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Making peace with liking very few games? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love my favorite games and have been playing them for years, but I disliked about 99% of the games I played.

I don't think I have FoMO or anything; I just find it weird because my taste in music, film, or art/media in general is usually fairly broad. I guess I just wonder why my taste in games is aggressively limited.

It's not for the lack of trying new games; I've tried more or less anything I could find, sometimes because it's popular, other times because it looked interesting, but nothing really hits the mark like my favorite games.

I just don't like what most developers create, I guess?

I'm hoping, by posting this, maybe I can find others who are having a similar experience, and we can share thoughts.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Limit Internet usage and avoid games and other entertainment for a few days, then go on itch.io and just play whatever. Not because it looks cool, not because it's popular. Just anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Whats gonna happen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not to rain on that particular advice—it may actually work for others, I obviously do not know—but I did try that at some point, and got bored really quickly.

For anyone who hasn't tried it, I recommend doing it just to find out if you feel or notice anything interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I usually only find like 2-3 interesting games out of 200, but the ones I did find were pretty sweet. Sometimes you're not lucky and exclusively play trash.

I mainly enjoy 2 types of games, ones with replayabilty (Stellaris, Rimworld, Slay The Spire, Roguelites in General, some RPGs) and short to medium single player games which I usually only play once. If you don't like the second category, my recommendation is definitely the wrong approach, yeah