@“Funbil”#p131449 let’s seriously do Xenogears for insert credit monthly game club. No one will finish in a month. Also I can’t do game club. But funbil we can play in tandem someday
I guess this leads to my confession
Stuff like Xenoblade and Nier Automata: I will never play because I _must_ get the fullest by having played all the prior games beforehand.
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@“treefroggy”#p131475 we can play in tandem someday
I'd love this!!
@“milo”#p131463
as someone who rarely even gets close to the end of a game these days i think this is totally fine. games are for fun! if you're not having as much fun anymore (or maybe not having fun at all) what do you get out of pushing yourself to beat em?
i used to be more of a completionist but now i walk away from most games, even ones i really like. at some point if im not feeling it that's the end for me.
i think what caused the switch is that i used to watch a lotttttt of tv. and i kept getting wrapped up in these one-hour dramas and at some point i thought the show had fallen off but would go "well but ive come this far i should really see how it ends" and then watch like 2-4 seasons of a show i didnt even like just to feel like i got the full experience. but why? big waste of time!
I hate getting to the end of a game I‘m really enjoying and just not being able to get past the final challenges. This happened to me with Mega Man X4 and Saturn Bomberman. Just too hard! I think it’s natural to feel discouraged when losing a ton on the final stretch takes the wind out of your sails and if all that awaits you on the other side is a cutscene then why not go watch it on yt? Your save file isn't going anywhere, you can give it another try some other time.
When I worked at Starbucks about a decade ago, we would donate our old pastries to a homeless shelter, except for Cheese Danishes, because the cream cheese filling stuff went bad much sooner, so instead we were told to throw them away, but instead I threw them onto the roof of a neighboring business because I didn't like them.
I was playing Animal Crossing on the GC… Pecan is among my favourite villagers, and I find Astrid quite annoying. Turns out they have the same personality type, they just look different.
@“NoJoTo”#p131455 To know of Xenoblade Chronicles at all is a sin. The only ones with pure souls are those who are completely ignorant to its existence
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@“Coffinwarehouses”#p131486 at some point if im not feeling it that’s the end for me.
this is the way
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@“Bbtone”#p131468 “I wouldn’t walk out on a movie"
Some friends were giving me a hard time recently for turning off The Matrix Reloaded at the halfway point. I stopped playing Before Your Eyes when I was half an hour from the end (90-minute game).
Walk out on a movie!
[b][size=20][i][color=seagreen]Turn the game console off right now!
Shut the book and return it to the library!
Interrupt a song right in the middle because you suddenly got the urge to listen to a different song!!
close your eyes if you don't like the oil painting!
exist in a liminal space in between architecture!!
punch the performer if you don't like their performance art!
@“connrrr”#p131513 @“NoJoTo”#p131512 so I guess what I'm saying is remember to walk away with your head held high after socking it to that performance artist.
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@“captain”#p130896 thou shalt not put a disc in a different game’s case “just for now,” it’s not a good idea
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light a candle for me please
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@“connrrr”#p131488 if all that awaits you on the other side is a cutscene then why not go watch it on yt?
I did this with Secret of Mana. I knew if I just brought some more restoratives to the boss fight I could totally beat it, but I just wasn't feeling it. I'll also go ahead and confess that I turned on the 9999 damage cheat in the Final Fantasy IX remaster on the last boss. Again, I knew if I did some grinding I could do it, but who's got the time?
I‘ll confess that sometimes when I’m doing a puzzle in Picross 3D Round 2 and I get stuck, you have way more clues to go on in finding gold and blue boxes because the shapes being sculpted reveal patterns as you solve them—so anyway sometimes I just make an educated guess when the boxes are obviously one or the other. I think it‘s a life lesson I’m learning. I'm thinking outside the box(es).
I played the demo for Season: A Letter to the Future and I loved it, but the framerate was really terrible on steam deck. But it‘s just such a perfect game to play on steam deck (both because of vibes and the mechanics— aiming the camera and pressing the button feels so right on a handheld) that I can’t bring myself to buy it on PS5, the only other device I have that can play it. Is this a sin?
@“deepspacefine”#p131666
When you say terrible, do you mean "so choppy it's almost unplayable"? Or like... 30fps as opposed to 60fps.
My friends and I were having a gaming discussion and a friend confessed that the only reason he didn't like a certain game was because it was locked at 30fps. Me and my other friend thought this was a "bad take", as the offending friend felt like all aspects of the game were good and it was fun, but he refused to play it because it wasn't 60fps.
And now that I think about it, one time I was gonna show him Yakuza Kiwami 2 as he'd never seen or played it before. He was really excited to check it out until I loaded it up and it was at 30fps and he just kinda went "oh nvm, not interested" like instantly.
I hear that a lot around gaming discussions, and I don't mean to disparage anyone's opinion that takes that sort of thing really seriously, but 60fps games are a relatively recent thing in terms of the gaming timeline. To say a game is "bad" because it's not up to today's technological standards is just kind of silly to me...
But more to your point, no I don't think it's a sin. I have this crappy little laptop that can barely run anything, but it's the perfect little machine to play Caves of Qud on. Whenever I play it the laptop fan starts working harder than it ever does and the CPU usage shoots way up... but I refuse to play this game on anything else just because it looks and plays so great on this little laptop.
@“milo”#p131670 Yeah important clarification. It‘s kinda stuttery in the smaller environments but can mostly hold 30-40 there while maxing out specs, but when you head into a more open field it drops to 15 (and was having trouble holding that), which took the fun out of the otherwise-fun bike mechanic. I’m not an FPS snob and have played/loved plenty of games that have an on-again-off-again relationship to 30, but once we start getting that close to single digits it really takes me out of the experience
I get why a studio may not be able to optimize their games for every device and I don't begrudge them, I just have a psycological hangup where some games have to be played on a certain setup (I first used the steam deck to play _Yakuza: Like a Dragon_'s business sim mini game in bed streaming from playstation, because I got it for free on psn and didn't want to buy it again but also I really wanted to play that game in bed haha)
Maybe the compromise is I'll buy on playstation and stream to the steam deck? There's still some input delay there, but it's at least it's fairly consistent and not a dealbreaker for non-action games
Question: when is collecting video games a sin?
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