The worst games are those that promise you fun, but are just barely too annoying to actually deliver. It’s the most aggravating if you can see that the idea is great, but it’s so badly executed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Escape from Tarkov 😩

I really want to play that game, but the devs are working against me.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The whole genre is hilariously incompetent. It SHOULD be easy for somebody to come along, make an actually good extraction shooter, and cash out, but every time they do something dumb to screw it up.

Marauders was a blast for a short period of time before they made the mistake of listening to their community and made it Tarkov But Worse

[–] Graphy 2 points 1 year ago

Loved marauders when it came out. Recently tried to get back into it and it was so dead I was just walking around shooting the sky for funsies

[–] TrousersMcPants 2 points 1 year ago

Marathon will totally get it right this time.... Right?

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 6 points 1 year ago

The one person I know who plays that game hates it and hates life. He doesn't even recommend it. But plays it only because it's the only thing that makes him feel anything.

[–] weeeeum 15 points 1 year ago

Destiny 2.

I love the core game to bits, it has excellent character progression and customization and I could just theory craft for hours in the inventory screen. It has excellent gunplay, movement, environments, so many guns to choose from and a good story if you look for it but GOD it sucks the life out of you.

All the endgame (actually good) content is behind an arbitrary power level wall and you simply have to grind to get past it. And you really, really have to grind for it. I played it for like 40 hours in a month and that was barely enough to reach the bare minimum (there's more content behind higher power level). Sure I wasn't grinding optimally but you also shouldn't need to follow a YouTube guide and abuse multiple characters and complete every weekly challenge to reach the power cap in only 20 hours instead.

What's worse is that the power level requirement is increased every couple months, not by much but it can still be a lot to grind (exponentially longer to gain power near the max cap). What's even worse is that every year or 2 it is completely reset and everyone is starting from square one.

Again I looooove the game but it genuinely requires more work than a career just to get to the good part. It requires so much that people legitimately "no life" it, playing for like 14 hours a day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stormworks? The core game idea is really awesome but it's also a broken mess with paid dlcs (which are somehow even more broken; I'm genuinely impressed by how fucked up that game is)

[–] Shadowedcross 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then they bring out a space dlc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right when StormWorks went on sale at my price point I saw the space DLC wrecked the rest of the game, and the devs weren't fixing bugs.

Off my wishlist it went.