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Are videogames for children?

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Calandrino said:
I'm definitely going to die with a backlog
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Not even the backlog aspect, just sitting here 6AM on a day off with time and some kind of energy to play, yet I just don't play something. I know I have to force myself but it's tiring when the alternative is something I'll boot up organically, however devoid of a purpose to it for that reason exactly. I log in and out of WoW constantly til my sub runs out. I don't do shit there. Better be bored but it's as if not more torturing to experience day in and out.

I've played games for decades, of course it'd get boring. But then you have the other camp of people going "you're depressed bro games are great". I can sink 50 hours into a new game but they're so far between. My steam library looks the same as 8 years ago. No new games stick around.
 
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Not even the backlog aspect, just sitting here 6AM on a day off with time and some kind of energy to play, yet I just don't play something. I know I have to force myself but it's tiring when the alternative is something I'll boot up organically, however devoid of a purpose to it for that reason exactly. I log in and out of WoW constantly til my sub runs out. I don't do shit there. Better be bored but it's as if not more torturing to experience day in and out.

I've played games for decades, of course it'd get boring. But then you have the other camp of people going "you're depressed bro games are great". I can sink 50 hours into a new game but they're so far between. My steam library looks the same as 8 years ago. No new games stick around.
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I wish I had more time to game, and the time I manage to get is inevitably looking at my backlog for an hour, saying fuck it and replaying old favorites. I've gotten out of the mmo trap but I'm stuck in a nostalgia hole. I reinstalled X3 and am a few hour in. There's been expansions since I played it last, so its old and new, which has been nice.

My buddy called it a gamer midlife crisis.
 
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Played Super Mario Kart a little bit. My mom loved the art in that game, with everyone in their little go-karts.

Gameplay honestly hasn't aged that well, but it's nostalgic and isn't really unplayable or anything.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
I'm yet again in gamer purgatory. I lack the energy to sit down and play a demanding game, so I sub to an mmorpg, realize I won't do endgame content, quit, cycle repeats.

I wish I had a Sims kind of gane to just play endlessly. Same doomscroll territory as an mmo but on my own terms. :(
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Stardew Valley. I know people here hate it, but as a relaxing game to wander around, fish, grow crops, etc. It does it well. There is a cave/dungeon to do if you want action, but it's on your terms.

My Little Universe, Nova Lands, Dysmantle, Digseum, and other "podcast games" might fit the bill here.
 
⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
Not even the backlog aspect, just sitting here 6AM on a day off with time and some kind of energy to play, yet I just don't play something. I know I have to force myself but it's tiring when the alternative is something I'll boot up organically, however devoid of a purpose to it for that reason exactly. I log in and out of WoW constantly til my sub runs out. I don't do shit there. Better be bored but it's as if not more torturing to experience day in and out.

I've played games for decades, of course it'd get boring. But then you have the other camp of people going "you're depressed bro games are great". I can sink 50 hours into a new game but they're so far between. My steam library looks the same as 8 years ago. No new games stick around.
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I've found that I fell out of playing vidya recently. I was turned off from my Majora's Mask game by my HORI gamepads flipping out (not that they were good) and right-sticking for C-buttons sucks anyway. 8Bitdo is supposed to release an N64 controller but the the release date keeps getting pushed back.

There's a number of games that I can play with M&K or a traditional PlayStation-style controller but I'm sure I can have an excuse for not playing it.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Stardew Valley. I know people here hate it, but as a relaxing game to wander around, fish, grow crops, etc. It does it well. There is a cave/dungeon to do if you want action, but it's on your terms.

