Thanks!

Anyone have an alternative link for this? My ad block apparently mangled the format so bad I can’t read it.

Most of it boils down to death as a core mechanic. I’m also a pretty casual game player and most of the games I like are fairly laid back, so the difficulty is also a factor. Although I do like difficult games sometimes, I don’t like games designed to kill you easily, if that makes sense. I dislike grinding and most leveling systems, so making a game have grinding as a necessity for someone like me who’s going to need it is frustrating. I feel like I’m just dying a bunch to get “level ups” so that I can actually play the game. Feel free to ask clarifying questions on this. It’s a bit difficult for me to explain, I’m finding.

For the record and to hopefully explain with an example, I do like that they exist for people that like them and some games are fairly clever with it. Hades, for instance, makes a lot of sense to have a death mechanic because you’re trying to escape the underworld. It’s also a really clever game in general and I wish I could get over the difficulty and meta progression thing to play it. If it was a less difficult ARPG I’d personally like it more, but it wouldn’t contain the thing that makes it what it is and I think I’d rather it exist as it does for people who like that. I also love the idea of descendants being your respawn that they used in Rogue Legacy.

One of my least favorite genres.

Remnant 2 early access. Been waiting impatiently for this game ever since I found out it was going to be a thing. I’ll probably be playing it for quite awhile cuz I’m absolutely loving it.

Yet another reason I won’t buy their games. Hurray.

Sadly for them, I stopped caring about their games quite awhile ago.

https://play.isleward.com/

There are some gems, but trying to find them is like trying to find a needle in a haystack and I gave up on it quite awhile ago.

I said the same thing about XP to a friend the other day. I often think most XP systems just act as a way to artificially inflate game time and act as a difficulty slider.

Tend to agree, except when it comes to most AAA games. There are some pretty valid criticisms there.

I’m glad to finally see some folks who agree with me!

Remember that time you tried to kill me?

Yeah, many games were actually made worse IMO by having them.

Yeah, particularly when GPU prices have priced many out of the top tier games in the graphics department.

Steam Deck crew!

Except that “good” is subjective and so is “picky,” so to my reality, there aren’t enough good games.

Although, next year’s line up is looking really good. Indies and AA’s are really starting to pop off.

Or they are just picky, like me.