un: kantera, text

[happydreamed]

One question.

Why is it harder to fight monsters in video games than in real life?

[It's not, he's just bad at video games.]

Comments

un: Eve 🔪; text

[wroughtandtempered]

because video games are fucking hard

[happydreamed]

Are they not meant to be for fun and enjoyment? Why are they so difficult??

[wroughtandtempered]

they're fun if you know how to use a fucking controller apparently
or at least the controllers are my problem
have you tried turn based stuff?

[happydreamed]

I haven't, but my knowledge of game genres is admittedly very limited. Do you have any recommendations?

[wroughtandtempered]

uh
Paper Mario was cute? you do get bonuses if you time button presses but you dont have to
I think a lot of rpgs are turn based going by genre

un:happyaround

[roundandaround]

It is? I thought it was easier in games since it's not real.

[happydreamed]

I know how to fight perfectly well. I do not know how to keep track of which button combination performs which attack.

[roundandaround]

Fighting games are like that, huh? Maybe you could try a different kind of game! Like my friend back home, Muni-chan, she likes RPGs! She even has one called Octocon Fitness Saga where you gotta use this ring controller and run and flex and stuff in real life! She let me have my own file on it at her house and I come over all the time to play!

Or I guess I did when I was there, huh...

[happydreamed]

That doesn't sound too bad. Certainly, I have more practice running and flexing than I do pushing buttons.

[roundandaround]

Maybe you'd be able to do that then! I dunno if this world has a game like it, but I hope so, it'd be fun. The controller is this big circle and you grab the sides!

Text | UN: MonkieMan

[noodleboi]

Cause games are hard. Fighting is easy.

Don't know why.

[happydreamed]

I wouldn't call fighting easy, but I certainly learned it more easily than I'm picking up video games...

[noodleboi]

Some of those games are hard. Which one you playing?

[happydreamed]

Regretful Rotor? The characters on the box looked interesting.

[noodleboi]

Not sure I played that one. I get that. That's how I pick games too. It's gotta have something cool on the box.

UN: Intergalactic Baseballer

[starwill]

Skill issue.

[happydreamed]

That may be true, but there's no need to say it so bluntly, is there?

[starwill]

It's how the cool kids would say it.

[happydreamed]

Is that so? I'm not well-versed in the youth's slang these days, I admit.

[starwill]

And I'm an expert in all things slang. So yes.

text; un: lifesrhythm

[shuidegurou]

Oh I could give you an essay about it if you want. lots of factors to blame, from shitty controls to shittier controllers to poorly designed levels to bad ping/lag. the list goes on.

2/2 apparently (MY BAD)

[shuidegurou]

... and then there's just Dark Souls/Elden Ring. enough said.

[happydreamed]

I don't know what Dark Souls is, but the name strikes fear into my heart.

[shuidegurou]

Where I'm from its a game that's a part of a series we call the "Soul games". They're basically all designed to be insanely difficult, like sweaty palms, lean in, and HOURS spent on the grind just to learn the timing for the attacks kind of difficult.

Some people call them games for masochists. People who want to test or show off their skill tend to be drawn to them though!

[happydreamed]

Goodness. I suppose that sort of game has its place for the truly dedicated, but I simply want to find a way to have fun with my friend who likes video games.