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Len posted:They're officially playable via cloud streaming on PC and have been for years Not sure what you're saying here, RE2 and 3 are on Steam right now. 
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They mean that RE2&3 are on Switch, but it's a dumb streaming thing and not running native. You still need to "buy" them for like $60 or whatever
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Veotax posted:They mean that RE2&3 are on Switch, but it's a dumb streaming thing and not running native. You still need to "buy" them for like $60 or whatever Yeah it's this. I was wrong it's only $30/40 to buy the cloud only versions https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/resident-evil-2-cloud-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/resident-evil-3-cloud-switch/
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steinrokkan posted:I wish we could discriminate against gamers who's stopping you
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I can’t believe because I play video games that I: -can’t live in the same neighborhood -can’t get a loan or other financial assistance and benefits -can’t attend higher educational institutions -can’t share the same spaces in public locations -can’t attain the same jobs despite qualifications -can’t enjoy the same healthcare quality -can’t receive the same legal protections -et.al. …in comparison to people who don’t play games. Outrageous!
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https://twitter.com/MarLife_/status/1790089233970950494?t=mf_jq0pUAqJRoQ6aX0LvRw&s=19 deoju posted:Video games were a mistake. MadMaxThatsBaitMeme.jpg BornAPoorBlkChild has a new favorite as of 21:30 on May 13, 2024 |
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OwlFancier posted:Because the genre predates bitcoin and it isn't supposed to use absurd amounts of power.
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I think the only idle game I enjoyed was universal paperclips, which you can play in your browser.
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Powered Descent posted:I've always liked how Progress Quest takes this to its natural conclusion and takes no input whatsoever from the player. You just start the game and then it plays itself. I liked Progress Quest, and yeah IIRC it predates idle games as we know them now. OwlFancier posted:Because the genre predates bitcoin and it isn't supposed to use absurd amounts of power. This is actually a really good analogy, I hadn't thought of that. It's how I play Melvor (which has a gardening minigame even). Set course for a task, be doing that task, check in every few hours to make adjustments, finish other tasks that are shorter, change of pace, make sure it's still optimal, etc.
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It's an element of a lot of games. City builders, some strategy games, management games. A lot of them have elements of setting things up and then watching how the simulation makes something out of it. Idle games are just generally quite simple and on the low interaction end of it, but it's not an alien concept even in other games.
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steinrokkan posted:I wish we could discriminate against gamers you can, theyre not a protected class
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I’ve always thought of idle games as a satire of “proper” games. All video games are just more or less sophisticated ways of tricking you into thinking you’re doing something meaningful to effect the outcome of the thing; they’re all essentially the same as cookie clicker, just with a higher degree of illusory control
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OwlFancier posted:I think the only idle game I enjoyed was universal paperclips, which you can play in your browser. This is the game that got my wife into the genre and she now has at least 4 other "number go up fast" games on her phone. She loves them. She's the head engineer at the plant where she works and when she comes home she just wants as little brain activity as possible and these games really help her relax
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Veotax posted:They mean that RE2&3 are on Switch, but it's a dumb streaming thing and not running native. You still need to "buy" them for like $60 or whatever Ah, I got it backward, mentally, somehow. I think KH I + II does the same thing on the Switch.
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Scientastic posted:I’ve always thought of idle games as a satire of “proper” games. All video games are just more or less sophisticated ways of tricking you into thinking you’re doing something meaningful to effect the outcome of the thing; they’re all essentially the same as cookie clicker, just with a higher degree of illusory control That's Progress Quest, but the rest do interesting stuff that diverge from CC. Antimatter Galaxies has you doing exponential stuff (thing that makes thing2s and they make thing3s and so on, until the last one which is the final producer), Melvor Idle is basically Runescape but without all the clicking (nothing like CC at all tbh). Not sure what you mean about meaningfully affecting the outcome, for any game. If I have Mario just sit after stomping the goomba in 1-1, that's affecting the outcome, same as how I can choose to stack modifiers in Melvor vs just going at it as-is.
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:https://twitter.com/MarLife_/status/1790089233970950494?t=mf_jq0pUAqJRoQ6aX0LvRw&s=19 I find this harder to read than that post that was all about doing non binary rape play written in two letter acronyms
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Scientastic posted:I’ve always thought of idle games as a satire of “proper” games. All video games are just more or less sophisticated ways of tricking you into thinking you’re doing something meaningful to effect the outcome of the thing; they’re all essentially the same as cookie clicker, just with a higher degree of illusory control I do have a meaningful impact on the results of videogames. If I am bad I lose, if I am good at videogames I win. With clicker/incremental games, yeah sure. It's theoretically possible to "beat" them by just randomly clicking buttons every now and then, but instead of the intended experience taking say a month, it could take you years.
