Vidya regrets

this - if the question the OP asked is which genre of games' audience is exclusively made up of 100% autistics.

final fantasy xiii. never before has a game instantly killed a franchise.

My parents bought WoW for me in the Christmas of 2004, after a year of waiting and begging them for a month. I remember being hyped as fuck, but since we were interstate, I couldn't play the game until new year's eve. They even bought me the game guide, which was the only own I've ever owned and I read through it voraciously. I joined my third guild midway through 2005 and stayed with them until 2011, when we all drifted off. I met a lot of people from my guild in real life, after I graduated high school, but we all drifted apart after 2010. By 2015, I hadn't talked to any of them for half a year and was left friendless and feeling empty. I have so many memories of that game, drinking coffee in the middle of the night with the lights off, shit talking with friends and cutting classes to sleep through the day. After 9,000~ hours of gameplay and over a $1,000 spent on the game, I have absolutely nothing to show for it and all the friends I made through it are gone. Feels bad, man.

Every single one of them. I wish I had never gotten into this hobby

Wow friends tend to fuck off ridiculously fast. Thus they aren't reliable at all.

The pandering is bad and the hitboxs and other minor gameplay elements makes me regret playing OW

At least you like best girl

Single player only, multiplayer was fun.

don't make fun of me

oh its bully time now

Fucking why? What could've compelled you to play for that long?

Jesus dude. When even the wowfag
who dropped years of life and shekels is looking at you like dirt beneath his nails you know you fucked up.

mods

Porn mods.

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Likely for delicious breeding mods.

EVE Online is pretty good though.

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these threads are essentially 20 something year olds realizing they spent their time playing games instead of developing skills that would help them in the business world or with girls. you all are pathetic. if you played it and enjoyed it you had fun. don't pretend like you'd actually spend that time on something productive when we all know you'd just waste it some other way.

That looks like a varied list of games user. Sure, some are stinkers now but at least you don't have the one shitty outlier
If you want to go negative, I could say that you ARE NOT LEARNING YOUR LESSONG user. STOP

Atleast the mobile version is way better (which isn't saying much, but still fun nonetheless)

You dun goofed up boyo
TF2, even though it is pretty much cancerous right now, is still the best F2P Multiplayer shooter in the market in this generation, i'm still playing it and i have no regrets

It's mostly nostalgia-fagging for products that veered off their fun factor for us at some point which feels kinda bad
Also, I really do hope that people actually did get some skills in something or are planning to.
It's never too late anons! If everything fails, construction companies will hire your 300 pound ass as long as you show up and especially if you're white!

And yet here you are.

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Of course they will. It's decently crafted bait designed to poke directly at the insecurities of the average Holla Forumsirgin.

skyrim. around 110-120 hours on steam

to my defence: it was my first bethesda game ever (besides pirating morrowing when I was like 10 or so, and playing it with hundreds of invincicheats)

the reason it took me so long is because I tried different overhaul mods. I really, really tried to like it

what's done is done

For me it was this game. I wen't full sperg for a couple hundred hours, but when I tried to pick it up again I saw its shallowness and just couldn't get into it again.
Maybe I just suffered a temporary months-long episode of mild retardation?
Maybe I just regret that I probably won't get into it again?

You fucking nignogs need to step up your game

after reading through the thread:
I had 0 porn mods and I hadn't even known they existed

the lewdest I got was marry serana mod (not kissing, just marrying)

anyway. killing myself now

Minecraft.

Every second I spent playing ASSFAGGOTS. Pic related + (probably) twice as much in League of Autists.
Buying Overwatch. Everything about this game is revolting and makes me sick. I wish I could refund or sell it to someone.
Buying Cataclysm. Should've stopped on BK.

I'm not regretting a single minute. One of the best RPGs in my life.
Still waiting for more mods on special edition.

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900 hours is beginner pleb level in dota

Stockholm syndrome is a disease.

Its not so much that because Overwatch has a boatload of other issues. From the godawful match making that takes forever if you want to play anything but quick play, to the small amount of maps, to the characters feeling like they've seriously took one TF2 character and split him up into like 2-3 at times, and also the pandering isnt a big deal to me because I expected it but more because of the fucking weird direction it has. Some brown teleporter lady is apparently confirmed autistic even though nothing in the game really hints it?

I was having a shit day today but realizing that I didn't purchase then spend 300 hours on skyrim like some retards brightened it up a little. Thanks user.

