Would you survive the world you would pick?
Wow. I feel like I'm reading my own old topics from the other end now. :P
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About 3 or 4 years in the past. :P
It's cool, though.
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Well, I wouldn't want to resurrect it. It goes against the rules, besides, new people now. New ideas, more games to pick. 😋
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No worries. I usually make a new one on that from time to time. Like my Currently Playing topics.
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Well, BHTrellis has done hundreds of threads - you're basically taking over their role as the random discussioner.
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Yeah, I wasn't paying attention and normally I don't look what people open, because I wouldn't want two threads to be opened with similar topics.
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The sims. I would rather not fight dangerous monsters.
Scratch that. I would rather live in Elden Ring than have a sadist wall me in or remove the ladder from the pool. At least that's a swift death and less humiliating than peeing myself because someone thinks painting all day is more important.
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Hahahaha 🤣 Some people do that in real life and there's so plumbob hovering above their head.
I would not see myself prepared for anything Elden Ring has to offer. I would die the moment I confront the horseman.
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Stardew Valley.
I will set up a farm where bio vegetables and fruits will be grown, there will also be animal husbandry, of course the main activity will be the production of wine from starfruit and ancientfruit. I can't die, I can't die, if I lose, someone will find me and save me, so I will befriend the locals.
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My thoughts exactly, except the wine part. I haven't gotten there yet so didn't know about it.
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Well in theory, you can die in the game. But not how it was designed, but rather eventually pass away like your grandfather did. 😅
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Stories about my adventures, about defeating Joja's company and about restoration of the Community Center will not pass. Legends never die. :D
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Oh, I like ChestnutS choice! Definitely a farming game <3
Plus you just have to find love in them. Worst case I'll spam them with daily gifts and that's that!
On the other hand it would be really cool being an Assassin in Assassins' Creed. I'd die climbing the first wall though. Or jumping into a haystack. Sad World. Plus, I'd probably run away from enemies, the moment they notice me. Can I set the game mechanics to super easy?
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Oh, I like ChestnutS choice! Definitely a farming game <3
Plus you just have to find love in them. Worst case I'll spam them with daily gifts and that's that!
It's the safest thing to do. 😋
On the other hand it would be really cool being an Assassin in Assassins' Creed. I'd die climbing the first wall though. Or jumping into a haystack. Sad World. Plus, I'd probably run away from enemies, the moment they notice me. Can I set the game mechanics to super easy?
If you'd get the proper assassin training and pass it, you'd be just fine climbing like them, if that's humanly possible. Or at least, whatever is possible. I can't say the same about haystacks, but there has been stunts done for that. Escaping would be a lot more difficult from guards, but not as difficult as it is today.
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So Farming Assassin it should be. I could totally make sure the haystacks are fine that way too xD
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You'll need some big ones though. I am pretty sure nobody would suspect some massive stacks of hays at every tall building as alternative. Besides, I'd still not recommend jumping off a cathedral or some weird tower. The one in the video is about what? 20 meters?
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Well... I wasn't going to build a cathedral on my farm... thinking
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PC building simulator. I would setup myself OP gaming machine and played games on it.
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I think the only type of death would be electrocution. Interesting to think about it, it would be like a simulation. Living in another simulation. Playing games from there. 🤣
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Let's erase that idea that you'd be a video game character, but rather living just in the fantasy world or not so fantasy world. 😋
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How about taking some of the "reality" out of the question and imagining life AS the player inside the game rather than interacting with it externally...
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My first thought was Death Stranding as I just love the gorgeous environments but then remembered it's also bloody terrifying and I wouldn't last a minute. No idea why that was the first game to come to mind.
Very interesting and to be fair, you're right. Unless we would stay underground we'd be pretty safe. Quite a sad time to live if you think about it.
I'll probably go with Calico. Spend my days riding around on giant galaxy cats, flying on the back of a red panda and chilling in a hot spring with capybara. Yeah, that probably beats Death Stranding.
Yeah that's a safer approach I should think. 😋
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Hah, yes! Calico is such a chill game, it'd be interesting to live in such a world.
Pupperazzi was another game that I really enjoyed...
...and currently playing TOEM - was apprehensive about the monochrome aesthetic, but it works.
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Easy, I choose Pokemon, Gen 1 up to 4. Considering the capability of the trainers both in-game AND in the anime, it would be a cakewalk cause no one in-universe knows how to duel like players IRL.
