Why do people complain about games being "boring"?

Noddie

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If you're bored of it - go and do something else. Either in the game or outside of it.

If you find mining in Elite boring, that's fine. Don't mine. Go and do PVP, or base raids or engineering yourself a space hotrod. You don't have to pursue the biggest score in the game and doing so is self-defeating if you don't enjoy it because the only reason to spent time on video games is entertainment. Games have a finite life and if you're bored, it's over. But I strongly suggest you do some mission-board diving and play some roles you usually wouldn't, as they're usually really fun.

Top Tip: I buy on steam because - generally - I can refund a game after an hour or so if I don't like it. And I do that quite a lot. Case in point , GTA5. Purchased, played for 50 minutes and decided - yup - exactly the same as St Andreas, the ballad of gay tony and so on, Vice City, GTA3. Just really a superficial respray of something I'd already played to death years before. So I refunded it because I was honestly making myself play it at that point. I literally set a timer at 50 minutes and when that goes off I pause the game and it's "Simon Cowell" time. If I'm annoyed at the interruption of the time then I'll generally keep it, if I think "Okay, I can stop now" I log out and request a refund.
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
Noddie said:
If you're bored of it - go and do something else. Either in the game or outside of it.

If you find mining in Elite boring, that's fine. Don't mine. Go and do PVP, or base raids or engineering yourself a space hotrod. You don't have to pursue the biggest score in the game and doing so is self-defeating if you don't enjoy it because the only reason to spent time on video games is entertainment. Games have a finite life and if you're bored, it's over. But I strongly suggest you do some mission-board diving and play some roles you usually wouldn't, as they're usually really fun.

Top Tip: I buy on steam because - generally - I can refund a game after an hour or so if I don't like it. And I do that quite a lot. Case in point , GTA5. Purchased, played for 50 minutes and decided - yup - exactly the same as St Andreas, the ballad of gay tony and so on, Vice City, GTA3. Just really a superficial respray of something I'd already played to death years before. So I refunded it because I was honestly making myself play it at that point. I literally set a timer at 50 minutes and when that goes off I pause the game and it's "Simon Cowell" time. If I'm annoyed at the interruption of the time then I'll generally keep it, if I think "Okay, I can stop now" I log out and request a refund.
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I'd suggest it's more of a problem with games that:
  • request the cash upfront (ie KickStarter)
  • are possibly going to take over a decade to produce what was trailed initially
 

Noddie

N
I won't have anything to do with KickStarter games. Maybe for a trivial sum of money one day, but I'm not ploughing any significant money into them. I didn't buy Elite until it actually launched. That said, there were pre-launch betas and things during development. So on that basis it might be worthwhile to buy into that if it's your thing.

I don't really have a problem with the "launch and increment" model - it can work well if the devs make smart choices on what to work on next. For me, I don't give a biowaste about "space legs" in a spaceship flying game. I'd love them to implement full damage modelling on all ship models and genuinely interesting modules and new ships and atmospheric planets with living cities and things in it. As far as I am concerned the FPS is just going to be like recentish carrier command remake. Ie, jarringly ill-fitting.
 

PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
Noddie said:
...Games have a finite life and if you're bored, it's over....
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Indeed, and it's not just games, if something in life gets stale you tend to stop doing it, or find a new way to do it.

I'm on another extended rest from ED and probably won't be back until the New Era arrives, be it good or bad. However, even with numerous paint-packs, ED already represents good value for money for me when I consider how many hours I've played.

The same can't be said of Project Cars 2 (and I got it very cheap from a 3rd party Steam-key seller), and even Civ VI (which I got free on Epic Games Store), but who cares - that's merely my tastes.

In other news, I like Marmite, but can't stand peanut butter.
 

who?

who?
I think the problem is when a games gets a lot right, but a few things are poorly implemented. If a game gets everything wrong, it's easy to dump just it and move on.

For instance I was playing AC: Origins a while back, and I love the game-world, the ambience, the locations etc. but I just thought the missions / activities generally were very poor. Everything just felt very 'disposable' and pointless. Go here, kill this guy. Go there, fetch that thing. Go yonder, kill that guy. Why? Just because...
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
PiLhEaD said:
Indeed, and it's not just games, if something in life gets stale you tend to stop doing it, or find a new way to do it.

I'm on another extended rest from ED and probably won't be back until the New Era arrives, be it good or bad. However, even with numerous paint-packs, ED already represents good value for money for me when I consider how many hours I've played.

The same can't be said of Project Cars 2 (and I got it very cheap from a 3rd party Steam-key seller), and even Civ VI (which I got free on Epic Games Store), but who cares - that's merely my tastes.

In other news, I like Marmite, but can't stand peanut butter.
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I've tried marmite and found it far from being horrible like some YT tastings suggested. Goes well on crackers. But that's about it. Pinat Butter, however...
 

starman

starman
If it wasn't for the ED Kickstarter backers there would not have been an ED or for that matter a Frontier as it exists today. I was a premium backer.
 

Pixelated Sparkster

Pixelated Sparkster
I think boredom is possible if the game in question does not deliver to the player's expectation. Which is possible due to overhype in trailers nowadays and sometimes that the game in question is released incomplete and would need a lot of patches and support to make that happen.

But boredom in itself is subjective, a person could find game A boring where another could spend hundreds of hours on it and be entertained, but eventually people get bored playing the same game over and over again. Heck, I could say people could get bored of video games in general if they do not do anything different in their lifestyle like other hobbies, chores, social interaction etc.

I find life to be more enjoyable going in new things with little expectations, not to disrespect the product but to see for myself if it is fun on its own terms without comparing it to other forms of entertainment. Plus, if retrogaming is a thing, then there is a planet sized bucket list of video games to try out of curiosity or discovery.
 
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