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What video game have you played the most, that you think is garbage and no one else should ever play? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[โ€“] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Cookie Clicker

like drugs... just say no

[โ€“] Kissaki@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] isyasad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is why Universal Paperclips is my favorite idle game, maybe my favorite game ever. It has an ending and you can even interpret a story from it. Definitely worth playing once.

[โ€“] luthis@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

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. ( ; ฯ‰ ; )

[โ€“] Rannoch@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I enjoyed playing Cookie Clicker, but probably because I only really played it for a month or so - I can imagine playing that any longer would not be worth the time ๐Ÿ˜