Plus, I basically memorized all the pokemon moves, abilities and stats of those pokemon up to gen 4, so gym leaders, and the Elite four are no issue
And considering their gangsters and Mafia could be beaten by a 10 year old, I will never have to be afraid of anything, and that I know how to find and catch all the Legendary pokemon. This game universe is one of the easiest universe to live in
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Ooh, I did not consider this, but you make a great point! Pokemon universe it is! (Inb4 being a dumbass trying to pickup an item and it is a Voltorb who promptly exploods, so Id probably not survive anyway x3)
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I think the abilities would actually really hurt if hit by. Electricity discharge would potentially kill you if it was to have real life effect and not a game or anime representation.
You'd still have to play it safe, if there was to have a combat or catch pokemons because some of them could potentially kill you.
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I think I'll go with the world of Capybara Spa. It's a world filled with capybaras, getting a spa.
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Sounds very relaxing. Don't you think it would get boring at some point?
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Who doesn't want to be a kid again?
If you have played the game, this one would be quite a thought experiment to try and figure out how things would play out.
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Never played before. I think being stuck as a kid would be quite the limbo.
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Lord of the Rings Online. No one dies (except maybe the baddies), and the Hobbits have great food and cozy abodes.
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I could live in LOTRO too, but to be honest, probabli never leave the shrine (is my paradise)
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I'd love to explore Middle Earth if I knew I could avoid danger. Maybe have a team of well trained warriors to back me up and play it safe.
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I would really like to say Fallout 4, Dragon's Dogma, AC Origins or Odyssey but I'm fully aware I would not survive a day.
Realistically, Trails in the sky. It's a pretty big series and while I don't think I would survive the main questline I could and would prefer just being a background npc or something.
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I would love probably AC Origins or Odyssey because well, our ancestors have been there and lived through that period. I can't say I would like to live in Fallout universe, it's kinda scary and dangerous.
Lastly, Dragon's Dogma is having all kinds of monsters, I would love it for the adventure, but if I was to be just a regular folks man, I would either die by a dragon or a chimera. 🤣
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Dragon's Dogma - The real issue is what happens after the Arisen fights the dragon and who gets defeated there. And then after that. (Being intentionally vague.) Being just a casual citizen or fisherman is definitely do-able, as just regular monsters are cleaned up and taken care of and merchant routes are pretty safe aside from that one unfortunate hillside.
AC Origins and Odyssey - Would be pretty awesome, except 1.) I would make a disaster of an assassin/mercenary. 2.) No wifi/internet/modern medication. Also considering the average life expectancy is 20-30 for ancient Egypt and Rome back then is a big no.
Fallout - I would likely just die immediately but I really loved all the available resources and the communities, and if I could get myself to an already established sanctuary I could probably make it pretty well in that world. Tbh it would hinge on if Preston could get his group out of the museum and make their way up to the neighborhood; but considering his strength/skills I have doubts.
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Stardew vally - I cannot keep a plant alive there is no way I would make it as a farmer or literally anything else. I wouldn't work for jojo's convenience store because the wage they pay sucks and I could make more money by selling off random objects with significantly less effort.
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Dragon's Dogma - The real issue is what happens after the Arisen fights the dragon and who gets defeated there. And then after that. (Being intentionally vague.) Being just a casual citizen or fisherman is definitely do-able, as just regular monsters are cleaned up and taken care of and merchant routes are pretty safe aside from that one unfortunate hillside.
Well yes, if we'd take in consideration realistically, if the Arisen pretty much helps clear the passage as we do in the game, that would make a world a lot safer. I doubt wild creatures would go into the city creating chaos like that, unless hungry and even then they would stay safe. It's better yet to stay in large cities.
AC Origins and Odyssey - Would be pretty awesome, except 1.) I would make a disaster of an assassin/mercenary. 2.) No wifi/internet/modern medication. Also considering the average life expectancy is 20-30 for ancient Egypt and Rome back then is a big no.
Well yes, but at least 20-30 years of living life at the fullest. 🤣
Fallout - I would likely just die immediately but I really loved all the available resources and the communities, and if I could get myself to an already established sanctuary I could probably make it pretty well in that world. Tbh it would hinge on if Preston could get his group out of the museum and make their way up to the neighborhood; but considering his strength/skills I have doubts.
I would find it a shocker to get out of the vault and see the world for the first time. It would be hard go grasp. It feels overwhelming in the game a bit, in real it would be 10x more.
