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LordYeezus
05/30/23 1:57:42 AM
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Among us
Friday night funkin (literally just a stepmania/DDR clone)

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Smashingpmkns
05/30/23 1:58:51 AM
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Roblox is pretty much the only one I don't really understand.

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pauIie
05/30/23 1:59:18 AM
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ffx. game is dogwater outside of the music.

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Vicious_Dios
05/30/23 2:00:35 AM
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Undertale
League of Legends
Overwatch
Valorant
Fortnite at the time of its peak
DOTA
Soccer games
ALL turn-based games


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KhlavicLanguage
05/30/23 2:05:46 AM
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Breath of the Wild. I've yet to see a remotely convincing or even an I-disagree-but-fine explanation as to how it's better than a generic Ubisoft game, it just feels like I'm getting gaslit every time.
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boxoto
05/30/23 2:06:20 AM
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at this point, there's nothing I can think of.

I used to be surprised by the popularity of simulation games (train, fishing, city building, etc.), but now I'm just glad that gaming has grown to the point where almost every niche can be satisfied.

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NES4EVER
05/30/23 2:06:37 AM
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*gestures broadly at first person shooters*

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MICHALECOLE
05/30/23 2:06:57 AM
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I can understand all games popularity

other people like things I dont sometimes

its not that hard to understand
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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
05/30/23 2:12:59 AM
#10:


Roblox has some appeal to young people who want both games and to make stuff. I don't understand the appeal to parents who would let their kids mess with some thing like that they know nothing about. Most of them who have issues with their kids spending thousands of bucks on the thing are young enough that they can't use "technology advanced too fast" as an excuse.

But yeah, I don't understand the appeal as someone who actually played games before 2010, let alone when I actually first played games.

That aside...

So for me: mobile games. Any game on a phone. A key part of any game is control. There are occasional ones here and there, but having to use a smartphone as a control device is just... insane to me. Like, a mouse, with two buttons, is ten times better, let alone also having a keyboard. Or using basically any controller, including the NES controller. Or even that Romulan starship they call the N64 controller (used it when I was young enough to just learn to handle it though, so it at least has some nostalgia, but with some recent usage I still deem it better than a smartphone's screen).

Which just makes all the Raid shadow legends and Hero Wars ads even more stupid.


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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
05/30/23 2:14:51 AM
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You want your kid to have fun and be creative? Stay, the ever loving hell, away from Roblox.

Just get Minecraft in whatever version lets you have them play it with as little access to your finances as possible. Probably java version. Put them on a device that has nothing important on it too.

...I need to go rewatch some yogscast stuff now.

Edit: One last thing. The company of Roblox is horrible, so even if you can control your kid's access, just don't go with them. The company is horrible and essentially mediates child labor.


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PesticideDream
05/30/23 2:16:00 AM
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Games that necessitate a ton of grinding. They're usually fun at first but then get old really fast. These are the types of games where you just run the same missions/levels/bosses/whatever over and over and over in the hopes of getting something that makes you slightly stronger. I already have a job and adult chores, I don't know why anyone would want to turn their video game time into work also.
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KhlavicLanguage
05/30/23 2:23:01 AM
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My problem with a lot of those Roblox/Minecraft fan games is they're typically just a shitty version of a game that already exists >_> the No Cred Card effect is very real
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Flauros
05/30/23 2:28:52 AM
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Disco Elysium

Shit is beyond boring.

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AldousIsDead
05/30/23 2:34:21 AM
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Gacha crap.

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Gobstoppers12
05/30/23 2:46:45 AM
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I understand the popularity of most games... except gacha shit. Like, it's clearly designed to eat as much of your money as possible, progression comes at a snail's pace... the good stuff is super rare, and you have to "get it" a bunch of times to actually make it strong enough to be viable.

It's like an MMO but with more grinding and 500 special currencies and different kinds of loot boxes.

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Mad-Dogg
05/30/23 2:48:46 AM
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AldousIsDead posted...
Gacha crap.
Def this one. I know most people do it for a dopamine hit via finally getting that whatever star watchamacallit, but man this shit has an entire goddamn country addicted to it in japan and other regions. All the money blown getting these things in a game that is potentially being taken down one day when the money well for whatever company starts drying up is the part I don't get.

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bigtiggie23
05/30/23 2:53:30 AM
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I don't understand why Gone Home was so loved. It was an hour and a half of opening closets and drawers hoping to find something interesting (spoiler: you never did).

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deoxxys
05/30/23 3:23:35 AM
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Vicious_Dios posted...
Undertale
League of Legends
Overwatch
Valorant
Fortnite at the time of its peak
DOTA
Soccer games
ALL turn-based games
Oh so you hate good multiplayer games? Surprised you don't have team fortress 2 and Counter-Strike on here.

I also can't stand soccer games but I realize that's because I don't like sports.

Turn based is too broad of a genre I don't know what I do without games like XCOM 2, Slay the Spire, Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door, Dragon Quest 5, Advance Wars 2, Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones and Into the Breach.

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deoxxys
05/30/23 3:29:08 AM
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Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...
So for me: mobile games. Any game on a phone. A key part of any game is control. There are occasional ones here and there, but having to use a smartphone as a control device is just... insane to me.
I used to think the same thing but not every game requires complex controls.

You can play Super Auto Pets and Slice and Dice on PC but since they are turn-based games, touch controls work fine and it's convenient to have a fun game in your pocket anytime. Also tower defense games like Kingdom Rush and Dungeon Warfare don't need precision since the towers do the combat for you.

