When I was kid, I could sit in front of TV for hours and sink a day or two away into a game and have no problem having to start the game over from the beginning. Time meant nothing to me and I wasted it like it was a near infinite resource.

Now I am a parent and ain’t got time for some of the nonsense that’s in games nowadays. I’m lucky if I have even an hour to play each night.

A good example: Forza Horizon 5 allows you to switch cars mid game without traveling back to a house. That to me is a huge time saver compared to the recent NFS games.

Contrarily, Forza Motorsport (2023) makes you do qualifications every round. While realistic, a big time sink.

That said, what are some of your favorite games that have respect for your limited time?

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Somewhat unexpectedly as its a free to play live service game and is notoriously grindy.

    Warframe.

    Last year was fire for them, they’ve got:
    • cross platform play and save up
    • a string of great updates
    • working on reducing the overly grindy bits.
    • its less pay to win now as the best weapons are purely behind gameplay.
    • released an iphone version of the game and are working on an android one, I believe both are intended to be attached to the rest of the player base.

    You can play a few matches(sub-30 minutes, usually sub 15) in a session and that’s fine. You don’t need any of the Prime warframes to do any content.