wait. now conversation is about listening and not just telling people stuff?
Anon wants to talk about video games
7 months ago by 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 to c/greentext
frankenswine 28 points 7 months ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 12 points 7 months ago
i really need to give rimworld a shot
RickyRigatoni 11 points 7 months ago
Once you start rimming you'll be hooked for life.
Deceptichum 16 points 7 months ago path: 0 21849989 21850912 21851548, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 6
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 9 points 7 months ago
how is DF for war crimes tho
Deceptichum 13 points 7 months ago path: 0 21849989 21850912 21851548 21852362 21852775, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 0
entropicdrift 4 points 7 months ago
Google "Boatmurdered"
MrFinnbean 4 points 7 months ago
I always default to answering with this when somebody asks questions like that.
Darwen childcare:
It's like regular childcare, except with more dogs, and less care. The idea is simple, but will take some finesse to perform.
- Construct a box. It should be 3x3, leaving a 1 tile center free. The walls should be wall grates and the corners should be actual wall. Alternatively, perhaps ideally, the center tile could be a floor grate (not a hatch). The roof should be either a floor grate or a hatch.
- Place a child into the box. Creative abuse of levers, wall deconstructions, and hatches can be used.
- Place 12 years worth of ☼Dwarven Syrup Roast☼ and assorted booze into the box, by "dumping" it onto the roof and then opening the roof via lever, causing the items to fall down. For this reason, the floor would need to be solid to accommodate a food stockpile.
- Place a female dog in the box.
- Wait 12 years to unleash disaster.
The premise is fairly simple. Animals enclosed in a tight space will lash out randomly, often attacking a dwarf in the same tile. This extends over time to create a biological danger room, where the dwarven children are subjected to 12 years of consistent dog biting, scratching, and watching the dogs kill each other, quickly leveling up the child to legendary dodger, perhaps wrestler/kicker/biter/etc if the dwarf manages to counterattack. Not sure if a dwarf will counterattack an animal. The child will eat the food from the floor that he's been staring at for the past 12 years, and will ideally be comforted by some lovely mist falling right beside him. Once the years have passed, and the child grows into a scarred, hardened, tough-as-steel dwarf (don't forget agility, endurance, etc) who doesn't care about anything. Or, keep the lid closed, and throw in a weapon and shield, and replace the dogs with goblins.
The only issue is trying to get the child to survive without going berzerk. But then again, that might just turn into training for the other caged children, right?
DahGangalang 6 points 7 months ago
Yeah, but the learning curve. I just can't seem to find a good rhythm with timing (that is: either I'm playing with the dwarves moving and they go crazy too fast, or I'm paused and just don't feel engaged with them). I def feel Rimworld hits a good comfy zone on this.
bluesheep 5 points 7 months ago
Haha yeah I just used the first games that came to mind, and since automation games are by far my most played I suppose those might be overrepresented. But rimworld is a time sink too haha
renzhexiangjiao 20 points 7 months ago
what about paradox games? avg user playtime of eu4 on steam is double that of factorio
bluesheep 14 points 7 months ago
That's fair, I never really got into the strategy genre so those didn't come to mind. But I have people on my friends list who have an absolute insane played time in Civilization so I can see where you're coming from
WonderRin 3 points 7 months ago
I've been playing EU4 since around 2018-2019 (on and off, to be fair, not consistently), and still don't know a lot of stuff about the game.
It probably doesn't help that I'm playing it on and off because I keep having to relearn things I used to know.
Tetragrade 2 points 7 months ago
I only got 4k hours im normal.
Tar_alcaran 11 points 7 months ago
Oh, I should pick up Dyson Sphere again. They have enemies to shoot at now!
SmoothOperator 7 points 7 months ago
I tried to get into it a while ago, but it felt so half-cooked. This weird voice-over with the mispronounced words, the obscure tech tree and overall progression, I don't know...
It felt like a lot more work to get into than Factorio or Satisfactory did back in the day, with a smaller payoff.
Am I missing something?
Tar_alcaran 9 points 7 months ago
I dunno, I played it very early on because it was factorio with space travel. Now factorio is factorio with space travel though... It was fun at the time but not for very long (like 20 hours and I finished it).
I don't even recall a voiceover...
Honestly, the orbital stuff and different planets were the best features, but Factorio has those now and they're pretty great.
Minnels 4 points 7 months ago
I love Factorio but I don't know if I like the new planets. Except Gleba. That place is great. Think I spent like 50% of my space age play through there. Maybe it is just the space rocket part of the game I don't like... Stupid rockets look awesome but such a pain to design every time :(
blimthepixie 64 points 7 months ago
"Hey do you like games?"
