Alternately, videogames now: I have a farm and it's the nicest farm of them all, and all the chickens have names and are demonstrably happy. Also I moonlight as an interior decorator for all my friends with whom I have deep personal relationships.
Just saying, we may be playing different types of games here.
The last game I played had me building a self-sufficient factory so large that I had to heavily dip into the logistics tech tree to navigate it.
The constant pollution does sort of upset the neighbors.
I want to love Factorio but all the drama surrounding its creator have really put me off.
Not a single sale in its entire lifespan but somehow being okay with doubling the price nearly a decade after release?
Defending statutory rape?
Idk man, maybe I’ll pirate it or something.
Yeah, I got it a while back, and figure I might as well play it since I have it.
I've been on a 2d kick lately. Factorio, Rimworld,Stardew, Mindistry, etc. I even replayed Bastion last year.
I love Rimworld, I’m thinking of trying out Dwarf Fortress but it looks so daunting.
And yeah man, after being obsessed with Hades I decided to check out all their games. Loved Bastion and am playing Pyre rn.
is it satisfactory lol
Also alternative: you must build the factory. The factory/factory/Dyson Sphere must grow. Watch out for hostiles.
To add, a lot of those games have you being an employee of an intergalactic megacorp where it's clear you're a cog in the machine.
Or I am a truck driver making delivery across the country, and attending to my island.
We definitely playing different games.
There's also more games being made now than there ever have been. People have a lot of choices.
The big AAA blockbusters do tend to aim for a different demographic than they did in the 80s, though. Probably largely because so many people who were kids in the 80s and 90s still play games.
Nintendo is still making run, jump, eat this flower, collect the coins games and they’re still excellent.
And they play absolutely fantastic on the PC. Their own hardware - not so much.
Nintendo simps downvoting this comment as if a PC release for Nintendo games wouldn't just completely slam any Nintendo console release.
It's honestly amazing how much better it plays. Zelda TOTK drops to 5-10 fps every time you used the special powers. Meanwhile even legacy systems can hold at 30 or 60 if you mod.
My children aren't allowed to use my PC without me present. They're allowed to play on the switch any old time.
The "Video Games Now" part basically describes Castlevania II.
What a horrible night to have a curse.
And Max Payne. That shit was dark.
There was sex and violence in 1980s games too!
"In 2087, generations after the devastation of a global nuclear war in 1998, a remnant force of the United States Army called the Desert Rangers operates in the Southwestern United States, acting as peacekeepers to protect fellow survivors and their descendants. A team of Desert Rangers is assigned to investigate a series of disturbances in nearby areas. Throughout the game, the rangers explore the remaining enclaves of human civilization, including a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas."
"Splatterhouse is an arcade-style sidescrolling beat 'em up with platform elements[2] in which the player controls Rick, a parapsychology college major who is trapped inside West Mansion. After his resurrection by the Terror Mask, Rick makes his way through the mansion, fighting off hordes of creatures in a vain attempt to save his girlfriend Jennifer from a grisly fate."
"The games follow Larry Laffer, a balding, double entendre-speaking, leisure suit-wearing man in his 40s. The stories generally revolve around his attempting, usually unsuccessfully, to seduce attractive young women."
1982: You are General Custer and trying to rape an American Indian woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer's_Revenge
The last game I played gave me the option to remove the vocal chords of tens of thousands of people because they annoyed someone I'd just met. That was not a "bad guy" choice.
Made me laugh quite a lot.
Rogue Trader?
Missile Command is one of the darkest games out there.
Bethesda games: you are a prisoner about yo be executed
Souls-likes: you wake up in a jail cell
"Ah! Dead body!"
You weren't about to be executed in Morrowind. You were a prisoner, but you get released almost immediately. Of course Bethesda promptly forgot how to create a good game as soon as they released Morrowind.
I personally don't mind games being like they are now so long as the story and gameplay together make the game enjoyable. It's why I, for the most part, avoid online games.
Also, I don't know about the antihero part, but the downtrodden hero trying to survive in a dystopian world immediately made me think of Brok The Investigator.
you're a downtrodden anti-hero trying to survive in a dystopian world...
Is my alarm clock the game?
fire in the hole
You have crashed your spaceship in a drunken stupor. You should do genocide about it until you can build a new one.
Play it out. Mario is a game where a plumber from New York visits a land of mushroom people who's princess is kidnapped by a dragon turtle, and he must eat mushrooms to get stronger and eat flowers to spit fireballs. In the most recent iteration, there are piranha plants that jump out of giant pipes, walk around, and do a whole song and dance number for you.
Clearly, there were a lot of drugs involved in its development.
Mark my words, Ashen-one. You shall remain among the accursed
Also video games now: You're a robot and all you know is blood is fuel and hell is full, therefore you need to kill everything you see that can bleed
Disco Elysium vibes
You just described the original Jak trilogy.
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