And more power to them, even if it’s not my thing.
Bold of you to assume both hands would be on the controller…
The real answer here
Chill vibes. Sometimes you want to play videogames but don’t want a stressful time.
Or multitasking. I love playing Phoenix Wright on the treadmill.
Chill vibes. Sometimes you want to play videogames but don’t want a stressful time.
Osmos or Dorfromantik for me ❤️
But yeah… Other people read a book. Nobody complains that they’re just turning pages for hours. Nothing wrong with (merging those media and) enjoying whatever you like.
Agreed, the amount of times I’ve heard:
“It’s nothing but reading”
In regards to VN or RPGs…
Never understood how this is an argument when reading for fun exists. Specifically when comparing visual novels to books, books don’t tend to have pictures, scenarios, music, sound effects or voice acting. Sometimes reading a book isn’t interesting enough on its own and folks want more.
I can understand liking a game but not liking all the dialogue, I remember Mass Effect 3 had an option for Story, Action or RPG mode and it’d be great if more devs would implement that kinda thing instead of forcing one specific playstyle.
Not stressful you say?
Sometimes this happens in a middle of a combat, with the combat music playing, enemies in front of me, character is in low health, and I gotta read a conversation and the only button I can press is A.
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Pretty much every JRPG too.
FTFY. I don’t care how good you say the game is, I don’t want to sit through a young adult novel in order to play it.
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I wouldn’t call The Last of Us an adolescent power fantasy
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Idk I don’t feel very powerful when playing that game. And I’d struggle to call it any type of fantasy.
The term “adolescent power fantasy” loses all meaning if you apply it so broadly.
Red Dead Redemption 2. The only AAA RPG/ARPG I can think of. The exception that proves the rule.
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Ha ha ha, yep. You made me snort, lol. Great movie, great game. Sad cowboys is compelling stuff, apparently.
And related to the original thread, you’re gonna be mashing A for 60+ hours.
More interactive but absolute gems:
- Fire watch
- Detroit: Almost Human
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If anyone has any recommendations on these I’m all ears.
Disco Elysium is essentially a novel.
Phenomenal game
I’m not sure if it counts, but the Ace Attorney games are great and have a bit more interactivity than just reading.
Doki Doki literature club is very good. Don’t read spoilers tho.
The best game I could describe as merely an interactive movie has been The Quarry. The game itself is pretty meh (but I’m not a big fan of these personally), however the movie part is amazing. It could easily be just a kick ass horror movie. And you can even play it that way with Movie Mode, where you pick the best outcome, the worst outcome, or set up some sliders to give a mix of outcomes at every interaction and just watch shit unfold.
Detroit: Become Human is also in this vein, with an even wilder array of possible outcomes as well as some more real gameplay and puzzle solving.
MMO players, too.
What MMOs out there using just a single button and not 10+ hot bars with 10 actions each?
Old school runescape, I only use mouse.
A mouse is not just more than 1 button, it also has the directional input for moving/looking around. Something that a key could never even replace.
