Factorio, civilisation, Baldur's Gate 3 and Dwarf Fortress are on my list. They sound amazing, but no.
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Dwarf Fortress is such a real one, like, I have no idea what things do, there is no tutorial, there are like 100 mechanics you get to see but who the fuck knows how those work. I opened it like thrice and every time I left almost immediately and confused af
The steam version has a fairly good tutorial, but it’s really long. I only played for like 4 hours and didn’t get through it, but I think it helps you get situated and managing things.
Factorio seems great, but it takes ages to play, and triggers my need of wanting to build ahit perfectly on the first try intead of just doing it.
Also I simply enjoy watching DoshDoshington playing the game, he has various youtube videos trying various mods and challenges.
The trick is to realise that even if you could build it perfectly, your requirements will change causing even what was perfect before, to be less than perfect now. Of course it was never perfect, only an approximation. Sometimes you rip something out to rebuild, and sometimes you build something better, and leave the crappy setup behind.
At the point where you feel like everything is a massive bowl of unmaintainable spaghetti, you unlock construction bots, and can start to rebuild and redesign your factory on a massive scale, striving for perfection, but always coming up just slightly short, ripe for yet another redesign.
All of this is exactly the same when programming.
I think that's my main issue with it, I do programming for a living, feels too much like work, without getting paid for it
A solid list of games to not play. I own over a dozen of them and only played a handful. Though if you go by total playtime, I've played enough of them to make up for the whole list.
Edit: but I doubt anyone here can guess which of those games I have played the most.
I laughed my ass off when I saw Wildermyth. I don't even remember anything about it.
I played it for 10 hours, and I'm guessing I had a great time. Because I have evidence with screenshots and I even wrote a review.
I've enjoyed it! I've been thinking of getting the dlc even. It's pleasant. It's not like. Stunning. But it's nice!
I have owned Mirror's Edge for ages, I know I have started it a few times, I am not sure I ever finished it
Short game can be really zen too play though I played it on release it could be dated.
i love subnautica best sandbox ever
What are the top games to play and never buy?
Disco Elysium, popular games owned by ea, Nintendo, ubisoft.
popular games owned by EA
But... Who plays BF just for the shitty campaign or to play against dumb as rocks bots?
Ok Subnatica was just too much at first, no fun. Ya, I'm guilty. Looked cool, but I quit at 2.4hrs.
Dave the Diver got 82 minures out of me. I'll play it again.
Witcher 3. Man, I can't convince myself to finish the early ones and I don't want to start at 3.
Other notables like Fallout 4 and No Mans Sky got hundreds of hours from me.
Add Elden Ring to the list. That game is a piece of work ... that I did not enjoy. 13hrs.
No mans sky is kinda fun, but ironically enough the best part of it is probably the story