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?
SWTOR
I’ve put at least 2000 hours into this game and completed all the endgame PvE content including an NA first/world second raid achievement and made a lot of friends in the game.
It’s still a shit game with barely any new content and now Bioware has pawned off the game to some company called Broadsword that looks like it specializes in taking over dead MMORPGs
Cookie Clicker
like drugs… just say no
I think idle games are interesting to mindfully experience. They - at least good ones - demonstrate the influence of external motivation, of progression.
Outside of that… Yeah. There’s a fine line of experiencing theme and gameplay Design, and falling into mindless simple number scaling and waiting.
This is a crazy one for me. I saw this for like 5 seconds and I knew instantly this would piss me off and I never ever ever touched it or any ‘idle’ type games. I would rather stand still and stare at a wall. I don’t understand how anyone could find any entertainment at all. And apparently they are massively popular.
It does weird stuff to your brain. Just never start any of these and you’re good.
Always thought I was immune until I was forced to play Roblox, of all things, with my niece. We played some kind of incremental / idle game and I had to continue to play this game. It was horrible. ( ; ω ; )
Fucking Ark. I have a major love-hate relationship with that game.
This review visualizes it well.
I love ARK so much, it is an amazing game when you customise your own server and play with friends only.
Just … don’t join any public server where the admin is a 17 yo who makes up weird rules like every woman has to join his harem or no one is allowed to ride a bigger dino than his. ( ´ ▽ ` )
Since I haven’t seen it yet, Dead by Daylight is a pay-to-win disaster that is consistently making boneheaded decisions nearly every update.
I had a feeling it would show up sooner or later! Eve, DBD, ARK, and LoL are the 4 I thought of when posting this. No one has fun playing these games. We play them almost certainly because of a moral failing at this point.
The thing is, at least DbD and Ark can be incredible when you only play with friends. We have our own ARK server for years now and we all have lots of fun. DbD we only play when we do not need to take in any randoms. I think the games aren’t bad per se. It’s the players who make these games bad.
Space Engineers. Hou can do lots of cool engineering things, but the venn diagram of “fun” and “bugged beyond belief” is nearly a perfect match. If it works, it is peobably boring, like the crafting system.
