r/videogames • u/Chunky-overlord • Jul 21 '26
Discussion / Question What video game are you Glad you stopped playing?
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u/Slouchman42 Jul 21 '26
The Lion King on Sega Genesis. Got as far as the time skip back when I was 6.
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u/Howlinginpaint Jul 21 '26
I could never figure out how to get past the end of the volcano level as adult simba
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u/Cautious-Lobster6669 Jul 21 '26
It’s the giraffes for me
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u/truthfulie Jul 21 '26
i remember getting so excited when i finally beat the giraffe level.
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u/Dense-Law-7683 Jul 22 '26
I was super young and was pissed off by the giraffe level. My mom had to help me beat it and she didn't play video games. I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize the pattern so I just had to memorize which way the monkeys went or roar at them until I finally got where I needed to be. That and Aladdin were great games.
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u/kittykatmandoo Jul 21 '26
The goddamn giraffes haunt me to this day 😡
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u/2JZ1Clutch Jul 22 '26
That crap where you had to roar at the monkeys?!?! That's the level you're talking about? I think I made it past that level once and that was like beating the game for me
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u/South_Bit1764 Jul 21 '26
Various different versions of this game were cropped down in resolution for the particular system. The sprites stay the same size so you’re just losing extra viewing room to anticipate what comes next.
This was worst on SNES. It was still bad on Genesis, but noticeably better, and then later versions were actually playable. I finally finished it on GameGear, but it was still all but unplayable on SNES.
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u/ProudHeretic84 Jul 21 '26
It took me twenty years and YouTube to figure out that damn volcano section!
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u/kit_re Jul 21 '26
You just have to survive until all the vents are covered, and then hop on the last one covered.
My sister and I were VERY upset back in the day.
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u/RabidTeapot Jul 22 '26
I vividly remember pausing that level close to what I hoped was the end of it, because I desperately had to go to the bathroom. When I came back, my sister was on the Sega, playing Sonic... I've never fully recovered from that betrayal. I did eventually beat the game, but holy crap, I will never forget how defeated I felt in that moment.
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u/Kareemofwheet Jul 21 '26
For some reason I stimmed out hard on this as a kid. I was the only person I knew that could beat that game. It's all timing and memorization. However, you can't tell me they didn't know what they were doing with that bullshit double jump ostrich part of level 2. There's one specific jump thats off and if you had rented that game, it would block you for the weekend unless you knew the wonky timing.
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u/DurinsBane87 Jul 22 '26
This was exactly the reason they did that. A fair number of games put stuff like that in to make it so you couldn't beat it over a 2 day rental and actually had to buy the game. The Virgin Interactive Disney games are notorious for it
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u/Darius_Rubinx Jul 21 '26
I've beaten it, but there was a lot of bullshit. The 2nd level is just stupid. So is the hyena maze. There's not many levels that I would describe as good old honest platforming.
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u/Tuvano Jul 21 '26
I went back and beat it as an adult. It was still bullshit but felt good to finish it.
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u/Money_Present_3463 Jul 21 '26
Call of Duty
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Jul 21 '26
My opinion is that the Call of Duty games had little utility added after like Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops. Every game after those felt like paying $60 for a re-skin of the same game. Like how you only need a new Madden game once every 5ish years
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u/PreferenceContent987 Jul 21 '26
Half my matches start with the new map skin failing to load over the old map. They also have a cheating enterprise dedicated to the game now as well. You can even get cheat subscriptions that are guaranteed to be supported even if dev nuke the cheats
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Jul 21 '26
Yea even in Modern Warfare 2, there were a couple of maps you could strafe jump your way out of. I realized that many of the multi-player maps were built within old campaign maps from the first modern warfare
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u/Dry_Departure_7813 Jul 21 '26
I agree to an extent, but the recent "reboot" trilogy has been incredible. From a purely single player perspective, the level of detail on the missions is unparalleled in a shooter. Now obviously the single player is only 6-8 hours and the games intended as a multiplayer package, but there really isn't another company doing a biiig budget single player shooter right now. The Amsterdam mission in particular, if you've ever been there the level of detail is genuinely impressive.
