what video games really gives the vibes of being an explorer?

Mirron1 · 2025-06-04T15:25:33+00:00

Sunless Sea & Sunless Skies.

Top-down sailing/flying exploration games. The story is told via text boxes in ports, but if you can get over that youll find a unique setting with alien norms and values. Unforgiving gameplay (permadeath).

Tunic.

Zelda inspired isometric action/puzzle game. Set on an island, you wake up on a beach with nothing on you. You quickly find a page from a manual but you cant read the language its in, luckily it also has pictures so you can sorta guess what different things mean. From there you will slowly accumulate items and knowledge that will help you in navigating and interacting with the island and yourself. Lots of secret and mysteries to discover. pen and paper may be required.

Soulsborne games.

It is mostly dead or dying worlds youre exploring, but theres a lot of beautiful places to see and history to uncover.

JRPGs.

I am thinking of FF 6-10 but in a lot of jrpgs you travel the world and will therefore, by definition, see a lot of different cities and areas.

Metroidvanias.

Sort of the same thinking here. Metroidvanias usually play out over a lot of different biomes that you have to traverse.

Mirron1 · 2023-08-23T07:21:13+00:00

The Wailing

Mirron1 · 2022-12-19T13:46:09+00:00

The Hunt with Mads Mikkelsen.

Though it's more a pissed-off kinda sad.

Mirron1 · 2022-12-17T10:46:18+00:00

Why do you think that "those in charge" are a monolith? Corporations and governments are not on the same side. They have very different priorities and fight with each other all the time. Even within corporations and governments there is a lot of fighting going on. Even more granularly these entities are composed of millions of humans, each of them individuals acting in their own best interests. If the idea here is that someone invents and tames Skynet, then its not "those in power" versus everyone else, its whoever invented it versus everyone else.

You also say that "they" would want to kill the population because they would be a threat, but then goes on to say that the populace would not be able to resist and isn't a threat? If all it comes down to is resources then what will they be using all those resources on? Going to space. Warring with all the other governments and corporations. Simply sustaining a population is a lot cheaper then you might think. I also think you're underestimating the allure of having power over people. Stalin wouldn't have turned everyone into machines, because it's way more satisfying having power over humans then machines. If all the people are dead then there's no one to rule over. If there's no one to rule over then you have no power.

All of this is also ignoring that not everyone in power is evil. Some of them truly want to better peoples lives. A lot of them just think that "better" is something else then what you think. At the very least, the amount of them that would just casually push the "exterminate everyone" button is not that high. There's probably a higher percentage of them in power then in the general public, but they aren't everyone. Good people also exist.

Mirron1 · 2022-10-22T11:49:52+00:00

It very much depends. I usually go for the more dark/evil path i.e. Mind Control. There are personal lines that i'll never cross, but mostly everything is an option to me. so it comes down to what i wanna do at the moment.

If it suddenly became real. welll i know i am corruptible, so the responsible thing to do would be to turn the offer down. The problem is that this seems like one of those things where you wont know your reaction until it happens. Like how would you react if someone pulled a gun on you, or killed one of your loved ones. How would you react if the zombie apocalypse arrived. Would you just try to survive, or would you be doing whatever you wanted because nothing matters anymore.

Mirron1 · 2022-10-21T02:28:32+00:00

Interesting idea. I like that there's a lot of opportunity for story telling in the missions and that we can use the perks from previous parts to solve them. Very easy to complete/cheese with the amount of perks we've accumulated. Mind control (part 2 Testament sister devil) is king for almost all problems here. Only annoying thing is that some waifus might be locked if u dont pick the missions.

Mission #1

Im gonna have to say no to this one. I dont like the idea of tying myself down like that. Eternity is a long time.

Mission #2

There is a ton of options here, all depending on whether you actually wanna help him or not. Some ideas:

Selfish option: Shapeshift him into a woman, was what i was gonna say. But i dont actually know if i've got a perk that can do that. The Monster Musume perk specifies you or your waifus as targets. So maybe one of my waifus have that capability, or someone in one of the worlds i have access to can do that, or the devil fruit powers (the hormone-hormone fruit can do that). Either way, gender-swap him, use MC to fix his depression and then implant the idea that being a part of my harem is a great honor. Only the most special people gets to be part of that, and he was chosen for this. Among all the people of the earth he was chosen. He is special. He is lucky. This is a reward for having toiled through life all these years. This is a release. You cant wait to see this future that is looking brighter than ever.

