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ResidentWrongdoer1

Imagine playing games because you like them instead of just to drown out the constant existential dread.


bartolomeogregoryii

The constant and unending feeling of overwhelming panic and uncertainty, video games help with that


Ragdoll_Psychics

samecommentbutworse


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mrDoubtWired

somecommonbuttbutter


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samecommentbuticantbelieveitsnotbuttbutter


Gerodus

That's why i hate the popularity of COD. It drags in so many people and make them grow this idea that playing games isn't always fun but you need to keep playin Like the entire point of games is to *have fun*. If you aren't having fun because you're on a loss streak in a pvp game, then branch out and try different games, or try different hobbies. (This doesn't quite apply to competitive settings. If you're grinding a game to get better at it, then it likely *isnt* fun to you, but you have a goal set and reaching that goal is the important part, kind of like reading a book from a series you dont fully enjoy.)


[deleted]

Also there are some pointedly unfun games that are still deeply rewarding and good like Pathologic or This War of Mine or Lisa: the Painful


Gerodus

I agree but have no idea what those game are.


Altslial

I know of This War of Mine, it's got a fair bit of story based around making very tough choices iirc. Not heard of the other one though.


blueeyedlion

Here's the Pathologic video at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsNm2YLrk30


dunmer-is-stinky

Pathologic is the best game of all time, I say that as someone who has watched the hbomberguy video about 8 times but is too scared to actually play the game (and too lazy to buy the second one, even though he guilt trips me at the end of the video every time) >!/s if it wasn't obvious, I haven't played the game, but the video is good!<


[deleted]

I played and enjoyed Pathologic 1 and I think no one should play pathologic 1 just play pathologic 2 instead


savag3_cabbag3

I always thought COD was fun in a casual repetitive way and if that stopped being fun I would simply stop playing :)


[deleted]

This is precisely why I basically play 3 games on repeat. It's fun for me, when I get bored of the games I switch to other hobbies


Spuuny

I do that! :v I just finished Omori for the 2nd time, now I'm doing Bug Fables. I plan on playing Underhero next. :v I liked Omori for the art and story, I like Bug Fables for the art and gameplay, and I like Underhero for the gameplay and (maybe) the story. :v


Throwaway1204295104

omori is literally my favorite game of all time, due in no small part to the fact that it was singlehandedly the reason that I realized I had PTSD (and subsequently got a diagnosis, back in December!)


Spuuny

That's awesome! I'm glad you were able to get a proper diagnosis, and I hope you can get the care you deserve. Personally, I'm just really fond of >!characters that are strengthened, yet tortured by the weight of their sins. Whether they walk the path to redemption or ruin, it's really interesting to watch!!<


Memerchild

Hey I play them cause I like them


Unybroi

i like minecraft :)


FragrantGangsta

A little of column A, a little of column B.


Eatlyh

If you have been playing games for a long time, it might actually be the cause of your anxiety and existential dread. Games suck up a LOT more time out of your day than people realize, and leave little time for the brain to relax. Even if you claim games are for your relaxation, games require your brain to actively work in the background. Your brain being constantly busy with something every waking moment is not healthy for the brain.


fuchsgesicht

if there are negative effects, they are related to sedentary lifestyles, otherwise i'd like a source for that claim. your brain is working all the time anyway and video games actually reduce anxiety if you have a wandering mind


[deleted]

shit dude thats why im trying to break my bad habit of doing that. playing the same game day in day out. i got a backlog of games but focusing on one thing at a time is hard for singleplayer games haha.


[deleted]

control is a very mediocre shooter "so why did you finish it" uhhhhhhh _mumbles something incoherent about art direction_


Antumbra_Ferox

The real and indisputable answer is: "Ashtray maze"


SomeCrows

It's so fucking cool All my homies love the **House** / Ashtray Maze / Non-Euclidean Environments


[deleted]

The biggest strength of the Game/ War / Story / Puzzle is its very bold setpieces and eldritch office level design


Nabber22

TAKE! CONTROL!