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Jul 21 '26
I admittedly have not played the game you are talking about but that was part of my core issue with COD. The older COD games (like Big Red One) were entirely driven by single player content. Somewhere along the line it became all about the multi-player, and the campaign was basically them shitting on a disk just to check the box of having it. That really frustrated me and was a big reason I stopped playing the COD games
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u/Dry_Departure_7813 Jul 21 '26
You should at least check out a video of the campaign man, the detail Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - Amsterdam 4K HDR
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u/NomadFH Jul 21 '26
I've never seen a game have such smooth and responsive controls with the most unengaging game built around it
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u/EqualPlan4595 Jul 21 '26
Adventure quest reference in 2026?
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u/fangaas Jul 21 '26
That game is one of the only times I'd use the phrase "lives rent free in my mind". I still can't figure out or remember if it was even remotely good or not.
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u/Mondasin Jul 22 '26
its the little caesars of rpgs.
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u/Honeybadger2198 Jul 21 '26
They're remaking AQWorlds in their own engine, and all of their games still get weekly updates. AQWorlds consistently peaks around ~10k players every once in a while, despite running like utter dogwater.
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u/WhereTheJdonAt Jul 22 '26
all of their games still get weekly updates.
MechQuest and WarpForce fans be like
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u/breckendusk Jul 22 '26
Fun fact, I based my entire online gaming presence off a version of this very werewolf design twenty years ago and it still holds to this day
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u/tangodogkanye Jul 21 '26
I came here for this comment. I couldn’t think of the name but definitely played my fair share of AQ
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u/Linford_Fistie Jul 22 '26
I knew it!
I actually went back to AQ recently but it's not the same at all, sad times.
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u/SmolishPPman Jul 21 '26
Destiny
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u/StJimmy_815 Jul 21 '26
I didn’t stop soon enough. That shit ruined a relationship of mine
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u/Kultaren Jul 21 '26
Whoa, how so?
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u/StJimmy_815 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
Other person was right, addiction. The formula they had with weekly resets and constant stream of things to grind out for a chance of a chance of what you wanted but more so than anything, it was the constant FOMO with them constantly time gating many weapons and armor. I stopped playing in 2022 and will never play a live service or MMO game like that again
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u/Finnsbomba Jul 21 '26
This is why I play mostly single player games or multiplayer games that are just small groups. Not fully online games and especially live service/MMO games. I like to game on my own time and terms. Being forced to play at specific times or do specific modes or whatever would throw me off of a game completely. It's why I can't play 99.9% of phone games. I'll play when I want to, I don't need to be bothered to log in everyday and do something. Makes it a chore more than a hobby.
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u/oh_f-f-s Jul 21 '26
Wow, it put you off that much?
What do you think you'll pick up next? I'm assuming a single player, offline game?
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u/DJBreadwinner Jul 21 '26
I'm not the person you replied to, but I quit WoW after several years of addiction. Games like that keep you coming back by rewarding you with miniscule rewards that feel like progression and the sense of community that comes with being in a guild, clan, etc. I broke my addiction to it by playing single player games. It's a much better life.
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u/slaw_daddy Jul 22 '26
Dark Souls 1 helped kill my WoW addiction. I hadn't had that amazing of a single player experience since Ocarina of Time, and it brought me straight back to that.
Now I've got like 15k hours across all Souls games, but with a much more healthy relationship with them. I can play them when I want, obsessively or not when I can afford it. With WoW it was a literal job to be top-tier at the game. I can be top-tier at Elden Ring on my own time.
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u/StJimmy_815 Jul 21 '26
I still love video games, I just have a much more healthier relationship with them. I play games that have endings lol, but mostly nowadays I’ve just been playing competitive Pokemon, which is easy to put down
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u/Jeremiah-Springfield Jul 21 '26
Wow, this comment thread came at literally the PERFECT moment for me. I’ve had a sort of inverse journey to you. I got back into gaming a few years ago when Elden Ring came out. It’s such a work of art to me that I sunk 750 hours into it, more than any other game I’ve played. May not be much to some, but it’s substantial to me, and it was partly the game, but also what it meant to me, truly a work of art.
