Seems to me that you’re not missing any fun. It’s just that the gameplay that fans of the factory building genre find entertaining, you don’t. For me it’s the fun of an ever growing interconnected mesh of production lines. It’s like a series of complex puzzles that are based on how I solved the ones before. And trains… I love trains.

Personally I just can’t get into Souls-likes. I’ve tried several times and none of them have ever clicked for me.

You know how Neo at the end of the Matrix finally understood how everything works? When he counters every move Smith makes with ease despite getting his ass kicked just moments earlier at the train station.

That’s the feeling we get from soulsgames when we overcome a challenge.

I tried Wukong, got through the first chapter and then some. You can tell it’s a good game. I enjoyed the mechanics, the story, everything well put together. I wanted to have fun. I just never really did. Also any sense of accomplishment was pretty much just a sense of relief after beating a boss.

I love old RPGs but they’re too grindy for me now or something.

Like I bought the Final Fantasy Tactics remake. Original is easily my favorite game of all time. And a HUGE Quality of Life improvement the remake added was the ability to fast forward the gameplay and the cutscenes (IYKYK).

Every time I try to pick up my 2nd all time favorite FF6(Snes) I find myself losing interest after my 10th random encounter. I like the story, the characters, the music(!), the puzzles/exploration. Defs not bored of the game, haven’t beaten it (again) for like 15 years now.

But the gameplay itself, sadly, just doesn’t do it for me anymore. Like I burned many hours on my gameboy colour playing Dragon Warrior. Can still hear the music for Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger in my head. So it’s not like I never liked the genre.

Back when I could only afford a game every once in a while oldschool rpgs were great. They took forever and some had decent replayability (like pokemon or classes in FF). Nowadays they just feel like a slog.

As a D&D grognard since 1980 I’m baffled by why people think they have to keep upgrading to the newest version of everything, complaining about what’s wrong with it, and depending on a company to fix it. There are other ways to make choices in life besides clicking on menu options.

Have you ever enjoyed any game that’s mostly played one on one like rock paper scissors, tennis, poker, chess, go, cup stacking, most sports you see in the olympics. In one on one PvP games, you usually make friends too

Your take is entirely accurate but I still love this game. I couldn’t even tell you why. Maybe it’s nostalgia.

I havent got enough time to get good enough to enjoy them. You wait for a game. You wait in the lobby while everyone runs at you playing all the sound effects all the time. You choose a place to drop from the bus. You desperately look for a weapon but then XxiSnipezZzxX_TTV fucks you up in 0.75 seconds then dances on your body.

Then you can wait for another game.

Mario 35 was really fun though. Still mad Nintendo killed it.

Competitive (e)sports are usually repetitive to a certain degree. I wouldn‘t call League very repetitive anyway. It’s mostly the same map, yes, but football and chess are also always on the same „map“. With 160+ champs and their interactions and the strategizing aspect of it, I never felt like a match was going like another.

The players are mostly insufferable (like in other competitive games) and League‘s too much of a timesink due to average game time.