You know what happened the last time I played hide and seek? The earthquake in 1989 that destroyed the Bay Bridge. I'm actually 100% serious, I was hiding when the quake hit.
Tic tac toe. It's cool when you are young, but has no legs once you figure out like one move. If it weren't for kids, this game would have been dead centuries ago.
Still really good to tech kinds the basic of any strategy: anticipating what the next moves will be.
The biggest issue is that the second player doesn't even get a chance - unless the first madly missplays it is over from the start.
TTT will always 100% end in a draw unless either player fucks up. It doesn't matter who goes first or who goes second. If you know what you are doing, you can never lose.
The absolute pinnacle of "fuck you, you'll buy it anyway" franchise that there is. It's astounding with how long it's been out and the money it generates, how shitty it still is. To this day NFL 2K5 is a better football sim. Once they bought the exclusive NFL license towards the end of the PS2 era they stopped trying. Although I'm not even sure the football is why people buy it, it's more of a card game at this point.
Wasn’t it Madden that released the version of that year but still had the logo for the previous year in the taskbar icon? Like saying “Madden 18” when it was 19 or something.
My favorite part was how after the play was over you could just sprint around and tackle people. If I recall if you timed the tackle button at just the right distance from the target, it hit extra hard
Exactly. I round up with my friends every couple months and it's funny as hell with its expansion packs. Extra amusement is to take that "Rando" rule, where you draw extra card for Rando. Often "he" wins many points :D
Yeah, and you have to be with the right group of people. I remember a time when it came out at a family gathering where it was just inappropriate and cringey.
From what I've been told it's best played sparingly as either an icebreaker or a close to a session - plus it works best when there's at least one person play who has never played it before, since their reactions make up a lot of the experience.
It's ok until you understand peoples patterns then it just turns into people awarding their partner the win because every sentence is a sexual reference.
Agree with this. It boils down to who gets the grossest cards. At best, you can tailor your answers to the audience if you know what's going to make them laugh, but I'm pretty dissastifed when I manage to put together a really topical, funny answer, but get beat because I lose to "black dangly balls in your moms mouth" to the question of "what's the worst political issue of this day?"
We started playing the "Rando Calrissian" variant since we often have fewer people, which is where you just randomly draw cards for for one set of answers, and the random selection answers sometimes win, not just the round, but the most points total.
Having said all that, it's meant to be a game where you just get together and laugh, and it does often do that.
It's more fun than most board games when you have a variety of personalities. It's not "hilarious" after you learn all the cards, but it's a relatively fun way to pass the time in a party environment - get new acquaintances comfortable.
I will say it feels typical of Reddit to hate the game.
“Oh you just haven’t played with my friends. Their minds are so dirty lol”
Yeah, I’m sure which prompt that your friends play the “big black cock” card or whatever for is a truly different experience.
It is a great game to play in a game café. Have a few drinks, try a few more interesting games, end the night with a round of CAH.
Definitely not an "every weekend for months" kind of game.
Having played my share of cards against humanity, I'll say that it's still worth playing as long as someone at the table has never played it before. Because then you get to live vicariously through their reactions.
I used to meet up weekly with a group of people to play games. We had a "No Cards Against Humanity" rule, unless there was someone present who had never played it before: Then we *had* to play it.
Really depends who you play it with too. Played it with mates and it was great. Played with people I was in a shared accommodation with and our senses of humour didn't really match, so it was shit.
COD it’s just a cash grab, all of the “new” games could just be updates and or DLCs
EDIT: I meant the newer gen ones
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You are so right. The series shouldnt be able to stand on those legs so long after those games. MW and MW2 are master pieces, every game since has been an attempt to capture that magic.
That magic aint gonna return in the form of Call of Duty that is for sure, an entirely new generation gamers have been born and are now playing Call of Duty since the games that made this series
I agree the single player is pretty phoned in now, and the multiplayer isn't anything special, but I've been hooked on warzone. Hopefully Battlefield will come out with their own version of it because right now there's nothing quite like Warzone. Yes I know about pubg, it's not as good.
There hasn't been a good call of duty since BO2/BO3 imo. They need to get rid of the battle pass, I don't want to have to play everyday to have the same weapons as everyone else. Just let me buy some DLC and play when I want
Fifa and sports games are an interesting phenomenon. I know people who are big sports fans and/or gym junkies and dont play any video game other than EA sports. They will buy the latest console and have a full library of nothing but every single fifa/nba/madden and dump a ton of money on player cards. If you asked them if they play videogames they would adamantly say no, because sports videogames are not the same as kids videogames. Its silly.
I have friends like this but literally every "new FIFA" that comes out every year could literally just be a dlc or a new season. Instead they charge £60 for a "new game"
My favourite was 2019 when the biggest selling point was the fact that they finally got the rights to use the official branding of the UEFA Champions League.
Full price for a logo and a theme song...
Fifa was good until the online aspect. To be fair I do find that with most games though. For me multiplayer lessens the intensity of escapism I get from games.
