What's a game you don't like that you can't stop playing?

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I can't remember where I first heard of Fortune Street, but I was hooked immediately by the premise. It's a Monopoly-style board game where you buy up property, and try to dominate each section of the board by owning all the shops there. You even charge people if they land on your space, and can make the rent go up by pumping money into a property. The one real difference here is that stocks play a major role. If you buy a lot of stock in your district before investing money into it, your stock price will go through the roof. Alternatively, if you can buy stocks in a competitor's district before they invest, they have to decide between helping both of you or abandoning that district. Or, if one player has all their money tied up in stocks, you can buy out property from under them, tanking that district's stock price and ruining them. I'm a huge Mario Party fan and this basically sounded like a grown-up version of it, with some of the randomness reduced and more strategy involved.

It didn't exactly work out like I hoped. I could only find one friend who was willing to trade Mario- and Dragon Quest-themed stocks with me, so we decided to try the single-player mode. That began a nearly decade-long quest to conquer one of the most frustrating games I've ever played. The deck is stacked against the player hard in Fortune Street, to the point where I’m convinced that the AI flat out cheats. That may sound like sour grapes, but it’s hard not to think after you’ve seen Bianca make a boneheaded trade to Mario to hand him the win, or Bowser Jr. bumble through Dragonlord’s district, handing him thousands of dollars, while deftly sidestepping every trap you have set for him. When you’re in a race with the AI, suddenly you’ll be rolling all ones, while they’re rolling eights. I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t experienced it, and I know there’s no point in a developer rigging the game against their players, but I’ll always be convinced that’s the truth.

But that only steeled us further. We were the underdog, virtuous warriors fighting to beat an unjust system. Like any cheater, we couldn’t let the game get away with what it was doing. It took a long time, and it was exhausting work, but it’s oddly one of the most satisfying notches in my gaming belt.

Games are weird like that. Due to their interactive nature, they challenge us directly in ways that other media can’t. If the insult is personal enough, you can get drawn into a ludicrous grudge with a children’s game. I’ve been thinking a lot about my Fortune Street experience lately, so I wanted to pose the question to the GBAtemp community: do you guys have any games like this? Ones that you know are bad, but for whatever reason, you just need to force yourself to beat anyway?
 

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Honestly, Fortnite. I don't particularly care for battle royales, and I especially don't like how casual it is, but it's just so much more convenient than PUBG and Warzone, which are way harder to run even on well over the minimum specs, and Apex Legends which just feels weird to me. But Fortnite being easy to run and on every platform makes it an easy to pick up shooter.

Modern main series Pokémon games as well. Between Alola not having gyms, and Galar not having half the Pokédex (we're still missing a lot of mons) and just generally being boring and easy to play through I've given up hope that new games will be any good. But I like multiplayer battling, and the stuff I like to use is mostly in the game now, so I put up with it.
 
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That's quite a trivial question... but I'm gonna be that guy and simply say: No. I don't have such game in my book.
Personally, if there's something that I can't stop playing, it's because I like it more than other games in my library.
With that being said, a counter-question:
Why would you spend your time playing something that you don't like?
Just putting my curiosity on the table.
I played Genshin Impact since the last closed beta, and LOVE the gameplay. Despite this, and I cannot quite put my finger on it why, I cannot seem to pick it back up after getting sidetracked with another Android game. I desperately want to participate in all the new events, too. So, a counter-counter-question:
Are any of you like this with any game(s), and if so, did you ever get back to playing said game(s)? Asking for my uncle that works at Nintendo.
 

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why fortune street
it's awesome, like monopoly on steroids but without the monotony


anyway
i stopped playing games i dont like, there were games i played for the music/graphics, for completion, or just because theyre made to addict ( any gacha game ever )
but i learned to just let go and instead spend time on enjoyable stuff
completely dropped phone games/dopamine pumps and hollow sequel bait machines like the shantae games

it feels good.
 

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I restarted Bahamut Lagoon for the SNES maybe 20 times over the course of 15 years or so... and FINALLY finished it this year after over a year of having it just paused on the final boss... and I don't really like the game. It's okay.
 
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recently, Genshin Impact. I don't enjoy gacha games all too much and I don't like to grind for things for weeks just to get something good. The only reason I still play it is because my favorite JP voice actress (Eri Kitamura) voices the 5 star character Keqing which I was able to get a couple of months ago.
 
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Ark single player, until you can craft good weapons and armor. You will die 1,000,000 times. This dudes gaming device seems pretty frustrating too though.
 

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I played Genshin Impact since the last closed beta, and LOVE the gameplay. Despite this, and I cannot quite put my finger on it why, I cannot seem to pick it back up after getting sidetracked with another Android game. I desperately want to participate in all the new events, too. So, a counter-counter-question:
Are any of you like this with any game(s), and if so, did you ever get back to playing said game(s)? Asking for my uncle that works at Nintendo.

Happened to me with Breath of the Wild, played it on Wii U when it came out, loved it so much and played through probably 70% of it just enjoying the world while getting through the story. And at some point that ended, didn't fight Ganon, just wasn't playing for some reason. At some point I realized and went back strictly to fight Ganon and finish the game, but it just didn't feel the same, and every time since playing it through CEMU or whatnot, no matter how amazing the game runs/looks/feels it just doesn't give me the same satisfaction.
 

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