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Oh no I no longer can play the incredibly toxic matchmaking multi-player games and instead have to enjoy the automation, exploration, story, management and strategy games I’ve always loved
Factorio, my beloved
Yeah. Now I only have like 3 hours to play by day and I’m not gonna waste them in losing.
I’m the same way. I know some like the feeling of beating a hard boss after trying for hours, but I just don’t have that time.
The secret is they like the process of beating them too. It’s not all about “winning”.
Hmm should I try different party combos in BG3 to see how the dialogue changes or run around a COD map getting shot in the back of the head every 9 seconds while ads for mtx strobe flash my corneas?
Or you can graduate to milsims.
The controls and game mechanics tend to be so complicated that… well, people tend to have more realistic expectations from their teammates, and if you find a decent community, people tend to be more mature and friendly.
It actually requires a part time job level of commitment to be an exceptional shooter or tanker or pilot or even medic if you’re playing with a sufficiently complex health simulation… so, somewhat true to life, people tend to specialize and thus have much, much more incentive for decent communication standards.
Downside: Also true to life, a lot of games will end up feeling like 90% camping/hiking/road trip, punctuated, often essentially randomly, by 10% sheer terror.
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You are not authorized for retirement unless you want a dishonorable discharge, soldier! If you need a wrist splint and vertical ergonomic mouse to continue your duties, check the nearest supply depot! Dismissed!
lol
What milsims would you recommend?
Well, you got Arma 3 or Arma Reforger…
Those are pretty much the most commonly played milsims, with tons of available mods and dlc, huge expansive maps, players have their own inventories, can customize your whole load out and such…
SQUAD is sort of a milsim lite, maybe? It evolved out of Project Reality for Battlefield 2, they eventually made their whole own game in Unreal.
It retains the round based, class base core concept, but greatly expands on the more arcady nature of the Battlefield series with many more realistic gameplay concepts, much of them revolving around playing a role in a squad.
The maps aren’t as big as Arma, but you can still end up with a whole game session taking an hour or two.
There are also other games that basically aim for what SQUAD does, but not in a modern combat setting, Hell Let Loose for WW2 as an example.
I think Gray Zone Warfare is trying to be a new sort of milsim on the block, but so far I’ve heard roughly mixed reviews of it… and there are tons of ‘tactical shooters’… but they tend to be smaller in scope and usually lack vehicles, or don’t include near as many, or simulate them as extensively… and a whole lot of them tend to be developed by basically people who vastly overestimate their ability to make a game, and can be very toxic / in denial about this… so be careful with those, haha, probably check youtube for some reviews before diving in.
There’s also Gunner Heat PC if you want a very tank oriented tank sim, and DCS if you want an excruciatingly detailed, combat oriented flight sim, and you also hate money, lol.
Oh right, for basically most of these, you’re probably going to want to try and find and join some kind of larger community on discord or something like that… usually they’ll have guides, tutorials, plan matches/games on a schedule, maybe even offer some kind of psuedo boot camp / training for enthusiastic noobs, hehe.
Thank you so much for the detailed response, a upvote wouldn’t be enough. <3
I threw in some more details after I made the comment, more context and hopefully more useful info =D
On the other hand, sims tend to get a lot of guys that are a bit too into it.
Yep, thats also true lol.
Quoting myself from another comment in this thread:
… of course you can then go way, way too far into fullblown sim territory and end up with actual geriatrics and/or turboautists, lol.
(I say this lovingly as a turboautist who has spent probably an unhealthy amount of time in various niche sim communities, lol)
Jokes on you. I never had the skills to begin with.
It just means it’s time for solo 4x and single player RPGs.
A huge Rimworld expansion drops today. Solo game players have never had it better.
omg its out now! I know what I am doing all weekend then.
I’m stuck at work right now just dying to play it
you cant lose what never had
Honestly the opposite happened to me. I’m 31 and I’ve been playing much better in terms of aiming than any other time ten or 20 years ago.
Same, maturing and looking at things more intelligently made me better at online games. Still average to be honest, but I was really bad as a kid
By the time, I got better at puzzle resolving games. Has been a while since a get stuck in a videogame.
Me being terrible at games now is because I am old and can’t sink the same time into it. But I beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES. Do I really need to prove myself anymore?
That deserves a medal as far as I’m concerned.
I am just going to frame your reply. Thank you.
Wait, y’all had gaming skills to begin with?
I can barely play online games against anyone without getting wiped in 0.0001 nanoseconds if it’s a PVP game. Never had skills, so I’ll never be in denial about losing what I never had.
Play 4x/grand strategy and youllvonly get better as you get older.
You might find yourself playing on slower speeds with rts styles though
Jokes on you, I’ve always been bad at RTS
Strategy games are interesting, I feel aged when playing mount and blade.
I used to take on 10 men at once by myself with only half health but needed 25 men to fight an army of 35.
Now I lose a simple 1v3 but can beat armies thrice my size on hardest settings with my barely trained archer units.
I also use bufs and consumables in pokemon now so that’s a thing.
I have never been good in FPS when it comes to “both jump around the corner and shoot, who wins?” But i have always been good at: “Where the heck did he come from?! what is this stupid play, this is not the meta!!!” happily frustrating some tryhards. As i get older i can still enjoy that way of playing.
I’ve noticed that with experience comes better predictive play, rather than relying on reaction time.
This is the real reason to have kids. I’m not up on the Mario Kart meta, but I’ll whup my seven year old around rainbow road any damn day.
Getting there. I’m introducing my oldest (3) to all the Mario games now.
Super recommend Mario and the Rainbow Stars! It’s a free fan game with a ton of fun moments. They’ll have fun watching, and you’ll get something new to keep your interest.
Never heard of that one, but will look it up. Thanks!
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Strategy and turn based RPGs FTW!
Happened to me ages ago :3
I don’t play enough competitive games to care anyway tho
I cut my teeth on games when being balls hard was the standard. I paid my dues. Nowadays I just put them on easy (and use save states for old games).
