I've had several girlfriends who were like "you play video games? Like... call of duty?"

They were all relieved when I was like no.

Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.

I go to the same barbershop every two month or so, but not always tge same barber. Every now and then i get a guy around my age who is pretty chatty, but we have literally nothing i. Common. So every time he remembers that i play video games, because he also plays video games. But for now a decade or so, his answer is always: fifa and cod and gta, when the new one came out. He has literally no idea what i'm talking about when i name some games i play. "Video games" to him is synonymous for fifa and call of duty. So we still have nothing in common

Niche stuff casuals rarely play.

that's the kind of gatekeeping I'd like to avoid in my hobby

I play the wikipedia game. Start on a random article, click the first link over and over until you reach philosophy. How many clicks did it take? try and beat that

And then I go "Hey what if you could play CoD from the perspective of the psychopathic senior officers whose orders make all this violence happen?"

Give us names here. This is what it's like when normies ask me what music I listen to.

OP likes playing Witcher 3, doesn't they?

Indie narratives games only.

Since you didn't mention those games by name: do you play them with one hand, perchance? 🤪

Let me show you my drawf fortress world

I play the Sakura series and everything from my favorite publisher Kagura Games.

Don't ask why I have so many boxes of tissues. They're uh....really sad and emotional games.

old games, indie games, games with the graphics settings turned all the way down

What's the polar opposite of AAA?

ITT: OP says he’s niche… refuses to elaborate.

Word.

Probably 95+% of the time I play is Single player.

I also dislike competitive gameplay, so with that most of the PvP goes into drain for me 😃

indie only

I only play old games.

Whenever someone asks, they are usually a decade ahead of me.

I feel like FIFA should have been in the list

every individual's preference is distinct.

G*mers really make it easy don't they

No one asks.

I got big into tidy-em-ups the last month or two. Just unfortunate that the scene is full of slop knock-offs of Librarian at the moment

So like nethack in console mode with vim bindings?

Valhiem, Dwarf fortress, Starsector, Space Engineers 1

So many a year ago, I would tell people I was a gamer, and they all assumed video games when I meant role-playing games. Made me a touch upset. Now I see this happening in video game culture too, and I just have a smile of justification while sitting in my room of unread ttrpg books.

Duck game, gunfire reborn, witcher 3, random meme games

Morrowind

Yes I play nintendo. You mean romhacks, right?

La-Mulana, Star Sector, Tower of the Sorcerer, Lemmings, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Reality Break, IJI.

I am definitely not a standard gamer. Spent $600 on a copy of the Merc Stealth keyboard, called the Ergo Sentry Plus.

UFO50!

I exclusively only play games that appear as though they were made for the dreamcast.

And sometimes cheat with a bit of some REZ inspired synesthesia games. Thanks Tetris: Effect, Lumines: Arise, and all three versions of beat hazard.

Get ready to be called the casual for not playing competitive games.

Exclusively Europa Universalis 4 with my kids. Is that weird enough?

OP implying he never played CoD Battlefield and GTA

Gta5 was barely enjoyable compared to 4. I've never played the other ones.

Its hard being niche. That is me in like every hobby then I end up being alone in it 😆

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell 💪🏻

From Anakin's look it is obviously Rapelay.