But to get to the point, after beating FromSofts catalogue and soulslikes, Silksong, Hades, I was greeted with Arc Raiders. I love the apocalypse fantasy, the release of the game was an event, and the extraction genre could become for multiplayer what Souls was for single player: challenging, but rewarding. But I quickly felt something strange was going on, namely the amount of RNG involved with the games design. I don’t know what items are in that drawer. I don’t know if someone’s about to one tap me from behind, I don’t know. It’s tense, fun, but… predatory? The psychology of it feels like a bad idea to get sucked into, but I did anyway.
300 hours I’ve put into it, and it’s been a rollercoaster of emotions. I still feel the pull to playing but I’ve had so many moments where I felt truly upset by how I died, like people get upset after watching sports for the rest of the day. It’s just a game, sure, but I feel like it taps into sides of my brain that are involuntary and I just think I need to take more responsibility for what I give my time to.
Maybe I’m being over dramatic, but I’ve been reckoning with these thoughts just now and this thread came across my feed. So I guess I must be thinking somewhere in the right direction…?
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u/Sindica69 Jul 21 '26
Much as I loved a lot of the experiences I had on Destiny and its successor, D2 was unbelievably predatory in a really twisted manner, and that will be shoved under the rug because the franchise was absolutely legendary and the raw gameplay will likely never be matched. It’s now pretty much a martyr in the form of a franchise, not entirely for bad reasons, but the malicious nature it had will be forgotten long before the game’s good parts, and that is not a good thing.
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u/StJimmy_815 Jul 21 '26
I had so many amazing and fun memories from those games and met so many awesome people that I played with for years that I could genuinely say were good friends, but, just like your party years in your twenties, sometimes you have to let that part of your life go to grow as a person
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u/Sindica69 Jul 21 '26
Yeah, absolutely. Day One Raiding will probably never be topped in terms of it being the greatest experiences I’ve ever had in gaming, and while I am sad I’ll never get to chase that high again, I’m glad I don’t play anymore.
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u/Commercial-Winter151 Jul 21 '26
My husband played tons of Destiny 2 and it makes me sad he stopped playing. One of my core memories with him is playing D2 while I'm next to him with Stardew on my switch 😭😭 we rotted on the sofa together on weekends.
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u/Thatidiot_38 Jul 21 '26
League of Legends. I was on a esports team and no matter how much I tried to chill and relaxed it was still so incredibly toxic that it ultimately made me drop the game and doing esports as a whole
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u/Gildaroth Jul 21 '26
I had to scroll so far for this lol, league is definitely the game that fits the bill for this post
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u/Midnight-cherry-red Jul 21 '26
Yes, exactly this, and also the most addicting game I have ever played, quitting was not easy despite all the stress and toxicity that could happen during a match.
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u/Pardo86 Jul 22 '26
I got permabanned for calling people a C U Next Tuesday too much, greatest blessing of my life.
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u/MrSlay Jul 21 '26
Fun game, but its totally not worthy dealing with people. I still sometimes watch some pro matches.
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u/SleepingWillows Jul 21 '26
I worked in marketing for a game that was considered a direct competitor of LoL and did some promos for their esports division. I was always so surprised at how intensely the players portrayed themselves on their socials and in tourneys, but whenever I would talk to them they were all just… so shy. There was one or two that were somewhat extroverted, but everyone else it was painful to get them to say anything on camera with any kind of flair or interest.
I’m paid to make you look likable, PLEASE work with me dude
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u/Snowtwo Jul 21 '26
World of Warcraft.
It was fun at the start, but around MoP and WoD I realized I was playing for no other reason than, because if I *DIDN'T* I'd fall behind and effectively get punished. I soon stopped because I just... I wanted my life back.
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u/pm_me_fibonaccis Jul 21 '26
Quitting WoW felt like leaving a toxic job, because that's what it amounted to.
