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 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.
In my experience
“Oh yeah im a hardcore gamer im already prestige 6 in COD bro.”
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.
I play a lot of different games but my favorites are RPGs, shooters and space sims.
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 <current year>
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?
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,…
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
Jrpgs are OK too, but I only like them on handheld.
People like you should be drawn and quartered
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My favorite PS1 game was GEX
I downgraded and ported it to GBA myself, honestly that’s the best way to play it.
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
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)
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.
“Oh yeah, I’m a big gamer. I play FIFA and COD. And next year I’ll play next year’s FIFA and COD.”
I’ve been playing Halo 1 on the original XBox for half my life and I’m in my 40s
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 😎
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.
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)
(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 :/
How do you play for that long? After 500 hours every mission feels the same, even with mods.
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
That’s what mods and sandbox is for ヾ(＾▽＾)ﾉ
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.
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.
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.
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
It’s gotta be right?
Just because I’ve built a death star and launched it doesn’t mean I’m autistic.
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.
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
KSP Realism Overhaul players:
…Amateurs!
lol I kid, I kid.
Lets also not forget the various autism powered map painting simulator games.
what about paradox games? avg user playtime of eu4 on steam is double that of factorio
I only got 4k hours im normal.
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 :(
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
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)
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
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)
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.
That’s not fair. SquareEnix still puts out a few bangers. BG3 was fantastic.
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.
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.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’.
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!
