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it all happens to the best of us. usually its your brain trying to take you back to a happier life than the one you're experiencing now. Especially after a traumatic/life-changing experience. I should know because its exactly what I experienced. Something really bad happened to me and I couldn't tell my parents back then because I did fucked up stuff and I went back to playing old flash games, revisited my 10 year old minecraft worlds on my 360, rewatching old movies I saw as a kid like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. all of that so I could feel some comfort be taken back to a merrier time.

>>63333
>the og multiplayer stick empires
>og plasma burst 2 with multiplayer and custom map making in the official site
>armorgames new games every week
>stickpage.com with banker animations
>still remember the kongregate ants logo
>notdoppler hosting all of the above

we were truly spoiled back then.

>>63329
also played these all.

also honorable mention to Alice is Dead i love that game its soundtrack is phenomenal.

"man I can't wait for the future. Imagine all the cool new games, in amazing graphs"
>all games will be digital downloads that can be revoked at anytime.
>all consoles are dead or sold by scalpers.
>RAM prices are making even PC's unobtainable.
>gameplay is pushed to be multiplayer and based on microtranscations and loot boxes.
>so much industry shilling you have no idea who is real any more.
>gameplay absurdly dumbed down you might as well play a rail shooter.
>politics and race injected into every franchise, particularly where it doesn't even make sense.
>franchises would rather remake their old games than make a sequel.
take me back

>>63472
Fuck… this perfectly sums up my issues with the industry now. I think the last title I looked forward to was PS4 Spider-Man and both it and its sequel were bloated and agenda filled slop with ugly succubi everywhere. It played fine, but I still preferred the webslinging in Spider-Man 2 (2004) anyway. I think I'd rather play those old retro titles even.

>>63487
Theres still good games made today pathfinder games,silksong,elden ring,baldurs gate 3.I thought gaming was dying for me turns out I still like older games I just went through the original baldurs gate trilogy and its still good.

>>63504
>like some days it can be 12 hours a day of just jerking off
>If you have unmedicated ADHD like me

Relatable and I get what you are saying. When you goon to some h-game you are focused and the sudden flow of dopamine allows you to feel at peace. Whenever I goon, for the duration of the gooning I feel optimistic and get an urge to do something productive, write something, draw. However, it is a fleeting moment. This 'hobby' takes more that it gives.
Once your libido dries up, you will be left with nothing. And it is not even a matter of being old. It can just suddenly disappear for weeks. What will you do then? When h-game seem like a chore and dick doesn't get hard, no rush, no dopamine 'high'? For me such experience was eye-opening

>>62042
I realize I was happier with simpler games than complex and serious ones. Abandon platformers/adventure games in my teenage years in favor of strategy, shooters, simulations and RPGs. When I went back and played Spyro, I actually felt genuinely relaxed because there wasn't any sense of competitiveness or serious tone. The later genres were fun, but since I took it serious, I could never fully relax.

>>63506
The problem with the hobby is of course that libido is a fickle and sometimes fleeting inspiration, and when you cum then you killed your source of fun. My take on it:
1. If you have some shit stressing you that you know needs to be done, e.g. some work deadline then I find it nearly impossible to find the libido required to fap. Gotta get it done first or else the demons will live rent free in your mind.
2. There are times where you just can't just get into it, for an unknown reason, like you somehow lost your mojo. My experience is that you kind of just have to tank those days and instead enjoy lesser inferior hobbies during that time until you're "recharged". I don't know how else to explain it.
3. Obviously, when you cum, that's it and you feel completely empty. That's also something you really just have to tank, it's an inevitability. Alternatively, you _can_ actually just let it be a dry denial and that's sometimes the correct play because it lets you combo it into more hgames the next day, or maybe just an ambient feeling of horniness for a few days which can be a fun intoxicating feeling every now and then.
4. Maybe you have discovered this from first principles yourself, but after some years of playing hgames I've noticed a pattern to the types of games I like to play and in what order. The first game of the session is always a very gameplay-focused game which is a game played across multiple sessions. It was a 2nd playthrough of RJ01273529 for me recently. This gets me a foot into the door with my brain by hooking it with good gameplay as I slowly get more horny from watching sexy stuff happening on the screen yet it not being the focus. That's the starter dish. Then I get into the main course which is commonly a classical RPGM, or sometimes a unity game if it's good enough, where the gameplay and H exists both, but gameplay is easier than before and H is in more focus than before. It's a slowburn. Then, by the end of the session, it's the dessert where I have no energy and I pull out some really degenerate shlobby nukige VN where the only gameplay is pressing left click until I see boobies and I ejaculate. It's where the H is the hottest, but if I only spend all my time on VNs then I would get a) desensitized and b) cum too fast.

