Outer Wilds.

An indie developer that had never made a game before thinks they can just show up and drop the best game ever made like it's no big deal?

And then you actually start playing the game and there's no annoying partner character constantly holding your hand and feeding you hints with corny quippy voice lines? You mean to say I have to figure out how to play on my own?

And don't even get me started on the community. I've never seen a group of people more concerned with spoilers to maintain the mystery for new players.

And it's a game you can only play once and then that's it? How does the developer expect to make any money selling microtransactions if their players only get to experience the greatest thing ever published once and then never come back but are compelled to talk about it given any opportunity until the end of time?

New video games.

I understand the hype around a new game you’re specifically looking forward to, but people drag the Steam Deck because it’s “not powerful enough” for the latest AAAA game. Have you seen the disgustingly huge catalog of old amazing games from the 6th, 7th, and 8th console generations that are perfectly playable on the Steam Deck? How many games have gen Z and gen Alpha missed out on simply because they’re “old.”

Star Citizen. They've had a decade and almost a billion with a B budget yet they still hide behind early access for their buggy mess. They do this while selling ships for a grand USD.

Anyone playing that game gets ignored in any consumer rights or business ethics discussions. Lol

GTAV Online

It makes a BILLION DOLLARS a year of PROFIT. Not revenue. Profit. Why?

I get why it is popular, but Fifa/ EA Sports FC. I have never in my life played a way buggier, clunkier game and i literally only play single player on it. I feel like it’s just hot garbage but it’s the only…soccer game with the licensing gravitas.

Football (soccer).

Gta. I get that it's a well made series, but GTA V got repetitive really quick when I played it and people act like GTA VI will be the greatest game ever made, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about it.

league of legend, this thing is so boring i cant comprehend the reason people are addicted to it since 13 years

I'll probably be hung for this one but Disco Elysium.

And the thing is. I like text heavy decision-based games. Like I could go on and on about Shadowrun Dragonfall. But Disco Elysium was just so drab. It just felt like a slog of memorization, and when I gave up on trying to do that I was like "okay, I'll just play and do whatever I feel like" the game punished me. Maybe people like that? I don't know... Like... Maybe I like games for escapism? So playing some peice of shit alcoholic didn't do it for me? It just felt like a depressing version of a good game. People kept telling me "you just need to keep playing it gets so good". At like 6 hours in when it's not good yet, you failed at good story telling and you failed at good game development. To each their own I guess.

Lol, why so many people are addicted to an inferior version of dota 2?

Chess. Fuckin' a, no new characters for like a thousand years now. One map. Small children can beat me. Shit's trash.

Breath of the Wild. A big empty open world with a few fetch quests thrown in. The shrine puzzles are all trivially easy they're just not fun and the four main dungeons are just a joke.

Monopoly. If it wasn't a classic, and someone was looking for a publisher with that concept, they'd be completely trashed.

Sports games almost all are universally bad and it really shows when a real game adapts sport concepts like Rocket League or Wii sports. These days sport games are just gacha games.

Gacha games all suck period. I've given up on them entirely as the gameplay always suffers eventually as mobs just becomes sponges unless you do repetitive garbage daily. Really hate this as some awesome games are being held hostage by gacha extraction but I'll never be fooled into gacha again, ZZZ was my last chance.

Any gacha.

"Oh I got so lucky! It only took 20 pulls to get Boobina!"

Yeah man, bet that felt a lot better than just unlocking her by doing her story quests like any normal game. Maybe you need to be a gambling addict or something.

No one's touched analog games so...

Monopoly. It's tedious, it's a grind, it was stolen from a last trying to say that landlords are shit, and it just ruins families.

Also the Outer Worlds is shit. It had cool art Nouveau style aesthetics, and had a great premise, but completely dropped the ball on practically everything. The art Nouveau ideals are counter to the world where everything is commodified and automatic. It starts off trying to be funny, but isn't really, and does nothing to get you to feel like you're stumbling into a capitalistic nightmare. You have no investment in the world or people or anything. It throws in the aliens and rebels like an afterthought. A fan made music video did more for the theme and feeling of oppression. Utter disappointment and they are going to make another for some reason

The Last Of Us. I tried it and found it to be really boring gameplay wise. Everybody told me I had to power through the first bit and then it would get interesting. I did that and waited and waited and then the game was over. My firat thoight was "Well, this would have been a great movie." When the series came out I loved it. The story is awesome, but the gameplay is just incredibly dull to me.

I grew up with doom/unreal tourn/quake...all with heavy mods etc... so now every single first person game feels like just a mod of a generic first person shooter. Halo, skyrim, bioshock, rdr... it's like I'm ruined for an entire section of games.

People seem to be misinterpreting the question as "Games I don’t like".

I don’t like soulless sports games or Gacha games. But I understand why they are popular. (In my example: Gacha, in one word: gambling; sports games, popularity of the sport and again gambling)

Football games. I don't see any gameplay difference between one made in 2007 and the latest football game, so why people still decide to drop 60$ for the very same game every year is something i don't get.

The Sims 4.

I mean, The Sims 3 and The Sims 2 are right there ! Both much, much better games, with the same premise but both with much better and clearer direction. Both quite different from each other and interesting in their own right...

Meanwhile The Sims 4 is a buggy mess with over 1000€ of DLC, I cannot fathom why anyone would choose it over its predecessors...

Anything by Fromsoft and Soulslikes in general.

Any game with grinding where microtransactions can invalidate weeks of grind.

It's already a big ask to make players find fun in a grind, but some C-level dipshits found a way to stamp that fun out too.

League of fucking legends. Why.. The repetitiveness and toxic community especially.. Just dont get it.

Destiny 2. Its such a toothless, soulless game. There's no message, no meaningful story since its a live service, nothing changes in the world as far as i can tell, the themes are all over the place, and, this one is personal, the artstyle is so sterile and corporate. There's no bite, no edge, nothing that hooks me in to this world. Sure the gunplay is good, but the gameplay is bogged down by just bloated rpg mechanics and loot mechanics, and i need more than gunplay, i need an interesting atmosphere or characters. Risk of Rain is a good example of having great gameplay, mixed with a great atmosphere and intriguing world. Its darkly humorous, it's over the top, its lonely at times, it has bite and character.

Edit: Maybe im a little bit of a hypocrite, because one of my timesink games is Elite Dangerous, but i think that artstyle blows Destiny 2 out of the water.

Red Dead Redemption 2 for me.

The mechanics and controls just piss me off to no end.

Hell Divers 2. Cool soundtrack, cool visuals. But replay ability doesn’t seem that great. Some of my friends play it a ton. For me though, there was a lot of just slowly walking between objectives, hit a button, fight some, walk between objectives. Repeat each map with slightly different monsters and maps. But might just be that i didn’t get far past the first worlds.