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The missing OCD rating in game reviews

15 Mar

There’s one thing that never gets rated in video games and that’s the OCD-ness (by OCD, I mean Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) of the game. As I have less and less time to spend on video games I think I deserve to know which games are going to consume my life by making me collect trivial objects or work my way to reach goals that have nothing to do with the main storyline. A high OCD rating means there’s a high chance that you will want to collect things or grind your way to a goal and it’s going to use up a lot of your game time (and you’re gonna love it and want more). Almost every RPG in existence is guilty of a high OCD rating.

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