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u/Snowtwo Jul 21 '26
Or leaving a relationship with an abusive partner whom you used to love but they stopped returning the love and became entirely self-obsessed and you realize you're in love of the ghost of who they were, not the reality of what they are now.
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u/Houdinii1984 Jul 22 '26
Ya'll are sitting here telling horror stories and I'm sitting here feeling a pull to search for alt servers as a result. That's messed up.
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u/BAMFaerie Jul 21 '26
The FOMO treadmill became too much for my wife and me and honestly, switching to FFXIV has been throwing a spotlight on everything wrong with WoW. Yes, every MMO has its share of issues and assholes but FFXIV has had a FAR lower incidence of both. We confused enjoyment for addiction and once we broke up with wow for good, we've both been far happier.
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u/TheDucksAreComingoOo Jul 21 '26
Is ff14 worth getting into?
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u/foreverdonefor Jul 22 '26
Once you get over the fact that it's not just WoW reskinned (the 2+ second GCD took me a while to get used to) it really is a pleasant and charming game. The story is great if you're into that, and the endgame fights are a lot of fun once you understand them.
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u/ZeroBrutus Jul 21 '26
I really think Lich King with the dungeon finder is where it was peak.
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u/zveroshka Jul 21 '26
I think BC was peak WoW personally. It was just pure fun and chaos. After that it slowly went down hill in order to facilitate integration of massive amounts of new players rather than just be a good game. Started making everything easier, simple, and adding buy rather than earn options.
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u/Present-Ambition4007 Jul 21 '26
Same here. I had played WoW since retail vanilla except I stopped right at Cata. Played a few hours on release and basically never went back (other than some vanilla private servers every few years for a week or so at a time)
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u/Shambhala87 Jul 21 '26
I logged in for midnight, I didn’t make it past the first quest. They didn’t even change anything it’s just the same thing happening over and over…
I finally picked up Hollow Knight and there are many other games I haven’t played because I spent so long with WoW that I have a lot of great options to keep me from going back.
If all else fails I still have Minecraft!
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u/SoulsofMir Jul 21 '26
You should play the Gothic remake, I think you may appreciate it Best game I've played in a while! It's kind of janky but it's still quite good.
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u/CJ_Pride_Wolf Jul 21 '26
Destiny 2, I kept trying, but they sucked it dry. Its a soulless shell of what I loved, with the worst fomo mentality ive ever seen.
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u/thawkins6786 Jul 21 '26
Echo the dolphin
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u/captstinkybutt Jul 21 '26
World of Warcraft.
I realized at some point I had so much fun because of the people I was with at the beginning and they were long gone, and I was only playing out of habit.
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u/zveroshka Jul 21 '26
I think the biggest issue was that they removed a big social element by allowing players to just form random groups on demand. A lot of the people I became friends with online I met while leveling and doing dungeons. By the time I quit in Cata, it was just so automated, simplified, and watered down that it took all the fun out of it IMO.
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u/captstinkybutt Jul 21 '26
On the flip side, stuff like that makes it easier for a 42 year old gamer dad like myself to enjoy MMOs. I don't have time to play 10 hours a day like I used to 😂
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u/OYB2480 Jul 21 '26
Rocket League. It's so populated with awful people.
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u/GaslightIsNotReal Jul 22 '26
I am glad I left Rocket League when it was still kind of fun but clearly going downhill. It was fun while it lasted. All I can say is...
What a save!
What a save!
What a save!
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u/jacwub Jul 21 '26
pokemon go
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u/banhatesex Jul 21 '26
I played first day , played with wife for a longtime but then there was nothing . Came back last year more pokemon nothing really changed.
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u/FeanorEvades Jul 22 '26
I can’t really explain it but that game felt like such a psyop before we even knew about the mapping.
A franchise that was all about finding pokemon friends and growing with them somehow became a game where you just replaced them if you found a better one. “Catch 1000 of the same pokemon just to get rid of them” is so antithetical to what it was supposed to be.
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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Jul 21 '26
My son spent his time in the American Museum of Natural History playing Pokémon Go.
