Let people enjoy things
Rust?
Let people enjoy things.
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.
SUPER MARIO BROS 2 GOTY BABBYYYYYY ITS A MASTAHPIECE
KNACK
… is a bad game.
Now…
Knack 2 on the other hand -
IS A MASTAHPIECE BABYYYYYY, KNACK IS BACK
Indie nothing, it’s first party AAA slop.
Ah to be young and naive.
Slop it is not! There was palpable love in that game.
Pfft whatever they reused the clouds to make the bushes, love my ass.
Hope I’m getting wooshed over here, since you know that tidbit you’ve gotta know that was because they couldn’t just throw more RAM at the problem and actually had to come up with some clever optimisations, right?
Shhh don’t tell anyone! (Yes my post was 100% a joke, well except for the part about reusing sprites).
i see… love slop!
You ever notice that the background objects often have the same shapes? Clouds, hills, dunes, bushes etc. . Lazy programmers
AAA? It’s self-published my friend. That’s what counts as Indie today
“Oh yeah, I’m a big gamer. I play FIFA and COD. And next year I’ll play next year’s FIFA and COD.”
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.
I’ve been playing Halo 1 on the original XBox for half my life and I’m in my 40s
Playing Halo for half a life, but not half life for half a life
Hey now. Where do you think I spent that other 20?
Headcrabs walked so the Unggoy could scuttle
Hell yeah fifa and cod are awesome 😎
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.
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.
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)
You mean simcade racer :p
What particular brand of gatekeeping are you on about?
Is KSP a autistic game? If so I got at least 10,000 hours in.
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 :/
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 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.
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.
😏
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
KSP definitely counts, but I think it’s the 10k hours that makes your experience with it autistic.
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 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
Most recent game I loved was disco Elysium. Didn’t get very far in, but I absolutely loved playing it
Took me 3 tries to finish it, and I basically had to be firm with myself to only play that and not get distracted by other games.
It’s very good, but it’s one of those games you need to play in a relatively focused way, like watching a movie.
Same conclusion I came to. It’s why I haven’t gotten very far in. I generally only play games for about an hour or so before bed, and it requires too much attention to be able to do that, so it was back to desperate housewives and cross stitch before bed
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)
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.
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.
i have four newphews. they only play minecraft, robolox, and fortnite. they very rarely try other games but have 1000s of hours in those.
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.
what’s the point of doing all that if you can’t blow it up?
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.”
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.
I enjoy roguelikes for up to 30 hours most of the time, they rarely remain entertaining after that (to me, anyway)
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
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.
I play Factorio too.
Oh, the train game with mining side quests?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
See I always hear these absolutely bizarre and amazing stories and I have yet to play one myself =[ makes me so sad lol.
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.
“autistic PC game” that’s every PC game
—me, an autistic PC (primarily) gamerI used to be a League of Legends only guy. I also played Fifa on the side. Basically: competitive online games only.
The problem is they have a heavily addictive gameplay loop, and it takes seconds to get into a game. Win a game? Dopamine is high and you wanna keep chasing it. Lose a game? Keep playing until you get that high.
I managed to get away from it, and at the moment I’m focusing on ‘hard’ single player games. Hades, Elden Ring, Megabonk (lol), that kind of thing and I am having an absolute blast. I’m realising that ‘hard’ gaming is my preference, whether online or offline.
I think it’s completely normal to have a preference when it comes to gaming. Playing a completely different genre is more of a risk, when you know you prefer e.g., rogue likes, why would you stray from them?
I don’t see a difference between the last two
