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I got tired of the core gameplay loop by about 85 hours. I had a decent home base (looked janky AF, but what am I, an architect?), one or two secondary bases, a
by AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
I got tired of the core gameplay loop by about 85 hours. I had a decent home base (looked janky AF, but what am I, an architect?), one or two secondary bases, and a mid-size freighter.
Once I got at least one of every variety of ship in a B-class or higher, there didn't feel like much else to aim for. I'd send guys off on freighter stuff to do quests, and then just kill time until they got back, sell their loot, do some ship upgrades, rinse, and repeat.
Everything the game does is serviceable, but nothing that really makes me say "I've gotta pick this up again!" The space combat was not up to the level, of, say, Freelancer, nor were the scavenging missions terribly enjoyable. I never really got into the multiplayer/co-op aspect, other than encountering other players running around the hub area.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my time with the game. I just don't feel the need to go back and play it some more, even with all the (admirable) content they keep putting into it.
If I wanna keep sinking dozens of hours into a game that seemingly goes on forever, I'm only 90 hours into Tears of the Kingdom.
- jomohke 3y agoAs someone who's not really a gamer, hearing "it gets tiring after 85 hours" as a negative blows my mind. 85 hours!
- Guvante 3y agoTheir comment wasn't "bad game" it was "not a game you keep coming back to". More of a "disagree on the premise of the article" than "game didn't have enough content".
- iamwil 3y agoI've racked up over 900 hours on Team Fortress 2 and I'm still terrible at it. I also wonder what I would have learned or built in the time that I've played that game.
- golergka 3y agoWere those really high-energy hours of your life that you really could have put in building something instead? Or have you actually gotten 900 recovery, low energy, brain dead hours out of it?
- eficek 3y agoI have played over 4000 hours of Team Fortress 2, and I can say with complete certainty that you have no idea what you are talking about.
- pests 3y agoWhat? So were those hours you could have worked or do you think they were better spent relaxing and low-energy? What does you having more hours have to do with it?
- appplication 3y agoI think you’re telling this as a negative but I think the above poster meant it as a positive. Low energy = relaxing, even if mentally stimulating.
- dylan604 3y agowhat video game is low energy brain dead? they are designed to do exactly the opposite. sure, you may be sitting stationary in a chair/couch, but the endorphin rush from the game play is exhausting.
- RHSeeger 3y agoLots of video games are low energy. Idles and incrementals, certainly. But I find things like Diablo to be pretty relaxing (or at least I play it that way), and tons of others. I can't really get into the FPS games anymore just because they _do_ require so much energy and attention.
- dylan604 3y agoi guess it's different for different people. for me, regardless of the game play type, it's exhausting. I can watch TV without issue, but playing games strains my eyes much much more than TV viewing. after an hour playing, i have to stop
- nextaccountic 3y ago900 hours might be begineer level in EU4
- deafpolygon 3y agoThere are only three games approaching 1k hours or even exceeding it: - Unreal Tournament (instagib) - Stardew Valley - Age of Empires 2 They all have one thing in common; they're extremely relaxing to play. Yes, even UT - I just turn my brain off and I stop thinking about life.
- junon 3y agoFactorio for me.
- deterministic 3y agoAgree 100% I keep going back and starting again. Learning new things all the time. My #1 best game ever.
- mgarstecki 3y agoThis. Best game to repeatedly burn out on. For all its complexity, it's actually pretty much relaxing and autopilot once you've crossed a few hundred hours.
- junon 3y agoAnd the replayability is off the charts. The burnout is real, and then one day you really wanna pick it up again. Rinse and repeat.
- InvOfSmallC 3y agoBrain off in AoE2?? (not MP right?)
- deafpolygon 3y agoNo not MP.. haha.. that's funny.
- sonicanatidae 3y ago1400 hours in TF2 here and I'm still a W+M1 Pyro. :)
- ionwake 3y agoSorry haven’t played in a while what is a W+M1?
- fragmede 3y agow = keyboard button to go forwards m1 = Mouse button 1, "fire", in case of the pyro, the flamethrower
- sonicanatidae 3y agoThis is exactly it. 1000 years ago, in the original TF, I was a conc jumping medic, but pyro suits me better now that Medic conc grenades are gone. End of an era, imo.
- kylebenzle 3y agoI agree. Whenever I think about or see stats on time spent playing videos games I feel a little sick.
- tmpz22 3y agoYeah I got about 30 hours, paid about $30 (there have been many sales where its much cheaper - plus IIRC its on Xbox Game Pass now). Im more then happy at the cost/reward. Would seriously follow a new game by the same developer [1] the engoodening of No Man's Sky is a entertaining mini-doc on the game. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ
- rapind 3y agoYou should talk to Path of Exile players...
- gjsman-1000 3y agoI’m not a gamer; I’ve almost never played PC games; I’m really only a Switch gamer and that’s it. I can hear the cry of a thousand gamers if I tell them that I’ve crossed ~85 hours, longer than any other game so far, playing Super Mario 3D All Stars. The package the internet loves to hate. Oh well. :) I am one example, I suppose, of how diverse gaming is.
- anotherhue 3y agoTo be fair that's a compilation.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoTrue; but one of the entries is Sunshine. I’d love to talk to one of the developers of that game. It’s so… strange; undercooked; odd.
- solardev 3y agoMario's a good game! I probably have tens of thousands of hours logged in my PC games, but there's still no denying Nintendo does a hell of a job crafting great gameplay into their titles.
- schwartzworld 3y agoI bought a guitar in 2001 for $500 and I estimate that I've put in close to 150,000 hours on it.
