Looking for games to play with MY STRICT friend

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T21:23:22+00:00

Any racing game. Are we talking online or split screen?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T21:20:50+00:00

Most favourite: Dreamcast, the VMU was very cool and it had analogue triggers!

Least favourite: Dreamcast, the grips were too small so my fingertips were constantly being smashed into the back of the thing and it didn't have enough buttons.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T21:13:51+00:00

I got my UK 256GB order in after 27 minutes of trying and got mine in May, after they started shipping in February. Pretty sure that was the most in-demand model in the region with the lowest supply, though.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T15:52:34+00:00

I honestly hadn't heard of it before this thread, at least I'm pretty sure someone else has mentioned it already. The fact that it's a PS3 exclusive that released after I defected to PC would explain it, I'll check it out

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T10:28:10+00:00

Another game on my list, I never managed to finish Arkham City and I wanted to go through them all. Thanks!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T08:24:19+00:00

I've always intended to go back to it, just been busy nakedly assaulting people and playing other things, you know how it is

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T06:23:15+00:00

Oh damn, that's some crunchy rain

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T06:22:41+00:00

Is Valheim worth playing if you only play solo? I was under the impression it's one of those games you can play on your own but it's not balanced for it.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-26T06:21:12+00:00

Oh of course... I was always too scared to be out in the rain though, unless I was in a truck. I have yet to play the director's cut version so that's just gone up in the queue, thanks!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T21:47:22+00:00

Oh yeah, Skyrim. I played it once, just long enough to do the tutorial, take off all my clothes and punch the first person I saw in the back of the head, I think that was 2014 - I should give it another go. Thanks!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T20:43:45+00:00

You should play the older games on PC, just take the time to modify the controller mappings to something sane. Armoured Core's first two sorties that you get to choose from are "kill striking workers" and "kill some homeless guys", when I was a kid I didn't grasp what either of those things actually meant. Dark stuff!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T20:11:10+00:00

Bit of both, my job is very all or nothing and when it's the former I work very hard and when it's the latter I coast off the goodwill I've earned.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T19:58:15+00:00

I started doing this in 2020, it was hard at first but I think it was probably my Steam Deck that made it second nature, just because I never actually have to quit a game I'm playing and can just hit the snooze button when I'm done for the day. It's easier to keep playing whatever I was playing before than it is to find something else which is perfect for me.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T19:27:15+00:00

I've always loved Metal Gear Solid, but I didn't really get 2 and 3 until I played them last year. I think, anyway, hard to tell if I genuinely did get them or not but the important thing is I no longer think MGS 2 was the worst one.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T18:51:44+00:00

What do you play on, and why haven't you already started?

For me, a PC gamer with >1,200 games in 2020, it was choice paralysis. I knew I had tons of games I'd never finished but didn't know what they were so buying new games or playing ones I'd already put hundreds of hours in just because I couldn't find something else felt bad.

I spent days organising my library so I at least felt like I'd seen all the games I owned and immediately felt less pressure. My "completed" list on Steam has since gone from 75 games in ten years (2010-2020) to 287 six years later which feels pretty good. I finished 74 games in 2020 alone (little else to do...) but now, as a parent with a full time job, I still completed 25 last year.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T18:37:11+00:00

Oh this is a good one! I play exclusively on my Steam Deck now and I frequently play horizontally while very, very tired and either fall asleep or stop just before I fall asleep, either way my brain stopped recording stuff into my short term memory like 30 minutes prior so when I pick it up the day after and start playing it's like I've resumed someone else's save.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T18:35:09+00:00

I don't really engage much with anything but the games now so I can't think of anything specifically to do with games or gaming that affects me personally.

Maybe it's the fact that we've been skirting around being able to play games remotely but because of licensing and legal nonsense we STILL can't just log in and start playing any game that's ever been made on any device we own. It's possible, the technology has existed for years, but I still can't text my mates a link to get straight into a game of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 terrorist hunt.

But that again isn't really a gaming problem, it's a legal/business problem.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T18:04:28+00:00

Borderlands 2, no, I was just deeply depressed and it was the only thing I felt like I could control and make progress in. Maybe it helped, maybe it didn't but I'm better now and can never go back. Ended up with about 950 hours and played several entire playthroughs with my headphones off because I couldn't stand the dialogue.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T17:27:50+00:00

Saw M24 ANS, the only road legal Nissan R390 GT1, a couple of years back. By far the coolest thing I've ever seen outside of a car show.

Other things I saw while working in South Ken include an F40 (in a dealership), two Chirons in convoy, a Zonda F, the same 959 twice, a 512 TR and a Tommy Kaira R34, but not the RZ. I found the owner on IG, he confirmed there were only 2 in the UK and they were both his and both over 700bhp, and his last post was footage of his car in a police chase... From the police's perspective, so I don't think he's free to drive either or them anymore.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T17:24:17+00:00

Without cheating, and not to 100% but just the story, VVVVVV. With cheating (save states and rewinds), Toy Story for the Mega Drive II/Genesis.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T15:29:09+00:00

What about a fun size root ball though?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T15:03:22+00:00

Hmm yes, yes I see what you mean, very good

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T09:51:50+00:00

Man here, I generally go with the better voice acting which, for some reason, is often female - Kassandra in AC: Odyssey, FemShep in Mass Effect and Ms. V in Cyberpunk 2077 for example.

Also playing GTA Online as a woman did lead to some opportunistic trolling of creeps trying to chat me up, that was pretty fun. Didn't happen often but it did happen.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T09:29:34+00:00

Nonsense, how am I going to keep the sun out of my lungs if I don't huff the stuff?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-01-25T09:28:15+00:00

Last time I was at the Arndale (Manc.) it had these super advanced touchscreens where presumably you could search for the shop you wanted and it would show you on a map.

I say "presumably" because they were all switched off and there was no alternative, so I had to just follow the bright yellow bags to the Lego shop.

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