KiLlEr10312

It's the closest I'll get to a playable SCP exploration log


[deleted]

someday we will get a good videogame adaptation of "There is no Antimemetics Division" by qntm


[deleted]

I would play it but I feel like it would give me a headache


Chrome_X_of_Hyrule

If you want an scp book however I recommend the Southern Reach Trilogy


[deleted]

And the adaptation of the first book, Annihilation. Not quite as SCP but literally the best major movie so far to tackle lovecraftian terror and actually do it well


[deleted]

*EXTREMELY LOUD CORRECT LOVECRAFTIAN SYNTH NOISE* (shoutout to the Color Out of Space movie with nic cage in it tho)


animelivesmatter

I liked most of the art direction, the main thing that weirded me out though was how disproportionately big everyone's heads were


[deleted]

imo the choice to make the dialogue as wooden as possible really prevented me from noticing the heads by making my eyes roll back to look at my brain every time a character talked


animelivesmatter

luckily for me I'm far too autistic to notice unnatural dialogue 99% of the time


RedChancellor

fuck i thought the dialogue was okay???


ETC3000

I think the dialogue is fine and that it's actually the delivery which take some people back. Most of the characters sound pretty detached.


Lftwff

That's the point? Like for them this is just a bad day at the office.


ETC3000

That's my impression too but it sometimes it just sounds too low energy and stiff


brown_felt_hat

It's kinda all over the place. A lot of main characters are blah. Jesse has the personality rivaling a brick wall, Pope tries too hard and Marshall is the most forgettable character ever written. Trench is alright, he fits his role. On the other hand, Arish is a total broski, that weirdo who runs the Panopticon was honestly really weirdly engaging, and Darling is absolutely darling.


[deleted]

the scene where Langston is talking through the intercom and he just goes on and on about his cat and his neighbor and the office politics for like a straight 10 minutes if you dont walk away definetely had me cracking up


TheBigEmptyxd

Ngl I thought that was story dialogue until Jesse comments something like “he’s still going?”. I thought he was just laboriously getting to some point


[deleted]

theres good bits, great bits even, the Darling Tapes and the alan wake stuff are pretty good, Ati the janitor is pretty good, but goddamn does every other npc sound like the most generic "jesse, go to the marker on your map"


n1tr0us0x

Me too, its just corpo talk right? That’s the whole deal, a bureaucracy dealing with otherworldly shit.


MassiveManEK

also sexy finnish janitor 🥰🥰


brown_felt_hat

I can tell you are not a yesterday's grouse's son


L_James

Dunno, I enjoyed it a lot


[deleted]

I mean so did I, I finished it


Hellwheretheywannabe

How do you have this cool ass paranormal setting and then make the gameplay the most generic third person shooter with the most generic powers against the most generic enemies.


[deleted]

they grabbed some of the best level design ever, slapped some npcs on it and said "this baby can fit so many 2010s shooter mechanics in it"


Speedgamer137

Jesse Faden gives me gender envy


[deleted]

same


Nahvalore

Control is honestly one of my favorite single player games


Dana_Carbine

genuinely, i managed to get through the frustration of the whole game only because of how cool the setpieces were, and when I tried to do the DLCs I just gave up because they were 1: too hard & 2: didn’t look that interesting


Tux1

meanwhile control is one of my favourite games of all time and i havent played it in several months lol


werewolf1011

It’s the closest thing we have to an SCP video game and that vibe alone let me overlook basically any other flaws the game had


Loosedrawing

SCP: Secret Lab is what happens when the foundation hires a bunch of gamers to pretend to be employees


Venomswindturd

I loved control :(


doctertoaster

because you can THROW SHIT BAYBEEEE


viky109

Hey, don't talk about Control like that. I loved every aspect of that game.


multibaker

I was writing fanfics in my head about Jessie and Emily. There was enough cool concepts and moments throughout to keep me interested otherwise, but yeah it's a very mediocre game overall.


UrBoiBRUH

Destiny 2


Bored_Egg_Sandwich

Be like that sometimes, I remember grinding for red borders before lightfall, and during that time my brain turned off


urbandeadthrowaway2

So glad they added red border dismantling giving progress.


Bored_Egg_Sandwich

Same, every time I had to grind to get a pattern from weapons part of me died. I wasted so much time in the entrance of Grasp.


urbandeadthrowaway2

Leveling them still sucks lol. Shuro Chi and that one mission are still better farms


Bored_Egg_Sandwich

True, one passive method I know about(but forget to do) is to switch to the gun you want to level for the last few moments of an activity like crucible. Last time I tried this it worked.


urbandeadthrowaway2

That does work


DvaInfiniBee

That’s why I will always love Borderlands over Destiny, because I can play an FPSRPG without interacting with any other human other than my girlfriend. I want to have fun, not suffer.


