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owenfromcanada, do gaming w The struggle to enjoy anything other than the "staples"

You’re defaulting to your “comfort setting” which is a normal human thing.

Playing new games takes mental and emotional energy. There are also a lot more unknowns, which is a significant mental load. Our brains are naturally a bit aversive to this, especially if you’re feeling low-energy.

When you play the same old games you’ve enjoyed for over a decade, it’s a way for your brain to “veg out” as it were. The amount of thinking is minimal, and there’s no emotional suspense–you know exactly what’s coming.

So the answer has more to do with your mental and emotional energy levels. If your life is otherwise taxing in those areas, it’s perfectly fine to unwind with some comfort games at the end of a long day. If you find yourself feeling like this all the time, you might be dealing with depression or chronic exhaustion. And those are too complex to answer without more info.

Hope that helps!

prettybunnys, do gaming w Watching my integrity slip away after having to backtrack once.

I appreciate how Kingdom Come Deliverance handles fast travel.

The further you travel the more likely shits gonna get fucky on the way

mrgoosmoos,

what does “getting fucky” mean in that game?

prettybunnys,

harassed by bandits or something

mrgoosmoos,

like fast travel is interrupted by an encounter?

prettybunnys,

yeah, there are assorted encounter types you can be interrupted by, not all are bad but many are. some start unique quests.

The encounter often times is related to where you are, so if there is a bandits hideout in the woods near a place you’re fast traveling past they might hop out and try to rob you.

Or you might run into a weird person near a village.

Or you might just run into some dudes that wanna wrestle.

These people are in the world otherwise and you could run into them while not fast traveling too, but when fast traveling you’re not like to avoid “bad” situations

mrgoosmoos,

that’s good mechanics, I like it. not lazy coding that just does a flat chance per travel event. it’s a good look for the devs

Aneb,

Big reason why I just rode the horse the old fashion way and avoided obstacles myself

teft,

I like KCD for hardcore’s fast travel. There isn’t any. You have to learn the map and move your horse the old fashioned way with no compass and no map marker for Henry. It really immerses you and forces you to learn the map.

TronBronson, do gaming w The struggle to enjoy anything other than the "staples"

the heart wants what it wants.

eezeebee, do gaming w The struggle to enjoy anything other than the "staples"
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I think it’s normal to have comfort games.

There’s no shame in not finishing something if you got enough out of it. Maybe a little bit of guilt because you paid for it, but you can always go back and finish it later.

Maybe it’s a good idea to stop adding to the backlog knowing that you’re not as likely to finish new ones. At least until the backlog is clear. Maybe you find more comfort games in the backlog and have even less time for new ones.

trslim, do gaming w Watching my integrity slip away after having to backtrack once.

I think in world fast travel points are the best way to do things. You wanna get to that city? Best take the strider. Wanna go to the town out in the middle of nowhere? Theres a bus that goes that direction. Makes it feel much better imo.

B0NK3RS, do games w Hands-On With the Miyoo Mini Flip; The Modern Successor to the GBA SP (my review)
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

If I didn’t already have a Miyoo Flip v2 I would buy this version in a heartbeat. The love the clamshell design and portability of these things is a huge upside and I take it everywhere with me. I have been using MinUI on mine and it works great (especially quick save state and resume on open) but after reading your article I decided to change it up and move over to Knulli which has a lot more options.

MonkderVierte, do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

Warsim.

Tigeroovy, do games w Changing the language of “Hogwarts Legacy”

Suicide Squad I took for free because I was morbidly curious (didn’t finish, was bored) but this I don’t even care if it’s for free.

Even aside from JK being a giant turd I just never cared for the whole brand. It’s like what if witchcraft and wizardry sucked actually?

I know if I took the game and played it I’d play for like an hour and then probably never touch it again, so I just won’t bother.

ivanafterall, do games w What are some good games to play while sick?
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

EarthBound?

BanaramaClamcrotch, do games w Day 515 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

This new Witcher game looks sick, hell yea brother 🤘🏻

vga, do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

Megabonk!

20% sale too right now. 8 euros for this masterpiece is a steal.

dejpivo,

Thanks! Just got it now, great SteamDeck content.

BanaramaClamcrotch,

+1 for megabonk. Wildly addicting.

Tar_alcaran, do games w Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

I loved Control, it had such a great setting and amazing world building that was constantly reinforced in your surroundings.

The Oldest House was an amazing place. I hope they can match it with the new area, a city just isn’t the same.

Tigeroovy, do games w Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

<I AM READY/EXCITED/IMPATIENT>

muhyb, do gaming w Christmas / New Year Steam Game Giveaway

Hi again!

If that’s okay (and if still have keys) may I ask one for my sister too? She doesn’t have Lemmy. She likes RPGMaker (or similar) games, it shouldn’t have any explicit content but horror is fine to some degree I think.

RabbitMix, do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

I’m mostly an RPG/FPS person so that’s what I’ll mention.

We got a remaster of Oblivion that was excellent, The Outer Worlds 2 was a lot better than the last one, and we got Dragon Age: The Veilguard which Dragon Age fans didn’t like because it was more like Mass Effect and YouTube “personalities” didn’t like because there was an option to establish your player character is trans when establishing their backstory. As a Mass Effect fan I absolutely adored it though, so I’m playing through it again right now. STALKER 2 finally came out, and it didn’t have A-Life for some reason, but it does now… it’s also has mod support now too, even on console.

Oh! Speaking of games with mod support on console, we also got Arma Reforger on both PC and console, so that’s opened up mil-sims to a wider audience. and while we’re talking about military shooters, Black Ops 6 came out and it was terrible, and they just kept making it worse all year to the point where even the CoD fanboys didn’t even care when the beta for Black Ops 7 came around. Activision panicked and made a bunch of changes that the community had been begging for years for, but it was too late and when BO7 came out most people didn’t care. Especially since the campaign was Co-Op only and weird. Multiplayer is solid but nobody cares and ActiBlizz is in full panic mode. This whole situation wasn’t helped by the fact that Battlefield 6 had a beta that managed one of the top concurrent player counts on steam because it was so well received. The multiplayer of BF6 was well received on launch, but people complained that the maps are small (they are) but with the first season they released a BR called RedSec and it’s just okay, but it came with a couple new big maps and also every update to BF6 makes it worse in some way so now people are kinda souring on the game.

BenjiRenji,

How is there an Expedition 33-sized hole in your comment?

RabbitMix,

because I thought it was decent but everyone else seems to love it so I figured I’m clearly not the person to talk about it.

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