"Damn, Conversations suck since the latest update, they changed the entire gameplay", except they were just playing it wrong the entire time and the update just patched a bug.
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 :(
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.
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.
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
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
Same conclusion I came to. It's why I haven't gotten very far in. I generally only play games for about an hour or so before bed, and it requires too much attention to be able to do that, so it was back to desperate housewives and cross stitch before bed
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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 😉
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
I only did that once on an Apollo style mun mission when I realized I didn't put any rcs on it after 2 hours of mission. Took a few quick loads so I had enough fuel left to get back.
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
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.
Though bean counter is usually a term for an accountant, who typically is not an “executive”. Or at least isn’t making driving decisions. They just like report the numbers.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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"
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).
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".
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.
Fair enough. I'm not sure how transferable your Gran Turismo skills will be over to other sims, but if you're having fun that's the main thing.
I started my simracing journey with a Logitech Momo wheel and the original rFactor around 2006/7, and then a lot of GTR Evolution after years of playing NFS and the original Dirt (Dirt is the one that had me craving more realism and prompted getting rFactor). I did get a PS3 and GT5 and GT6 when it came out in 2013, but didn't find the gameplay compelling - it seemed to be mostly 'pass a bunch of grandma drivers from the back of the field in 3 laps to progress', which isn't what I call racing and got old fast.
After progressing through a couple of G27s and a G29, I finally plumped for a direct drive wheel la couple of years ago (Moza R5) and have recently added a Moza shifter and handbrake. I've also got a car seat from the wreckers, and built myself a table around 2011 that I still use. I picked up a Quest 2 in 2022 because VR simracing is amazing. So I've spent maybe 3 or 4 thousand dollars on my simracing setup, but spread out over 20 or so years, that's not too bad.
I got a seat, Thrustmaster t300rs wheel and pedals for $400 aud, then someone was selling the same wheel but with the upgraded pedals and the addon shifter for $300 so I bought it because the load cell brake is so much better. Ive put the other wheel and pedals away because my daughter is 6 and keeps wanting a turn so when I jump to ps5 Ill build her a little rig with the ps4
I settled on GT7 for 2 reasons. I already had a PS4 and bought GT7 years ago but playing it on controler just wasnt fun so there was no financial outlay outside of the setup and it was also the game that some people I watch on YT did some videos with. I do agree that the non online racing isnt exactly inspired.
Im also working on a rig that I can pack down to small enough to slot into a gap next to the couch when Im not using it but without a huge pile of ball ache to set up.
Still very much in prototype stage but loosten off the wheel, loosten off the stand and concertina the whole thing down to about a 50cm x50cm footprint.
I switched to a loadcell brake last year as well (Moza SR-P), and 100% agree about the improvement, but what surprised me the most with that pedal set was how much of a difference the extra resolution in the throttle pedal made after using the G25/7/9 pedals for years.
And yeah, playing any racing game on controller just feels so disconnected compared to a wheel. Even mouse steering is better than that. (Ah, the fun I had on Midtown Madness)
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)
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.
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.
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
Thats the stupid way to play lol. My SO hated Minecraft too because all they ever did was see people blowing stuff up with tnt. Once they found out it had tons of animals and farming and gardening they were really into it.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
Anon wants to talk about the games they like, not the games other people like.
wait. now conversation is about listening and not just telling people stuff?
"Damn, Conversations suck since the latest update, they changed the entire gameplay", except they were just playing it wrong the entire time and the update just patched a bug.
The fact that no one has said anything about RimWorld shows how far you all have to go
If it ain't a warcrime then I'll make it one - average rimworld enjoyer
i really need to give rimworld a shot
See you in 2 years!
i just downloaded DF and i got really confused. I'm hooked!
I bounced off it, sadly.
I’ll have to try again once my current Factorio run is over.
Once you start rimming you'll be hooked for life.
There is also the forbidden mod if you want to do that as a job.
how is DF for war crimes tho
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.
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?
My biggest challenge would be not losing the fort to FPS death for 12 years
Google "Boatmurdered"
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.
