Some are better than others. I definitely burned out on some that felt like too much work.

Deep Rock Galactic 50% off on steam right now

I tried it (a very small amount) and didn't get into it. Seemed like I was just going to do a shitton of mining and maybe kill some enemies along the way.

Seems like there was enough noise about this very thing to make the developer for SIFU add an easy mode (and a harder mode, for some reason). Granted, that's an indie developer and not From, but there's at least precedence.

It's ideally played with friends. Can get really tough when there are swarms.

That's the way my Ark server is. There's only 4 of us and we all have jobs and kids and whatnot. I've got taming, egg hatching, dino raising, mining, etc. either turned way down or modded so most of the grind is gone. We might only get 2 hours on a week night to play so we don't want to spend an hour mining for stone or wood.

We decide if it's a taming day, boss fight day, or cave exploration day before logging on. Building is done by yourself whenever you have an hour or two to kill. It's a ton of fun.

In a perfect world we'd have 2 or 3 more people on but with INI files and mods you can turn a grindy life sucker into an exciting and action packed couple of hours these days. It's a good mix of small party MMO and single player at the same time. IMO if you like games like Ark, Valheim, Rust, etc it's the only way to play if yer' over 25...

For all you Elden Ring dingers there's a broken ass XP farm you can do right at the start of the game. Like, it's going to be patched soon broken.

Whoever designed the bosses for this game is a bit of a ****, not gonna lie. They put concepts in the earlier bosses that made some of the optional late game bosses in prior games nightmares to fight. First real story boss in particular has a ton of different unpredictable combo chains and hesitations with small windows to punish. Have a feeling a lot of folks will just put this one down, especially given a much larger audience bought it this time around thanks to Martin.

These are the best type of games because you can mod it to your liking and run your own server with your own rules. It's not the most popular with big corps because they can't make money off of mods but it's the direction I hope we head more towards. ;)

Martin's involvement isn't exactly something I see as a great selling point. My first thought was "gee, I wonder if it has an ending?"

Well, it's already totaled over 6x the amount of concurrent players compared to the next best thing from FromSoft. About 700k this weekend compared to 120k at DS3s peak. Hell of a lot more people playing this one than any other game in their history.

You need to level up your weapons and abilities first before attempting Margit. I got my spirit wolves to level 3 and pretty much owned his ass. Hardcore souls fans would probably groan that but I don’t care. Dying to a boss 100 times isn’t fun.

Margit ain't got shit on Crucible Knight. ****ing Christ that boss whipped my ass for hours.

I'm so addicted to AC Odyssey. I'm like halfway through the game, maybe a little less, and there's still so much to do.

LMAO Told you. Are you still playing the same style?