TLDRr/no-sleep material where husband keeps playing a sim game until he eventually becomes the character he modelled after himself in the game.
This reminds me of a no sleep material from reddit that I read, in that story there was a husband who kept playing a sims like game. He created himself and his wife in the game, even going as dar as naming them after themselves and creating the sim in a way that it resembled them and modelling the house after theirs. He kept role playing and playing that game for hours that it did affect his relationship with his wife and she was generally unhappy with him, at one point when he kept playing he noticed that his irl wife was getting distant and distant, meanwhile the sim wife was really happy with her husband. There are a lot that happens in between and then the story goes that one day he noticed his wife was really happy with him. But there was something weird with her, her eyes always fixated straight not showing much emotion other than the smile when she told him she loves him. It was like her wife went from really unhappy to happy but still weird. He passed his days doing his job, coming back to his house playing the sim game on his PC afterwards, his wife was not even bothered about it. One morning they were watching the TV together and she kept saying the same thing over and over again, he knew something was wrong and then he realised almost everyone in his work and other social setting was like that, he realised he has became a character in his own sim game.
It’s amusing to me how true this was when I was a kid playing. Now as an adult, the ‘clues’ they give you are so obvious I feel like I’m barely even playing.
The first one was really vague with the clues, especially with the kinda bad translation. The second one is better with the clues but incredibly difficult. I cannot beat Ganon in 2.
Oh, you mean the very first games. I never got to play through those for real. My first was ocarina of time. I tried LoZ2 on the super disc that you got with wind waker on the gamecube, but I was still young enough (and spoiled from ocarina, majora’s mask, and wind waker) that I didn’t really get into it and beat it.
If you want to give it a try sometime, don’t pick up any of the six or eight or however many extra lives are available. You’ll need them for the final dungeon and Ganon. You can read a guide online for the locations, I recommend it.
I think the game is really fun. Many people hate it. It is the hardest Zelda game by a country mile. My favorite of the series, the original, is second place in difficulty. Every other game in the series has been easy, sometimes absurdly easy like Twilight Princess. Link to the Past is probably the most difficult of anything other than the first two. I didn’t play Majora’s Mask or anything on the GameBoy so I missed two(?) games.
I actually like how flippantly you say you never beat it because you didn’t really get into it. I have been REALLY into it and I can’t beat it. I beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I can’t beat The Adventure of Link. I played a lot as a kid and I’ve made two serious attempts as an adult. It’s no joke! Good luck!
I might have to pull out the disc and fire it up then.
I actually like how flippantly you say you never beat it because you didn’t really get into it.
I more meant that I didn’t even try past the first area/level. I remember asking myself, “Is this a zelda game?” because it was just so different than the 3d versions I had played.
You can actually beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‽ I thought it was kinda like Tetris or something, where it just goes on until you die (again and again) or the game crashes /s
I was always proud of my kid-self for almost defeating The Lion King on Sega. I was like two levels away, but always got stuck at the end of a lava-cavern level. Rocks would fall from the top and slowly murder you while you tried to find the exit in a room full of lava geysers.
Turns out, a slab of rock would eventually fall onto one of the geysers, and you were supposed to stand on it and get rocketed out of the level. I thought it would rocket you into the ceiling of the cave and kill you (I mean, it’s a logical thought)… so I never tried.
I played it as an adult and I know I would’ve crushed those last levels as a kid. Trying to kill Scar would’ve been another issue (you have to throw him off the cliff) because I would’ve just kept trying to claw him to death… but I think I would’ve eventually done it, at least accidentally
So yeah, the exit to that lava level still pisses me off lol. Lions can’t pass through solid matter to exit a cave, for fuck’s sake!
Lion King is no joke. I beat it with my roommates almost 20 years ago. We were all unemployed and we trained Lion King every day for a week. The level after the one you got stuck on- you just have to get to it, play it until you run out of lives, then repeat until you have it completely memorized.
And yeah TMNT is totally winnable. You gotta basically get lucky with some of the sewer jumps (hardest part of the game), collect enough missiles for the van, and enough ropes for the roof jumping. That water in "level 2 "everybody cries about ain’t shit once you know that you’re doing.
