I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.
Do you have a similar game?
Call of Duty. And any other game that makes you pay more money (after you’ve already paid for the game) for loot boxes that are basically gambling for kids.
I can’t stand the state of modern games. They arrive broken, have pay-to-win models, and promote an unhealthy dopamine cycle of gambling and addiction.
My dumbass ex-brother-in-law is deep in the process of losing his wife and two kids largely because of his EVE Online addiction.
Fucking Ark. I have a major love-hate relationship with that game.
This review visualizes it well.
Looking at my Steam, the game with the highest number of hours played, of which I would currently say unambiguously that you should avoid it, looks to be War Thunder. Among the reasons I’d tell you to stay away from it:
- It’s a grindfest starting very early on.
- It’s far too easy to lose as a result of what can reasonably be called bad luck.
- Unless you specialise, or throw real money at it, the fun, high-tech stuff is probably thousands of hours into the future.
- There’s content gated behind “if you were not around when this was regular stuff, you will never get it”
- It calls itself an MMO, while there’s nothing MMO about it. It’s all instanced battles, with little to no world continuity as you progress.
Rainbow six: siege. I played it pretty religiously and had a pretty good ranked k/d. At some point the magic wore off and playing with randoms is insufferable. Very toxic too
The skill curve on that game always seemed insane, cause you could throw the game by taking cover behind the wrong wall?
You can also get killed by someone aiming through a 2-pixel-wide hole
Dead by Daylight.
The community is absolutely toxic in a very weird way. I’ve played other games with famously toxic communities but in Dead by Daylight it has a strange spin. Some players heavily identify with the killer/survivor side and feel personally attacked by everything “the other side” or the developers do.
Imagine bringing Tumblr fandoms into an asynchronous and highly competitive Us VS Them game.
You will regret the day you cross ways with either an unhinged player of DbD who will stalk you throughout the internet. Or someone who streams this game and their unhinged fanbase.
GTA 5 especially GTA online, idk how I used to grind that game constantly just to buy a cool car that I’d stop driving a few days later. It got better “recently” (2-3 years ago) with bigger payouts and single person heists but then the in game inflation fucked everything. I haven’t touched the game in months because all I saw about it was how glitchy it was and how R* were removing shit that had been in the game for 10 years.
Thomas the Tank Engine on SNES. Me and my mates used to find it hilarious when high. Still do.
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The Sims 4, I have 600+ hours on it somehow, don’t even bother asking me how because I also don’t know how that happened. It’s widely regarded as the worst one in the series as it lacks the most content, has unbelievably egregious DLCs and it’s plain out fucking boring compared to older titles. If I had to guess how I’ve played so much I’d guess it’s the CAS (character creator) and building mode which are both fantastic, the game itself is blergh at best, especially without mods.
Skyrim. The writing is horrible, I can’t remember the name and personalities of more than 5 NPCs, the town’s are microscopic, it can’t handle more than 5 NPCs on screen, all the dungeons are theme park rides with gift shop exits, combat is a horrific sloppy mess, it’s ugly, it has 4 voice actors, it’s a buggy mess despite being released 37 times, the only way to interact with the world is violence, and all of the quests are flaccid boring murderfests.
I’ve played hundreds of hours.
Actually the first thing I thought of. Played the fuck out of that game, but kinda always hated it while playing it. Can’t explain why. Was a weird time.
Gex.
There are very few. Factorio is amazing and no-one should play it if they value your life. Train Simulator “Classic” will also destroy your wallet, and it isn’t really that good. Horribly buggy, unoptimised, never patched or fixed.
I tend to go the other way. games I know people like, but I dislike. Far Cry 3 was the worst in the series, and I never got on with Red Dead Redemption 2, despite having 120 hours in it.
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Destiny 2. Played it religiously and got like 3k hours in it since 2018, and just stopped last year. The grind was killing me season after season and the clan I was with has disbanded, everyone is super pissy in LFGs. Great shooter, but can’t do everything from zero every 3 months Bungie. Qlso the rotating meta, and the frind to get it.
Same. I think I have roughly 2k hours over the years, but I’ve reduced my own playtime (and also the amount of money I give them, I don’t buy it unless it’s more than 50% off) over the years and ever since Forsaken I’ve had less and less reason to recommend it to anyone else. The big reason is pretty simple. Bungie just keep giving it less and less focus while monetizing the game as much as possible. Without writing an essay on everything wrong with Destiny I think the best summary is that the game has lost it’s vision and turned into a content treadmill. The themes of the original story have been largely thrown out the window. There’s no longer a clear artistic style of Destiny but rather whatever seems “fun”, like having 80s themed sci-fi setting with a “surfs up bro” type of character for an expansion. That expansion in the context of the wider story was supposed to be the dreadful defeat and uncertainty about the future, but we’ve thrown the story out anyway so who cares? Content is largely the same thing we’ve been doing since Forsaken with the biggest difference being the setting. All the while price of the game is increased and content gets spread out between expansions, seasons, dungeons and in game store, so that Bungie could get all the money they want.
And that’s just for the seasoned players. New players have it even worse. The new player experience is a lazily put together nonsensical mess. One of the worst I’ve seen. New players would have to put in a lot of effort to “get” Destiny and for that commitment they get “buy now” thrown in their face on every possible chance like some shitty F2P mobile game.
