>bought expensive computer for roomscale VR
>mostly play Railroad Tycoon 3 and games that are just maps
To this day the only VR game that looks fun to play to me is beat saber.
Not fun enough to warrant a 3k setup.
I got it in 2016 when the Vive came out and VR development was more of an open question. The first generation titles were wonky tech demos but they showed what would be possible in the next one. Then hardware adoption stalled so the next generation software never came out in any meaningful way.
The issue I have is most games aren't fun to me.
A two hour long tutorial where every 20 seconds I have to deal with text preventing me from playing? Never opening the game again.
Controls that are so complicated I need that two hour tutorial? Pass.
A decent story interrupted with 40 hours of pointless side quests? I don't have time for that.
A crafting system? Never fun.
I don't mind complicated games, I don't mind long games, I just want to be able to play the game. Compare Elden Ring to Jedi survivor. Elden Ring let's you play the game with minimal tutorials, Jedi survivor has pop-ups and walks you through things hours into the game. Just let me play and I'll play.
Have you tried Baldur's Gate 3 yet? It has a tutorial, but it's pretty minor. It mostly just puts you in simple situations first to let you figure it out yourself, and it's maybe 15m. Most of what you can do you have to figure out yourself in the game. For example, you can stack crates to get to higher locations. This is never told to you, but it's available. You're basically free to handle things however you want and the game will be OK with it. It's fantastic.
There's also no bullshit collection things or time wasters. There are side quests, but they're all pretty good so far in my experience. They aren't fluff quests. No microtransactions or anything else either. It's what games should be.
I want to pick it up, but I'm likely going to wait about a year. I'm sure there will be some sort of DLC related to character options and some major patches, so I'll just wait until it's $30 with the DLCs and play it then. I don't have the time or temperament to replay RPGs, so I'll save money and play the whole thing.
I also don't usually replay any game, because most of the time things don't really change. They have the asthetics of choice without actually making then do anything, so a replay doesn't change. BG3 though it will change a lot. Just having access to different abilities will make a difference, but there's also actual choice in many diologues and outcomes. I think I'll probably end up playing again, though likely with mods the second time.
Yes! I'm on an eternal quest to find games that will just shut up and let me play.
My most recent find is Ghostrunner. Starts with the CPU doing the first kill and then you're off.
Before that it was Celeste. I now realize in both games the player dies a lot. Maybe there's a correlation between how much fun I have and how much the game allows me to die without repercussions 😅
I guess I'll need to try Elden Ring now. There's gotta be dozens of us. Anyone have more recommendations?
Roguelikes tend to be very good for this. They let you play and have complexity from emergent situations, not an overload of controls.
It's old, but if you haven't played "enter the gungeon" pick it up! Hades is fun and well written, there is a lot of text but it doesn't feel like an interruption. Honestly the other games from that studio fit that description.
If you like puzzle games, everything by zachtronics is both great and very difficult. Magnum Opus is probably the best entry point, but space chem is what I started with and it's still my true love.
I expected to hate the souls games, mostly because of how irritating the fans are ("it's so hard!", "Get good!", ect) but they are great games. They aren't nearly as hard as everyone makes them out to be. I'm 40, so I started playing games when dying meant losing all progress, so I see the death penalty of dark souls as normal. What no one talks about is how changing your weapon changes the game drastically, to the point that stats on weapons don't really matter, it's all move sets.
I also love Factorio, dwarf fortress and EUIV, but I think that's a personal failing I have to work on.
Everything else by FromSoftware, and I'll throw in rocket league as well
Elden Ring and any of the FromSoft games, Outer Wilds, Baldur's Gate 3 as of now, Prey (2017). I'd say look into Immersive Sims as a genre and I bet you'll like it. They're complex, so tutorialization isn't fully possible and you're required to use your brain and figure it out yourself.
May you'll enjoy Deadlink or other Roguelikes/-lites. Many just have a short tutorial and then shut up
I'd recommend Long Dark and Subnautica, they've both got crafting but it's part of the survival/exploration loop and they've both got a bunch of mods (on PC) that are really well done.
“I’d play more games, but I’m too busy working to afford the upgrades to my PC, upgrading my PC, and then going online to discuss how much I’ve upgraded my PC! Also, hopping linux distros every time I hear about a new one, and then going online to talk about that!"
You forgot browsing Steam for interesting looking games to buy and then never touch again
Tomorrow I'm installing a 2TB N2Me disk with 7 GB/sec read speed. My 200MB RimWorld install will load so much better now.
Heaven is a temporary afterlife that is long enough for you to play through your backlog, as the afterlife ends when you decide you've played enough and want to be done.
So by the name of GabeN, let thine backlog grow full and large! Enrich your divine recreation before your final rest.
This represents me as well, except the green line hasn't gone up in like 7 years.
I'm near the bottom left because I'm poor. I think people over-upgrade their PCs, though. You can get a lot of mileage out of old hardware.
I've realised this recently. I spent close to 2 grand (Australian) on a new PC a few years ago, with a 1440p monitor, and I generally play isometric RPGs and metroidvanias...
I do enjoy some high-fidelitt games, especially stuff like Alien Isolation and the Metro series, but I think I don't need to spend so much next time.
Kinda impossible for games played to exceed games had though unless you're not counting pirated games as "games had" or something
What's seemingly more impossible is for the blue line to decline. I assume all lines represent some sort of integral which means number of games played have become negative YoY
But it's not as funny if you made the graph accurate
Blue line can decline, that's what happens when you play a bunch of games but then just start loading up paradox bullshit every day
It's "games I play" not "games I've played"
You may have spent more time than necessary thinking about this meme
I made myself a promise not to buy any new games for remainder of 2023 and 2024. Finally upgraded my rig and I just want to play my library of games I got on sale a long time ago that i couldn’t play. I am kinda falling in love with games again because I playing all these bangers. I have more of problem finding time to play than find a great title to olay
Personally I've gotten better at this. I've managed to control a bit better how much I buy, and I've been playing quite a lot of different games in the past year. It's definitely hard to suppress the monkey brain during a Steam sale tho
Dozens and dozens of games on my Steam account and for weeks all I've been playing for is a pirated modded version of an RTS from 2006 💀
I was thinking AoE 3 but then I realized nobody would be playing that when AoE 2 is so easily accessible these days.
Free time would also bee an interesting metric. Maybe not a very pleasant one 😅
I think the amount of games you have should increase fast at first and then only grow marginally as you get older. Or is it just me?
Computer parts are expensive. My pc specs are more of a downward graph. ddr3 ftw. Am4 b550 stuff isn't good enough to warrant an upgrade and b650 motherboards with their stupid overpriced ddr5 ram are too expensive to be worth it.
I already have ddr4 ram from my "old" but newer motherboard that stopped working (before someone points out ram prices and is like uhm ACKTUALLY)
