Have you had occasions where you caught yourself enjoying learning all the little mechanics of a game more than actually playing the game?Path of Exile and The last Remnant are the 2 big ones for me.

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Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 04:25:28 9e2470 No.14148207

Have you had occasions where you caught yourself enjoying learning all the little mechanics of a game more than actually playing the game?

Path of Exile and The last Remnant are the 2 big ones for me.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 05:38:13 c5a541 No.14148478

Nigga, that's why I played those games specifically

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 06:09:09 67b7eb No.14148632

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>play Animal Crossing because I wanted a comfy life sim with cute animal neighbors

>end up looking through every wiki, gamefaqs, and even the fucking Bell Tree forums trying to learn how to kick a motherfucker out of my town because the literal sow parked her house right in front of mine, looking up what I can get away with by savescumming because 3 days in a row I got all 4 of my fossils as useless duplicates, and learning how to get my shitbag villagers to request public works projects since the bastards would rather I fetch them fruit from a tree that's right fucking behind them than they would ask their mayor to make their barren pit of a town great again by building shit to beautify it

As good and useful as it is to find all of this shit out, you end up having to play more carefully than you'd like to. You don't want your villagers to buy your trash at Re-Tail or from furniture trades since you'll end up turning their nice homes into fucking landfills of your unwanted impulse buys. You end up walking across your town since sprinting fucks up your grass and risks destroying your nice hybrids or scaring away stringfish/dorados if you sprint near the river. All that trouble just to have the most beautiful fucking town in the world. At that point I decided that "comfy" could go fuck itself and that I would play this shit like a city builder with ninja rabbits and manchild elephants, and I somehow ended up having more fun that way.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 08:27:03 fbf5d5 No.14149239

Modding Bethesda games is more fun than playing them. Wrye Bash is more interesting than most Oblivion quests.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 08:37:31 5addbf No.14149290

>>14148632

>tfw Animal Crossing makes you so much of a perfectionist unlike any other game.

>want the neighbors you like

>want the hybrids you like

>completionist

>no running

>trees and grass taken care of

Animal Crossing seems like it'll only take 10 minutes of your time everyday, but man, it takes your life away.

Friends don't let friends play AC

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 09:42:52 4e8bb1 No.14149699

>>14148632

You are a faggot.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 10:06:33 eb76a0 No.14149834

played factorio

ended up ignoring my factory and just riding the train in circles and crashing it

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 10:15:54 553595 No.14149883

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>>14148207

>learning all the little mechanics of a game more than actually playing the game?

Are you talking about Dwarf Fortress?

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 15:31:46 0d1d08 No.14151105

Owlboy had me fooled for a while with all the contextual interactions that keep popping up. But then I realized how bored I was about 3 hours in and that I could essentially watch it online and get the same experience.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 16:26:49 d6ddd3 No.14151462

>>14148207

I learned to abuse the RNG in some pokemon games.

Chatots man.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 17:20:16 bfeaaf No.14151730

>>14148207

Back in the 90s and early 00s learning the game and playing the game were the same thing. Because games back then had depth and it was expected that you'd have to git gud to win and if you didn't enjoy gitting gud then video games weren't for you.

Games like that still come out occasionally (ie, Commander Rimanah's Bizarre Adventure) but most games these days are shallow and don't require any learning or effort to win.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 18:45:53 a0d01b No.14152229

>>14148207

Why would you finish a game if you understand all of it's mechanics already? You're just going through the motions at that point.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 18:53:39 5629a5 No.14152278

>>14152229

Because there's a difference between understanding mechanics and mastering them.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 18:56:13 194f44 No.14152300

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>>14148207

fug this game

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 18:57:03 9e2470 No.14152303

>>14152229

Some might argue to see the ending or simply for the sake of completion. Both of which seem pretty stupid reasons in most cases.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 18:58:58 0df645 No.14152312

>>14148207

No, I feel myself feeling ashamed that I don't know the mechanics as well as some caffeinated Chinese boy who does nothing but butcher his credit score on plate-spinning loli games, then I quit playing.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 19:02:19 0449c2 No.14152332

>>14149883

Thank goodness we have terry to guide us through these times that try men's souls.

>>14148207

Not for video games so much as for tabletop RPG's. Min-maxing takes hours and hours, but you don't want to get out-done by your fellow players.

Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 19:11:21 9e2470 No.14152396

>>14152300

This game was such a ruse of crazy rules. The most optimal way to play this rpg is to not fight anything at all which changes the genre towards more of a platformer where you start learning the monsters their attackmove patterns and how to effectively dodge them in narrow corridors while still picking up items etc.

A class system that consists of over 15 classes but doesn't get explained at all turning half of your characters into scouts. Just thinking about all the shit makes me laugh, I wish they'd make something similar but without the BR. BR is the drug that connects it all and takes it to the next level.