Whatever. I never actually valued Holla Forums's opinion.
Would probably had more hours if my hard drive didn't perish, taking skyrim and ~180mods with it.

No, YOU are like a baby. Witness true power.

you know nothing

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Do you have a fetish for the predator or something?

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Not exactly. I like monster girls though.
I know you're baiting, but I'll take any excuse to post more screenshots.

If he did, he would have picked up an accurate model, which I assume exist.

You betcha

I REgret pirating and playing RE7.
It took me longer to download it than to finish the piece of shit.
$60 for 6 hours of one of the most mundane survival horrors games I've ever played is a fucking scam.

Yeah, that's the kind of things that make me consider firing it up again.

Show us your final form.

Almost a year without playing, pretty proud of myself tbh

I know the feeling OP, I also spent nearly $1000 on the game over the years.

behold

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I have 2 separate accounts with 4000 hours total. Have spend a total of 10 euro on it. What do you guys even buy so much to get to 1000 dollars ? You have to be buying cosmetic after cosmetic set and tickets constantly to get that much.
I don't understand.

Your life your heart… there's some darkness there for sure.

You have too much free time and poor taste.

Atleast you Dotards can look on the bright side… that piece of turd you played was a MULTIPLAYER game.

I bought every International and Major compendium since TI3, as well as chests and shit.

It should be fine if you experimented with tons of mods.

skyrim is FPS

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There's a disturbing lack of league of legends here. Am I the only one here who got dragged there because of friends, with no escape?

you'll get there little buddy

I wish, it was mostly just being an avatarfag in /tesg/'s and taking pretty screenshots of my shitty waifu.

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jesus

I've played a bit of it since a friend was into it, even though I'm a Dotard. Gotta say, I don't like it very much at all. Out-of-game talent tree speccing is so fucking overcomplicated and unneeded in a MOBA, there's no way to know how an enemy specced, I think basic stats should be able to judged by champion choice. Skills and attacks feel like they have much less damage and impact than in Dota. Also, having to pay or grind to unlock everyone is such a pain in the ass.

Classic RPGs. I really should have stuck to classic FPS.

Yeah. Tactical FPS.

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FUCK OFF RETARDS, WHY ARE YOU PLAYING THIS GAME IF YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED IT BEFORE???

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Isn't it at least better than LoL?

It takes slightly more skill although the pub meta is just to pick the easiest and most OP carry heroes.

i don't regret playing any videogames because i don't play garbage i don't like. its so simple yet effective.

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But how did you start off? Was it luck?

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everything in life is luck fam. started on bootleg nes, then moved to playstation

why would you play a game that you don't like? you put it on, give it 5 minutes, it sucks, back to the game store for a change.

Let's ___ get into smurfs while we're at it

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Feels good man

2200 plus 100 then. What I want to know is how much mmr the 3k+ hours have

It's just really fun to play techies or brood on a smurf

I hate everything this game represents and will never play it but damn does D.Va incite maximum boner violence

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Truly, how much I endure shit games.

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forgive me god

wtf

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Should I ask why you have over 6 tabs open for /fit/?

Fuck. This game effectively stole a decade of my life.

because i like lifting weights more than i like wasting time on roblox

FUCKING KILL YOURSELF

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>400 hours on rust its an decent okay game
AT least im playing better games now, but the past still haunts the present.

Isn't "decent" and "okay" essentially the same thing?

Damnit I thought I'd out-autist everyone here.

fuck this genre, its more addictive than crack and worse for your life overall. I'd sooner break a friend's hands then let him get into this shit.

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Does Holla Forums even have a /fit/? Give him a break.

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I know that feel. It's like anytime I try to play a singleplayer story game, all the shit in my life starts bugging me. I don't feel like playing anything new until I get my shit sorted.

Why'd you have to remind me?

Because life is suffering. All we wanted was a good Battletech fps game :(

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I literally couldn't even finish it, it was so bad, pirated ofc.

I would say Skyrim. I had about 400 hours in it. I lost access to the Steam account I had it on. Borderlands 2, 100 hours.
Then Mass Effect, not because of time invested, but because of the shame in knowing I gave Bioware any money.

Most played game is probably Path of Exile or Dark Souls series probably sitting at around 1200 hours in each respectively.

Dear God man, are you 12 ?

18 actually but still kill me god i cant stop

Since this thread is full of DotA fags, I assume some of you at least played WC3. I was thinking of replacing my dota addiction with it.

