when I was in middle school I racked up over half a YEAR playtime in Minecraft and gave myself carpel tunnel. I only played Minecraft 1.8.9 which was at least 10 versions out of date by that point. I never even made anything I just played on Hypixel.

I did get full superior dragon armor in Hypixel Skyblock by spotting that you could buy a fish for 2 coins but sell it for like 20 coins if you craft it into bait because people are lazy. So I bought and sold millions of fish 2,500 at a time.
I later found that you could just craft dragon armor using shards and sell them on the auction house for about 100k profit and made BANK before other people caught on.

I loved finding those little market loopholes. Sad that nerds eventually caught on and made websites to automate it, and that the game went pay to win. Those were some good times though.

also hot take but dwarvern mines ruined the game. It’s “SKYblock” not “infinite land block”

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 hours ago

    I llke how you make fun of people for liking mainstream games, and then proceed to list off some of the most mainstream games ever that you so happen to like.

    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Let the record reflect that the above comment was facetious in its tone when it “made fun of” people, as I attempted to make clear with the meme “filthy casuals”.

      As far as FFTA, while I, personally, think FFTA was an excellent game, in the first listing I could find that even acknowledged its existence, it is ranked above only two of the eight non-mainline games. It is completely forgotten by the vast majority of online discourse, and is not looked on favourably compared to other games in the franchise.

      The first game I played (FFII) is, generally, regarded as one of the worst, if not the worst, FF games ever made, to the point of being famously unplayable.

      Meanwhile, the Minish Cap is listed here by metacritic as being approximately 3/4 of the way down the list among the lower-tier entries in the franchise, below even phantom hourglass and the oracle games.

      Let us consider, then, the games I was comparing them to:

      Minecraft is one of the top-selling games of all time, Runescape has been continually played for so long that old-school run escape currently has over 100000 players online. Right now.

      TF2 is the constant source of popular internet memes, and has over 45000 active players right now on steam

      Are you seriously suggesting these compare to the least-loved of these other franchises?

      The point of the post is to discuss the bad games into which you sunk hundreds of hours, not just list Minecraft, Civilization, and Team Fortress 2, some of the most well-beloved games of all time.