Games you used to love but don't enjoy anymore

Jayro · Wednesday at 12:52 PM

brewster_ said:
Sorry for the question, but what makes it unplayable for you? I unfortunately feel the same way and don’t really understand it.

As an outsider looking in that doesn't play WoW or it's many, MANY expansions... (My girlfriend does play it/them), I can see how even with new content, the arbitrary extra 10 levels (level maxing) and dungeons+bosses get repetitive and monotonous, including the "dailies" you have to do, just to keep you on that monthly/annually subscription hook... And it's not really the dev's fault entirely, it's just how that genre is... Blizzard not only cornered a market, but they also accidentally backed themselves into a corner in the process.

novacryptix · Wednesday at 1:07 PM

The Sims 4 honestly. Used to lose entire weekends building houses and managing families, but now every time I launch it I spend more time modding and fixing the game than actually playing it.

brewster_ · Thursday at 4:43 PM

novacryptix said:
The Sims 4 honestly. Used to lose entire weekends building houses and managing families, but now every time I launch it I spend more time modding and fixing the game than actually playing it.

I am only building houses - after this I am done haha

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Jayro said:
As an outsider looking in that doesn't play WoW or it's many, MANY expansions... (My girlfriend does play it/them), I can see how even with new content, the arbitrary extra 10 levels (level maxing) and dungeons+bosses get repetitive and monotonous, including the "dailies" you have to do, just to keep you on that monthly/annually subscription hook... And it's not really the dev's fault entirely, it's just how that genre is... Blizzard not only cornered a market, but they also accidentally backed themselves into a corner in the process.

I think that’s actually one of the fundamental problems with many long-running MMOs. At some point, you reach a stage where new expansions are often just variations on the same core loop

It’s usually the people or group you play with that keep the game going in the long run.

But - Blizzard has actually introduced something new with housing, though (no?). What’s your take on that? Honestly, it reminds me of SAO.

Jayro · Friday at 7:35 PM

brewster_ said:
But - Blizzard has actually introduced something new with housing, though (no?). What’s your take on that? Honestly, it reminds me of SAO.

I don't have any idea what housing is in the game, as I don't play. So I'm unsure of how to answer.

asaram · 2026-06-01T10:50:32+0100

novacryptix said:
The Sims 4 honestly. Used to lose entire weekends building houses and managing families, but now every time I launch it I spend more time modding and fixing the game than actually playing it.

I've gotten tired of TS4 too, been playing Paralives lately.

TVL · 2026-06-01T14:10:19+0100

Laurel and Hardy on the C64... Used to play that two players for hours! Getting back into the C64 as an 18-20 year old is the rudest awakening I've ever had; how perception changes and how jaded you get once you've seen every concept. That was new to me then and totally unexpected, never heard or read about it at the time.

Still play the C64 on the regular, there are some great games on there, they are just not as good as my childhood mind made them... Goes for the NES too.

Jayro · 2026-06-01T21:52:47+0100

TVL said:
Laurel and Hardy on the C64... Used to play that two players for hours! Getting back into the C64 as an 18-20 year old is the rudest awakening I've ever had; how perception changes and how jaded you get once you've seen every concept. That was new to me then and totally unexpected, never heard or read about it at the time.

Still play the C64 on the regular, there are some great games on there, they are just not as good as my childhood mind made them... Goes for the NES too.

One of the coolest games on the C64 that surprised me was The Great Giana Sisters. It started life as a Mario bros onock-off, but quickly grew into its own thing, and it's still getting new games in the series!

TVL · 2026-06-01T22:34:02+0100

Jayro said:
One of the coolest games on the C64 that surprised me was The Great Giana Sisters. It started life as a Mario bros onock-off, but quickly grew into its own thing, and it's still getting new games in the series!

Yeah, I think if it went to court and they didn't bleed Rainbow Arts to death Nintendo would have nothing. But that would have likely happened in court of course and why it was settled. You can't copyright an idea, still not possible... Just like MOS couldn't (appearantly) copyright their processor for Ricoh to steal with small changes.

Hardware is weird when it comes to copyright IMO. Oh, you managed to reverse engineer our product and then it's ok? Doesn't go for any other invention in history though, kind of easy to reverse engineer something you can test out till you figure it out. I think it's a decision made by judges who knew jack shit, but maybve it was good (I doubt it, but predicting alternate realities is kinda hard).

I haven't played the new games, I played something on the DS I think, that's when it returned some decades later... and I did buy a Giana Sisters game from GOG, never started it though, just like the rest of the games I got (not much of a PC gamer, it's for coding and editing PDFs and whatnot, not games!), when you pirate games at least start the game once to make sure it works... my trust in GOG is just too high.

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