The enjoyable slop game thread

[rusty_shackleford]

Aren't MMO's the definition of slop? You're just grinding to see numbers go up and to fill the empty void in your soul.

Yea I love playing old MMOs that have like 30 years of content, ****'s great. They should start turning them into coop games

They tried that with THJ and got sued.

Because they were making a ton of money. Nobody would have cared if they just released it as a coop project like those UO total conversion things

[Norfleet]

Yea I love playing old MMOs that have like 30 years of content, ****'s great. They should start turning them into coop games

The problem is, old MMOs don't have 30 years of content. They have maybe a few months of content, and then 29+ years of decaying, abandoned slop that no longer serves any actual useful purpose in the game.

[Godjjjita]

Yea I love playing old MMOs that have like 30 years of content, ****'s great. They should start turning them into coop games

The problem is, old MMOs don't have 30 years of content. They have maybe a few months of content, and then 29+ years of decaying, abandoned slop that no longer serves any actual useful purpose in the game.

FF11, WOW, LOTR online; there are some mmo's that have a decent amount of content.
It is all repetitive ******** but it can be enjoyable if you have nostalgia for the product.

[Finarfin]

The traditional Dunmer practices of ancestor worship are NOT necromancy. Only ignorant outlanders could confuse our sacred practices with the vile sorceries of necromancers.

Those N'wah can't seem to grasp the difference between communicating with our ancestors and literally ******* animating their corpses so that they walk around like mindless piles of flesh.

[Norfleet]

FF11, WOW, LOTR online; there are some mmo's that have a decent amount of content.
It is all repetitive ******** but it can be enjoyable if you have nostalgia for the product.

And how much of that content actually does anything relevant, vs. how much of it is abandoned slop that serves no actual useful purpose in the game?

[DDC]

Day's Gone is some good slop.

[rusty_shackleford]

Everquest 2 was an enjoyable slopgame with a ton of content, you can do most of it solo because you get a 'mercenary' companion. If you have a friend you can use your mercenaries together, including in dungeons.

[DecadeRiptide]

Resident Evil Slopquiem

[DecadeRiptide]

Sorry I've only now realised you put "enjoyable" in the title

[Tweed]

Everquest 2 was an enjoyable slopgame with a ton of content, you can do most of it solo because you get a 'mercenary' companion. If you have a friend you can use your mercenaries together, including in dungeons.

Funny, that's not what you told me when we played it.

[Norfleet]

Everquest 2 was an enjoyable slopgame with a ton of content, you can do most of it solo because you get a 'mercenary' companion. If you have a friend you can use your mercenaries together, including in dungeons.

Funny, that's not what you told me when we played it.

You can't count on Rusty to stick with anything, he ragequits everything he plays in short order.

[TKVNC]

number needs to go up

This is the human experience. It's also why MMO's are addictive, because they trick you into thinking you're progressing.

[Rienen]

Aside from cycling the same 5-7 MMOs, idle and incremental games are my go-to slop these days. In the past, I've also had seasons of slop with the match-3 and tower defense genres.

Bluntly, retail WoW looks like it would be a perfect slop game, for me (MMO with a ton of open world content that you can literally walk through without thinking), but I refuse to give Bliz any more money.

[mynameismortis]

Aside from cycling the same 5-7 MMOs, idle and incremental games are my go-to slop these days. In the past, I've also had seasons of slop with the match-3 and tower defense genres.

Bluntly, retail WoW looks like it would be a perfect slop game, for me (MMO with a ton of open world content that you can literally walk through without thinking), but I refuse to give Bliz any more money.

There is one claim that almost all of the money blizz gets monthly is from whales, not subs. IF they werent so greedy jws i believe wow free to play up until the last expac could make it one of the most popular games again

[Maledict]

Aside from cycling the same 5-7 MMOs, idle and incremental games are my go-to slop these days. In the past, I've also had seasons of slop with the match-3 and tower defense genres.

Bluntly, retail WoW looks like it would be a perfect slop game, for me (MMO with a ton of open world content that you can literally walk through without thinking), but I refuse to give Bliz any more money.

There is one claim that almost all of the money blizz gets monthly is from whales, not subs. IF they werent so greedy jws i believe wow free to play up until the last expac could make this one of the most popular games again

Make all expansions B2P with the option to P2P them. Make base F2P with restrictions for people who never gave them any money. Keep Classic P2P.

[Tinky Winky]

Aren't MMO's the definition of slop? You're just grinding to see numbers go up and to fill the empty void in your soul.

MMORPGs used to be good back in the days when they were about exploring & socializing in a new virtual world, until wow became a hit, then everything went downhill.

[N7Kopper]

I honestly never really played many MMOs. The one I sunk the most hours into was a "Mario fangame" (Just a generic MMORPG engine game that had a Mario skin on it really) when I was a dumb kid who didn't know better. I ended up running the top PvP guild in the game... with a community of about 30 regulars, most of whom were younger than me.

As for "enjoyable slop" - I don't enjoy slop. But I do enjoy some games other people think are slop, like the Punch Out-like motion control game Dark Wind for the PS2. It has some quite good character models for the era - naturally at the expense of some of the backgrounds being full of imposters (yes, that is a technical term, you susbrained little children) even up-close. That game's obscure enough that I'd probably end up being the one to write the guide on unlocking everything... if I can remember how I did it.

[Oyster Sauce]

I honestly never really played many MMOs. The one I sunk the most hours into was a "Mario fangame" (Just a generic MMORPG engine game that had a Mario skin on it really) when I was a dumb kid who didn't know better. I ended up running the top PvP guild in the game... with a community of about 30 regulars, most of whom were younger than me.

As for "enjoyable slop" - I don't enjoy slop. But I do enjoy some games other people think are slop, like the Punch Out-like motion control game Dark Wind for the PS2. It has some quite good character models for the era - naturally at the expense of some of the backgrounds being full of imposters (yes, that is a technical term, you susbrained little children) even up-close. That game's obscure enough that I'd probably end up being the one to write the guide on unlocking everything... if I can remember how I did it.

Super Mario Online Classic coming soon

[Maledict]

Aren't MMO's the definition of slop? You're just grinding to see numbers go up and to fill the empty void in your soul.

MMORPGs used to be good back in the days when they were about exploring & socializing in a new virtual world, until wow became a hit, then everything went downhill.

People who don't see MMORPGS as elaborate chat rooms for nerds are probably Brazilian or the like