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read cheat codes on wiki of the game, give yourself 1000000 gold. Win.

play it in a hardcore competitive setting with multiplayer.

• while the other players start attacking you verbally in chat.

Look up a guide when you get stuck.

public chat

Get extremely mad every time you hear a pronoun.

Turn on voice chat.

most of the suggestions are for multiplayer so for single player check every nook and cranny before proceeding down the main path. it sucks the air right out of most games. for bonus point check every wall they might have a breakable barrier like that one time where it gave you 3 coins.

Never blame yourself for something going wrong, always blame the game. Lag, misinputs, hard ware, etc. For extra saltiness, blame hacking.

Make sure others hear how displeased you are. Use local voice chats to tell your team mates how disappointed you are in them letting you down. Use the team chats to type slurs.

Rage quit the game constantly, threatening to delete it, but never following through. Pick up new games of the same genre and repeat.

Oh wait, I thought you asked how to make others not enjoy a game.

Depression

Playing with shitty people

Getting frustrated that you are playing poorly

Playing poorly

Subscribe to the subreddit for the game, read the top threads daily and ask genuine questions on how to improve

Try to get really really good at it

Have an identity and interests outside of the game.

Base all of your self worth on how highly ranked you are and you can enjoy the game to the fullest.

I've found that the best way to not enjoy a video game is to exit the building and be outside

Doing all the side content until i burn myself out at hour 20 trying to be a completionist. Did this with all the witcher 3 question marks in the first areas and was done with the game before i even got to the next section. I now only do side content if its on my way to the main content unless its a game where only the side content is worth doing eg. Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3... A trend hmm

Going for 5 stars on every race in a racing game. I just have to let myself lose or i get stuck on one annoying race i can't 5 star which is why I've never finished burnout revenge.

Modding. I spend hours modding and tired myself out before actually playing. I'm strictly a mod only when something bothers me person now so bug fixes and small qol improvements nothing else.

Forcing myself to play after I've lost interest due to sunk cost. Literally just a waste of time there's no point pushing through boredom there's no reward on the other end.

Touching any modern multiplayer game. If its not coop with friends its a time black hole that nothing of value can come from except losing hours of my life. Multiplayer games are intentionally created to be vapid addictive experiences which I'm just not interested in. I yearn for the days of old battlefield when it gave me an experience that made me actually want to play with people.

Not cheating in a singleplayer game when it gets too tough because i must preserve my pride to my audience of zero people and nobody gives a shit if i cheat. Sometimes games are more fun when you don't have to bash your head against a wall. Halo 2 infinite ammo easy mode in coop to get revenge on those sniper jackals that made me rage on legendary and laso.

Leads onto just play the game on easy. Drop the damn difficulty. If combat sucks in a game why extend it with a harder difficulty? Drop it to easy and just blitz through the story. Its more fun that way.

Sometimes it best not to know anything about a game before playing it. This clashes with the fact games cost money but maybe try it with pirating. Just find a game with cool box art and download it. Knowing too much about a game can ruin it

MMOs

By playing that one Amerikkkan civil war game (War of rights) online. I didn't buy it of course but the steamfront reviews bragging about racism and slurs were quite something

Hop on voice chat in modern war shooters and count the slurs. One time I heard triple digits in under 90 seconds.

Read what Twitter thinks about it before playing it. If they hate it it's going to nag at you while you're playing, and if Twitter people like it, you're really gonna hate it.

Play dota. dota is pain.

anything receiving ongoing updates will eventually be enshittified by the corporation that maintains it.

Stealth sections. Literally - not figuratively, literally - the only reason I was able to finish Breath of the Wild is because I loaded up on ancient arrows and just instakilled every single enemy in that desert thief hideout mission. Prior to that I had spent about three hours in failed frustration trying to clear it the "proper" way. Attempt, fail, read some help guide or forum post, attempt again, fail again, another guide, etc. If I hadn't stumbled across someone's comment that ancient arrows work on the enemies there, I would have given up on the game entirely.

I hate Skyward Sword. I dislike timed fetch quests. I dislike one-hit-death levels. I dislike mandatory stealth levels. And the twits who developed it combined all three aspects, multiple times, in those wretched Silent Realm levels. I beat the first Silent Realm, thought to myself "thank goodness that stupid crap is over", kept playing, and then the game hit me with a second one. I was done at that point. It's the only Zelda game I ever gave up on and traded in without making any significant progress. I've got no interest in Metal Gear Solid Hyrule Edition.