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Stardew vally - I cannot keep a plant alive there is no way I would make it as a farmer or literally anything else. I wouldn't work for jojo's convenience store because the wage they pay sucks and I could make more money by selling off random objects with significantly less effort.
It could be enough to survive, after all, that village isn't supposed to overall become bigger and bigger, but rather survive from a day to another. It's strange that in the game there's a homeless person. I personally never seen one in a village before. Pretty much everybody has a job to do in real life, and nobody gets to beg if they live in a village.
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Animal Crossing for sure. Nothing but pleasant days.
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Was really thinking someone had to mention it. I thought about it myself, for a safety place.
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Except you'd have to pay racket money to Tom Nook. But at least you could pay it with a few ants and flies so it's better than the real-world mafia.
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Imagine if you've got a bug phobia, like Blathers 🤣
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I think it's still Stardew Valley that is a relatively safe bet (unless you be a Joja cashier or random office worker from the intro)
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DEAD OR ALIVE Xtreme.
There's no dying on the island.
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Lust Academy
As for how to survive it... Well... Ehm...
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Why in the Crush Crush universe. I am an Alpha Chad Marshmallow. I would be able to work as the BEST of 18 different professions. Earning money in the Sextillion (yes an actually amount I have in game) amounts. Be the best at 12 different hobbies. All this while still having time to romance and enjoy the company of not 1... not 2... but 40 individual beautiful women of all shapes, sizes and styles.
ALL THAT and I still find time to flirt with around a dozen other attractive ladies on the phone.
AND THEN... if I am feeling a little board. I could always swing the other way with boys of Blush Blush (both games are linked, I can prove it).
Umm... so ya. I pick the horny game that nothing really bad can happen to me, I always get the girl and well.... life is just perfect.
That.... or No Man's Sky (creative mode). Just cause I love to explore. :D
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Why in the Crush Crush universe. I am an Alpha Chad Marshmallow.
You got me dead when I read your description. 🤣
After doing a little bit of research, I thought you should be careful with one of the members as they are a big and ferocious bear. I'd stay away from that no matter how attractive she may be in human form.
AND THEN... if I am feeling a little board. I could always swing the other way with boys of Blush Blush (both games are linked, I can prove it).
Well they look to have the same style, and the world has the similar behaviors lol.
That.... or No Man's Sky (creative mode). Just cause I love to explore. :D
Oh I see, so once you're done exploring women you're off in the distant world? That could be dangerous, but fun!
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Probably Megaquarium. Spending 100% of my time worrying about nothing but aquariums is something I could absolutely get behind (I've been keeping aquariums IRL for even longer than I've been into video games).
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They can't be that difficult to maintain daily, right? 😮
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Haha, that all depends on what you are keeping! Some things need very little attention as long as they are set up in the proper environment (like my axolotl that you can see in my avatar pic). But there are certainly things that can be very challenging to keep, even under the best conditions.
The size of the aquarium makes a big difference, too. Bigger tanks are easier to maintain if they are set up correctly. The larger the volume of water, the more stable the conditions. Those little desktop aquariums that a lot of people think would be good for starting out with are actually the most difficult to keep going.
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I've had a small aquarium, but I didn't really attend much the fishes and I remember that some of them got eaten by the turtle. 😥
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Yeah, turtles will do that. If something in their tank is even remotely edible (and often even if it is not), they will try to eat it sooner or later.
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I had no idea as a kid until I found an fish that was eaten like an apple, all around it's spine. 😭
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The Lord Of The Rings Online.
I'd play safe, because depending on what you try, it can be easy or hellish difficult. I'd not join raids where I know half of the players end dying and things like that. I'll live my life, maybe do things with companions, but nothing excessively heroic.
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What would you see yourself as? I mean, what race?
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Oh I forgot to include. Human male hunter. My first LOTRO character too.
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I have more than 11k hours accumulated across all my characters (and more from deleted characters). 10 years through it. In the last years I used to play a lot with my girlfriend. Now that she's gone, going back to the game is kinda sad and lonely, so I really have no reason to get back to play right now.
