The two things that make me immediately lose interest in a roguelike are difficulty related.
The first one is having to choose your own difficulty with modifiers.Give me new set difficulties instead of telling me i beat the game and now i have to do it myself. I immediately lose all interest. The most prominent example is obviously hades. I still did 32 heat because there was an achievement but i was done after that. Another example is the gwent roguelike. I LOVED that game. It was the first card roguelike i really enjoyed after slay the spire, then i beat it on hard after 20h or so and the game was like now you choose your own difficulty.. never play it again. Would have played it for hundreds of hours if it had set difficulty levels. I would probably never beat the very highest, but i would have fun trying as much as i could, and it's always something to come back to after a few months to try again. Like i do in risk of rain 2. I havent beaten eclipse 8 on all characters, but any time i have an itch to play i come back and try to beat some more with different characters.
Speaking of that, the other thing i hate is when you have multiple characters, but the difficulty unlocks for every character. For Instance in risk of rain 2, if you beat eclipse 1 with commando, you unlock eclipse 2 with commando, you still gotta do eclipse 1 with the other characters. And no just because you've beaten one difficulty with one character, doesn't mean you can easily do it with the others. I bet eclipse 8 with some characters and struggle at 5 with others. I loved gunfire reborn but only played it once because then all there was to do with the other characters was beating the last difficulty i guess, which is not as satisfying. I would have played it for hundreds of hours otherwise, and would have bought every dlc. But i havent bought any because buying it to try and beat one difficulty? not worth it to me.
I'm not saying games should be designed for me. Probably some people like those things and it's fine. Just giving my two cents of why i play a game for hundreds of hours and buy all the dlc, and then other games that i like just as much, can only entertain me for 20h and i wont even buy the dlc.
The first one is having to choose your own difficulty with modifiers.Give me new set difficulties instead of telling me i beat the game and now i have to do it myself. I immediately lose all interest. The most prominent example is obviously hades. I still did 32 heat because there was an achievement but i was done after that. Another example is the gwent roguelike. I LOVED that game. It was the first card roguelike i really enjoyed after slay the spire, then i beat it on hard after 20h or so and the game was like now you choose your own difficulty.. never play it again. Would have played it for hundreds of hours if it had set difficulty levels. I would probably never beat the very highest, but i would have fun trying as much as i could, and it's always something to come back to after a few months to try again. Like i do in risk of rain 2. I havent beaten eclipse 8 on all characters, but any time i have an itch to play i come back and try to beat some more with different characters.
Speaking of that, the other thing i hate is when you have multiple characters, but the difficulty unlocks for every character. For Instance in risk of rain 2, if you beat eclipse 1 with commando, you unlock eclipse 2 with commando, you still gotta do eclipse 1 with the other characters. And no just because you've beaten one difficulty with one character, doesn't mean you can easily do it with the others. I bet eclipse 8 with some characters and struggle at 5 with others. I loved gunfire reborn but only played it once because then all there was to do with the other characters was beating the last difficulty i guess, which is not as satisfying. I would have played it for hundreds of hours otherwise, and would have bought every dlc. But i havent bought any because buying it to try and beat one difficulty? not worth it to me.
I'm not saying games should be designed for me. Probably some people like those things and it's fine. Just giving my two cents of why i play a game for hundreds of hours and buy all the dlc, and then other games that i like just as much, can only entertain me for 20h and i wont even buy the dlc.