If you haven't used the Geneva convention as a checklist, have you really played Rimworld?
Thats it time to harvest your organs to buy drugs
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
what about paradox games? avg user playtime of eu4 on steam is double that of factorio
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
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.
I only got 4k hours im normal.
Oh, I should pick up Dyson Sphere again. They have enemies to shoot at now!
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?
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.
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 :(
This one is missing "captain of industry"
Anyone who ticks the factorio/satisfactory/Dyson box should check it out. Free demo.
Don't blame me if you time skip a few days after.
I'm gonna check it out, the reviews look promising! Just gotta finish my dyson sphere first...
Gregtech New Horizons players: too busy playing to be in this meme
KSP Realism Overhaul players:
...Amateurs!
lol I kid, I kid.
Lets also not forget the various autism powered map painting simulator games.
"Hey do you like games?"
Yeah. I've got all the FIFA's
Like do the games even change or is it just updated rosters?
They might add new game mechanics?
But what could be added?
They've been going since 1993
"Oh yeah, I'm a big gamer. I play FIFA and COD. And next year I'll play next year's FIFA and COD."
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.
COD Madden bros are the absolute fucking worst
The thing that i don't get is that they always seem to hate the games the most, but are always excited to get the new one.
Hell yeah fifa and cod are awesome 😎
I've been playing Halo 1 on the original XBox for half my life and I'm in my 40s
Playing Halo for half a life, but not half life for half a life
Hey now. Where do you think I spent that other 20?
Headcrabs walked so the Unggoy could scuttle
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.
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
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
Most recent game I loved was disco Elysium. Didn't get very far in, but I absolutely loved playing it
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.
Same conclusion I came to. It's why I haven't gotten very far in. I generally only play games for about an hour or so before bed, and it requires too much attention to be able to do that, so it was back to desperate housewives and cross stitch before bed
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.
SUPER MARIO BROS 2 GOTY BABBYYYYYY ITS A MASTAHPIECE
KNACK
... is a bad game.
Now....
Knack 2 on the other hand -
IS A MASTAHPIECE BABYYYYYY, KNACK IS BACK
Indie nothing, it's first party AAA slop.
Slop it is not! There was palpable love in that game.
Pfft whatever they reused the clouds to make the bushes, love my ass.
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?
Shhh don't tell anyone! (Yes my post was 100% a joke, well except for the part about reusing sprites).
i see... love slop!
You ever notice that the background objects often have the same shapes? Clouds, hills, dunes, bushes etc. . Lazy programmers
AAA? It's self-published my friend. That's what counts as Indie today
Ah to be young and naive.
Sounds like Anon doesn't wanna talk about video games after all
I should start a new Factorio run
“…15,000 hours in this autistic PC game…”
Found another Star Citizen fan! 😆
Factorio
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
"It- it's correlation, i swear!" lol
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.
:3 uwu
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.
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...
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.
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 😉
Dayz
Found a new game to play.
Also GregTech6 (Minecraft mod) is my autistic PC game
Is it the one with realistic trains?
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.
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.
That doesn’t narrow it down, aren’t there at least 3 mods with realistic trains?
GregTech6? I haven't played minecraft in a LONG time, damn.
I'm still using Minecraft version 1.7.10 for the mods! At least it feels new with Et Futurum Requiem
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
I've been playing GunZ since 2004
dwarf fortressBraid
Have y'all heard about rain world, perchance ?
Is KSP a autistic game? If so I got at least 10,000 hours in.
KSP definitely counts, but I think it's the 10k hours that makes your experience with it autistic.
Pretty sure any amount of hours over 2,000 automatically means it qualifies
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)
Fucking relatable. I got 3 friends, barely see any of them because of adult life :/
It's gotta be right?
Just because I've built a death star and launched it doesn't mean I'm autistic.
I never use RCS to dock in orbit. I can do it with reaction wheels and main engine alone. I don't even bother to put RCS on my ships.
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.
😏
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.
