Can I name Magic The Gathering as an answer? 😅

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I will definitely say Magic the Gathering... between all the power creep, the insane cost of keeping up with new stuff... and just not having fun against many decks(try to play an interesting deck mechanically... vs mono blue control)... fine I will try control... gets put against mono red aggro...

I have rage quit many times on arena... but it still calls me back at times.

If two games can count as a series then I am going with Senua's Saga. Not exactly a fan.
In my defense, I played the second game through Game Pass I got for free... 😎

The Starcraft Series... I bought the Addons of the last one although i got shit on in the multiplayer (which i obviously did not like), the singleplayer was ok though but too short for the price.

A fellow Neptunia. . . enjoyer?
Can't stop playing games of this series either. And sometimes question myself for spending way too many hours to 100% them.

I'm gonna say Magic as well... god I hate MtGA so much and I still play every day TwT

The infamous payday series (payday 2). Liked payday 1 and 2 (I did play 950+ hrs online with friends, and probably 50+ hrs offline). After they concluding the overall story but still releasing DLCs, I stopped playing (I used to own everything except h3n3 pack, now I am missing 30 DLCs). Then payday 3 is released, played the beta and hated it. Might still play payday 3 or 2 after getting a new PC

I really want to love the Company of Heroes series and similar games (like Iron Harvest) but I'm always getting exterminated and If I win ... it doesn't feel glorious at all. It feels more like surviving. But I keep trying to get better and maybe the "fun" will come with it.

I played WOW, and purchased each expansion for like 10 years without taking so much pleasure in doing so.

May I : Yu-Gi-Oh
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This is not an answer to your exact question, because I don't particularly play any series.
But I often ask myself why am I starting another gacha game

I'm a F2Per for those things, which means I pay with my time to keep up and I sometimes think it's more expensive than actual money...

I like a lot LEGO games, but there is a point in each game where I just want to finish instantly. This because my OCD makes me to look for 100% and getting it sometimes becomes tedious.

Monster Hunter... well only the recent ones, but I've yet to actually get to love them >.>;;

Data hacker games... the first one is good, the second and third are meh.
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=Data+hacker

Hmm probably CS counts

Nepgear best nep

Wow... i was about to say 'no, i dont do that with any series!'
And then i realize i havent actually finished any Final Fantasy game. Ive played 8, 9, got 2 of the 13, bought the 15, have the 7 remake and 16 on my wishlist- and i do plan on getting then...

I dont 'dislike' then but... but why havent i finished any? Maybe its their length, some grind or idk, maybe i dont enjoy the gameplay loops as much as the idea of the games and their worlds? In my defense or 'rationalization' each game arent exactly 'the same', but at the same time they do share a lot...

Maybe its the hype and marketing or the imaginative settings change- but i always think 'the next one might hook me' - and i kinda of think like i may still go back and replay to finish the previous ones. Some day. I feel like.

(Given the amount of yearly releases and my backlog i just imagined an 80 years old me at a nursing home finally finishing FF8 or something like that.'Yes i did it!')

I have every expansion of Coloring Pixels and have sunk 1000s of hours into it. Many of them is just keeping the game open while I work and spending a few minutes during breaks (or forgetting it open overnight,) but still. It's not that I don't like it, but if I were given the choice to play any game, it would never be my choice. It's more like the "solitaire" of steam for me. something to idle away when I have nothing to do or something to keep my figures busy while doing other stuff.

Scratch that! I do dislike it with passion sometimes. Some levels are INFURIATING! I would rather do literally anything than play them, but I still play them. Why do I do this to myself? Why don't I just play solitaire like a normal idling person? I have no idea.

Question: what's the game series you keep playing despite not liking it? One thing is playing a game you don't enjoy, one thing is buying the next one knowing it's the same thing...

Assassin's Creed I guess ?
That's half true actually.

When Origins released they made a huge discount, all the previous AC with all DLCs for 40€.
I had already played AC1 and 2 and didn't enjoy them.
I didn't hate them but I was bored quickly, took me years to finish them.

Still bought it and I kept playing, took me 2 more years to finish AC Brotherhood.
Then Revelations...which is the first I actually enjoyed, finished it in a few weeks.
Then I play AC3, liked it enough to finish it in a few months.
And finally Black Flag I'm stuck with for years because how boring it is.
IMO, Revelations is the most underrated AC game (and the best of the Ezio trilogy) while Black Flag is the most overrated.
(Keeping in mind I haven't played beyond BF).

Also later I bought Origins and Odyssey.
For a very cheap price but still...
Don't plan to buy further though.

what's the game series you keep playing despite not liking it?

I can't really name one, but as a meta-answer: the achievement collection meta-game on Steam. I pumped the breaks really hard, but I still go for 100% if it's not too hard, and I like the game. But not having achievements, or having broken achievements is not an issue for me.

I dont think ive pushed myself and played what I dont like, ever! (except for Monstrum...pure trash.)
But the closest I can think of is the AC series.

Some of the games felt like fillers...that mildly irritated me. And the fact that the Desmond story progressed slowly. I am yet to play Odyssey and so on. But I think I will enjoy it, because I took a huge break from the series, and I thought Origins was decent.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. It is a time sink, and I feel terrible playing it after a few hours because my adult brain just cannot comprehend wasting my time behind this silly little game when I could be doing something more productive.

I don't like the game because it's way too addictive for me, but I do keep playing it every few weeks.

I played like 15 hours of Borderlands 3 despite hating the story. :( I like the gunplay at least.

Not a series I actually play but I played the Demo for Monster Hunter Tri or something years ago on the 3ds and figured I didn't like how the series played. But then years later, bundles for Monster Hunter World, Rise and I grab them despite knowing I still probably can't be bothered with any advanced combat like that. I probably could come to like one like Rise (I heard it is easier), but the time to invest to get good just takes away from my competing live service/gacha games and I can't have that.