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Try "The Witness".
Or Firewatch.
But try playing it as a child or a woman marginally interested in a gaming experience and you get unnecessary swearing and tropes from a man's perspective.
Oh well. I wish there was possibility for a mode. Not one you are forced to select, but one based on a profile, more akin to the predictive one advertisers already have on you.
It may be correct that women want something different than men, but I don't think its true in the way they imagine. A lot of women seem to have enjoyed "The Sims", but many of them appear to have spent their time in-game torturing their hapless sims.
Addiction. My main gripe with video games is that they're addictive. Boring or not, they push you to play another 5, 10, 60 minutes... before you know it, you ruined your evening, and wasted your time and the next day at work... Kudos to the artists, developers, psychologists who can build that. And probably I am weak. At the end of the day, they are very successful in making me addicted, that's why i am staying away…
Once you realize that, you're free.
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Because the argument is that men aren't capable of doing so [0]. I don't believe that is the case, but it is the argument being hinted at. It is also a very common argument.
I think the issue is culture, not 'female devs'. Maybe not so much in games - but in almost every other field where devs work - they have a lot of influence over the product. So it's part of the issue. Devs are usually the one's founding the company ... But gaming, I guess not so much. So maybe less of a requirement. But remember that most 'great things' come from inspiration all around. Game devs might 'love games'…
I recall from a psychology lecture in one of my courses, many years ago, that women tend to play games like the Sims as if they were dollhouses, building their dream lives. On the other hand, my ex- used to play it in a masculine fashion, torturing the Sims by shutting them in a room without a door or a toilet, sending them for a swim and removing the ladder, things like that.
Exactly what this means, I'm not sure, but I think it is a piece of the puzzle.
Addiction. My main gripe with video games is that they're addictive. Boring or not, they push you to play another 5, 10, 60 minutes... before you know it, you ruined your evening, and wasted your time and the next day at work... Kudos to the artists, developers, psychologists who can build that. And probably I am weak. At the end of the day, they are very successful in making me addicted, that's why i am staying away…
Never buy anything that has in-app-purchases where for $ money you get something and for $$ money you get more something.
If you see a screen that has $1.99 for 5 gold/gems/points/cards and $4.99 for 20 gold/gems/points/card then RUN!
This captures a lot of what I've been feeling lately. I can't stand most games, they just make me anxious and I will quit playing them after a few hours or even minutes. Too much stress and surface experiences has had me looking in the other direction. Take, for example, GTA 5. I've probably spent more hours riding cars and bikes in GTA5's beautiful countryside and outback than playing actual missions. Just hours and…
Sounds like you would enjoy Euro Truck Simulator 2 or American Truck Simulator. Yes you still have a mission (taking a trailer from point A to point B) but you can choose from a long list of "jobs" that will take you to many different cities, and you even have the option to free roam.
Edit: On second viewing, the issue with strange "st" font artifacts was fixed when I enabled java-script.
This captures a lot of what I've been feeling lately. I can't stand most games, they just make me anxious and I will quit playing them after a few hours or even minutes. Too much stress and surface experiences has had me looking in the other direction. Take, for example, GTA 5. I've probably spent more hours riding cars and bikes in GTA5's beautiful countryside and outback than playing actual missions. Just hours and…
This is what I came here to say. I only have Vice City, nowhere near as visually spectacular, but I get myself a car and just drive around with the radio on. It's the same for Assassin's Creed through to IV, I often just go for a walk and look at the scenery, immerse myself in a time and place that's long gone. Often enough, the missions get in the way.
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Or Firewatch.
Firewatch is a really big step in the right direction. But try playing it as a child or a woman marginally interested in a gaming experience and you get unnecessary swearing and tropes from a man's perspective. Oh well. I wish there was possibility for a mode. Not one you are forced to select, but one based on a profile, more akin to the predictive one advertisers already have on you.
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You raise a good point. I would never purchase a GTA game because I find the whole concept morally offensive, but I am very intrigued by the exploration aspect you have described. I would love to see more focus on exploration in games. A lot of RPGs (like the Elder Scrolls series) have significant aspects of exploration to them, but tend to get bogged down in the fetch-it quests or lots of repetitive hack-and-slay. I…
GTA5 is the kind of game that the adventures the player takes on says more about the player than the game itself. Sure, you can run around causing mass chaos and deaths; but you can also do none of those things. Once you reach a point in the game, I forget how far into it, you choose what to do. Want to drive around town obeying the laws and enjoy the sites? Do that. Want to partake in multiple instances of non-viole…
No, you literally can't. You have to kill people en masse from the very start of the game. And, if you want to progress far enough to unlock the various features of the game, you have to do downright reprehensible things.
I've played, and enjoyed most of, GTA5 (though I think the developers, at this point, should fuck off with the faux-satire, they lost the plot a long time ago), but I understand why other people don't.