Did you know YouTube has games now? They load near instantly, easily accessible on mobile or desktop, and they’re p much all shit. Most of them are basically generic asset flips or imitations of popular mobile games. I really can’t think of anything closer to cheap fast food.
Hmm… I think this one is gonna be personal because people enjoy genres to varying degrees.
For me, it’s Konami’s PES (eFootball now, or FL2025 if you’re modding)
Start career mode, buy players, play a season, forget about it, and repeat like a month or two after. It’s a fairly mindless activity to me and I do it when I wanna give my brain a break.
Gacha genre, it feels like. Addicting, but ultimately terrible for your health, though maybe a bit inverted, fast food affecting the body and as a consequence the mind, and gachas first the mind and as consequence the body.
Any game like vampire survivors.
Passive bullet hells.
Literally people say its the thing they play when they dont have the energy for something else the way that people use fast food to replace cooking.
Easy to spin up and there are so many knockoffs that are “fine” but barely different.
It’s easy and pretty much automatic but filled with dopamine giving stimuli even if it wears off really fast. It makes it about as addictive as fast food too.
For me it is the games with lot of sequels like assassins creed or those sport games i dont think it is necessary bad game. For me the fastfood tastes like ok not the best not worst so nothing surprises me i will get what i expect same it is for me with assassins creed i like those games and i know what to expect from them really a comfort game for me.
Most mobile games. They follow one of a few basic formulae, they rarely have anything original, and they’re full of bloated ads and other garbage. But they know how to give that dopamine hit.
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Did you know YouTube has games now? They load near instantly, easily accessible on mobile or desktop, and they’re p much all shit. Most of them are basically generic asset flips or imitations of popular mobile games. I really can’t think of anything closer to cheap fast food.
Sounds like Roblox
Any crappy pixel sidescroller, eg.the Google Dino game
Bloons TD fits this for me, I play it when I’m too ill to think properly but still need something to pass the time
anything that claims to be AAA, or is made by a giant lifeless shit corporation
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Cookie Clicker (and clicker games in general)
Hmm… I think this one is gonna be personal because people enjoy genres to varying degrees.
For me, it’s Konami’s PES (eFootball now, or FL2025 if you’re modding)
Start career mode, buy players, play a season, forget about it, and repeat like a month or two after. It’s a fairly mindless activity to me and I do it when I wanna give my brain a break.
Ubisoft games (and anything with a similar vibe)
Perfectly competent, comfortably boring, you miss nothing by skipping it but if you’re bored it helps.
The exact kind of Content ™ the word “slop” is supposed to describe.
Gacha genre, it feels like. Addicting, but ultimately terrible for your health, though maybe a bit inverted, fast food affecting the body and as a consequence the mind, and gachas first the mind and as consequence the body.
In my opinion, these are absolute slop:
Any game like vampire survivors.
Passive bullet hells.
Literally people say its the thing they play when they dont have the energy for something else the way that people use fast food to replace cooking.
Easy to spin up and there are so many knockoffs that are “fine” but barely different.
It’s easy and pretty much automatic but filled with dopamine giving stimuli even if it wears off really fast. It makes it about as addictive as fast food too.
For me it is the games with lot of sequels like assassins creed or those sport games i dont think it is necessary bad game. For me the fastfood tastes like ok not the best not worst so nothing surprises me i will get what i expect same it is for me with assassins creed i like those games and i know what to expect from them really a comfort game for me.
Most mobile games. They follow one of a few basic formulae, they rarely have anything original, and they’re full of bloated ads and other garbage. But they know how to give that dopamine hit.
Ubisoft ?