As an adult have you ever played and enjoyed a game while not intending to ever finish it? Just like running around and doing stuff instead of advancing the plot, I'm not talking about games you just want to try and I'm not talking about sandbox games but rather games that clearly have an ending you are supposed to be moving towards
>>729341761Xenoblade franchise
>>729341761did a zebra fuck a dog? what the fuck is that thing? fucking aislop
>>729341761Pige
>>729341761I tyhink I know what you're getting at. The games that fit the bill with pure gameplay regardless of plot are Zeldas. I played Link's Awakening remake on Switch 2 @1080p 60fps and it blew my mind to realize just how far below every other game is. That is a perfect video game from start to finish.
>>729341761witchfire
NOOOOOOOOO HE'S NOT A CAKE DON'T CUT HIM NOOOOOOOOOOO
>>729341761Technically a lot of MMOs. I never have any intent on doing end-game raiding or anything that requires coordination with groups of people. When I used to play them, I'd get to max level, explore, maybe get a crafting level up to max, do all the normal dungeons, then I was done.I tried raiding in the past and it's abysmal shit having to manage all the different personalities AND hope they're decent enough at the game to do their role.>>729343115Probably a Tapir.
>>729341761Yeah, that's the only way I played GTA games until 5 came out. 5's story was mediocre and I wouldn't have missed anything if I hadn't finished it in retrospect
>>729343115they are cute please dont be rude
>>729343523Came into this thread to also say GTA. Dicking around and getting max stars or just stealing cars/motorcycles and riding around at maximum speed was often more fun than actually doing story missions.Playing The Elder Scrolls games without finishing the main storyline is also pretty normal.
tapers are something you'd see in star wars.
>>729343212no that s a tapebear i can tell because of its fur color
>>729341761Yes, just about now. Playing the pre-alpha demo of The path into the Abyss.It brought back to me what the good old stalker games did when I played them, a sense of a new dreary world where everything and everyone is to their own and you are one more and not the one.
>>729341761What do these taste like?
>>729341761>30yoThere are some games that aren't built for that, so you're asking about some specific types of game that are conductive to this kind of gameplayThe last three games I finished were Xenoblade X DE, E33 and Quest 64, in that order.On Xenoblade X I often ignored the story and sidequests to explore or try to beat optional bosses, just trying different builds and different party members, I guess 90% of my play time was just doing stuff that didn't advance the plot or sidequests. About E33, after act 2 I just wanted to rush to the ending and didn't care about the optional content at all. I guess I didn't want to experience the world because the combat sucks a lot and the characters are all one note and irrelevant.On the other hand, I explored every notch of Quest 64 and talked to every npc, even checking on them after defeating the most recent boss.It's not something about being older and "having less time to play" or something, its about enjoying the content you're experiencing.When people say stuff like "playing games as a kid is magical because you can have fun fucking around" I just get an irk because its not about age, its about being able to enjoy playing games. If you can't derive enjoyment from the games you play, you just don't really like games.
>>729344682my only issue is the voiceover, it just so janky and cringe sounding language it puts me off
>>729341761thats a weird dog....
so they are basically like dogs but without the barking?
>>729341761I am like this with all games. Not intentionally or anything, I just get burnt out really fast because I play games in the most autistic annoying way possible and I get really sick of it at around the 70-80 hour mark. I'm currently doing this with a game I'm around a hundred hours in that I intend to try to finish but probably won't.
Something I realized as I got older is that what OP is describing is the intended way to play pretty much all games. Unless it's completely linear, which isn't really that often, "running around and doing stuff" is more fun than advancing and progressing towards some critical path.What's interesting is that adopting this mindset allows you to finish more games, perhaps paradoxically. Rather than stressing about reaching the credits and turning the game into an obligation, you naturally arrive there. And if you get bored, then that's that. Move on to something else instead of forcing yourself.
>>729341761I like hypno better
>>729343115No, a jew fucked a pig
>>729345672>when she see's an extra small worm
the Fallouts and the Oblivions yeah
>>729341761cute dog