I only did that once on an Apollo style mun mission when I realized I didn't put any rcs on it after 2 hours of mission. Took a few quick loads so I had enough fuel left to get back.
How do you play for that long? After 500 hours every mission feels the same, even with mods.
That's what mods and sandbox is for ヾ(＾▽＾)ﾉ
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
I play Factorio too.
Oh, the train game with mining side quests?
Well, as a Factorio and Rimworld player I know which one I am...
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.
If you are having fun, I'm sure the Rimworld devs would be happy to know it.
Meanwhile the C-shites are probably dying inside, knowing people like you exist. Fuck. Them.
C-shites? Not sure who you're referencing with that.
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.
That's it exactly. Sorry if it was not clear enough.
Though bean counter is usually a term for an accountant, who typically is not an “executive”. Or at least isn’t making driving decisions. They just like report the numbers.
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.
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.
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!
See I always hear these absolutely bizarre and amazing stories and I have yet to play one myself =[ makes me so sad lol.
Holy crap! That's over a year if play time
Okay, what games do you want to talk about?
Real games like Roblox and Subway Surfers
Casuals, I only play flappy bird.
flappy bird? Pssh, look at you modern gamers and your graphics. I play missile on a TI-83, like god intended.
Its Geometry Dash nowadays
i'm really into adventure. i just found the key
Adventure is a fun game.
XYZZY forever.
Virtua tennis
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.
Hell yeah! When you click over from "this game is impossible wth" to kicking Rodney's ass so much that you'd expect him to just give up...
Nice work cracking a tough game!
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?
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.
That sounds very interesting and evolved lol. I will give it a go for sure.
Go to nethack.org my friend.
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.
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.
Haven't even heard of it, but I'm going to look it up now!
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.
I really tried but it was just too clunky for me :( Now, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup on the other hand <333
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.
my synesthesia is color related. everything has a color. orange calms me. so there's orange everywhere here.
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.
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".
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.
Yeah I'm a sim racer, and I suck.
Today I'm playing GT7, tomorrow I'm probably play some GT7 and if I'm getting really frisky next week I might play some GT7.
Gotta git gud.
You mean simcade racer :p
What particular brand of gatekeeping are you on about?
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.
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"
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).
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".
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.
I do and I know the whole PC world is there but I decided "I need to finish gt7" as an exercise in skill development.
Fair enough. I'm not sure how transferable your Gran Turismo skills will be over to other sims, but if you're having fun that's the main thing.
I started my simracing journey with a Logitech Momo wheel and the original rFactor around 2006/7, and then a lot of GTR Evolution after years of playing NFS and the original Dirt (Dirt is the one that had me craving more realism and prompted getting rFactor). I did get a PS3 and GT5 and GT6 when it came out in 2013, but didn't find the gameplay compelling - it seemed to be mostly 'pass a bunch of grandma drivers from the back of the field in 3 laps to progress', which isn't what I call racing and got old fast.
After progressing through a couple of G27s and a G29, I finally plumped for a direct drive wheel la couple of years ago (Moza R5) and have recently added a Moza shifter and handbrake. I've also got a car seat from the wreckers, and built myself a table around 2011 that I still use. I picked up a Quest 2 in 2022 because VR simracing is amazing. So I've spent maybe 3 or 4 thousand dollars on my simracing setup, but spread out over 20 or so years, that's not too bad.
My current rig
I got a seat, Thrustmaster t300rs wheel and pedals for $400 aud, then someone was selling the same wheel but with the upgraded pedals and the addon shifter for $300 so I bought it because the load cell brake is so much better. Ive put the other wheel and pedals away because my daughter is 6 and keeps wanting a turn so when I jump to ps5 Ill build her a little rig with the ps4
I settled on GT7 for 2 reasons. I already had a PS4 and bought GT7 years ago but playing it on controler just wasnt fun so there was no financial outlay outside of the setup and it was also the game that some people I watch on YT did some videos with. I do agree that the non online racing isnt exactly inspired.