Yeah. I've got all the FIFA's
blimthepixie 2 points 7 months ago
They might add new game mechanics?
But what could be added?
They've been going since 1993
FatVegan 21 points 7 months ago
That's literally my barber. Every time i sit there he asks: you play video games, right. And i'm like :yeah. Then he asks what i'm playing, and i just name the games i play right now. Just four or five games. Over the span of almost 10 years now, he hasn't heard of any game I've played. When i ask him back, the answer is always either fifa or cod or both.
DoucheBagMcSwag 8 points 7 months ago
COD Madden bros are the absolute fucking worst
baatliwala 2 points 7 months ago
Hell yeah fifa and cod are awesome 😎
UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 7 months ago
I've been playing Halo 1 on the original XBox for half my life and I'm in my 40s
UnderpantsWeevil 3 points 7 months ago
Hey now. Where do you think I spent that other 20?
Headcrabs walked so the Unggoy could scuttle
Kolanaki 52 points 7 months ago
I used to play everything. Then I developed a sense of taste and learned to recognize what I know I wouldn't much care for, and don't bother with those games. I like shit with complexity, depth of mechanics, and loads of weirdness. Like Dwarf Fortress, Kenshi, Earth Defense Force, and soulslikes. Popular AAA games tend to be anything but that. The newest game of high caliber complexity that is also popular and AAA I do like is Baldur's Gate 3.
dharmacurious 17 points 7 months ago
That's me, but in a wildly different direction. Lol. I wanted to a be "gamer" so badly, because I enjoy story telling, puzzles, exciting worlds, all that jazz. But I figured out years ago, I'm just not that into most games. "Go kill these dudes/monsters/whatevers that want you dead" just isn't a thing I can get into easily, so I found the games I like, which are generally not gamer-y games, and I play them to my heart's content. And I'll try other things, because you should always strive to try things you think you won't like... But I've found what I like, and I mainly stick to it.
That is, when I actually have the time to play games and don't choose TV or an audiobook+embroidery as my wind down routine
BarrelAgedBoredom 5 points 7 months ago
I'm halfway between the both of you (minus souls like games, fuck that noise) got any recommendations? I've been leaning towards "not gamery games" a lot more lately
dharmacurious 3 points 7 months ago
Most recent game I loved was disco Elysium. Didn't get very far in, but I absolutely loved playing it
domdanial 3 points 7 months ago
Took me 3 tries to finish it, and I basically had to be firm with myself to only play that and not get distracted by other games.
It's very good, but it's one of those games you need to play in a relatively focused way, like watching a movie.
Lost_My_Mind 45 points 7 months ago
Have you heard of this one game? It's called SUPER MARIO BROS!!!!
Indy classic. Came out a few years ago. You probably never heard of it.
Endymion_Mallorn -3 points 7 months ago
Indie nothing, it's first party AAA slop.
YiddishMcSquidish 17 points 7 months ago
Slop it is not! There was palpable love in that game.
irishPotato 9 points 7 months ago
Hope I’m getting wooshed over here, since you know that tidbit you’ve gotta know that was because they couldn’t just throw more RAM at the problem and actually had to come up with some clever optimisations, right?
Tar_alcaran 9 points 7 months ago
AAA? It's self-published my friend. That's what counts as Indie today
ArsonButCute 17 points 7 months ago
KSP definitely counts, but I think it's the 10k hours that makes your experience with it autistic.
mnemonicmonkeys 12 points 7 months ago
Pretty sure any amount of hours over 2,000 automatically means it qualifies
AnarchistArtificer 9 points 7 months ago
Absolutely. If you're able to get that many hours into a game, it probably makes it an autistic game.
Though as I typed that, I realised my mom has an ungodly number of hours in Candy Crush, and she definitely doesn't play that in an autistic manner (she's just depressed and doesn't have any friends)
ArsonButCute 7 points 7 months ago
My first 3 years playing KSP I didn't realize you had to activate RCS with a hotkey.
Turns out I'm really good at docking.
UnderpantsWeevil 5 points 7 months ago
😏
MehBlah 5 points 7 months ago
I used to do stuff like that. For the last several years I just sandbox with full mechjeb and treat every launch like its the last ship off kerbin. If it doesn't take twenty minutes real time to five minutes mission time on launch I need to add more parts. I use just a few mods. I have the full atmosphere pack, a fuel balancer and a part welder. Oh and I currently have the tardis added again.
