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[-] Dequei@sopuli.xyz 44 points 6 months ago

dude, why are you paying the same game more than 1 time?

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, for instance I played basketball once and I was done.

I was roped into playing poker twice, but I already knew the ending, so it wasn't as good the second time.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You're being down voted but I see it.

(OP has a typo in the image that says "short but repayable game")

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

My brain autocorrected the typo in the image but I caught it before reading the comments, then it auto"corrected" the top comment to match the fix for the post, but this time I didn't catch it til you pointed it out.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Edit: Dang it, I misread the typo too.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Cause the game is fun and I already paid for it.

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Because they are a Nintendo fan

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

New platform?

[-] Ipodjockey@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

May I introduce you to Slay the Spire?

[-] simple@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

Or more recently, Balatro.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

Balatro the Spire mod in 3...2...

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago
[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

FTL

Gratuitous Space Battles

[-] Opafi@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, sunk too much time in that one.

Still, only paid it once.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago
[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I played on an iPad. It’s fun but can get frustrating at times, like most Roguelikes

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago

Baldur's Gate 3 and Balatro. Also Baldur's Gate 3, and another playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 lol

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I didn't finish the first act of baldurs gate 3 due to life removing me for a couple months and I can't get myself to come back to that save. Besides not really liking the elf bard I made. Is it worth coming and trying another class? I wanted barbarian but I want that fire demon chick on my team because she's awesome but she's also a barbarian and I heard class stacking your party is a bad idea...

[-] setenforce@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Hell yeah! Each class plays pretty differently, and you can respec any of your companions to different classes by taking to Withers 😁 I'd definitely give it another try, it's a great time sink

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

and I can't get myself to come back to that save

Honestly this happens to me in every grand RPG. If I go more than a month without playing, I'm starting over. Too difficult to pick up where I left off what with understanding my character, my skills, the quests I was doing, etc.

I've done it multiple times with Elder Scrolls games, with Mount & Blade, and most recently with Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Lmao skyrim. I put in maybe 1000 hours into the game over half a dozen saves, countless hours modding and a couple years before I ever beat the main quest.

[-] Jaderick@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

How dare you -deez nuts- me.

[-] Daze@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

Path of Achra

The Binding of Isaac

Tiny Rogues

The Dungeon Beneath

These are my four horsemen.

[-] SrTobi@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago

Just watched 10hours of tutorials to play Victoria 3...i can't back down now!

[-] jaycifer@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

With menu games like Paradox make, you gotta learn by playing the game. And by playing the game, I of course mean pausing the game every minute or two to spend way more minutes reading the tooltips, the tooltips within those tooltips, and then finding your way to a new menu you didn’t know existed referenced by those tooltips so you can read more tooltips!

It’s a beautiful cycle, and Victoria 3 has sucked me in as much as Stellaris did 7 years ago. If you have any questions or thoughts, I’d love to hear them!

[-] jaycifer@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

With menu games like Paradox make, you gotta learn by playing the game. And by playing the game, I of course mean pausing the game every minute or two to spend way more minutes reading the tooltips, the tooltips within those tooltips, and then finding your way to a new menu you didn’t know existed referenced by those tooltips so you can read more tooltips!

It’s a beautiful cycle, and Victoria 3 has sucked me in as much as Stellaris did 7 years ago. If you have any questions or thoughts, I’d love to hear them!

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I loved stellaris. But why did Victoria 3 get such mixed reviews on steam?

[-] jaycifer@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

I think it would be tough to nail down one thing. There are the clear comparisons to Victoria 2, which I haven’t played, but my understanding is that 2 is more “detailed” in it’s simulation of some things. There will always be people who don’t like changes from the last game. The military aspect is a lot less engaging than something like Hearts of Iron, but I think the intent there was to keep the focus on the economic and political sides of things. Warfare received a minor overhaul when I first tried the game that I’ve heard made things better, but it can still be a little frustrating at times.

Most of the complaints about the economic side that’s meant to take center stage is that your economy’s success boils down to how many construction points you can have going at once. That’s true, but I do like that you can’t pour everything into that without balancing the foundation needed to support the increase of construction, and just doing that could limit growth in other areas, like improving citizen lives, which could complicate your political affairs.

I feel like I’ve gotten a little lost in the weeds here. Overall, I think it has mixed reviews because Victoria 3 is still a work in progress. It’s a work in progress that I enjoy very much, but there is still room for improvement. I kind of fell off Stellaris between the Nemesis and Overlord expansions because it felt kind of bloated and repetitive, and I wasn’t wondering what kind of civilization I could play anymore. Victoria 3 has been successful at making me contemplate how I can manipulate the mechanics to achieve a specific outcome, even when I’m not playing.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 5 points 6 months ago

See, I like the skill, physical endurance or patience to properly speedrun a game.

But I will play a game on autopilot over and over again. Call it... I don't know, speedjogging a game? Speedstrutting? Power speedwalking?

In any case, there are many situations where I will gladly play through Streets of Rage in half an hour instead of barely making it through the tutorial of whatever the current epic is. I feel at peace with that.

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

This was me until I discovered randomizers. The same game you know, but things changed enough to feel fresh.

I spin up a Link to the Past rando a couple times a month because it only takes about 2 hours to finish one.

[-] quantumantics@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

That's Vampire Survivors for me, I've already made utterly broken characters with golden eggs, but I still keep coming back because of the fun gameplay loop.

[-] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

lol I've got like three games that I always come back to, I play other games as well but not as much

[-] Chinchillax@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

I just can’t stop playing Cobalt Core. And Baldurs Gate 3 is sitting right there

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

I tend to fall back on games that have a setting and possibly a story, but have the main gameplay available as repetitive things to do.

Fighting games

Racing games that don't have a defined ending

Games like Battletech 2019 which has a story mode and also a never ending campaign mode.

Open world games like Skyrim and Grand Theft Auto, but mostly side quests and doing random non-story things.

My main reluctance for playing new games is learning new mechanics and story with all the interruptions of adulthood. I keep buying them and just planning on playing them later.

[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

This, but it's games I've played vs me trying to start a new game.

Why start one game out of my huge backlog when I can run through Frostpunk again. I know how to play Frostpunk.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm taking a week off work to drown myself in Forbidden West when it comes out on PC. Again.

I already did it back when it launched on PS. No regrets. So I'm doing it again.

[-] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Me with Slay the Spire

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