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Geez man I only ever 1/3 of what you got

I doubt I could quit dota without replacing it with someone else. I've wanted to quit for fucking years. What usually happens is I get so strung out from having to work my ass off irl for months or I'm so bored out of my mind that I relapse. Only to come back and have to deal with mexican retards on my team and valve making the brainless right click heroes more viable every patch.

WC3 ATM looks like the only real way out. I tried WC2 on DOS but it plays like a typical RTS which I always found boring. Where as WC3 looks like you manage a base and micro a hero or 3 + a gang of creeps and farm shit and try to fuck with the enemies base. I hear the only place worth playing on is wc3arena, but I get the feeling by the time I spend a year getting gud enough to hold my own something will happen. Either blizzard will release WC4 and it'll be starcraft 2 all over again or the community will fizzle away into something ridiculously small.

Before my DotA addiction it was gmod. Something about building a secret base in a shady ass plcae in an alley in Dark RP servers and fucking with peoples heads in TTT made it fun.

That 2nd dota pic was an alt I used to practice the micro heroes like Chen, Meepo, brood, etc

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Sheeit, negro, how on earth do some of you guys get that much playtime? Did you go to sleep with the game running or something? I think the most I've clocked in on a game (where it tracks your playtime) is 480 hours.

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Kinda same problem here, except i don't ever even start them because i'm not sure if i will be able to put them down later, i don't have any problem with small arcade-style games like AirXonix or short games like Hotline Miami 1, but i have lost saves for singleplayer games so many times with no option but starting all over, that i have abandoned lengthy games.

It's like a fucking curse, i might reinstall Severance: Blade of Darkness or S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl and hope i don't lose my saves again.

Imagine waking up playing the game until you go to bed for weeks or months.

If it's really the only thing you play for years then it's easy to rack up hours fast.

I think videogames are the cat that has my pipe.

This is excluding all my CRPG playing.

sparrowposter pls

you play bc2 vietnam?

I've got at least 4000 hours across all the Monster Hunter games I've played. It's not that hard if the game has enough content and replayability. Ones with multiplayer options are even easier to get high playtime with.

I sincerely hope you're fucking kidding. That's no way to spend your life.

I think I was called that once before when I mentioned that Xturd is a disgrace. I wonder if that's some fightan community inside joke.
As I said I'm too bad for fighting games general.

Damn dude, you're a living stereotype of what the media portrayed WoW as. I use to think e-sports where the biggest time sinks in game history, but I forgot about the era between 2005-2008 where there was a gigantic atmosphere around games with normalfags as "Shit nerds spend their entire lives on and neglect everything around them."

It still lingers to today to. You know someone's a fake nerd poser when they embrace the stereotype and go "I'm so addicted to games brah." If that where true they'd hit the point where they just look back and realize what that actually means. I mean fuck, you even will occasionally see it used with VR. All those pictures of a starving person hooked up to VR goggles in a deserted room.

Then there's all the people who died from playing WoW and Starcraft in asian countries. Even ASSFAGGOTS, the modern timesink, originated from mods in WC3. I guess Blizzard where the first to know the formula for addiction.

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I feel better about my own time wasted upon seeing this.

Why is getting laid so important to some people?

It is important to those who haven't matured mentally enough to realize how trivial sex really is.

Every organisms primary function is to reproduce.

Completionist thing, especially the open world stuff my Fallout+TES hours must hit about 8000 hours combined. Once you get immersed and learn whatever the hook is to making money the plots can largely hang until you want to follow those threads again.

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M'lady

Because they can't tell apart intimacy from sex. All of them see sex as the ultimate form of affection that a partner can give. This reasoning is backwards. It isn't the sex itself that is love and affection and that indescribable desire to be close to someone that these lonely sad sacks crave, sex is just a way of expressing it. Sex without these things (summarised commonly as love) is hollow and worthless - no different from masturbation. Thinking sex is the way to stop yourself from being lonely is the same as thinking chewing gum is the way to stop yourself from being hungry. Sure the action sates the cravings but it doesn't fulfill the need. They know this, too, but can't put it into words because of their complete ignorance on the subject. None of them just want sex or they'd hire a prostitute. They want a companion, affection, love - things a one night stand or whore cannot offer. They simply see sex as the end game of love and use it as a goal post to know they've reached it.

Not as autistic as some of the people here, but I still spent too much time playing piles of shit and buying DLC for them also.

t. virgin

How can you sink that much time into Evolve? Maybe it was better at launch but when it was free to play there was so little variety and content to it. They could have easily made space Left 4 Dead instead of what we have now.

