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Since my firstborn, 7 yo now, I'm all in board games. Long past are the days of 100+ hours rpgs and grand strategy games.

Having a blast with boards! Love 'em even more than playing on mu PC, including a lot of solo gaming.

More like a single edged sword, aimed at me lol

Have you tried Baldur's Gate 3 yet? It has a tutorial, but it's pretty minor. It mostly just puts you in simple situations first to let you figure it out yourself, and it's maybe 15m. Most of what you can do you have to figure out yourself in the game. For example, you can stack crates to get to higher locations. This is never told to you, but it's available. You're basically free to handle things however you want and the game will be OK with it. It's fantastic.

There's also no bullshit collection things or time wasters. There are side quests, but they're all pretty good so far in my experience. They aren't fluff quests. No microtransactions or anything else either. It's what games should be.

Also: if there's a boss fight I can't get through because I can't get the timing right just detect that, and make it easier for me.

I loved the Zelda games on the different game boy variants - but never finished one as there always was that one boss I couldn't get past. And that was when I still was young and had patience to try to put effort into mastering the movements. For more modern games I'm stuck with some boss on ittle dew - great game, but probably will never touch it again for more then the 2 minutes it takes me to realize where the last save is stuck. Just opened it yesterday, was surprised about the progress, and closed it halfway into dying in the fight.

Yes! I'm on an eternal quest to find games that will just shut up and let me play.

My most recent find is Ghostrunner. Starts with the CPU doing the first kill and then you're off.

Before that it was Celeste. I now realize in both games the player dies a lot. Maybe there's a correlation between how much fun I have and how much the game allows me to die without repercussions 😅

I guess I'll need to try Elden Ring now. There's gotta be dozens of us. Anyone have more recommendations?

For years I have been buying new games for (almost) exclusively $30 or less. And I find that I never enjoy the giant sprawling games that merit a $60 price tag nearly as much.

NPC Man feels your pain: https://youtu.be/9UuZQyTWiF0

I thought its piracy

When did they rename peers to friends??

So you can click on that game 10 seconds faster.

You forgot browsing Steam for interesting looking games to buy and then never touch again

Heaven is a temporary afterlife that is long enough for you to play through your backlog, as the afterlife ends when you decide you've played enough and want to be done.

So by the name of GabeN, let thine backlog grow full and large! Enrich your divine recreation before your final rest.

Flat-green-line gang rise.. wait

Shhhh, don't let them know... /s

People who upgrade and resell their still-good hardware keep the used market awash in 1 and 2-generation old stuff that keeps the hobby more affordable.

I've realised this recently. I spent close to 2 grand (Australian) on a new PC a few years ago, with a 1440p monitor, and I generally play isometric RPGs and metroidvanias...

I do enjoy some high-fidelitt games, especially stuff like Alien Isolation and the Metro series, but I think I don't need to spend so much next time.

My dumbass built a PC last year with a 7700x, DDR5 6000 RAM, 4TB PCIe 4.0 NVME, a $250 PSU, a freaking 4090, and stuck it all on a $500 motherboard. Paired it with a 65" 4K 120hz LG OLED with VRR and HDR. All in all I spent over $4K and what do I do with it most of the time? Watch YouTube.

No regrets, though. I could never afford anything nice in my 20s so I wanted to treat myself after my dad died and I collected life insurance. Not to mention that on the rare chance I do play a game, man is it glorious. 100% worth it.

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