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So like nethack in console mode with vim bindings?
Duck game, gunfire reborn, witcher 3, random meme games
Yes I play nintendo. You mean romhacks, right?
So many a year ago, I would tell people I was a gamer, and they all assumed video games when I meant role-playing games. Made me a touch upset. Now I see this happening in video game culture too, and I just have a smile of justification while sitting in my room of unread ttrpg books.
ITT: OP says he’s niche… refuses to elaborate.
OP plays NBA 2K.
Europa Universalis, Stellaris, BG3, Schedule 1, Rimworld, Timberborn, Terraria, Surviving Mars are some of my most played games.
I also have played Witcher 1/2/3, Mass Effect 1/2/3, WoW, GW 1 and 2, TERA and a little Battlefield and COD(BO2).
You see, I am somewhat of a gamer myself.
No one asks.
I only play online competitive games with my friends. They're not worth the headache.
I exclusively only play games that appear as though they were made for the dreamcast.
And sometimes cheat with a bit of some REZ inspired synesthesia games. Thanks Tetris: Effect, Lumines: Arise, and all three versions of beat hazard.
Morrowind
Three blessings to you, sera.
I've had several girlfriends who were like "you play video games? Like... call of duty?"
They were all relieved when I was like no.
Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.
"Sinisistar 2". Cue the terrified expression and sudden teleport to elsewhere.
I'm not a COD guy, I prefer battlefield.
I always included my partners into playing it with me. Either taking turns or, as my partner for life, has come to love. Minimap watcher!
She calls out whatever is on the radar. Saved my ass so many times. I know it has to have made somebody mad, cause there's times when she notices someone on the minimal and tells me turn around or something, and I end up getting em.
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My wife has more hours in stardew than I do
I got big into tidy-em-ups the last month or two. Just unfortunate that the scene is full of slop knock-offs of Librarian at the moment
I read that as tiddy-em-ups and thought it was some new genre of gooner game.
Based off the shit I see on the steam store sales I'd say that's the majority of the gooner games.
And then I go "Hey what if you could play CoD from the perspective of the psychopathic senior officers whose orders make all this violence happen?"
"Rimworld, what's that?"
"Its like the Sims on a hostile alien planet with robots and cannibalism"
"Cannibalism?!"
"Yea... Usually not intentionally. I mean no one sets to eat their friends or even their enemies but after a few lean seasons and you have run out of pets... But it's not like you let them go to waste, you can use the leather too.
... (Doesn't notice them pulling away)
Human leather is actually kind of a premium value product....". "Hey where'd you go?!"
Evil genius is fun too
Niche stuff casuals rarely play.
that's the kind of gatekeeping I'd like to avoid in my hobby
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I go to the same barbershop every two month or so, but not always tge same barber. Every now and then i get a guy around my age who is pretty chatty, but we have literally nothing i. Common. So every time he remembers that i play video games, because he also plays video games. But for now a decade or so, his answer is always: fifa and cod and gta, when the new one came out. He has literally no idea what i'm talking about when i name some games i play. "Video games" to him is synonymous for fifa and call of duty. So we still have nothing in common
Depending on how you gauge him, maybe you're his opportunity to discover a vast fun world of indie games? At the very least, if you're tired of him talking your ear off about Ball and Gun, you could at least talk his ear off about Expedition 33. Yapping as a defense mechanism.
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Let me show you my drawf fortress world
I play the wikipedia game. Start on a random article, click the first link over and over until you reach philosophy. How many clicks did it take? try and beat that
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old games, indie games, games with the graphics settings turned all the way down
What's the polar opposite of AAA?
What's the polar opposite of AAA
Submarine sims, 4X, point and click, euro jank, everything older than 2020, everything single player.
My video game habits closely match my music taste: everything except new pop country and mumble rap (coming around on Migos, though). Ill play any game that isnt an FPS or third person open world.
Highly recommend giving Spec Ops: The Line and Kane and Lynch 2 a shot, those games stray in really interesting ways from the third person shooter formula.
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La-Mulana, Star Sector, Tower of the Sorcerer, Lemmings, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Reality Break, IJI.
I am definitely not a standard gamer. Spent $600 on a copy of the Merc Stealth keyboard, called the Ergo Sentry Plus.
Ancestors! Great game!
Gta5 was barely enjoyable compared to 4. I've never played the other ones.
you exclusively play mainstream slop games, right?
OP: 
Yeah this post doesn’t make sense. Natasha Legerro said it best “I’d rather walk in on my boyfriend jerking off while hanging him self than have one of those CoD headsets on”
CoD/ Fortnite/Counterstrike players, to each their own, but I can guarantee you that they’re not perceived by women as superior to indie game players as the padme meme insinuates. If anything, girls like watching indie games being played than the mindless slop battle royale type games that necessitate micro transactions and headsets.
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