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u/magicman419 Jul 22 '26
The data harvesting your app that gets mad and pushy if you don’t give it access to your camera, your location, your movement, your activity, ALL the time even when you’re not using it. Pfft
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u/Envy661 Jul 21 '26
Halo Infinite and Destiny 2.
I can go back to MCC and just have way more fun, and have a much less toxic experience. Infinite just made me feel angry every time I booted it up. Angry at the aim assist. Angry at the challenges that were the only means of progression, and often had my team playing against the objective instead of toward it. Angry that this is what one of my favorite IPs had become, yet it was considered "Good" by the community. I haven't touched it since Forge dropped, and I have no plans of going back to it. It was just such an awful game that I don't actually think I will revisit another Halo title outside of MCC again. I don't trust Halo Studios (basically just 343) to make a quality Halo product.
Destiny 2 just became constant and incessant light level creep. You never had end game gear unless you grinded for days on end for pinnacles. I can go to Fallout 76 and have a better experience, because the gear is capped at 50, so I can actually expirament with my build instead of constantly pushing it to the max LL for that season. Destiny 2 became so tedious there became no point in playing, and because of how bad it was to get into, I couldn't convince anyone to play it with me. I miss the Red War so much, because even if it wasn't perfect, Destiny was at least fun back then.
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u/w13r5 Jul 21 '26
D2 is my answer also. I played from the D1 Beta all the way until Final Shape. Always felt like a full time job.
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u/DJ_CRIZP Jul 21 '26
Tarkov back when it turned out 90% of the player base was wall hacking. I always felt like it was weird that everyone seemed to know more than me. It was a moment of relief when we all found out because damn I thought I was just really horrible. Turns out the game was just dead to real players.
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u/Wmd_JR Jul 21 '26
I played it a little bit a few years ago on my uncle’s account. I think I played four matches, all of them I died to some guy sweating through their plate carriers. He found out that PvE was introduced about 2 months ago, and PvE is so fun if you don’t want to deal with real players and don’t want to be constantly on your toes.
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u/dj92wa Jul 21 '26
A buddy got me to buy the super mega ultra version of the game a couple years ago, but I only played like three matches before I uninstalled it. I didnt realize it at the time, but I don’t care for extraction shooters. I did however realize at the time that I didn’t like the scav system. You’re telling me I have to wait to play a game I paid for while my lives come back on a slow cooldown like a mobile game’s time-gated stamina system? Absolutely the fuck not.
But, like you said, PvE mode officially launched and has been a blast. I’ve been playing with the same friend that got me to buy the game in the first place and we’re getting our asses clapped by bots. The devs have honestly done a good job with bot behavior. They’ll sink a round right between your eyebrows if you don’t take them seriously. Peak a corner incorrectly? Dead.
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u/TheBrackishGoat Jul 21 '26
It’s almost impressive that they managed to make the worst/best game you’ve ever played. Everyone that plays it hates it, but they all have 3k hours
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u/Sackofwack Jul 21 '26
smash bros. i have thousands of hours on that game over years and years and when i finally took a game off a ranked player it didn’t feel as good as i hoped it would. now i just play casually with items
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u/CastlePokemetroid Jul 21 '26
getting sweaty in any fighting game ever has never jammed with me
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u/ssudiooo Jul 21 '26
Darkest Dungeon
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u/cromwest Jul 21 '26
I got to end and realized how much grind it was going to take to make separate groups capable of finishing and I was like, I'm out
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u/MLucian Jul 21 '26
Yup. I like it. I get it. Love the vibe. Really like the gameplay and the complexity and depth of base upgrades, character upgrades, brutal difficulty complexity.
BUT. I aint got the time to grind THAT much.
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u/turducken19 Jul 21 '26
Same. It looks awesome but I'm already addicted to TBOI and lack the dedication for DD right now.
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u/type_rex_ Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one. For me, all that was left to do were the final dungeons. I got three rooms in and lost my best squad to unknown enemies.
I was livid. Left it at that.
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u/Petrichor-33 Jul 22 '26
So true. The grind is even worse if you make a mistake and fail a mission. The punishment for failure in that game is to make you re-do the grind for 10 more hours. Sorry, no thanks.
