Anyone here play video games?
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@EdH I became thoroughly addicted to a mobile game during the lockdowns for the same reasons.
There's just something about simple, one dimensional games that allow my (probably) ADD riddled brain to tune into external stimuli such as music/audiobooks.
I was playing this for 4/5 hours a day for a solid 6 months, whilst listening to Fantasy audiobooks, and inadvertently became the joint top ranked player on the Google Play store leaderboards
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I've been playing a quirky little puzzle game called Viewfinder recently.
It involves taking photos of the environment, which can be placed into the world, and explored as three dimensional spaces to solve puzzles.
The idea is amazing, and worth the price of admission (especially on sale) but it's very short with just a 2-4h run time.
Some of the solutions are a little Janky though, and whilst it's a far cry from the upper echelon of puzzle games, I'm keen to see if they develop the concept into something more cohesive in the future.
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@Ross Not quite. It was that I already had it on my PSN account thanks to it being a PS+ freebie a few months ago, and I thought I'd check it out.
I was actually winding Mrs H up saying "here's a game for you" because I take the mickey out of how much she cleans... I personally don't think vacuuming and wiping down the whole house daily is necessary but she does, so that's what we do... anyway... and then I ended up quite enjoying it.
But I will be getting the 40k tie-in DLC once I'm done with the main game, as I see this being a game that I try to get 100% of the trophies in.
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@T4920 said in Anyone here play video games?:
inadvertently became the joint top ranked player on the Google Play store leaderboards
That's nuts!
But I have no idea what you're doing in that game based on that video... is the player tapping the blocks?
Reminds me that I saw a Tiktok being shared around a while back. It was this kid's reaction to finding out that his mom was the #1 ranked player in Candy Crush globally. He was taking the mickey out of how much she plays - "look, there's mom playing Candy Crush again", then caught a glance of the leaderboard on her phone as she's trying to hide it, and was like "wait, are you #1? In the WORLD?! What the f***". I think he had a newfound respect for her in a weird way.
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@EdH you tap/hold the left/right sides of the screen to rotate the blue and red dots, and attempt to avoid the descending white blocks.
The stage shown in that videos has the white blocks disappearing midway down the screen, making the final sequence of challenges a lot more difficult, but by that stage, the game is played almost exclusively on an instinctive, subconscious level.
Ending up as a top ranked player involved doing flawless runs of the base game, and both expansions at 3x speed...
As simple as it seems, it's one of the best gaming experiences of my life ahaha, and made me truly understand to concept of 'flow state'.
Free on Play/App stores, or you can pay a couple of pounds to remove ads (recommended)
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@EdH as for the Candy Crushing, she must've spent a fortune on it to reach that level! It becomes very much pay to win at higher levels (extra lifes, power ups etc) my otherwise extremely frugal Mum had to check herself and uninstall it years ago, after my Dad questioned numerous £2.99 payments to Google pay on their bank statement ahaha.
If it can get to her, it can get to anybody...
I find the monetisation strategy behind certain mobile gaming disturbing, yet so fascinating!
Relying on 0.001% of their players (the whales) to make up 99% of their profits... -
@T4920 Honestly I find the business behind videogames almost as much fun to follow as actually playing games themselves. I was all over the documents which were made public by the courts during Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard King. And Sony suffered a major breach last year via a hack on one of its developers (Insomniac) which also revealed some very tasty behind-the-scenes numbers and stats.
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@popvulture what, no options for both?! Haha but on the real, you might be right!
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@Seul muahahahha the madness is certainly serving its purpose!
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Do not start playing Balatro. It is pure gaming crack. You'll be sat there, playing poker hands, until the small hours of the morning, completely oblivious to the passage of time.
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I miss Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo. Best game ever made ...
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@RobeOfTheMagi do you have a new-ish console?
A few great games have come out in recent years inspired by games such a Chrono Trigger.
Sea of Stars (has been described as a spiritual successor to CT) and Crosscode (one of my favourite games in recent years) come to mind.
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I don't have a contemporary gaming device (yet); I've bought a Nintendo DS a few years back in order to play Chrono Trigger again.
Thanks for the great suggestions :)!
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@RobeOfTheMagi I find myself playing 90% casual indy titles nowadays, puzzles game in particular! Not exactly putting the power of the PS5 to good use, but it's nice to have when a big title comes out I wanna try..
I played WoW too, and other MMOs many years back, but don't allow myself to play anything online nowadays cause I'm terrified of being recaptured in the thrall of gaming addiction once again...
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Played through Firewatch over the last couple of evenings, short and sweet at around 3/4h long, but such a beautiful experience.
You play a character that has taken a job as a fire watch-man (I think that's the correct term...) at a National Park in Wyoming to get away from some demons, and things that have happened in his personal life.
The game flashes forward through a period of three months as you build a relationship with a mysterious colleague, whilst suspicious occurrences start to happen around you...
Any more info would spoil the experience, but if anyone is looking for a casual, narrative driven game you can have wrapped in little more than the length of a movie, I couldn't recommend it more.