Regarding this:
>Whenever I goon, for the duration of the goonPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>62042
I don't think, for me personally, that I could realistically narrow this phenomenon down to a single moment. It's more reoccurring conditions that I find myself in that remind me of the preferable alternative. For example:
>having a job reminds me that I prefer being a NEET
>being subjected to family/social obligations reminds me that I'm happier when I'm all alone in my room playing video games
When the world around us and 'normal life' sucks this bad, engaging with it reminds us how much better our abnormalities, escapism, and vices are in comparison.

>>63508
>1
For me it's the opposite. If I have something stressful, like interaction with people or a lot of responsibilities, I can't allow myself to goon because it saps my strength and makes me less capable.
>2
I can easily bear living with no gooning. That is not that hard. What I can't bear is those periods after intense gooning sessions after which everything is boring in comparison, nothing ticks, I have no desire to do anything, I just sleep. It's like being deprived of what makes life not so horrible. I hate that state, it's torture.
>3
And I hate coooming. I play h-games for the rush they give me. It's like being for 10-12 hours in a state of trance and away from your problems, drowning in goon material. Cooming just ends this rush, returning you to reality.
>4
Yeah, during goon seshions I hop from one game to another the same way. It keeps the novelty and the rushes. Also I discovered that after a long period of abstaining, returning to h-games is sometimes shocking and revolting. Not from moral perspective but because it feels alien.
The biggest issue for me is that I love having arousing rushes and yet it is easy to get used to them and when they are gone you will twice as miserable. I had them in March and then lost them in April. The transition is painful. I'd rather avoid those carousels alltogether.

OSRS is great! The game has way more mechanical depth than you would think once you get into it. It's about as anti-modern game design as you can get and it has its audience because of that.

If any wizzies wanna add me Scum Idiot can't promise to be social but who knows

>>63483 This guy is just flat out wrong and overly reductive on most all accounts. It can be the most single player multiplayer game. It did get its start by being accessible.

>>63499
>The game has way more mechanical depth than you would think once you get into it
Click the bad guy and wait
>If any wizzies wanna add me
Yuck.

>>63500
They recently added a bunch of entry level bosses to get newer players out of the click and wait mind set for combat. But there's more to game than the combat systems.

>>63501
>there's more to game than the combat systems.
Mining?
>click the rock, click the bank
Fishing?
>click one of the few bubbling spots, click the bank
Runecrafting?
>Click the ore, click the bank, click the altar, click the bank
Wow much diverse, such gameplay

There is NO gameplay that goes beyond being one of those "idle" games but with some extra clicking to move between what you want to click on. There is no cool story, cute succubi, scary stuff, funny things that can happen, crazy people to meet, ways to use your particular skills to help people, ways to grief people, events to take part in, or anything that makes Ruenscape a more enjoyable game than any other MMO.

I feel the pull of woodcutting and chatting with people like in the old days, but I'd have to start over again instead of my account on RS3. And it's unlikely I'd have that experience unless people on Wiz suddenly decided to start playing.

Has anyone else played the old 1.7.10 LOTR mod? It's one of my favorites, and I play it over any version of vanilla at this point.

>>63466
Oh man this brings me back. I would spend hours on this mod roleplaying with all the fictional scenarios I'd come up with whilst daydreaming about Tolkienist literature. I remember using the conquest feature and raising massive armies to conquer foreign lands and fortresses which was was arguably the most fun part about the mod. I haven't taken a look at it in years but from I remember the community was relatively active so I can only imagine that it's still receiving updates.

>>63467
Unfortunately I don't believe it's updated anymore and the developer seems to have gone AWOL. There appear to be a few attempts at resurrecting it or adding onto the original mod but it's just not the same. The conquest feature is really good, and there is a submod that adds onto it a bit that allows enemy factions to gain conquest as well which can make things a bit more interesting as well as adding a few other features/bugfixes, MiddleEarth Tweaks I believe it's called.

