Comment on Anon watches her boyfriend play videogames

• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nah, it doesn’t.

  The entire point of any game is to have fun while killing time.

  sometimes that means just going ham. Sometimes it means jacking up the difficulty setting, or nerfing yourself, or speedrunning, or wandering around and doing nothing at all except look at the.graphics.

  Maybe, for you the only point of a game is to fuck around on.whatever the max difficulty is, and I genuinely hope that you always have games that can give you that.

  But, my gaming homie, there’s no single point to gaming.

  And, can we be real for a minute? Most games, the skill involved is hand-eye coordination combined with reflexes. Which is fine for what it is, but it isn’t like the challenges involved are.something special.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I haven’t played all the Dark Souls games, but at least on DS1, the enemies are relatively few and far between, so “going ham” isn’t really a thing. The difficulty of DS is in where the enemies are, move sets, etc, not in how many there are or the specific weapons they have. Putting on cheats on something like DS is like having a tool to cut through a puzzle and get to the end w/o interacting with the puzzle in any meaningful sense.

    That’s fine if that’s what you’re into, but I highly doubt you’ll get as much enjoyment from it vs playing a game with a lot more interesting set pieces, like the ones I mentioned, or really anything with a sandboxy feel.

    You do you, of course, I’m just pointing out that if you’re looking for a casual slasher session or whatever, there are games designed for that, which would probably give you a lot more satisfaction.

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• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If it’s a single player game, who cares?

  If you have fun playing the game then congrats! The point is a game is to have fun.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I honestly don’t, I just think they’d get more enjoyment from games designed for having fun on god mode.

    If you beat a challenging game w/ cheats, did you really beat the game, or just roll credits? Where’s the satisfaction of bypassing the entire point behind the game?

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nah, it doesn’t.

  The entire point of any game is to have fun while killing time.

  sometimes that means just going ham. Sometimes it means jacking up the difficulty setting, or nerfing yourself, or speedrunning, or wandering around and doing nothing at all except look at the.graphics.

  Maybe, for you the only point of a game is to fuck around on.whatever the max difficulty is, and I genuinely hope that you always have games that can give you that.

  But, my gaming homie, there’s no single point to gaming.

  And, can we be real for a minute? Most games, the skill involved is hand-eye coordination combined with reflexes. Which is fine for what it is, but it isn’t like the challenges involved are.something special.

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