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Have you ever devoted a significant amount of time to something only to later feel it was pointless? (lemmy.world)

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[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 12 points 7 months ago

Most of games these days. After a couple hours I feel like I was doing chores, not playing game and have fun.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

"Oops! It's all fetch-quests!!"

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 6 points 7 months ago

Or maybe it's just me. I'm getting old now and doesn't have infinite free time to do mundane virtual chores anymore. I got 1-2 hours of free time per day, if I'm lucky and the kid won't tear up the house.

It's a shame, one of my favorites was Elite Dangerous. I love explore the universe in peace. But to be able to do so would require months of constant and repetitive grinding for material to upgrade the ship.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Oh no, it's definitely not just you.
I feel like the overall design of games has been lazy lately and they've just filled them up with mundane chores to pad the completion time.
No one's going to pay $70 for a game if they know there's only 2 hours worth of story to play through.

And I deeply loved elite dangerous but it was definitely just space trucking simulator, I feel like frontier really messed up whenever they pushed all their resources to whatever idle Sim game they were designing that flopped.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

This is why I have failed to make any headway in Skyrim even though I've tried to play it 5 - 6 times.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Indie > AAA

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

An oh dear, I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LORE. Just let me start playing the stupid game, no need for a giant cinematic.

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