I also like playing it along with a few other mods like Astikoor's Carts for horse-drawn carts and plows and Cuchaz ships for actual boats. You were probably already aware but there is also an excellent submod that uses the original mod as a base and replaces the map/factions with First Age Beleirand.

>Unfortunately I don't believe it's updated anymore and the developer seems to have gone AWOL.
That's a bit disheartening to hear but thankfully the mod has so much content that even if it never updated again there is enough replay value to sustain it for years. And as you said I'm sure that there will be others willing to continue the project.
>there is a submod that adds onto it a bit that allows enemy factions to gain conquest as well which can make things a bit more interesting
It would be interesting if the conquest system could somehow alternate from merely having the player attack (and conquer) foreign lands to having the player defend some of their already established territory. I understand that minecraft's limitations don't really help with this but maybe the submod you mentioned could somewhat create that feeling.

>there is also an excellent submod that uses the original mod as a base and replaces the map/factions with First Age Beleirand.
I am aware of its existence but I haven't tried it. Do you think it's as good as the original? I feel as if Beleriand might be too restrictive due to its comparatively small size but that could potentially be remedied if the map scale was smaller. Using the Valar (or just Morgoth if you join one of the evil factions) as a sort of game mechanic might be a good way to create an original system to differentiate it from the original mod.

>>63466
I got introduced to this by some minecraft anons I know. They had a server up but I didnt play too much of it sadly, pretty comfy though I never got out of bag end

>>63446
>layed new Assassins Creed and realized all video games are shit
Ubisoft video games are shit*

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>>60983
just emulate old nintoddler games from before 2015 and you'll be set for years

>>63490
Nintendo games are crap

I just play l4d, yume nikki, etc. older games or newer games that recreate that feel like cruelty squad. Battlefield is from around then but I never enjoyed it. Things sucked then too, just filter them out. Modern games are different, just like modern internet is different. There are good ones still, but they'll be indie most likely. I let a game release then wait about 5 years to play it if it still looks interesting. Yandere Simulator is good, just gotta find a good version that'll actually run.

Big Game prioritizes sterility and micro transactions.

The free demo for Half Sword is available on steam. I downloaded it today and it's actually pretty fun. It's a medieval tourney simulator more or less, with a lot of weapons, armor, and different match variants. The demo has both a 'gauntlet mode' where you progress through the ranks, or a free play mode where you pick what rank of armor/weapons you want to play with and just enter matches freely. There are no horses or ranged weapons (unless you want to throw your weapon) and there's no online in the demo in case you were curious about that. As far as the gameplay goes it's a bit chaotic and whacky at times, but I that's part of the fun for me personally. Controlling your weapon can be tricky, so I would recommend turning down the mouse sensitivity, pretty much at minimum. Also, depending on your hardware you may need to run 'Low' graphics but it's still decently optimized for what it is I guess. Certainly worth a try if your into medieval combat.

House Flipper 1 is free to keep if you claim it on Steam before the 6th

https://autobioarchitech.itch.io/headsrest

Played only a bit, but it was good.

It's a surreal rug maker game sorta, like Gingivia.

Also, it is obscure as hell. Practically no one knows about it.

>>63474
Dude thank you!

>>63476
no problem

>>62022
where to find the indie japanese games anyway? I want to see what kind of game they do make

>>62024
I haven't looked too much into the Japanese indie scene but for example here's a Japanese website for "free games" https://www.freem.ne.jp/
Admittedly most of it seems to be more like RPG Maker kind of stuff though.

>>62025
indeed. thnk you

>>59447
>western games, which I found dull and ugly
Japanese studios are often allowed more creative freedom than their western counterparts. Western devs for whatever reason care about public perception and what groups like PEGI thinks.
>we can't have attractive npcs in our games, the PEGI will raise the age rating!
>we can't make a game about the battle of Fallujah, war vets feel offended by it!
They gave a childish game like Skyrim an age rating of 18+. war vets don't give a flying fuck if they offend you, so you shouldn't give a flying fuck if you offend them.
Freedom of expression is a thing, what are they going to do? Sue you for making attractive 3d-models and basing a game on a recent war?

My favorite real game, SMT IV (I don't like Apocalypse) is indeed Japanese.
Katawa Shoujo is also my favorite game , if you count VN's as real games, but it is unclear where it is from if development was even concentrated in one country.
I feel like Japan is unmatched in gaming compared to every other country, so many genres, innovations and cultural aspects.