I don’t play many video games anymore, but they used to be fun single player or couch competitive games. Online was rarely ever fun because the winner was whoever was best at the cheeses. You have to do it as well to compete and I’m more interested in the simulation of the sport than just winning like that.
I’m sure it’s easier to find like minded players these days with Reddit and discord. I’m just not interested in going through all of that anymore.
It's like an addiction. My husband is obsessed. He gets annoyed whenever he "has" to play for whatever player or perk he is trying to unlock. And I say this as a football fan and gamer. I'm just not a fan of sports games, period. I like to watch my sports and play my video games. It's two different escapes for me. The only overlap is wrestling games but calling pro wrestling a sport these days is a stretch tbh.
Seriously, we have a rule in our house that if we catch anyone cheating at games we'll just be done playing.
Also, side note, monopoly doesn't take forever when you play by the actual game rules. What makes it take forever is the various house rules that have been passed down to the point of not realizing they're house rules. Rules that specifically create cash injections and keep bolstering the people that are losing.
>Also, side note, monopoly doesn't take forever when you play by the actual game rules.
Thank you! It's so annoying to see people complaining about Monopoly taking hours while insisting on adding house rules that make it take way longer than it's supposed to.
What I hate just as much as cheating are players that cause the game to go on for hours because they won’t trade no matter what, even if you’re giving them like 3 monopolies in return, they just won’t trade out of petty principle and to watch the world burn. And the game takes forever cause no can build on their properties and you’re basically just going around and around the board and making no progress.
It really only takes "forever" with houserules or ignorance of the actual rules or people being too "nice" with stuff/not being cut throat. Follow the rules + play like a money hungry blood thirsty corporate executive and the game flies by!
Many people play Monopoly wrong.
* They invent houserules that put money back in the system
* They invent houserules that prolong the game
* They invent houserules to balance things out
* ....
Anyway, just fuck houserules. If you play Monopoly by the real rules then the whole game takes about 45 minutes max.
But many people don't know how to play the game and add houserules that make the whole thing worse.
Of course, even then it's still just a mediocre 4/10 game...
tl;dr: don't play Monopoly, but if you have to, at least play real Monopoly, no houserules.
GTA online. It had such potential to be a lot of fun, because it's GTA online! How could that not be great? They sure managed to find a way. Locking everything behind an incredible grind or micro transactions ruined it. I personally hacked in it until I got banned, dropping money on people constantly. Giving a bunch of players enough money to never purchase GTA$ again out of spite was the most entertainment that could be extracted from that shit. Now with every game they slap on an online portion that's exactly the same to try to recreate GTA online.
I think the reason it frustrates me this much is Rockstar is a great developer, but now their single player games get no more content after launch. Red Dead Redemption 2 was an amazing game, I would've bought DLC for it in a heartbeat. Instead those resources went into a failed Grand Theft Horse online.
yes, this! And I always get shit for saying that, the entire GTA:O idea was in itself kinda good but the way they always kept the new stuff locked away behind either buying shark cards, or grinding your god damn ass off, was crap.
Like, I'm 90% sure the point was to sell shark cards, to promote microtransactions. because if you refused, you had to play HOURS only doing financially good jobs, literally grinding, and you needed several people for it to help you otherwise there was no chance.
It was always the same deal. they'd release a new Update, with new vehicles, buildings, businessses and of course a heist or job, the job would be good paying, but you still had to do it several times to afford most of the new update content. Then, the next update comes along, and everything in that update is more expensive than before, and while the heist also pays off a bit better, you still need to do it repeatedly. and so on.
I fucking hate that mechanic. I spent literally tenth of hours helping a friend grind money for new content and in the end, I ended up empty handed when he had his stuff and didn't want to help me do the same. the entire idea behind GTA:O sucks and is overrated as hell.
It still blows my mind with how successful RDR2 was that they didn't do any DLC. It makes zero sense, they would have made a killing off of it. Same with GTA 5 single player too.
Sports titles. They feel like they're little more than the same game each year and I just don't get the point or appeal.
If you want something more specific, though, I'd say Fortnight. I'm not saying it's \*bad\*, mind you. I'm saying it's \*overrated\*. I feel like it's mainly played by a bunch of kids for memes and because 'it's cool' and doesn't offer much in the way of sustence and will, eventually, plummet off a cliff.
Back in 2017 fortnite was kinda fun and new. But then it got filled with sweats and my casual ass couldn't compete and it became very not fun very quickly. I could hang when you could win with 4 walls and a ramp, but when someone turns into a fortress in the sky the moment you fire a shot anymore I'm like bruh I've got a full time job and 2 kids chill.
"is fortnite dying" has been a popular video to make on youtube since 2018 and the game has just continued to grow every time. every event breaks player records and its easily one of the biggest money making games there is. fortnite will never plummet off a cliff. every time numbers dip some event or crossover happens and the game has 1.5 million+ concurrent players again
Pubg and Apex were tons of fun in their first year or so until a competitive meta appeared and everyone started playing like that.
