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when I was in middle school I racked up over half a YEAR playtime in Minecraft and gave myself carpel tunnel. I only played Minecraft 1.8.9 which was at least 10 versions out of date by that point. I never even made anything I just played on Hypixel.
I did get full superior dragon armor in Hypixel Skyblock by spotting that you could buy a fish for 2 coins but sell it for like 20 coins if you craft it into bait because people are lazy. So I bought and sold millions of fish 2,500 at a time.
I later found that you could just craft dragon armor using shards and sell them on the auction house for about 100k profit and made BANK before other people caught on.
I loved finding those little market loopholes. Sad that nerds eventually caught on and made websites to automate it, and that the game went pay to win. Those were some good times though.
also hot take but dwarvern mines ruined the game. It's "SKYblock" not "infinite land block"
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the worst part of hyperfixating on a really niche game is no one knows wtf youre talking about when you finally have a chance to info dump about it
But they need to know where the highest point in each level of Bubsy 3D is!
Just add another layer to the info dump!
I think you would really thrive in EVE Online, if you're looking for a different sandbox to pull off this kind of crap in. Your autist and autist-tolerant community awaits.
The game is so complex and nuanced that the learning curve is nigh impossible to overcome by yourself but it also means that the game is full of fun little interactions and opportunities for people to discover and exploit.
A lot of early game poverty, sprawling decision fatigue, and impenetrable mechanical complexity can be mitigated by knowing people, so if you do give it a try, DM me and I can infodump all about my special interest.
Also ck2 and eu4
LOL I hoped that I would find Eve Online mentioned in the comments.
As someone who's currently winning the game at the moment, I will note for those interested but unfamiliar that "winning the game" is what Eve players call taking a break. At this point, it's more fun as a game to read about. But getting to that point was an adventure for sure, and I still hang in my old corp's spaces.
Most of the game is boring, but the fun parts absolutely gave me the highest adrenaline highs of any game by far.
Always kinda wanted to get into eve, just didn't have any friends into it and yea it's pretty intimidating to get into solo
Man, all y'all playing games people have heard of. Filthy casuals with your "Warframe", "Runescape", "Minecraft", "TF2" and "Diablo".
I, a true connoisseur, personally spent my childhood sinking over 2000 hours into Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (not to be confused with the far more popular and lauded Final Fantasy Tactics). It's the only Final Fantasy game I know of that has never been rereleased. The other game of my childhood was over 200 hours in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. The first video game I can remember playing was Final Fantasy II.
Okay but The Minish Cap is a straight up banger so I'd say it balances out
Oh, absolutely, it's just generally regarded as among the lower-tiers of the franchise. Those reviewers clearly lack refined taste.
I llke how you make fun of people for liking mainstream games, and then proceed to list off some of the most mainstream games ever that you so happen to like.
I think they were joking.
Yeah I think so too.
Let the record reflect that the above comment was facetious in its tone when it "made fun of" people, as I attempted to make clear with the meme "filthy casuals".
As far as FFTA, while I, personally, think FFTA was an excellent game, in the first listing I could find that even acknowledged its existence, it is ranked above only two of the eight non-mainline games. It is completely forgotten by the vast majority of online discourse, and is not looked on favourably compared to other games in the franchise.
The first game I played (FFII) is, generally, regarded as one of the worst, if not the worst, FF games ever made, to the point of being famously unplayable.
Meanwhile, the Minish Cap is listed here by metacritic as being approximately 3/4 of the way down the list among the lower-tier entries in the franchise, below even phantom hourglass and the oracle games.
Let us consider, then, the games I was comparing them to:
Minecraft is one of the top-selling games of all time, Runescape has been continually played for so long that old-school run escape currently has over 100000 players online. Right now.
TF2 is the constant source of popular internet memes, and has over 45000 active players right now on steam
Are you seriously suggesting these compare to the least-loved of these other franchises?
The point of the post is to discuss the bad games into which you sunk hundreds of hours, not just list Minecraft, Civilization, and Team Fortress 2, some of the most well-beloved games of all time.
God I loved Tactics Advance so much. You know there was a DS sequel? Looks badass, I'm concerned I'll just ruin the magic memories.
Yeah, but even I thought that the sequel didn't look good in terms of crunchiness. I liked how there were thousands of different options for team load out and equipment and abilities in the original, but it seemed like they streamlined it for FFTA2. Also, it seemed like it retconned some of the back story of the original, which made me not want to play it.
I never gave it a chance, then.
please play dwarf fortress.
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not every weird thing is because autism.
the irony is that you can find this comment under any post about autism, which sure seems like a hyperfixation to me.
It's almost like autism is a set of traits that everyone has to a small degree they are simply stronger and highly amplified in people with autism to the point of it greatly affecting their daily lives.