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first of all, i should be THE CHARACTER, not an NPC or even less, no named character otherwise there's no point, just be a no name character and work your ass off like normal person
and i would love play an ARPG, even if the genre was a horror, everything and anything can be killed in ARPG (unless gameplay dictates otherwise). it's just another hardcore ARPG in this case, although i'm not that good with hardcore mode so i would make myself with high agility with long range, also traps if any. my tactic would be spread the love (trap) around or in the path and then snipe them. for the weapon, i would love to have a gun using hybrid of bullets and magic (it's powered by magic), should be more destructive and versatile (homing, elemental dmg, etc, just not infinite ammo). and if anything else failed, RUN!!!!
if this were asked for isekai genre, then harem is also a must
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How would you avoid death? ARPG's like Diablo for example are swarmed with monsters and even with a magical weapon you'd get yourself in some serious problems if you're not careful.
I'd like you to imagine yourself having to fight them realistically, as there would be no health-bar, but your skills and wits. Would you still survive? Wouldn't it be safer to stay somewhere safe in major cities than to go on adventures that could potentially kill you?
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like i said before, long range + traps
besides, i doubt "real life ARPG" would actually swarmed with enemies
and dying is the least on my mind if i actually do what i want (being able to mow down enemies) not that i would recklessly go hunt
i know i'm not an MC or protagonist and i've read multiple isekai LN to actually know, WHAT NOT TO DO, in case it happened
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Good, so you'd be prepared. I hope your journey ends gloriously. 😀
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What city/village would you pick to make your trades?
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That's an interesting question. I don't think I can even recall all the worlds I've encountered in games that I've enjoyed. To name a few though: Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Breath of the Wild too though), Dark Age of Camelot (Albion or Midgard mostly, but Hibernia is awesome as well), Metro 2033, Disco Elysium. But if I had to choose one where I'd have plenty of options for different kinds of lifestyles, it'd probably be Guild Wars 2. Fairly vast world, different races, all sorts of options ranging from completely safe to near death on a daily basis.
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That's such a good choice. I loved the Guild Wars 2 world. Very vibrant and different. So many characters to choose, which one would you go as race?
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That's a difficult choice. If I was to choose something where I'd survive with my current real skills (Or lack of skills) I'd probably go with asura. The safe bet would of course be humans, since there'll always be a need for your standard trades. I feel like charr, sylvan and norn all are interesting picks, but I don't think I have the personality for them.
But yes, that's why I chose Guild Wars 2. There's just something for everyone in it, and it's a vast world with lots of interesting places to go and settle or explore.
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I like that they really went over and above with races we've never seen before in other games.
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Yeah, they really did. And even though you can draw some parallels between them, they're all really different from each, with very different areas connected to them as well.
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Overall what makes Guild Wars 2 a really good MMO is the quality in voice-acting and how alive the whole game feels as a multiplayer. I enjoyed a lot the story and I can't say I've had such stories in other MMO's that felt so alive. Surely, WOW may have a lot more in-depth or maybe if you're a fan of LOTR, then LOTRO, but I enjoyed GW2's way of sharing the story so much that I will forever remember it as one of the best MMO's I've ever played.
I know it's not as active anymore as it used to, but I hope the game keeps up for the fans of the series.
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It's not too long ago that I quit GW2 after playing for about a year and a half (My 3rd time I believe), and at the time it was plenty active. It's not more then a month or two since they released their latest expansion. I don't know if it's the last planned expansion though, but it is at least still very much alive. And you're right, the story is amazing. I've played through it so many times, and it never gets boring. The whole storyline is just fun and engaging.
All the newer areas are also unique and different from the rest in some way. You could argue if you like or hate the fact they introduce a new currency with every area, but at least there's always something to do in the game. Tons of events, and still plenty of trains with lots of people doing those meta events.
I wish I had the time to play MMO's, but they just tend to take up too much of my time.
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It's not too long ago that I quit GW2 after playing for about a year and a half (My 3rd time I believe), and at the time it was plenty active. It's not more then a month or two since they released their latest expansion. I don't know if it's the last planned expansion though, but it is at least still very much alive. And you're right, the story is amazing. I've played through it so many times, and it never gets boring. The whole storyline is just fun and engaging.
I quit the game when the first expansion was released. I know for a fact that the base game became free. What about the other DLC's?
All the newer areas are also unique and different from the rest in some way. You could argue if you like or hate the fact they introduce a new currency with every area, but at least there's always something to do in the game. Tons of events, and still plenty of trains with lots of people doing those meta events.
I recall how active in events the game was in it's release period. I knew it would get more and more active as time goes by and content got richer.
I wish I had the time to play MMO's, but they just tend to take up too much of my time.
You're not the only one. I feel the same. I had played pretty much every good MMO back in the days and my latest was Black Desert Online and I felt that it's too grindy to even consider dedicating time for it. Besides, I wanted to play some other games, with new mechanics, gameplay and stories.