I know that fucking feel.

Playing my (masterpiece) shit for 600+ hours? God you're pathetic. Though, in regards to the first user judging from that time gap, I hope you ended hopping on over to Skyrim 2: Special Edition day one, my favorite customer!

I have no idea if that's a high autism level for Awesomenauts since I never played it, but everything else on that list passes the normalfag check. You played them for what they were worth and dropped them like a one-night stand.

I honestly didn't think I was that obsessed with Dota at the time. I think after I spent $1000 just to troll the international, I realized I needed to stop.

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You are not alone.

I'm now turning 25. My prime WoW years I still enjoyed and I have good memories of friendships I made on the game. I got so fat that even when I lost weight, my skin is all stretched out and weird looking. My dad coerced me out of my dark place by getting me booze and teaching me how to invest. Now I have enough to consider buying a small home, so my life has improved. Just remember that your married friend's lives will inevitably lead to servitude, cuckoldry and divorce.

Wow you've learned nothing.

I blame your fucked up family situation.

Was the Wraith your waifu or something?

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more like an autistic /fit/
get it?
all jokes aside, cut the reddit-spacing

Can you stop that reddit spacing meme? It ain't even funny nor does it make any sense.

Neither does starting a new paragraph after every sentence.

I still maintain other WC3 custom maps >>>>> DotA

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I had great eyesight when I was in highschool but now I can't even read something that's probably 5 metres away on a board. Like the menu above the counter in a fast food place for example.

It only keeps getting worse.

Do either of your parents have poor eyesight?

Just eat carrots and don't play in the dark (seriously, that shit will strain your eyes)
It's that simple you dumbwitted burger

That shit ain't true nigger. They made it up during WW2 to cover for the radar. A vitamins does not improve eyesight. I bet you believe the gray death isn't manufactured by the government either.

nothing special

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Nice try.

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Are you that redditor that used to post here, liked Battleborn, and used the term "chanfags?"

Nah, it's not me, it's a friends profile. I just wanted to b8 a bit.

Absolutely none, because every game I've played because I found it fun at the time, even if it was objectively bad in retrospect.

Anybody who cannot forgive themselves for having fun is doomed to an endless cycle of discontentment with others' choices, and especially with heir own.

Just kidding, your favorite video games are fucking terrible and I've never even played them.

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well congratulations!
you caught one, now what's the next step of your master plan?

The more you like at this pic, the worse it gets

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Except people like you use the meme whenever people put any kind of spacing in their posts and it gets old real fuckin quick.

Nigga you really need to do some research before claiming such things. This isn't the 80s or 90s anymore and people have done numerous studies about both of your claims and both have been disproven.

It's almost as if this image was tailor-made to burn up every inch of disappointment in humanity I have left and finally leave me with nothing but apathy.

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mass effect 3

MY regrets game was FF 13, holy shit that was the worst idea to get it, though it was cheep as fuck it still sucked. That and Asseffect 3

I want to avoid making any regrests so Holla Forums I have 3 games I want to get but can only afford one for a while:
Ni-oh Neir Auto. or Horizon Zero dawn (yeah I know its Pozzed as fuck)
Which one of these games should I get?

I really liked the idea of playing as a giant other-worldly creature and getting stronger. No other games I knew of at the time scratched the same itch. I haven't found a replacement either.

We got it user, you're gay

Congrats, you're a whale!

kek, never go look for mobile games whale summning session, user, your heart might not take them

Warframe. Fuck Warframe.

I played Skyrim for over a thousand hours and all I ever did was install mods and dick around the starting area, I never came even close to completing the story, I usually restarted with different mods as soon as I got to the greybeards. Eventually I downloaded a complete save just so I could dick around without quests. I feel like the whole thing was just a gigantic waste of time, I can't recall a single memorable moment from all those hours, my memory is just a haze of dragon dicks and furries.

I fucking knew we were going down this path.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of you are exactly like this. The quality of posting has gone way down and Mark won't grow a pair and purge the autism generators that are generals.

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are you fucking new?

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty comfy to play honestly I just ignore the dialog. Nier is also pretty fun, but I have a soft spot for Drakengard/Nier and I've been meaning to get Ni-oh, but its been sold out off of Amazon and my area for like the last month or so.

I bet you bought it, double nigger.

Jesus fucking christ user.