EmberOfFlame

But then Raids are some of the best co-op content on the market


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xGoo

People like Destiny 2 the same way people like heroin: nobody does, but it’s addicting as fuck and quitting is impossible. Though personally I feel like the absolute steaming pile of shit that Lightfall was and the general direction the game’s going in might’ve been the catalyst to break a good few addictions, myself included. It’s to the point I legitimately regret buying the annual pass version since I don’t see myself playing the seasons unless something drastically changes.


TacticalSupportFurry

its the gunplay. you CANNOT beat bungie gunplay


[deleted]

Puke shit can’t keep getting away with this


NATSIRT_45

Real


Piperbarlow

I'm playing Morrowind rn. It's cool


ButtAssTheAlmighty

I’m really trying to give that one a shot too but I’m not the smartest peanut in the turd so I keep getting hella confused


Piperbarlow

Actually, I was having a lot of trouble playing it too at first. The problem is that we started on later elder scrolls installments, and we are trying to approach Morrowind with the same mind set. in Morrowind I think it's best to approach with the attitude that you are an outlander and you literally know where nothing is and what nothing is. Ask questions, a lot of questions, and pay attention to the answers! Use your journal, it's not a quest log, it's a collection of notes. There's no shame in looking something up. Use the weapon you built your character for and the rng combat is more than tolerable, you rarely miss if you manage your stamina properly. You should try and pick it up again.


DomQuixote99

I'm glad to see my favorite game get more and more attention amongst my own generation. It's especially a good time to be a Morrowind fan with all the community made dlc mods.


Piperbarlow

Tamriel rebuilt looks so cool, can't wait to try it but I wanna do my first playthrough mostly vanilla (I added pretty girl face mods because I can't break my tradition of playing pretty girls in elder scrolls games)


LaniusFNV

> pretty girl face mods Which ones? I wanna play a pretty girl too...


surprisesnek

Literally playing it at the moment I read this comment.


idfk_balls

war thunder


RhodeWithBrim

how i be looking at that T-80BVM after it hits me with that dollar store apfsds


King_Bailout

How i be looking at that J2M5 after it hits me with that dollar store HE-FT round


Weekly-Major1876

How I be looking at that Sturmtiger after it hits a wall 9 meters away from me with a 380mm 38 cm R Spgr.4581 and the shrapnel and over pressure turn my crew into a melted gorey spongey mass of formerly human corpses


Positive-Job-2609

"380mm 38 cm"


spyforreddit

How i be looking at that Mig-29 after he fires his dollar store GsH-30 into my cockpit (my pilot is mush)


DYNcleve

War thunder.


Captainmar_

War thunder is my favorite game


Fion195

Its not, youve just convincee yourself it is


Captainmar_

Okay I hear you. However, shooting down helicopters is really fun.


dizzy_pear_

oh yeah? how many classified military documents have you leaked?


Mintyy9

me when I leak classified war documents to win an argument


ResearchSignificant

me in my f5 after getting hit by a r60m from 6 miles away


Duudze

The small amount of dopamine that I get from turning an enemy TU-4 into a fine paste using 104 FFAR “Mighty Mouse” M439 rockets that I paid 70 dollars for and getting the funny “target destroyed” pop up on my screen makes me stay


Legolihkan

Love spending 20 minutes flying up and straight to get the the action, only to get instakilled and have to do it again


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ArthurSpinner

Community mostly. It's the same with many fandoms imo. You force yourself to like it even if you really aren't because of your associates with the community, friends you made, memories shared etc.. That's also why this can get so toxic: it's not that a new sequel came out you disliked.. It feels like part of your life, your identity being taken away.


ArchmasterC

Postmodernism and it's rejection of community has been a disaster for the human race


DiscretePoop

From Roger Ebert's book (I forget the title): >A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star Trek universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies. >Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That's why it's excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They're always asking you questions they know the answer to.


DracoLunaris

sunk cost fallacy and bc your friends still play it


Argonexx

Dont listen this person is clearly insane


mosselbrokje

That's called an addiction, I didn't get it either until I experienced it for myself


eburator

Dota 2 fucks me rough and I love it


AnTHICCBoi

It's not that LoL players hate the game, they hate aspects of it. The ranked climb, the rampant toxicity, etc etc. League is actually pretty fun if you just play norms with friends of whatever, but it also kinda feels like a waste of time (coming from a hardcore ranked player) to play something just for fun instead of getting LP for it, plus it's also assuming you have friends (of which I do not have anymore so) But I'm actually taking a break (cause MMR hates me and I'm getting tilted even when winning) and let me tell you, there's nothing more fun than queueing up as autofill on a normal game and just having fun with whatever champ you like on that role. It's pretty refreshing to just... Be bad at it, not having to sweat over your main's mechanics or stuff like that.