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Well, I just checked actually, because I wanted to make sure what I said was true, but apparently they completely changed the system in regards to how they handle expansions. If memory serves, it used to be that you had to buy the base game to play. The base game would include every expansion but the newest one. Meaning when expansion 2 was released, expansion 1 would be added to the base game free of charge. But that's apparently not the case anymore. GW2 is no longer pay to play, and is actually free. But now you have to buy all the expansions if you want access to it. At the moment, you can buy the first and second in a bundle, and then the third and newest separate, or a bundle with all 3. I don't believe it was like that when last I started playing about 2½ years ago.
I get the same feeling after playing MMO's for a while. I loved GW2, there was and is always something to do. But after playing it for a year, and more or less not playing much else, I get that urge to play something else. And even though I don't regret playing it, it sometimes feels like I'm wasting a lot of time, doing the same dailies over and over you know. I know that's the recipe of a MMO, but it still nags me sometimes.
Of course talking about how awesome the game is, just wants me to jump right back into it.
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I firmly believe that you need a second life in order for you to actually have the time to play an MMORPG and play other games as well from your library.
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You're not wrong. I often think that if we only had more hours during the day to do the fun things. But even then, would it ever even be enough?
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Black Desert Online is a great example that you need 72 Hours in a day to be able to feel you're doing something. 🤣
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im gonna have to go with bonetown, im pretty sure id know exactly how to survive.
more seriously the long dark is right up my alley. im built for the cold and have no problem surviving on the planet earth.
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im gonna have to go with bonetown, im pretty sure id know exactly how to survive.
I've never seen such a game in my entire life. 🤣🤣🤣 It's like GTA but for adults.
more seriously the long dark is right up my alley. im built for the cold and have no problem surviving on the planet earth.
You'd also do fine maybe in Frostpunk too?
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Permadeath is a quirk of underdeveloped civilizations. I would buy salvage insurance and get reconstructed with an advanced 3D printer from the last snapshot taken of my character. Being dancers at the end of time we would even survive the increasing entropy of the universe.
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Wait, which game is this if you don't mind me asking?
PS: Happy Cake Day! 🎂🎉
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My most played game on Steam: X3 Reunion. If you are in good standing with the Goner faction you can buy salvage insurance for your ship and yourself. Dancers at the end of time is an allusion to Michael Moorcock's novel.
Thanks for the cake day wish <3
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The series isn't for everyone as there is a steep learning curve. But if you are open minded an experience like none other will await you. My playtime on Steam for X3 Reunion is only a fraction of the time I spent in this game.
I was blown away by a quest where you can salvage the yacht of His Three-Dimensinal Holiness the Paranid Emperor and I didn't get how to use the tractor beam necessary for this operation. So I pushed the yacht which had no drive through the jump gates by ramming it with my own ship and suddenly the yacht's AI went hostile on me. To think of this eventuality that's pure genius from the programmers in my book.
I'm not quite sure if I should recommend the series to you. You might get hooked and you'll spend months playing or it isn't for you and you put it down in 30 minutes max. Suffice it to say there's a dedicated fan base even 20 years after initial release who made a new expansion recently https://store.steampowered.com/app/483330/X3_Farnhams_Legacy/
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Is there a chronological way to play them? Are they related?
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Yes and yes but the back story doesn't affect game play in way you couldn't chose at which part of the franchise to start. I started with playing X3: Reunion as it was just released(3 Nov, 2005) and have never played the prequels. The games after Reunion and it's expansions become more streamlined.
Thus the finicky multi-layered UI couldn't be used in consoles and was dumped. As a result the next game X: Rebirth was a complete train wreck at release. I can't tell you much about the newest X4: Foundations as only watched a few videos on YT and didn't buy it(yet).
From my perspective X3: Reunion is and probably always will be the peak in the series.
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Hi there,
It has been a while and I hope you are well and safe. Here's a quick question for you.
If you were to choose a fantasy world from a video-game that you like or find interesting, what game would it be and how do you think you'd do if you were to use the elements there are there. Try to perceive this as a realistic thing as possible.
There would be no re-spawning and only perma-death unless the world you picked actually has such technology or magical powers. What kind of person would you be? What choices would you make to stay alive?
Be creative and share your thoughts. You are also able to interact with others and offer advice for a better survival rate or respectfully criticize their decision. 😄
Good luck and have fun!
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