I've been playing since it was in beta and there was only kerbin and the mun. It took a week to get to the moon manually and a few more days to go there and back. I was instantly addicted. That xkcd is me except I didn't do anything on there except the first thing and the last thing. I've had to use jeb to push the capsule out of orbit because I had used all fuel including the RCS. Wasted days creating a perfectly balanced communications constellation. Today though I really enjoy packing everything in to one shot and wasting years in time just going to a planet and farting around.
yogurtwrong 2 points 7 months ago
That's what mods and sandbox is for ヾ(＾▽＾)ﾉ
MehBlah 2 points 7 months ago
First off I have both of the addon packs with all the robotics parts. I didn't buy them. They just appeared in my downloads one day on the KSP site. I'm pretty sure I was one of the first people to buy it. I know I bought it early on the first day it went on sale. I have KSP 2 and its fun but the original is the one I really like.
I've built some really crazy shit. Did ultra low orbits on moons in just a suit. Parked multiple asteroids at KSC. I like it and when it gets boring these days I just don't play for several months. I'm currently going for a base on every possible orbital body. I also have this mid sized rover made up of five by five x200-32 tanks welded together with large rover wheels and those are really fun jumping around on the mun. I added the realistic atmosphere pack to make flying kerbin more visually appealing with the realistic sky. I haven't found a single game in the last ten years that I can stand for more than a few months. They seem to be all play to win these days and like many others they have lost me as a customers
TheRealShadeSlimmy 32 points 7 months ago
“…15,000 hours in this autistic PC game…”
Found another Star Citizen fan! 😆
Feddinat0r 47 points 7 months ago
Factorio
ArmoredThirteen 21 points 7 months ago
That's mostly because of programmers not autism, not all of us coders have autism. I mean I do, and I play Factorio, but these are all unrelated. I'm also trans and use Arch btw but those are irrelevant
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus 10 points 7 months ago path: 0 21848533 21848726 21849917 21852544, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0
Serinus 4 points 7 months ago
I enjoyed the first run through of Factorio with friends, but it very quickly just became too much like work.
Like if I wanted to debug and fix a giant machine, I could do it on something productive.
Duke_Nukem_1990 1 point 7 months ago
:3 uwu
okwhateverdude 11 points 7 months ago
It's been a long time since I played Spreadsheets-In-Space. I knew it was time to quit when I could pay my monthly sub with isk earned in-game. It was becoming a second job of sorts. But I had a lot of easy success in high sec mining and getting margins out of it. But staring at mining lasers for hours on end was the worst part of it.
Tar_alcaran 11 points 7 months ago
I was mostly in nullsec, and running fleets was really fun, but everything else was just mostly an idle-game. It got to the point where I was pretty much always running two accounts, and then I spoke the words "Maybe I should get a third monitor so I can scout ahead for myself".
Instead, I didn't do that, and that's probably a good thing.
On the other hand, I've discovered X4...
Serinus 5 points 7 months ago
High sec is the tutorial. The game is about organizations and politics. If you don't get into that aspect of it in one of a thousand ways, you're not really playing the game.
Also, when you know what you're doing, null sec is safer than high sec.
okwhateverdude 9 points 7 months ago
Nah, the game is definitely about shooting mining lasers at rocks for hours to eventually get better lasers to shoot at more rocks. Not sure what game you played. All that politics stuff sounds dumb anyway 😉
lessthanluigi 11 points 7 months ago
Found a new game to play.
Also GregTech6 (Minecraft mod) is my autistic PC game
KazuchijouNo 8 points 7 months ago
Is it the one with realistic trains?
lessthanluigi 11 points 7 months ago
No (although I do have that too), it's the one where crafting is more realistic, Iron ingot is hard to get because the ore is never native, and you have the entire periodic table to use. Also machines and mass manufacturing, and the machines are kinda delicate.
okwhateverdude 9 points 7 months ago
Gotta appreciate the complicated minecraft mods that add in all sorts of new ores and automation. Most of them have an inflection point where you can build a flywheel of resource gathering, processing, building and you begin strip mining down to bedrock.
Tar_alcaran 5 points 7 months ago
GregTech6? I haven't played minecraft in a LONG time, damn.
lessthanluigi 4 points 7 months ago
I'm still using Minecraft version 1.7.10 for the mods! At least it feels new with Et Futurum Requiem
Tar_alcaran 5 points 7 months ago
I've been playing VintageStory for pretty long time. It's pretty great if you like a slower, more hands-on minecraft. I like the processes of smithing/knapping/clayforming quite a lot, and it feels much more like an acomplishment when I get something going than in minecraft
ImgurRefugee114 8 points 7 months ago
I've been playing GunZ since 2004
YiddishMcSquidish 7 points 7 months ago
dwarf fortress
Braid
spirinolas 30 points 7 months ago
I play Factorio too.