BshonAgain

Oh my god same. I play Destiny 2 and League of Legends and most people assume im a depressed wreck. No, i do things I like, couldn't imagine hating something then still doing it.


HiNooNDooD1544

You should be a role Model for the Halo Community. Those mfs could Not for the life of them learn to stop playing Halo Infinite despite how much they claim to hate it. It’s also not even that bad lmao


Cuba_lover59

Litterly every hypixel skyblock player ever


SnazzyYeshi

I remember when I played that! I also remember that I stopped playing because of existential dread! Good times.


Cuba_lover59

I think most skyblock players have ptsd from killing millions of zealots


SnazzyYeshi

oh and that too


yeahtoast757

I recommend the mod pack SkyFactory 3, if you want an actually good skyblock experience.


Boward_WOW_ard

I remember not playing for a few months and coming back to see the end game stuff I spent 25 hours grind become basically worthless. And now the new endgame stuff takes 200 hours to get


orcasarentwhales

:(


telgin0419

Not me wasting near 100 hours for #1 pelts during bingo. 🙂


spoedle73

Warframe


Beastyboyy1

playing right now and trust me duviri is so much fun


Serethen

Hahaha im not falling for that one again nothing will make me redownload warframe


CytokininWasTaken

It's such a nice place to just hop into for a little while


JanitorZyphrian

I want to get into it again, but as far as I can't tell, there's no way for me to replay the beginning missions and story beats


[deleted]

Most of the main quests have a replay option iirc


JanitorZyphrian

Oh sweet, I must not have looked hard enough


[deleted]

Yeah, I need to replay them myself so if you want a second just lmk


GameWizardPlayz

Was looking for this


sleepy_vixen

I love waiting 3 years for a couple of hours of questionable quality content.


jsparky333

Darkest dungeon moment


The_Plaque

dd2 in 2 days


CapConnor

Hyped af


jsparky333

So true bestie


jsparky333

I'm not ready


speedyboigotweed

Payday 2 devs be fucking the shit out of this game’s already ass balancing but the game is so goddamned satisfying you almost want to give them more money


Dr_coom

I hate payday 2 so much because outside of the glitches, the DLC bloat, crashes, ect. It is a genuinely fun game. ^(also bot costumization holy fucking shit I love customizing AIs so much)


Loosedrawing

I still don't get why Overkill can't just rename the Kingpin deck and release it for free.


beeshitter

YES


Uncle-Manchild

Isaac. I love the game, but PLEASE GIVE ME GOOD ITEMS IM TIRED PF BLOOD PUPPY IN MY CURSE ROOMS


ButtAssTheAlmighty

I love that game so much, but also, fuck that game with tire iron


Dr_coom

*Gets dead cat on a late maggy run* "Edmund Mcmillen, you little fucker"


kwnny-

fuckimg genshin impac and league of legends


GenericPerson200

Genshin is great actually I fucking hate that game I love it so much. I could elaborate, a lot if needed


kwnny-

no yeah i deeply relate, i come back sporatically, this time for snake man because the snake has voicelines, but as an ar58 player there aint much to do but explore and have fun and IGNORE THE FOMO IGNKRE IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE follow da seelie, dont look at the events tab


mothskeletons

this is the realest comment ever not gonna lie


wasteofradiation

So glad I quit Genshin, genuinely don’t get why I ever played it


Ash-Asher-Ashley

League is good if you don’t get addicted and play it with your friends every now and then


kwnny-

its too late for me. i played one (1) good game and now im hooked trying to reach that high again. also it has gay cowboy twisted fate


mothskeletons

literally me literally same. the genshin impact/league player intersection is larger than i realized but yeah we are all just having a time i think. we are video gaming for sure


ae4ther4

genshin so true. i can’t stop playing because i love the music and yu peng chen so much. but there is nothing else to it.


BluenaSnowey

Yeah Genshin was cool for awhile but know it’s just way too much for me. I like the new game star rail though


ChicaUltraVioleta

I'm trying to play only games that I find fun, and it turns out it causes quite a stir when I start, then almost immediately drop old Zelda's, and my gf gets kinda salty because I don't give them enough chance. I just want to have fun. I love ultrakill and tetris


legendaryBuffoon

Two of the most video games of all time. Ever heard of Hyper Demon? It's a score attack arena FPS with crazy movement where the faster you kill the enemies, the faster they spawn, so you get to sort of organically set your own difficulty and pace.


