/v/ - Video Games

in my opinion grimdark and comfy can coexist. in STALKER, for example, you might fight your way through a horrifying hellscape filled with radiation, monsters and the ruins of a town, then find a couple friendly guys playing harmonica around a campfire. shadow hearts covenant is another one: a dark, depressing setting in alternate-history ww1 i think it was ww1 that still manages to have comfy spots where it feels good to just hang out

if you ask me more games need to have a town- or base-building mechanic, because my own personal type of autism means if i can spend time customizing a town, finding ways to improve my economy, keep my gates safer or just plain get more people in there i spend more time doing that than anything

>what makes a game /comfy/

Atmosphere

>Can autists experience /comfy/

Autists are one of the few groups who can truly experience comfy because they actually invest themselves into the games that they play.

Now defining what actually makes a game's atmosphere comfy is the hard part because it's entirely subjective.

>>15874626

Genuine effort to entertain the player as a service, not as a blackmail for remuneration or a gateway to addiction.

>>>/comfy/

Haha /epic/ thread

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I like it

>>15874941

Fuck off, retard.

to be honest, skyrim is the comfiest game ever made.

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Mechanics that are challenging but not excessively stressful/fast paced or too slow, unchallenging and dumb (think of jrpgs).

If a game is too easy it can't be comfy, it is boring, and boredom feels uncomfy. If a game is too challenging and punishing then you're adrenaline will be too high to get comfy (think sc2 or sfv against tough opponents)

Cheerful or relaxing music is important.

cheerful and colorful backgrounds and characters also.

For me it's KEIO FLYING SQUADRON (sega cd)

>>15876634

>If a game is too easy it can't be comfy, it is boring, and boredom feels uncomfy.

Pretty sure most Kirby games are easy, and people seem to find those comfy (when they're not delving into horror moments).

>/comfy/

Homosexuals out

>>15876639

>people find kirby comfy

they are stupid and wrong.

>modern games

>difficult

are you retard

>>15874626

dipshit, comfy is subjective

people can find grimdark comfy, people can find synthwave comfy, people can find mario comfy, people can find anything comfy

>>15874626

Dark Souls is pretty comfy.

>>15881490

Modern games are the Dark Souls of gaming.

They're expensive and not very enjoyable. Thus, you have to be a masochist to play or enjoy them. Therefore, it's difficult to not get bored and the barrier to entry high.

Having played it when you were 12.

>>15874860

ambient noise of the surrounding in a hub is 10/10 comfy material

>>15881508

But Dark Souls is the prime example of why modern gaming is bad?

> intentionally frustrating to new players

> requires you to do research outside of the game to understand how its mechanics work.

> punishes you because it can.

> heavily focused on mechanical difficulty

> shoehorns in random pvp and co-op elements that are required to fully enjoy the game

I couldn't play it for more than an hour at a time without being frustrated because I was probably stuck for 5 hours on the same boss who took 10 minutes to walk to and would instantly kill me whenever i entered the room. I eventually just said "this game is fundamentally broken" and never went back to it.

>>15874626

>A soothing soundtrack

>Calming and immersive atmosphere

>No real immediate gameplay obligations in the moment of comfiness

Am autist, can confirm both. You can also have grimdark games that meet this criteria just fine. It only needs to do these 3 things, most of which get their comfy from a little side activity that involves tending to plants/crops whatever or fishing or some kind of other proactive recreational activity that doesn't involve combat.

>>15882185

>requires you to do research outside of the game to understand how its mechanics work

<what is trial and error

<what is practice

Retarded. I don't even like Soulsborne games but "too hard" is not the reason why.

>>15882185

>modern gaming

>punishing the player for mistakes

Are you retarded? One of the reasons for Dark Souls' popularity was bucking the trend of modern games coddling the player.

>stuck for 5 hours on the same boss who took 10 minutes to walk to and would instantly kill me

That's a yes to being retarded then.

>>15882185

Sorry anon, but you're just not good.