My Little Universe, Nova Lands, Dysmantle, Digseum, and other "podcast games" might fit the bill here.
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Survival is my one go-to genre but straight up farm sim is too boring to me. It needs a story that ends. Green Hell ran like shit and gave me anxiety but you spent several days making 4 mud walls and you felt so rewarded and protected for it. Then you enjoyed a few days and moved on with the story until you beat it and uninstalled the game. Stardew is an endless loop and I feel like the automation part of it is way too slow. There are too many stamina-draining activities that stack up before you even automate half your farm. It feels like a luxury where such a comfort system in other games is introduced early on and isn't expensive.
Male Feminist said:
"I log in and out of WoW constantly til my sub runs out"
wow. that's crazy. i saw a few single-player mmo simulator games on steam. don't remember their names, unfortunately.
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I mean I'm exaggerating, I can sit down and read while I have an active sub which is a big step for me, but I'd still prefer just never having WoW installed again. I like the mmorpg trifecta in singleplayer games, but other than bioware it just doesn't exist. Dragon Age? But that's a dead franchise. I've actually reinstalled Guild Wars 1 just for the NPC team aspect, but it runs so poorly despite having a x3D cpu which is great for old shit like wow and gw1.
Xarpho's Return said:
I've found that I fell out of playing vidya recently. I was turned off from my Majora's Mask game by my HORI gamepads flipping out (not that they were good) and right-sticking for C-buttons sucks anyway. 8Bitdo is supposed to release an N64 controller but the the release date keeps getting pushed back.
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Yeah my dualsense started drifting but Steam introduced a deadzone by default and I didn't notice it anymore. Then the one knob started spinning and I just gave up. Back to my switch pro controller but it just makes me want to quit controller games. Such a fucking shitshow that a $80 controller lasts 2 years tops.

I keep wanting to reinstall MHWilds because the singleplayer journey of that franchise is great.. until I open a /v/ thread celebrating past game designs only for the replies to turn into "holy shit i do not enjoy getting one-shot trying to solo monsters that are forced online with gimmicks and bad controls" and I remember: Oh yeah, old games suck balls.

Shit, even GW2's "map completion" system is rewarding. I wouldn't mind just 100%ing all zones and quitting. I installed an addon that sorta did the same to each zone in WoW and it's the most fun I've had in ages, completing zones.
 
How did Blasphemous 2 turn out in the end? I heard it isn't really finished without buying the DLC, and I've never seen that go on substantial discount.
 
Oh boy, a new steam sale. I'm in the mood for a new game!
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Cool, a top selling steam game features a loli character. I bet it's a porn game.
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Oh cool, it is a loli based porn game! I love that Steam offers this, and its a hot seller!
Lets see what the comments have to say.
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That's about what I expected. What else can we see?
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Well that was fucking horrifying. What do the dissenters have to say?

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Pretty based, but look at all the clown reacts. Shout out to Gabe Newell for saving PC gaming by offering animated child porn games!

Anyways, I bought dome keepers and it's really fun. Reminds me of original risk of rain.
 
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The clown reacts are because how the fuck do you wander into Sexual Content/Nudity (which you have to enable to see), into a porn game (which you have to download a third party patch off of the Developer's website) and then play it for over 2 hours in order to experience a bunch of sus shit (if it's anything like anything else the sus shit happens much quicker than that.) This is a lesser point but usually the publishers for these adult games (censored for Steam but with off-site patches) cover a bunch of developers, so you may be into "Illegal Mahjong" by AleCubicSoft which seems to be about playing Mahjong and fucking big tittied anime bitches but not "Magical Girl Konoha" by BLACK PANDA (both published by OTAKU Plan.)

Again, you need to somehow have these tags not filtered, and download a third party patch to uncensor the game. I suppose the base game might somehow be uncensored but I highly doubt it considering the trailer and all the patch discussions in that game's community discussions.

I'd just use the Ignore button, personally.

On a lesser point: Evenicle is on Steam uncensored, Evenicle 2 never made it to Steam (aint no way it has worse content than the first.) My Femboy Roommate got removed off Steam yet Magical Girl Konoha is fine. Steam has always been schizo on this stuff.
 
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is currently two bucks right now.
Bonedome said:
The clown reacts are because how the fuck do you wander into Sexual Content/Nudity (which you have to enable to see), into a porn game (which you have to download a third party patch off of the Developer's website) and then play it for over 2 hours in order to experience a bunch of sus shit (if it's anything like anything else the sus shit happens much quicker than that.) This is a lesser point but usually the publishers for these adult games (censored for Steam but with off-site patches) cover a bunch of developers, so you may be into "Illegal Mahjong" by AleCubicSoft which seems to be about playing Mahjong and fucking big tittied anime bitches but not "Magical Girl Konoha" by BLACK PANDA (both published by OTAKU Plan.)

Again, you need to somehow have these tags not filtered, and download a third party patch to uncensor the game. I suppose the base game might somehow be uncensored but I highly doubt it considering the trailer and all the patch discussions in that game's community discussions.

I'd just use the Ignore button, personally.