Everyone can spend too much time on a video game, autistic people who have a special interest in video games are way more likely to spend insane hours on the the games they fixate on.
But this one is
The ADHD people play good games instead
or none at all because i have so many and then get caught up thinking about which ones could get played or my backlog or the emulators or the..
fuck it road rash 64 it is
My dumbass was like "I remember playing road rash and road rash 2 on sega, are there seriously 64 of them now??"
...no. It's for Nintendo 64, lol. I don't even think fifa has anywhere close to 64 games.
I play them. Finish? We don't do that here
I developed something like ADHD in adulthood, and the only gaming I do is grinding Assetto Corsa and a couple moto sims. Anything with a story gets forgotten halfway through.
I have both and spent a decade playing WOW 🤣
Of course not, but "restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities" is one of the key traits of autism observed by non-autistic folks and one of the major criteria/requirements for diagnosis, and playing a specific video game over and over can certainly line up with part of that
Does this make someone autistic, no, but if that person's seeing this, pretty heavy social communication differences with others, inflexibility with routine, nonverbal communication differences, atypical sensory sensitivity, and all this has been since an early age, they should probably start considering the possibility
In 2000, mental orders were under discussed. In 2015+, people are obsessed with labeling themselves as some sorta broken.
Statistically most of you guys are just slightly nerdy, lazy, and picky. Not autistic / adhd / OCD.
That's like going to a UFC match and telling the audience that statistically 51% of them are female. Might be true on a global scale, but where you collect your sample matters.
I bet the demographic on lemmy skew much higher for neurodivergent people than in general population (kind of like how UFC fans skew more male than in general population), and even more so on lemmy.blahaj.zone (you know, because of the statistics on blahajs selected demographic).
Coincidentally, I'm getting way more replies on Lemmy from people who don't get sarcasm, than on Reddit.
Me and Fractal Block World for a while. Might get back into it again.
Now that makes me feel old. I played a bunch of minecraft, but abruptly stopped and never went back. When i played the beat gear you could have was diamond armor and diamond sword. The other day i randomly watched. a minecraft video and was like: what's all this?
If you played Minecraft then you're not old.
Minecraft became popular when I was a 12. How old am I?
::: spoiler spoiler Take the year and substract 2000. Thats the answer :::
Idk, i showed my friends mom minecraft at the time and she played around 100 hours. She's 75 now
Some of the new stuff is actually kinda nice though, and the newer music is a whole vibe. That being said I'm playing gtnh which is like.... 1.8 heavily modded with some newer stuff backported.
I mean... Diamond is still the 2nd best and the newat teir is still fairly new.
Majority of the new stuff they've added is just new blocks to build with.
But ypu can enchant stuff? And tgere is a boss at the end.
Oh shit okay yeah if you stopped play waaaaay back before then end was added then I can def see the confusion.
Enchanting and the ender dragon have been in the game for so long that even they are considered fairly ancient features.
Gonna toss this in here cause it is a little known game that I have heard described as a glue trap for autism (and I am a stuck rat with 3000 hours).
Siralim Ultimate
If you like creature collectors and putting together broken builds with an insane number of moving parts a la magic the gathering you will probably enjoy it.
Oh no. This game is dangerous to me, i can already tell.
If you enjoy games you can farm infinitely, theory crafting builds that make it so your NPC opponents don't get to play the game you paid for, making meme builds a reality, and collecting a bunch of lil guys it is going to be so dangerous.
It also has built in randomized and challenge modes.
Elite: Dangerous. 1300 hours and counting.
Frontier are an absolute shitcake of a company, and David Braben is a greedy motherfucker. The game is a mile wide and an inch deep, with some fucknasty game mechanics and grinds.
Despite all that and more, nothing I've played so far in my 44 years on this earth is quite as fucking cool an experience. It works well with all my simrig peripherals including the TrackIR, which helps the experience a lot I will admit. But still, it has it's moments.
I played nothing else for two years. I wanted so hard to find some depth, but all they gave us was lazy expansions, and chaotic updates, and almost no followup on anything once it was implemented. Still the best space sim i ever played.
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos pulls a close 2nd place for it's genuine Newtonian physics at sub-light speeds.
Edit: Sniper PDCs and ranging everyone out, true space combat.
Hey EYE Devine Cybermancy isn't just the worst, it's also the best.
My legs are okay!
Another third of life goes into the worst sleep too 😅
i dumped 7000 hours into skyblock before getting a job and realizing I don't got time for that anymore lol. hit level 500+78b networth with a lot of shit maxed out and called it
Do you mean the Minecraft Mod?
I'm talking about the "mini"game on hypixel, basically an mmorpg
Almost felt it was gonna be Hypixel SkyBlock before even clicking, I also sunk like 4000 hours into it. Was fun though before it got ruined, 2019-2020 SkyBlock era was amazing.
