Fortnite.

Looked cheesy as hell

I was gonna say golf without considering what local universe this is.

Games with a lifecycle of a fly. This companies release the exact same game each year for full price, and people play it. How do people approve such behaviour from compaines? Do they actully not notice that its basicallly same game with some small changes enough to sell it as different game? Do people have that much money to spend on this overpriced games?

EVE Online (applies to MMOs in general I think). I played it a long time ago with a few friends, but that is it. If I could describe it, it's opposite of interesting. You can sort of play it solo, but it gets boring and/or grindy fast. Unless you buy in-game money for real money. Dying means losing a ship and all implants, all of which cost money (time).

For "full experience", apparently you gotta join a corp, and participate in space turf wars. Then it could turn into a second job. And I have a job already. And TBH I am not a very social person.

Minecraft. I'll never understand why people like that game.

I get why it is popular, but Fifa/ EA Sports FC. I have never in my life played a way buggier, clunkier game and i literally only play single player on it. I feel like it’s just hot garbage but it’s the only…soccer game with the licensing gravitas.

The Sims 4.

I mean, The Sims 3 and The Sims 2 are right there ! Both much, much better games, with the same premise but both with much better and clearer direction. Both quite different from each other and interesting in their own right...

Meanwhile The Sims 4 is a buggy mess with over 1000€ of DLC, I cannot fathom why anyone would choose it over its predecessors...

The Last Of Us. I tried it and found it to be really boring gameplay wise. Everybody told me I had to power through the first bit and then it would get interesting. I did that and waited and waited and then the game was over. My firat thoight was "Well, this would have been a great movie." When the series came out I loved it. The story is awesome, but the gameplay is just incredibly dull to me.

I love turn based RPGs, but I couldn't get behind expedition 33 at all. I'm sure I just suck at the game, but dodging/blocking never worked. Made it impossible to care about the story cause I was so frustrated. Again I'm sure its just cause I suck, but I never got mad at yakuza like a dragon for its blocking/dodging mechanics.

Dig Dug.

Train children to blow up harmless earth-dwelling creatures with a bicycle pump ? And then when one tries to run away you get bonus points for chasing it and killing it ?

More like DIG DON'T !

Star Citizen. They've had a decade and almost a billion with a B budget yet they still hide behind early access for their buggy mess. They do this while selling ships for a grand USD.

Anyone playing that game gets ignored in any consumer rights or business ethics discussions. Lol

That's a hard question. There's tons of popular games I personally couldn't stand but can still see the appeal of, like Baldurs Gate 3. But something I just can't understand? I guess my best answer would be basically any purely PvP game.

I get something like a hero shooter where there's cooperation and team play involved. But I've never understood how people get more than 15 minutes of fun in games like multiplayer CoD.

Gta. I get that it's a well made series, but GTA V got repetitive really quick when I played it and people act like GTA VI will be the greatest game ever made, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about it.

Not a fan of FPS. I have played my fair share of them when I was a teenager since it's all my friends would play, but today I simply can't stand any of them anymore

Factorio

Literally any of the * Simulator games. Was just scrolling my Lemmy feed and "Car Mechanic Simulator" popped up, but there's Farming Simulator, and Truck Driving Simulator, Power Washing Simulator, etc. etc. etc.

I can kinda maybe see the appeal of ONE of these games as a cozy break, but there's like a dozen different ones, and they have like annual releases. Has the Simulated Car Mechanic experience really changed that much from 2015 to 2018 to 2021 to 2026 that you need a whole new game each time? None of them interest me, but the volume confuses me.

To a certain degree I feel similarly about sports games. I do more readily see the appeal of the genre, but do you really need to churn out a new full release each year? I can't fathom why people are paying full price for a game that is 99% the same as last years version - same engine, rules, gameplay, but they updated that one teams away jersey to be the new shade of purple, kicked out the retirees and added the dozen or so notable rookies. That's a $5 DLC, not another $60.

Basketball. It's practically the same game as soccer and hockey without the interesting constraints (no hands, or play on skates). I won't deny that it requires athleticism, but then it has the non-skill requirement to be freakishly tall. If you're not biologically tall, well too bad, that's a huge handicap you have basically no hope of overcoming.

And NBA games are the worst, it's always tied like 100-100 until the last 1-2 minutes which is where all the interesting plays happen (between a half dozen fouls) and the actual outcome is decided. The rest of the game you can often just ignore and not really miss anything important.

New video games.

I understand the hype around a new game you’re specifically looking forward to, but people drag the Steam Deck because it’s “not powerful enough” for the latest AAAA game. Have you seen the disgustingly huge catalog of old amazing games from the 6th, 7th, and 8th console generations that are perfectly playable on the Steam Deck? How many games have gen Z and gen Alpha missed out on simply because they’re “old.”

Clickers. I don't get it.

Animal Crossing. It’s so boring and the voices are absolutely maddening.

Fortnite.

Battle royale games. Aren’t they stressful? MOBA. Same map, same heroes? Counter-Strike. Hasn’t this been played for decades? Other games exist.

Most super mainstream games especially ones that are loosely based on reality in the modern era GTA, COD for example. I'm not saying these are bad as games, but they are so RIDICULOUSLY popular and I do not see the appeal.

Anything by Fromsoft and Soulslikes in general.

Monopoly. If it wasn't a classic, and someone was looking for a publisher with that concept, they'd be completely trashed.

No one's touched analog games so...

Monopoly. It's tedious, it's a grind, it was stolen from a last trying to say that landlords are shit, and it just ruins families.

Also the Outer Worlds is shit. It had cool art Nouveau style aesthetics, and had a great premise, but completely dropped the ball on practically everything. The art Nouveau ideals are counter to the world where everything is commodified and automatic. It starts off trying to be funny, but isn't really, and does nothing to get you to feel like you're stumbling into a capitalistic nightmare. You have no investment in the world or people or anything. It throws in the aliens and rebels like an afterthought. A fan made music video did more for the theme and feeling of oppression. Utter disappointment and they are going to make another for some reason