Euro Truck Simulator 2 / American Truck Simulator for me.
Og doom, Duke nukem 3d and Unreal tournament
Steam World Dig 2 and The Wandering Village
League of Legends.
Holy carp you do. Once I hit about level 20 the culture of that community just went crazy. Everyone was just a complete shithead and cared so much.
I wish I could have capped myself at about level 10 and hung around with the other casuals forever, but instead I quit once I got enough counseling to put down the mouse and stop running bottom route sup.
The problem is 9 out of 10 games are just misserable… but than that one game hits and it hits different, so good you forget the other 9 games and makes you crave more.
But I’m clean now… since January I got my League fix only from the eSports…
I hear that. It’s been over a decade (or so) since I’ve played and I still remember a few of the games very specifically. The rest are a blur with a general feeling of annoyance left over.
Since I never spent the hours of learning how to min/max my build against every conceivable combination of enemies and teammates, I never could do well at the higher levels. The net result was mediocrity in my style and huge waves of anger from the random people I was teamed with.
To be able to compete you have to invest huge efforts into learning the builds and styles to match. I just didn’t care enough, but with the XP system always climbing (by sheer games played), I was pinched out just because the system has room room for casual play.
The spikes of reward from the mid level games were quickly dwarfed by the constance negative experiences as I was forced to level up.
High five as fellow recovering ex-LoL players!
The Binding of Isaac. I’ve been playing it off and on for about a decade. Something about it just lets me zone out and forget the world while I play.
Man I wish I could like Isaac like that. I’m not good at it at all. Every time I try to play the game it turns into an angry sweat fest as I take tons of stupid avoidable damage and don’t find any fucking keys for the third floor in a row
I’ve watched a thousand hours of Northernlion and I could probably tell you every item in the game on sight but my sticky notes look like sad trash.
Don’t even get me started on the challenges, I fear that list, but I want half those unlocks to get all my other unlocks.
For now it’s Oblivion Remastered.
Once that’s done I have no idea, probably back to Skyrim.
Same here. Skyrim was cool when it came out cause graphics but Oblivion is king when it comes to gameplay. Having graphics and gameplay now there’s just no contest anymore IMO.
Splatoon
For a while it was ets2/ats, but now it’s usually BeamNG because I can just go around doing nothing and stop whenever I want instead of feeling like I have to finish the job
Super Metroid, especially on a dark and rainy day
Kerbal Space Program. I mostly just make fighter jets using the procedural wings and BDArmory mods now.
Morrowind.
Animal Crossing Wild World! I like New Horizons a lot too, but there’s just something about Wild World that’s cosy in a way no other game has been able to replicate for me
Any Fromsoft Soulsborne.
Unlike a Jedi, my anger doesn’t lead to suffering and death. It leads to a zen-like flow state. Which I suppose does still lead to suffering and death for the enemies in the game… 🤔
Isn’t “mastering your anger” the jedi’s whole thing?
Wanna help me get through sen’s fortress? I’m bashing my head against that wall. No matter how many times I beat the games, that place gives me nightmares as the blades knock me to my death.
.> It maaaaay be because I have stick drift and my toon will randomly stop running forwards and walk, but it maaaay be because I just hate lizards with shields.
Anything Zelda. Stardew Valley. Civ 6. RDR2.
Red Dead Redemption 2 story. Every time I go back and play through it provides a month+ of joy and comfort.
American Truck Sim is a good one too.