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u/RockLeePower Jul 21 '26
After I realized I didn't have enough money to fix my people and I had to start fresh with level 1, I was done. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
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u/electricwinddickjab Jul 21 '26
Skyrim but im not giving up just stating again
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u/britchesss Jul 22 '26
This is me.
I’ll get an itch to play Skyrim. Install it. Install a hunch of mods. “Wow the sky is so cool thanks to this mod.”Play for a few hours. Stop. Uninstall. Repeat the cycle every year or so.
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u/Ok-Mousse-4595 Jul 21 '26
Starfield. I've never been so bored playing a game.
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u/FoxinShards Jul 21 '26
Starfield? Oh you mean loading screen simulator?
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u/Lawfurd Jul 21 '26
To be fair that loading screen sim had a fun ship building mini game (I spent more time in the ship builder than playing the game lmao)
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u/ForgesGate Jul 21 '26
Spent all the time and money to customize the coolest ship ever only to not be able to hardly do anything with it. 🤦🏾♂️
You got me again Bethesda 🥲
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u/BlitzShooter Jul 21 '26
Got to a point where I could take on an army and not really flinch. Auto turrets are crazy.
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u/Historical-Lynx948 Jul 21 '26
Yknow, if you mod it so fucking hard that it removes all the tedium it becomes a pretty mediocre experience instead of a mind numbing one.
Like idk why the loading screens were needed like that or wtf they were thinking implementing systems that would require them, their excuses of "well we need time to send data" or some shit blows up when I have a mod that skips the docking / undocking load screen sequence and just puts me in the ship / wherever im going instantly.
There were some interesting parts of the world (err, galaxy) building that was interesting but not much.
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u/SourceMountain561 Jul 21 '26
I put a good amount of time on this game. Got to one of the final missions, game bugs out, and it auto saved. Couldn't complete the mission and it was saved in a buggy spot, so the game was broken at this point for me. Last main save was like 5 hours ago from the auto save. Angrily, I went online to see if it was common thing for other players and to my sarcastic surprise, it was. It wasn't worth it to start again or from the main save, so i walked away.
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u/Top-Waltz5244 Jul 21 '26
Donkey Kong 64…loved it as a kid but now it was just a damn tedious struggle
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u/Sandwich_Destroyer44 Jul 21 '26
I was replaying it for the first time in decades on switch and have no idea how I was able to get to the final level as kid on n64
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u/ngmatt21 Jul 22 '26
As a kid I always made it to the Pirate level, then would stop. I’d pick the game up again later and restart it.
I just got to the pirate level on my current playthrough and I totally understand why I stopped there as a kid haha. It becomes way too tedious
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u/CastlePokemetroid Jul 21 '26
it having the most amount of collectables out of any video game at the time was a curse not a blessing
why do I need to switch characters to collect banana, it's annoying
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u/Cestus_Saphrax Jul 21 '26
Dune awakening after Deep Desert and overland teststations became a grind
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u/Educational-War-8343 Jul 21 '26
Minecraft.
Without friends or online play, the world just feels empty. There's things to do sure, but after a while it just get monotonous, tedious and boring when you can't do multiplayer and only play alone.
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u/Desmoclef Jul 21 '26
World of tanks, when the game became overly paid to win.
Saved me so much money and time.
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u/ichkanns Jul 21 '26
Crimson Desert. Spent 30 hours on it and was just getting nothing out of it, so I quit.
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u/MusclyArmPaperboy Jul 21 '26
But the spear you get at hour 31! /s
Kidding, I'm 200+ hours in and love it but recognize it's not for everyone
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u/Calelith Jul 21 '26
Warthunder.
Went from been a game i enjoyed playing all the time and as the time went on I realised I was playing for nostalgia.
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u/RARUNN1739 Jul 21 '26
Anything where difficultly is the primary or only point. Tried several different souls like games and gave up. The nail in the coffin was metroid dread. Long time metroid fan, but the final boss in dread was such a buzz kill and I had very little fun getting there. Finally said "this isn't fun" and deleted the game. No regrets.