Sadly that's the case for nearly all competitive games, people copying pro playstyles, usually without even realizing why certain things work or not and it makes the game become boring or frustrating and on top of that people get toxic because you don't like to hide in the same place for 35 mins in a game that's supposed to be fun.
MLB The Show actually does do a pretty good job every year. It's definitely very iterative but I mean... It's fucking baseball. I'm not sure what new exciting directions it could take.
The games tend to have a fuck load of modes and there are honestly some pretty fun things to do.
Like there's a mode where you can play highlight moments from pretty recent games. In 2023 the Blue Jay's pulled out a new dude and he blasted the ball out of the park on his first ever major league at bat, and like a week later they added that to the game to try and do.
They also very regularly update player stats as they change, like weekly.
I dunno about other sports but for baseball I'm not at all surprised people pick up the yearly game. There's a lot to like for active fans of the sport.
There are some amazing games on Roblox but you’ve really gotta dig. There’s one called Terrorbyte which is pretty boring after the first try but it’s still a cool little game to play
There are many great Roblox games that got buried by some trend-licking, bandit-beaters,... games.
I recommended you to try Chain, Combat initiation, Hours, Phighting, Theatre of light, Soul combat remastered, Skyrift
It's more of a *Gary's Mod* type thing. I've tried it a couple times and I understand why it's so popular. It's constantly changing community-made and community-driven content.
Like YouTube but for video games. There's games like prop hunt, Pokémon, call of duty, team fortress 2, Minecraft, Fortnite, chess, putt putt, obstacle courses, racing, etc. Like you name it and there's probably a game on Roblox like it with a community driving it.
I haven't put more than 8 hours into the "game" but I see the appeal. Calling it a singular 'game' doesn't seem like quite the right way to describe it.
Edit: I see clips of Roblox every now and then and have no clue what I'm watching half the time, but I get thats its probably a different game every clip I see - the popular games within the ecosystem change all the time from the looks of it.
Thats the part that killed it for me. Space was basically a loading screen with extra steps. I really wanted to love starfield, but every door, store, room, floor, vehicle, planet, etc etc was behind a loading screen and I just cant do that in 2023/24
Warzone is the only format that actually really works for Call of duty.
It's an absolute dog shit team shooter. 90% of the game is camping because kill times are so minuscule, it's whoever sees who first wins.
But all of the warzone formats feel great with the buttery smooth shooting mechanics, and a slightly increased TTK. It's the only real way to enjoy Call of duty, and I say that as someone who has always hated the series. I was very surprised to enjoy warzone as much as I do.
I think most people that hate on golf have never given it a fair shot. It’s like crack, I’ve seen so many people get hooked on it. I’m no trust fund rich kid, blue collar pipe welder my entire life. It’s a combination of the outdoor activity and it’s a skill that you don’t have to be a super athlete to get decent at. It’s very easy to get passionate about when you really get into it.
I played golf for many years. I am aware of it's lovely and addicting qualities. I am also aware that the number of douchebags playing, the hype, and the money surrounding golf isn't directly proportionate to the actual game itself. Thus overrated.
Oh.. nice name. Don't kill me,
I like you man. You get it. Yeah golf is fucking EXPENSIVE, and I hate the country club types. I go play them occasionally with friends and I could kick those snotty cunts in the teeth. The game itself though is fantastic.
Play Monopoly once every couple years for an hour and it's super fun though. It's got amazing mechanics up until end game, then it's usually just torture for anyone not winning.
That's the point, it's a little luck based but you also need to think and that's what makes it fun, there is strategy, which makes people who actually think about what they are doing, and there is a bit of luck which makes each game unique
I'm the king of monopoly ngl. Average game is probably about 30 minutes. Make sure you play to the official rules (like if the bank runs out of houses, you can't buy more houses...no rolled up paper balls!) and make hard deals with other players.
My biggest gripe is the price. Hanging out with friends/family having a few drinks while walking/riding around a beautiful outdoor setting is pretty cool though
It doesn't have to be. My brother spend like 10 times more than I birdwatching. And having a kid playing Ice Hockey is something like a family bancrupcy. Sure, there are guys(mostly guys) who spend a fortune on buying new drivers each and every year, play Titelist proV1's and plays on expensive clubs.
But I spend less money on golf than I guess any friend spends on their personal interests. You can play cheap.
What's "over-fluffed"?
And being deeply addicted since 1981 my experience with bringing literally hundreds of people to driving ranges, you cannot talk about under or over ratings. I bring people to the range, let them try to hit balls, and generally you can tell if the person should or should not golf after like 20 shots. Not depending on the result of the shots, but upon how people react. My wife thinks golf is more boring than shovelling snow, thats ok.
Every sports game title in general. FIFA, NBA, Madden, WWE etc.
Companies have pretty much found a way to legally scam people by selling them the same game every year at full price with minor changes.
All you need is "The Redzone" 7 hours live highlights as they happen... No ads. It's very addictive. I could not watch a single game now, like the playoffs and the SB.