Oof, I'm the same here. Fun game but it enshitified at the end.
I wish I had the time and patience to dedicate myself to a game like that. I'm too easily bored and distracted.
I desperately want to get good at a game called Devil Daggers or it's sequel Hyper Demon because the WR runs look insane! (links are videos)
I always play for 5 minutes, get frustrated (or confused in Hyper Demon) and give up
Honestly sick ass games to hyperfixate on.
And I'm instantly transported back to the heady days of Diablo II. Thank you for that jaunt down memory lane.
Diablo II was my middle school life. I think I had eleven accounts full of chars? Eventually I learned how to set up bots, and botted while I was at school. I got home one day to a blue magic item that I thought was trash, and it turned out to be worth an obscene amount of high runes!
Mine was Wurm Online. Loved my community of weirdos there, even the drama.
I dropped wurm online for bitcraft, 2k hours this year...
I wrote off video games as a whole. It doesn't do me good.
Warframe. Fun gameplay, and they're constantly expanding it with new game modes that each feel rewarding. And the story is cool
I haven't hyperfixated in a long time, the last three were probably Terraria, Civ V, and Rimworld.
get into dwarf fortress if you can stomach the learning curve. it's like leaving Plato's cave, rimworld is the shadows on a wall
They're both good but the difference is scope, df has a deeper simulation and much bigger scale but rimworld has a lot more character driven stuff.
I'm gonna be honest, the comparison between the two as DF has just better Rimworld has not been correct for a long time. Arguably it was never accurate because Rimworld gives you better control where dwarf fortress is more like a settlement/cuty builder + increased depth to simulation, Z-axis and some RPG mechanics.
If we want to be real Rimworld has plenty of mechanics introduced by DLC (not to mention mods) that just don't and won't ever exist in Dwarf Fortress.
I've got 8000 hours in rimworld and 11000 in dwarf fortress, and a permanent stream at https://watch.unhelpful.observer/
i love both games to death. i keep both running on my idle machines, I'm breeding thrumbo great grandparents and i don't use mods I LOVE rimworld and dwarf fortress, and i think that my Plato's cave comparison holds up better than you think. it's the use of layers of abstraction that allows rimworld to be more than dwarf fortress and to feel like a real game rather than just a simulation, and it's the dedication to reality that allows dwarf fortress to go DEEP DEEP DEEP into specificity, get 30 years in on a second fortress and you have 100% chance encountered a crazy situation that nobody can replicate without cheating
it is almost an insult to call these video games, they are so much more important to me than just games, they are more like independent hobbies
my favorite thing about both games is endgame simulation content. when you've played 200 years and all that's left are great-grandchildren/goblins/elves/archotech elites, and rimworld ideoligions allowing you to create entirely untouched sustainable communities that you can just run forever like an ant farm, to me, this is the definitive simulation experience!
Derping around on TF2 trade servers. Not even trading. Just not being in the mood for a competitive game and rather fucking around with randos.
Runescape comes to mind ...
The game is designed to be a grind-slog with the only benefit of seeing a number go up. I really don't get how everyone doesn't get bored out of their mind after playing it a couple of days.
I think it’s the promise that you’re progress isn’t wasted in the next patch cycle that hits there lol
No endgame gear treadmill with weekly gated content to keep you resubbing
Came here for that, and it totally fits the bill here. But I think I get why people play. Never had an endgame account and have not had a decently progressed account since eoc though, so this might not be it. But it's just fun how you can play in so many different ways and progress with everything being so interconnected. And you have a decent shot at much of the content without being completely decked out.
I've played Wazhack so much. Is it pretty? Not really. Does it have bugs? Yes. Have I played a ton on the website, bought the website version, bought it so long ago was sent a steam code, and now have way too many hours on the steam version. I love it. I go back to it.
I played Rappelz. I played Rappelz off and on through 2014. (US servers, the Korean ones were way too hardcore for me)
Me playing Donkey Kong Land 3 over and over and over and over and over and
Is this why I have thousands of hours in Harvest Moon 64?
Me with warthunder. Im too dogshit for shooters, so ground RB is that but dependent on map control and smart positioning/knowlage of other tank armors. Air RB is so fun because its almost entirely about knowlage/positioning with a sprinkle of needing aiming skills/a good team
I just wish there was a better run game designed the same way warthunder is with both airplanes and tanks playable together. But for now Gainjin has my soul
This was me with the Minions game on the Casual Collective. It was basically a flash MOBA game that no one knew about. At least people knew about RuneScape which I admittedly almost got back into last year.
Now THIS is the sort of "worst games" shit I'm here for!
Yeah I had to quit Hypixel Skyblock, I got too addicted. I love farming XD
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