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Anon wants to talk about video games (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

My favorite PS1 game was GEX

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The best PS1 game for me was parasite eve.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 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.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Be me. Spend 2 grand on new PC. Play sim city 3000 night after night after night.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Ditto. Except it's Arma 3. which still runs badly on a system with a 13900k, a 7900XTX and 32 GB of Ram,..

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 11 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.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

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 3 points 11 hours ago

You mean simcade racer :p

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 16 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 4 points 18 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 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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 3 points 14 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".

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Is KSP a autistic game? If so I got at least 10,000 hours in.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 hours ago

KSP definitely counts, but I think it's the 10k hours that makes your experience with it autistic.

[–] saturn57@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

How do you play for that long? After 500 hours every mission feels the same, even with mods.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 points 16 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 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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 3 points 11 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 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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 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.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's gotta be right?

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Just because I've built a death star and launched it doesn't mean I'm autistic.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure any amount of hours over 2,000 automatically means it qualifies

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Ah, shit, I thought I was safe for it being a main stream game, but I guess not. The Sims 2 for me

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 48 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"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 points 11 hours ago

Hell yeah fifa and cod are awesome 😎

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 13 points 1 day 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.

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[–] DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (15 children)

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)

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago

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.

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[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I play Factorio too.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Oh, the train game with mining side quests?

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 168 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anon wants to talk about the games they like, not the games other people like.

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[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 day ago (28 children)

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

KSP Realism Overhaul players:

...Amateurs!

lol I kid, I kid.

Lets also not forget the various autism powered map painting simulator games.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

I should start a new Factorio run

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