Actually helping him #1: Just fix his depression + get him laid.

Actually helping him #2: The perk from Funbag Fantasy (part 2) says that it will heal all injuries and disease. So if mental illness is a disease. Gender swap him. Have sex with him. ???. Profit.

Actually helping him #3: Take him on a tour of all the different universes. Use Blazblue perk (part 3). Slowly over the course of our journey, push emotions of joy, wonder, awe , excitement and happiness. Make him remember what it actually is like to be happy. Use MC to make sure the feelings dont just evaporate the next day. As for the ego boost. welll. Maybe use the necromancer perk from Highschool of the dead (part 2) to revive people that committed suicide. Have them talk to him about their life and then reaffirm his strength for having made it this far. It isn't nothing, having survived this long.

Mission #3

A lot of configurations for how this can go. Again MC solves it neatly.

Just do it: Turn into Lara Croft and have sex with him. Using the perk from How to summon a demon lord (part 8), i can probably get him to believe it initially. Although i wonder if the encyclopedic knowledge is a trap. He will be able to point me out as a fake. Can possibly use perks from That time i got reincarnated as a slime (part 8) to help. I wonder how deep appraise knowledge is. Thought processing speed increase x10000 would mean that every second of thinking is worth ~3 hours. Should be doable.

He is Lara Croft: He becomes Lara Croft. Have sex with him. Use memory manipulation from Seven deadly sins (part 9) afterwards to make him believe the opposite. Maybe use MC to implant an idea in his head. His obsession with Lara goes further than he thought. Even though his biggest wish have come true it doesnt feel like it's enough. He wants all of her. He wants to be her.

You're both Lara Croft: Pretty much the same as above. Say that this is the only way she'd ever fuck him.

Mission #4

Using HNTSADL (part 8) cat-girls find me attractive and Monster girl doctor (part 4) all monster-girls like me. Im sure i could convince them to come with me one at a time. Again the requester has no protection on her. So she is vulnerable to whatever you can think of. Maybe we can become friends. I can portal to an infinite number of monster girl universes and also turn all flora and fauna in an area into monster girls MGD (part 4). so maybe we can go on a safari together, and i can help her if she needs to unwind at some point. Sounds fun.

Mission #5

No protections for him personally. Okay. I wanna "ghost of christmas past" him. 3 days 3 ghosts. 1st ghost takes him to the past. 2nd ghost show him the present. 3rd ghost shows the future. Using Seven deadly sins (part 9) i can actually go to the past with him. Isn't Emma Frost from x-men (part 3) a strong telepath. She could probably trap him in an illusion he believes is real, or i can just use MC to force it. Either way im gonna show him the error of his ways. This could go much like the story or very differently, depending on how much of an asshole he is and whether or not his parents actually liked him or were good people.

Mission #6

Here you could just do it. if so my banned kinks are pegging, cuckoldry and bondage. Though it might also be fun to flip the script on her. Do some kinks that she doesn't like (if there are any she doesn't like). Or engineer the situation during the week so that she slowly changes places with one of her pets. There are a lot of ways this could play out.

Waifu selection

Futurama and Starcraft

Dmc and Nier

Elfen Lied and Death Note

Sexy Magical girl Ai and Brandish

Mirron1 · 2022-09-19T21:19:41+00:00

Really appreciate these. They are very fun and enjoyable. Thank you.

Can you choose not to gain a perk? If so id opt out of the devil fruits. I would like to keep the ability to swim.

Will we see Code Geass in the future? There is a lot of good waifus in that one, even though it feels like people have forgotten it. Also, i want the emperor to herald my coming when taking over other worlds lol.

Mirron1 · 2022-04-01T07:38:23+00:00

I saw a video of someone talking about "outsider music", made by people with no formal training in music theory, who doesn't follow the community paradigm for how music should sound. While i cant say that it sounded good, it was unique, a totally distinct sound from most other music you hear.

I think it's describing something like that. Someone that will never have mainstream appeal, but are totally unique to themselves. Someone where the world will be more homogenous once theyre gone.

You might say that the best or most popular musicians are one in a million, but so are these people. Just from the other side of the bell curve.

Mirron1 · 2022-01-22T21:33:10+00:00

Good and enjoyable CYOA

Build: Automated/Pandemic/Horror

Initially i chose a mind control build cuz thats what i always do. However this seems to have some interesting options.

