• Thymos@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    1 天前

    The game is Night in the Woods. It’s a story about a depressed anthropomorphous cat who quit college and moved back in with her parents. You play day by day and each evening you can chose which of your friends you wanna hang out with.

    If you hang out with a particular friend one night, you will visit the woods together. There, you have to play a game where you try to stab each other’s fist with a knife. There are mechanics to stab and retract your fist to avoid getting stabbed. This is considered fun. There is no way to progress the game without stabbing your friend.

    I’m sorry, I’m probably too old and soft for this, but no, I don’t wanna stab my friends for fun with a knife.

  • Muffi@programming.dev
    9·
    2 天前

    I always really wanted to like The Witcher, but just 30 seconds with the shitty movement system makes me quit every time I try to give it another shot.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 天前

    start a new game

    first we’ll need a crafting table

    hit the tree to gather wood

    alt+f4

    If I had a group of friends willing to play and endless time I would enjoy these games. Unfortunately I have neither.

  • UroFighter@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 天前

    Shovel knight, when you have to fight all the bosses again in a row. I didn’t rage quit, I just thought I did not went to spend my time doing that at all.

    Enjoyed the game before that.

  • sunsofold@lemmy.zip
    4·
    2 天前

    Doki Doki Literature Club I went in blind. I got through the first chapter and got so pissed off that there was no option to be a better friend to hopefully prevent the first negative event. It made me drop the game. Years later I learned about the game from an analytical video essay and I reposed that was probably the War Games style winning move.

    The Finals
    Another player spouted off unambiguously Nazi BS. I reported them. I doubled back to check. They hadn’t been removed after weeks. I don’t play a game that doesn’t even do the bare minimum of removing the open, unambiguous Nazis.

    The Red Lantern/ Heavy Rain These can be grouped. I have a rule which says ‘If I’m not making a choice of what to do in your game, I’m already not playing your game, I’m fighting your game to get the chance to play it, so if you can’t show me something damned quick to make me want to fight for it, it’s time to walk away.’ It pushed me away from Chicken Horse. It kicked me out of Heavy Rain too. The Red Lantern felt like it was mechanically sound but the connective tissue was not there. It’s good design to tell a player, ‘you can sacrifice resource A for a chance at resource B, or don’t. Your call.’ It’s terrible design to say to a player ‘Yes or no?’ with no details, no context clues, or even false context clues and the question actually being in reference to something extremely significant.

    Ark
    Way back when it was nearer the peak of its popularity, I tried it. I played for a bit. Learned about just how much grind it takes to make even a little crapshack, and how shitty the mechanical design is, and dropped it. Really, there have been many like that, dropped for just not being good/fun. Hell Let Loose was like that. Battle royale games are like that. Civ-likes that aren’t Civ are like that. All the intentional skinner box games are like that.

  • jimp@feddit.uk
    251·
    3 天前

    No Mans Sky. I just wanted to fly about and explore new planets. No! You must repair you ship first; find 30 jizz crystals. Ok, there’s some. To mine jizz crystals you need a shart hammer. To create a shart hammer you need 13 arse nuggets. To mine arse nuggets you need a piss laser etc etc etc
    Let me fly dammit!

    • horse@feddit.org
      10·
      2 天前

      I’m not ashamed to admit I selectively enabled free crafting to skip grinding in that game. I have very little patience for games that force me to spend time doing loads of boring busywork to “earn” the right to enjoy the fun parts. But at least No Man’s Sky allows you to tweak the gameplay experience very granularly to make it suit your taste. More games should be like that.

      • JessyKenning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 天前

        Can you please go into further detail? Like it looked like a game I’d love but then like the above poster I just walked away from it.

        • horse@feddit.org
          5·
          2 天前

          One of the main ways you progress in the game is by obtaining blueprints and then finding the ingredients to craft them. But you also have to craft things like fuel, ammo, etc. and to repair things. It’s fun but can get tedious at times. Luckily the game lets you fine tune the experience at any time (it’s actually probably one of the games that does this best imo) and one of the options is free crafting which lets you craft ending immediately without finding the ingredients first. My rule of thumb was to mostly only use it to skip grinding for ingredients I’d found before but needed more of it finding them would be too annoying, but not to skip searching for stuff I hadn’t seen yet.