I did buy it, but the gameplay is still pretty fun even if Ashley Burch voices the main character and the story is forgettable.

Gameplay > story or voice acting imo

wew

wew lad

I have 4k+ hours in dota2

no ragrets

How the hell do people who role play justify doing raids? You've already killed the bosses once already. Do you just forget you kill them while you are wearing their head as a hat?

Fuck off Illidan

That does not justify 1 grand on a game most people play nothing for, whaleboy.

its not HUEHUEHUEH nigger money its called robux

You have no idea about the real whales.
1k$ is like one good item. One (1).

Spore and the sims. I can't believe how entertained I was by the dogshit EA spat out as a kid

Eye strain doesn't affect your vision in a permanent fashion. Sure it can make your eyes feel like they are bleeding which isn't great, but it doesn't actually harm your vision.

spending $1000 on a free game is ridiculous, especially one like Dota that only sells cosmetics. Justify it however you please, but it's still outrageous and pathetic.

dear god are you insane?

hey at least its around 200 at most i have WAY more than i should have in pic related

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you are all weak

whoops fucked up the crop

Counting someone else's money is

You got my friend beat, fam. I just could never get into gmod and I still don't understand why people like it so much.

No his picture was bait because he had Fo4 and Borderlands 2 in his library. Both of which are garbage games for idiots.

You are like a little baby

Watch this

I can't think of a single vidya regret in the last few years.

I paid full price for Spore a couple months after launch.

Not as bad as this

the 300 hour botsmurfs and (other automated useless accounts) played games with each other until they got somewhere around 6000 mmr over the course of a few weeks at which point I realized whatever money I could get out of those accounts didn't really justify having 6+ computers running assfaggots instead of hosting servers for much more.

my 11 year old sister goes on roblox, you make me sick. Get off the internet and rethink your life

What can I say or even do, that life itself hadn't already done?

What is robox and why is it shit?

You're fucking disgusting. Why would you play WoW for 10 years, what is the matter with you.

Actually don't regret it. Almost all of this was multiplayer with friends which is very fun.

What a shame.

I've watched my little cousins play garbage like this, and it is truly garbage

this autistic shit
bought deluxe edition for 27 dollars, immediately hated it after 5 minutes.

you did the math completely wrong user
its actually over 2.9 years, but not quite 3, spent playing that game

fix the site, gook

whats a roblox? do I even want to know?

I'm committed to spending the rest of my life on here so I'm always reminded of how shit my taste is.

About a year ago I stopped playing Dota after logging a thousand hours on it.

about two weeks ago I came back

Nigger, you bought SocJus: The Video Game.
What the fuck is wrong with you?

Forgive me for my sins lord

Pretty much any MMO I've tried. Especially any I paid for. I only played WoW for a few months before getting bored of the lame combat system of auto attack and macros. Tried a bunch of free MMOs too but they were mostly essentially WoW clones that got boring quick. Trying to find MMOs with more action oriented combat, I found DC Universe online which was alright but underwhelming. The only one I enjoyed and don't regret is Mabinogi. The combat in that was really neat and refreshing. No gay auto attack shit, enemies actually get knocked around instead of attacking at the same time as you, and you can block as well as counter attack. Also being able to convert midi files into music scripts to play on a lute was cool. I got pretty autistic about it. Pretty sure it's p2w nowadays but might still be okay.

Nigger the gameplay is fun and that is all that matters I was never big into vidya stories because they all tend to be shit esp with dub voices, but if the gameplay is fun and enjoyable then that is all that matters to me.

Let me guess, gameplay = combat.

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If you replaced "gameplay" with "combat" in his statement, it would still be reasonable. I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

Yesterday i had a case of feels, and i wanted to say somebody "i wish i spent these hours with you", but i couldn't

Lurk more, newfriend.

I'll type it out slowly for you since you seem to have a hard time getting it. Gameplay does not equal combat, gameplay is a whole of many of the elements of the game, combat is just one part of that.
I just want to highlight how stupid this sentence is before I go. You could replace all sorts of things with combat and it would make sense, but my issue is not with the fact that someone enjoys combat (you would have to be a fucking idiot to get that from my post). My issue is that gameplay and combat are not the same thing, so using them interchangeably is moronic.

Kill yourself.

