Ooof, this place is so serious. I just wanted to discuss games.

@Mods (if any), you can delete this thread, it's a misfire. I didn't find a way to do it myself if it is possible.

I've played video games for 35 years, spending most I my freetime playing RPGs and what not. I generally agree with the metacritic scores that games get or at least understand the rating that they get. But after playing and completing 200+ RPGs (mostly on console), there are two games that I can't fully understand the score they got.

Underrated - Rune Factory Tides of Destiny on PS3 (55 on metacritics) - I had fun platinum-ing this game from start to finish. The game's combat is janky but still very fun and they set aside the square based farming which might have turned off some people who are familiar to the harvest moon style of farming. I just saw that the user score is in the 8s, which is a bit more accurate to me. If you avoided this game because of the bad reviews, I'd recommend you reconsider.

Overrated - Tales of Symphonia (86 on metacritics) - The game starts with a bang, it is beautiful and it is engaging. But the second half is absolutely abysmal on all aspects. The story makes absolutely no sense and seems to have been written as they made the game. The world gets emptier as it goes and the story points are weak, one of the main characters trips and falls on something which ends up opening the way, three times. There's a second parralel world that is not talked about the whole first half of the game, the characters are all surprised by its existence and when you discover it, all NPCs talk like they always have known and they say that it is difficult to travel from one to another but you meet characters that are visiting the other world like it's vacation. The battle system gets tired after the first half. They give you a materia-like system and tell you to experiment, but you lose the "materia" if you unequip it, forcing you to look things up online because they don't give you enough of them even if you explore all paths and try to get everything. I could write about the bad things about this game for more time than it deserves. I liked the other Tales game I played (Xillia, Hearts r)... no games elicits more disdain than this game. One time, when talking to other gamers, the subject ended up on the Gamecube, and someone said "OMG, Tales of symphonia is my favorite game on the gamecube I used to play it all the time!" I asked him if he finished it, and he told me he never got to the second disc. I think that kinda explains the 86 it got.

I saw a post on reddit about a guy who found a bunch of RPG games and asked which one he should play and among them was Final Fantasy 10 and Tales of Symphonia and most comments pointed to Tales of Symphonia. Nothing really gets under my skin, I mean, to each their own, but I admit I got unreasonably worked up over that.

Can you think of games that are like this for you?

I personally stopped having this problem when I had children. My free time became rare so every game became desirable to me. Well, every game that gives out the feeling that I progress towards an end and games that have little to no tedium.

I'd suggest like others to concentrate on other hobbies. I've gamed all my life and was obsessed by video games very young.

Video games are meant to be fun and unless you are having a gaming career streaming or competing, just find something else to do, games will become fun again after a while.