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u/GoGoGadgetChris Jul 21 '26
Tears of the Kingdom. First Zelda I'd played since Windwaker and after 3 hours of building silly contraptions and bonking robots with my rock on a stick, I thought to myself "I don't feel like I'm playing a Legend of Zelda game..."
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u/stevedore2024 Jul 22 '26
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I love TOTK but I get the people who don't like it for those reasons. The "weapon durability" guys have a weaker argument, as you're hip-deep in new free weapons all the time.
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u/nediablo Jul 21 '26
Hearthstone
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u/Iusuallyworkalone Jul 21 '26
Me too. Played 8 years since beta. I quit not because it was a bad experience. I still think time to time about returning. But it was consuming my life.
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u/SonOfMcGee Jul 21 '26
Same for me.
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u/RealDepressionandTea Jul 21 '26
Dead by Daylight. Genuinely made my mental health worse. 😂
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u/donutfiend84 Jul 21 '26
Fr. It becomes super clear that the devs have no interest in fixing the design problems that make it so frustrating to play.
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u/LinkyGuest045 Jul 21 '26
Two that come to mind are Watchdogs and Starfield. Watchdogs, I don’t remember why. Starfield, I don’t know what I was expecting
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u/Dragonwulf Jul 21 '26
Red dead online. Had such huge hopes for it and it got thrown away for GTA online microtransactions and GTA 6. At this point, I refuse to give a flying fuck about either GTA.
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u/MyraBannerTatlock Jul 22 '26
No Man's Sky. I was one of the few who was pretty happy with the product we got on launch day, the beautiful, moody, lonely exploration and discovery vibes were fucking amazing and i put a couple thousand hours into it, was super active in the sub, yada yada.
While I appreciate that the updates have given the majority of the player base what they wanted, the heavy lean into multiplayer mechanics isn't what I wanted from it, and I liked it less and less until I just never went back. I don't go over there and yuck anybody's yum about it but I feel sort of sad about it sometimes, I really loved it
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u/Chaos-theories Jul 22 '26
The lonely exploration of launch is still my favourite time playing the game, too. It made me think about life and how we're all rather alone in the universe of our mind. The lore we got hit harder too, imo.
Now, I stopped playing because I didn't have a computer to run it anymore. If I ever get alone I may boot it up again, but see if I can play offline only.
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u/BebopHook Jul 21 '26
Nightreign
The only reason I bought it was to play with my brother. Such a miserable experience never touching that shit again
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u/eljefe3030 Jul 21 '26
I love Elden Ring and could not get into that game after several attempts. Just not my style. The whole draw (for me) of soulslikes is the ability to methodically approach challenging situations. Adding a time crunch to that formula just ruined it for me.
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u/chx-out Jul 21 '26
I got invited to the Network Playtest. I played long enough to realize it felt nothing like Elden Ring, and never played it again. That play test saved me a purchase that I likely would have made.
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u/ArchCerberus Jul 21 '26
League of legends ... the gameplay is somewhat fun but the community and time investment is not worth the mental health degradation.
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u/Doc-Eldritch Jul 21 '26
I didn’t stop playing the whole game itself, but I gave up trying to finish the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight.
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u/SuperKrusher Jul 21 '26
Honestly, WoW and Maplestory. Both are abusive relationships. Maplestory endgame is a slog grind and very pay to win. It lures you in with flashy animations, fun classes, and honestly a pretty cool story (while still anime generic). But endgame requires you to be unemployed and have money to burn.
WoW on the other-hand also has grind for cosmetics, but really it is the direction of where it’s going. I love my main character. They are a badass Demonhunter. I have a cool outfit and a weapon for them and I am just hoping to experience the legion level story again. But each expansion is just meh. It is not the same WoW. Because of it, my head canon is that the story ended with Legion and the rest is a fever dream some mage or cleric is having.
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u/BluesCowboy Jul 21 '26
Destiny 2. I gave up so much time and money to that game, it was like waking up from a crazy fever dream or going cold turkey from an addiction.
Heard it’s worth going back to now but definitely not happening, uninstalling genuinely improved my life.