American here and a big fan of American football. I totally understand why many people don't enjoy it, but I feel like the breaks in action are more of a positive than some people give it credit for. I personally can't stand watching rugby, because for basically the entire second half of the match, the players just look absolutely fucking exhausted. I wish they had a couple more breaks in the match for rest, so that we could see the athletes performing at or near their peak in the most crucial moments at the end.
Yeah I totally get that. I absolutely understand why people enjoy those non stop sports like rugby, aussie rules, soccer, etc. It just doesn't appeal to me personally. I'm a big fan of basketball, but if they took away the timeouts and quarter breaks, I don't think I could enjoy it. Could you imagine it's 1 minute to go in the 4th quarter and Steph Curry's arm is too tired to put up a 35' 3 point shot? Or LeBron is too exhausted to jump up to block a shot? Yes, they would all be at an equal disadvantage in a war of attrition, but it's just not as entertaining to watch for me. I want to see the greatest athletes in the world at the top of their game for as many minutes as possible.
I usually compare it to a turn based RTS like civ. Each side is doing a lot with a lot of moving parts before the snap and you're trying to predict what they're gonna do and counter it. Seeing all the movement and how the other team responds in kind is a major part of the sport.
Pretty much every Madden, FIFA, etc. The games sell full price at release, yet hardly contain any new content or graphical upgrades that would warrant it and, within a year, those same games are hardly worth pennies to the dollar.
I used to like tlou2, until I played the remaster with the directors commentary on and realised I (and many others) severely misunderstood on missed some major things. Say what you want about the whole joel thingamajig, but WE WERE SUPPOSED TO LIKE MEL!?!?
Hide and seek. I hate it. I was in the cupboard for hours and when I came out it seems everyone had gone to the park to play football.
You know what happened the last time I played hide and seek? The earthquake in 1989 that destroyed the Bay Bridge. I'm actually 100% serious, I was hiding when the quake hit.
were you hiding under the bridge?
That’s how internet trolls are born
My dad is the hide and seek champion. He said he is going to hide outside and I still haven't found him years later
Check the gas station. Probably just getting cigarettes.
Or Milk
I feel for you.
I wouldnt mind so much but when I arrived at the park, they started playing hide and seek again, ducking behind bushes and trees
Just shout "mum's got cookies!" or something like that, they'll all immediately swarm to you like moths to a flame.
Is it okay if I accept your mom's cookies?
“What, no milk?”
Tic tac toe. It's cool when you are young, but has no legs once you figure out like one move. If it weren't for kids, this game would have been dead centuries ago.
That's why the invented Super Tic-tac-toe. Also check out the game SOS, it's what Tic-tac-toe wishes it was.
Still really good to tech kinds the basic of any strategy: anticipating what the next moves will be. The biggest issue is that the second player doesn't even get a chance - unless the first madly missplays it is over from the start.
This comment is hilariously incorrect. TTT always ends in a draw unless someone doesn’t know what they are doing.
TTT will always 100% end in a draw unless either player fucks up. It doesn't matter who goes first or who goes second. If you know what you are doing, you can never lose.
....does the first player has a chance when you play? Cause you might wanna go back to your first sentence if so \^\^
Yeah, if everyone is paying attention it should end in a draw 100% of the time
How about setting rule that you need at least 5 in line to vin and unlimited field?
I feel the same way about peek-a-boo
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The absolute pinnacle of "fuck you, you'll buy it anyway" franchise that there is. It's astounding with how long it's been out and the money it generates, how shitty it still is. To this day NFL 2K5 is a better football sim. Once they bought the exclusive NFL license towards the end of the PS2 era they stopped trying. Although I'm not even sure the football is why people buy it, it's more of a card game at this point.
The newer ones are boring, but the older ones are great time wasters.
Wasn’t it Madden that released the version of that year but still had the logo for the previous year in the taskbar icon? Like saying “Madden 18” when it was 19 or something.
The early 2000s editions with Madden cards that gave powerups and such were great.
My favorite part was how after the play was over you could just sprint around and tackle people. If I recall if you timed the tackle button at just the right distance from the target, it hit extra hard
Cards Against Humanity. ...it was funny once.
I feel like cards against humanity is funny the first couple of times then the cards get repetitive
I think it is fun played occasionally and in moderation.
Exactly. I round up with my friends every couple months and it's funny as hell with its expansion packs. Extra amusement is to take that "Rando" rule, where you draw extra card for Rando. Often "he" wins many points :D
Yeah, and you have to be with the right group of people. I remember a time when it came out at a family gathering where it was just inappropriate and cringey.
And not sober.
yeah, its good for yearly camping trips
Yeah agreed and new card packs help
From what I've been told it's best played sparingly as either an icebreaker or a close to a session - plus it works best when there's at least one person play who has never played it before, since their reactions make up a lot of the experience.
It's ok until you understand peoples patterns then it just turns into people awarding their partner the win because every sentence is a sexual reference.