Im also working on a rig that I can pack down to small enough to slot into a gap next to the couch when Im not using it but without a huge pile of ball ache to set up.
Still very much in prototype stage but loosten off the wheel, loosten off the stand and concertina the whole thing down to about a 50cm x50cm footprint.
That's brilliant!
I switched to a loadcell brake last year as well (Moza SR-P), and 100% agree about the improvement, but what surprised me the most with that pedal set was how much of a difference the extra resolution in the throttle pedal made after using the G25/7/9 pedals for years.
And yeah, playing any racing game on controller just feels so disconnected compared to a wheel. Even mouse steering is better than that. (Ah, the fun I had on Midtown Madness)
"Hey do you like games?" "no"
"I'm not 12 anymore" which leaves a burn mark
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.
2000 hours in Rimworld, I also play it like the Sims, but eating the neighbors is encouraged.
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)
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.
All AAA games are trash.
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
Exactly my point.
That's not fair. SquareEnix still puts out a few bangers. BG3 was fantastic.
i have four newphews. they only play minecraft, robolox, and fortnite. they very rarely try other games but have 1000s of hours in those.
Minecraft isnt a game. Its a lifestyle.
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."
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'.
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
my nephews just grief each other on it.
Thats the stupid way to play lol. My SO hated Minecraft too because all they ever did was see people blowing stuff up with tnt. Once they found out it had tons of animals and farming and gardening they were really into it.
what's the point of doing all that if you can't blow it up?
It was nice while it lasted. Microsoft, a corporation I didnt give money for my copy of minecraft, stole my copy from me.
Same here. Only luanti for me now!
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
gamesexperiences ensured they wouldn't feel the need to leave to play something different.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!
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.
It's by design. They want to lock you in, with the progression tailored specially for you. It's not that you want to play that way, you are directed.
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
This is me when I buy a pubg pass. It essentially means I have to play daily when I'd rather just play every could of days
I enjoy roguelikes for up to 30 hours most of the time, they rarely remain entertaining after that (to me, anyway)
Be me. Spend 2 grand on new PC. Play sim city 3000 night after night after night.
Are you having a good time, though?
I sure am. Thanks for asking.
Ditto. Except it's Arma 3. which still runs badly on a system with a 13900k, a 7900XTX and 32 GB of Ram,..
Me and dwarf fortress
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
My favorite PS1 game was GEX
I downgraded and ported it to GBA myself, honestly that's the best way to play it.
1, 2 or 3?
Bushido Blade 1 is the best fighting game still. Yes I tried the sequel.
The best PS1 game for me was parasite eve.
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.
I played that so much on PC as a kid. Gotta get it running and see if the muscle memory is still there
Nice pick. Great RPG. Beat the tower and everything.
People like you should be drawn and quartered
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Im still working on getting good at games that came out 40 years ago haha
I mean I do have an alarming amount of hours on dwarf fortress...
That qualifies as an autistic game I'm pretty sure.
Dwarves are all autistic, that’s why they make the best smiths
Every single Elona/Elin player
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
I'm really hoping the new expansion for d4 is to d4 as reaper of souls was to d3. But I have a sneaking suspicion that Blizzard is actually done.
Is d4 diablo four? Cause yea im still playing the re release of d2.
Never did play d3.
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.
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Its Activision now
"autistic PC game" that's every PC game
—me, an autistic PC (primarily) gamer
In my experience
"Oh yeah im a hardcore gamer im already prestige 6 in COD bro."
I play a lot of different games but my favorites are RPGs, shooters and space sims.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You’re not alone.
EDIT: Also recently dropped Destiny 2. I’ve been playing since the original’s beta.
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.
Terranigma was awesome. I have heard of La-Mulana, but never actually played it
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.
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?
I don't see a difference between the last two
Genre vs specific game.
I'm sometimes surprised of how few people play indie games. I'm playing Neon White now and having a blast.
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.
Uh, 300h with X4, 700h with Palworld... I'd expect to be autistic with the former more than the latter
Don't forget the normies that only play FIFA
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?
Rust?
Let people enjoy things.