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
    71·
    4 天前

    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
      19·
      4 天前

      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·
          4 天前

          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·
            4 天前

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

  • FatVegan@leminal.space
    721·
    4 天前

    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 天前

      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.

  • creamfresh@lemmy.world
    5310·
    4 天前

    Niche stuff casuals rarely play.

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

  • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
    27·
    4 天前

    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·
      3 天前

      “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?!”

  • Lowleekun [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
    5·
    3 天前

    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.

  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
    28·
    4 天前

    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

  • psion1369@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 天前

    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.

    • megopie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      4 天前

      When people ask me about music I just say “I don’t really listen to much music”

      I know they’re trying to develop a conception or me, I recognize that they’re trying to get an idea of who I am, trying to start a conversation but I also know they will not draw any meaningful information from the answers I could give. Not because what i like is “too sophisticated and they just wouldn’t get it” but because my taste is completely incoherent. My taste is obscure and trash, and each listened facet is tonally dissonant from the last.

      • deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 天前

        just get into 70s prog or 80s hair metal that’s way cooler than “not being into music”. Cool t shirts n all that.

        I’m not a musician really at all but I’m a huge music listener of a lot of genres and the “don’t like music” people are the worst ever. No offense

      • FatVegan@leminal.space
        3·
        3 天前

        If someone answers me that they like all music, we are gonna linsten to worm Shepherd or some obscure Norwegian black metal for sure

      • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
        61·
        4 天前

        It’s just more like they’ve never heard of anything outside of the top 40 so the conversation gets weird when I show them my music library and they’ve never heard of any of it.