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)
i have four newphews. they only play minecraft, robolox, and fortnite. they very rarely try other games but have 1000s of hours in those.
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!
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.
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.
Is KSP a autistic game? If so I got at least 10,000 hours in.
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
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.
Im still working on getting good at games that came out 40 years ago haha
I play Factorio too.
“Oh yeah, I’m a big gamer. I play FIFA and COD. And next year I’ll play next year’s FIFA and COD.”
COD Madden bros are the absolute fucking worst
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.
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.
I should start a new Factorio run
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
I really tried but it was just too clunky for me :( Now, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup on the other hand <333
Haven’t even heard of it, but I’m going to look it up now!
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.
I always think it’s like colours. I can’t fathom people who actually genuinely have a favourite color they always wanna have.
my synesthesia is color related. everything has a color. orange calms me. so there’s orange everywhere here.
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
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.
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
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.
Thats it time to harvest your organs to buy drugs
If you haven’t used the Geneva convention as a checklist, have you really played Rimworld?
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
Gregtech New Horizons players: too busy playing to be in this meme
what about paradox games? avg user playtime of eu4 on steam is double that of factorio
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…
Well, as a Factorio and Rimworld player I know which one I am…
Big same. I’m closing in on 10k hours in Rimworld (been playing since 2016) and don’t know if I should be proud or ashamed.
Holy crap! That’s over a year if play time
If you are having fun, I’m sure the Rimworld devs would be happy to know it.
Meanwhile the C-shites are probably dying inside, knowing people like you exist. Fuck. Them.
C-shites? Not sure who you’re referencing with that.
My guess is it’s like a slur for “C-suites” aka the CEOs and CFOs and bean counters who want you to buy more games and only play them for a few days so you can spend money money on the next game.
The devs are happy if you enjoy their game but the businesmen are unhappy that you aren’t spending more money.
If I am correct on this crazy interpretation then I don’t know if I should be proud or ashamed.
That’s it exactly. Sorry if it was not clear enough.
Though bean counter is usually a term for an accountant, who typically is not an “executive”. Or at least isn’t making driving decisions. They just like report the numbers.
I really love city builders and settlement type games but I just cannot figure out how the fuck to play Rimworld. I’ve been through the tutorial like 5 times. I honestly don’t understand what I’m missing. Love the ANNO series, played games like Prison Architect, ‘Honey I started a cult’, etc. so it’s not like I’m unfamiliar. Idk. I feel like my brain is just broken with that game.
Turn the difficulty down, the game is normally designed to be pretty brutal which might not be what you are looking for if you want a typical city builder.
Then with various DLC packs add so much more to the game! You can sell slaves to the empire who later give you a shiny cube, worship the sacred cube, form cults dedicated to the cubes embrace, build spaceships to spread the cubes love, create an army of undead ghouls to protect the eternal cube, create an army of clone child soldiers to man the artillery that annihilate all that dare taint the cubes glory by their presence!
Yeah, I’ve no idea how I figured it all out, but I remember a steep learning curve.
The big thing for me is finding a rhythm in the gameplay loop and just sitting comfy in it. While I often describe the game as my “war crime simulator” and a “frantic rush from one dumpster fire to the next”, I still find my deepest chill just watching my pawns live their lives farming rice and ranching a herd of boomalope.
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?
“Hey do you like games?”
Yeah. I’ve got all the FIFA’s
