a friend of mine is obsessed with Fortune Street grew up playing it and adores it. I love it as well and our other friends enjoy it too but the game can go so long that we usually all “go out for tea” early( Fortune Street lets you “go out for tea” and let a computer play in your place!) You could easily have a full game of computers which is very fun as a background visualizer at a party!
Im curious about other games that have similar mechanics. Obviously people love Smash Bros. with the Amiibos letting you train a specific fighter to compete against your friends which is adorable
I think some of the Dragon Ball Z Budokai series let you set up tournaments with up to 16 characters mixing computers with real people which is cute that it sorts out the bracketing headache for you!
really curious if anyone else can think of self playing games or really any game that has a unique demo / screensaver mode (if any aquazone fans take over this thread i won’t be sad)
Speaking of Smash, I think it was Brawl that let you set up tournaments and you could just make the whole roster CPUs. It was fun guessing with character would win, which is kind of the whole elevator pitch of Smash.
I also love Fortune Street and have been hankering for a localized sequel since 2010 (or any sequel since 2017).
One thing I liked about Paradox titles is the capacity to either watch what’s going on in another part of the world over time (pragmatically self-playing) or enter observation mode to watch everything change over time (actually self-playing). Crusader Kings II was my favorite game to do this with, as the field of influence was more limited.
I also like the Dwarf Fortress world generation, which features not just the growth and fall of kingdoms but the generation of lore: entire pantheons are invented with fun combinations of domains.
In at least the first few Monster Rancher games, you could choose whether to give commands to your monster or not. If you chose no, the computer fought for you. You could set up multiplayer matches like this as well.
My real answer is that I got in trouble as a child for wanting to just leave the Intellivision running and watch the demo roll / title screen for the soccer game, which would run a game between two cpu teams. “Either play the game, or turn it off!”
I think FFXII is a valid answer though. I really like making the best “well oiled machine” for the different challenges. Making sure I had the right buffs, heals, and debuffs then letting it rock. I also really liked the gambit call back in one of the 7Rebirth mini games.
My other answer is similar, Granblue Fantasy (the mobile game). It has a similar auto battle mechanic that will use all skills on cooldown. The fun part is the team building for different boss fights which all require you to have some amount of certain debuffs to do any real damage or not get totally blown up.
there’s a game called autograv where you just watch illegal sci-fi street races in this one tunnel by flipping between different camera angles, with computer drivers improving over time and such.
I also remember setting up CPU vs CPU fights on some K-1 kickboxing game for PSX.
Once, when we were very bored, a friend and I decided to gamble on the matches using Monopoly money. But that wasn’t as fun as we thought it would be and didn’t last long at all.
Oh yeah, I played a lot of Salty Bet with friends one summer. I wiped out a few times, but then I got smarter in investing and managed to accumulate a lot of salty dollars. Not wild amounts, but enough that I could retire from playing.
Loved setting up exhibition matches with versions of Sonic in Mugen.
I also think something like Twitch Plays Pokemon might fit the topic, if you consider the facilitated input methods of aggregate players a kind of “computer.” At the very least, watching it tickled the same sort of fascination I feel watching a Salty Bet match.
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops on PSP had Cyber Survival mode. You form a small squad of soldiers with different stats, give them one piece of gear, and send them off to “infiltrate the internet”. While they were out, they auto battle with other player squads.
The game doesn’t play the battles back in 3D. Your only way to check and improve your setup is by referring to each battle’s text based MMO-like combat log.
i played dokapon journey on the ds tonight with my husband and while I’m unsure why you would want to do it you can seemingly play dokapon kingdom revisited with 4 CPUs
