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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

I get that I like certain things and other people like others. Currently im not looking for a challenge in games im just looking to play with dolls.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)
  • Mixtape: Not even a real game.
  • The Sims: I never played it, but it looks boring like a TV show simulating real life.
  • Most MMORPGs: Just a grind fest and you pay every month to be able to "play".
  • Cookie Clicker (and similar "games"): What even is this?

For the most part, it's not like I wouldn't understand why these games are popular. I mean I see why Mixtape and Sims are popular in example. I get it. So this is not literally "I can't understand".

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 5 points 3 months ago

MMOs today vs MMOs in the early age of gaming - they differ a lot. Now they are shinier with a lot of gameplay features, but they lost the core feature - global player interaction & competition.

Most MMOs today just offer you some version of singleplayer RPG quests that you can do with your friends. You might see the other players but you can't do any offensive actions, many dungeons are just generated for your team and cut from the rest of the playerbase. While that's fun, that's...

Not on the level of fighting other players who keep you out of a good leveling location fun. Not the same as 5 competing guilds go to the same worldboss and now they need to fight each other and worldboss fun. Or some local rivalries that end up in clans viciously fighting each other, and that can chain react into some alliances fighting each other. All while a single death slightly de-levels you.

And yes, I'm talking about Lineage 2. When players and social interactions are what actually writes the story of the world, there is some charm in that.

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[–] Scio@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (10 children)

The Grand Theft Auto series, especially GTAV. The multiplayer one I understand, but the rest of them. Not a clue.

Skyrim, and to a much lesser extent, Oblivion.

I do understand the appeal of Expedition 33, I think. I shall leave it out of the list.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Oh yes so on board with you regarding Bethesda stuff. And it's always technically a mess, for premium price. Often multiple times!

I think some people like to set their own rules and live in those worlds while I can not oversee the deficiencies and exploit the hell out of it out of spite (eg looting a shop standing on the merchant because he can't see me doing it there)....

Expedition 33 was awesome although technically underwhelming (performance wise, not artistically!). But not anywhere close to Bethesda level things.

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[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hell Divers 2. Cool soundtrack, cool visuals. But replay ability doesn’t seem that great. Some of my friends play it a ton. For me though, there was a lot of just slowly walking between objectives, hit a button, fight some, walk between objectives. Repeat each map with slightly different monsters and maps. But might just be that i didn’t get far past the first worlds.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

ORS, i prefer the new one, the old one was so grindy and annoying you can easily spend a long time while not achieving much in the game. plus they complain/gatekeep so much it nerfed RS3

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