Should we Play Video Games?

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (12 children)

It's the discoverables that made it for me, but I eat that sort of shit up. Games like Bioshock and Dragon Age Origins are favorites, and had an absolute boatload along with a ton of other material to read to get different aspects of the story, or little pieces of information to build on. If you have different preferences, it might not be your bag, but if it ever goes on super sale I would recommend it just to sink a little time into and see if you like it. Your computer might shit itself though if you ran it on Steam. That's one for the PS.

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I got Bioshock on sale thinking it was a good deal for a classic, but after wandering around the city for a while, it just wasn't grabbing me.

Borderlands 2, and the presequel were a couple favorites, despite the butch lesbians in space bullshit. Didn't go for the third one because of that. Gameplay itself was pretty fun.

All the half life games were pretty great, and I could still play those when in a nostalgic mood.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

Yeah, it starts off sort of slow at the very beginning. Once you start getting a few of the plasmids it becomes a lot more interesting.

To be fair, I couldn't deal with Borderlands. The new one looks like it could possibly be fun though.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

I'll keep Control in mind, but remember that I don't play more than 90% of the games I own, and haven't even touched any of those 2 free games per month from the Playstation online deal.

Maybe I'm just easily amused, but have put another 30-40 hours into minecraft this week.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Those free games are always poop though. I do the same thing, and have a small log of shit that I want to replay or even just play through at all. I'm not really a gamer by any stretch, and I've been putting things off during heavier study periods. It's harder to enjoy things that require mental investment when my brain's turned to kitty litter.

Did you ever try Monster Hunter World? It's got quite a lot of weapons that have a steep learning curve, but pretty fun. Fighting games?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Minecraft is good. It is easy to be amused playing Minecraft. I simply wish there was another game with less of a childish overhaul like Minecraft. Medieval Engineers is good if you just like to build castles.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

If I had any interest in coding, I'd make some mods to bend minecraft to my will. I already ignore significant 'overhauls' of the game, like the End, for example. Haven't been to the End in years. Maybe 2017? Started playing about 3 weeks after xNotch started dev, so have seen a few changes along the way.

The new terrain generation looks like a winner, for the most part. What I would really like to see is villagers being more like real life people, having occupations, working on their village by building new houses, mining for resources, and even building roads to other villages for trade. Sort of like a cross between minecraft and civilization.

Doing all that for them is fun enough, but the game could become seriously addictive with smarter villagers.

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering and building in medieval times. Platform: Microsoft Windows

Bummer. I've been boycotting the evil empire for decades, and have foregone playing many games in support of that boycott. I quit using skype when the evil empire purchased it, and don't know what I'm going to do if they force a minecraft account migration to their servers.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I respect your boycott. I haven't bought anything google or Microsoft related in years, but I still play plenty of things that are tied to it, because I got into them young.

Interesting that you like Minecraft, and that you have such great ideas for it. They have such a simple, great game. They are wasting time with their non-sandbox online kiddy-crap (you know, the pvp nonsense? Maybe you like that stuff, idk)

A few ideas like the one about the villagers, and you have a game that would simply keep on giving and giving.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Nah, no interest in the pvp nonsense. Have only been doing single player on my own maps the past few years.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You say you don't go to the end, but do you go to the Nether? Do you play survival?

I just don't understand what draws you to Minecraft. I'm honestly surprised. It is a good game though, if not childish in the base design

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I would be very interesting in knowing too. I've been an 'enthusiastic' video gamer since Pong (but really Asteroids), and in the summer of 2009, Minecraft seemed like the game I had been anticipating for decades.

Had never seen anything like it before, and the idea of being able to modify your own game environment was really appealing. Fun, even. Maybe there's some nostalgia in there too, as it's been 12.2 years and over 9000 hours. Remember when that dick on r/minecraft sent xNotch a message when he dared to take a couple days on a holiday to visit his mom? "Get back to work you bald-headed fat fucking freak!" Then he posted about how that wasn't actually encouraging? Well, 2 billion dollars says he doesn't have to get back to work anymore.

I play mostly survival. Sometimes do creative to save time. But I still sink foundations down to bedrock, at least on the corners, if not the entire perimeter.

I'm tolerating the nether for travel at this point. Have spent more time there in the past, but really prefer the overworld. Ideally, travel would be by road, but I've only made a couple worlds with good road networks between villages and points of interest.

If I encountered Minecraft as a new game today, I'm not sure it would have the same appeal.