Well, ever since the whole thing where macrohard/mojangles/whichever decided "you know what minecraft needs? CLIENT SIDE CHAT SCANNING AND CENSORSHIP!" I decided to switch over to Minetest and have never looked back.
I don't mind big servers having censorship because that's their deal and they can use whatever chat filters/plug-ins they want, but do we really need singleplayer to be censored? Or our chat messages to be scanned for things mc deem inappropriate? Absolutely not!
All multiplayer games for over a decade
People are assholes and I just wanna have fun
CoD, overwatch, sports games, free to play games, casino games.
Games made by Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft, or Paradox.
Multiplayer games that require invasive anticheat or really long games that take 100+ hours to complete.
- Anything from EA.
- Anything from Ubisoft
- Anything Epic exclusive.
- Anything with Denuvo (or whatever is the next intrusive DRM).
- Anything competitive PvP multiplayer.
- Anything "free" to play.
- Probably almost all general multipler & live service by now - or otherwise full of dark patterns to keep me "engaged".
anything that is a “Game as a Service”
EA and Ubisoft, some kernel level anti cheat, and typically speaking, i dont enjoy games that have tower defense mechanics (and i hate when its shoehorned in, e.g Monster Hunter Rise). Korean MMOs. Mobas in general
Standard 3D shooter/War games like your Call of Duties, Battlefields, etc.... It's not that I'm a prude per se, I'll happily play a single player campaign similar settings if they respect the material. Though I prefer science fiction where what I'm killing is aliens, or Fallout raiders and Super Mutants, or Zombies, etc...
But (and this is MY OPINION only...I don't judge anyone who feels differently) there's something creepy and wrong about using very realistic modern-day set human-to-human war shooters when the end result is to tea-bag your friend when you kill him and have 13 year old kids calling out slurs in open chat. It just denigrates and cheapens a subject matter that I think should be treated with a lot more solemnity and respect.
Pay to win games or games with heavy focus on in game purchases. Having an in game store to supplement development costs? Cool no problems. 5 interactions to get into a game but 1 interaction to purchase something? No thanks.
Not saying they can’t be fun. But not a practice I like to support if I can help it.
online games.
Anything multiplayer.
Any game mobile advertised on Youtube, if it was good they would not need to advertise
Anything episodic or with an online social component. Basically anything that leeches significant time from my life. I don't want to be in my deathbed thinking about how many thousands of hours I spent on various games.
People bragging about having 5,000+ hours in a single video game make me deeply sad.
Gacha games.
I play Genshin Impact and one gacha is enough for me.
sports games, always online games, games with denuvo still on, mmo, party games, shooter games where the main focus is PvP, picture-puzzle games, find-in-picture games, games with 30% or more QTE that is not rhythm games
Anything Nintendo. Fuck Nintendo.
Fortnite. Noped right out of that one.
At the moment basically anything competitive/ranked. I don't want to compete online anymore because I know that I'll have to go on an insane grind to get good. Only exception is trackmania because it somehow doesn't upset me quite like other ranked online games. But even then I only play the "arcade" mode and not ranked
Anything with a subscription is a no for me. I think subscription games are less popular than they used to be, but I never played WoW because paying every month seemed excessive to me.
Most shooters. Especially like CoD. Not interested. I enjoy the original doom, but that's cartoony violence fighting demons. Some of the far cry games I've enjoyed, with some reservations.
Almost all free to play games. They don't feel like an honest deal most of the time. Like, Warframe was good somehow. But a lot of them feel predatory or annoying.
Purely pvp games. No mobas or battle royales for me. I don't want to deal with other people like that. A little pvp in a game, like dark souls, is fine. But I'm not looking for that to he the main thing, typically.
League
I just can't do overwatch... I don't know why people give games like that enjoying...
Anything from Ubisoft. I’ll still consider an EA game. It’s that fucking bad the garbage that Ubisoft puts out and the shitty practices they hold towards the people who have been fans forever and monetarily supporting them.
Fuck them.
General war and military style games. When I was younger, my favorite game was battlefield but as I got older, I lost interest in such games. I much prefer simulation and strategy games, abd games that are more relatable.
Soulsborne type games
Games feeling like a chore and force me to 'get good' in order to enjoy them? Miss me with that shit, or at least pay me for it.
Online games
Same as above, plus annoying people who take the whole thing too seriously.
Anything along the lines of Civ, Stellaris. I have no self control with that type of game. It's the only type of game where I could go hours skipping everything healthy for the body.
I echo a lot of the sentiments expressed by others about avoiding games from bad publishers or games employing milking practices, avoiding multiplayer and toxic people, overly hard games, and many other points already stated.
My two things that are different are that I enjoy hard games so long as the reset is instant or near instant. Like Katana Zero and Hotl8ne Miami. Without that I don't want any part of a hard game. I get it, I died, let me try again already. So fuck games with long reset times.
And more unusual is I really don't like most isometric games but especially clicky isometrics. If I can't wander freely with WASD, fuck it, I'm out. Not going to sit here going clickclickclickclickclickclick just to go half a screen and open a chest. Fucking hate overly clicky shit like that with a passion. I also dont like how up is more like diagonal up and left is diagonal up etc. It's just annoying. My only exceptional has been project zomboid.
Anything multiplayer, free-to-play and/or gacha. Nowadays I also avoid FromSoftware and anything trying to ape them, I used to love these kind of games but I just don't have the patience and fortitude for them anymore.
Oh and Nintendo, then again it's easy to avoid them considering I haven't owned one of their consoles since the Game Cube.
These days damn near anything that costs more than 30. Because the extra money isn't enough, they want to sell you $5000 in hats, too.
MOBA games, I spent years playing heroes of newerth and Dota2, but as I got older and had less time to play it got increasingly harder to keep up with all the changes, and I realised it was just making me stressed playing it rather than enjoying it. Still enjoyed watching The International for a few years after I quit though.
These days anything with a story honestly.
If I want a story I'll watch TV with my wife. When I play games I'd rather pay something short and fun, like a round of deadlock recently.
Anything Ubisoft
At this point, anything that isn't Smash Brothers or Apex Legends.
gothic 3. because it looks like piece of shit.
Team Multiplayer in general. There's nothing fun about getting yelled at and in some cases banned for not playing the meta.
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