So you're going into an autistic rage over a mild inaccuracy in his word choice? Forgive me for not anticipating your irrational triggers and instead figuring that you had some problem with his enjoyment of the combat. He didn't even make any specific mention of the combat or non-combat aspects of the gameplay, so your comment based on the apparent difference kind of came out of left field. For a lot of games, combat is a significant part of the gameplay, the vast majority of it even. It's pretty reasonable to use them interchangeably in a lot of contexts.

You got to be a real fucking autist to think that in any way sounds romantic.

also, thread is a nice example of how far 8/v/ has fallen to become a mirror of cuckchan Holla Forums. I hope all of you kill yourselves

I believe that's from russian song about dota. It does sounds kinda romantic.

Can't stop, addicted to the shindig…

Save yourself user, run and never look back. Lest pure autism fry your neural circuitry.

KYS

Gameplay and combat being different is an important distinction in video game related conversations.
Worthless word salad. Anyone could have seen that I was saying that combat does not equal gameplay. Did the equal sign not tip you off? Obviously, I made the mistake of assuming you were not autistic. Perhaps in the future I will spell out all my posts in the most literal way imaginable so you don't get confused. Let me give it a test run here. You are an idiot.
You just keep proving more and more of what a complete simpleton you are. This just reinforces my point more. Of course he didn't mention the other aspects, you fucking idiot, more than likely because he believes gameplay = combat. The funniest part is that he did mention another aspect, story. I've probably lost you again here, since your not noticing that more than likely implies (look that word up) you believe that story is some magical thing that exists outside of the game. Story is not as important across all genres, but it still serves a role in plenty of them. Take Doom for instance, the story is not as important or shoved in your face, but it still plays an important role in the game. Doom would not be as cool to me if it was not about a space marine going into the bowels of hell to fight demons. Is it a good story? No, but there is a difference between a story being good, and it being entertaining. Doom's story will not go down as a literary classic, but it is an entertaining story that adds to the whole of the game, and, no, I'm not saying you can't enjoy games with unentertaining stories, I'm saying they can be an important part of giving some games their charm. The cherry on top.
There is no way that you don't have actual autism. Does everything have to spelled out in the most literal way possible for you to be able to understand it? I would bet dollars to donuts you have had multiple fights with authority figures over the fact that they told you to do something but didn't go into exact detail on how. The reason I believe that's what he means is because I have seen the exact thing said multiple times across the board now (precedent). Have you not been in any old cRPG thread, such as Planescape: Torment, where some person doesn't come in and laments how the game has an interesting story, setting, etc, but the gameplay isn't good? Fuck we had a Fallout thread here just recently where the premise of the thread was that the if the old Fallout games didn't have interesting stories, world, quests, etc., that no one would remember them because their gameplay wasn't good. What do these people mean when they say gameplay? Combat, of course, and they spell it out quite literally if that's what you need. I don't believe it's any different now. Maybe I need to start documenting every time it happens since you believe this to be so far-fetched.

On a side note, it's hysterical how you try and cop a laid back attitude towards games when only one of us here has admitted to dropping 1000 hours on a single game (DotA2). That's more than double the amount I have ever put into a single game. You cease to be able to pretend you don't care that much when a majority of your life has probably been spent in front of a computer screen.

I'm laughing at you.

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you have autism

Unfortunately, no, maybe then it would be possible for me to drop 1000 hours in a game like DotA2. :^)

Under any other circumstances you'd be right, but you bought horizon and you wrote an autistic wall of text to prove you're right and everyone else is wrong

I never bought horizon.

God may forgive you, but I will not.

World of Warcraft, mainly because I didn't enjoy it and because of the subcription cost. I kind of forced myself to play it because of having invested so much money in it.

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At least I'm not autistic enough to write a giant essay about every detail of the differences between "combat" and "gameplay." That said, I guess I am autistic enough to respond to one, because here we go.

So a guy says he likes a game's gameplay in spite of the story, and you make some ambiguous comment of "let me guess: gameplay = combat." I'm reading this shit wondering what in god's name you're trying to say, because no shit combat is gameplay, and the only thing he mentioned outside of the gameplay was story. And there's the disconnect. I don't see story as gameplay, so I figured you must have some kind of hateboner for combat in particular. From my perspective, any issue that you could have had with the pedantics of gameplay vs combat was entirely unprovoked, which is why it's not the conclusion I came to.

To use your example of cRPGs: yeah, they have deep lore and good story but, in my opinion, boring gameplay. Story and gameplay are two distinct things, and I'm not sure how you could see otherwise. Gameplay is what's involved in actually playing the game; it's the stuff you do - combat, puzzle-solving, movement, strategy, etc. You don't play the story in the same sense; you don't do anything with it. You enjoy the story (or not), and like you said, it can certainly complement the gameplay, but it's not gameplay itself any more than graphics or soundtrack.

