• cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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      7 months ago

      Or maybe it’s just me. I’m getting old now and doesn’t have infinite free time to do mundane virtual chores anymore. I got 1-2 hours of free time per day, if I’m lucky and the kid won’t tear up the house.

      It’s a shame, one of my favorites was Elite Dangerous. I love explore the universe in peace. But to be able to do so would require months of constant and repetitive grinding for material to upgrade the ship.

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        7 months ago

        Oh no, it’s definitely not just you.
        I feel like the overall design of games has been lazy lately and they’ve just filled them up with mundane chores to pad the completion time.
        No one’s going to pay $70 for a game if they know there’s only 2 hours worth of story to play through.

        And I deeply loved elite dangerous but it was definitely just space trucking simulator, I feel like frontier really messed up whenever they pushed all their resources to whatever idle Sim game they were designing that flopped.

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      7 months ago

      This is why I have failed to make any headway in Skyrim even though I’ve tried to play it 5 - 6 times.