          The game is worth it imo. There is lots of content and it goes on sale from time to time. And all the DLC is always free which is nice.

  • Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org
    30·
    3 天前

    Zelda Breath of the Wild: Weapon durability. Fuck I was so annoyed by that. Even the Master Sword with it’s cooldown. That felt like a really disrespectful design choice for OG Zelda fans.

    Will be the last Zelda game I (attempted to) play, although it pains me.

    • Nightsoul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 天前

      For me it was the cooking system, I got sick of trying to remember what combination of bs mixed together into something useable. The buffs don’t even last that long so you have to constantly be eating and cooking

    • iamericandre@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 天前

      First time I picked it up I had this same problem but you get far enough into the game and you never really run out of weapons so I eventually just ignored it

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
      71·
      3 天前

      Regarding to traditional design of Zelda, yes! Yet it’s intentional to keep you detached from your weapons, forcing you to try out everything.

  • Pastel@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    2 天前

    Voices Of The Void, the game will just randomly decide to disable pausing so you can’t save and will lose a bunch of progress if you quit.

  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 天前

    Starfield. God awful pacing and dialog that made you go “oh please shut up”. I went to neon and every vendor had a 5+ minute cutscene wah wah side quest story i couldn’t give a shit about.

    “Oh somebody fucked my robot and now im sad so let me explain that again with 20 paragraphs” -Shop Keeper I don’t give a shit fuck about your dumb robo bitch i have 20 spacesuits i need to sell so i can fast travel again.

    The fact they didn’t bother to add a dialog box first to access a service or buy/sell goods before the vendor starts telling you their life story was enough to make me not play again.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 天前

      I was on the verge of breaking down and quitting after I did the math on all the dragon shout space wizard powers, and realized that in order to level everything up to max, I would have to sit through eight hours of just the shitty temple minigame. But that just made me stop trying to get dragon shouts.

      What broke me was another notification saying that my mannequin of a wife had another gift for me.

  • kossa@feddit.org
    2·
    2 天前

    Rogue Trader, Act 3, when they strip you of all progress so far. Like, the whole point of the game is basically “loot better weapons, level your character”. And then, they take all your stuff and give your charcter a boon to all stats.

    How do you think I enjoy being taken all my progress?

    I really wanted to push through that part, but it kept on going all the time.

  • SybilVane@lemmy.ca
    27·
    3 天前

    It’s always at a point where the game suddenly requires a skill that isn’t part of its usual gameplay. I played a crafting and exploration game that suddenly has a huge platforming element in the late game in a dungeon, and it was even timed! The rest of the game involved no platforming, and it wasn’t even particularly difficult to do but I suck at platforming, never enjoyed it, and I especially did not need the stress of a timer in an otherwise relaxing game.

    Another story rich game which was heavy on logistics suddenly turned into a shooter. No, thank you.

    Another thing I hate is when I turn the difficulty down and the only option is to do it across the board so I may as well stop interacting with the game. I know I’m bad at fast-paced precision inputs. That doesn’t mean I don’t want cool puzzles to solve or complex systems.

    I know, I know: “get good.” I’m old. Shooting and platforming are not the skills I care to be developing at this stage of my life.

    • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      2 天前

      I quit Skyrim when they threw a mandatory stealth mission at me and I hadn’t leveled Stealth at all. Granted, most people don’t play it for the underwhelming story anyway…

    • Yaky@slrpnk.net
      2·
      2 天前

      Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye DLC does this, unfortunately. Halfway through the story, Myst-like exploration of an abandoned location turns into horror wandering around pitch black locations with a janky lantern, being chased by creepy-looking aliens. Nope, made me stop playing. (Horror and jumpy enemies are fine if I have a weapon and can control the protagonist. But not if it’s a death cutscene at a single touch in complete darkness. It made me more uncomfortable than Dusk, or Quake, or Blood did)