I did go back and beat The Lion King as an adult, after seeing how to get out of the cave. It was kinda nuts how much muscle memory I still had; like riding a bike. Which makes me wonder how many hours I must’ve put into it as a child lol
I might have to go back and check out TMNT (if I’m feeling up for a little torture). I never could get far in that game; it felt too brutal and confusing. But we’ve got the interwebs now and guides abundant!
Edit: just noticed your Pixies username… well played
I had the opposite experience. I played the game growing up and the Water Temple was one of my favorites. I always saw the memes about how difficult it was and laughed it off, since I didn’t remember anything particularly hard about it.
Then I played the game a few months ago and FUCK ME I could not figure that level out! Eventually had to look up a guide online.
I think the part that threw me as a child was when the central tower area raised a platform when you raised the water level. The camera super focuses on the new hole, but I never saw it. Cue the endless frustration that I had to overcome by looking up a guide.
Did you play the original again as an adult? Because I remember reading that for a re-release they updated the water temple to make figuring out where to go easier. I remember that temple being kind of a pain and I wasn’t a kid at the time.
I think it wasn’t so much about not knowing where I wanted to go but there was a room with water currents that you had to navigate carefully or you’d get pushed out to another section and have to trek back and try again.
I don’t have the original N64 golden cartridge anymore (there’s a fun story, involving an insane fundamentalist christian mother), but did play both the ‘Master’ edition and the ‘original’ edition that they put together on a gamecube disc. I remember that the ‘master’ edition water temple was easier than the original, despite the point of ‘master’ being that everything was harder.
Owl is definitely in OOT. He talks forever in that slow typing dialog, but in the final dialog box, he’s asking if you understand. Default option is no, so if you’re trying to click through all his bullshit you then hit that option and he goes through all of it again.
The end of strategy guides was Final Fantasy X. Most of it was filled with “Go to this web address to see the solution!”. And the game even has the website featured on the title screen with as much space as the game title.
I don’t recall that, although you’re more or less correct on timeline. FFX-2 I used a strategy guide, no website links and the damn thing was practically mandatory. I’m glad there’s better guides from fans, now.
Completely agree. The Internet has been great for that sort of thing. The advent of per game wikis, especially. You tube and even steam guides are good too.
I have my Final Fantasy X still, even used it when I played the remastered version recently. It didn’t ask me to use the website for anything. I thought it was the Final Fantasy IX guide that required you to use PlayOnline for the actual solutions.
FFX came out in 2001. GameFAQs was started in 1995. If you had the internet as a kid back then there was no reason to pay money for strategy guides any longer!
This kind of thing really turned me off adventure games. I’m here to have fun, not reverse engineer what some dude thought was the solution to some random problem.
huh. I think I’m the exact opposite. I don’t go looking for just “action” in my adventure games (I have fps and rts for that). I literally want to stop battling for a few minutes to try and reverse engineer something lol. I guess my experience comes from tabletop games and the adventure games are the closest to that but still lacks… something.
I really like TTRPGs because I can try literally anything and the GM will adjudicate on it. Computer based puzzlers feel very constrained because it always seems like there’s a right answer and I don’t know what it is.
Loyal subscriber to Nintendo Power, bought quite a few of the official guides. I became gamer tech support amongst my friends, they would call me when they got stuck and I would consult the sacred texts.
I have not; although I have been warned that it’s not at all what it appears to be and that I should go into it blind for the best experience. So I’m assuming it’s going to be something like MiSide. It’s definitely on my list of games to play!
I have not; although I have been warned that it’s not at all what it appears to be
I have heard similar, more specific details about themes of the game. I’m going to put it off until I’m in a better place, mentally. I don’t know if what I heard was true, but I don’t want to risk finding out more, because it is so highly regarded and I want to play it eventually, also I love entertainment where “it’s best going into it blind”
We can’t say anything else about the game without spoiling anything, so it’s best to avoid spoilers and just start playing while you have the chance to go in blind.
Oooooh, I just finished this. Really really well done game.
There are some minor parts that could have been better (like not being able to skip/FFWD text) and it’s not quite as good in its shock or horror as DDLC or so while also not being quite as good in its meta-narrative as Stanley Parable but honestly that’s such a minor criticism it really doesn’t matter. Fantastic experience, and some super nice jump scares in there, including a few where you expected one and then there’s a different one.
Man, I had a friend gift it to me a few months ago. I watched a YouTuber play it years ago and it’s stuck in the back of my mind since. It’s awesome seeing this game brought up again
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