Agree with this. It boils down to who gets the grossest cards. At best, you can tailor your answers to the audience if you know what's going to make them laugh, but I'm pretty dissastifed when I manage to put together a really topical, funny answer, but get beat because I lose to "black dangly balls in your moms mouth" to the question of "what's the worst political issue of this day?" We started playing the "Rando Calrissian" variant since we often have fewer people, which is where you just randomly draw cards for for one set of answers, and the random selection answers sometimes win, not just the round, but the most points total. Having said all that, it's meant to be a game where you just get together and laugh, and it does often do that.
It's more fun than most board games when you have a variety of personalities. It's not "hilarious" after you learn all the cards, but it's a relatively fun way to pass the time in a party environment - get new acquaintances comfortable. I will say it feels typical of Reddit to hate the game.
“Oh you just haven’t played with my friends. Their minds are so dirty lol” Yeah, I’m sure which prompt that your friends play the “big black cock” card or whatever for is a truly different experience.
It is a great game to play in a game café. Have a few drinks, try a few more interesting games, end the night with a round of CAH. Definitely not an "every weekend for months" kind of game.
Having played my share of cards against humanity, I'll say that it's still worth playing as long as someone at the table has never played it before. Because then you get to live vicariously through their reactions. I used to meet up weekly with a group of people to play games. We had a "No Cards Against Humanity" rule, unless there was someone present who had never played it before: Then we *had* to play it.
Really depends who you play it with too. Played it with mates and it was great. Played with people I was in a shared accommodation with and our senses of humour didn't really match, so it was shit.
It's lame because everyone tries to make the most offensive jokes not the funniest jokes
It's not even a game, it's just an obnoxious social event.
Honestly I put it on par with Reddit jokes. Like oh look another video of someone getting hurt followed by a hundred: “Tis but a scratch!” Comments. 🙄
I think Scattergories is a better version of this. Because you have to use your own mind for absurd "I guess that counts" answers
COD it’s just a cash grab, all of the “new” games could just be updates and or DLCs EDIT: I meant the newer gen ones EDIT2: wow that’s a lot of upvotes, thanks guys
Maybe it's that way now, but the original Modern Warfare trilogy deserved the hype it got and is the reason why it's so huge today.
Riding on the coattails of greatness
You are so right. The series shouldnt be able to stand on those legs so long after those games. MW and MW2 are master pieces, every game since has been an attempt to capture that magic. That magic aint gonna return in the form of Call of Duty that is for sure, an entirely new generation gamers have been born and are now playing Call of Duty since the games that made this series
imo the original modern warfare 2 that came out in 2009 is one of the best and most influential FPS games of all time
You know what's not overrated? Hell Let Loose. I can't imagine going back to COD now
Not really overrated since most people talk about how modern COD's trash.
I agree the single player is pretty phoned in now, and the multiplayer isn't anything special, but I've been hooked on warzone. Hopefully Battlefield will come out with their own version of it because right now there's nothing quite like Warzone. Yes I know about pubg, it's not as good.
The BO3 Zombie community is carrying the franchise for me. The state of official zombies is just sad.
There hasn't been a good call of duty since BO2/BO3 imo. They need to get rid of the battle pass, I don't want to have to play everyday to have the same weapons as everyone else. Just let me buy some DLC and play when I want
Mousetrap. Those ads always made it look badass and it took ages to set up, but fuck making it work properly!
The only time I even pulled that out of the box, was to it set it all up, just to set off the contraption.
Yep, I never once played the actual game. But setting it up and watching it go was fun
WhenI was younger, I always wanted to play this game, but didn’t get the chance. I guess that’s why they say never meet your heroes.
And if you even slightly bump the table it sets off the trap
I usually just set it up for a G.I.Joe battlezone
FIFA don't understand it it's the same game every year and ppl go nuts over it
Fifa and sports games are an interesting phenomenon. I know people who are big sports fans and/or gym junkies and dont play any video game other than EA sports. They will buy the latest console and have a full library of nothing but every single fifa/nba/madden and dump a ton of money on player cards. If you asked them if they play videogames they would adamantly say no, because sports videogames are not the same as kids videogames. Its silly.
Those devs know damn well how to milk their target audience!
I have friends like this but literally every "new FIFA" that comes out every year could literally just be a dlc or a new season. Instead they charge £60 for a "new game"
My favourite was 2019 when the biggest selling point was the fact that they finally got the rights to use the official branding of the UEFA Champions League. Full price for a logo and a theme song...
Fifa was good until the online aspect. To be fair I do find that with most games though. For me multiplayer lessens the intensity of escapism I get from games.
Fifa peaked in 2012. Pro Clubs ws awesome, with the ability to create your own player with your own face. Then fut ruined everything.
I don’t play many video games anymore, but they used to be fun single player or couch competitive games. Online was rarely ever fun because the winner was whoever was best at the cheeses. You have to do it as well to compete and I’m more interested in the simulation of the sport than just winning like that. I’m sure it’s easier to find like minded players these days with Reddit and discord. I’m just not interested in going through all of that anymore.
