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
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.
Be me. Spend 2 grand on new PC. Play sim city 3000 night after night after night.
Ditto. Except it’s Arma 3. which still runs badly on a system with a 13900k, a 7900XTX and 32 GB of Ram,…
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.
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
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”.
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.
How do you play for that long? After 500 hours every mission feels the same, even with mods.
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 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.
It’s gotta be right?
Just because I’ve built a death star and launched it doesn’t mean I’m autistic.
Pretty sure any amount of hours over 2,000 automatically means it qualifies
Ah, shit, I thought I was safe for it being a main stream game, but I guess not. The Sims 2 for me
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)
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.
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.
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
usually they are unoptimized and reliant on craopy anti cheat
Exactly my point.
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.
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
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?
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!
“Oh yeah, I’m a big gamer. I play FIFA and COD. And next year I’ll play next year’s FIFA and COD.”
Hell yeah fifa and cod are awesome 😎
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.
I play Factorio too.
Oh, the train game with mining side quests?
I should start a new Factorio run
KSP Realism Overhaul players:
…Amateurs!
lol I kid, I kid.
Lets also not forget the various autism powered map painting simulator games.
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.
is it ever 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.
RimWorld is great, but it’s a shadow of what Dwarf Fortress offers. DF is the gold standard for depth and mechanics.
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.
- 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?
Google “Boatmurdered”
It makes Rimworld look like the Geneva convention.
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
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.
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
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 :(
Gregtech New Horizons players: too busy playing to be in this meme
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…
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.
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.
Im still working on getting good at games that came out 40 years ago haha
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
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.
Disclaimer “autistic PC game” triggered this post.
Am i the only one sinking… ungodly… hours into Nethack?
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!
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.
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.
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?
Go to nethack.org my friend.
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.
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.
Haven’t even heard of it, but I’m going to look it up now!
I really tried but it was just too clunky for me :( Now, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup on the other hand <333
