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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2750 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 7, 2025

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I have a nice new gaming PC (5000 series gpu even), yet all I've played in the last three weeks is a few playthroughs of Civilization V. With a bunch of mods it still feels new, plus there are a few civs I have never even tried. My challenge now is beating the game with civs of middling power on Immortal difficulty.

I really enjoyed my time in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 before that. Played it a bunch in the week after it launched. But I got ever so slightly put off by a sequence where you are forced to (temporarily) lose all your gear, do timed objectives and complete the mission in the one way the devs intended. I'd rather not be stuck with that Hans guy for much longer; him getting executed would have been more or less okay in my book, lol, but there you go.

Anyone else here ever get easily 'bumped out of' these very good but long games where you feel like you kinda have to invest a lot of time per session and immerse yourself? The kind where it's really fun but it's not the easiest thing to just jump back into if you've been away from them for a few weeks. I have a lot of games like that on my list. A lot. It's not that I didn't like them, some of them I loved but never finished, but I develop aversion to the thought of jumping back into their worlds after some time away.

Graphically simpler games, like isometric strategy, seems a lot easier to return to, on and off.

Anyone else here ever get easily 'bumped out of' these very good but long games where you feel like you kinda have to invest a lot of time per session and immerse yourself?

Yes. I would really really love these games (KCD1&2 are good examples) until the enjoyment fell off a cliff. My advice is ignore most side quests and focus the main story to maximise your enjoyment before burn out. And yeah, its kind of a 'where were we again?' feeling of requiring effort to get back into it that turned me off picking them back up.

It's not so much that the game itself made me burn out on it. I guess I didn't make it clear in my post, but what I'm really criticizing is my own neuroses and weaknesses of insufficient energy/capacity combined with insufficient flexibility. There's nothing about KCD2 that says I can't play it for 30-60 minutes at a time, a few times per week. It honestly doesn't have to be a "2-3 hours every day" type of deal. There are a few long cutscenes but you can always save and quit in pretty short order. The aversion is not a logical one. When it shows up simply because, for reasons unrelated to the game(s) itself, I was away from a game for a while, it's clear to me that the problem is somewhere inside my own mind. There's some emotional pain related to the concept of combining the type of gameplay you get in an RPG, with the emotional and moral decision making, with work or other more work-like things, in one block of time (e.g. an afternoon). Civ is easier to fold into a regular day, easier to relate to because it is strategy and it is isometric in perspective. More involved types of gaming evoke more of an all-or-nothing mindset for me. shrug

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