Video Games Are Boring

Re:Video Games Are Boring by marcus_holmes on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:27PM (#12896573)

I've been playing XCom2 a lot recently, and it occurred to me that I was caring waaay too much about my soldiers. Then it occurred to me that actually the part of the game I was enjoying most was looking after my soldiers.

I have a sniper that never hits anything, ever, and I've started having little pep talk with her before each mission, trying to get her to buck her game up and be a useful member of the team.

Shooting aliens in the head isn't the fun bit. Caring for my little gang of incompetents and nursing them through each mission is the fun bit.

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Re:Video Games Are Boring by montecarl on Monday November 07, 2016 @09:32PM (#12897136)

I spent a lot of time playing the original XCOM on both playstation and PC. This is what made the game amazing. I would name the soldiers after friends, family members, and famous people that I admired. When one would get injured or killed I really cared. It also made approach the tactical part of the game with much caution. I would get really nervous when taking on some of the more dangerous missions. However, once I would get one of my soldiers fully trained and ranked up it was totally worth it!

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Re:Video Games Are Boring by intended on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:34AM (#12899695)

If caring for your incompetents is fun, then dwarf fortress or the genre of DF-lite will be for you.

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Re:Video Games Are Boring by marcus_holmes on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:24PM (#12916408)

love DF :)

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Re:Video Games Are Boring by mercer on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:10AM (#12898497)

You might like Invisible Inc. It's a turn-based sneaking/spy game and one of the few recent games that I played straight through with no 'guilt' afterwards.

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