I never pretended that I don't care about video games. I assume that you care too, considering that you're here on Holla Forums discussing video games. The thing I'm copping a laid-back attitude towards is your weird obsession with all language being just right down to the tiniest technicality, even when everyone knows what is meant anyway. You're even taking care to accurately stylize "DotA2" every time you write it. A game you don't even care about. Autism. You strike me as the sort of person who corrects grammar in youtube comments just for its own sake.

There is something I've noticed whenever a thread like this pops up. What is the deal with nerds who play games copious amounts of hours and not being able to have intelligent conversations about them? You would think that people who reach into mental illness with how long they play would be able to articulate thoughts about video games, but I would be willing to bet that most of the sad cases here couldn't even tell you much about the one they've spent all their time on, much less any other. Not to mention how nasty and antisocial many nerds get when in discussions.

Why is this, though? Is it because they're just too midwitted to actually be capable of thinking about things beyond a surface level? Notice how many of these games are multiplayer? Is it possible they've deluded themselves into believing that their waste of time is actually okay because they were playing with other people, so actually delving into a discussion about games would be beneath them? I'd like to hear other theories on this as well as I do have one of my one.

My theory is that this has to do with nerds being unable to socialize and still being an infant mentally. This can cause problems in multiple parts. One being my theory that nerds don't actually play games because they enjoy them, they play them because they are using them as a way to hide from the world, as a way to deal with social rejection. This causes the nerd to not actually get enjoyment out of the game. He's not playing because he enjoys the intricacies of the game. He's not getting joy out of the experience. As the years pass, the nerd starts to realize that he is wasting his life, and the game is a big part of why. Like a drug, he needs more and more of the game to hide from his issues. This causes him to develop a hatred of himself and the game he blames for ruining his life. The bitterness seeps into every aspect of his life, whether it be with his family, the people he's playing with, or people who want to talk about games (the very thing he blames for his own social ineptitude).

This explains the bitterness, but will also explain the lack of understanding about games as well. The lack of enjoyment from games means the nerd will not notice what makes a game tick, what makes it special, what his reason to keep playing is. The nerd cares for none of this as this would eat into his infantile cocoon that he has used the game for. To actually delve into games would mean getting an enjoyment out of them, using them because you genuinely enjoy the experience. This in part (the other part being many of these games have pellet dispenser elements that satiate an infantile mind) explains why many nerds have horrendous taste in games as evidenced by this thread, and why they are unable to actually formulate thoughts about the game beyond, "Duh, well it's fun!" They genuinely don't know because the thought has never crossed their mind, and when you actually try and pry discussion out of them you only get the bitterness that their waste of time has implanted in their souls.

I actually enjoy playing games, they are not a way for me to hide from my problems as if I were a child. I like to find out all the little intricacies of a game, the various ways you can approach different situations, how changing an aspect such as map design in Doom can completely change the way you fight against the exact same enemies, or how games have depth beyond just how many buttons or moves are given to you, or how sometimes having more options can actually decrease depth at certain times. I'm not an antisocial loser who despises people, and blames them and video games for all my problems. I can actually form bonds with the community around me, and I can also play video games as well.

To close this out, In my experience, it's true that people who don't play many video games are also not that great at having video game discussions, but why would you try and have an intricate discussion about games with someone who doesn't care for games much in the first place? And this is exactly the point I'm trying to get at, while many normal people don't care for video games, neither do pathetic >>>/r9k/ losers either. The best people to discuss video games with are people who play them more than average, but also have the ability to socialize and form bonds with others.

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I can't actually show it because LoL doesn't have an hour counter but I spent 5 years playing that game all the fucking time
I'm certain I have at least 10000 hours played in that game but honestly it's probably closer to 20000
Same with age of mythology actually although i don't regret that one at all

Said the man using the latest meme :^)

autism the post

Way to not check IDs newfriend :^)

wol.gg

i've spent 1163 hours on League

no words can express my regret

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This game is probably one of the most unbalanced, fucked up, subhuman infested, Pay to Win, unholiest amalgamations of shit in existence. Every second of it was fucking grueling hell, but nothing beats the feeling getting to win against a small, veteran Pay to win turkroach userbase in a PVP tournament without spending a fucking cent.