DahGangalang 9 points 7 months ago
Big same. I'm closing in on 10k hours in Rimworld (been playing since 2016) and don't know if I should be proud or ashamed.
DahGangalang 4 points 7 months ago
C-shites? Not sure who you're referencing with that.
topherclay 10 points 7 months ago
My guess is it's like a slur for "C-suites" aka the CEOs and CFOs and bean counters who want you to buy more games and only play them for a few days so you can spend money money on the next game.
The devs are happy if you enjoy their game but the businesmen are unhappy that you aren't spending more money.
If I am correct on this crazy interpretation then I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed.
Bosht 7 points 7 months ago
I really love city builders and settlement type games but I just cannot figure out how the fuck to play Rimworld. I've been through the tutorial like 5 times. I honestly don't understand what I'm missing. Love the ANNO series, played games like Prison Architect, 'Honey I started a cult', etc. so it's not like I'm unfamiliar. Idk. I feel like my brain is just broken with that game.
DahGangalang 5 points 7 months ago
Yeah, I've no idea how I figured it all out, but I remember a steep learning curve.
The big thing for me is finding a rhythm in the gameplay loop and just sitting comfy in it. While I often describe the game as my "war crime simulator" and a "frantic rush from one dumpster fire to the next", I still find my deepest chill just watching my pawns live their lives farming rice and ranching a herd of boomalope.
Korhaka 4 points 7 months ago
Turn the difficulty down, the game is normally designed to be pretty brutal which might not be what you are looking for if you want a typical city builder.
Then with various DLC packs add so much more to the game! You can sell slaves to the empire who later give you a shiny cube, worship the sacred cube, form cults dedicated to the cubes embrace, build spaceships to spread the cubes love, create an army of undead ghouls to protect the eternal cube, create an army of clone child soldiers to man the artillery that annihilate all that dare taint the cubes glory by their presence!
ReasonablePea 3 points 7 months ago
Holy crap! That's over a year if play time
Endymion_Mallorn 27 points 7 months ago
Okay, what games do you want to talk about?
YiddishMcSquidish 15 points 7 months ago
Casuals, I only play flappy bird.
NannerBanner 5 points 7 months ago
flappy bird? Pssh, look at you modern gamers and your graphics. I play missile on a TI-83, like god intended.
undeffeined 4 points 7 months ago
Its Geometry Dash nowadays
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points 7 months ago
i'm really into adventure. i just found the key
bridgeenjoyer 3 points 7 months ago
Virtua tennis
topherclay 11 points 7 months ago
Mastering nethack was one of my proudest achievements in a way that is incredibly embarrassing, but also the only people who know nethack enough to be properly embarrassed for me are also the people that might understand my pride lol.
Zanathos 5 points 7 months ago
After looking this up, I have apparently been playing a remix of this in the form of PixelDungeon, then moved onto the now superior Shattered Pixel Dungeon running 7 challenge mode.
If you've played these, how do they compare to Nethack as I won't be able to give it a go for a few days?
Evil_Incarnate 8 points 7 months ago
Nethack is the original. It has almost everything. I was playing many years ago when you could use a pickaxe to rob a shop. Then cops were introduced and I kept doing it anyway and collecting rubber hoses. Then you couldn't dig the walls anymore, so I had to teleport out with my loot.
Don't read the wiki at first... And try to be creative.
bridgeenjoyer 7 points 7 months ago
Go to nethack.org my friend.
cevn 6 points 7 months ago
Nethack is bigger, has more stuff, more interactions, takes longer and more systems. SPD is like a distilled version, maybe streamlined even. However I find that the OG with curses interface and ASCII monsters engages my imagination more.
There are NH variants as well (like PD -> SPD). I am trying Unnethack rn as well as evilhack.
BlameTheAntifa 4 points 7 months ago
For me it’s EUV. I can’t stop. I don’t want to stop, but I can’t. I have a very unhealthy relationship with the bastards at Paradox.
bridgeenjoyer 3 points 7 months ago
Hell yes man. I have an alias in my terminal so I can just type nethack and it connects me to the nethack telnet server where I can play on my account and watch others. Other people are always amazed when I show them this exists. That game is insane.
Duke_Nukem_1990 2 points 7 months ago
I really tried but it was just too clunky for me :( Now, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup on the other hand <333
fibojoly 25 points 7 months ago
I mean, that's the same shit you see happening in music, books, movies...