- bacheaul 3y agoNot to be too pedantic, but I think you have one too many zeros on that, unless you're playing 18 hrs a day, every day.
- danparsonson 3y agoA musical instrument is a tool for self expression - not exactly equivalent is it?
- p_j_w 3y agoNot exactly equivalent, but for some of us playing an instrument is every bit as entertaining as playing a video game.
- waveBidder 3y agogames like Minecraft are very much a medium of self expression. Not to say every game is, but it's a definite genre
- danparsonson 3y ago
- ryanklee 3y ago85 hours in the context of a game which is supposed to exist on a cosmic scale is not much.
- lovemenot 3y agoTravelling at some fraction of light speed to cover the vast distances, 85 hours elapsed might equate to tens of thousands of hours in some relativistically static frame of reference.
- solardev 3y agoGo read some Steam reviews from time to time, just for fun. Hundreds of hours are a remarkably average playtime for many games. There are some with thousands of hours and still get a thumb down, heh.
- aegypti 3y agoNot Recommended 1763.4 hours on record I hate Destiny 2, it’s my favorite game.
- appplication 3y agoYeah I must be at 300 hours in oxygen not included and I’ve never made of past mid game.
- OoooooooO 3y agoI have over 3000 hours in DotA 2 :>.
- chinchilla2020 3y agoFor me, 85 minutes. There is so much cool content but they hide it behind time-wasting grind
- hedora 3y agoI think you got stuck in a strange cul-de-sac. That was apparently more common in early versions of the game -- you can end up on a procedurally generated planet that sucks. I'm at something like 10-20 hours, and it has been a steady ramp of cool stuff and rapidly learning different corners of the game the entire time. I've started to figure out the language, karma and trade subsystems (and crafting), and have mostly mastered mining, long term survival in hostile environments and interplanetary travel. I ignored the personal and spacecraft combat stuff, because I haven't needed yet (running away has worked so far). Anyway, I just got teleportation and interstellar travel, and suspect a lot more stuff is going to open up soon. This is all in the initial mission, which I think is a tutorial.
- TylerE 3y agoSee, when I played it, I bailed not too far past the point where it seems like you are, when I realized that nope, there actually isn't that much more there to enjoy if you find the basic gameplay to be a grind, which I do. (I despise 1st person resource gathering, and mostly dislike 1st person games in general. (I'm prone to motion sickness, and they're a big trigger.) It quickly became obvious that it was a fairly small amount of actual content basically painted different colors at random. Once the illusion fails, it failed HARD, at least for me.
- pdntspa 3y agoYeah, very little of the things they've done since launch have fixed the obnoxiously repetitive core gameplay loop. And everything except the procedural planet gen is literal copy-and-paste. How about, for the next update, they add tons and tons of new buildings, POI, and activities? Maybe a bit more variety to the enemies? Or maybe a bit of lorebuilding on why nearly every fucking planet in the universe is populated by the mechanized equivalent of PETA? (Like, seriously, there has to be at least one core world producing these things, and the energy requirements for universe-scale manufacturing would be literally off-the-charts.... hmm it would be cool to visit a hostile alien dyson sphere... where are the transports and logistics supplying them?)
- vintermann 3y agoThere IS lore explaining mecha-PETA, and also all these oddities that you mention.
- dkarras 3y agoI only played the game in VR. It was fun, the flying experience etc. was very cool in VR and I liked how "alien" I felt in different environments. Eventually the game loop became boring I think, I started playing it less and less and stopped.
- bardan 3y agoThe endless open world / survival / scavenger games are all like this for me. You learn the ropes, start playing well, and after a while go "now what?" In Rust for example people seem to wind up mindlessly picking off new players, or blowing up peoples bases to steal materials so they can... make explosives to blow up peoples bases.
- drdaeman 3y agoAn anecdote about Arma 3 Epoch mod. Context: Arma is a milsim, and Epoch is a mod with basebuilding, where one can place a "frequency jammer" that creates a sphere around it where its owner can build a base (walls, doors, safes, etc), while others (non-owners) are prevented from building anything in the area. A few friends and I played it for a while. Picked a server, built a base there, did some missions or just random squabbles with other folks, eventually got bored (or distracted by life events), abandoned it all, then repeated on some new server after a few weeks. One day we were on a server where someone had managed to glitch the jammer underwater - easy to reach but it was considered impossible to destruct as it was out of reach of available firearms and explosives. We realized there was only one in-game weapon that was capable of firing underwater (SDAR), and it had very small damage numbers. Being really stubborn and persistent, we spent over 24+ hours straight, working in shifts, shooting at that jammer, while watching out for the base owners to ensure they can't get anywhere close to open the repair menu. Upon the destruction of said jammer and announcing the victory, we all univocally decided that enough is enough and we've fully completed the game. Haven't played Arma ever since.
- jpsouth 3y agoSounds like you completed it to me, that’s pretty impressive! I used to be very into Dayz Mod and over the years it devolved into holding FOBs and just maintaining, maintaining, maintaining. Once we held the FOB and fortified it, it was night on impossible to raid if we were online, short of finding and fixing a Chinook with the 4000rpm miniguns on with a great pilot/gunner combo and some ground support.
- neurostimulant 3y agoTo be fair, not many games stay engaging after 85 hours. I think the most hours I've put into a game was playing Monster Hunter, but that's mostly multiplayer it's probably not directly comparable.
- s09dfhks 3y agoYou should give star citizen a try. If you liked freelancer, it’s by the same guy!