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Scientastic posted:I’ve always thought of idle games as a satire of “proper” games. All video games are just more or less sophisticated ways of tricking you into thinking you’re doing something meaningful to effect the outcome of the thing; they’re all essentially the same as cookie clicker, just with a higher degree of illusory control Vampire Survivors and MMOs feel equally disgusting to me in regards to the transparency of time wasted, so I can't play them. Oddly, idle games feel less gross, probably because they require no actual attention and can occupy a 2nd screen.
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so when you waste time, you have to not know youre wasting time?
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The dopamine hit or artistic vision has to outweigh the sense of "I should be doing something else" now that I'm in my 30s. I wouldn't judge others for their choices but those in particular just feel gross to me. Hell, I have very fond memories of grinding skills in runescape as a teen that I cherish, I just can't do it now.
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That’s why I almost exclusively play single player games in my 30s. There’s virtually no enjoyment in trying to beat 16 year olds who do nothing but play CS all day.
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Multiplayer PvE or single player games are about all I have the free time + mental bandwidth to handle except for occasional LAN parties where all the other geriatrics can try to reclaim our misspent youth. Thus is our late 30s/early 40s.
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i exclusively play rdr2 as an escape fantasy as of late. god how id love to live in the woods and die of tb
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My Spirit Otter posted:i exclusively play rdr2 as an escape fantasy as of late. (clenching a piece of hardtack) another thing vaccines have taken from us
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Yeah, the last multiplayer games I really played were TF2 and GTA online. The former is a good enough community and a good enough game that it still mostly held up, but gtao was entirely a game of loading a private server by myself and just playing the content from online. Occasionally I'd do nights with a bunch of other goons doing silly races but even then it was kinda not great.
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It's true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGUjkvqkmQI
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Scientastic posted:I’ve always thought of idle games as a satire of “proper” games. All video games are just more or less sophisticated ways of tricking you into thinking you’re doing something meaningful to effect the outcome of the thing; they’re all essentially the same as cookie clicker, just with a higher degree of illusory control If I can't kill a boss in Baldur's Gate 3 I'm either stuck replaying it or I have to put some thought into it and come up with a creative solution. If I do nothing in Cookie Clicker I'll still eventually make a billion cookies.
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The biggest issue with idle games for me is that they very rarely hit that sweet spot where you’re neither too busy nor waiting too long. Like I was playing one where the beginning had a bunch to do, then the rest of the game required waiting like a day or two for anything else to happen. And on the other end is like, Realm Grinder, which alternates between times where you’re sitting and waiting for days for something to happen, or you’re actively resetting and loading builds to run for five minutes before doing it again, so you’re having to be actively engaged but for chunks of time where it’s hard to do anything else. Neither of those is really ideal!My Spirit Otter posted:so when you waste time, you have to not know youre wasting time? Are you wasting time if you’re doing whatever you want while a game plays itself for you?
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Idle games take out the chance of failure which makes them vastly inferior to real games. Without a chance to compare your flaws to your peers and beat yourself up about not being able to beat the CPU Captain Falcon and unlock him while lying awake staring at your ceiling in your bed what's the point? Success is inevitable with idle games.
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dialhforhero posted:I can’t believe because I play video games that I: You can if you shower
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Regarde Aduck posted:lol at playing bloodborne with even 10ms of input delay I played and beat Bloodborne on a TV without a "game mode." It was kinda hard
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RareAcumen posted:Idle games take out the chance of failure which makes them vastly inferior to real games. Dear Nintendo: YOUR COCKSUCKING PRODUCT HAS REDUCED ME TO A GIBBERING MAN-APE WHOSE ONLY RESORT TO DEALING WITH THE ALMIGHTY loving GRIEF IT’S BESTOWED UPON ME IS TO SCREAM AND HURT MYSELF
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Good idle games are basically a mix of entertaining fidget toy and optimisation challenge, given how many revolve around managing bars and/or resources and unlocking bigger and better things.
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:https://twitter.com/MarLife_/status/1790089233970950494?t=mf_jq0pUAqJRoQ6aX0LvRw&s=19 Can I get a translation?
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Fishstick posted:Can I get a translation? "My conception of gender roles has been twisted by a group of self-radicalizing terminally online weirdos and I should probably touch grass."
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