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As I've gotten older and busier I've started using cheats and walkthroughs and methods to skip parts of games I don't enjoy much more often. I'm an adult with r

by pr0zac 4y ago

As I've gotten older and busier I've started using cheats and walkthroughs and methods to skip parts of games I don't enjoy much more often. I'm an adult with real difficulties and responsibilities and stressors. I spend 60+ hours a week running a startup. I have other hobbies like rock climbing and Magic to struggle against and push myself to get better at. I understand that the challenge can be a lot of fun, I finished both Hades and Doom Eternal on their hardest difficulty and really loved my time with both but sometimes a challenge isn't what I want out of a game and I just want to enjoy the story or explore the world or blow off steam. Video games for me are usually a relaxing past-time I enjoy in the small amount of free-time I have available and I'm often not willing to get frustrated slogging through slow sections or trying to overcome difficult ones. So you bet your ass I'm playing Elden Ring with an easy-mode mod, save-scummed constantly in X-Com, used infinite money cheats in City Skylines, and fast travel anywhere in Witcher 3. If you prefer playing games differently from me and want a challenge when I don't that's totally fine, I hope you're having a great time cause the way each of us play doesn't affect or take away from the other person experience or goal in any way. People are allowed to enjoy different things or even the same things in different ways and its super lame to call them super lame for something so inconsequential as how they play video games.

oneoff786 4y ago
> So you bet your ass I'm playing Elden Ring with an easy-mode mod, save-scummed constantly in X-Com, used infinite money cheats in City Skylines, and fast travel anywhere in Witcher 3. These all seem pretty reasonable to me. The first one is a desired difficulty level. The second one… well that one’s kind of on you depending on how granular it was. The third one is a desired game mode. The fourth one is just quality of life. Elden ring was poorly balanced imo. I would imagine if you’re less skilled an easy mode would still give you the full game. But I stand pretty firm that an infinite health mode would utterly ruin it. Save scumming because something went poorly vs repeatedly save scumming a high risk move until the dice fall favorably seems a little lame to me.
pcthrowaway 4y ago
I rarely have time for video games now (work full-time while also trying to optimize for rock climbing). But I really enjoy "Let's Play"s of cinematic story-driven games (especially games which are fairly linear) I can watch on up to 2X speed, skip through sections where the player is grinding/leveling, managing inventory, toolbuilding, traveling long distances, or engaging in repetitive combat. I just finished Last of Us games 1 and 2 in ~12 hours total (playing would have taken closer to 50)

by pr0zac 4y ago

oneoff786 4y ago

> So you bet your ass I'm playing Elden Ring with an easy-mode mod, save-scummed constantly in X-Com, used infinite money cheats in City Skylines, and fast travel anywhere in Witcher 3. These all seem pretty reasonable to me. The first one is a desired difficulty level. The second one… well that one’s kind of on you depending on how granular it was. The third one is a desired game mode. The fourth one is just quality of life. Elden ring was poorly balanced imo. I would imagine if you’re less skilled an easy mode would still give you the full game. But I stand pretty firm that an infinite health mode would utterly ruin it. Save scumming because something went poorly vs repeatedly save scumming a high risk move until the dice fall favorably seems a little lame to me.

pcthrowaway 4y ago

I rarely have time for video games now (work full-time while also trying to optimize for rock climbing). But I really enjoy "Let's Play"s of cinematic story-driven games (especially games which are fairly linear) I can watch on up to 2X speed, skip through sections where the player is grinding/leveling, managing inventory, toolbuilding, traveling long distances, or engaging in repetitive combat. I just finished Last of Us games 1 and 2 in ~12 hours total (playing would have taken closer to 50)