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Games Everyone Else Loves, But You Just Can't Get Into

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noisyturtle:
We've all encountered this game at least once. It has fantastic reviews, all your friends love it, people are saying "Just buy it!"
Then you buy the game, ready to be whisked away, and you realize you hate the experience. Either the mechanics are not for you, you can't stand the play loop, or it is just straight up boring to you.

For me, that game is Stardew Valley. Everyone seems to adore this game, and I find it to be the most tedious and boring game ever. Right away, when starting the game and looking for something to hook me in, the game is like 'Clear 20 rocks and logs off your property' That's what you open with? That is supposed to make me want to play more? Then I see doing this will take like 2 weeks in-game time and I am automatically checked out. Even when I power through the utter slog of unrewarding tedium that is the beginning, the gameplay loop is just "collect/do XX amount of this to unlock the next level of doing the same task over and over"
I just don't get the appeal. It feels like I am doing actual work, slowly plodding through each incremental task that ultimately means nothing, and just leads to the same task with a different paint job. People keep telling me the game gets really good at like 60-80hrs in. If it takes that long to ramp up, I am just not interested.

fohat.digs:
Everyone Else Loves Games, But I Just Can't Get Into Them.

Maybe it is the combination of time expended and prolonged frustration that leaves me feeling unsatisfied.

I do enjoy a few word games on the cell phone or maybe the odd game of solataire while I am waiting for something else, such as an appointment, but when I have a block of time to fill I much prefer reading a book or listening to music.
 

tp4tissue:
It's hard to get into Vidya once you're older. Without our current Disney system of marriage, a successful human male would've started a second or third family in their later life stages.

noisyturtle:
Thought of another one: Breath Of The Wild
I just find it so incredibly repetitive and tedious. The dungeons all feel the same, the weapon durability drives me batty, the framerate is noticeably bad. Everything just feels the same, same scenarios over and over and over. Other Zelda games each area has unique mechanics specific to make it feel different and challenge your play style, enemies are varied, dungeons are all totally different, there are memorable characters. BotW is missing all of that.

Funny thing is BotW still not even my least favorite Zelda game. But I give Twilight Princess much more credit as a cohesive and engaging experience, even if it frustrates me to no end.

tp4tissue:
BOTW is a really good game, for kids.  When you're older, you can't play this sort of thing, because you see the spreadsheet behind the graphics, and your brain calculates that you're just throwing your life away..

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