I don't know how it stacks up on console but cod pales in comparison to the juggernaut that is Counter Strike 2 and even PUBG. Depending on the time of day Destiny 2 will also be beating it.
If you're saying "playing Spelunky and dying = losing all progress" is a waste of time in your life, what would be the difference if you've went through and beaten it? You still didn't do anything productive and arguably, wasted your time playing a game when you could be doing something else. And that's okay, because what counts as "wasting time" vs "being productive" is subjective on one's circumstances and is kind of a bullshit statement anyways. A lot of people just waste time in their lives, and not a lot of people are doing something grandiose or pretentious like "seeking further evolution" like some mad scientist or tech bro billionaire. You can only really FEEL that you wasted time, and I can't tell you how to feel because that's something only one's self can understand. But do know this; your time is what you make of it, and feeling that you wasted your time on something like trying to beat a game on permadeath or some shit, just know there are people sitting in cubicles trying to scam the elderly and gullible idiots out of their money for a JOB. Look around you and know that you aren't better than other people AND other people aren't better than you.
you ain't gonna convince me Spelunky is a good time using intro level psuedo philosophy, but A for effort at least
tbh if we're using the b&w binary of productive vs waste of time, I consider almost all videogames a waste of time already,. is just most are an acceptable trade-off to escape the misery of consciousness within the decaying reality. will happily crawl into a hole and die alone as long as the morphine supply lasts and works 
you ain't gonna convince me Spelunky is a good time using intro level psuedo philosophy, but A for effort at least
No psuedo philosophy, just saying what I've experienced for myself and feel.you ain't gonna convince me Spelunky is a good time using intro level psuedo philosophy, but A for effort at least
There is a little bit of progression in that you can eventually open up some shortcuts that let you start at later areas, but in general no, the only progression is in your understanding of the game mechanics and skill as a player. Spelunky definitely falls closer to the oldschool style of roguelike in that. You need to have a determined sort of personality to beat roguelikes, and Spelunky isn't easy either, even to just get the normal ending.
Fighter's History Dynamite is sick. People love that game @ my locals. Specially with Karnov mirrors
The pretzel and the star at least look somewhat intuitive, though admittedly I say this as somebody who's played both Blazblue (632146D) and The King of Fighters (QCB>HCF) in the past, but Summon Suffering's input is... how do you even describe that to somebody, let alone reach the point where doing it actually makes sense? Not to mention having an 'up' anywhere in a command input for a grounded move is a good way to ensure that most players never use it (see: 360/720 inputs).
Well you can do HCBX2, DF for Pretzel because of the generous buffer window in KOF, plus a lot of shortcuts for doing stuff off super cancels.
Not bad. Better environments, most assuredly. More character from player characters... yes, with the gameplay caveat that on launch there were pretty limited good builds until some of the updates fixed things. The 4th skill tree really helped, and ALMOST made up for the reduction of playable characters. And I thought vehicles were another big improvement too. But more interesting guns...
