• Evotech@lemmy.world
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    These days anything with a story honestly.

    If I want a story I’ll watch TV with my wife. When I play games I’d rather pay something short and fun, like a round of deadlock recently.

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    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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    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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      I’ve tried and bounced off several mobas at the request of my friends over the years, but Deadlock is really pulling me in recently. I was surprised too.

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    Gacha games.

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

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    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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    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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        I’ll assume since I am someone else, but kernel level anti-cheat is basically Spyware, or at least a privacy concern.

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        Yep, the other two commenters summed it up well: I’d rather not have software for a game that I play running and phoning home every time I boot my computer (in other words, a rootkit). I also am a Linux user, so they just don’t work for me.

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    • 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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      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.