Could be a genre, a developer/publisher, or franchise. What’s the video game equivalent of fast, not particularly good, but maybe a guilty pleasure?

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    17 hours ago

    I’m prepare to be hated for this one but …

    Cyberpunk 2077. (At first I was thinking CoD but I’m no multiplayer player) There’s no new mechanics, if you know the source material there’s also nothing new. Dialogues are so so and the expansion story line is awful.

    In my opinion it’s a basic game with a new gen console veneer, anyway I’ve played the story 2 times

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      16 hours ago

      You’re allowed to not like the game, but “fast food?” It’s a massive RPG with AAA production and hundreds of hours of content.

      “Fast food” would be short/shallow experiences that are just designed to be addictive like clicker games.

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        13 hours ago

        Agree to disagree

        Cyberpunk have clear gamification mechanics in it but that’s not the point.

        Fast food food are easy to digest with low effort production, Cyberpunk don’t try to incentivize something new, it used mechanics that we have seen a hundred of times and clear story beats for all its plot points.

        Don’t get me wrong, you’re allowed to have fun with it but there’s nothing new in there

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          12 hours ago

          You’re clearly missing the point of OP’s post. This has nothing to do with novelty or creativity.

          A steak isn’t original or avant-garde, but it’s certainly isn’t “fast food” even if you think the steak is cooked poorly.

          I think you’re just conflating “shallow” with “bad”.

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      16 hours ago

      Amen to that. We Cyberpunk haters are few, but we do exist.

      It’s diabolical how a Cyberpunk game can have such little customisation and such a shallow world with virtually nothing to do outside of missions.