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Talking Tuesdays: Video Games

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25.01.2022
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ButterfIy
ButterfIy
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25.01.2022 12:25:14
ButterfIy

In honour of Heartmarch, I've decided to steal her Talking Tuesday idea! Lets get to know each other a bit better Secville, since we are the superior state after all.

What are your opinions on video games and gaming in general? Do you have any personal favourites or any experiences with them that you'd like to share?

Love,
ButterfIy εϊз

25.01.2022 12:25:14
I am pro-Israel, DNI if pro-Palestine, thank you!
AuntieLice
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25.01.2022 13:23:57
AuntieLice

Love video games, especially fighting games. Mortal Kombat and Tekken are my favourite. I main Mileena, Skarlet, Kitana, Jade, Tanya, Sindel and Cetrion in MK and Nina, Zafina, Kunimitsu, Kazumi and Xiaoyu in Tekken. xxxx

25.01.2022 13:23:57
“Then two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out.” -Amber Heard
Loderi
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25.01.2022 17:29:52
Loderi

I play PC games myself. So I like gaming.

I still play Diablo II which is now categorical as "retro" pretty much. I still remember to this day my first attempt against Diablo at end game and not knowing what the hell I was getting myself into; the ground started shaking his voice challenging you and adrenaline dumped into my system. It was heady and cool and my palms were sweating.

It didn't help that I was severely underleveled as a Necromancer and he blew my skeleton army to pieces with two passes of his flames and I was running around with nothing.

Anyhoo, I had to quit and retry after leveling, but the battle was hard won back in those days and I felt a real sense of accomplishment afterwards. That's the magic of gaming as a media. 

I don't have the hand and eye coordination to play console games, but I watch my husband when he plays through and work as his spotter; while he's busy jumping and shooting, I'm watching for the collectable supplies or secret entrances in the environment.

The last big game I partnered with him on was "Last of Us" and the sequel. The storytelling is getting better and better with video games and a story about the slow degradation of human morality and society in a post-apocalyptic setting was compelling. The worst enemies weren't the zombies. Zombies were just animals with nothing but instinct to kill. The worst enemies were the people. And yet, there was love and trust exhibited by the protagonists. Very good worldbuilding.

And this game was even more "realistic" in that the screen was remarkably clutterfree; there was no map on screen like in real life so you navigated by remembering the physical aspects of the buildings and backtracked in a realistic fashion. I liked that aspect.

I like console games with meaty stories; Horizon Zero Dawn, Assassin's Creed, Bioshock, Mass Effect. Too bad I can't play them myself.

25.01.2022 17:29:52
ButterfIy
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26.01.2022 16:57:04
ButterfIy

I would game on PC if I had one, but I really love console gaming just out of habit.

My favourite game of all time is Final Fantasy XIII, though that's a controversial opinion. When I was younger I had issues with being too sensitive and the lead character of Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning, is a stoic and badass heroine. It kind of put things into perspective for me and helped me understand that "some things in life you just d"—as she once said. I agree that the storytelling in games is becoming more and more dynamic, detailed and almost movie-like; if you every want to watch your husband play an interesting story-driven game, I would suggest the recent Tomb Raider reboot franchise. That series was stunning and I honestly cant wait for the next instalment!


26.01.2022 16:57:04
I am pro-Israel, DNI if pro-Palestine, thank you!
Septum_cat
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26.01.2022 17:40:05
Septum_cat

Generally I'm really bad at video games, so I'm often just watching my bf playing the video games i want to play - but are to clueless to complete.. However there are a few I enjoy and are able to play without help, Lego Harry Potter and Limbo. ☼
(Dunno if it counts as gaming, but I've played my fair share of sims - even got to the point where I build my own world.)

26.01.2022 17:40:05
Better Grade 
Loderi
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29.01.2022 19:44:04
Loderi

I don't know how to concisely articulate how I feel about the whole Final Fantasy thing.

I am a fan of the character designs and the music. I'm a fan of the consistency of the spells system: a Fira is a Fira across games. The elemental attacks are strong/weak in an intuitive manner. (Especially for somebody who also gamed Pokemon. No confusing "So Normal is strong against what?" moments)

The turn based system is also great for somebody like me, who is not good at coordination, so I have time to set up attacks.

But after a while, I got annoyed? Frustrated? by the more and more convoluted plot lines. I guess I didn't care one way or another what Sephiroth actually IS as a person? Spirit? Hallucination of Cloud's PTSD that haunts him? Whatever, he's the Big Enemy, time to level. I could plug along doing the game.

But then it just got bigger and bigger and Dreams and Dreaming and just... unwieldy nonsense. Like all along, Tidus wasn't real? Timey-wimey wibbly wobbly? Who was he talking to? How did the group achieve what they needed to do if it he was not there all along? Was he a mass hallucination? Nobody explained anything to my satisfaction.

Every other game after X seemed to lean more and more into these fake out moments until I just didn't give a damn about any of the characters any more.

And then XV rolled out and here I am following the boy band around and I thought from the trailer that there was going to be some cool urban ninja shenanigans but now, I'm pushing a broken car around in the desert. Didn't manage to finish that. Passed it to my husband. In fact, the only legacy from that game is my husband occasionally spouting off "It's a new recipe!" when playing other video games after killing things. Was very funny while killing zombies in "Last of Us".

So. I guess Final Fantasy is influential to my experience as a gamer, but definitely not relevant.

The last chance was when I watched my husband do the FF7 remake and found out that it wasn't even a complete game. We were supremely dissatisfied by this turn of events. We slogged through all this bullshit and we didn't even get to recruit or SEE Vincent? Now we big mad.

So. Yeah. Pretty package. Way too little substance in the end.

29.01.2022 19:44:04
Hermaeus Mora
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06.05.2022 23:25:47
Hermaeus Mora

I like playing any Elder Scrolls game that's my main opinion on gaming 

06.05.2022 23:25:47
                                           
I was nothing before, so how could I have asked to be born? I'll be nothing again, so what AM I between now and theeeen- is there nothin' to fear?? Cause shit's gETTIIIN WEIIIIIRD
Luciie in the Skyee
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09.05.2022 19:24:03
Luciie in the Skyee

one of my favourite games is slay the spire < 3 ive also beenplaying breath of the wild, animal crossing and hades !

09.05.2022 19:24:03
peace &love xox
miku sex goblin
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10.05.2022 00:25:31
miku sex goblin

some of my favorite games are rimworld, stardew valley, and botw :) I'm so excited for botw2, really sad they delayed it again :(, I've wasted soooo much money on sims 4, barely play it and have like 90% of the over priced packs, although I did get a lot of them on sale its still a waste of money and I regret most of them, its just so hard to make the game fun you know? like each time a new pack comes out its hyped up and looks fun but if you get it like a month after it comes out its died down and your judgement isn't clouded and its all meh, basemental drugs makes the game more fun for me tbh, I just like to make my sims suffer and have drama when I play it, but downloading CC is easy but I'm just really lazy to get more, I wish it was like steam where I can just click subscribe and it automatically goes into my game.
anyways, rant over. 

10.05.2022 00:25:31
boobs haha. 
Hermaeus Mora
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10.05.2022 02:52:54
Hermaeus Mora

PLUS a lot of the packs just feel like stuff that should have been in the base game already instead of paying like $50 USD or whatever the price is to get y'know?? Like pets. You can get a cat or a dog very cool but is that not... something sims should probably already be able to do????

10.05.2022 02:52:54
                                           
I was nothing before, so how could I have asked to be born? I'll be nothing again, so what AM I between now and theeeen- is there nothin' to fear?? Cause shit's gETTIIIN WEIIIIIRD

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