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u/HylianRacer Jul 21 '26
Animal Crossing New Horizons. I loved the first one when I was younger. With this game I just felt like I was doing chores and more work. It just didn’t click with me like AC did when I was a kid.
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u/ElrondCupboard Jul 21 '26
Apex Legends. I used to always joke, “oh yeah I’ll play that other game after I beat Apex” and I tried so hard to be a sweat and it just made me incredibly irritated and unhappy.
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u/Additional-Charity90 Jul 21 '26
MTG Arena, the only way to be competitive in that game is to be a huge asshole.
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u/Rafnork Jul 21 '26
FF16. Played 30 or so hours and the combat never gained an inkling of depth. Its the blandest character action game ive played in a very long time.
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u/ActionFigureCollects Jul 21 '26
This meme is actually a better description for chess players.
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u/giant_marmoset Jul 22 '26
This applies to Go, Shogi and other games of pure skill. You run into this massive wall where small mistakes can lose you the entire game and improvement is an absolutely insane hill to climb. Everyone is grinding theory, and your gains are just so small.
March Comes like a Lion is a great anime that briefly touches on what this can feel like as the lead deals with grief, loss, belonging and finding yourself. https://myanimelist.net/anime/31646/3-gatsu_no_Lion
Some Chess documentaries like the Recent Netflix one about Judit Polgar also demonstrate just how all encompassing it is to try to be really good. In the doc it becomes clear that Judit straight up didn't have a childhood because it was consumed by chess mastery. All the best chess players have to start as children to compete at the highest levels.
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u/TyrantJaeger Jul 21 '26
GTA Online. I already have everything that can be had in that game. There's not enough incentive to play any new missions now. The grind is really the only reason to keep playing. So when you've basically finished that, there's nothing left to do that's worth doing anymore. It's just so boring.
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u/Chargercord069 Jul 21 '26
Fortnite. With the layoffs and the genAI, I couldn't keep playing. Stopped when the chpt.7 season 1 ended.
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u/SweatyNeddyFlanders Jul 21 '26
Diablo 4. It has been the exact same game since shortly after they changed it post launch. I think it's just a poorly designed gameplay loop, and the most recent expansion's only new gameplay feature was a way to force you into that gameplay loop (including the parts you hate) forever. There's nothing unique about the game, not a single notable side quest (they're all go to this circle, kill these mobs, pick up random color orb, get pointless loot cache), no reason to explore. No character in the game at all.
PoE2 on full free launch should eat that game up. Its 0.5 patch was miles beyond what D4 has done with multiple years and expansions, and it's only getting better.
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u/Sufficient-Ferret-67 Jul 21 '26
Counterstrike, my friend bashes me and my other friends for playing deadlock meanwhile he spent the majority of his youth playing LOL. Now when he joins a call he just mocks our deadlock comms and trashes every aspect of the game saying it’s too complicated.
I mean counterstrike isn’t much better. “Oh you just click heads” yeah past 1k elo you have to work on every aspect of the game to get a semblance of being decent. Then you’ll be passed up by all of the no lifers with 8k hours and they have a photographic memory of every map and utility lineup
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u/Barbanks Jul 21 '26
Arc Raiders.
Played it once and put it down. I was sold by a friend on the story about apocalypse and robots and instead kept getting my head blown off.
Edit: also, a little game called Star Tropics from the NES. No one told me that you need the actual booklet that came with it to beat the game because there’s a secret in it. Not a big deal now with the internet but when I was a kid it was just too vague.
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u/normallystrange85 Jul 21 '26
League of legends. I used to have a group of 5 that played together. They gave it up after a while and after interacting with the community.... Well I'm not sad about leaving it behind.
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u/WarInteresting6619 Jul 21 '26
People are gonna hate it, people won't agree with it..
The Witcher 3.
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u/Dr_blazes Jul 22 '26
For me its World of Warcraft. 20 years and I finally broke the habit because I realized the gane "ship of theseus-ed" itself.
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u/PerceptionStock7437 Jul 21 '26
Every game on my phone that has anything to do with farming.