. Let's make an infuriating game series for the sake of infuriating people. Well make them beautiful and theatrical to lure them in. We'll say there's a great sense of accomplishment to grind a boss 30 times and if anyone questions it, or critiques it our elitest, gatekeeping fans will mock and humiliate them. All this so we can get off on the polarizing effect. It gets us so fucking hard!
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u/Anxious_Big_8933 22h ago
I like the Souls games, but have never finished one. There's always some fucking boss who I beat my head against 30 times then throw up my hands and move on. Love the games, hate the boss fights. I pretty much hate all boss fights in all games.
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u/DjentleSong 22h ago
Elden Rings final boss made me, a grown ass man with a kid, cry tears of frustration.
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u/Big-Mathematician345 22h ago
So tedious chasing his ass around.
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u/SayTheWord-Beans 20h ago
Pretty sure they actually changed the fight so you can summon the horse in battle now to make it less tedious.
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u/eljefe3030 21h ago
I've played a ton of souls games but it took a while to like them, and I still have a love/hate relationship with them. Still, I will never judge someone for not wanting to play them. They are meant to be very difficult, and often in ways that are simply cheap and unfair. I hate those parts. The well-made and balanced parts make up for it for me.
And yeah, the fanbase is toxic as fuck.
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u/TypeHunter 19h ago
The worst part about Fromsoft game has always been the "fans". Miyazaki wanted to create a Dark Fantasy and he did such a good job that real life goblins and deplorable human beings moved in and populated the landscapes.
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u/Darius_Rubinx 21h ago
You know what, I like having to grind at a game, but it has to be a very specific kind of game that grabs me.
However I don't think insisting your audience have "autistic hyperfixation" is a good game dev strategy.
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u/Boringmoron 20h ago
Going to give the forbidden advice: Download the easy mode mod.
ER is a beautiful game that's a joy to explore and learn about the world and all that...I'm not bashing my head against a boss 30 times to beat it.
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u/SweatyNeddyFlanders 21h ago
Diablo 4. It has been the exact same game since shortly after they changed it post launch. I think it's just a poorly designed gameplay loop, and the most recent expansion's only new gameplay feature was a way to force you into that gameplay loop (including the parts you hate) forever. There's nothing unique about the game, not a single notable side quest (they're all go to this circle, kill these mobs, pick up random color orb, get pointless loot cache), no reason to explore. No character in the game at all.
PoE2 on full free launch should eat that game up. Its 0.5 patch was miles beyond what D4 has done with multiple years and expansions, and it's only getting better.
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u/PerceptionStock7437 22h ago
Every game on my phone that has anything to do with farming.