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
05/30/23 3:37:46 AM
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Not every game requires complex controls.

But the fewer buttons you use, the more important it is to be VERY good at making a game.

...Which mobile games have proven very good at NOT giving many examples of. If you are someone who is a fan of some of the few actually purportedly good ones, you still have to admit that the vast majority are cash grabs, gachas, or warrior management sims that are both.


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AbstraktProfSC2
05/30/23 3:47:01 AM
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KhlavicLanguage posted...
Breath of the Wild. I've yet to see a remotely convincing or even an I-disagree-but-fine explanation as to how it's better than a generic Ubisoft game, it just feels like I'm getting gaslit every time.
Came in to say this and TOTK
the games are empty and repetitive as hell with no enemy variety and the weapon breaking system is just plain dumb. and a $70 game for the same map at below 30 FPS is crazy

Also, Dead By Daylight feels like a bad mobile game to me. I dont get how its any fun at all

Never understood the Splatoon hype either....but its Nintendo...

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Ratchetrockon
05/30/23 3:48:26 AM
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bigtiggie23 posted...
I don't understand why Gone Home was so loved. It was an hour and a half of opening closets and drawers hoping to find something interesting (spoiler: you never did).

Oh God I was expecting atleast a 6 hour game.
Thought we'd eventually travel to the forest to search for the sister lol. Beat it in like 2 hours without even moving at a fast pace and was surprised

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stage4saiyan
05/30/23 3:59:25 AM
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New Vegas and Outer Wilds

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Avirosb
05/30/23 4:15:32 AM
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BotW. No, I get that it's Zelda but all you do is farm weapons and korok seeds?

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Glob
05/30/23 4:16:53 AM
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All Souls games and their ilk.
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Karovorak
05/30/23 4:18:55 AM
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Undertale

AldousIsDead posted...
Gacha crap.

And this.

I can live with some f2p friendly gacha games, but they are like 1 in a million.

But the worst behind most cacha games is the community behind. NEVER join some general community discord.

"I have problems with content X, this is my setup"
"Your setup is shit, use Y."
"But I don't have Y."
"Then your account is shit, don't expect to beat stuff with that"
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Avirosb
05/30/23 4:20:50 AM
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AbstraktProfSC2 posted...
Never understood the Splatoon hype either....but its Nintendo...

Generic response. You ever see people talk about Arms nowadays?

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Ratchetrockon
05/30/23 4:26:45 AM
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Avirosb posted...
BotW. No, I get that it's Zelda but all you do is farm weapons and korok seeds?

Outfits too and rupees

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tankboy
05/30/23 4:41:47 AM
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Kingdom Hearts series. I get that it's neat to see Disney characters mixed up, but I don't get how the implemented gameplay or story is supposed to be interesting or fun.
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Crimsoness
05/30/23 4:54:08 AM
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Elden Ring

Also Totk, mind I haven't been playing it long but I don't see how it's more than a reskinned breath

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Avirosb
05/30/23 4:54:44 AM
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Crimsoness posted...
Elden Ring

Also Totk, mind I haven't been playing it long but I don't see how it's more than a reskinned breath
They fly now

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angelkay16
05/30/23 7:33:20 AM
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MICHALECOLE posted...
I can understand all games popularity

other people like things I dont sometimes

its not that hard to understand
Pretty much this

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Avirosb
05/30/23 7:34:23 AM
#37:


angelkay16 posted...
Pretty much this
Truth be told the answer is usually accessibility+addiction.

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Hayame_Zero
05/30/23 7:36:41 AM
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Can't really think of any.

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Jagr_68
05/30/23 7:37:00 AM
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Every game everyone likes that I don't like.

Will never understand.

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CaptainStrong
05/30/23 7:49:34 AM
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God of War
Majora's Mask
Metroid: Samus Returns and Dread
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy VII Remake
All Soulslike games
All fighting games
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AloneIBreak
05/30/23 7:51:02 AM
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Pokmon

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Anarchy_Juiblex
05/30/23 7:55:05 AM
#42:


Smashingpmkns posted...
Roblox is pretty much the only one I don't really understand.

^ x10.

I didn't even know existed until I was randomly watching the Simpsons after years of hiatus and they parodied it, didn't know what they were referencing then like a week later I saw a video on how much of a scam it is.

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Arishok
05/30/23 8:00:38 AM
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Souls, and Souls like games.

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Prismsblade
05/30/23 8:03:31 AM
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Kingdom heart's. Fanchise peaked at 2 and has only gone down hill from there.

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Ratchetrockon
05/30/23 8:05:02 AM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
^ x10.

I didn't even know existed until I was randomly watching the Simpsons after years of hiatus and they parodied it, didn't know what they were referencing then like a week later I saw a video on how much of a scam it is.

It reminds me of habbo hotel/club penguin but with way more things to do cuz of the custom levels.

Used to play the game with my younger sister. We'd play some platforming stages and a prison guard vs prisoners stage lol

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Derwood
05/30/23 8:15:37 AM
#46:


AloneIBreak posted...
Pokmon

This.

And JRPG's. They all seem like peak cringe to me

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VeggetaX
05/30/23 8:16:54 AM
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That turn base RPG game that starts you off at the beach with a man and woman.

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Antifar
05/30/23 8:18:11 AM
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I don't understand anyone who likes things I don't. The world is deeply confusing and often troubling to me

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SupermanLost
05/30/23 8:19:47 AM
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Sports games like Madden.
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lilORANG
05/30/23 8:21:59 AM
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Skyrim fucking sux and it's been re-released like 10 times and people still buy that shit up.

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