I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.

Do you have a similar game?

  • maneframe@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I don’t know if I can call it garbage but probably no one in their right mind should play Hearts of Iron IV. Somehow I managed to persist through hours of bewilderment and confusion, until it all clicked, and I soon found myself unhealthily obsessed and unable to rest peacefully until glorious France had swept across half of the globe

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        It took me about 40 hours of jumping between playing, videos, and guides before I was functional at CK2 but I loved that game. I’ve got over 1000 hours in CK2/3 and Stellaris. As much as I love them I can easily see why a lot of people hate Paradox grand strategy games.

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          Ahh Paradox games.

          I love those games, everyone should play those games.

          They make you miserable. But the pure sandbox jank is so fun! 00

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            You have to be a bit of a masochist to love Paradox which might be why I love Dwarf Fortress too.

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              Hah yeah I can’t recommend Dwarf Fotress.

              I can recommend Stellaris though, all the cool events, all the new features you learn, learning all the techs, meeting the fallen empire for the first time, your first crisis, first time meeting exterminators. All very magical.

              Trying to become a try hard map painter is a path of ruin and frustration with every single mechanic.