Most of us stick with one genre, and then sometimes you get to appreciate the entire medium. But it's not easy for everybody.
I always think it's like colours. I can't fathom people who actually genuinely have a favourite color they always wanna have.
But at the same time, if you ask me to read anything that's not outside of a few favourite genres, it is a struggle.
So yeah, at least try to appreciate that others may not like exactly what you like. And it's okay if they only like the one thing. They are missing out sure. But you're probably missing out on plenty of stuff too.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 6 points 7 months ago
I always think it’s like colours. I can’t fathom people who actually genuinely have a favourite color they always wanna have.
my synesthesia is color related. everything has a color. orange calms me. so there's orange everywhere here.
missingno 25 points 7 months ago
The death of monoculture comes for gaming too. The sheer number of games out there means you can always find some niche gem that really appeals to you and you specifically, but then you might not find anyone else who knows it and wants to talk about it.
Rusty 4 points 7 months ago
Had that monoculture even existed?
When I was a kid, Sega Genesis was the main console. But I had a lot of friends who only played Mortal Kombat and I was the guy who only plays Dune 2. I guess there was a lot of people who played all the Sonic and Mario games, maybe they were the "monoculture".
SabinStargem 3 points 7 months ago
Pretty much all the games I like are that way. I am hoping AI gets good enough, that I can have a buddy for playing and talking about niche games together.
kayzeekayzee 21 points 7 months ago
"Hey do you like games?" "no"
AnarchistArtificer 6 points 7 months ago
I used to have a partner who was very into sim racing. I spent a long time being affectionately perplexed at her for it. We once drove a long way to pick up a sim racing wheel that I found on eBay for her. I remember when I tried it out, I was impressed, but in the rather chill way that one would expect from someone who wasn't invested in sim-racing.
Y'all are silly, but I am glad you have something you care enough about that it makes you this silly. I don't see it, and it baffles me, but I love the energy.
grumpo_potamus 5 points 7 months ago
Yep. "If I'm feeling wild I might drive this other sim because I like the historic layout of the same track I'd otherwise be driving. Looking forward to this new game coming soon...same tracks but new tire/grip model"
Buddahriffic 4 points 7 months ago
VR or non?
GT7 is one of the games where the immersion is both great (you're just in a car that is moving, so it's normal to just sit in one place while doing this) but also dissapointing (would be awesome to feel those Gs).
Delphia 5 points 7 months ago
Non.
I have that lovely ADHD trait of getting excited about a new hobby, spending too much money on gear and then getting bored. So when I decided to give sim racing a go I started with a cheap second hand wheel, pedals and seat from marketplace, my old ps4, GT7 and the TV i already have in the spare room. I promised my wife "No significant spending on this until my birthday or fathers day".
Almacca 2 points 7 months ago
If you have a semi-decent PC keep an eye out for Assetto Corsa Ultimate Edition on sale. Then get Content Manager and Custom Shaders Patch. Then start exploring mods. It'll change your life.
DarrinBrunner 21 points 7 months ago
I'm not ashamed to admit I have nearly 6700 hours in Fallout 4. I like what I like. I play it like Sims with shooting.
Well, I might be a little ashamed.
Sabata11792 8 points 7 months ago
2000 hours in Rimworld, I also play it like the Sims, but eating the neighbors is encouraged.
DeadMartyr 19 points 7 months ago
I feel like the rise of live service games and rogue-likes that are based around incremental progression definitely shifted the status quo to everyone having like 1 game, maybe 2, where they spend most of their time. Every game seems to demand you commit more and more time.
The only exception I can think of is Paradox Grand Strategy type games (which is my secondary "main" game)
bridgeenjoyer 10 points 7 months ago
Its so crazy to me. They'll play only the newest game and nothing else. I regularly play n64, genesis, ps1 ps2, xbox, dreamcast, game arcade, pc games from 99 to now... like these people have no idea about gaming history. Theyre missing out.
But I've never cared much for new games. When it became about fifa being able to see a nostril hair, gaming was dead to me (outside of the few good new ones and indie games). That and these games that are purely server driven and will be shut down within 2 years of their release. Trash.
bridgeenjoyer 5 points 7 months ago
I wouldnt say all. I dont play them, because I wont pay that much for games and usually they are unoptimized and reliant on craopy anti cheat
UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 7 months ago
That's not fair. SquareEnix still puts out a few bangers. BG3 was fantastic.
Star 7 points 7 months ago
It's funny because Victoria 3 is basically all I play now
But I also consider it a secondary game, since I just put it on to relax so I might as well be meditating or something. Those games are so oddly peaceful.