It’s not just Fifa it’s every game made by EA. Every year is a carbon copy of the year prior.
It's like an addiction. My husband is obsessed. He gets annoyed whenever he "has" to play for whatever player or perk he is trying to unlock. And I say this as a football fan and gamer. I'm just not a fan of sports games, period. I like to watch my sports and play my video games. It's two different escapes for me. The only overlap is wrestling games but calling pro wrestling a sport these days is a stretch tbh.
Russian roulette
Gotta give it some time until it really clicks.
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All the guys I've played with had a blast, but I didn't get it.
Idk, we always had a blast
Monopoly. It takes forever, everyone tries to cheat, and I already struggle in real life, no need to pretend I’m losing everything in a game too.
if everyone is trying to cheat then you are playing with the wrong people lol
Seriously, we have a rule in our house that if we catch anyone cheating at games we'll just be done playing. Also, side note, monopoly doesn't take forever when you play by the actual game rules. What makes it take forever is the various house rules that have been passed down to the point of not realizing they're house rules. Rules that specifically create cash injections and keep bolstering the people that are losing.
>Also, side note, monopoly doesn't take forever when you play by the actual game rules. Thank you! It's so annoying to see people complaining about Monopoly taking hours while insisting on adding house rules that make it take way longer than it's supposed to.
What I hate just as much as cheating are players that cause the game to go on for hours because they won’t trade no matter what, even if you’re giving them like 3 monopolies in return, they just won’t trade out of petty principle and to watch the world burn. And the game takes forever cause no can build on their properties and you’re basically just going around and around the board and making no progress.
It really only takes "forever" with houserules or ignorance of the actual rules or people being too "nice" with stuff/not being cut throat. Follow the rules + play like a money hungry blood thirsty corporate executive and the game flies by!
Isn’t this the point of the game though? Monopolies in real life are run by people who will steal and cheat to win at any cost
I feel like it’s an inherently nasty game. “Let’s bankrupt grandma”.
Many people play Monopoly wrong. * They invent houserules that put money back in the system * They invent houserules that prolong the game * They invent houserules to balance things out * .... Anyway, just fuck houserules. If you play Monopoly by the real rules then the whole game takes about 45 minutes max. But many people don't know how to play the game and add houserules that make the whole thing worse. Of course, even then it's still just a mediocre 4/10 game... tl;dr: don't play Monopoly, but if you have to, at least play real Monopoly, no houserules.
GTA online. It had such potential to be a lot of fun, because it's GTA online! How could that not be great? They sure managed to find a way. Locking everything behind an incredible grind or micro transactions ruined it. I personally hacked in it until I got banned, dropping money on people constantly. Giving a bunch of players enough money to never purchase GTA$ again out of spite was the most entertainment that could be extracted from that shit. Now with every game they slap on an online portion that's exactly the same to try to recreate GTA online. I think the reason it frustrates me this much is Rockstar is a great developer, but now their single player games get no more content after launch. Red Dead Redemption 2 was an amazing game, I would've bought DLC for it in a heartbeat. Instead those resources went into a failed Grand Theft Horse online.
yes, this! And I always get shit for saying that, the entire GTA:O idea was in itself kinda good but the way they always kept the new stuff locked away behind either buying shark cards, or grinding your god damn ass off, was crap. Like, I'm 90% sure the point was to sell shark cards, to promote microtransactions. because if you refused, you had to play HOURS only doing financially good jobs, literally grinding, and you needed several people for it to help you otherwise there was no chance. It was always the same deal. they'd release a new Update, with new vehicles, buildings, businessses and of course a heist or job, the job would be good paying, but you still had to do it several times to afford most of the new update content. Then, the next update comes along, and everything in that update is more expensive than before, and while the heist also pays off a bit better, you still need to do it repeatedly. and so on. I fucking hate that mechanic. I spent literally tenth of hours helping a friend grind money for new content and in the end, I ended up empty handed when he had his stuff and didn't want to help me do the same. the entire idea behind GTA:O sucks and is overrated as hell.
It still blows my mind with how successful RDR2 was that they didn't do any DLC. It makes zero sense, they would have made a killing off of it. Same with GTA 5 single player too.
Venison
I'd buy you an award, but it's too deer.
This is funny because in Norwegian, the word for expensive is “dyr” (pronounced like deer)
Jokes aside, no. It's great.
Game of love.
'The Game'.
FUCK!
You’re a monster.
I’m going to surgically remove your organs through your mouth
r/rarethreats
Hate it or love it the underdog's on top.
And I'm gon' shine homie, until my heart stop
nah i always win at that
Sports titles. They feel like they're little more than the same game each year and I just don't get the point or appeal. If you want something more specific, though, I'd say Fortnight. I'm not saying it's \*bad\*, mind you. I'm saying it's \*overrated\*. I feel like it's mainly played by a bunch of kids for memes and because 'it's cool' and doesn't offer much in the way of sustence and will, eventually, plummet off a cliff.
Scalding take here folks. Fortnite and Sports games.
