Idle Games - Scrap This Shit

My first post on the basis of this blog. Games.

That's ultimately why I made it, and that's this blog's main purpose. To support my rants about games and what-not.

So... First in the firing line -- Idle Games.

Seriously, what is this shit? Scrap it. NOW. I don't want to get rewarded for doing nothing; that's just dumb. And then there's the people that just leave their computers on for days to get ridiculously high scores.

The worse bit -- They're getting even crappier.

One of the later ones: A Knight's Story 2.

You play as one of a certain amount of classes, and can choose where your character automatically grinds. Then there's the boss monsters that can come from nowhere and rape you, re-setting you to the "safe zone" with no monsters without you knowing.

Not to mention how un-balanced the classes are. And how it's possible to kill some monsters in a certain zone at one level, but not others, which will, again, kill you and send you back.

What is the need? Why not make an actual RPG? He has decent art, a fine enough concept, just no actual GAMEPLAY. Surely, all games should require GAMEPLAY, to, fundamentally, make them a game. There's no win conditions or loss conditions really. All you get for dying is loss of time, which only helps you further yourself in doing nothing. This isn't winning, you're just losing further. Losing time, losing CPU usage, losing sanity, losing dignity, losing actual rewards for doing something. Losing productivity. And, last, but not least, losing fun. I don't want to just watch a character repeat the same actions multiple times, it's stupid, annoying and ridiculously monotonous. Why are these things in circulation, and why do some people rate them high. Honestly. >.<