Ask Lemmy

I echo a lot of the sentiments expressed by others about avoiding games from bad publishers or games employing milking practices, avoiding multiplayer and toxic people, overly hard games, and many other points already stated.

My two things that are different are that I enjoy hard games so long as the reset is instant or near instant. Like Katana Zero and Hotl8ne Miami. Without that I don't want any part of a hard game. I get it, I died, let me try again already. So fuck games with long reset times.

And more unusual is I really don't like most isometric games but especially clicky isometrics. If I can't wander freely with WASD, fuck it, I'm out. Not going to sit here going clickclickclickclickclickclick just to go half a screen and open a chest. Fucking hate overly clicky shit like that with a passion. I also dont like how up is more like diagonal up and left is diagonal up etc. It's just annoying. My only exceptional has been project zomboid.

Roguelikes. The infinite replayability and computer generated design are fatiguing to me. Seems like most of the reasons why people like them are the exact reasons I don't. 🤷‍♂️

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?

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.

Multiplayer games that require invasive anticheat or really long games that take 100+ hours to complete.

Any dev's online game that does not want to support Linux in their AC for whatever reason, even if it is a matter of just flipping a goddam switch.

MOBA games, I spent years playing heroes of newerth and Dota2, but as I got older and had less time to play it got increasingly harder to keep up with all the changes, and I realised it was just making me stressed playing it rather than enjoying it. Still enjoyed watching The International for a few years after I quit though.

F2P, RTS, and anime games

Anything Ubisoft

At this point, anything that isn't Smash Brothers or Apex Legends.

I'm gonna make a microtransaction-laden gambling trap competitive multiplayer dating sim, get EA to publish it, and title it "🖕"

Well, ever since the whole thing where macrohard/mojangles/whichever decided "you know what minecraft needs? CLIENT SIDE CHAT SCANNING AND CENSORSHIP!" I decided to switch over to Minetest and have never looked back.

I don't mind big servers having censorship because that's their deal and they can use whatever chat filters/plug-ins they want, but do we really need singleplayer to be censored? Or our chat messages to be scanned for things mc deem inappropriate? Absolutely not!

gothic 3. because it looks like piece of shit.