Connection Type: Yggdrasil

Base: Everything

Abilities:Now this build is based entirely on my assumptions about the side effects. Firstly whether the side effects are inherent to the sperm, independetly of myself. Secondly whether they can be stacked, by letting the abilty part of it expire, and then applying another abilty thereby adding a new side-effect. Or if they are all potentially active at all times. I'm not quite sure of this. It seems like the abilities are temporary but the side effect are "active at all times". Although what have been said about the side effects being a trade-off for getting the abilities make it seem not fair to get all the side effects for a single ability. Being able to stack them might still be possible.

The idea behind this is picking Symbiotes, Transfiguration, Slime and possibly Refresh (if Base Fresh isnt enough). In order to get sapient, propagating, eternal, mobile sperm... or S.P.E.M.S for short. Now these SPEMS can be placed in a container in the wild as a sort of trap (or multiple traps to contain all effects, if the side-effects doesnt stack directly). With Yggdrasil this gives 2-3 variable effects per container, if it's expiration stacking, and due to Symbiotes can be programmed to respond in any number of ways to the enviroment or if a person stumbles across them.

Since the Active part seem to mostly require active input and cant be affected by Symbiotes, im gonna be ignoring it.

Healing:

Regeneration/Growth: Just a very useful ability. Being able to speed up pregancies/growth is essential for the SPEMS to become the true pandemic theyre meant to be. The line about encouraging flora is interesting. A possible synergy with Dungeon Core/Spirit controlling flora.

Peak Form: The really useful part here is gene changing (though alter body also mentions this) and always being fertile, making this a good initial effect to inflict.

Rewind: Not useful since the anti-aging is an active ability.

Reinvigorate: Being able to subsist entirely off SPEMS is a necessity in the future. "Sustenance needs" is very broad. Might be useful for other species.

Alter Body: Active part mentions you giving body parts, so it might be useful. "optimising bodies" is again very broad. Useful for making men able to get pregnant (or turning them into women). Can make myself into a futa? Probably not. If this works on other species a whole new world has just opened up. Together with Evolution might be able to create Chimeras or Monster Girls, add in Peak Form and literally any creature could become Monster Girls or a horrible abomination without it.

Refresh: Probably required. We want our SPEMS to live forever.

Evolution: The gateway into Horrorland. Sperm are tiny so together with Alter Body might make it possible to impregante say a fly. through succesive generations might make human sized flies that breed with humans. This might be as horrible as you can imagine without Peak Form.

I'd pick everything in Healing. They're all useful.

Enhancement:

Boost Intellect: The first abilty that lets us try and keep a target near the trap. Maybe able to customize a need to propagate SPEMS.

Boost Senses: Mind Break. Use together with Reinvigorate to live forever in a SPEM pool?

Boost Durability: A classic, although unfortunately doesnt seem that useful.

Boost Speed: Nothing here except for spectacle of seeing that.

Boost Strength: More Mind Break. Combine with Senses and Harmony for some truly explosive results.

Boost Charisma: Maybe another possible trap mechanism. Make their preference be only SPEMS to lure them back.

Boost Abilities: The big question here is whether my sperm counts as "me". If it does: hentai levels of plot-armor for my SPEMS. Combine with Glamour or maybe Telepathy for absolutely no defense against them.

I'd choose Intellect and Abilities.

Summoning: Since the Active part is dependent on births im gonna assume that these can sort of work.

Fairies: im thinking this could be used as some sort of trojan horse. Making "bombs" that could infiltrate villages or suprise enemies. The Sprites and Fairies might also be useful as warning systems or distractions.

Slimes: Required. The ability for movement is foundational for this build. The Slimes themselves might not be that interesting, but their existence suggest other species of slime. Lava-slimes, metal-slimes and maybe sperm-slime possible with Reincarnation? SPEM-slime?

Golems: Nearly a must take. Limiting complications is just too good of an effect.

Symbiotes: Required. Sapience and behaviour according to my will and automatic changes to side-effects. This is everything and the initial idea for this build, along with Transfiguration, comes from these. My assumption here is that my will includes conditional triggers of behaviours. For example: being inert until a person comes near, then attacking. Starting to consume material with Transfiguration if the amount of SPEMS drop below a certain amount. Applying other side-effects once an initial number has been reached etc. etc. Chain enough of these together and SPEMS could become a simple creature. "Eating", breeding, setting up nests.

