I typically go with single player games. Niche stuff casuals rarely play. It’s not a flex or anything, I just a “distinct” taste in gaming

  • jtrek@startrek.website
    711·
    3 days ago

    I’ve had several girlfriends who were like “you play video games? Like… <worried expression> call of duty?”

    They were all relieved when I was like no.

    Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.

    • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
      191·
      3 days ago

      I’m not a COD guy, I prefer battlefield.

      I always included my partners into playing it with me. Either taking turns or, as my partner for life, has come to love. Minimap watcher!

      She calls out whatever is on the radar. Saved my ass so many times. I know it has to have made somebody mad, cause there’s times when she notices someone on the minimal and tells me turn around or something, and I end up getting em.

        • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
          10·
          3 days ago

          Thank you. It really is. It started in bf1. I am colorblind (can’t remember which) but bf1 blended together for me a lot. Made it harder to see folks. She came in clutch more than I can count.

          She’s the reason I have, I think 3 of the 4 horsemen dog tags.

          And she’s great overwatch when I am flying heli with my buddy Squash on bf6. She can spot an enemy heli the moment it comes out. Where as I am basically blind because of my sight.

          And she’s even gotten better at playing herself. Especially since we’ve worked on our communication skills and I have learned not to be so “harsh” sounding when she messes up a firefight and gets vented. And she’s learned that I’m not trying to be mean, but get the point across that you gotta stay calm under fire.

          Something I love about her is that she’ll admit when she’s wrong, even when I am the bigger asshole. She can sit there look me in the eyes and say “how you acted wasn’t right, but I can see how I was acting made you act that way.”

          To be acknowledged, to be seen as human, to be loved even when flawed. I wouldn’t trade it for the universe.

          I’ll never be able to pay this woman back for the love she has given me and the support she has shown me. I’ll shutup now, as I could just go on about my partner.

          • Axolotl@feddit.it
            5·
            3 days ago

            Thank you for sharing this sweet story! I hope for you two to have a long and healty relationship!

            • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 days ago

              Thank you! 12 yrs going strong. 6 yr old kid running us up a wall lol. Couldn’t ask for more. I’m as rich as a man can be.

  • Lowleekun [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
    5·
    2 days ago

    Europa Universalis, Stellaris, BG3, Schedule 1, Rimworld, Timberborn, Terraria, Surviving Mars are some of my most played games.

    I also have played Witcher 1/2/3, Mass Effect 1/2/3, WoW, GW 1 and 2, TERA and a little Battlefield and COD(BO2).

    You see, I am somewhat of a gamer myself.

  • FatVegan@leminal.space
    732·
    3 days ago

    I go to the same barbershop every two month or so, but not always tge same barber. Every now and then i get a guy around my age who is pretty chatty, but we have literally nothing i. Common. So every time he remembers that i play video games, because he also plays video games. But for now a decade or so, his answer is always: fifa and cod and gta, when the new one came out. He has literally no idea what i’m talking about when i name some games i play. “Video games” to him is synonymous for fifa and call of duty. So we still have nothing in common

    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
      4·
      3 days ago

      Depending on how you gauge him, maybe you’re his opportunity to discover a vast fun world of indie games? At the very least, if you’re tired of him talking your ear off about Ball and Gun, you could at least talk his ear off about Expedition 33. Yapping as a defense mechanism.

  • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
    27·
    3 days ago

    And then I go “Hey what if you could play CoD from the perspective of the psychopathic senior officers whose orders make all this violence happen?”

    • Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      2 days ago

      “Rimworld, what’s that?”

      “Its like the Sims on a hostile alien planet with robots and cannibalism”

      “Cannibalism?!”

      "Yea… Usually not intentionally. I mean no one sets to eat their friends or even their enemies but after a few lean seasons and you have run out of pets… But it’s not like you let them go to waste, you can use the leather too.

      … (Doesn’t notice them pulling away)

      Human leather is actually kind of a premium value product…". “Hey where’d you go?!”

  • psion1369@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    So many a year ago, I would tell people I was a gamer, and they all assumed video games when I meant role-playing games. Made me a touch upset. Now I see this happening in video game culture too, and I just have a smile of justification while sitting in my room of unread ttrpg books.

  • creamfresh@lemmy.world
    5410·
    3 days ago

    Niche stuff casuals rarely play.

    that’s the kind of gatekeeping I’d like to avoid in my hobby

  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
    28·
    3 days ago

    I play the wikipedia game. Start on a random article, click the first link over and over until you reach philosophy. How many clicks did it take? try and beat that