On a lesser point: Evenicle is on Steam uncensored, Evenicle 2 never made it to Steam (aint no way it has worse content than the first.) My Femboy Roommate got removed off Steam yet Magical Girl Konoha is fine. Steam has always been schizo on this stuff.
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Also, does anyone know if Dishonored 2 is working on Linux? Top review, right now, says the game doesn't even launch on Windows.
 
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I'm using W10 LSTC which seems to be the equivalent of Windows 10 18xx something. Lossless Scaling, which I was eyeing for the sale, demands "Windows 10 1903 or newer", anyone know the real story or am I just out of luck?

I'm also thinking about the original Hitman game (from 2000), it seems to be on sale for less than a dollar. Is that a good experience, or should I see what else is there?
 
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JustSomeDong said:
I wish I had more time to game, and the time I manage to get is inevitably looking at my backlog for an hour, saying fuck it and replaying old favorites. I've gotten out of the mmo trap but I'm stuck in a nostalgia hole. I reinstalled X3 and am a few hour in. There's been expansions since I played it last, so its old and new, which has been nice.

My buddy called it a gamer midlife crisis.
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just too much choice imo. "back then" there was less to play and less to be hyped about, now it's all blending into each other. but if there's a good game coming along that clicks I can still spend neet hours in it. x3 got easy 250+ hours out of me (and still not finished but cba to just let it run for hours to hit the milestones for the post-release mission), rebirth another 200 (mainly to get all cheevos, but didn't have to idle/grind that much), 130 in zombie army 4, granblue relink another 200+ hours.

all it takes is starting it first ofc...

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Oh boy
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>steam sale
>new releases
nigga the fuck you're doing?

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Xarpho's Return said:
I'm using W10 LSTC which seems to be the equivalent of Windows 10 18xx something. Lossless Scaling, which I was eyeing for the sale, demands "Windows 10 1903 or newer", anyone know the real story or am I just out of luck?

I'm also thinking about the original Hitman game (from 2000), it seems to be on sale for less than a dollar. Is that a good experience, or should I see what else is there?
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try IoT, might be more recent

hitman is solid but 2 is better iirc. dunno how it holds up these days, but can't really go wrong for less than a dollar. if you like it you can buy the other games later (there will always be another sale).
 
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ZMOT said:
hitman is solid but 2 is better iirc. dunno how it holds up these days, but can really go wrong for less than a dollar. if you like it you can buy the other games later (there will always be another sale).
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Doesn't the new hitman game have all the previous games levels included? Is there a machanics difference or something?
 
ZMOT said:
just too much choice imo. "back then" there was less to play and less to be hyped about, now it's all blending into each other. but if there's a good game coming along that clicks I can still spend neet hours in it. x3 got easy 250+ hours out of me (and still not finished but cba to just let it run for hours to hit the milestones for the post-release mission), rebirth another 200 (mainly to get all cheevos, but didn't have to idle/grind that much)
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When the X Superbox was released was the last time I had played the series, so like 2005ish. Its been both familiar and fresh picking it up again. I took two weeks off work (which 80% is done from home, anyways) while I have contractors swarming over my house, so I'm now about 8 hours into Albion Prelude. The rest of my gaming time has been spent starting a fresh Fallout run (just heading to Junktown, so still early in the game), a few odd hours playing RimWorld, and on my old PS2 playing mostly Tiger Woods and RotTK/Dynasty Warriors 5/XL/Empires/6, with the odd moment of wanton destruction in Mercenaries.

I tend to pick up new games for 10 to 30 minutes, then switch to something else. Mostly because so many of the games I've tried, while I've found many of them quite enjoyable, are in perpetual early access, and I'd rather "let 'em cook" than invest that time into something that may either change significantly, or never be finished. I've learned that lesson, rather painfully, multiple times. Best example being World's Adrift. What a waste... On a couple of levels.

I grabbed Dynasty Warriors Origins, but I need to order a new Xbone controller because mine has been dropped far too many times and the left stick is janky as hell. But, no more toys or games for a month or so. I dropping at least 20k doing my renovations and remodeling. So I'll need to be frugal for a while.
 
Everhood was in my top 10 games of 2023 and the sequel just came out and.. I'm pretty meh about it? So far I don't like any of the changes made to the formula and am wishing it was just more of the first game.
 
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