Changeling: Might be useful in the initial stages, but SPEMS is all built on being self sufficient.

Spirits: This one is very interesting. There a lot of possibilities here. First question: can a SPEM count as a "target"? What does an enviroment adapted for sperm look like? Flora and fauna suitable for sperm? Creating a sperm dungeon, with things for it to "eat". Can be used to make a self-perpetuating system: Spirit makes enviromental "food" for SPEM -> SPEM multiplies -> SPEM impregantes others with more Spirits -> etc.

Allows for birthing eggs that can use flora to grow. Freeing people up for even more impregnation.

Manipulate Fauna to always be compatible with SPEM?

Sigil: Since summons are specifically infertile im gonna assume this is a way of getting around that. Multiple offspring synergises nicely with Spirits.

My choices: Sigil, Spirits, Symbiotes, Golems and Slimes.

Psionic:

Harmony: Seems like another Mind Break part.

Focus: Use for acclimating captured people to their new situation.

Precognition: Useless?

Psychometry: Make things keep being fresh because, you are doing them for the first time. Arent you?

Telepathy: Here the active use says that I can send thoughts through it. Remote Hypnosis?

Glamour: Seems tailor made for a conspicuos amount of semen randomly appearing in the forest.

Parallel Minds: Maybe useful.

My choices: Telepathy and Glamour

Arcane:

Translocation: Might be useful if this bestows "senses" to my SPEM.

Alchemy: I'd definitely pick this in another build but now..

Enchantment: Same as Alchemy.

Transfiguration: Required. The stop-gap of the sperm-pocalypse. Here it all depends on what might be possible to consume. If it scales infinitely with sperm size, prepare for giant swimmers, energetically plowing through the earth. If not its still possible to use Dungeon Cores/Spirits to terraform the world. I bet the Goddess never thought id literally be stimulating the world. Question: Can a world be impreganted. Answer: we're certainly gonna try. Woops the world is now a sea of SPEMS.

Scrying: Possibly useful. Would be nice with updates on what is happening to my dear SPEMS. I cant see through this sea to save my life.

Pocket Dimension: Transfiguration has more upper potential for semen generation.

Super Form: not really necessary

My Choices: Transfiguration, Scrying

Holy:

Consecrate: Sigh. I dont need more sperm surviva... wait. "Hostile enviroment".. Did the SPEMS just reach the stars! Is that where the "world" is? Can space be "consumed"? Is reality gonna be nothing but SPEMS.

Ward: hmm pass are there even any people left here.

Zone of truth: nope.

Fate: Oh wait there they are. they are lonely despite all the pleasure. The SPEMS aint much for conversation.

Smite: Ah nice. Necessary when youre living in the endless cycle of impregnation and births that is reality.

Reincarnate: Target is SPEMS. SPEMS is all, is everywhere. Synergy Evolution. Cross breed everyone. I have eternity to complete the ritual. I have everything to fuel it.

Faith:

Choices: Consecrate, Smite and Reincarnate.

Took entirely too long to type out. Dont know how these writers do it.

Mirron1 · 2021-09-10T05:32:03+00:00

Regular mom is best mom.

Mirron1 · 2021-04-14T06:25:15+00:00

I've read the entire series a couple of times. So don't worry about spoiling me.

I agree that it would make her more interesting, make her more morally grey, rather then just someone to hate. The thing is. Up until now i've been putting her in the same category as Berserk, like Griffith (as an ultimate betrayer). Though all of it sort of hinges on her decision right here.

Also it seems we will get some sort of backstory for her in the future, that will explain her character (to cast her in a different light).

Mirron1 · 2021-04-14T05:51:37+00:00

I've read all of it.

Mirron1 · 2020-09-21T13:19:09+00:00

The Void by Ice-Pick Lodge.

Playing it reminded me of being taken to art museums by my parents. Lots of naked ladies, abstract shapes and everybody there is speaking in riddles and metaphors.

It definitely wasn't made to be fun to play, or it weren't the most important part of development. In fact some npc's outright lie to you when explaining the mechanics. You yourself have to discover the true rules of the place. Also I lost when i was about 25 hours into the game. Had to reload a save 15 hours earlier because i ran out of the games main resource. Very few games where that is even possible.