I’m still trying to learn Mahjong for Yakuza 0…

Yep, I hate spending a decent chunk of time going somewhere to collect some good weapons, then like 2 encounters later half of them are broken.

It MASSIVELY slows down the pacing of the game and makes it feel like such a slog.

I agree, it was not very fun. It would have been much more fun to just find one copy of the elemental swords, wands, and such, and just carry around as many as you could carry and use the ones that made sense for the current battle. Even better if there were slashing versus stabbing swords which were better for certain enemies. Stuff like that.

I will say, though, even a few hours into the game it got to the point where I had too many weapons, and I very rarely ran out. Every enemy drops some. And it turns out, I didn’t really mind fighting Lynels or “Major Test of Strength” guardians to get their goods weapons once every blood moon. I enjoyed how those fights were difficult and technical.

Even just adding a repair mechanic would have been great. It also would have made a lot more sense lore-wise if BotW had the “everything made of metal is degrading from a curse” that TotK had. It made sense in TotK that weapons were fragile, but not in BotW.

All in all, it was a top-design choice. They didn’t want you to find one Royal Guard weapon an hour into the game and faceroll everything all game. That’s one of the downsides of even having a “this sword does more damage than other swords” type weapon system. How do you even explain that lore-wise? If a sword is magical, sure, but some “Royal Guard” sword isn’t automatically better than an ordinary sword of the same size, shape and also made of steel.

I broke Skyrim for myself on my first playthrough because I did dual wielding, smithing, and enchanting, maxed both of those out, and made the most insane double-enchanted dragon bone(?) swords before I finished even 1/10 of the plot. When the first dragon attack happened, I chopped it up in like 5 seconds. I was so insanely overpowered. That never happens in BotW. Even with the best weapons in the game, fighting a Silver Lynel is work!

For me BotW was amazing right up until you fired your second ancient arrow. Guardians start as terrifying monsters you have to run from. When you finally get ancient arrows, you get revenge, and that’s extremely satisfying. After that, it’s just a boring slog of killing guardians to farm their parts to kill more guardians ad nauseam until you beat the game.

This is why I don’t get Zelda games anymore. I also am not a fan of the huge open world thing that makes most of your game time running from place to place so they don’t have to make much content.

That’s why you use Excel at work… to take the edge off.

You really chose poorly for a “casual gaming” experience my friend. Good luck

Came here to mention Eve. I love flying through space and assembling different ships, but it is such a time machine; it almost reminds me of getting into Civilization and feeling that ‘one more turn’ compulsion.

I’m pretty anti-capitalist irl, but something about the game has got me satisfying market demands and working in a corporation for fun. It’s weird.

We are on the same boat, played some urf just see if I could have the same feeling for the game again but it’s gone, it’s a shame because I really enjoy the gameplay just everything else about doesn’t justify it. I also quit a handful of weeks ago.

The game played fun and I liked it. But once at end game it’s: premade teams, yelling on comms and people that take the game very serious, combined with many features and challenges being time limited. Pushing a “must play” mentality, playing on FOMO.

At one point we where in a game, people yelling cause it was the last day to unlock some weapon. And I realized… why the fuck am I doing this… this ain’t fun. Finished the round with the guys, got the unlock. Uninstalled the game and have not missed it since.

They may have fixed it since I last played it but my problem was always every planet is toxic or too hot or too cold or something.

My biggest issue was how needlessly complicated it was making anything look halfway decent, particularly with tracks. Just getting the tracks to not float over platforms takes hours, then trying to get the platforms to sit on the terrain nicely takes more, and no matter how nicely that turns out, it looks like the game forgets to render plants wherever you build anything… All to pump ever more complex crap into a trash compactor while the cool space elevator stands dormant.

Ugh, it’s such a cool idea, but every action feels like a mistake, and every project feels like a waste. I wish I loved this game.

Oh, and I almost forgot the hilarious amount of waste nuclear power makes, while coal and oil are infinitely renewable and objectively the cleanest forms of energy. Feels like oil & gas propaganda.

Yep, though I feel it is mostly nostalgia.

The game has devolved to a point where only tryhards and boosters (or people paying for boosts) are having any fun. The rest of us having to wade through the toxic waste they leave behind. The game feels like middle management having control of all the resources and if you’re in a lower position you get screwed over.

Ahead of the Curve achievements, gear scores, raider.io, simulationcraft, DBM, perpetually unbalanced classes and specs and mechanics interviews over Discord have ruined the game to a point where I no longer feel I can play the way I want to. Rushing to the point where you’re ready to raid and then spend hours reading strategy guides, configuring DBM, applying to groups, is not a fun way to experience end game content while basically skipping all the storylines, and everything that makes the world feel like an actual world.

And most of it is just symptoms, it used to be that bosses had relatively simple mechanics and raids were there to experience crucial battles in the story. People used to just get a group together and try defeating a raid, not too worried about failure. Nowadays people are obsessed with managing away risks of failure.

Being kicked from a group halfway through because your spec has slightly lower DPS for the specific encounter while topping the damage done charts in others is the kind of bullshit that I won’t deal with anymore.

Actually engaging with the end game content feels like applying for an entry level position where they require 10 years of previous experience to even qualify.

damn, fellow mmorpg player, feel your pain. FF 11 and FF 14 got me good, but im still gonna do every quest anyway. Although currently in 11 the game for me ends at limit break 3 quest because i had trouble with it last time i played, maybe i’ll pick it up again and give the parts i was stuck on another shot at some point. Once im past genkai 3 the rest seems a lot less frustrating. the lb 3 quest isn’t really hard, just obnoxious as all hell.

I loved Overwatch. As a Paladins refugee, it was everything I wanted from such a game. I played for quite a while, but then Overwatch 2 came. They turned Overwatch into Paladins, I was so disappointed and angry that I quit mid season 1 and that’s the end of competitive shooters for me. I play Vermintide 2 every now and then (great game if you give it the chance) and no other online game anymore, except some co-op survival game with a friend or two every now and then.

Same with the rest of the blizzard lineup actually.

Diablo 4 and modern WoW could easily be great games if they’d just ditch the fucking level scaling.

Whatever braindead asshole at Blizzard thought it’d be a great idea to not get more powerful when you level up (you actually get weaker because your gear stays the same) needs to get launched into the sun.

The mistlands really killed the momentum I had in that game. Super fun being able to see 10 feet in front of you, not being able to move that well because vertical movement in the game is meh at best, etc.

My buddies felt the same way so we all just collectively stopped playing over the course of a couple of weeks.

I love it with friends. I hate it and get bored out of my mind playing alone.

Agreed. The swamp is a steep cliff but it works once geared. But mystland is just vile. I do not understand how they thought that would be a fun addition.

The must, okay… but combined with the vertical terrain is stupid. For us it also killed the desire to keep playing.

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I routinely replay it and beat it in coop, but it’s definitely akin to CBT

The jackal snipers become so ridiculous at some areas where there is like 10 covering a given area, I got collad’d with my buddy and in the death screen I saw an additional 5x beam rifle shots where we were standing. It’s honestly genuinely hilarious how bad it is.

Man, this brings back memories.

Cs gone

I’ve always been a huge Valve fan, and I still kind of am, but giving CSGO the Overwatch “”“”“2"”“”" treatment was such a blatant act of disrespect to the players. I’ll never be able to forgive them for what we lost during that update.

Community servers still haven’t recovered, the weapons + buy menu are fundamentally different, we’re still missing a significant amount of maps and game modes… And they ruined any chance for GO to be able to continue on powered by the community.