I spend a lot of time in games just staring at things, appreciating the work, listening to the soundtrack or fooling around with the physics. I don’t just play a game to finish it, I absorb it with all my senses 👁️👄👁️
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This is why I will ALWAYS be pro trainer/dev codes. Turning on god mode & getting up close to dangerous things to see the details. Climbing a mountain & jumping off a cliff in god mode is fun. In Skyrim, letting the giants hit you so hard you go flying through the air is funny as hell.
I miss the days where I didn't let work life invade my time with games. Now it's very check boxy for me. I should spend more time appreciating. (I still do, just a nice reminder in your post to do it a little more)
That's why I'm slow with finishing RPGs sometimes. Like I just want to walk around and appreciate the town/city for a bit and maybe mess around with subsystems and item mixing that you don't even have to use to beat the game.
The first time I played Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, I was so absorbed because once you get to the actual open area, it was so beautiful, what was once just a set of polygons is a stunning landscape and it’s followed by a beautiful rendition of the main theme, it took me a while to continue the story!
I barely game any more but I've spent the last week watching (and listening to) my wife play through Astro Bot. The soundtrack of that game has no business being as good as it is!
Same here. How can you have fond memories with something you just ran through without looking and listening to things? Thats how i feel about that. Like experiencing night city just roaming around or just walking around Hoarfrost Reach in Mh world iceborne. It's an unmatching feeling.
Hard games are good at forcing you to do this, too. After my umpteenth death in Halo 2 on Legendary, I took a break and realized just how beautiful the sky boxes are
And when you play a game that heavily relies on your senses in order to progress in it, it will absorb you into the digital landscape you play in. That's how I've been feeling with the game I'm currently in love with, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. 🐵
When I switched from Yakuza Kiwami over to Kiwami 2 in the Dragon Engine, I spent hours just walking around. Seamlessly walking into shops, looking at the new environments. It was so cool, especially with the new physics (wonky as they kinda are), lighting and detail.
I agree and recommend more people to do this. We are in a time of fantastic game design and the artwork is gorgeous. I wish there was a "hiking" mode for some games like Horizon: Zero Dawn because I love to walk along and just stare at beautiful scenery...then fight robots
I'm trying to get better at this. For a long time I've been end goal driven and my brain will literally filter out everything but the essential information and sometimes even some of that. It sucks. Trying to slow down.
As a worldbuilder, I always stand there doing those things and imagining what the world looks like under an everyday context. I sailed the Great Sea thinking of what trade routes looked like, shrunk to the size of a Picori imagining the dangers of being so small...
Whenever I look up a game's length, I have to look at the "completionist" length. Not because I'm a completionist, but because of the amount of time I spend absorbing every detail and taking screenshots.
This is me in all the Fromsoft Soulsborne titles and in Monster Hunter. The detail that goes into each structure and environment in those games is just stunning, and a lot of the time you’re just going too fast or too focused on something else to really appreciate the finer details.
100% relate to this. I remember playing through Final Fantasy VII R for the first time, and I could spend hours just listening to the soundtrack and watching the stars 🌟
It is the same with me. Video games are most of my media & I don't plan ever stopping playing them!! 🙂 I wouldn't be surprised if talking with people was 10% or less of my media that I have absorb & or get regardless of how I do it! I have lived this way for a long time about 15 years+.
I don't plan on living that way & won't be living that way very much longer & I wouldn't even be surprised if conversations made up 15% or less of the media that I get. Other than media it is a hobby & entertaining to me as well as something that I will pursue with great passion & energy!!🙂
It’s funny. I have so much empathy that when I play games, I even feel bad skipping dialogue and voice acting (even if I’ve finished reading the dialogue before the voice acting ends) because people put so much work into it, I don’t want to disrespect them. LOL!
Same! And this is why my backlog is monumental, if a platinum estimate says 40 hours I need to add 20 for general fooling around and taking it all in 😂😅
LOL same. I came to the conclusion that I will never play all the games I wanna play so might as well just enjoy the ones I’m playing. No more racing to beat as many games as possible 🙂↔️
You should try #SWTOR then. It's one of the most invested in games. The devs are constantly adding and improving. Large interesting community as well. From RP'ers to hardcore PVP'ers. It has numerous ways to play as well.
I agree! You might enjoy this guy’s channel, that’s kind of what he does: looking at the more mundane elements of area design or how the devs might have set up NPCs with intention https://youtu.be/pKzPpyCWkak?si=FCT9Nz3v2yXOemqN
BG3 is amazing, but the detail and atmosphere in Cyberpunk is beyond incredible. It’s a world that is absolutely meant to be explored. I would spend hours just driving and walking around Night City. 😎
Cyberpunk 2077 is definitely a world to completely get lost in watching the small details, NPC interactions and news reports that play around the cityscape.
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I’m to busy trying to finish a game to really take it in. Godamn ADHD
I like to call our kind "Game Tourists" 😄
Though, come to think of it...I actually do the same thing in real life.
Anyway, my point was I too slow down and soak in the atmosphere.
I'm not one for rushing a game.
Wife (incredulously): why are u even going into that empty nook and/or cranny?
Me: because somebody built it
Daughter (nodding): because somebody built it
Zelda, Tears Of The Kingdom, and the PS5 Ratchet And Clank were eye candy all through..
I reckon you’ll like Cyberpunk. Being that your vibes are immaculate and Cyberpunk’s vibes share those qualities 😆