TubularTittyFrog 7 points 7 months ago
i have four newphews. they only play minecraft, robolox, and fortnite. they very rarely try other games but have 1000s of hours in those.
bridgeenjoyer 6 points 7 months ago
Minecraft isnt a game. Its a lifestyle.
TubularTittyFrog 4 points 7 months ago
i played it for like a few months in 2009 and never touched it again. it was a novelty but the novelty wore off really fast and i was bored once i got diamonds.
never understood why people like it so much.
but my nephews all think my rpg/strategy games are 'boring and weird'.
I feel like the rise of live service games and rogue-likes that are based around incremental progression definitely shifted the status quo to everyone having like 1 game, maybe 2, where they spend most of their time. Every game seems to demand you commit more and more time.
bridgeenjoyer 5 points 7 months ago
Oh boy. You have not seen what its become. There's literally chemistry involved now. It can be as complex or simple as you make it!
And im old, but I still enjoy it. Its more fun with a friend's server. I dont enjoy the grind, but I like to play to level up and build some bases and try to kill the hard mobs. Eventually it becomes a grind and we drop it for a year and then come back and start it up again.
There's farming, mining, building, enchanting, fjghtng...it really has it all. Circuits too if youre into that, im not. I enjoy exploring all the cool caves and adventuring out to the far lands via boat. Hoping we dont die and lose all our diamond armor etc. The risk is what makes it fun then
UnderpantsWeevil 4 points 7 months ago
Me: in a pile of sixteen different LEGO sets, mixing and matching to create an unholy abomination
My Dad: "It's all he does all day, doesn't want to try anything new."
UltraGiGaGigantic 3 points 6 months ago
It was nice while it lasted. Microsoft, a corporation I didnt give money for my copy of minecraft, stole my copy from me.
bridgeenjoyer 1 point 6 months ago
Same here. Only luanti for me now!
ICastFist 5 points 7 months ago
The power of social pressure.
Roblox being free was its main attraction back when it was new. It was super easy for a kid to get their school friends to join in and play, so growth was very organic. Having the variety of player made games experiences ensured they wouldn't feel the need to leave to play something different.
lessthanluigi 4 points 7 months ago
Roblox is like a YouTube-style gaming platform with its own game engine. There are some really cool projects on there if you know what to look for!
UnderpantsWeevil 4 points 7 months ago
Every game seems to demand you commit more and more time.
Yeah, I have really gotten turned off by any game with "Daily Quests" in it. My compulsive need to collect ever zig makes me feel like an addict trying squeeze 30 minutes a day in for a full week.
It's like I'm waterboarding myself. When I come up for air, I hate the game and myself for playing it
Washedupcynic 17 points 7 months ago
Be me. Spend 2 grand on new PC. Play sim city 3000 night after night after night.
UnderpantsWeevil 11 points 7 months ago
Are you having a good time, though?
Washedupcynic 10 points 7 months ago
I sure am. Thanks for asking.
UltraGiGaGigantic 2 points 7 months ago
Me and dwarf fortress
ArsonButCute 11 points 7 months ago
I'm the worst type of gamer.
I think gaming is bad and think gamers have bad opinions.
My perfect game is Civilizaris Skypico 4X for the PS1.
Mostly.
If it's not a magnificent 4x experience that makes me forget to blink for hours at a time, I want punishingly difficult quarter muncher style arcadey titles.
I have too much time in the Vlambeer games, and have way too much time in splatformers.
Jrpgs are OK too, but I only like them on handheld. I'm working through the PSX release of FF7 on my RGxx35sp right now and having a blast with it.
My tiny claim to fame is that I once beat After Burner Climax at Gameworks in Newport, Kentucky circa 2011
musubibreakfast 3 points 7 months ago
I downgraded and ported it to GBA myself, honestly that's the best way to play it.
UltraGiGaGigantic 1 point 6 months ago
Bushido Blade 1 is the best fighting game still. Yes I tried the sequel.
Washedupcynic 4 points 7 months ago
The best PS1 game for me was parasite eve.
ArsonButCute 6 points 7 months ago
My fave PSx game is actually the terrible 3d platformer "Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge"
Its so phenomenally bad and permantly broke my brain to love bad 3d platformers.
VoteNixon2016 4 points 7 months ago
I played that so much on PC as a kid. Gotta get it running and see if the muscle memory is still there
UltraGiGaGigantic 2 points 6 months ago
Nice pick. Great RPG. Beat the tower and everything.
UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 7 months ago
Jrpgs are OK too, but I only like them on handheld.