I don't know why it took me so long to get bored of Borderlands.

I've barely forced myself to stop playing 3 days ago but I know I'll crawl back to it the moment 3.0.0 is released.

Let me see, since i'm a piratefag I can't show you Steam screenshots.

Forgive me for my autism, for I know not what I did.

None of those are that bad, to be honest.

How?

Serious HL2RP servers for several years

My only regret is how shit it became.At least I stopped playing it after MAYDAY happened and Overkikes retardation ensures I'll stay the fuck away

I just realised that I have shit taste

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i'm unsure how accurate this is, it may be way higher. Especially if it doesn't count ancient Arams and old Dominion

I also have another account so it's at least 6000.

it's not your fault that theres almost nothing else worth playing

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I will never understand why people play "games" like dota and lol.
What is wrong with you people?

Why? Why would you not just stop playing if you know it's shit?

Saints row 3, I will never get the 5 hours back that it took to 100% and the money I wasted on it

It amazes me even more that we get constant threads shitting on ASSFAGGOTS and the normalfags who play them to then see that nearly everyone here seems to play it.

that's how bad thigns are

I play a lot of games with friends, but they're often really picky about what they want to play so I just go along with whatever the game of the week is. Not pictured is ~200 hours in Tera and ~100 hours in PSO2.

Dota 2 greentext blog post:

Did you miss an extra number there? Not even speedruns beat the campaign in under 5 hours.

You stop playing with friends, or play supports like vengeful and silencer
Solo queue is a mixed bag of despair

I don't. Last game in sept 2015.
I still can't get back that 3k hour wasted on it.

It's dont.
Stop doing that. If they're not warding - they're not looking at the minimap. Utterly useless.
Other option you have is play treeman and farm organisms. Treeman is in the meta right now thanks to Alliance with their bullshit Ogre-Tree strat.

never played, but I liked SR4, is SR3 muh different?

Pretty much how it works is if I'm playing a traditional support we'll probably lose. Venge and CM have been my go to heroes since we also usually lack disables or ways to initiate.

They actually do look at the minimap, the problem is they all have the mindset of, "If I can finish my Eul's/Force/Agh's/etc. then we can win fights, so I'll just not buy wards till then." they then repeatedly die to lack of vision and never end up getting the item they're saving for.
As for the tree man, every single time I've picked him recently we've gone against 5 man quelling blade teams that just fucking deforest in their downtime.

user liar animeposter blown out

You plant defensive eyes first and attacking second.
If they deforest you seize the momentum and create space. The only thing that can really screw you over is NS with organisms and gem. Treeman is really strong now. Check fuckin major games.

Yeah, but they also say
On here.

Right now cm is not that universally strong, I recommend you to spam these two and venge

Yeah it sucks but of all the things to be addicted to it's not the worst. At least you didn't get a serious disease or criminal record.

I don't regret playing it because it was actually a decent game
I regret buying it because the game is dead and dev's answer was to put microtransaction skins instead of fix shit or add more free content to keep the playerbase

It was the last chance for this publisher and Gearbox, they fucked it up, so they wont get a single penny out of me no matter what.

Do you want to play Payday 2 with me?
It's fun with fun people.

just imagine if you spent that time studying or developing a skill, you'd be rich AF.

That's not how the world works user.

And you're French.

CM is being picked in pro games for the first time in a long time.
Kotl is fucking disgusting and you should kill yourself for spamming him.

All of them.

What? cm's always been somewhat present on the pro scene, it's kotol who has moved from situational pick to a huge pick/ban ratio

Well that's the point. Besides I've been playing him since I started, it's not my fault they've been buffing him patch after patch

fucking hell jesus shit man. fuck.

This. This game was a massive waste of money. Even got rejected for a refund because I'd played 121 minutes. Pure garbage.

lol

kotl moves from being high pick rate to never picked based on buffs and nerfs he's kinda like tb in that he's either pure shit or op.

It's a more autistic version of minecraft.

Can someone give me a refresher course on why dota is shit? Even when I quit, it was because I was getting mad, not because I had a sudden epiphany that the game was terrible.

I think you're the first person I've seen complain about lesbian porn.

Its a meme because the community can be ass at times and people on Holla Forums tend to be autistic antisocial retards.

liked*

The game went to shit years ago. Like 5+ years ago.

the community is ass; that's why i exclusively play heros that can singlehandedly win the game

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Alright, which one of you fuckers did this?

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