Be me. Spend 2 grand on new PC. Play sim city 3000 night after night after night.
Anon wants to talk about video games
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Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
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.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Anon wants to talk about the games they like, not the games other people like.
frankenswine@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
wait. now conversation is about listening and not just telling people stuff?
WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
“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.
Delphia@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
Sektor@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You mean simcade racer :p
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
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.
grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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”
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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).
Delphia@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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”.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
9point6@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The fact that no one has said anything about RimWorld shows how far you all have to go
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
If it ain’t a warcrime then I’ll make it one - average rimworld enjoyer
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
If you haven’t used the Geneva convention as a checkbox, have you really played Rimworld?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 22 hours ago
RimWorld is great, but it’s a shadow of what Dwarf Fortress offers.
Redacted@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Thats it time to harvest your organs to buy drugs
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
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
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
what about paradox games? avg user playtime of eu4 on steam is double that of factorio
WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
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.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
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
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
KSP Realism Overhaul players:
…Amateurs!
lol I kid, I kid.
Lets also not forget the various autism powered map painting simulator games.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Oh, I should pick up Dyson Sphere again. They have enemies to shoot at now!
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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?
50MYT@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I’m gonna check it out, the reviews look promising! Just gotta finish my dyson sphere first…
Noja@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
Gregtech New Horizons players: too busy playing to be in this meme
Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
“Oh yeah, I’m a big gamer. I play FIFA and COD. And next year I’ll play next year’s FIFA and COD.”
baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Hell yeah fifa and cod are awesome 😎
FatVegan@leminal.space 16 hours ago
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.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
COD Madden bros are the absolute fucking worst
MehBlah@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Is KSP a autistic game? If so I got at least 10,000 hours in.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
KSP definitely counts, but I think it’s the 10k hours that makes your experience with it autistic.
saturn57@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
How do you play for that long? After 500 hours every mission feels the same, even with mods.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
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)
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
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.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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. 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.
Bongles@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
It’s gotta be right?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Just because I’ve built a death star and launched it doesn’t mean I’m autistic.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Pretty sure any amount of hours over 2,000 automatically means it qualifies
Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 hours ago
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.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
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
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
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
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
“Hey do you like games?”
Yeah. I’ve got all the FIFA’s
degen@midwest.social 8 hours ago
Like do the games even change or is it just updated rosters?
spirinolas@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I play Factorio too.
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Oh, the train game with mining side quests?
gmtom@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I should start a new Factorio run
RalfWausE@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Disclaimer “autistic PC game” triggered this post.
Am i the only one sinking… ungodly… hours into Nethack?
topherclay@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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.
Mniot@programming.dev 15 hours ago
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!
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
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.
Zanathos@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Go to nethack.org my friend.
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
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.
cevn@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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.
Bosht@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Haven’t even heard of it, but I’m going to look it up now!
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 19 hours ago
I really tried but it was just too clunky for me :( Now, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup on the other hand <333
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have you heard of this one game? It’s called SUPER MARIO BROS!!!
Indy classic. Came out a few years ago. You probably never heard of it.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
Indie nothing, it's first party AAA slop.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Slop it is not! There was palpable love in that game.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Ah to be young and naive.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
AAA? It’s self-published my friend.
DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
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)
sidebro@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Sounds like Anon doesn’t wanna talk about video games after all
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I mean, that’s the same shit you see happening in music, books, movies…
Most of us stick with one genre, and then sometimes you get to appreciate the entire medium. But it’s not easy for everybody.
I always think it’s like colours. I can’t fathom people who actually genuinely have a favourite color they always wanna have.
But at the same time, if you ask me to read anything that’s not outside of a few favourite genres, it is a struggle.So yeah, at least try to appreciate that others may not like exactly what you like. And it’s okay if they only like the one thing. They are missing out sure. But you’re probably missing out on plenty of stuff too.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
Well, as a Factorio and Rimworld player I know which one I am…
TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“…15,000 hours in this autistic PC game…”
Found another Star Citizen fan! 😆
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
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.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
Okay, what games do you want to talk about?
missingno@fedia.io 1 day ago
The death of monoculture comes for gaming too. The sheer number of games out there means you can always find some niche gem that really appeals to you and you specifically, but then you might not find anyone else who knows it and wants to talk about it.
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
“Hey do you like games?” “no”
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 15 hours ago
I play literally anything, but with an increased rate of Single Player FPS, Twin-Stick Roguelite, Bullet Heavens,ARPGS and Roguelikes. Currently my main fixation is The King is Watching, I haven’t the issue that i only play specific games, but i can’t finish any of them -.- It’s like i have a fear of coming into a situation where i fail, damn anxiety.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I have a very broad taste, so I play it all… except sports games. Usually stop before the 200h mark for all games. I think that’s the division I see the most: gamers who play it all and sports gamers. There’s niche subdivisions like people who stick to one genre or old games only but I can relate with them because… I play it all.
bulwark@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean I do have an alarming amount of hours on dwarf fortress…
janus2@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
“autistic PC game” that’s every PC game
—me, an autistic PC (primarily) gamerChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io 1 day ago
15,000 hours in autistic PC game
Every single Elona/Elin player
chunes@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I don’t see a difference between the last two
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
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
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
The best PS1 game for me was parasite eve.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
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.