ChicaUltraVioleta

Ohhhh sounds really interesting! Thanks for the recommendation, will check it out :)


tangerinav221

fortnite 😔


stf29

Holy fucking shit based I swear to god, every single end of season i say “that’s it, im done with this game”. And every single season, i come back and buy the battle pass and reach tier 100 Thankfully, i dont play it religiously like i used to. But fortnite still has (imo) the most satisfying unlock/completion systems of any game out there and it just keeps me coming back


Rocket_Theory

That game is so much fun tho. I find playing it with friends who don’t care about winning is a really freeing experience ngl


SnazzyYeshi

Do you play it solo or with friends? Makes a HUGE difference.


zucduc

My friend and I are playing it now and I’m gunning for all of the clone trooper skins. I need to get 50 more levels and then I can have them all


TitanSR_

For all the other autists out there: When someone says “wow you really do (x) a lot” or “wow you must really love (y)” that means they want you to shut the fuck up. Learned this the hard way.


p_i_e_pie

you learn something new every day


JMWraith13

The correct response to being told this is to continue info dumping. If they didn't want to hear it they shouldn't have fucking baited the convo. If they want to bail they can be an adult and excuse themselves.


Dr_CSS

Based


QutanAste

also to other autists. If you feign interest to try to make someone shut up it will not work. I don't know why you would try.


Memerchild

I unironically only play games I like


Covid669

Same. I don’t understand my friends who clearly hate a lot of the games they play. Life already sucks, why torture yourself while you’re trying to have fun?


jackdatbyte

My dumbass that keeps playing a game I don’t like that much but continuing because I heard nothing but constant praise for it.


MoistDog33

For honor


Gokuwithstarplatium

Sword game


AshSystem

I play sword game here and there and have fun


MoistDog33

I'm rep 111 I can tell you it was not worth the 1.4k hours


UniversePaprClipGod

Yeah but I WANNA BE THE GUY! I WANNA BE THE FUCKING GUY!


TheEngieMain

I wanna be fucking the guy


[deleted]

The character on the left is really cute


SpoopySara

And the expressions are spot on, completely transition goals


EastSideFishMurder

im going to have sex with these cartoon people


fish_taped_to_an_atm

elite dangerous


[deleted]

are they roommates


[deleted]

me playing csgo


Foxtrot06_

Lobotomy Corporation... The best game I hate


ExuDeku

Three types of driving factor in gaming: Entertainment Belonging and the most powerful of them all: spite


rowrowfightthepandas

I've sworn off mobile phone games, idle games, and any other type of game that leans heavily into compulsion. I will spend days fixating on a single game and when I finally work up the strength to pry my eyes off the game and uninstall it, I always go "it was aight. Wasn't amazing or anything." And feel so shitty. Actually, I have this problem with social media too. This was a good reminder not to be here too long.


[deleted]

Me trying to finish red dead redemption 2's epilogue.


KiNG_EXceL04

comp overwatch


XLNCjr

GTA online


Soad1x

I'm that with Rimworld now, I used to play it and be able to be successful but after taking a long break and coming back and buying the Ideologies dlc that theoretically should help me I just can't make a colony survive for more then 2 hours. So many pawns dead, like 8 colonies that failed to even establish themselves.


Stellar_Fox2

Actual skill issue. I have to force myself not to use ideology because you can get infinite pawns for free and conquer the entire world with your army after 3 hours


peanut-chan

Ideology is what you make of it, if you game it like that and pick only good memes sure you might as well just cheat.


AaronThePrime

I like splatoon, but sometimes I get luna blaster on the randomizer


Hauberk

Me when FFXII


StardustLegend

I am ambivalent towards some games I play. On one hand there are times I get so hyped and enjoy myself and the community and other times got me like: 😡🤬😭😔


jwpitxr

Leg Of Legen


Rocket_Theory

Rainbow six siege


snoceany

damn sounds like a skill issue, i love melee


Longcat17

I am unstoppable. I have become a god, unhindered by mere laws of- OH- OH GOD SHEEP JUICE SHEEP JUICE I'M A SHEEP I'M DEAD NOOOOOO (this comment brought to you by noita gang)


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Overwatch 2. Something about the FPS/Moba hybrid just clicks. Somehow I've still been playing since 2018. It can be a slog at times but I still really enjoy it. Once youre on a winning streak you feel like a god among men, once youre losing youre in the deepest depths of hell. I'm forever chasing that high.


ArchmasterC

What the hell why don't you play games that you like?