People like you should be drawn and quartered
ArsonButCute 4 points 7 months ago
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Yerbouti 11 points 7 months ago
I feel like players like me, who likes games that don't last more than 20-30 hours are a really small percentage of the players. There's so many games that comes out every years that I want to play, I dont see how I could put all my gaming time in a single one. I don't understand where people find the time to play hundreds and hundreds of hours of game time.... I'm still working on playing games I bought years ago lol, and since I started to get the free epic games 2 years ago, I got like 100+ more games that I'd like to try.
TubularTittyFrog 8 points 7 months ago
they don't care about other games and they don't know they exist really. maybe they dabble but they go back to what gives them the easy dopamine hit.
it's like people who have watched the office 30 times and are watching it again. they just don't care about anything else. i had a gf who was like this with parks and rec. we dated for two years and she watched the entire show like a dozen times. she never wanted to watch anything else.
Buddahriffic 3 points 7 months ago
Yeah, I don't get that. I can't even think of very many shows that I've watched through twice, let alone repeatedly. If we limit it to shows where the second watch is just for myself and not to show someone else, Breaking Bad is the only one I can think of.
And even expanding to shows watched multiple times to show someone else, the list expands to Lost, Malcolm in the Middle, Futurama, Naruto, Wandavision, and Loki.
Oh and I guess MXC, I was playing the twitch channel that was nothing but all MXC episodes on a loop for a while, though that was more because there were enough episodes that it took a while before it seemed repetitive.
TubularTittyFrog 4 points 7 months ago
me either, but for some people their entire life is just repeats of the same episodes. they also tend to be people who never change jobs or get promoted or try anything new. for example my girlfriend basically wanted to eat at the same place every Friday with the same group of people and were totally negative towards the notion of ever doing anything new or different.
and of course, would also endlessly complain, that we never did anything new, or met anyone new... and why aren't I showing her new experiences!
nothing was ever her fault, ever, of course.
Buddahriffic 4 points 7 months ago
I'm planning on going back to a restaurant I was at last week... But to try one of the other dishes that looked good that I didn't try (even though the dish I had might be the best fish dish I've ever tried). But I have struggled with trying new things at restaurants in the past because it's hard to commit to a mystery dish that might be good vs the known dish that I know I'll like (usually burgers or pasta).
But after trying a taster menu at a michelin star restaurant (not the one I might go back to today), which was full of dishes I'd never order on my own but every single one of them were amazing, I have an easier time taking that risk.
But I never blamed anyone other than myself for not trying new dishes before that.
Edit: I went back and had one of the other dishes, unfortunately it wasn't as good as the last one, but it was still decent and now I know I prefer the first dish. Though there's still others I want to try, first dish might be out of season by the time I try everything. And horrible things didn't happen just because I ended up trying a dish that I wouldn't choose again.
bridgeenjoyer 4 points 7 months ago
Im still working on getting good at games that came out 40 years ago haha
SaharaMaleikuhm 11 points 7 months ago
That qualifies as an autistic game I'm pretty sure.
ChuckTheMonkey 8 points 7 months ago
15,000 hours in autistic PC game
Every single Elona/Elin player
peteypete420 7 points 7 months ago
I enjoy trying a lot of new games, but I do tend to gravitate to rpg and exploration, or tbs. And yea a couple favs from childhood make constant reappearances
peteypete420 3 points 7 months ago
Is d4 diablo four? Cause yea im still playing the re release of d2.
Never did play d3.
SCmSTR 3 points 7 months ago
Yes d4=Diablo 4
Diablo 3, post its expansion, specifically, was actually really good. Probably peak Diablo. And they still do regular updates and additions. It's actually an extremely polished and fleshed out and fun game right now.
D2 resurrected is fun too, but it's EXTREMELY punishing in comparison. I loved Diablo 2 and still so, but also really love Diablo 3.
A lot of people do NOT love d3, and sort of for good reason. They played it at launch and not after the expansion. It was an incredibly fucked up, mid even at it's best, at launch. It was a hot mess, with constant server issues, no progression, very little content, the item generation was actually terrible, and they were pushing an in game player to player auction house. The items you'd get dropped were just... Actually all shit.
And it wasn't until after the expansion that they basically gutted the loot and the loot tables and redid the entire game. It was blindingly new after that, not even comparable. And if i remember correctly, they did that again at least once, making it even better each time, constantly adding in new major features, etc. And each season, they add in a bunch of new sets and builds and legendary powers and do the power creep thing that is so addicting and fun.
I haven't played d3 in at something like 8 years, but I'd confidently bet that it's even better than ever.
