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[–] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • Anything from EA.
  • Anything from Ubisoft
  • Anything Epic exclusive.
  • Anything with Denuvo (or whatever is the next intrusive DRM).
  • Anything competitive PvP multiplayer.
  • Anything "free" to play.
  • Probably almost all general multipler & live service by now - or otherwise full of dark patterns to keep me "engaged".
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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I don't find myself "engaged," I find myself wanting to spend money for something that will bore me the next week.

    There is a reason I've mostly played single player games for the past decade.

    I was tired of the "seasons" and micro transactions when I just wanted a story. If the story was good, I'd be ok with purchasing an expansion upon it. I remember my first expansion pack, Warcraft 2, played over a phone line. It felt worth it.

    For more modern games, The Witcher 3 DLC felt like proper expansion packs. I have no bad feelings about those.

    But just adding a few cosmetic items? Fuck off.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Most of the multiplayer ones and all of the ones that require voice chat.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Any game that uses kernel level anti cheat, for obvious reasons.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    anything that is a “Game as a Service”

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago*

    EA and Ubisoft, some kernel level anti cheat, and typically speaking, i dont enjoy games that have tower defense mechanics (and i hate when its shoehorned in, e.g Monster Hunter Rise). Korean MMOs. Mobas in general

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Anything from EA, Microsoft, or Ubisoft.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Standard 3D shooter/War games like your Call of Duties, Battlefields, etc.... It's not that I'm a prude per se, I'll happily play a single player campaign similar settings if they respect the material. Though I prefer science fiction where what I'm killing is aliens, or Fallout raiders and Super Mutants, or Zombies, etc...

    But (and this is MY OPINION only...I don't judge anyone who feels differently) there's something creepy and wrong about using very realistic modern-day set human-to-human war shooters when the end result is to tea-bag your friend when you kill him and have 13 year old kids calling out slurs in open chat. It just denigrates and cheapens a subject matter that I think should be treated with a lot more solemnity and respect.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a teen, I was told that playing Mortal Kombat would turn me into a serial killer. Now, as an adult with kids (one of which is an adult) I'm happy to report that I'm probably one of the most docile people you'll meet.

    (Unless someone seriously hurts my family and/or cats.)

    I used to have fun with Call of Duty, and I never saw it as "I am a soldier and I must kill these people." Every game needs a theme, and that just happened to be it. I just saw it as a competition of dexterity and strategy. Whether it's soldiers with guns or a yellow circle munching on ghosts, it's all just tapping buttons at the right time.

    The reasons I quit playing CoD were because I got sick of buying the same game every year, and as I got older, I couldn't keep up with the kids. During the 12-25 year old range, your reaction time is WAY better than any other time.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pay to win games or games with heavy focus on in game purchases. Having an in game store to supplement development costs? Cool no problems. 5 interactions to get into a game but 1 interaction to purchase something? No thanks.

    Not saying they can’t be fun. But not a practice I like to support if I can help it.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    online games.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Online multiplayer and soulslike games

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    99.999% of them. I don't desire variety. Give me one good game and I'll waste infinite hours with it for the next 15 years. The newest game I've played is from 2018

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Sports games, most racing games, JRPGs, fighting games, party games, MMOs, soulsborne type games, precision platformers, dating sim games. None of these are inherently bad, I've just learned that I don't get much out of them.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Anything that doesn't work on Linux

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Anything multiplayer.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Any game mobile advertised on Youtube, if it was good they would not need to advertise

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Anything episodic or with an online social component. Basically anything that leeches significant time from my life. I don't want to be in my deathbed thinking about how many thousands of hours I spent on various games.

    People bragging about having 5,000+ hours in a single video game make me deeply sad.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Gacha games.

    I play Genshin Impact and one gacha is enough for me.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Fortnite. Noped right out of that one.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    At the moment basically anything competitive/ranked. I don't want to compete online anymore because I know that I'll have to go on an insane grind to get good. Only exception is trackmania because it somehow doesn't upset me quite like other ranked online games. But even then I only play the "arcade" mode and not ranked

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    sports games, always online games, games with denuvo still on, mmo, party games, shooter games where the main focus is PvP, picture-puzzle games, find-in-picture games, games with 30% or more QTE that is not rhythm games

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Anything Nintendo. Fuck Nintendo.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    Anything with a subscription is a no for me. I think subscription games are less popular than they used to be, but I never played WoW because paying every month seemed excessive to me.

    Most shooters. Especially like CoD. Not interested. I enjoy the original doom, but that's cartoony violence fighting demons. Some of the far cry games I've enjoyed, with some reservations.

    Almost all free to play games. They don't feel like an honest deal most of the time. Like, Warframe was good somehow. But a lot of them feel predatory or annoying.

    Purely pvp games. No mobas or battle royales for me. I don't want to deal with other people like that. A little pvp in a game, like dark souls, is fine. But I'm not looking for that to he the main thing, typically.

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    I just can't do overwatch... I don't know why people give games like that enjoying...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    General war and military style games. When I was younger, my favorite game was battlefield but as I got older, I lost interest in such games. I much prefer simulation and strategy games, abd games that are more relatable.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Anything along the lines of Civ, Stellaris. I have no self control with that type of game. It's the only type of game where I could go hours skipping everything healthy for the body.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Anything from Ubisoft. I’ll still consider an EA game. It’s that fucking bad the garbage that Ubisoft puts out and the shitty practices they hold towards the people who have been fans forever and monetarily supporting them.

    Fuck them.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Soulsborne type games

    Games feeling like a chore and force me to 'get good' in order to enjoy them? Miss me with that shit, or at least pay me for it.

    Online games

    Same as above, plus annoying people who take the whole thing too seriously.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I echo a lot of the sentiments expressed by others about avoiding games from bad publishers or games employing milking practices, avoiding multiplayer and toxic people, overly hard games, and many other points already stated.

    My two things that are different are that I enjoy hard games so long as the reset is instant or near instant. Like Katana Zero and Hotl8ne Miami. Without that I don't want any part of a hard game. I get it, I died, let me try again already. So fuck games with long reset times.

    And more unusual is I really don't like most isometric games but especially clicky isometrics. If I can't wander freely with WASD, fuck it, I'm out. Not going to sit here going clickclickclickclickclickclick just to go half a screen and open a chest. Fucking hate overly clicky shit like that with a passion. I also dont like how up is more like diagonal up and left is diagonal up etc. It's just annoying. My only exceptional has been project zomboid.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    FPSs with the sole exception being Fallout 4. I don't know how people can tell that a single pixel moving far off in the distance is the enemy. And what do you mean someone's shooting me from behind at exactly 161.8°? How can you tell? HOW?

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Anything multiplayer, free-to-play and/or gacha. Nowadays I also avoid FromSoftware and anything trying to ape them, I used to love these kind of games but I just don't have the patience and fortitude for them anymore.

    Oh and Nintendo, then again it's easy to avoid them considering I haven't owned one of their consoles since the Game Cube.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    CoD, overwatch, sports games, free to play games, casino games.

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