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[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

It's almost always multiplayer games where a certain amount of your enjoyment comes from the other players or winning or both.

Often times when I or others say they 'hate' the game they are playing it's because they died/lost due to something that feels like it was too easy for the opponent or due to a teammate making a mistake.

I don't know many people who play games that are supposed to be fun though so IDK if there are people who rage that much at single player games

[-] Inui@hexbear.net 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I regularly say something like "this shit sucks" when I feel like the devs added unnecessary friction to their game that serves to just waste my time. Which I think happens a lot. There's mechanics that boil down to just inconveniencing you, even for just a second, but provide no real challenge, narrative benefit, learning opportunities, etc.

This isn't a singleplayer game necessarily, but doesn't involve other players in this situation: in WoW, all mobs, including those significantly lower level than you, have/had (idk if they still do) a chance to "daze" you if they hit you while you were mounted. This slows your speed down dramatically and forces you to wait it out while running like a snail or get off your mount to fight the thing. But this could happen even if you were level 60 and the thing was level 10, meaning even 12 of them hitting you at once posed no danger to you. So it discouraged taking shortcuts through areas and made you slow down and not treat creatures that are in-universe still considered dangerous like they don't matter, but mechanically it was just really annoying when you were trying to get to somewhere more interesting and relevant to your power level.

Recently, in Pathfinder: Kingmaker, spider web traps that make your characters unable to move unless they keep passing stat checks will last something like 5 real life minutes, even after the spiders have died and you are no longer in combat. There's mods that add a button to delete all on-screen effects specifically because of stuff like that.

I think I'm probably overly sensitive to this kind of stuff, but game developers so often add dumb shit like this that I'm also convinced they don't really know what they're doing and if enough of those papercuts add up, I will just stop playing. I don't like punch my computer or whatever, but I definitely feel like the OP.

this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2026
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