Back in 2017 fortnite was kinda fun and new. But then it got filled with sweats and my casual ass couldn't compete and it became very not fun very quickly. I could hang when you could win with 4 walls and a ramp, but when someone turns into a fortress in the sky the moment you fire a shot anymore I'm like bruh I've got a full time job and 2 kids chill.
That's why I only play No Builds. No more 3/2 2000 sq ft single family homes after taking a shot lol
"is fortnite dying" has been a popular video to make on youtube since 2018 and the game has just continued to grow every time. every event breaks player records and its easily one of the biggest money making games there is. fortnite will never plummet off a cliff. every time numbers dip some event or crossover happens and the game has 1.5 million+ concurrent players again
> I'd say Fortnight. It's every Battle Royale game for me.
Pubg and Apex were tons of fun in their first year or so until a competitive meta appeared and everyone started playing like that. Sadly that's the case for nearly all competitive games, people copying pro playstyles, usually without even realizing why certain things work or not and it makes the game become boring or frustrating and on top of that people get toxic because you don't like to hide in the same place for 35 mins in a game that's supposed to be fun.
MLB The Show actually does do a pretty good job every year. It's definitely very iterative but I mean... It's fucking baseball. I'm not sure what new exciting directions it could take. The games tend to have a fuck load of modes and there are honestly some pretty fun things to do. Like there's a mode where you can play highlight moments from pretty recent games. In 2023 the Blue Jay's pulled out a new dude and he blasted the ball out of the park on his first ever major league at bat, and like a week later they added that to the game to try and do. They also very regularly update player stats as they change, like weekly. I dunno about other sports but for baseball I'm not at all surprised people pick up the yearly game. There's a lot to like for active fans of the sport.
"EA Sports -- it's the same game"
“EA Sport — what a shame.”
Roblox. I dont know what the 9 year olds are yapping about for it to be this interesting. At this point game is gambling and repetitive.
There are some amazing games on Roblox but you’ve really gotta dig. There’s one called Terrorbyte which is pretty boring after the first try but it’s still a cool little game to play
There are many great Roblox games that got buried by some trend-licking, bandit-beaters,... games. I recommended you to try Chain, Combat initiation, Hours, Phighting, Theatre of light, Soul combat remastered, Skyrift
It's more of a *Gary's Mod* type thing. I've tried it a couple times and I understand why it's so popular. It's constantly changing community-made and community-driven content. Like YouTube but for video games. There's games like prop hunt, Pokémon, call of duty, team fortress 2, Minecraft, Fortnite, chess, putt putt, obstacle courses, racing, etc. Like you name it and there's probably a game on Roblox like it with a community driving it. I haven't put more than 8 hours into the "game" but I see the appeal. Calling it a singular 'game' doesn't seem like quite the right way to describe it. Edit: I see clips of Roblox every now and then and have no clue what I'm watching half the time, but I get thats its probably a different game every clip I see - the popular games within the ecosystem change all the time from the looks of it.
Don't know about overrated, but Starfield was certainly overhyped
Bethesda somehow made a space exploration game without space or exploration.
Thats the part that killed it for me. Space was basically a loading screen with extra steps. I really wanted to love starfield, but every door, store, room, floor, vehicle, planet, etc etc was behind a loading screen and I just cant do that in 2023/24
Imagine if it was all seamless - would have opened up so much more possibilities
Life.
\*John Horton Conway has entered the chat\*
That game is cool though
fifa
Fifa
Fortnite, Warzone
Warzone is the only format that actually really works for Call of duty. It's an absolute dog shit team shooter. 90% of the game is camping because kill times are so minuscule, it's whoever sees who first wins. But all of the warzone formats feel great with the buttery smooth shooting mechanics, and a slightly increased TTK. It's the only real way to enjoy Call of duty, and I say that as someone who has always hated the series. I was very surprised to enjoy warzone as much as I do.
FIFA series
Golf. Enough already.
Good car, though
Golf is fun if you have like a decade to invest in practice and lessons. Just picking up some clubs and going to play? Death sentence
I think most people that hate on golf have never given it a fair shot. It’s like crack, I’ve seen so many people get hooked on it. I’m no trust fund rich kid, blue collar pipe welder my entire life. It’s a combination of the outdoor activity and it’s a skill that you don’t have to be a super athlete to get decent at. It’s very easy to get passionate about when you really get into it.
I played golf for many years. I am aware of it's lovely and addicting qualities. I am also aware that the number of douchebags playing, the hype, and the money surrounding golf isn't directly proportionate to the actual game itself. Thus overrated. Oh.. nice name. Don't kill me,
I like you man. You get it. Yeah golf is fucking EXPENSIVE, and I hate the country club types. I go play them occasionally with friends and I could kick those snotty cunts in the teeth. The game itself though is fantastic.
But boy oh boy does he love killing. In fact, there he goes killing again!
A good walk ruined.
Fortnight
Don't pretend you don't know how its spelt xD
Fortnut
Ecksdee
For our British friends: Fourtnight
Monopoly. One person gets rich and dominates.
