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[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 84 points 6 days ago

Considering gaming experiences are usually more enjoyable than real life, I’d like to ask what’s outside like before logging out.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 87 points 6 days ago

They're more enjoyable for the player. It usually sucks big time to be an NPC in a game

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 12 points 6 days ago

I dunno man, I think I'd enjoy being an NPC in some of the sim/builders I play. I enjoy it when my loyal subjects are happy.

On the other hand, if they're not happy I usually decide to give them something to be not happy about.

You know what, forget the whole NPC thing. Players are voletile gods.

[-] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

I’d hate being an NPC in the games I play. Especially since fiery deaths are often a loophole to the “no killing NPCs” rule.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I am a benevolent but incompetent ruler. My NPCs would be happy right up until they all died because I put off some boring upgrade/maintenance task and the colony exploded.

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Sometimes I feel like an Adventures of Link NPC.

I am error.

[-] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Gotta give credit to games like Stardew.

[-] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Depends on the game. Depends on the player.

[-] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

My bad, was meant to be an expansion, not a correction. I have the insufferable need to chime in sometimes and pre-resolve potential ambiguities. It's something im working on.

Reason I even brought it up is I'm usually nice to npc's in general, but man. Some people I see in videos or anecdotes from assosciates got me giving them a mad side-eye. 1's and 0's or not, the malice and sadism gets ridiculous sometimes. Makes me repeatedly realize how different some people consume the same game as me in ways I never thought of and/or could never bring myself to do.

Anyway, interjection over, that was it

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Reason I even brought it up is I'm usually nice to npc's in general, but man. Some people I see in videos or anecdotes from assosciates got me giving them a mad side-eye. 1's and 0's or not, the malice and sadism gets ridiculous sometimes. Makes me repeatedly realize how different some people consume the same game as me in ways I never thought of and/or could never bring myself to do.

You'll be pleased to know in cases where single player games with branching storylines have collected data, it's been shown that players overwhelmingly go with the 'good' storyline :)

[-] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Wait until they discover minecraft players...

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago

Sorry but you NPCs aren't supposed to know that information... It causes issues...

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 days ago

“It doesn’t look like anything to me.”

[-] Birch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Great day for fishin, aint it

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 7 points 6 days ago

I want to achieve Chim

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

Great to hear. Just terminate the session then. Do it now!

[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

Ah, you still got the old v.084 NPC dialogue. Hope they upgrade you soon.

[-] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Like Bo Burnham sang once From God's Perspective, we may be "just a bad game of Sims".

[-] Ignot@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Are you questioning the nature of your reality?

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I know it probably has a reset button.

this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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