Uh, on the other side of this, is Diablo 4. A hot mess of blandness. The game is, in every thinkable way, brown. Brown being the color of nothing.
The world is brown. Reddish brown, greyish brown, VERY red brown, etc. The fx aren't really that colorful. The story is brown and boring. Even the gameplay is brown.
I have no idea how they fucked up THAT bad. How do you go from D3 with it's colors and demons and scaling and unique builds and depth of features, to ... Whatever happened in D4?
Sure, D3 was kinda cartoony. It could have looked better, yeah. But it was fine enough. D4 looks like somebody smashed their face into a slab of clay a hundred times, and dropped it on the wet ground outside to pick up some dirt.
I played through the campaign and don't remember literally anything about it other than the end had a red tree and something about souls on it.
They released an expansion for it, but it doesn't sound like it's made any real change. So, I'm hoping they can realize how much they fucked up and the coming soon expansion they can pull their heads from their rectums and fix the game like Reaper of Souls (d3's expansion) did for D3.
Rant over. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
peteypete420 3 points 7 months ago
Rant enjoyed! Thanks!
UltraGiGaGigantic 1 point 7 months ago
Its Activision now
AlphaSpellswordZ 7 points 7 months ago
I play a lot of different games but my favorites are RPGs, shooters and space sims.
echodot 6 points 7 months ago
Yes the same with sport. There's too many damn sports there should only be one sport at a time.
All sports players should be required to play in all sports. I want to see baseball players doing ice hockey, but that would probably lead to a blood bath. So we'll do that one at the end.
goodboyjojo 6 points 7 months ago
i know it can be hard sometimes to have a deep conversation about videos games. but in defense of these people gaming is very vast and the freedom of choice and variety of stuff to play can be to much for some. i thinks thats why many people don't explore what gaming all got to offer.
PieMePlenty 6 points 7 months ago
I have a very broad taste, so I play it all.. except sports games. Usually stop before the 200h mark for all games. I think that's the division I see the most: gamers who play it all and sports gamers. There's niche subdivisions like people who stick to one genre or old games only but I can relate with them because.. I play it all.
SabinStargem 5 points 7 months ago
I have played several hundred games, only really like 80 or so of them. La-Mulana, Lobotomy Corporation, Terranigma, Radiant Historia, and DROD RPG are some of those. I think most people wouldn't have heard any of them.
SabinStargem 3 points 7 months ago
I am figuring on playing Terranigma again someday, once the Redux patch has finished cooking. Also will be using MSU, for that CD-grade audio.
IMO, La-Mulana is likely to be among the very best metroidvanias. However, it is very much a love-it-or-hate-it type of thing. All the greatest games tend to be that way, it is just an issue of people discovering their compatibility.
canofcam 5 points 7 months ago
I used to be a League of Legends only guy. I also played Fifa on the side. Basically: competitive online games only.
The problem is they have a heavily addictive gameplay loop, and it takes seconds to get into a game. Win a game? Dopamine is high and you wanna keep chasing it. Lose a game? Keep playing until you get that high.
I managed to get away from it, and at the moment I'm focusing on 'hard' single player games. Hades, Elden Ring, Megabonk (lol), that kind of thing and I am having an absolute blast. I'm realising that 'hard' gaming is my preference, whether online or offline.
I think it's completely normal to have a preference when it comes to gaming. Playing a completely different genre is more of a risk, when you know you prefer e.g., rogue likes, why would you stray from them?
collapse_already 5 points 7 months ago
I guess I am the last one. I play one game exclusively for long periods of time. Currently, it is Baldur's Gate 3. Previous to that was Destiny 2 (9 years). Before that Star Wars the Old Republic for six years.
Wildmimic 5 points 7 months ago
I play literally anything, but with an increased rate of Single Player FPS, Twin-Stick Roguelite, Bullet Heavens,ARPGS and Roguelikes. Currently my main fixation is The King is Watching, I haven't the issue that i only play specific games, but i can't finish any of them -.- It's like i have a fear of coming into a situation where i fail, damn anxiety.
chatokun 3 points 7 months ago
ADHD means a lot of games with a ton of hours. Over 1k include Ark, Warframe, FFXIV, Civ V and Civ VI, Monster Hunter games, Elite Dangerous, Fallout 4, Pal world is close at 996h etc. Generally I like a lot of stuff, except maybe most first person shooters, battle royales, and I can't actually recall playing a sports game past some SNES basketball games. Do Mario mini games count?
RedditRefugee69 1 point 7 months ago
Genre vs specific game.
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UltraGiGaGigantic 1 point 7 months ago
Rust?
Let people enjoy things.
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