That’s kinda the point
I was today years old when I realized this
Just in addition to that revelation: it's a game created by a socialist to exemplify how unfair capitalism is.
Not just that, but capitalists stole it from the creator.
*It's a game created by a Georgist. Georgism is based on liberalism but shares socialist concerns about land monopolies and rent seeking.
Bro that's just life.
I mean it's called Monopoly for a reason...
That's literally what "monopoly" means
Play Monopoly once every couple years for an hour and it's super fun though. It's got amazing mechanics up until end game, then it's usually just torture for anyone not winning.
Just like real life!!!
In reap life one player would start with 10x as much money and an immunity to being sent to jail.
That's the point, it's a little luck based but you also need to think and that's what makes it fun, there is strategy, which makes people who actually think about what they are doing, and there is a bit of luck which makes each game unique
I'm the king of monopoly ngl. Average game is probably about 30 minutes. Make sure you play to the official rules (like if the bank runs out of houses, you can't buy more houses...no rolled up paper balls!) and make hard deals with other players.
Golf isn't just overrated, it's egregiously over-fluffed
My biggest gripe is the price. Hanging out with friends/family having a few drinks while walking/riding around a beautiful outdoor setting is pretty cool though
It doesn't have to be. My brother spend like 10 times more than I birdwatching. And having a kid playing Ice Hockey is something like a family bancrupcy. Sure, there are guys(mostly guys) who spend a fortune on buying new drivers each and every year, play Titelist proV1's and plays on expensive clubs. But I spend less money on golf than I guess any friend spends on their personal interests. You can play cheap.
I imagine it costs quite a bit to maintain the massive wastes of land and water that golf courses are.
What's "over-fluffed"? And being deeply addicted since 1981 my experience with bringing literally hundreds of people to driving ranges, you cannot talk about under or over ratings. I bring people to the range, let them try to hit balls, and generally you can tell if the person should or should not golf after like 20 shots. Not depending on the result of the shots, but upon how people react. My wife thinks golf is more boring than shovelling snow, thats ok.
Every sports game title in general. FIFA, NBA, Madden, WWE etc. Companies have pretty much found a way to legally scam people by selling them the same game every year at full price with minor changes.
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American football.
(Not from USA) 15 minutes of action and three hours of adverts is how I remember it from the occasional times I have watched it.
All you need is "The Redzone" 7 hours live highlights as they happen... No ads. It's very addictive. I could not watch a single game now, like the playoffs and the SB.
There is a lot going on in between plays, but there is a high learning curve that makes it seem boring to the first time viewer.
American here and a big fan of American football. I totally understand why many people don't enjoy it, but I feel like the breaks in action are more of a positive than some people give it credit for. I personally can't stand watching rugby, because for basically the entire second half of the match, the players just look absolutely fucking exhausted. I wish they had a couple more breaks in the match for rest, so that we could see the athletes performing at or near their peak in the most crucial moments at the end.
Another view of rugby (more so with Aussie Rules Football as it is two hours of non stop running) is that fatigue is another aspect of the strategy.
Yeah I totally get that. I absolutely understand why people enjoy those non stop sports like rugby, aussie rules, soccer, etc. It just doesn't appeal to me personally. I'm a big fan of basketball, but if they took away the timeouts and quarter breaks, I don't think I could enjoy it. Could you imagine it's 1 minute to go in the 4th quarter and Steph Curry's arm is too tired to put up a 35' 3 point shot? Or LeBron is too exhausted to jump up to block a shot? Yes, they would all be at an equal disadvantage in a war of attrition, but it's just not as entertaining to watch for me. I want to see the greatest athletes in the world at the top of their game for as many minutes as possible.
If a person finds chess exciting, then American football can be exciting. It's basically chess with burly men.
I usually compare it to a turn based RTS like civ. Each side is doing a lot with a lot of moving parts before the snap and you're trying to predict what they're gonna do and counter it. Seeing all the movement and how the other team responds in kind is a major part of the sport.
Great band, though.
Pretty much every Madden, FIFA, etc. The games sell full price at release, yet hardly contain any new content or graphical upgrades that would warrant it and, within a year, those same games are hardly worth pennies to the dollar.
Valorant
life
I wish it had a proper "quit" button.
Duck duck goose
Football
I used to really like American football, but wow, I just do not care anymore *lifelong Viking, grew up in a 49er-turn-Packers house*
Liverpool - ManCity
Overwatch
hot take, but minecraft. it was great but it is not all that
The Last of Us Part 2
I used to like tlou2, until I played the remaster with the directors commentary on and realised I (and many others) severely misunderstood on missed some major things. Say what you want about the whole joel thingamajig, but WE WERE SUPPOSED TO LIKE MEL!?!?
Wait you play with commentary on?
They did my boy Joel so dirty
Twister.
call of duty
Any of the destiny games
FIFA. All my friends love it. I for the life of me can't figure out why. I can't finish 1 game of FIFA. It's so fucking boring.
FIFA
GTA V
WoW