I typically go with single player games. Niche stuff casuals rarely play. It’s not a flex or anything, I just a “distinct” taste in gaming
Valhiem, Dwarf fortress, Starsector, Space Engineers 1
So like nethack in console mode with vim bindings?
Duck game, gunfire reborn, witcher 3, random meme games
Yes I play nintendo. You mean romhacks, right?
ITT: OP says he’s niche… refuses to elaborate.
OP plays NBA 2K.
So many a year ago, I would tell people I was a gamer, and they all assumed video games when I meant role-playing games. Made me a touch upset. Now I see this happening in video game culture too, and I just have a smile of justification while sitting in my room of unread ttrpg books.
Europa Universalis, Stellaris, BG3, Schedule 1, Rimworld, Timberborn, Terraria, Surviving Mars are some of my most played games.
I also have played Witcher 1/2/3, Mass Effect 1/2/3, WoW, GW 1 and 2, TERA and a little Battlefield and COD(BO2).
You see, I am somewhat of a gamer myself.
I’ve had several girlfriends who were like “you play video games? Like… <worried expression> call of duty?”
They were all relieved when I was like no.
Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.
“Sinisistar 2”. Cue the terrified expression and sudden teleport to elsewhere.
I’m not a COD guy, I prefer battlefield.
I always included my partners into playing it with me. Either taking turns or, as my partner for life, has come to love. Minimap watcher!
She calls out whatever is on the radar. Saved my ass so many times. I know it has to have made somebody mad, cause there’s times when she notices someone on the minimal and tells me turn around or something, and I end up getting em.
That’s so sweet!
Thank you. It really is. It started in bf1. I am colorblind (can’t remember which) but bf1 blended together for me a lot. Made it harder to see folks. She came in clutch more than I can count.
She’s the reason I have, I think 3 of the 4 horsemen dog tags.
And she’s great overwatch when I am flying heli with my buddy Squash on bf6. She can spot an enemy heli the moment it comes out. Where as I am basically blind because of my sight.
And she’s even gotten better at playing herself. Especially since we’ve worked on our communication skills and I have learned not to be so “harsh” sounding when she messes up a firefight and gets vented. And she’s learned that I’m not trying to be mean, but get the point across that you gotta stay calm under fire.
Something I love about her is that she’ll admit when she’s wrong, even when I am the bigger asshole. She can sit there look me in the eyes and say “how you acted wasn’t right, but I can see how I was acting made you act that way.”
To be acknowledged, to be seen as human, to be loved even when flawed. I wouldn’t trade it for the universe.
I’ll never be able to pay this woman back for the love she has given me and the support she has shown me. I’ll shutup now, as I could just go on about my partner.
Thank you for sharing this sweet story! I hope for you two to have a long and healty relationship!
Thank you! 12 yrs going strong. 6 yr old kid running us up a wall lol. Couldn’t ask for more. I’m as rich as a man can be.
My wife has more hours in stardew than I do
No one asks.
And then I go “Hey what if you could play CoD from the perspective of the psychopathic senior officers whose orders make all this violence happen?”
“Rimworld, what’s that?”
“Its like the Sims on a hostile alien planet with robots and cannibalism”
“Cannibalism?!”
"Yea… Usually not intentionally. I mean no one sets to eat their friends or even their enemies but after a few lean seasons and you have run out of pets… But it’s not like you let them go to waste, you can use the leather too.
… (Doesn’t notice them pulling away)
Human leather is actually kind of a premium value product…". “Hey where’d you go?!”
Evil genius is fun too
Niche stuff casuals rarely play.
that’s the kind of gatekeeping I’d like to avoid in my hobby
A lot of that ‘niche’ stuff may also be what ‘casuals’ do play
Yeah like so many of the single dev indie games I’ve played have been extremely casual—that’s why I play them!
I don’t think ‚casual‘ refers to the difficulty of the game for OP.
I’m probably into those too tbh
I read it more as what the sentence actually says than gatekeeping tbh
I exclusively only play games that appear as though they were made for the dreamcast.
And sometimes cheat with a bit of some REZ inspired synesthesia games. Thanks Tetris: Effect, Lumines: Arise, and all three versions of beat hazard.
I got big into tidy-em-ups the last month or two. Just unfortunate that the scene is full of slop knock-offs of Librarian at the moment
I read that as tiddy-em-ups and thought it was some new genre of gooner game.
Based off the shit I see on the steam store sales I’d say that’s the majority of the gooner games.
I go to the same barbershop every two month or so, but not always tge same barber. Every now and then i get a guy around my age who is pretty chatty, but we have literally nothing i. Common. So every time he remembers that i play video games, because he also plays video games. But for now a decade or so, his answer is always: fifa and cod and gta, when the new one came out. He has literally no idea what i’m talking about when i name some games i play. “Video games” to him is synonymous for fifa and call of duty. So we still have nothing in common
Yes, but at least soon he’ll have another GTA to discuss with you!
Can’t wait since i won’t play it.
Depending on how you gauge him, maybe you’re his opportunity to discover a vast fun world of indie games? At the very least, if you’re tired of him talking your ear off about Ball and Gun, you could at least talk his ear off about Expedition 33. Yapping as a defense mechanism.
