I kinda hate the mention of “that’s not universal!”. That usually isn’t even claimed (and factors are usually discussed in long-form videos), and needing to constantly change wording to prevent that gets old for both sides of a conversation (at least that’s my experience, most of the time).
For me a lot of the things that make games not fun are things that I can describe. Hunger/inventory management/decent items being rare/underwhelming rewards/backtracking/lack-of-information-or-feedback are the most common that make games feel tedious to me. Often a tiny removal or tweak could go a long way to fix that, but that isn’t really even viable in most cases (particularly for me).
I just have stopped buying games because money/purchase regret, though if I were: GPU and storage space(+6-8Mbps internet shared with other people) are considerations that block off many newer games for me (and indie games are not immune to this, particularly with resistance to buying).
That, and anything that’s heavy on story or atmosphere I can probably get 80% enjoyment (if not more, because I won’t be experiencing the issues) by watching a video of someone else play (particularly someone with a good voice adding their own narrative/spin). A lot of games that I’ve played were pretty obvious and thus don’t seem to have much below the surface.
On a more general note, it often seems like games either expect too much of me or just don’t respect my time (and I say that as someone with a lot of free time). And on a specific note, games that are co-op-first often just suck to play single-player.
As for Minecraft, due to the updates I was slowly losing interest until I stopped playing in the 1.8/1.9 era (I had my own resource pack with 1.8 models that kept me somewhat interested, 1.9 broke them). Then you needed to create a Microsoft account.
I’ve tried different Minetest games and there isn’t really a base that I enjoy enough to try modding onto, especially as many go for the same types of things that MC does.
The last thing I bought was a charity bundle more than a year ago (2022 march), there were a few games that I enjoyed but not for long and most of it seems not that great. Since then I’ve just been playing free games, which again some is pretty OK and a lot of it isn’t (it’s kind of annoying to sift through it on itch).
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I kinda hate the mention of “that’s not universal!”. That usually isn’t even claimed (and factors are usually discussed in long-form videos), and needing to constantly change wording to prevent that gets old for both sides of a conversation (at least that’s my experience, most of the time).
For me a lot of the things that make games not fun are things that I can describe. Hunger/inventory management/decent items being rare/underwhelming rewards/backtracking/lack-of-information-or-feedback are the most common that make games feel tedious to me. Often a tiny removal or tweak could go a long way to fix that, but that isn’t really even viable in most cases (particularly for me).
I just have stopped buying games because money/purchase regret, though if I were: GPU and storage space(+6-8Mbps internet shared with other people) are considerations that block off many newer games for me (and indie games are not immune to this, particularly with resistance to buying).
That, and anything that’s heavy on story or atmosphere I can probably get 80% enjoyment (if not more, because I won’t be experiencing the issues) by watching a video of someone else play (particularly someone with a good voice adding their own narrative/spin). A lot of games that I’ve played were pretty obvious and thus don’t seem to have much below the surface.
On a more general note, it often seems like games either expect too much of me or just don’t respect my time (and I say that as someone with a lot of free time). And on a specific note, games that are co-op-first often just suck to play single-player.
As for Minecraft, due to the updates I was slowly losing interest until I stopped playing in the 1.8/1.9 era (I had my own resource pack with 1.8 models that kept me somewhat interested, 1.9 broke them). Then you needed to create a Microsoft account.
I’ve tried different Minetest games and there isn’t really a base that I enjoy enough to try modding onto, especially as many go for the same types of things that MC does.
The last thing I bought was a charity bundle more than a year ago (2022 march), there were a few games that I enjoyed but not for long and most of it seems not that great. Since then I’ve just been playing free games, which again some is pretty OK and a lot of it isn’t (it’s kind of annoying to sift through it on itch).
Just play indie games lol. I’ve been having a blast playing through Ultrakill and Hrot.
Indeed. The indie are blooming right now, so much original fresh content, cheap and fun.